skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ratings trends over time can go in the other direction too. I got bit by an update the other day on a mature and very popular app which just released a tragically flawed update. I over confidently accepted the update and then started reading the latest reviews which we're shouting in all caps not to get this update.

And what you said about excluding ppl who aren't on G+.
works well on my nexus4.
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I think one of the point is to make existing PC gamers to buy controller for their Machine and use it, creating a big enough people with controller as a leverage when dealing with publishers and developer to include controller support in their games.
It would be awesome a tool like this, but with collaboration enabled (multiples drawers in different machines) !!
... Did you finish Episode 2? Have you lost internet access for the last 6 years? Valve confirmed it waaaaay back in '07, and Gaben has been dropping little nuggets about it every few years.

You really need to understand how painful this is for HL fans. It would be like if AMC decided not to produce & air the final season of Breaking Bad... or delay the final season for 6+ years.
Great post, thanks for taking the time to write it up.

I'm curious how the discussions got started with Eventbrite. Were you discussing another kind of partnership first? How close were your existing contacts?
I've said this elsewhere; but this is all part of an attempt (or at least an institutional belief) that equates opposition and protest, which is part of a healthy democracy, with terrorism.

This is very scary.
The problem I've encountered with these kind of solutions are that they're never universally applicable so you have to know a list of solutions and what situations they can be applied. I wish I could remember a inline-block + vertical alignment specific example but two others would be:

`margin: 0 auto;` to center horizontally requires knowing the width, and it must be smaller than its parent container. If its not then use: `position: absolute; left: 50%; margin-left: - <width / 2>%`, and make sure parent has a height and position relative.

`text-indent: -999em` to hide text (which is admittedly not the best technique) was the cause of our 3d css transform animation running really slow.

With dedicated properties to solve these issues you'd hope they could be universally applied and reasoned about.
Considering the vast majority of current Big Picture games use the Xbox360 controller, and that they'll probably already worried about getting enough content working on this device, I highly doubt they will do something so different as a Rift + Wiimote and the like.

My assumption is Rift will be supported, but primary controller will be something extremely 360-like. If not made by Valve than by someone that already makes 3rd party 360 controllers.
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"Top secret US government documents [...] characterize even the most basic political and legal opposition to drone attacks as part of "propaganda campaigns" from America's "adversaries"."

In other places in the article, it repeatedly talks about how talking about drones is considered by the NSA as "propaganda." This perhaps also shows the power trip the NSA is on. "You dare question what America does? You must be a commie!".
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It recently became known that the forces that would do evil encourage and exploit situations like the one that occurred with Bitkeeper. I don't suggest that Bitkeeper was complicit with any such scheme though.
As someone who posts about quote orgins on HN often enough to wonder whether I should self-deport as a crank, I heartily endorse this article. It is by far the best description of the obsession.

And no, Picasso didn't say "Great artists steal". That's a WAS II. Well, kind of a 1.5 really.
'In a few years any SteamMachine for 300$ will easily outperform PS4/XBone.'

Uhh, do you have any support for this claim?
I am using my mac with PS3 controllers, works like a charm.
> He seems a little crazy, actually.

Have you seen this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg (NSFW video by McAfee)
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Its probably this:

https://www.google.com/patents/US8241126
I certainly hope not. The day I have to wear a f--king headset is the day I stop gaming.
I'm one of the engineers working on this, I even make a semi-appearance in the video. I'm not really going to say much about it because it's a little annoying that it leaked out, and by such a crappy recording too, but -

a) I think the title here is pretty good, better than the hyperbolic one the Inquirer used.

b) Your middle two paragraphs are spot on

c) Given the video, it's understandable people are focused on the "actor as a virtual character" previsualization part ('but Avatar did this two years ago!', 'our game engine does that!', yadda yadda). That's only a small part of it, and honestly one of the less interesting ones.

I don't see what you think is condescending though. There's not a lot of difference today in the skill-set of a CG artist and a games artist. Generally they're just working to different budgets. (I say that as someone who spent 15 years working on console games).

The painstaking days of game artists building models that use less than 100 verts and hand-painting 256x256 textures are gone. Now, both your CG and game-artist build super-high resolution models, probably starting with something like ZBrush, then decimate down to whatever they need with the highres asset used to generate normal or displacement maps.

Optimius Prime in the original Transformers movie used ~20x more polygons than a PS4/Xbone game would today for a similar character. That's pretty amazing when you think that the GPUs in those machines are already handily outmatched by PCs, and the performance gains Nividia/AMD bring with every hardware cycle.
Like others have said, Google alerts only notifies you of news articles.

My company http://www.Alertification.com takes a more general approach and alerts you when something on any public website changes. For example, you'll get an email or text message when an Amazon price drop occurs, when a college class opens up, or even when concert tickets go on sale.
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They have mobile apps available now according to the blog post.
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There have been games that have released with this allowance. They achieve balance by offering powerful aim-assist to the gamepad players.

In any other context that would be the foulest cheating... but in the context of game-design for vastly different interfaces, it's a perfectly reasonable handicap.
The Emacs manual is available in many formats, including PDF:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html
Not if somebody modifying it to use with his own marketplace, which is unlikely but possible with the open source software.
The "Zipper Rule" has been in effect in Germany for years. It's effective, mostly because everyone was taught it in driving school. No special signs needed - people just do it.
Interestingly, this also came out today: http://www.davisenterprise.com/local-news/moller-signs-agree...
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I will be intrigued to see the psychology of how that plays out, once people are comfortable with self-driving cars. Are we going to appreciate being in an intersection in which a care is approaching our side at 40 mph? Are people going to just charge out into traffic and trust the cars to reroute, if that turns out to be possible? (It may not be for various reasons, but let's run with it.)
Pretty much all ratings should be on some sort of rolling average based on time and or quantity.
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Sony and Nintendo use Bluetooth, while Microsoft uses a proprietary wireless protocol.
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My point is simple:

Memorizing a few unique passwords for mission critical services while using generic throwaways for low-priority sites is more secure than LastPass can ever be.

I started this thread asking if there was a better solution that memorizing 5-10 passwords and using some variable of a throwaway for the majority of everything else, and I'm still not convinced that my method isn't the best outside of just hard memorizing a unique password for every site.

Fact is: my memorized passwords can only be compromised where they are stored on servers (or through a keylogger).

LastPass can be compromised every single way that my memorized passwords can, in addition to being compromisable on any computer you use it on, and the LastPass services stores all of your passwords offsite, all of them, adding in another huge vector for attack against your entire catalog--- in a way that my memory can never be attacked (without say, interrogation/force).

I don't know, I don't like the idea of a digital store of all of my most critical information put behind a password that doesn't even pop-up on your computer. Mine as well just store all your passwords in Chrome. Same amount of security. Actually Chrome probably does better since it won't automatically push your passwords to the cloud unless you sync...
Is there any reason to suspect that the SteamOS userland isn't the same (or at least very similar) to what you'd have on Ubuntu? It seems like asking for trouble to go with a completely custom userland (even if they open source it).
Do you have a dog?
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Sony's QX Smart Lens attaches an entire camera to your smartphone
The sea of useless social buttons and links made it impossible for me to read this on a phone. I hate it when blogs do that.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cmz5rd0l8lu1g36/2013-09-25%2020.46...
What city are you in? I'm looking for PHP work. :-)
I just started working with Laravel4 and am loving it.
Disney buying something is not the same as Disney creating something.

And where did you get the word 'no'? Talking about the bad things a company has done is not an automatic boycott.
Is this a clever way of recruiting data engineers?
It's simple:

Does the creature have a look of contempt for you even though you feed it, groom it, bathe it, take it to the vet and give it a good home?

If yes
return creature = cat
else if no
return creature = dog
endif

Q.E.D.
I never mentioned "going back" and you still haven't shown any connection. I'm just pointing out that the fact that artists need money to survive doesn't mean that we need super stringent copyright terms. The 16th century patron model is certainly not "the [only] alternative" to our current model of copyright.
Isn't that basically what Foursquare does?
Shame the are revising their pricing to remove free 1:1 chats.
Pretty sure they have some of those already. There's OpenStreetMap, and I seem to recall another project which was more "name this rectangular area" oriented... I forget its name... anyone want to help me out here?
Dropbox-as-a-backend is an interesting angle compared to other cloud providers as the user can be truly in control of his data.

Does anyone know who is leading DataStore efforts inside Dropbox? I'd like to chat as we have something complimentary coming.
Making vimites use the mouse? That's essentially blasphemy.
Job security, and a defined-benefit pension. That's worth a lot.
>a modern Linux distro has _the fewest_ of such problems

Interestingly, I keep reading these claims online but every time I try it turns out to be exactly the other way around. Maybe I'm haunted by the Linux ghosts, but even though I love running Linux on servers, Linux on laptops has always been a complete disaster for me.

It runs hot, drains the battery, and updates ruin the entire installation with alarming frequency. It's not even remotely as stable as Windows or Mac (or Android, which is particularly interesting since it is Linux as well).

I've spent weeks investigating power management issues on Linux laptops down to individual drivers. I don't recommend the experience to anyone.
It also works reasonably well for cooperative games. I beat Portal 2 with a friend this way.
Are buffer-overflows solved yet? A historical tale.
This is weird:

:: Light Grey on Lighter Grey navbar is so faint that I barely noticed it was there

:: The software is identified as an "fully open source", but the actual license is a hybrid license (some GPLv3 and some under a proprietary "Business Source" license that, while it has source available and may allow modifications -- that's unclear, as it both explicitly allows modifications ("Prior to the Change Date, you have the non-exclusive, worldwide rights under this License to copy, modify, display, use, and redistribute the Code") but also explicitly prohibits the creating the product of modification ("The Code is not used for the creation of derivates [sic] or collective work") -- but restricts use so that code used under the license can only have 20 users; it only becomes open source on 1 September 2017 (the proprietary parts become GPLv2 or later) [1].

[1] https://rhodecode.com/licenses
Oh, John McAffee, not the company.
how many CPUS and how many processes per machine ?

I guess I used to run 8 on a 4 CPU machine. I tried 9-12 processes but it always tripped over itself.

> unless you're running out of RAM or something.

yep, on the new machines I run 6 just to keep the total memory down. and that also sucks: having to use lots of memory just to get concurrency.
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How did you implement the filters though?
Sorry this is unrelated to the article, but I've noticed a sharp increase in sites breaking the "Back" button, including this one. Salon.com is another bad offender. Is it just me or has anyone else noticed it? And is there an extension to prevent it? (Chrome)
Spelling has strict definitions too. You can't just make up spelling. SCNR
IOS 7 Multipeer Browsing Eats Wi-Fi
Nintendo uses a proprietary connection for the Wii U GamePad as well.
> I'm learning functional programming at the moment, and hope to have a similar epiphany :)

I've done quite a bit of FP, but I've still held out from acquiring a traditionally FP language as a go-to language in my toolbox. Instead, I've found the intense focus on abstraction and representation in the FP world leak over into my interaction with other more imperative languages.
Is this problem understood formally? For example, I couldn't play Portal 2 without feeling dizzy and any game that involves water or swimming does it as well. I can't imagine 3D glasses helping, yet I'd love to use technology like this. Why does Portal 2 do this but not BF3 or PlanetSide 2?
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I think that the GP meant figuratively, rather than literally, e.g. "Lady Gaga is the mad scientist of the music world."
I really like this theory. Seems to me that if Friday's announcement isn't a game reveal, it'll instead be Source Engine 2 and a possible Unity competitor. This would make a lot of sense if Valve is serious about getting developers on board for their SteamMachine/Linux/cross-platform strategy.

Valve has already announced the OS and hardware, dev tools could be next.
I would. They're web and Linux companies - technologies that are completely pervasive now, and didn't even exist when Microsoft and Adobe were already big companies.

Innovators vs. Squatters. Isn't that the expected way this argument would shake out? Patents encumber innovation, not royalty checks.
Any ability to record?
> "This controller replaces a thumbstick with a trackball"

That sounds like a special hell.
What would even be the point? Making it marginally easier to control products that were never properly re-designed as living room software at the expense of compatibility with essentially every piece of contemporary living room software?

Here's to hoping that if such a thing is actually rolled out, it falls under "an option" and isn't an approach they put too much emphasis on.
You can do that easily with:

man -t bash | ps2pdf - > bash.pdf

You can even list all man pages with "man -k" to automate the process.
Everyone has short memories. I remember the uproar when that was announced... Followed by us all dealing with it and getting steam.

Gosh I miss CS1.5
This is why I love HN. Were you randomly looking up Valve-assigned patents and happened to stumble on this?
css 3 filters, Here's a quickie: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/say-he...
Let's suppose you define a function that searches:

FindThis(needle, haystack):

Then later you come to use this function, you cannot remember whether you made it Findthis(needle, haystack) or FindThis(haystack, needle). (OK so in python you could just name your arguments to avoid the issue but then you might have inconsistent coding styles)

IDEs' have completion of code and descriptions of arguments which makes calling any function trivial. You can go from barely remembering a function name to understanding all the parameters, optional or otherwise, within the time it takes you to type out the function you wanted. It means you don't have to context switch into "documentation" mode.
I understand Kaggle wants someone to make an algorithm to "identify the entity", but if used as an alternative to CAPTCHA, is it not possible to defeat this HIP (Human Interactive Proof) by reading the image and the classification data from the same Petfinder.com and just do image matching?

It may take some time to match from 3 million images, but doable right? Or am I missing something here?
The Quote Investigator is the best. The site is the avocation of someone pseudonymous who tracks these things down meticulously and has been building up a sizeable repertoire. The great thing is that since nearly all these quotations go back decades if not centuries, once one of them has been traced, it's pretty much traced for good.

One of my favorites is http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/28/ford-faster-horse.
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And right there you're going to need a sizeable chunk of X windows, and a C library, and network configuration utilities, hardware management tools (looks like this is aimed at commodity hardware + reference machines from Valve) and the guts of a web browser and Steam itself. I wouldn't be totally surprised to find coreutils or at least busybox in the default install too, for aiding and abetting system initialising (and to please the intrepid few who somehow make their way to a command line).
http://deis.io/ is based on Docker, Chef and Heroku Buildpacks. You can think of it as a private Heroku. It also has some similarity to OpsWorks in that you can configure and scale custom Chef layers. Best part -- it's 100% free and open source. The entity behind it (OpDemand) will soon be offering support and professional services.

Some resources you might want to check out:

Overview/Video: http://deis.io/overview/

Get Deis (Installation Overview): http://deis.io/get-deis/

Concepts: http://docs.deis.io/en/latest/gettingstarted/concepts/

CLI Usage: http://docs.deis.io/en/latest/gettingstarted/usage/
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Pandoc? Some kind of bash script? Go for it, the result would be amazing.
I'm interested. Have been looking for an OSS project to work on and have been wanting to pick up some more JS experience. I will keep an eye out for that repo.
Collecting data about customer purchasing habits is valuable in the aggregate. Shopping Express links that data more general data about the customer's habits on the Web, etc. In some cases this will enable Google to serve the customer better, and in some cases this will enable Google to serve advertisers better.
Look at the beta eligibility list: they require the would be participants to get a leg in the steam community facilities, and try playing in living room mode.

That would give a huge crowd an incentive to try Steam the way Valve is hoping it'd be used in the future. So they give 300 boxes, but get thousands of people trying their console-like services.

Evil geniuses, those Valvers are.
I dont think it is in built but screen capture should work.
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Polynomial Interpolation:

Input: a set of points

Output: polynomial that passes through all points of Input

Here, since the input are just two numbers, I don't think it is polynomial interpolation.
Sorry about that. Seems to be an issue with Safari. As a quick fix, we've removed it for now.
That drone is very different compared to a MQ-9 Reaper or a MQ-1 Predator. The RQ-170 is meant the be stealth and pretty much take pictures and Full Motion Video (FMV) while the Reaper and Predator carry not only sensors but also weapon payloads. The RQ-170 pretty much flies on a track that is uploaded and is not actually controlled by a person after it is uploaded, unlike the MQ-1/9 there is an actual pilot flying via a datalink.
It's nice. I still prefer the wp-svbtle theme from ThemesKult though. It was done along the lines of the previous svbtle design.
http://www.scalr.com/ could probably meet this requirement.
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Several, including one from Amazon. No major results yet.
IDEs were born from Lisp and Smalltalk environments, both dynamic languages.

IDEs can give you:

- code navigation

- code validation as you type

- background compilation for languages with native compilers

- semantic refactoring

- integration with source control and issues trackers, allowing to map source code lines to issues and code history

- WYSIWYG design of user interfaces

- live static analysis while typing

- direct mapping between templates and code behind associated with them

- ...
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Wait, that doesn't make sense. Super Mario Bros. uses digital inputs, not an analog stick, so it's essentially the same as a keyboard...Are you saying keys are somehow different than controller buttons?
While HL3 would be an awesome announcement, it doesn't seem highly relevant to SteamOS. I'm sure if anything, they'll release HL3 as a Steam-exclusive game as a launch title.
Do you have a master list somewhere?
Interesting!

So what would you say - as one of the people involved, rather than a journalist commenting - are the most interesting/important parts of the project?
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Of course, you could always rely on the reader to imagine the world based on your text description.

Nah, that would be crazy. It would never catch on.
I don't think that applies to the majority of gamers. In fact, I bet most gamers don't even know what input lag is.
1998	Half-Life
...
2004	Half-Life 2
2006	Half-Life 2: Episode One
2007	Half-Life 2: Episode Two

I see what you mean, now.

However, not only has Valve been doing many other things in the interim, there was also about six years between the original HL and HL2. It might be a little longer to wait.

However, I would also not be surprised if Valve were to wait for the SteamOS release, and then announce HL3 as a "flagship" SteamOS game. They already have dozens of such games that work, but not as many that will make people put down their COD, GTA V, etc and play with a SteamBox in their living room.
Linux has natively supported xbox 360 controllers through the xpad kernel driver for a number of years, and Windows asks to install drivers when you plug in the controller.
>You can use your XBox360, PS3 controller, or WiiMote, but that's not obvious.

Just a thought: In a few weeks every Xbox360 and PS3 will become obsolete. So, what are the chances of me installing SteamOS on there? I'd love to turn my PS3 into a SteamOS box.