skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly agree with you but to play the devil's advocate... if it is a game I love, I am usually at the edge of my seat (probably a bad idea ergonomically)
Pair Programming Misconceptions (2006)
Friends Don’t Let Friends Have a Lazy VC/CEO Relationship
Again: it's not about the islands, it's about the water between them.

Let's stipulate that Canada owns every island in the hemisphere. Now what? If enough ice melts that there's a passage between them which doesn't come within 12 nautical miles of an island's coast, then there's a passage that isn't in Canada's territorial waters, and Canada can't, under current international law, forbid ships using the passage.
Finding your Unfair Advantage
I think it will work very well for platformers actually. Those games usually have just 2-4 buttons. There are definitely 4 easily accessible front face buttons.

Fighting games will probably still require an arcade stick. I've tried playing these games with an Xbox controller, and while it certainly works better than a keyboard, it still sucks. Gotta have the stick.
I use http://hn.premii.com/
It's working on mobile and desktop. When you click on the cog in the top left there are "Ask HN" and "Show HN" links.
Especially with the heavy cat home page having a youtube video on it.

Besides the slight hypocrisy, I understand the point the author is trying to get off as simplify simplify simplify. When you have been doing it for as long as he has, seems like the natural progression.
High-paying jobs don't mean much when rent and cost of living are incredibly high, anyway.
>Obama and his cohorts can go back to bed in peace, knowing this was just another internet fad and, as predicted, the geeks are easily distracted by some new gadgets or talk of technical gimmicks.

Yes, because Obama and his cohorts were really sweating over what Hacker News thought about anything.
So does TF2. So does DOTA2. Valve is going to be targeting that group, obviously. And unlike TF2, RTS games don't need the left touchpad to be a movement-stick - you could cram an assload of gesture-based stuff in there.
"Get off my lawn!"
A mixture of array and functional paradigms; writing efficient code in R requires basically the same type of thinking like in APL or J/Q/K and friends. Historically, R is a sort of a Scheme-based implementation of S, an earlier language which was basically a mixture of APL and Fortran that a statistician would use (i.e. not get discouraged by a bizarre syntax or for-pyramids). Syntax is probably an effect of the fact that both C and S were co-evolving in the same institution.
You always knew his "I ... love ... this ... company" proclamation (after the famed Monkey Boy dance) was heartfelt.
Sure. Would be a progressive move. It may end up being up to you to ensure that you get the advisors and advice you'd need.
Yeah, I was kinda wondering why aliens don't use IPv6 and let Teredo or whatever worry about NAT traversal. I heard that IPv6 makes it much harder for Jeff Goldblum to upload the virus.
> And there's no reason why a standard couldn't be developed that let the owner of a URI designate that it named a single piece of data that would never change.

Yes, I agree. The "new URI scheme" I suggested in my previous comment is one possible way such a standard might be written.

That's just one part of the solution, though; if you want the benefits of getting off of TCP then you also need standards for the new content-centric network layer protocol(s) that will replace it, and you need to implement that in your networks and routers.
Nicely done!

Minor things, but I was surprised to find Russia in 'Asia' folder. In most cases (sport for example) it's considered Europe.
I don't know, man. I really try very hard to make sure there's no one between me and outright insanity. But sometimes I wish there was... are you talking about homomorphic encryption? I'm not sure I'd hold my breath waiting for a practical homomorphic VM.
Women-only Coding School Aims at Worker Shortage, Gender Imbalance
Yes, the article claims such without presenting any evidence or substantiating the claim in any way. Where is the study linking rise in tech worker wages to increases in burrito prices? Oh right... there is none. Burritos in the mission are no more expensive than burritos in Santa Rosa, CA. They're $7-9 anywhere in Northern California.
http://inspecthq.com/ - clipboard and camera replacement for construction/inspection companies. Had a large (enterprise level) company interested for almost 2 years before we gave up.
To expand on this:

In most FPSes your move commands are binary, "W" or nothing. You can alter them a bit with combinations, Shift-W to sprint or perhaps Ctrl-W to crawl but you're still limited to a handful of preset speeds.

I could easily imagine being able to use a continuous axis to encapsulate walk/jog/sprint being quite a bit more intuitive and precise.
The unfair advantage is often one of the hardest (if not the hardest) column to fill out on the lean canvas. I know I had problems.

The way you explain it makes sense, though it edges the "Unique Value Proposition" rather closely. Would this even be an issue?
I've played 1000+ hours of Minecraft on my Thinkpad. That would be torture with a touchpad but it's a joy with the nub (which is basically a very small joystick). Why they went with touchpads over traditional dual-joystick input with community managed zero configuration mouse-keyboard emulation I really don't understand.
No time to web, lifting. /s
"Google just killed $150M in Android develop payments"
Your ignorance is astounding.

Inland lakes and rivers are internal waters; the state they're within has absolute control over them.

Territorial waters end 12 nautical miles from the coast.

The exclusive economic zone ends 200 nautical miles from the coast.

The firing upon and seizure of a Spanish boat in international waters would, if they chose that course, have been legal justification for Spain to declare war.
Me too. Some posts just show up on the top of home page with no discussion and not many votes.
Also, how can a comment get downvoted? (is that a word?)

[Edit: found the answers for my questions: http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html]
“Daddy, let’s play the binocular game”
Here's the link to the Google Play Developer Policy

http://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html
> I'm not sure where you live, but American conservatives favor power in the states

American conservatives say that in the context of debates over federal engagement in certain types of government programs as a reason for opposing them there (which, incidentally, the same conservatives also oppose at the State level), but not about the kind of programs they support, like, say, national defense.

The areas that American conservatives make the biggest stinks about state power are identical to the ones where they make the biggest stink about the function not being a proper role of government at all.

> American liberals favor power in the federal government (i.e. centralization).

Er, no, American liberals don't. American liberals are often characterized as supporting centralization by American conservatives when they support the federal government doing things that American conservatives don't think government should do at all. (They are, surprisingly enough, not accused by American conservatives of "opposing centralization" when they oppose the federal government doing things American conservatives think it should do, e.g., spending more money than the rest of the world combined on national defense.)

Both American conservatives and American liberals tend to conduct multipronged efforts to get the same general policy preferences adopted at both state and federal levels (and tend to push all levers of power available, executive, legislative, and judicial -- and, at the state level, direct citizen initiative) at both levels.

In addition, American conservatives tend to accuse American liberals of centralization whenever they push a policy conservatives don't approve of at the federal level (particularly through legislative action), of seeking to "overturn the will of the people" whenever they seek to overturn a policy conservatives approve of through judicial action, of dictatorship whenever they seek to implement policy conservatives oppose executive action, and of infringing on the authority of the executive when they seek to implement a policy conservatives disapprove of through legislative action, at least, when the executive is in hands viewed as friendlier to conservatives.
You didn't seriously trace all maps in Fireworks, did you? Do you realize you can download shapefiles for all countries from multiple places on the net, and then render them at all desired sizes and styles with an afternoon worth of programming?
So if you think that you have something that's going to fix that pain point for people even once a month (and I'm assuming you're going to build it such that it solves the problem well) -- Then I think it's worth it to put something like a landing page (or heck, just go ahead and build it, I personally don't like sitting on my hands for too long about something like this, and you'll learn something anyway, so it's not all a waste)

Also, unless you are really trying to grow this into a business, maybe just get a cheap VPS and put it on there? depending on the hosting service, you can get away with <$20/month, and that is pretty small.
It'd be a fun project to change political boundaries, location names (Sea of Japan / East Sea), and map orientation (who is at the center?) based on each visitor's geolocation.

The world: according to you.
The Debian OpenSSL Bug: Backdoor or Security Accident?
Between the meme responses ("cool story bro" etc) and the misunderstandings, this has to be the lowest value HN comment thread ever. It's like I'm reading 9gag.

For a site were tons of people speak of the value of simplicity, and every other day they "Show HN" their own "static site generator", it's surprising how many people do NOT get his message.

First, he is not a web developer. He is a busines owner that also had to create a site for his business. He chose to follow the KISS principle, and that's what he advocates: catering to content first, fancy stuff second (or never at all).

The peripheral details to his post (if he personally uses Flash for some stuff but you don't like it, or if he has a line about coding important apps in C and you disagree) don't matter.

What matters is that for content websites --which makes most of them out there, including all blogs and brochure-ware sites --, his advice is spot on.

As for his website "looking like crap" (as 1-2 people comment below). That's the whole point. As long as it gets the job done he doesn't care. And it's not worse than Hacker News (no paragon of great web design) or Paul Graham's site.

Would you rather read PGs eassays in his website, or some moron's zero-content marketing fluff on a great looking, fancy-ass website, with CSS 3D transforms and the whole works?
Martha Stewart breaks iPad, wants Apple to come and pick it up
Glooko Helps Patients Manage Diabetes Digitally
Being able to avoid $scope.$apply() will certainly be nice.

As it stands now, if you want to leave the Angular reservation and use something like the Parse JS SDK (which is a customized set of Backbone models) your code will be littered with $scope.$apply(). Not very DRY, and also adds, from the dev's point of view, a needless level of nesting functions.
You have spewn out a lot of garbage above, and I'm not going to bother replying to all your points. The once point that was valid was

>They most certainly do. Recommendations that there is a big problem that needs lots of analysis lead to secure jobs and political power for the scientists doing the analysis. Recommendations that "there is nothing to see here, move along" don't.

This is indeed a significant bias. First, there is also an incentive for disagreeing with the mainstream since people with other political views or agendas are willing to fund it as well. I can't remember the name (google might be your friend here) but there was a group of skeptics who reanalyzed temperature data so as to better account for heat islands. They ended up confirming global warming. Second, while as a group researchers benefit from belief in global warming, an individual researcher could do very well from finding convincing evidence against global warming.

These are all reasons why in spite of this bias the conclusions of mainstream researchers are probably valid.
as a chinese, I don't understand why you make China and Taiwan separately.
I'm surprised he didn't say he writes HTML with a typewriter and has an assistant scan it in.
> That's because there is no (easy) way for you to connect to my computer.

Er.. just give me your IP and we're good to go, no? Even easier if you register a name for free on dyndns (for instance) and then give me something like mshaxxorette.homelinux.org.
Yes, that's my point. What had formerly been an exclusively "conservative" position became a matter of complete hegemony.

Obama has pretty much pissed off most of the constituency that formerly called itself "liberal".
And they took another big risk with the WiiU, which may end up being their undoing as a console manufacturer.
That is pretty insane. I like the guys who are larger than the universe. No translation tho. Can anyone tell me who the guys are that are much larger than earth, or what shows they're from? I can't seem to OCR the titles out of screenshots.
Are you speaking from personal experience, then? Care to share details? I appreciate that you are giving feedback, but it is very vague. What parts of the copy do you feel are not ok?
Because let's face it. This site is web scale, and your site is total fail.
Why we're supporting Typed Clojure
Machine gun found in closet at JFK airport
Design Comparison: iOS 7 vs Android vs Windows
> Would you rather read PGs eassays in his website, or some moron's zero-content marketing fluff on a great looking, fancy-ass website, with CSS 3D transforms and the whole works?

I'd rather read PGs essays on a great looking, fancy-ass website. Why the false dichotomy?
If you don't like what the ISP charges you, you can cancel your Internet subscription. You're not allowed to say "well I don't drive, so I don't want to pay for roads".

In addition, about 50% of the federal budget these days is Social Security+Medicare+Medicaid. Most of the things you listed are paid from local/state taxes, which are much smaller. Two thirds of the federal budget goes to pensions, welfare and military expenses. Roads, laws and law enforcement aren't where the bulk of taxes goes.
jQuery minified is less than 100kb. Those ugly anime cats on this site are almost 70kb together, each one making its own request.

How can someone simplify with so little understanding of the subject matter?
Is weird. If you have static types then want dynamic (I want it with Delphi). If have dynamic then want static (I want it with python).

I have thinking in how a language with both could be. For example, say Customer.Name(Str) is static but Customer..Name(?Str) is dynamic. In my experience, is better to have static typing almost all the time and "escape" to dynamic for auto-generate things (like data from a DB) and/or quick experiments...
Except that it looks like it was reading from New Relic, etc. So if you're collecting that data already, you have no problem doing devops to spit out a static status page for a simple web server to host.

And the pricing is considerably higher than popping an arbitrary number of VPS on internationally diverse hosting providers (or generated HTML on Google Sites, Github, and Rackspace Cloud Sites, or generated HTML cached by CloudFlare, or whatever). A status page shouldn't cost a dedicated 8-way Xeon or 25 Google Apps accounts.

That said, if it were priced differently, I'd recommend it in a heartbeat. Looks great, does what it needs to.
Opentype.js - JavaScript parser for OpenType fonts
Fascinating and tragic article.

Paul Tough wrote a fantastic piece in NYT last year that really helps contextualize what's going on in Chicago, in my opinion [1].

It's also pretty sick how people continue to profit off of things that directly contribute to the immiseration of the urban poor. As stated in the article, Interscope are profiteering off of all of this misery. I respect Jimmy Iovine's sense of music and business, but how in the world does he sleep at night? Another example [2], and one by our own government [3].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/magazine/obama-poverty.htm...

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/09/08/le...

[3] http://www.esquire.com/features/rick-ross-drug-dealer-interv...
I can last hit OK with a trackball (after some getting used to, thanks to RSI), but edge scrolling is difficult.

With two trackballs, perhaps one of the wheels can be used for moving the screen, and the other for moving the mouse.

They've implemented a "chat-wheel" with common in-game phrases to help with communications as well, which seems to be a perfect fit for controller play.

I just can't wait for the day where I can invite people over, buy an 80" TV, and play Dota 2 split screened on controllers!
I got a chance to try this out with a first-person shooter. I was not very happy with it. It felt worse than mouse+keyboard and simultaneously worse than dual-analog gamepads. Everybody in the room had issues calibrating and re-centering themselves. I'm sure it gets better with more use, but that's just the problem: it fails a fundamental usability test, because the initial experience of using it is pretty awful and requires a significant learning curve to achieve results that aren't necessarily or obviously better than either of the current standards.
Assuming this is true (filters are faster than slurping) how do we explain the perception of Perl and the many similar interpreters that followed as being "faster than the shell" (i.e. UNIX standard utilities and pipes). Since the dawn of Perl, and through the Python era, one could conclude that the shell and UNIX utilities have been all but abandoned for doing work with large files, in favor of using other interpreters and their myriad helper libraries.

My guess is that hardware improved and made slurping easier to do. Available RAM increased as hardware improved. This allowed slurping to displace filters as the choice way to work with files.

In a resource constrained environment, I still prefer filters to slurping. But how many developers or users today perceive their environment as resource constrained?
You don't, unless the owner of the resource says they are and is trustworthy. No amount of code will change that.

No, but you have to decide how your code will behave if it detects a change. Should it keep a hash and report an error?

But that's just a matter of adding an RFC to describe how to mark URIs as naming immutable resources.

That's certainly an interesting way to use the word just. You don't strike me as someone who first heard of the IETF yesterday.

And besides, we already have an RFC that does exactly that. It's RFC 2616 - use Cache-Control: max-age. Except that - this channel is polluted with crap information, because lots of sites set their cache-control wrong and don't mean it.

So you need a new channel that isn't polluted with crap information. Maybe we're agreeing after all.

Why does it require completely reworking the Internet infrastructure from scratch?

DNS is also not referentially transparent. Nor are HTTP responses signed by DNS identities.

When all is said and done, you have a new service by any standards. Why layer the new service (which is much simpler than the old service) over the old ball of mud? If you want to talk to it from the ball of mud, write a gateway.
You'll need to hit the other buttons eventually
This varies widely by industry. We sell software to insurance companies. 40% of our pageviews are IE8. Sure, we can choose to ignore those customers, but in our world that's a lot of money to leave on the table.

I'm not saying I think everyone should be building for IE8. I wish we could stop. But it's also not always just as easy as saying give up 5% of your potential users. The HN crowd is so often consumer focused and incredibly out of touch with the enterprise markets (this is not an argument against the parent comment, but an overall trend I notice on HN).
Could have let it drop and reregistered it.

Edit:: oldest Archive.org entry for this domain is 2009; http://web.archive.org/web/20090213172323/http://www.heavyca...
Back in 2004, trying to compile C++ with g++ was like trying to skin a cat with a toothpick. It just gets really tedious after a while.
This is great! I am a long time apl user and think that the symbols make things much easier to read.
There's no free lunch. Mandating more gas efficiency means you necessarily get less of other important things people like and want, such as safety and cost savings.

One way to make cars a lot more fuel efficient would be to get rid of the weight of the roll cage...but then more people would die in auto accidents. Another would be to replace much of the metal with stronger, lighter, higher-tech alloys...but then the car would cost twice as much. That's the sort of tradeoff that makes a difference. If we could somehow get rid of all the mandates - not just the environmental ones - we'd tend to see better overall cars and a wider range of cars available with some that specialize in super-low emissions while others specialize in better safety or higher performance or whatever. But just piling on new requirements atop all the previous ones isn't going to get you major improvement - there's diminishing return on that.
This seems to prove too much. Either all scientists are irrational, or they get some real value out of the journals system.
Apple never mentions how much RAM is in iOS devices.
Leading scientists talk about today's frightening climate report
> URIs are names for data.

URIs are the result of merging the formerly-separate concepts of names for data (URNs) and identification of mechanisms for locating/accessing data (URLs). A particular URI may or may not be a name for a piece of data, and, except in certain cases, the scheme of a URI won't tell you whether or not it is such a name (one using the urn: scheme unambiguously is such a name, but one using the http: scheme may or may not be.)
Biker Pedals Across SF Bay
Aleph, from monome: Programmable Sound Computer That Does Anything
Official product page here[0], additional details here[1], and forum discussion over here[2].

This is very exciting. As with other monome projects, the hardware itself isn't open source, but everything else about the project is.

[0]http://monome.org/aleph/
[1]http://monome.org/aleph-details/
[2]http://monome.org/community/discussion/16777/
Strange Loop has sold out every year and the conference is really about the people you can hang out with and the non-talk parts as much as seeing the content. So, no.

The videos are filmed and released as a partnership between Strange Loop and InfoQ. Strange Loop gets excellent videographers, professional gear (hardware screen capture devices), and on-site editing for early access release for very low cost and virtually no work. InfoQ gets eyeballs to their site. Attendees get draft videos available within days after the conference. Non-attendees get free access to almost all of the content from the conference (at a delay). Minor nits aside, this is from my perspective a win for everyone.

Part of this equation is that InfoQ wants to receive those eyeballs by dribbling out content over many months. This slow release is also a useful marketing tool for the conference (although this is less essential than in the past).
in the short run too. even setting up the project sounds like a bitch.
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