skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this might be a good replacement for console controllers, I seriously doubt that it will be successful in replacing keyboard and mouse for FPSes, RTSes, point-and-click adventures and other genres that currently make PC game market interesting. Which makes me sad. Valve is effectively turning its back on the games (and gamers) that allowed it succeed despite competition from consoles.

Personally, I am keenly interested in a better, more standardized and streamlined gaming PC, but I'm not at all interested in yet another game console with limited controls, centralized publisher model and locked down OS. (And please, don't insult your intelligence by saying something along the lines of "but you can always plug keyboard in". It's not a matter of what you plug into the system, it's a matter of what UI design the system encourages.)
neither gcc nor emacs was written "from scratch", though the borrowed parts of both were eventually re-written.
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/apl
> Bacon is one of the few things that I refuse to eat.

I don't refuse it, but I don't really care for it. It's pretty much just fat, which I don't find appealing.
Most people complain about the mods changing titles, but this (changed) one is a big improvement over the original.
I totally agree. In fact, I might even go further to say that this is really for anyone to think new thoughts regardless of age. Here's what I mean:

I've been programming for over a decade and the first time I read the code for the bouncing ball example I had basically no idea what it meant. I could sort of tell that there was something drawing circles but that was about it.

By dragging the constants around and seeing every frame change (across time, not just a single frame) you're able to get an intuition about what each line of code is doing.

I'm not a child nor a beginning programmer and using this tool was super useful for me to gain insight on how it works.
Yep, you nailed it.

This is part of the "unicorn hunting" that we see at Hired.com. We've even seen hiring managers rejecting candidates because they didn't use a particular JavaScript framework, or they haven't shipped code relating to a particular industry/vertical.

I liked - http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/1/16/what-if-cars-were-...
As far as I understand no foreign countries laid claim to Canada's oil and potash resources in the interior. The difference for the Canadian North is that we have a few countries disputing our territorial claims[1] such as Denmark (via Greenland), Russia and the US. Thankfully these disputes are contained within diplomatic channels.

My point is not that we must go to war, but that if we expect other countries to obey our laws typically the best way of enforcement is an actual show of force via patrols.

Ironically, as I read about the Canadian Coast Guard, it is one of the few coast guard services that has a strictly civilian mandate with no military nor law-enforcement responsibilities[3].

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/jul/11/climatech...
[2] http://opencanada.org/features/the-think-tank/comments/2013-...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Coast_Guard#Civilian_r...
The first game they show a sreenshot of is Civilization. I'm sure RTS was one of the main genres they tested the controller with.

From the announcement:

> Even the older titles in the catalog and the ones which were not built with controller support. (We’ve fooled those older games into thinking they’re being played with a keyboard and mouse, but we’ve designed a gamepad that’s nothing like either one of those devices.)

(Yes, i know Civ isn't an RTS, but it is a strategy game that is unplayable on a stardard controller)
It sounds to me like you would be able to use the trackpad regions as either "joysticks" or "trackpads" which means for an RTS game you would be no worse off than using a trackpad over a mouse. Other games might be better using them as joysticks where the input re-centers if you lift up from the control surface. Seems like a pretty big improvement over traditional controllers without any significant downsides.
This is so awesome. I couldn't possibly think of a better IDE and/or learning tool.
While there are statistically better and worse times, stories which suck still suck and even the best stories require luck to gain traction.

For me, I make submissions when I find something interesting rather than trending. Whatever moderate traction those stories receive tends to come from submitting at off peak times - weekends and late night US time.

But the first criteria are always the relevance of the article and quality.
It's not so much the shipping that is upsetting it's the arrogant dismissive tone by certain countries deciding the water belongs to everyone because it's convenient for them.

When your so-called friends ignore your sovereignty and we are so small population-wise what choices do we have for defence? I know the US wouldn't stand for it if the situation was reversed.

Good luck with search and rescue too we have a tough time now finding ships and planes we know about let alone some unknown ship who knows where. The recent Coast Guard helicopter crash is a good example the ship that the helicopter came from knew where they were but still couldn't get to them before they occupants froze to death. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/three-die-in-ca...

Prime Minister Harper is putting a push on lately to visit the north but it's more PR than anything but his party has spoken about building massive Coast Guard ships to patrol the arctic in the winter. I think they had giant tracked wheels on the front to help break ice; the bows of ice breaking ships ride up onto the ice they don't push through the ice.
http://bitly.com/bundles/hmason/1

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/books/icdar2007/READ...

http://datahub.io/

http://blog.bigml.com/2013/02/28/data-data-data-thousands-of...

http://iatiregistry.org/

http://open.undp.org/

http://data.worldbank.org/

https://explore.data.gov/catalog/raw/

http://www.data.gov/opendatasites

http://data.gov.be/datasets

http://opencorporates.com/

http://glasspockets.org/work/reportingcommitment/api.html

http://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/

http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets

http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/

http://cleandatahub.org/

http://datacatalogs.org/

http://archive.org/details/oxford-2005-facebook-matrix
In this announcement:

Who Am I?

I am Richard Stallman, inventor of the original much imitated EMACS
editor, now at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT. ...
You'll hopefully be able to choose based on preference, since choice seems to be the theme here.
Save The Locks (the X-Locks Project)
At a valuation of a billion dollars greater than Blackberry's market cap.
If libertarian free markets were perfect then Somalia would be the tech capital of the world.
Rovio has been around about as long as King, generated $200M in 2012, and hasn't gone public. They have merchandising deals all over the place, and even some big media tie-ins. They have a story they can build off of, and are licensing the Star Wars brand, no small feat.

Candy Crush has a gameplay based on blocks - there's probably hundreds, if not thousands, of mobile apps with the same gameplay. Pet Rescue? Same thing. At least Zynga had story lines or social interaction in their apps. (And by social I don't mean harassing your friends on Facebook to give you a life in the game)

That said, it's a fun little game. I'll play a quick game while tests are running, Vagrant instance is booting, I'm taking a seat in the executive office, etc. Have they hit on a formula that can deliver shareholder value for years to come? Absolutely not.
Keep in mind that the locks of the Panama canal are getting bigger. By 2015 a new set of locks will increase capacity of the canal and also allow ships that are up to 60% wider (55m), 33% longer (427m), and with 45% deeper draft (18m) to pass through.

Granted, even that size is not large enough to accommodate a monster like a Maersk triple-E class container ship (which is 59m wide and has too deep a draft to dock anywhere in the Americas), but the vast majority of the largest container ships in the world (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ships) will fit (91 out of 100 by my count). Whereas none of the ships on that list could pass through the current locks in the Panama canal.
actually, the core of GNU emacs was Gosmacs, until Unipress decided they didn't like that.

http://features.slashdot.org/story/13/01/06/163248/richard-s...

"The last piece of Gosmacs code that I replaced was the serial terminal scrolling optimizer, a few pages of Gosling's code which was proceeded by a comment with a skull and crossbones, ... "
Your comparisons to other languages are pretty misguided. In particular, virtually everyone who prefers haskell over ocaml also prefers C over ada or pascal, making it contradictory. Ocaml isn't more pragmatic than haskell.
Awesome! Since I can't even comprehend how would I start implementing this, and my head is already blocked trying to think about all edge cases :)
Why not vector format?
That's just a sentence with a question mark?
Ah stimulants, a modern application of game theory with our health put on the line.
You would probably call God a man. You are an ox, who cannot grasp.

God says...
pitch derides ordered talked whoever hellish SEND unbelievers
infirmity -even companions
It is very sad to see that this is the case. I'm becoming more convinced that Humans have become, as Attenborough put it, a plague on the Earth.
Urbit: The Internet failed (slides and video)
The Amazon T&Cs might put you off - have a good read before you even think about it.

I suspect (but have zero evidence)that Kindle buyers are not likely to be app purchasers and while Android users generally can use the Amazon store I am not at all sure this is their first choice when looking for an app.

It might be that the latest Kindle models will enter the mainstream as Android tablets - have to see if that happens - the hardware specs are good. [anyone know if they now ship with an up-to-date Android version?]

You would think that the amazon store would be very good at offering apps alongside books if they might have a similar appeal (say a navigation app alongside books on similar subjects) but I have seen little evidence of such cross marketing - if that started to work then it would be a strong indicator that the Amazon app store was capable of making an impact.
They'll always find someone who is hungry.
Problem with an absolute-input pointing device in this case is your thumb. In the world of ultra-high DPI touch input, your thumb is a veritable cudgel.
> On thinkpads you can press the middle mouse button (below the spacebar) then press the trackpoint up or down.

Yep, and you can also click and release the middle mouse button, then separately mouse up or down. Interestingly, I have only been able to get either this OR the press then scroll behavior you described working on Windows (by toggling a setting), but in Linux you can have both enabled at the same time.
I don't know, but I think cigar and pipe smoking are a perfectly valid way to get nicotine on your own terms while avoiding addiction. I have never seen someone cowering in the rain cradling a big cigar to get their fix.
9 to 10 AM EST
I'd love access as a student, but I'd only pay around $30-$40 for all of them. More than that, and I'd probably just wait until they were public.
Ideally you move your fingers, not your arm or wrist. Realistically though, nobody is playing games by moving their arm, even if that is perhaps what you are suppose to do.

I mean, those same ergonomics guides also tell you to keep your back straight and your feet flat on the floor in front of you. How many people do that?
So far the IQ boost from any known drug intervention is very modest. All of the possible environmental interventions on IQ combined appear, from longitudinal studies of IQ in national populations, to have a fairly strong effect, but many of those environmental influences are still very poorly understood. A recent review article,

Nisbett, R. E., Aronson, J., Blair, C., Dickens, W., Flynn, J., Halpern, D. F., & Turkheimer, E. (2012). Intelligence: new findings and theoretical developments. American Psychologist, 67(2), 130.

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/papers2/Articles%20for%20O...

by a group of all-star IQ researchers who on the whole are optimistic about environmental interventions, lays out some of the current research and shows what is still unknown.
Gambling is a zero sum game. Global economic growth (in theory) isn't.
Yes, and that is likely going to mean that, the Arctic is never going to freeze again (if this takes off).

Goodbye, Polar bears, we like you, but we don't think your survival is in our "national interests". Meh.
For the interested: Jan Paul Posma has done some really awesome stuff with similar inspirations at jsdares (http://www.jsdares.com/) — try dragging around some of the variables in the brick game.
Steve Albini's 20-year-old letter pitching to produce Nirvana's 'In Utero'
Rust is basically entirely 'this is simply the present state of things.' :)
Choc - Bret Victor's 'Learnable Programming' implemented in Javascript
I believe it's called "tapering off" The cravings go away as the dosage goes down, since a sip isn't enough to increase or maintain tolerance.
Bizarrely, Linux seems to support much of the trackpoint/trackpad stuff on thinkpads better than Windows does. I use to not be able to configure the trackpad how I wanted on Windows, but the Synaptics driver for Linux gave me plenty of possibilities.
Is this the book? http://www.amazon.com/P-L-Prentice-Hall-automatic-computatio... or this http://www.amazon.com/Edition-Polivka-Raymond-published-Pren...
As does HP and Dell
MOOC == Hey, those guys might be on to something?
A couple of interesting articles on SGX:

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/thoughts-on...

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/thoughts-on...
The "worth the weight" thing is a joke. Theres an urban legend that says that the HL3 release gets postponed by 1 month every time someone makes a joke about Gabe Newell being fat.
Trackpoint is great, but I've been trying to move away from its use. I've found after frequent use, my finger tip gets irritated- I suspect mechanics similar to the development of a blister are at play- and they haven't been good for my hand overall. I've forced myself to use trackpads and mice now, because they are much lower impact on my hand. I can keep my hand completely relaxed when using a trackpad.
I agree with you that countries shouldn't be walked over like this.

However, our territorial claims will be ignored if we don't boost funding in a navy fleet, coast guard fleet and/or ports to assist with patrolling. Unfortunately, it's easier said than done given our lack of appetite for even higher taxes which would probably come in the form of a GST hike.

It seems our options are:

1) Raise funds to patrol or enforce our territory;

2) Partner with other countries and attempt to negotiate minerals, resources or access in exchange for adherence and continued international recognition of Canada's territorial claims; or

3) Do nothing.
Unfortunately, Hired isn't in Tel Aviv yet, otherwise I'd love to help!
I'd like to think so. I go through phases, where NOT having my face in electronics feels new (and good) - doing things with my hands, like painting a room or putting in a sink faucet. (And I used to have extreme aversions to handy-man type work.)
I LOVE NICOTINE!!!!
Given one of your other comments here, I get the impression you don't use code review tools much, eg Gerrit. Is that the case?
Must be about time the meatbags were removed from the equation. The technology has existed for decades.
> With this attitude

Most developers including me would probably be better served by a realistic attitude such as displayed above by lowmagnet. Unfortunately, this too takes some 10+ years...
Rovio has been around as long as King, and I'd argue that Angry Birds has generated more revenue, and while a bit played out, probably has a longer shelf life still than Candy Crush.
The original Learnable Programming article is a response to the work that we did in building the Khan Academy Computer Science platform - which is exactly that. An educational real-time environment for writing and manipulating code: https://www.khanacademy.org/cs
Hacking 101 - Nothing is 100% SECURE.
That story is currently ranked #44 (second page). I don't think it'd take more than a few users flagging it to get that rank given it's also 9 hours old.
A keto diet would see bacon and eggs as completely normal, provided you didn't have a lot of toast with it.
I find it very difficult to get the sort of control that I want with my thumbs.
A Red Hat system was running more code for GNOME/KDE than either coreutils or Linux. Should we call it GNOME/GNU/Linux? Probably, because GNOME was designed from the beginning to be a usable desktop for users. There is a GNU, and it is running on their system, but it is just part of the system they use.

Also, LOC is a really poor metric for comparing the importance of a piece of software for a system. Many applications have far more LOC than the entire OS itself, and you wouldn't call that app more essential than the OS.
My understanding is that it gives you less flexibility in how your type system works. To a certain extant you are stuck with the C# type system no matter what the language is because it is baked in to the VM. I assume this doesn't apply as much to dynamic languages but still makes interoperability a pain.
CPython has reference counts as a part of the object in memory. The claims of "large memory consumption" are nonsense, especially since small integer objects and strings are aggressively interned.

And increasing just one aligned integer is certainly cheaper than the bit masking the solution here entails (all of which is neatly hidden away in the 'increment of the correct portion' part).
Fuck yes. The best part is the full English has changed into the "all day breakfast" in the last 20 years.

When some asshats blew up half of London in 2005, I had a full English breakfast (at 2pm) and two cups of tea, then walked 16 miles home and still wasn't hungry when I got in :)

Can't beat it.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 exclusive look
Companies based entirely around building better Skinner boxes is a rather alarming phenomenon.
Buca Boot: a trunk for your bike
Depends on how "clever" the people using Scala were trying to be. obligatory:
http://parleys.com/play/51c1ffe7e4b0d38b54f46231
Completely off topic but wow that is a REALLY beautiful website. Great at displaying information and great use of icons too.

Definitely going to add it to my list of inspirations when designing.
From the article: "To be clear, Malik isn’t talking about Kickstarter where funders make a donation that acts like a pre-order. He’s talking about the public buying stock in private companies, something that may soon be legal thanks to the JOBS Act..."
Albeit without any of the tactile value of the tension of an analog stick. [1] Nor an absolute, physically constrained, "max" position: where the stem of an analogue stick is pressed against the edge of its container. [2]

A trackpad seems like it will very easily allow your thumb to drift from a position of sending maximally-distant-from-center input to not registering any input. That's going to be a huge usability problem.

And making assumptions about what a user might have meant should a thumb just happen to slide off the edge of a trackpad is going to be problematic. [3]

[1] What would you call a 360 or dual shock controller with analog sticks that have no tension-to-center anymore? Broken.

[2] Think of how often you feel/hear that little analog stick "clack". Think of how often you're pressing against that physical boundary to ensure maximal-distance input. Each of those moments is an opportunity for a trackpad to present a problem. And those moments are awfully common. It's likely they're more common than not.

[3] did their thumb slide off, or did they raise it? did i slide off on accident or on purpose? etc

EDIT: cleaned up phrasing
> I remember the post that launched imgur.

So do I.

It's kind of funny to see some of the things that have been born out of reddit or other social communities, having read the posts that resulted in them.

On that note, I wonder how the history of project origins is going to change, in a sentimental way. We hear folklore of person X talking to person Y at dinner, which birthed projected Z. Now we can link to where MrGrim first promoted one his project.

For the interested, he did an AMA on reddit[1].

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/y81ju/i_created_imgur_...
And to avoid keyloggers being installed when the machine is powered of, see STARK[1] from the same uni.

[1] http://www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/stark
What kind of bad stuff with gum? After reading gwern i started trying out gum and it's nice. I have no cravings and never have to or want to consume more than a single gum per day. Most of the time it's a quarter or half a chiclet + headphones and a clean desk to get me into a 2-4 hour coding session.

I'm worried about if it will damage my oral health or anything though. Will it?
Here's IMO a pretty freaking cool snippet of the possibilities, generating a static type from your database - http://gist.github.com/c-spencer/6569571
I can look into making the ads more obviously ads. There's not really another place to put them in our layout, though.

And for the record, we have a button that makes ads go away forever. I think that nullifies anything about ads being 1st class citezens.
I didn't pick up on this subtlety. Really good point. Can I ask about the significance of 24 nautical miles? Assuming that's an international boundary condition between Canadian territorial waters vs. international waters?
A gazillion text messages have been sent by thumbs hunting for keys. This won't be a perfect interface, but it will beat the ever-loving-crap of trying to use a joystick for a pointing-device's job.
It was at the top of page 1 when it suddenly popped off after a refresh.
How would one play something like Street Fighter with this controller, the button placement seems like it wouldn't allow for a good experience with fighters or even platformers.
I got to hold one of these a few months ago. It's solid. The ergonomics are there. The same designer[1] was previously at {one of the other three very large gaming console manufacturers} and knows a thing or two about controllers. My understanding is it will be significantly more accurate than traditional joysticks and competitive with a mouse (with a mouse you have a single 'large' plane of motion, with this, you have two smaller independent planes for each thumb). For FPS's it will really shine, but keep in mind that Valve also makes DOTA2 so I'm sure they're more than aware of the need to make this work across genres.

For Valve to bring PC gaming to your TV/Couch, they really needed to nail the interface. I imagine they have spent many iterations on the problem, and I am very excited to see the fruits of their labor.

[1] Full disclosure, by some odd coincidence she happens to be my sister and also did the industrial design for Lockitron so I am wayy biased here.
I kept reading your comment expecting it to retort at some point; but no, you're interested in the controller.

From the pictures, as it mentions nothing in text, it looks like they have setup dual zones on the trackpads. If they do allow user defined settings, I hope they will allow you to adjust different precisions on the areas - allowing for use of the outer ring as quicker turning, faster running and the inner rings for more precise aiming and walking. That would definitely help a transition for PC gamers, whose mice can be swapped across a mousepad quickly or slowly for fine tuning to the gamer. Many gamers also use a button on their mice to realtime change the DPI for more precise aiming.
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