skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://filmicgames.com/archives/354
I think that if you have a good idea and are passionate about it, no one will really take it seriously enough to stop what they are doing just to implement your idea, which they haven't considered as much as you have to actually trust it.
And -you- would know that your open source OS does not have backdoors and zero-day vulnerabilities and such?

Don't be silly.
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Industries tend to cluster. Automakers in Detroit, investment banks in New York, country record labels in Nashville, movie studios in Hollywood. If you start a startup in SF, you get a built-in talent pool that you wouldn't necessarily get in Miami. Yes you pay higher salaries due to the cost of living, but you get a bigger selection of candidates (to whom you'd have to pay relocation fees to move them elsewhere). Plus, SF is just a cool place...walkable, great nightlife, culture. You don't get these things in a place like Phoenix.
> If it were true that a corporation is legally obligated to reduce its tax burden

I'm pretty sure the parent meant within reason. Moving a $300b tech company's headquarters from the heart of SV to a location halfway around the world is not reasonable.
Can someone tell me if it's possible to nuke a Google+ account and still keep all of the data in the other services, such as Picasa (now named Google Photos), Docs, Gmail etc? I really want to delete my G+ account, but I'm concerned it will inadvertently nuke something else I'm counting on.
>> know that there are actually good reasons for (some/most) of the verbosity.

This is why I talked about the philosophy of the language. I wasn't arguing about whether it was good or bad.

That being said, for my own use cases, verbosity is a big deal.

>> In C++ stdlib does not get to reserve names at global namespace, which leads slightly increased verbosity (std:: -prefixes or using-statements).

I understand and agree, but you'd have to agree with me that if you start naming your classes Map and Vector, you're looking for problems ;-)
They could just make an app for a phone to act as a wireless controller.

In fact, many mobile games already use similar control layouts.
Fun project.

I guess I wouldn't bee too upset with CSS being replaced by json in the future.
It makes sense in a way of using fewer languages.

On the other hand Javascript should probably be replaced by something better too.
That's the syntax equivalent of removing guardrails from a dangerous mountain pass to scare drivers into slowing down.

This is probably going to sound like asking someone to catch sunlight in a teacup, but wouldn't it have been more productive to stress the importance of syntax adherence and consistency rather than remove it altogether? There's really nothing stopping someone from abusing the rest of JSON for silly things so leaving comments out seems a bit redundant.
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For #2 I think very shallow, subtle, radially extended, slight-but-noticeable curvature might be enough.
i prefer to think of myself as reasonable, rather than an apologist. if i publish a public review of something, i do it specifically so that other people can see that review. I'm not going to get mad because google has done with my review exactly what i wanted to happen with it.

if you don't want people to see what you write, maybe you should consider using a diary rather than a publishing service.
Though it's heavily touch-driven, the new Steam controller does have several physical buttons, as well as tactile feedback (ridges) on the circular touch controls. Not having to look at the screen to use the controls radically changes the experience.
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... or ClojureScript and NodeJS

EDIT: Actually the JVM is still involved but just for compilation.
> The advantage of state power is that allows things that are unique to the state to have more influence on policy.

That is also the disadvantage of state power. At least, if you are a person whose life is being controlled by the coercive power of the state government in ways that might be harmful to you.

If you are powerful in the state, of course, it is very good for you to have fewer checks on your own power. It also helps things like arranging elections, like by excluding demographics less likely to vote for you.
I was surprised to see the negative comments on the article page. I'm personally excited for it. As I think it will open up "couch" gaming to more genres and it looks like a pretty decent controller when compared against other controllers. I don't think it will be a true mouse + keyboard replacement but will do great for big screen HTPC / SteamMachine type setups.
Very interesting, thanks. I can see that others might try to nitpick it to death, but the case you make has genuinely never occurred to me[1].

[1]True, this may say more about me than it does about your point. :-)
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What he _actually_ said is slightly more nuanced:

If you were to ask me to choose between Steam Controller and a 360
controller, I would choose 360. Don’t take that as slight to the controller
though because it’s more about the comfort of familiarity over
functionality. I would choose a 360 controller because I have several
thousand hours experience using it, however if tomorrow all game controllers
were wiped off the earth and the only option was the Steam Controller, I
don’t think this would be a bad thing. In fact, I don’t think gaming would
miss a beat.
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The burden of proof lies with you, not with me.

You will have to explain what claim you find extraordinary and what specific evidence you would find convincing for me to consider doing research to provide some.

> This is not complex at all.

I did not call it complex. You made an argument by occam's razor if details are added to the argument to make it viable it make it more complex and it benefits less from occam's razor. My argument or your added details:

> All evidence points that differences between ranked individuals will be difficult to see. In activities that are completely quantifiable such as Olympic racing, the difference between the top people are measured in milliseconds, so it is quite feasible that the difference between male and female CS students at a selective college is similarly small in terms of absolute measurements.

Weaken an occam's razor argument, some times called applying a complexity penalty.

> What makes Mudd different is that they accepted more females to start with. This reasoning causes minorities to stay, it doesn't increase the number of acceptances.

If I understand you correctly you think that the percentage of females in the 1st through graduation is controlled tightly by the starting percentage. Do you just expect it to hold steady for all 4 years?
"simple config files" implies an optimist. Good for you, sir.
That's not really the main reason. Ecommerce interchange is higher than card present but only by maybe 15-30 basis points (0.15-0.30%).

There are online processors that offer much lower rates than 2.9% + $0.30 if you meet certain qualifications as a merchant. Amazon goes as low as 1.9%.

The main reason that certain processors have such a high rate is the lax signup requirements. It allows higher-risk and outright fraudulent merchants to use them. So yes, card-not-present has a slightly higher fraud baseline, but the key factor here in the rate is the merchant qualification.

Source: http://usa.visa.com/download/merchants/visa-usa-interchange-...
Great feedback. Thanks for that. The primary point (although possibly poorly communicated so) was meant to help us detach from the things we identify too strongly with. And no not be insulted when those things with which we associate (our art or other things) are criticized.
> We are how we make other people feel
Is a very bias and really a choice of a perspective more than an absolute truth.
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The forum sends back a simple preformatted chunk of HTML which is then inserted at a certain spot.

It does not send a complex JSON object that is then marshalled into some kind of Angular-Knockout-Backbone framework of the day where complex magic creates views, links and templating language formats objects into HTML created via DOM.

As JS in the browser speed up, all those framework find some way of using it. Sure, your 5-item TODO list app looks good...
You can do this with livereload: http://livereload.com/

Grunt has a live reload plugin that is fairly easy to set up
I get tired of using mouse and keyboard, and the same goes to a controller. It would be nice to play with hands in the air..
>Again, no where did I ever say that an ad is better than an organic result. Please don't claim that I did. It's simply not true.

Hm. I'm sorry. That is the impression I've gotten from multiple google employees... that is the impression I got from your post, too. However, you are correct. that's not what you said, that's my interpretation of what you said, which yeah. Is a very different thing. (I mean, I could say I was using "saying" to mean 'meaning' but... yeah, I was incorrect, and rudely so. I'm sorry.)

>So if you optimize for the long term you want users to be glad that they clicked on an ad, so that they'll continue to do that over the the long term, and that means making them good for the user. This means that a "good ad" has some usefulness to the user: if highlights a product or service they were looking for, it educates, it offers a good price, etc.

I agree that making ads "less bad" is a good long-term goal for an advertising company (and I think google has actually done a pretty good job of that) I think my disagreement comes when you start calling ads 'good' rather than 'less bad' (outside of the content or services those ads pay for.)

The essential point of disagreement, I think, is that all other things being equal, both the merchant and the customer are better off if they make the exchange without paying a middleman. Sort of how many people feel that groupon is bad. Thus, when you say "a good ad can benefit everyone involved." I hear, perhaps incorrectly, "an ad can be better than an organic search result"

>Yes, it's idealistic, but not overly so. The premise is just that built right, an ad system can produce good results for everyone. Good free content; relatively useful ads; revenue for content producers, ad marketplace, and advertisers; etc. I think this ends up being the case at least some of the time, and it's important to realize that it's not just by accident, it's by design. And it's not strictly capitalistic or benevolent, but a case where the two can coexist if done right.

You still have the long-term problem that your organic search results are competing with your ads, creating a long-term conflict of interest within google. Nobody is going to click on your ads if your organic results are better than your ads.
Maybe his aiming in a fps is not up to competitive level of quake/cs, but this is definitely a step up from controllers for these types of games.
Hopefully, this thing will bring the skill of being both fast and precise to consoles. It will be good for consoles, and good for gaming in general.
Looks like a great alternative to the Xbox PC controller, but like everyone has been thinking, this is in no way a serious replacement for a mouse. Especially if you're a competitive gamer.
Yeah this is the issue. If you click to "endorse" one thing and then all of a sudden that's generalised to a whole range of other stuff from the same brand, vendor, organisation etc. it can be very misleading. Also there are often incentives given for "likes" (eg. a competition) or you might "like" something as a favour to someone and then all of a sudden ads show up saying how much you like the ANZ bank which makes you look like a bit of a spazz.
One more to add to the list: http://livereload.com/
Keep in mind that it would be taxable, so most people would pay a portion of it back in taxes.
That's fair. I realize that bid amount is just one factor among a few, but I suppose my concern stems from the fact that there is a positive correlation between bid price and ad ranking at all.

To put it another way: increasing bid price, all other things being equal, will increase ad ranking. I would posit that this relationship has zero benefit for the ad consumer, and may even serve as a detrimental force, essentially degrading the relationship between ad ranking and ad quality by introducing a completely arbitrary factor.

(I believe some economists have postulated that the amount a company spends on advertising actually serves as an informational signal about the quality of the underlying product. I'm doubtful, but I'll admit it's a potential weakness in my argument.)

As far as I can tell, the only reason AdWords uses a bid auction system is to make more money; I would be interested to hear how factoring money into ad ranking could possibly add value to AdWords for the end-user.
So McAfee outlined that someone could spearphish with sites like obamacare.com.myurl.com. It doesn't seem that he outlined any actual vulnerability that doesn't go for every site on the web.

Fox News, needless to say, is breathless. Byline: "Can you lose your life savings by signing up for Obamacare?"
Why is this crap even here? It's a few paragraphs of "your identity will be stolen if you go to the obamacare website", an accusation, and absolutely no proof to back up said allegation (whether it is true or not)

This is just propaganda... someone delete this crap.
Software technology is dead if John McAfee is now a spokesman and authority.
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Webstorm by Jetbrains has some really nice features if you are doing a lot of JS development. It is an IDE, but if you are ok with that it is quite good IMO
> In Alaska, it is probably rather difficult to live off of $1400/year but some people do it by living off the land and hard work at home. If the Alaska fund did not exist, would some of those people go back to work?

They are working, as you note -- just working in a manner that they clearly prefer to wage labor.
Because if I'm interested in discussing web application architecture, I know the first d00d I turn to is a guy who thinks "step 1: put MDPV in your butt" is a great plan.
that sounds like a really good idea, both from a consumer perspective and an advertiser perspective. i don't want to see ads for things that my friends don't think i'd be interested in, and i don't want to pay to have my ads shown to people whose friends are just going to warn them away from me.
Sorry fellow Americans, you don't have Fourth Amendment rights anymore.

You've got Fourth-Amendment-As-Defined-By-A-Government-Lawyer-In-A-Secret-Court rights. They're similar, except that Federal agencies can snoop the hell out of whatever you're doing.

You know, to keep our children safe from terrorists.
I don't think this matters against the NSA. An adversary either has the resources to exploit some target, or not.

If the NSA has a lot of exploits to choose from for each of Linux, Mac, and Windows then it doesn't matter which one you're using.

Think of this in Bayesian terms. You have some prior beliefs that MS W software is less secure than other software. What we've gotten as a result of all these leaks is new likelihoods, so we have to modify our posterior.

I.e. A is more secure than B doesn't matter if both A and B are easily exploitable by your adversary.
I don't know what to think about this.

When my Grandfather calls me worried about what the man on Fox News said about Obamacare, I'll have to refer him to thee "How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus" video and explain that Mcafee is a loon.
Hope everyone gets that I posted this due to it being hilarious... A couple comments sound like they did not get that.
This is a very good point, since Montana is the "Saudi Arabia of Coal."[1] It could work in North Dakota, too, where they're sitting atop the Bakken Oil Formation.[2] And as a Montanan, I would __love__ to see a Montana Permanent Fund.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/national/21coal.html?pagew...
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dakota_oil_boom
This kind of behavior is absolutely insane on the part of a developer, but is also the kind of thing that happens when a platform doesn't vet its apps.
Haptics don't allow for many touch instincts, like edge-detection and depth of depression.
It's better than no acknowledgement, but it's dramatically different.

As an exaggerated counterpoint: imagine operating a buttonless, flat "haptic" vibrating keyboard in a moving vehicle, and contrast with a conveniental keyboard.
I think the whole "ideas are cheap" meme gets overblown a bit. There are certainly both good and bad ideas. But that's a bit missing the point really. The reason I won't sign an NDA is that it is a great liability at a very low perceived value. They are, by their very nature, usually brought up very early in a relationship, at a time where there is little commitment from both sides. Yet the ramifications of signing it are potentially vast. That mismatch just seems way out of proportions, unless there's something exceptional about the whole situation (Like, if the person asking for the NDA is someone famous, that I have respect/admiration for).
This is obviously false. In certain respects it is true, but not in all respects. It is the non-true respects that I am concerned about.
I thought HN was all about useful information and discussion. This is worthless.
Might have as much to do with the persuasive powers of Andrei Alexandrescu as the maturity of D.
I really don't think that a Fox News interview of John McAfee is as reliable source of info on this matter. For example, he mentions that JS is used in the software, and that's a "cheap way of doing things," which is complete nonsense. After his the whole incident in Belize, I don't see how anyone can take this guy seriously on any topic, let alone computer security.

And where is Backbone (in the title right now: "John McAfee on Obamacare Website: Backbone.js is Impractical") even mentioned, either on the linked site or in the video of the interview? I tried checking the website and didn't see where Backbone was used.

Edit: I see the use of Backbone now, I had browsed the site a little but hadn't visited a page which loaded Backbone.
The whole "I will not sign your NDA on principle thing" is trite and stupid. Who cares if they want an NDA? You think you can immediately judge someone based on that one thing?

Of course, signing anything is a PITA so I charge a signing fee of $150 which I think is perfectly reasonable, but saying it's some sort of heroes mission against NDAs makes you seem like a bigger jerk than the guy asking for an NDA in the first place.
It would be nice if a single two-handed controller or even some type of two element controller (ala. wii) could somehow approach the accuracy of a mouse and a keyboard.

This clearly does not appear to be at the same accuracy and speed level as the combination of a mouse and keyboard. There may be a console controller that can approach, equal or exceed the speed and accuracy of a mouse and keyboard, but this doesn't seem to be it.

Addition: I suspect that every steambox will have USB ports available for whatever controller, keyboard and mouse floats your boat.
It's creepy for the person in the ad. Many people don't like their face being used without expressed permission.
No, you'd publish a public review with your Google account, which has a Google+ profile attached (otherwise Google won't let you leave reviews for Android applications on their app store anymore), and that account will have your name and photo.
Valve released this video on their Youtube channel. I don't think it was necessary to link to a blog post about the video.
Likely for the same reason that mouse balls went out of favor -- they get gummed up with dust and gunk from your fingers, and are a PITA to maintain and keep clean.
My guess: dirt.

With as few moving parts as they typically have, console controllers already experience durability issues for less... hygienic, players. With trackballs that issue is compounded, even if you make them easily removable so you can clean them (just having to clean them at all would be more of a hassle than people are use to).
How do you handle defining multiple @font-face's?
> Many who promote guaranteed basic income do not think it should replace our existing programs.

I have never seen anyone advocate for UBI who expressed any position other than support for using it to replace, at a minimum, means-tested poverty support programs, and generally they want it to replace many other targeted social benefit programs that currently provide services, direct subsidies for selected purchases of goods and services, or indirect subsidies through tax credits and deductions for purchases.

The usual argument for UBI is that it eliminates the most of the administrative overhead and duplication of function in the multiple programs it would replace, as well as replacing the perverse incentives that occur with means-testing.
The website does use Backbone. You can check by looking at the Javascript files.

And I posted it because it was FUNNY. I didn't think people on HN would mistake this for a serious post, haha.
a friend who spent a year in Japan remarked that, e.g. policemen carry dictionaries with them.

Wow. I write fiction, but this is one of those cases where truth is so much weirder than anything I'd feel comfortable "inventing."
I'd be fine with this as long as it was opt-in rather than opt-out.

Bad move, Google.
Plenty of places have turnstile-free transit systems. Berlin, Germany and Oslo, Norway come to mind.
Though there is an implicit assumption here that entrepreneurship is inherently good.
Heh, don't get me wrong: if I never wrote a bug again I'd be happy (more than happy!) But when I do write a bug, it meant that either I had a momentary lapse of memory or coordination (like a mispelling) or, and this is important, that I don't understand how part of the machine works sufficiently - either a dependency or my own code. What makes this particularly interesting is that there are many perspectives on a code base. You can look at it's static structure, it's dynamic structure, it's distributed structure, it resource allocation, as a collection of signals, you can look at it from a maintainability perspective, extensibility, how easy it is to partition work across team, how easy it is to grasp. You can look at a piece of software as a collection of artifacts, etc.(Indeed, it seems like the list of ways you can examine a codebase is monotonically increasing year after year! :)

To bring it back to bugs, a bug can exist in any of these "views" of the system, and sometimes (often) simultaneously in several of them. That's what makes them such a rich signal for our own ignorance.

(Quick editorial: I think that's why rails, Play and meteor have gone/are going in the right direction of removing, sometimes dramatically, some of the ways you have to view your system, and incredibly tight tool integration. People just don't - can't - keep so many views of the system in their head at once. We can't think about the build and low-level plumbing, for example; we need a "synchronization" abstraction. We want the build to just work. We want design- and run-time tools that are easy to update, configure and run. And so on. Meteor is the bees knees, for that reason. Although, ironically, I find my Meteor code to be incredibly bug ridden. Writing JavaScript against new libraries is fairly painful if you're used to learning through IntelliSense!)
We'll find out soon enough for sure, but I doubt this thing will pass.