skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got mine on Amazon. Believe it or not, it worked first try and it turned out to be a Microsoft one. Drivers were not an issue once I figured out that some of my USB ports were powered and others were not - it needs a lot of power to work.

http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Wireless-Gaming-Receiver-Wind...
My point with the Ouya remark is that the Ouya is an ARM machine, which runs ARM software. Nobody makes ARM games except mobile developers. The Wii, PS3 and 360 were PPC architectures; the PS4 and Xbone are x86-64 architectures (the Wii U, interestingly, is still PPC, but there seems to be far less of an emphasis for the Wii on capturing third-party AAA titles than there are for other platforms.). The raw power is a secondary concern to the fact that the utter lack of developers making non-mobile ARM games. An A7 system would probably easily capitalize on iOS games, and could have some PS3/360 games ported to it, but the library runs a little thin past that. Apple would have to get developers to port their titles to an underpowered system using a different instruction set that doesn't have a proven sales model for their class of product and which would involve entering into contracts with a company that is famously hostile to developers.

Regarding undermining the console business model, consoles live and die on their triple-A titles. Your GTAs, Halos, Marios, and Call of Duties are what sell consoles, not cheap hardware.

Footnote: Regarding the gigaflops numbers, I got them from here - I admittedly didn't do the math. I kind of suspect it's a combined CPU + GPU number in light of your numbers: http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/156273-xbox-720-vs-ps4-vs-...
I think it is eminently fair. It isn't performing a fundamentally different task, but it stutters and burns lower powered machines up.
Don't forget the most important underlying issue: a "free market advocate" should not want to contract with contract breakers (fraud, force) for the most obvious reason. Visible differences have historically been used as a Schelling fence on this issue. "Oh you can do business with me despite the fact that I use force and fraud, I only use it against people with dark skin."
Just curious, but what's more compelling about Apple's ecosystem than Sony's, Microsoft's, or Steam's?

The PS4 is strongly targeting indies, Microsoft already has, and Steam is more than anyone. Steam already has a ton of traction, and now they're making it possible to roll your own console, in addition to future hardware.

Why would I, as either a developer or a player, bet on Apple, when they have a reputation for being even more closed and oppressive than the others, take a bigger cut of my (developer) revenue, and charge me more for hardware (as a player)?

While mobile may be taking alot of sales from the casual gamer, I reckon there's still alot more money to be made from console/PC sales (how much is GTA 5 up to? over a billion last I checked).
It was Amazon - this one specifically:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0096PLB9O/ref=oh_details_o...

To get it working, you need to install the Microsoft Wireless XBox 360 Controller drivers manually, then go to the hardware manager and manually specify the official Microsoft driver as the driver for this device. Easy enough if you know your way around driver updates, but not plug-and-play. It works great, though.
Indianis. Sure. (Indiantis sounds like indianitis, an inflammatory condition, apparently. ;) )
Java Applets were light years ahead of anything else including Flash. The single only reason why Java Applets did not become the defacto interactive web client side technology is due to (in my opinion) Microsoft. And as another reader pointed out, it's an animated GIF.
The researchers asked nearly 300 students from Stanford University and the University of Washington to describe computer science students. Intelligent, technology-oriented, singularly focused on computers, socially awkward, interested in science fiction and video games and physically unattractive were among the most common responses.

Ouch.
Maybe if all male CS majors started working out regularly,female enrolment would improve?
Before Google I used Dogpile, brother recommended it, before that I had to craft some clever searches in Alta Vista. Google rocks.
I dunno, it's fun for me -- I find writing a long essay to be contemplative, meditative. It requires you to challenge your own thinking, which is both interesting and a little bit scary.

But I'm willing to believe I'm an outlier in this regard.
How are you only paying $7? The lowest tier I can see is $25/month for 10 private repos.
major coup for AMD. This is a CUDA that will affect all gamers.

Coup indeed, a violent bloody struggle for the throne if it involves bypassing the existing graphics APIs.
Imprisoned Pussy Riot Member: Why I Have Gone on Hunger Strike
There were rumors last year that Facebook might acquire Opera. They didn't. But maybe someone else will.

As a FastMail user I was very concerned with last year's rumors. Now I don't care because FastMail doesn't have anything to do with Opera anymore.
Giveaway: 3 Wordpress themes from Themefuse
Not quite sure myself, but I've been tracking the development of mpv, a fork of both mplayer2 and mplayer, and its development is going fast, very fast.

For example, intel VA-API support was ported and integrated into master in about a week. With support for VA-API VPP (video post-processing), so deinterlacing comes free too (just like for VDPAU).

That means that on my weak intel boxes, decoding 1080p content takes about 3-5% CPU and 25MB. Which means I can play 16-32 simultaneous videos in a grid at the same time. You should've seen the look on my clients' face when they saw me pull that one off, where the former developer couldn't even do one HD clip without lagging horribly.

It is, in a word, awesome. Just like this new VLC, which I use on my mac. Also awesome. I actually looked at the new VLC plugin code to make my own browser plugin for mplayer/mpv. Though in the end I didn't decide to support a windowless interface like VLC (because I couldn't really, mplayer-likes don't support that). That's fine though, windowed mode was far easier to code.
Simple solution for Device-width issue in Windows 8 mobile
.be is Belgian, not French ;)
>>This is part of their legal system, which is called "islam", or "sharia"

This has nothing to do with Islam. This is all about money and a few rich idiots abusing their power.

Bulk of the practices you associate with any religion, are not that of a religion but that of the local civilization at that point of time.

Your post resembles the attitude of the western masses today, which is to hold the perception created by media and politicians as a fact. Islam is followed by more than 1/3rd of the world today, no one wakes up with knives searching for slaves to kill. These people are ordinary people just like any other people in the west who go out and make a living, in the hopes of a good life for themselves and their family.

And they have their local culture which dominates bulk of their lifestyle.

Secondly you quote Winston Churchill, This is heights of hypocrisy. The man has made extreme racial remarks. For eg from : http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

>>I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.

Basically he is saying, anything that what the so called self proclaimed 'stronger' or 'higher-grade' race does is right.

This is the exact same attitude these rich guys in Qatar show today. Something tells me they are both just the same. Regardless of the religion.

People like these should think about their own morals before talking about somebody else's.
Maybe next biologists will start studying bald eagles by dunking golden eagles upside-down in a can of white paint.
Yeah, I dislike both of those changes as well. I have a pretty long list of things Opera needs to add to versions beyond 12 before I will update to their Blink version. Until then, I'm still using 12 as well.
Report from UK's OFT on In-game app fees for children [pdf]
> So I'm wondering what the attitude is on this. If you seriously defend this point, you're effectively against every religion except Western-brand atheism (ie. not the -much more successful- socialist version of atheism), and Christianity.

That's just ridiculous, and you know it. You're basically saying "every believer interprets his religion the way I say they do".
Biggest thing I noticed is that there aren't any ads.
Mysterious big data startup Databricks gets $14M from Andreessen Horowitz
I tend to agree with this. So much so that I made a more in-depth version of the same argument on my own blog earlier this year: http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/02/i-kind-of-hate-twitter/

I think the biggest contributor to the feelings Dustin is talking about is the way Twitter's design puts scorekeeping mechanisms front and center. Follower count is a scorekeeping mechanism -- if I have more followers than you, I'm "better" at Twitter than you are. Retweets are a scorekeeping mechanism -- if I get retweeted a lot, I'm better than you are. And so forth. Scorekeeping mechanisms are problematic because when you make them public, put them right up in the user's face, they turn the application into a video game. People see a connection between some actions and an increase in their "score," and that drives them to repeat the same behaviors.

Which is sort of what Dustin's getting at with the comparison to addiction, I think; Twitter is addictive in the same way that, say, Farmville is addictive. It's a Skinner box (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber) rather than a medium designed to facilitate discussion.
"And yet I see no solution to this problem. I will forever be a slave to 140-characters..."

I'm having a hard time sympathizing with this.

It's not Twitter that "instantly takes complex ideas out of my brain, over-simplifies them, and ships them off to random people." It's ME. Twitter is just a medium — the solution is to care about those complex thoughts enough to see them through.

Not to say that the instant gratification of tweeting does not exist, or is easy to fight — it's a struggle, and something to be mindful of. But the battle is already lost when, as this article does, you shift all the blame to the service instead of looking inward.
It "works" fine, it's just completely unintuitive and user-hostile. Tried it for a week or two, even with the cheat sheet taped to my monitor I could not build an intuition for what it was going to do. I'm sure there's a reasonable-sounding explanation of how it worked (each monitor is a view of the stack-set, or some such thing) but trying to use it was intensely irritating and it never got better.
>Finally, at some point in the future (I predict between 10 and 15 years), we are going to see an explosion in materials science that allows us to suddenly jump from 3 - 5GHz / core to 400 GHz - 5 THz per core (with even more cores than we have now and dramatically lower power consumption).

I don't see this happening. There are some physical limitations to getting to that.
I'm not sure that matters too much, to be honest. Mantle probably isn't coming to the consoles because they have their own direct architecture.

If you develop for PC you want to maximize market share so you need to ask if it's really worth supporting another graphics API for a performance boost on the #3 vendor.
Does anyone like the Mac OS X interface? I've been tempted to hack on it to make it nicer.
Artists stencil 9,000 bodies onto Normandy beach in D-Day tribute
Android chose Java as its programming language of choice. What kind of APIs and programming language will SteamBox use? What is the probability that it will be C++ (C++11)?
How many rich people do you think are responsible for starting wars in the past century?

Being as loose with "rich person starts a war" as possible, I really can't see that number going higher than the low hundreds. Peanuts, in the grand scheme of things.
Predatory lending on top of indentured servitude: dual slavery of the body and poverty.

I'm sure there are much worse and much better companies than what is reported regarding un/semi-skilled labor workforce vendors. The former should not be allowed to survive.

Would be a cool project if someone went undercover themselves to make a docu on the living and work conditions of these industrial sites to expose this further.
And who said that "how the human brain works" it's what's best for what we use a computer for (hint: not just AI).

If we had just that, then we couldn't do 3D graphics, number crunching or any other highly computational task adequately.
Oscilloscope Watch: The watch for the electronic geek.
The underlying problem with patents is basically that the upside of owning a patent is essentially unlimited, where as the cost is finite (and large for an individual, but peanuts for an established corporation).

What needs to be done is make those two things related: For example, require patent holders to declare the value of a patent on their tax filings (say, in April for the previous year), pay a 1% tax on that value, and limit any infringements damages to that value (per defendant, per year). Perhaps also make a forced "imminent domain" seizure possible by any sued part for 10x of the value.

We do not want anyone to have a patent economically worth $100K or less being able to assert it to stop production of something worth $100M or more -- and yet, the current system facilitates that (see e.g. eolas vs. ms, the xml case against microsoft, creative vs. carmack).

Once you have a "cost of carry" for patents, carrying offensive patents will become expensive enough that patent holders assign value (thus, enforceability) to patents they dim worthy.

(And no, this does not push a "small inventor" or "small patent holder" out of the game. If you have a patent worth $100M but do not have much more than $1M to enforce it, you do NOT have a patent worth $100M - litigation is going to cost you much more than that; They are already out of the patent game - so let's fix other aspects first)
Awfully cocky of you, assuming there's not a single earlier use of this metaphor.
Good list. To complement this article, I highly recommend "Demoing Software for Fun & Profit" by Dave Winer. There are pretty good tips in it.

http://scripting.com/davenet/1995/01/04/demoingsoftwareforfu...
John Mayer speaking at Berklee College of Music had this to say on the subject:

> “The tweets are getting shorter, but the songs are still 4 minutes long. You’re coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song is still 4 minutes long…I realized about a year ago that I couldn’t have a complete thought anymore. And I was a tweetaholic. I had four million twitter followers, and I was always writing on it. And I stopped using twitter as an outlet and I started using twitter as the instrument to riff on, and it started to make my mind smaller and smaller and smaller. And I couldn’t write a song.”

http://www.berklee-blogs.com/2011/07/john-mayer-2011-clinic-...
I used to use Opera because of it's privacy features. Being able to have different configuration of javascript, cookies, referals, content blocking and so on. Now with Opera 16 all these features are gone.

How do you increase you're competitive abilities by removing everything that made you unique when you're already the underdog? :S
> Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia

I dont think these countries are applying SHaria as a rule of Law. But please prove me wrong if this is the case.
The says the offers were made after the internship, so this sounds pretty normal for solid engineers. Also this may include equity and signing bonuses, etc...
avidemux can do this. Most video formats are not designed or optimized for going backwards so it's much slower.
Spasibah. I was vexing them a long time before this.
There actually exists two separate Microsoft Wireless 360 controllers, the one that specifies for Windows will work on both the PC and for the Xbox 360 (after syncing the controller with the appropriate receiver, something which is somewhat tricky if the PC receiver and the console receiver are within the controller's wireless range).

However, the one which does not specify "...for Windows" will not work with the PC, which is the distinction I am attempting to express when recommending it as an option for PC gaming.

On (US) Amazon the two separate listings are
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Xbox-Wireless-Controller-Win...
and http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Wireless-Controller-Glossy-Bl...

The PS3 controllers may work differently, but I do not find them as comfortable to use as the 360 controllers personally.
>The truth is that people are not rational actors. Adolescents are even less so.

And yet, any remotely intelligent person living in a remotely modern country is completely capable of not getting pregnant or getting someone else pregnant, should they choose not to. Let's not completely absolve people of blame just because they're poor/young/whatever. Everyone is capable of autonomy.
I agree it's not part of Islam.

However, effective slavery of foreign workers does go on in those places, often with local or national government conspiracy. Malaysia is a prime example.

In the previous article, the family interviewed in Nepal lost one son to construction slavery in Qatar and one to the same in Malaysia.

Furthermore, Sharia law has been waved around in the western media as the height of evil (like the word Islam or the neologism Islamist), but like most religious ideologies Islamic law does historically have many good intentions behind it and there are many strong examples of excellent, safe, learned and tolerant societies that drew from this tradition (some periods of Iran I guess, definitely Yuan China after the Mongols who were great integrators and sponsors of language, philosophy and the culinary arts (包子原来是土耳其的！), Islamic Spain, etc.). Officially, Qatar 'abolished' Sharia courts in 2003. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar#Law

My theory for the correlation of shitty law and many Islamic countries is simply that education is lacking, or some unelected self-serving bigot or a cartel thereof are in effective control, extracting all the wealth for themselves. In modern times, in many of these cases the ruling parties' route to power can be clearly traced to have sprung from the west's actions at the end of colonialism, or even later. Usually England or France in those times, but later in the 20th century blame seems to shift primarily the US with its one-eyed diplomatic stance and obsession with oil money and global economic/military dominance, with economic hitmen, the undermining of the UN, numerous examples of sponsoring evil regimes or undermining democratically elected ones, so and so forth.
> What 'long term vision' is Rob speaking of?

To spend more time with their family?
Sorry, busy today and didn't see this. Velocity is a vector, but so is position, and direction, and a whole bunch of things. Anything you can express as a fixed length, ordered, group of numbers is a vector (I guess they don't even have to be numbers). The point is that the distinguishing thing here is not the vectoral nature, but the fact that the mouse directly modifies the absolute 'direction vector' while a joystick directly modifies the rate of change of that 'direction vector'.
This was not long after I gave up on webcrawler and altavista. I miss the picture of the spider or web, or whatever.

You know, despite it being around almost forever (I think they tried removing it once, right?), I've never really used "I'm feeling lucky". I just never feel that way when I'm using Google, I guess.
gcc has been complaining about that one for the last 15 years or so, saying "condition is always true i >= 0".

Some errors are more subtle and not flagged by compilers, but many are.
How to work with Modifiers in Java
This assumes that I was talking about straight up criminal behavior, which I wasn't.

I was talking more about pushing the law into the gray area. Should Uber be allowed to operate in NYC when taxis are regulated? Should AirBNB be allowed to compete with hotels? I think the founders of these services knew they could run into problems, but they chose to take the risk anyways. I think this is more of a risk oriented mind-set. People who aren't willing to take on risk may not even dare to get close to the edges.

It's only after the financial crisis that people were wondering if we should be locking a bunch of people up who were partly responsible for the mess. Did anyone go to jail? I don't know, but the list of people who did is probably pretty short. Obviously the people involved were pushing their rules as far as they could go.

Apparently even the government will do this. The NSA obviously pushed their given rules as far as they could, possibly into illegal territory, but still gray enough that it isn't obvious that we should be locking people up.

And laws change because a situation may not be obviously illegal. One day your actions may be illegal. Another day they may be fine. Again, separating those two lines is a bit of gray area. Perhaps successful people are there partly because they are more willing to push. Some may call this unfair and cheating. But that person may still walk if the issue was brought to court.

The world isn't fair. Sometimes it's the strongest and most ruthless people who win. The U.S. ended WW2 with a nuke and still has a lot of power through a superior military. Sometimes the U.S. will play by the rules, sometimes not.

I think people who are highly successful may tend to see that the rules aren't always solid. Sometimes they may be more like the edge of a rising and falling tide. Less successful people may see the rules as like prison walls. Not only do you not try to test them, you don't even get close to them.
I'm currently looking into setting up a VPS in Iceland or Germany and running my own mail server from it, moving away from Fastmail. It saddens me as I both dislike managing my own mail server and really like Fastmail, but having my email routed through the US is no longer feasible.
I've stopped cooking for myself because TV dinners are so easy. But most TV dinners aren't great. But because they're so convenient, they have killed my desire to cook. And yet I see no solution to this problem."

Keep looking.
Although I haven't tried it, there seems to be an extension for that : http://addons.videolan.org/content/show.php/Previous+frame?c...
Ask HN: C++ as video game industry standard in next 10-15 years?
The C++ standard is making strides, and compilers like Clang are improving it by great degree. PS4 and XBoxOne are about to release, with Steambox sticking like a surprise. New game engines, writern in C++ (unreal, leadwerks, project anarchy, unity3d) are filling the room.

Will C++ remain to be used as the standard language for high performance video games (their game engines) for 10-15 years?
It sounds like the season is not the reason for the complaint, but that the tournament would interfere with local competition.

So confused by this, why would they ask for their World Cup pitch costs as compensation? That ship has sailed.
This is just amazing! It feels like suddenly creating a new market. It has the potential to change the way customer service is addressed in the field: for washing machines, data loggers and may be hundreds of devices.

This must succeed!