skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were busy trying to shift to a closed digital distribution platform, which gamers hanged them for. Granted their intentions were for their own profit margins and not at all for the consumer in mind, but things like that probably make them less likely to take risks in the future.
Well, I created them one year ago using Fireworks. I didn't understand the importance of saving them in .svg back then. Now I do :-) I'm planning to export all the vectors to Illustrator, then saving them in .svg, then putting them in Github too.
Sorry for the mistake, will fix this.
No, not with posts that high and that many upvotes. It would take a lot more than 'a few flags' and it would step down the page after every flag. The other thread had 900+ upvotes, it would take a lot of flags to get rid of that one and even 300+ upvotes would take more than just a few.
Maybe it's more of a "Coming Soon: For Sale" post.
LOC is a poor metric, but by any metric GNU contribution was substantial.

GNOME, incidentally, is GNU[1]. Coreutils is not the sole contribution of the GNU project to a (typical desktop or server) Linux system.

[1]: Certainly currently - I am less confident it started that way, but the G seems to stand for GNU so that's some evidence that it did.
How OS X Mavericks got its name
In a typical keyboard+mouse FPS game, for example, you get 2D analog "look" controls with the mouse, but much more limited 2D "move" controls with the keyboard.

With two analog sticks/trackpads/mice/etc. you can get the same range of control over both. That's what the two "planes" give you.
Not a fan of how direct links to images always result in a download prompt.

Also the branding seems kinda outdated - two-word phrase with an inner capital letter, meh. And the URLs feel kinda long, even with the clever "putting part of your name into the tld" thing.

Between that kind of minor quibbles and my expectation that imgur is probably going to stay around for longer than your service is, I'm afraid I'm going to stick to imgur for my cat-related labeling-and-distribution needs.

I'm more interested in getting people to share short bits of video as small video files instead of huge gif files, but I don't think cartoons are a good showcase for that, even with the dramatic file size reduction. Compression artifacts are pretty visible with all the line art and fairly flat colors. (edit: and of course you're going against the flow of all the social websites, going back to web forums all the way to tumblr, where embedding gifs is trivial but videos are a big deal/require youtube/their own posts.)

Good luck, though!
A very good one is "The future of Programming", http://vimeo.com/71278954.

Where he pretends to be in a late 70's conference, discussing how the current ideas about Smalltalk, GUI environments, parallel programming and so forth, can be used and how the computing world might look like in 30 years time (meaning nowadays).
I bought the eGO-T (meant for vaporizing plant matter) with a secondary nicotine adapter. In the US you can find both products at nearly every smoke shop.

One thing that really makes a difference is that the vaporized nicotine is actually somewhat hot, like cigarette smoke, when you breathe it in. Standard pre-packaged e-cigarettes didn't cut it for me specifically for this reason.
More like tobacco is rightly demonized for its harmful effects on health, but nicotine, which does not have these effects, is not. The market responds to informed consumers by providing nicotine without the tobacco.

I would chalk this this one up as a case of capitalism working [for the general good [this clarification shouldn't be necessary but it always is]].
Some of them are fairly interesting and not just simple exploits, for example Coinbase prices BTC based on a third party exchange and due to the way that they fetch the pricing it was possible to manipulate the price down to below market levels and make a bunch of money, they paid out 5 BTC for that and it's on the bug bounty page, although it's not a "security" issue per-se. Probable that some of their others are similar in nature.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1mjjfb/how_i_succes...
Gengineered marijuana plants that produce nicotine... somehow.
As a major fan of Clojure and also of the possibilities of static typing, I have to give this campaign major props. I hope it funds.

Also, the perks are really cheap compared to the value, including exposure (because even though Clojure is a small community, it's a really strong community).
I like the sound of most of that, especially the two-factor authentication on all accounts. One thing wasn't clear to me,

"Wallets (and private keys) are stored using AES-256 encryption."

Are individual users wallets stored with a key derived from the users password? Or, rather, could you act, under coercion say, to transfer my funds without my password? (i.e. in a "bank robbery" situation)
>Stallman wanted to create GNU from the outside in (editors, then tools, then compilers, then the kernel) whereas Torvalds went inside-out?

A new editor or a new command-line tool was immediately useful to a user of a proprietary Unix.

In contrast, a new kernel would not have been useful to the user of a proprietary application or a proprietary command-line tool unless perhaps pains were taken to give the new kernel binary compatibility with proprietary kernels -- and even then there would have been worries about whether the user had the legal right to run the proprietary tool on the new kernel.

In summary, the order in which Stallman chose to build the pieces was the order that grew the user base the fastest, which in turn grew contributions from developers the fastest, in a virtuous cycle.
APL was one of those languages they shown us in college to be "A terrible thing, so be grateful for new languages like C."

Looking at APL here, it actually looks really interesting.
Ah, fantastic. The only thing missing from the global warming "debate" was a party that heavily benefits from a melted arctic.
> Valve is effectively turning its back on the games (and gamers) that allowed it succeed despite competition from consoles.

I don't see how they are turning their backs on anyone just because they're venturing into a new market segment.

The current system, where people have both gaming PCs and separate gaming consoles, doesn't make a modicum of sense practically. It's just a vestige of old monopolies and corporate competitions which led to this state. Ideally, one could just have a gaming machine with less of a distinction between whether it's a "PC" or a "console".

> I'm not at all interested in yet another game console with limited controls, centralized publisher model and locked down OS.

I thought one of the points of the Steam machines is that they're not locked down at all.
You shouldn't say Class B in that case, it's more than adequate quality real estate (how you subdivide it has nothing to do with the class, and for that matter if the interior is nice enough I'm generally happy with Class C if I can get to it, but I'll agree its generally a step too far).

And ... well, I used to work at an organization where the crazy executive director killed it by moving us from Class B, which we could barely afford at that point, to Class A space (and of course, somehow there was only one office for all three techies at the end of the move). Ran out of money real fast when her marketing and sales plans didn't manage to flog sales of our obsolete current product and seriously hindered the project to develop the new one.

Taken to an extreme, there's the Edifice Complex, when a company that's "made it" has their own custom building made. Almost always a sign to sell.
This is the first thing that crossed my mind when I even read the title. This is a sad thing and I don't think it is a cause for celebration. Next up, oil platforms in the Arctic.
Martha Stewart files lawsuit against patent troll Lodsys
I have some guys you might want to teach.

Given the skills we get on some of our teams, I fear they won't even manage to move to Java 8!
Why the Series A Crunch is a good thing
Nowadays astronauts launch from Russia, where the tradition is a double enema before launch.

I don't know what they have for breakfast, but I guess it doesn't matter much!
Why not just use a mouse+kb?

I've been living room gaming w/wireless mouse+kb for years and years now. No problems at all doing this from the couch. Kb in your lap, mouse by your side with a hard metal mousepad.
A Bacon, egg, and cheese McMuffin has ~300 calories, which is a perfectly reasonable breakfast.

The obesity epidemic has nothing to do with bacon and eggs, either home cooked or from McDonalds. They're so rich its hard to eat enough to blow your calorie budget.

The problem is french fries (500 for a large order at McD's), soda (~150 per can), pasta, etc. Nobody would order their hamburger with a side of steak, but a side of fries seems to be a lot less food and is much less filling, despite having a similar number of calories. Nobody would order 15-20 slices of bacon after a big meal at the Cheesecake Factory, but will happily order a giant slice of cheesecake or similar desert, which has just as many calories. Nobody would pick up 7-8 strips of bacon on the way home from work before dinner, but will happily grab a donut and coffee, which has just as many calories.
I do that all the time with code that I don't understand. The commit message is the last resort of getting a human to talk to you when the comments are missing.
You are probably aware, but just in case: K (v4) is underlying Q. You can get to it by typing a single backslash followed by enter (or alternatively, prefixing a line with "k)", or loading a script that has the .k extension)

K (v5) is shaping up here http://kparc.com/ . Still early, but it looks like if Arthur Whitney ran the STEPS project, it would be closer to 2,000 lines, than to 20,000 ...
I'd feel more comfy to keep money elsewhere until "us vs. them (and we bet your money on it)" security bragging spree would be well over.
derp, /root correction
Very true! When it releases, I may try to use data from an Eye Tribe (http://theeyetribe.com/) to drive the right trackpad output. The added cost seems like a valid deterrent against people just trying to cheat, and a bearable cost for someone who wants to play games but is incapable of using a traditional controller.
My dad ends up doing this pretty often. He "quits" cigarettes for a while, but eventually starts smoking cigars, surreptitiously at first, with increasing frequency until he reverts to regular cigarette smoking again.
Yeah, this controller is definitely for "PC type" gamers.

Most fighting gamers prefer to use wired USB fighting sticks anyways, and given that those sticks tend to work out of the box on most operating systems, I would expect them to work on the Steam Machines too.

IIRC, Steam only really has three modern fighting games (SFIV:AE2012, SF vs Tekken and KoF13) -- I don't know that Capcom or SNK would plan to port those Windows games over to Linux anyways -- you'd likely have to play them streamed, and I'm not sure that any serious fighting gamer would want to do that.
Calm down new user. No need to get emotional and swear. And this story isn't very useful; the original submission is off-topic as well.
Possibly an aircraft fire drill at Moffett Field. NASA Ames Fire Dept. is using propane for the fire.
Flash Memory Provider Violin Memory IPO
By "make it onto HN" I mean as a story - the comments tend to be much more varied.

Mainstream economic research covers very similar topics, and uses very similar methods, to stories that make it onto HN. However since it isn't sold as "using data in cool ways", it's not immediately apparent that it is HN material. For example, a very famous economics paper uses school district boundaries to measure some effect (can't remember exactly what they measure). The idea is that people on opposite sides of boundaries should on average be very similar except for being in different districts. This hypothesis can be checked by looking for measurable jumps across boundaries.

Another thing is that economics papers tend to use regression methods that look quite boring and don't involve interesting scatter plots. So to the untrained eye a blog post with scatter diagrams and maps can look like a novel use of data and technology, while in fact the methods are very standard.
The insanely OCD mobile media queries CSS file
wat?

That PC market is literally the entire point of this device. It's meant to get you mouse-like interactions on a handheld controller.

If you want to sit down on the sofa and play a PC-style game? It's this brand new gamepad concept or nothing else. There is nothing like this thing (well, except maybe that crazy alpha-grip thingy, but that's freaking weird).
Funny that you mention American bacon as having a good meat content as I've only ever seen streaky bacon in the states, which tends to be very fatty. I wouldn't even know where to buy back bacon in the midwest.
It is a matter of using the right JVM for the job.

Many do allow for AOT compilation, or caching the generated JIT code between invocations. IBM J9 is one of them, for example.
Doesn't look like it

http://cdn2.store.steampowered.com/public/images/promo/livin...
This isn't true. With a mouse you have acceleration settings that greatly change how distance works. Flick your mouse up quick vs slowly move it and measure how much distance you've moved your mouse relative to where your mouse moved to on the screen.
Isn't security is under one of those "things you can fix later" startup problems these days?

As far as I can tell, it goes: hype to serve growth to create a fad to exponentiate your user base to get you more funding to ... then start considering fundamental problems of architecture and security.

All startup writing focuses on growth at all costs by manipulating pleasant surface experience. The current model of "just keep iterating until users stick" is also: know as little as possible and keep changing things until you generate a random key to the lock of your market. That model of company building is in opposition to security and stability.

Just keep paying 21 year olds 150k salary+100k bonus to make rails apps. It'll all work out in the end.
Unfortunately most people seem to think OO happens to be best at the things they're already used to using OO with for historical reason.
I love Khan Academy and the CS platform in particular. I think it would be amazing if it was possible to put Choc, or a tool like it, on some of the KA lessons. Being able to step through time (or view all of time in the case of animation) and inspect values are both really useful features for helping folks learn to think procedurally. I find that learning to think procedurally is often harder than learning the syntax.
Dota 2 will likely be one of the flagships of this thing. I don't know how well it will work - likely you won't make it to the top of the league with this. But you can be damned well sure that Valve had Dota 2 in mind when they made this, and they will do everything possible to make Dota 2 play nicely on it.
The Anonymous AI-Box Experiment
I will never accept venture funding from anyone who has invested in JustFab. Investors are the gatekeepers, and in this case have failed their moral obligation.

https://twitter.com/rleshner/status/383675138153017344
Ask HN: List of successful companies arising from hackathon projects? 
Is there a place where I can find a list of successful companies that have come from hackathon projects? By successful companies, I mean ones that have received funding, have users/revenues, or have had successful exits (as opposed to just slowly dying after the hackathon ends).
Microsoft Received 37,196 Gov Requests For Data In First Half Of 2013
As far as I know, they could only have used Iridium satellites for communications. All of the alternatives that I'm aware of have satellites on geostationary orbit, which makes it impossible to cover anywhere outside 80 degrees North and South, whereas Iridium has 75 (originally 77, one failed, another collided with a defunct Russian satellite) satellites on the polar LEO orbit that covers literally the whole earth.

Iridium constellation consists of LEO satellites which have an orbital period of less than two hours.

Trivia: Iridium is #77 in the periodic table.
I think breckinloggins's point was that people may be willing to make equity investments for reasons other than profit.

(Now I'm wondering whether startups will be allowed to offer rewards in exchange for funding, leading to more "X is not a store" backlash.)
Have you tried jets3t? (http://www.jets3t.org/) It's got pretty comprehensive tools for managing S3 and has been rock solid for me so far.
Server Lifter for your Server Hardware
Look into a server lifter from ServerLIFT for easier data center management on your server hardware.
I wouldn't call this fresh off the presses. The angular team talked about many of these points back in June. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W13qDdJDHp8

It's really exciting. This is a good summary of the future though.
Also, the one for gb shows Northern Ireland. Great Britain doesn't include any of the Irish island. That would be the United Kingdom. There's a quick overview showing the differences here: http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questi...

Nice work though. I can see a lot of ways these could be useful.
hahaha. Did you ust say "compatibility with older versions of IE".

I'll probably get downvoted for this but.

If you want to maintain "compatibility with older versions of IE" try an older version of HTML, an older version of CSS, an older version of javascript and an older x86 processor, and an older version of windows (95 sounds nice).

Sorry.

If future features should try to remain compatible with older versions of IE we will get very little innovation.
Apple aggregates to a great extent but I think could go much further. It only bundles up purchases over several days or perhaps a week. Since it's minimum fee is $0.30 (30% of $0.99) it just about breaks even on single song purchases.

But Apple would be fine with the whole App/iTunes Store being a break-even proposition since it has consistently stated that its interest is in the hardware sales.
... says the dude with -1 karma.
If nicotine is supposedly "not highly addictive," what heretofore obscure, hideous compounds are lurking in cigarettes that accounts for their legendary addictiveness?

MAOIs? True, they give withdrawal symptoms. But despite being a widely used pharmaceutical, to my knowledge no MAOI-only drug has seen anything resembling the abuse patterns of tobacco.

The hand-wavy "other compounds" that the article mentions and then doesn't describe? Anyone know what those would be?

So, sure- maybe nicotine isn't very addictive, yet it makes an otherwise non-addictive drug dreadfully addictive. Or perhaps the scientific truth of the matter, whatever it is, is simply complicated enough that someone who really wants one particular thing to be true can twist a bit of evidence around to support his case. Either way- stick to coffee.
The 5 Most Sobering Charts from the IPCC Climate Report
You eventually get stuck on a level, that (a) is no fun to play and (b) feels impossible. This makes you feel like they're holding you hostage for a buck.

So I slowly stop playing.

And soon the app updates and, gee whiz, I somehow complete the level easily, and I roll on another 10-20 levels until the next impossible "hostage" level.

Playing CandyCrushSaga 100% legit makes you cynical.
Which is a really hilarious reason to be scrutinizing them, you have to admit.
>a change of the weather shouldn't cause such a border to be redrawn.

look at climate changes during last 2-3 thousand years and how whole empires/civilizations got appeared and disappeared as a result.

On the [kind of] positive side [for high-tech industry i mean] Canada will become a big customer for air-, ground-, navy- and submarine drones :)
Cotton: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/making-cotton-fab...
Thanks for this. Does "mainline" mean "unstable/development"? I briefly looked around on nginx.org but couldn't find a description of the difference.
My anecdote: My IQ stays the same, but my motivation and concentration is elevated with Nicotine (gum) - leading to a higher score.
Backed.

Optional typing seems really promising, I'd like to hear more about what kinds of things it can't do though. If you hypothetically do annotate all your code, what are you missing out on by not having pervasive static typing built in like in Haskell? Is it mostly the fact that you're much less likely to go back and annotate all your code or are there deeper trade offs I'm not seeing since I'm not that experienced with strongly statically typed languages?

Does anyone know any good resources about the tradeoffs?
If You Live Near Other People, You're Probably a Democrat.
Civilization is a turn based strategy game. The "RT" (real-time) part is what really makes gamepads unsuitable for RTS. I play Starcraft 2 and I can't imagine how you could possibly select individual units and pull them back when they are taking damage. Show me someone doing blink stalker micro with a gamepad and I will eat my words.
With a number of companies, this already happens when you go through recruiters. You don't see how much money you're paying, as it's factored in before you see the offer.

If you look at it from the perspective of the employee, it's quite possibly their biggest single expense all year. 20-30% of salary is common. It's easy to see why recruiters are paranoid about getting stiffed by the hiring company.

Unfortunately, it also puts you at a disadvantage when negotiating with the hiring company. The next guy who applied for the same job but didn't have to go through the recruiter would cost the company the same even if they earned 20% larger checks.

Still, as bad as recruiters are, the companies themselves are worse, by and large.
It was probably multipart/x-mixed-replace, rather than javascript.
So basically, you're saying that your husband was abused to hell and back, and implying that the authorities should indeed be cracking down, starting with the more severe abuses in lower-paid, lower-demand professions?
Huh. Works for tracks and playlists, not anything else, looks like. Still, much better than nothing. Thanks!
>For Valve to bring PC gaming to your TV/Couch, they really needed to nail the interface.

I don't understand the problem with traditional mouse+kb for couch gaming. I've been using it for years and haven't encountered any drawbacks (using wireless mouse+kb combo). Am able to play online FPS and RTS, both of which require extreme precision and extreme low latency, at very high levels.

You use a solid mousemat, place that on the couch beside you. The keyboard goes in your lap. Kick your feet up and game away. It works great.

This controller looks like trying to reinvent the wheel, and I just don't think that it'll work. The problem which all of these schemes have is that they make you uncomptetive versus mouse+kb foes in multiplayer games. No one has ever been able to match the precision and control of mouse+kb, and even if this solution is far better than previously attempts, it will still likely not be anywhere near the traditional control.

For 'casual' single player games, it'll work great. I'm sure that's a large part of the market for SteamBox. But for the hardcore, it probably won't work at all. I think they'd be better off finding a solution which incorporates traditional mouse+kb than trying to work around it, but that's just my opinion from the outside looking in.