skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I broadly speaking applaud this move, I do feel a little bit like the guys from blizzard need to eat just a little bit of humble pie.

'this is really exciting for us'?

really?

how about, 'we're really sorry we took a franchise you loved and set fire to it, and are now really concerned about the viability of the expansion we're making'

Too late; I'll play torchlight thanks.

You have a nice diablo romp over there. You've lost my support; I no longer have confidence the team on diablo 3 can deliver a game I actually want to play.
yup, that was the main point of frustration with Inferno.

white mobs were easy to deal with but Elite packs had disgusting affixes.

And then after grinding Act 1 (remember Butcher runs? lol) for about a month, you finally gear up enough to be able to easily kill Act 1 Elite packs.

Then you get to Act 2 and find yourself getting one-shotted by those stupid wasps (and we're not talking about Elite variety, these were just the regular wasps).
And this is different to D2? D2 was even worse, with the amount of time you needed to spend to get that perfect item.
> 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.

> I'd ask you to find the name of one person who believes innocent people should be incarcerated.

There are most certainly stigmas in the US about prisoners. There are also stigmas are about certain kind of crimes and that racist and sexist in nature. This is a country in which politicians do not pledge to ensure fairness in the law but to be even harder on criminals.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120...
Do you use the ISBSG database at all?

edit: also, could you email me please? I'd be interested in asking some questions.
Yeah, it was weird that the Copyright Office declined to renew the exemption for phone unlocking. Yes, Congress created the problem with the DMCA, but they did specifically set up the Librarian with the power to fix oversights like this. (And I do personally think it was at least initially an oversight and not intentional.)
the site is lacking the Mac OS X version called Zevo: http://getgreenbytes.com/solutions/zevo/. It was developed by Don Brady, formerly a Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Yeah, I have to wonder if their renewed interest in this is a PR move to distract from more serious tech issues.
I think what the parent meant was such an organization must have re-organized or manifested into a separate identity(s) than which they were reported as to divert attention.

At least that was my interpretation.
that's one of the problems of flat design ,it's so flat and dull it's hard to remember anything about it. Which app shown here feels like it has an identity? none.
Oddly enough, money can also be a false proxy. Value is a better term, but still not enough to capture the complexity.
I live in Chicago but I'm originally from the south. I feel exactly the opposite. To me, it feels a little bit warm in the summer for all of a month or two, then it's cold as hell in January and February.
I'd also say that using any class without reference to either its documentation or its implementation is a terrible idea in the first place, because who cares where it stores data if you're not using it properly?

I can't count the number of bugs I've fixed due to programmers (myself, sadly, included) using IDE code completion features as a substitute for reading documentation.
Yeah, the first three difficulties were really easy. Inferno was like a wall that you run into the first time you try it. I remember kicking Diablo's ass in Hell difficulty and then replaying Act 1 but in Inferno. Came across the first zombie in New Tristram and promptly died in two hits.
Have a blessed day.
They did renew the exemption, but they limited it to only apply to devices purchased before January 2013. Their mandate is to only provide exemptions for cases that really really need it, and their reasoning for limiting the exemption was that carriers had relaxed their policies for officially unlocking phones (such as AT&T starting to unlock out-of-contract phones).

Here's the statement that the Copyright Office published: http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2012/2012-26308_PI.pdf - the unlocking exemption is discussed on pages 16-20.
D3 is all about the (tradeable) loot. The AH works in WoW because everything sellable was also consumable, and the most desirable items couldn't be sold. To get the best stuff in WoW, you play the game. To get the best stuff in D3, you pull out your wallet.

Imagine how WoW would have been if good items only dropped from dungeon bosses once per 1200 runs, but were sellable on the AH. Once you've been through the dungeon once to experience it, why would you ever go back, rather than just purchasing some gold?
The usual way to refer to incarcerated population is per 100k population.

Norway is around 70/100k, 'first world' countries in general are around 70-150/100k, New Zealand is an outlier at 200/100k and the US is an extreme outlier at ~720/100k. The US really is way out of step with its contemporaries on this issue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcerat...
Obligatory XKCD: http://www.xkcd.com/1235/
Silicon Valleywood
If I saw the "after" UI of Hipmunk without having seen the "before" UI, I would have been totally lost. Where are the buttons? What is a label and what is tappable!? It is even worse with touch, there is no hovering cursor that changes appearance. I honestly think "flat" is going to take a long time to work out the kinks. I think it is here to stay a while, for better or worse.
You're confusing property with what they told you it was.
I worked on a project with a guy who did network analysis like this. It was pretty cool... the first three times. After that it seemed like every problem had to involve a whizbang graphic - then I realized he didn't actually know how to program at all. His whole job was 'analysis', which was using Tableau and a graph partitioning program to produce visualizations (pretty much using the defaults), and then try to explain what they meant.

I was kind of in awe that this was a whole job by itself - I've never really seen an analysis of one of these graph diagrams that wasn't really superficial, like the examples in this presentation. It kind of makes me wonder if the "complexity" of the graph visualizations doesn't cow the viewer a bit, and make them more impressed by subsequent, not-super-interesting insights. I'd be interested in a comparison with and without the graphics.
I'm afraid that you are romanticising the role of the CIA and NSA etc. The CIA has become something like "The President's Private Army". I don't know what the NSA has become, but neither appears to "be there" in emergencies.
The price is surprising. Consider this $200 Creative Depth Webcam which comes out Oct 1st.

http://us.store.creative.com/Creative-Senz3D-Depth-and-Gestu...

I imagine that will be quickly hacked to do much of what this structure sensor wants to do.

Edit: Date, they slipped from the 25th.
I've been earning >$120 per hour, paid in advance, for contract django/flask/linux work.

It's real and you can do it, and listening to patio11's podcast is where I got the idea to be paid in advance for time.

Being paid in advance has solved almost all of my consultancies problems.

Thanks patio11!

EDIT: I work completely remotely with companies that aren't in SF or NYC.
Instead of requiring carriers to unlock devices, he could just announce that the DOJ would fail to prosecute anyone who does choose to do it. It's possible to right a wrong without asserting additional executive powers.
After re-reading my initial comment a few times I agree that my language wasn't helpful in communicating my real frustration with the GP's comment. My intent was to call out a dismissive, superior and mostly unhelpful comment, but my intent was lost in my presentation. Your approach to me would have been a more effective choice. Thanks for replying.
Also, any function can be overloaded on rvalue references.
And in 2013 where do you banish to? All I see is swift execution by either the banishing fiefdom or probably swift execution by the resulting "accepting" fiefdom.
Because you can't care about one tech issue without marching in intellectual lockstep with the nerderatti on all tech issues.
Thanks for your feedback. The button should work now.
I wish I could quit my job to be a part of 3DS.
"Norwegians live in a country where men and women who take wrong turns in their life are given the opportunity to redeem themselves (and they do, almost always.)"

Redemption? Or lack of recidivism? The former is hard to quantify, the latter claim is lacking attribution.

[EDIT] for a typo...
I have been part of a team which used kdb heavily and this is not really true. The best part of kdb is that it requires almost no administration and at the end of the day becomes just another programming environment/tool for you to use. Hiring a team of people who just do kdb is only done by banks or other unimaginative large teams.
you're probably resetting your brain's systems and reassuring your brain that, yes, there are systems with a logical flow from action to consequence to success and reward! Probably not a bad way to avoid burnout.
How does this make it easier for the NSA to track US Citizens down? I mean would meta-data or meta-data collection be any different if the phones were locked?
Get the app!
I find playing certain old games I grew up with and have lots of mastery and muscle memory around unwind me very quickly.

Lots of modern games, puzzle platformers etc. just make me feel stressful.

(I also find watching retrogaming videos and longplay videos on youtube is almost as good of an unwinder)
Very cool. At first I was suspicious because their kickstarter video doesn't give a really complete idea of how good their 3d models are. And I know that from the right angle, a really terrible 3d model can look very good.

However this video shows that their 3d reconstruction is actually pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4aMQQv2Zvk

I think that an open platform like theirs, which already includes sample software that does good 3d reconstruction, is very good for the field. Much more interesting than projects that combine hardware and software so that only the makers can experiment with new software algorithms.

EDIT: another video showing it "really working"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmgRdFQOLPw
Const correctness is the essence of all functional languages; RAII is in functional languages too and even java has an interface for it
This is being done on Singapore's "subway" (MRT) system now: if you exit by 7:45 AM, your ride is free. http://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltaweb/en/public-transport/mrt...

And something similar on Singapore's roads too: tolls vary by time of day. http://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltaweb/en/roads-and-motoring/m...

Finally, taxis have a pricing feature common in many places: a surcharge for certain times of day (can be peak times, can be nighttime...).
You mean the pre-expansion Diablo 2, I agree. I'll give it another shot when the expansion is released. I played D2 for 10+ years... waited for this piece of crap to be released.

I think now, there's hope.
I had a pretty good day and I'm not an angry person. I was very uncivil in response to what I understood to be a dismissive comment wrapped in civility. Comments tearing down someone else's real work without offering alternatives or constructive criticism are easy to make and damaging, but my tone and choice of language didn't communicate my message. I'm sorry that it bothered you. I generally do not post w/ this tone and will be more careful in choosing the right tone to communicate my meaning in the future. Thanks for your feedback.
In the real world, this can't be proven.

Imagine another incident, a careless driver who runs over someone at a stoplight because they're texting. How should this manslaughter be treated? With a remedial driving course?
So, just a quick bit of context here. While the NTIA ask for a rulemaking from the FCC is awesome, we'll see whether the FCC actually act upon it. Based on the most recent statement from the FCC, they're still trying to get carriers to come to a voluntary agreement (i.e. regulate themselves) which would mean less work for the FCC.

Either way, the real issue at the heart of unlocking is fixing the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA, which would open up the market so that private parties can freely develop and distribute unlocking software. We've been lobbying for this in DC making some degree of progress, but even the best legislation out there right now is quite far from perfect.
The illegality of it stops approximately nobody as it stands, so this would do approximately nothing. The problem is not that it's illegal to do an end-run around the carriers, but that it's technically very difficult. Their locking mechanisms are constantly improving. For example, I'm not aware of any recent iOS release or iPhone version that has been unlocked without somehow involving the carriers or Apple.
Yes, thats what I meant. But isn't it interesting if you're not price sensitive? You look few times on a certain website and the time you intend to buy you see prices are a bit higher, but you just want to get it done, so you purchase nonetheless?

In a way, it's a strong strategy for price sensitive people, since they will spend a lot of time to get the best deal possible.

As far as I know, the margins are extremely low per booking, so it seems like a viable strategy, I just don't know if it's implemented, I have no inside knowledge.
"We can easily see how to get linearizable consistency if we route all requests [for a partition or region] through a single master [like all the systems you listed]. In a fully distributed system, it is less obvious."

Again, the innovation here is not the functionality per se, which is surely not novel to any INGRES user from the 70s. The innovation is in implementing and integrating it for an eventually-consistent, Dynamo style system.

As for the name, well, there are two hard problems in computer science. Early talks about "putting CAS in Cassandra" got me a lot of blank looks; lightweight transactions seems to work quite well to get the audience/reader in the right conceptual neighborhood.
I never understood the purpose of share buybacks. Sure there will be less shares outstanding but the company will be worth that much less from having spent the cash to buy the shares.

How does that benefit anyone?
> If you decide to pay for a home inspection in the future, make sure you don't use one that is recommended by your realtor (face palm).

This x 1000.

In fact, I think that's one of the big lessons learned in my first property purchase. If I could do-over, I'd have hired a completely independent inspector (rated highly on yelp/servicemagic/angieslist) and maybe have two separate inspections. At the very least we could have negotiated some compensation from the sellers.
Who Really Said That?
Just curious, do you just use EC2 and do you dynamically scale the number of machines you use frequently? All the math I've done for a constant number of servers/instances shows that unmanaged dedicated or colocated hardware comes out far ahead in price.
I wouldn't consider it expensive. Anyone with a legitimate use for it doesn't even have to think hard until talking 6 figures.
@zerr: Sorry for my language and insults in response to your comment. I don't agree w/ your comment, and I chose a contradictory tone to express my disagreement, but that tone and my choice of words was not helpful to any discussion. Regardless of my intent I apologize for how I responded to you. I owe you a beer.
That's definitely not clearer, but that's because it's a poor design decision by the developer.

Here's a screenshot of Apple's (just-out-of-Beta) Find My iPhone on iCloud.com showing exactly the same scenario but designed properly: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/709013/Screenshots/fmi-i...

It's much clearer, and in my opinion looks much better than the original toggle shown in the "before" screenshot there.
Let me ask a slightly different question then. Does the GPLv2 ever try to control anything that is not derived from the GPL source code? Some of the FSF's saber-rattling seems to imply that either the answer is yes, or they're being misleading, or they have a completely ridiculous definition of derivation.
Definitions or not you can't get around the issue by specifying a new term "Subjective reality"

Not a new term, it's vital to understand the distinction between subjective experience and subjective reality to even make sense of a conversation like this. They are vastly different things.

So how's that different than my "subjective reality" -- that isn't really a thing either.

Subjective experiences happen in objective reality. Color and taste are entirely subjective things that don't exist in reality. However, there exists a measurable testable objective reality that exists independently of your subjective experiences.

There are also those who believe in subjective reality, i.e. they believe consciousness somehow creates reality itself and what you think affects reality itself, i.e. the book "The Secret".

So my subjective experience IS an objective phenomenon and nothing more?

Obviously, and there exists no evidence anywhere that this isn't the case. Your brain is a machine, not a magic connection between your body and some other reality where your mind resides.

If its something more than what we can measure "in the real world" then what is the part that is "more"? It doesn't exist right?

It's not something more, so talking about it's existence is moot; your subjective experience exists in the same way your memories exist, as coded patterns in your neurons. There's no such thing as "exists outside the real world" as the very definition of the word exists is have objective reality or being. To say "exists outside the real world" is an utterly meaningless statement.

I can only logically conclude that pure Subjective Experience doesn't exist! As scientific materialism has always claimed.

Scientific materialism makes no such claim. Once again, subjective experience happens, it's not a thing, it's an event in your mind. Science does not deny it. Science denies subjective reality, i.e. the notion that your impression of the world is reality and isn't just a personal delusion. The Secret is a popular book that sells the idea of subjective realities as fact, i.e. what you think affects and changes reality itself. It is of course complete and utter nonsense written to separate fools from their money.
Great read Marc!
It makes sense if the company believes that it's own shares are underpriced.
In your bubble, you believe all of those things are good things accepted by the HN hive mind. Hilarious.
On an initial read this sounds like a lot of hot air, but it has some good points.

"*Hint: If you did, you would already have traction." -- what does that even mean? You're trying to sound cool but you just sound ambiguous.

"If you build it, they will come (and pay)." Um, no, not always.

"Growth is the only thing that matters if you are building a social network. Period." -- there was a better HN post today, that was completely solid. Read, compare, take what you will. http://insideintercom.io/if-its-important-dont-hack-it/

"Media and social networking companies should double down on analytics to find, observe, and build for actual user behavior." - Analytics, eh? Sure, you can dive through numbers all you want, but how about user research that's designed to actually tell you this? All you need is 10 people trying to solve the same problem and a well-made survey. Once you have a product, do the same thing and see how well it solves it. This will tell you more than numbers.

"Avoid bad relationships like the plague but when you inevitably find yourself in a difficult partnership, don’t waste precious energy wailing against it." -- Couldn't agree more. If the partnership is too volatile (you'll know), fix it fast or jump ship.

"We started Sonar with a belief that everyone has the potential to be amazing and that technology can unlock that potential." Well, I think I see your problem. How about starting with something more concrete? (I kid, I kid.)

Lots of good takeaways. Most of them are very specific to your case, and a lot of it is emotionally charged. It's an interesting read as a case study, but I think you're too close to it for the experience to bear real wisdom yet. Revisit in 6 months, a year, two years, and see how you look back on it. Your perspective will constantly evolve and change. Never ceases to amaze me.

It's like a bad relationship—you can't see it from close up. While you're in deep it seems like you belong there and have to keep working through it, but when you leave you just can't believe how many signs there were early on and throughout the experience that should have led you to do something differently, or just start fresh. But if you find the right person (or start with them) then it's a whole new world—it becomes easy, and the problems you worry about are the right ones. I think that's the main factor of success. Finding the right people, having the right idea, and (perhaps most importantly) knowing yourself—all at the same time.
Dancing With Black Widow Spiders
Even if it was never prosecuted, carriers can make it a royal pain in the ass to use devices not sold by them by refusing to activate them, make their devices not even accept SIM cards for the devices, never sell SIM cards and only let preregistered IMEIs from devices sold by them to use their network. That was the Telus & Bell Mobility CDMA carriers back when I was in Canada, and it probably can still be like that.
Intel and Apple: An Interesting Tidbit
Agreed,

I think the main thing about pipelining, modularity and such is that researchers want to produce something that someone else can use.

Domain specific hacks do seem like the most effective in practice, they more or less by definition can't be reused or extended, however.

Which can be sad from the perspective of making progress over time.
BBC review of original GTA game in 1996
Optimizing UI icons for faster recognition
Tips for time management in college
I'm in a rough spot right now.

I've just started college away from home in a fairly tough computer engineering program. I'm trying to find time for my girlfriend, my school work, exercise, and personal projects. But it seems impossible with my dorm mates staying up late and the life-consuming calculus and natural science courses I have to take for freshmen year.

For those of you who've made it through similar programs, how did you balance everything and still come out with good grades?
>Yeah.. I admit, I voted for him on 2008..

As did I. Last year, I just didn't vote.
It's not just the government that buy these things. Oil and gas, heavy manufacturing, automotive, genomics, financial, etc. all have them. The poster I was replying to appeared to be under the gross misconception that all parallel problems were more effectively solved with high throughput clusters.
Ed Snowden will become an alcoholic
Use Google CDN hosted AngularJS - it's pretty fast. And size of jQuery is bigger ;P
No company goes public with the intention of being bought out.

And the entity that's buying the company does so with the intention of distributing the profits (to themselves).
Why are American healthcare costs so high?