skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I played a fair amount of GTA IV online, and IMO, GTA V is a vast improvement. Most people who played IV online were just there to team up with someone and try to kill other players. Someone would inevitably get a Buzzard and ground all the other choppers, so it was just a one-sided kill fest until someone got a lucky RPG shot on the Buzzard.

It got boring very, very quickly. Yes, there were other game modes, but they were very simplistic, and there was no overarching benefit to progressing in the online world (except score? meh). In GTA V, you have incentives on every side of the table. I don't think they've got it 100% right yet, but in this iteration, I actually care about what happens when I play online. That's a significant step forward.
NASA and Bigelow Aerospace Make Plans for Moon Base
GPS is good enough for autopilot; I've flown with them just fine. It's also common to do GPS approaches in inclement weather, and when you break out of the clouds, the runway is right where it should be!
Wow, I love it
Yeah, that's never going to happen. Russia has nuclear weapons and wouldn't be afraid to use them, not to mention their sizable conventional forces.
Add "Full Name" to that list.

You're not getting my damn name unless there's a really good reason for it. I don't want to give you my first and last name to upload some funny cat pictures or whatever.

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/08/04/real-na...

http://infotrope.net/2011/07/25/preliminary-results-of-my-su...
You sir are literally going to become a case study in how to/not to do this sort of thing.

I have zero advice for you. Im sure you will be front page news soon enough.
Well what do you expect if you dont specialise in the last two years? The Uk's A level system has some advantage in that you have mostly decided what to study at Uni by 16.
I just checked the dates on Wikipedia: Forestall left Apple in October 2012, and Newsstand appeared in October 2011. I think the idea behind Newsstand itself is terrible, and no amount of design of the icon matters.
This article lacks any shred of analytics. There isn't an example given where someone pays more under ACA then they would have under private. It's all fluff with no substance. It's a shame too, because there are probably some very interesting numbers to come out of this change over to ACA.
The addition of saying the website is slow because the powers-that-be are trying to hide that ACA causes people to pay more is ridiculous. The website is slow because it was built by the federal government. They are inept at this sort of thing. To say it's because folks are trying to hide a "truth" turns the whole thing into a conspiracy theory.
Stain repellent children's clothes now on Kickstarter
Really cool nanotechnology showing clothes that repel liquids and thus avoid stains.
well-known

in the scholarly sense, not in the everyday sense.

While we're at it, for fun:
http://io9.com/5880128/what-scientists-say-in-research-paper...
thanks jaachan

guys I've made a test:

http://www.lolnexus.com/scouter/search?name=sk+ocelote&serve...

player SK ocelote is playing right now on EUW server

In google chrome I've made changes to test

<input type="text" class="span7" name="name" autofocus="autofocus" onchange="javascript:this.value=this.value.toLowerCase();" placeholder="Enter a player currently in an active match" style="height:30px;">

name="name" to name="fewnfewo"

name="name" to name="sk ocelote"

name="name" to abc="name"

neither one works

the GET need's to be to work
http://www.lolnexus.com/scouter/search?name=sk+ocelote&serve...

the last one abc="name"
sends get:

http://www.lolnexus.com/scouter/search?server=EUW

I'm asking myself if there is a possibility of exploit from client side? But I don't have required knowledges to recognize.

ps: this is just an example from a real application. Trying to explain what I've thought.
Show HN: Startup Onesies - a weekend project
I actually used the same wording as his official bio: https://blog.mozilla.org/press/bios/brendan-eich/

I do agree that "inventor" is much stronger than "creator" but in the case of something as huge as JavaScript itself, I think he deserves it :)
Coho Data says it can scale out storage big time
When Bender meets Flexo they exchange serial numbers and burst out laughin. When Fry asks what's so funny, they say their numbers can be expressed as the sum of two cubes.
[Terms of Service: Let me start by saying that I admire the author's passion and effort to create something wonderful, and that this is not a crap on their project, but rather a reaction to their essay. And the fact that their essay raised a reaction to the point where I wrote something about it is, in this case, a testament to its quality.]

Lisp programs can be represented as trees because they are trees. They can also be represented as lists, and this is because they are also lists.

The important difference between these representations is that trees the primary representation by which computers unravel the intent of a Lisp program and lists are the primary representation by which programmers express intent in their programs.

Sure some people sometimes picture their lisp program as a tree, but usually when a programmer pictures something as a tree, it is when viewing it as a data structure. Picturing a Lisp program as a tree is easier than picturing the tree represented by code in most other languages because of Lisps simple parsing process, but the way in which a programming language is parsed is an arbitrary feature of the language [though one worth design consideration].

Although it is easy to draw a tree. Often in Lisp and other languages, the verbal diagram "a list of lists of ..." is adequate to represent a tree along with a description of its interesting properties. Again, while the interesting properties can be represented graphically, what makes them interesting are the maths underpinning their structure not the aesthetics of their spatial representation.

"The purpose of this project is to assist the coder in developing more complex code faster and easier"

This is orthogonal to Rich Hickey's goal of making it easier and faster to produce simple code.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

We already have a great tool which allows graphic methods to be used easily to create complex code. It is called Excel.
You know what got me excited about programming? QBASIC!

And its mode 13h.
NebriOS - Business Process Management using Python Scripts
My 4 year old just played on it up to level 9, took about 30 mins or so IIRC (did take some video if you're interested).

Two points of frustration that stand out both related to editing.

1) the delete move icon is very small (the little red cross against commands); even I had to take a lot of care to click on it properly.

2) theirs no [apparent] way to move the insertion point for commands.

I could just use the text entry to alter commands (he'd go "down" but forget to put the multiplier in, for example). So then as the mistake was at the start, eg on level 8 the only option appears to be to delete the full list of commands and then start again - which is what he was going to do before I suggested I could alter the numbers.

Suggestions:

I think the command symbols could perhaps default to having a number "1" adjacent them, this number being editable by clicking it and typing a new number in.

It might also help for the very young to have a "ghost" to show where the bot will go (or is this "cheating" too much, not sure). That way they don't have to stick their fingers on the screen (his arms aren't really long enough anyway!) to mark where they've got to.

Presumably you get to have loops and subroutines later on but it didn't really feel like it quite made it as a _programming_ game so far. Will see.

FWIW I've used Turtle from SugarLabs and Scratch with his older brother along with playing games like LightBot [II]. BotLogic feels a lot like a slower progressing LightBot, which is good really as he's only 4 and can't even read yet.
Well, I'd like to - but the New Yorker app is so bad, I canceled my subscription and just read the occasional New Yorker longform article in Instapaper.

Of course this is not Apple's fault, but rather Conde Nast's. Background downloading never worked for me and after some googling I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one with that problem.

Manual downloads of the current issue also don't work - that is unless you stay within the app and do nothing else: read another issue while waiting? Sorry, your download is canceled. Not paused but back at the very beginning. Use another app in the meantime? Of course not! Leaving your iPad untouched and just make a coffee or something during download? Well, as soon as your iPad goes to sleep/standby the download will stop.

Of course I have to admit that I'm on a slow connection (1 megabit/s), which is a problem for several 100 MB of size per issue, but this brings me to the last flaw, which is the filesize itself. Just think about this - you're actually downloading a collection of very large PDFs. The New Yorker isn't very heavy on media and rather text-based - and while there are certain sections that come as true, lighweight and selectable text, there's no reason to ship the majority of every issue as giant images of text. It's absolutely ridiculous and unfortunately a lot of magazines are using the same Adobe digital publishing suite that results in these oversized downloads.

You could actually see the difference in size when the retina iPad was introduced.
Storing files in a relational database?
Are you sure you lost them? Scanning through the posts here, it seems a lot of people just don't know where to look. You have to click "link" on a comment, or reply to the comment to be taken to the text editor screen. From either of these screens, the "flag" option appears.

Now, whether this is good or bad UX is up to the admins to decide. I assume "flag" is buried a little bit to prevent abuses of it, just as replying to someone's replies to yourself is delayed a little bit to prevent rapidfire back-and-forths.
yes I recall covering sintering back when I did my mech eng BTECH hem hem decades ago
> "RoboZZle requires Silverlight"

FWIW. I didn't go any further with it.
You might also be interested in Coursefork, my startup for creating forkable educational materials [1]. We're considering building some "deploy to x" tools, where x is a set of publishing tools such as Wordpress or Jekyll, or even a GitHub pages instance.

[1]: http://coursefork.org
Cancelling is often very hard, where you have to sit on the phone on hold for 20 minutes, after you search to find the phone number. Then you have to deal with a high pressure sales pitch to stay, and you have to cancel with 30 days notice before the next billing cycle or even worse, you have to send in a certified letter. This is in the "contract."

Signing up, easy. Canceling, painful.
How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses
Let's see, I can't flag posts, I can't post links.

Not surprised you can't upvote.
I think it's a lack of confidence or guts if you'd rather. There's a short window to fill in another class in your schedule so if a person thinks they'll drop later, may as well drop now.
It's just plain wrong to use "invent" that way in English. He designed JavaScript, he didn't "invent" it. Designing and inventing are two very different activities.

You wouldn't invent a specific language, but maybe the concept of "programming language" itself or specific language features. Lovelace invented the program, Zuse invented he programming language, and someone invented classes (probably Scandinavian) and first-order functions (probably a mathematician).
They were inspired by http://armorgames.com/play/2205
You can put it in a folder now, thank God
First, every site will get a completely different result. Keep in mind that just dropping in a cc requirement into your a sign up process created around frictionless trials will probably fail. To get a person's payment details, you need to do more work upfront. You can't have 2 second landing page->signup for people who have never heard of you before. They won't give you a CC just to find out what you do.

Credit card frost has two big advantages:

1- It's easier to optimize. The conversion process is simpler and more controlled. With a fricitonless trial, improving your process of herding people into a free trial can be like pulling on a string, it gets shorter on the other end. You signed up more unengaged/uninterested people, so your trial->payment rates are lower. Obviously, this is only an advantage if you put a lot of effort into the optimization.

2- It takes advantage of some human psychological tendencies. (a) Once they make the credit card details commitment, they are much more likely to thoroughly try out the app. (2) Entering CC details is like paying for something. They get the positive psychological effect of a purchase. When people buy something they want to justify and reenforce their decision, to themselves and to others. They are yours to lose at this point. If you do a good job on #1, you will have gotten this advantage at a discount, because the friction can be much lower than actually paying. They are yours to lose at this point.

There is no canon here. There are lots of advantages and disadvantages to each strategy that apply in different measures to each case.
To get around http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-origin_policy
This format isn't really that relevant to Unity or WebGL (as othrs have also pointed out).

But you might want to keep an eye out for (Open Game Engine Exchange format) (http://www.opengex.org) which is supposed to be the result of this IndieGoGo campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-3d-model-exchange-for...

It remains to be seen OpenDDL or OpenGEX will ever become more than a single vendor format.
If youre dependent on auto generated diagrams to understand the structure of your code you have bigger problems.
That's more of a case for a free tier, then a free trial.
Guns are not hard to make.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDgHi_9_LX0
"There isn't an example given where someone pays more under ACA then they would have under private."

I would assume the article didn't bother because it has been so well established by now. E.g. see it tangentially in the infamous "Of course, I want people to have health care," Vinson said. "I just didn't realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally." I cite elsewhere in this discussion http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_24248486/obamacar...
> We rely on journalists to sift through information and give us a balanced story based on their perception of the truth.

We rely on journalists to sift through information and give us the truth, period. I don't want a balanced story, and such 'balance' tends to be struck between reality and what appears to be lunacy.
You derive such a different lesson than I do from the same facts.

You're mentioning areas in the economy that have had drastic price increases that far outpace inflation. Coincidentally, these are all areas that have seen heavy state and federal government involvement over the last 40 years.

Even the food disaster is easily attributed to the government's horrible misunderstanding of diet in the 70's and drive to create cheap low-fat (but high fcs) products.

While you see lessons of inequality, I see lessons of the danger of government interference in the economy and our daily lives.
I'm curious why everyone is recommending a Mac. Always been a PC guy. How easy is it to get used to coding on a Mac / installing packages?
You can't post links? I always considered you part of the HN elite... What happened?
Seriously, are there no entrepreneur stories that had a great idea from the beginning, executed them smoothly without any outside financing and achieved success?

Of course there are, but what use is telling people that they can execute smoothly and be successful (without outside funding) and everything will be great when this isn't how it works for the majority of people. I understand that being told that its hard and you will fail is demotivating, but telling people otherwise isn't going to help them because it is hard and most people will fail many times before they become successful. Maybe it should be seen as a perseverance test - if you can still stay motivated after being told these demotivational things, then its an indicator that you might just have what you need to persevere and make it.

The 90% of startups failing thing is true - I see it all around me, I even experienced it myself. You may think it doesn't apply to you (as I did in my previous startup), but chances are it does. I think its best to prepare people for this reality and help them persevere and learn and become stronger. Even if its demotivating...
#Video: Google and NASA's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab
MIT is different. That said, I agree "through very little of your own merit" isn't fair at all; "through means other than your merit" seems a little more plausible.
Well, Robot Turtles is a version of Robot Rally themed for young kids. Take that as you will.
Random tree drawing generator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON
It's not "just" price discrimination, there are plenty of rich dumb kids out there that could have taken his spot.
I've heard about how Nitrous can be unreliable. What has your experience been?
For a bit longer, yeah :)

Of course, and they'd rightly say that Clarisse is useful out-of-the-box, whilst Katana most definitely isn't - you need a renderer, it needs a lot of pipeline work to integrate it with your asset management system, and it needs a lot of customisation to make it "nice" for artists to use.

Out of the box, I wouldn't even class Katana as a good look-dev tool, as the default light manipulators are pretty poor - most studios generally customise them and make their own versions for artists. But that comes back to my original point (which I deviated from quite a bit), which is Katana is more a toolbox with very impressive (but not perfect by any means, there are issues with it) infrastructure capabilities, that VFX studios can build on to fit into their lighting and rendering pipeline.
I think you are referring to alibaba. Baidu might have shipping service, but as far as I can recall, it's China's Google.
There are some general problems with the way people think about graphical programming. First, they should stop thinking about it as executable flowcharts and take a step back: There must be a better way than typing characters and pseudo-words to create programs. But that way isn't necessarily any of the graphical programming systems anyone has yet come up with.

This article is a good example of thinking that's not even near the walls of the box, much less outside. And what's that crazy digression about wysiwyg editors? And then the author drops this one: "Thus, this isn’t really about graphical programming." Derrrrrr.

We are barely at a point where we admit that evaluating a language syntax in a vacuum is silly, so people are still surprised that "verbose" Java is popular, despite the advantages static types and an intermediate language confer on the editor, compiler, static analyzer, debugger, etc. A less than holistic approach to graphical languages is probably doomed.
How to use business model canvas?
Welcome, or not, to the wonderful world of being shadow-banned. I get to keep my topcolor, which is the only demonstrable advantage of "high karma" so I keep this account.

It's really hard to actually care about what people here think about my work/life, so everything works out well.
As I said college degree is a good starting point. Next you could collect a few other pointers such as the optional courses a student has taken, their interest in particular industry or field, the people they admire, the place/country they would like to work in etc. All of these can serve as signal to what this person wants. You can even collect these attributes, and some data about the people who are already successful in the industry and build a neural network or some other algo that predicts the most fruitful path for a graduate. All this will give you signals where to concentrate your efforts w.r.t. an individual.

As for reading my mind, that's a little more involved and probably unprofitable/unscalable venture. But just because you asked, i will take a shot. I have always thought about a placement agency where I am not the one being sold but I buy the services of this agency to be on a lookout for jobs/opportunities for me. If this agency manages to become reputable, then companies will seek their help to staff their projects. Once the project is over I move to next interesting thing regardless of the company. I imagine this sounds like a very good consulting firm, but in my version the agency is to be honest to make its money purely from me either as direct fees or retainer or whatever. I should not have an iota of doubt that they will sell my resume to xyz company for a bunch of money and shaft me. The customers of this company will be people like me who are introverts and absolute retards at networking. That's not a pledge to buy anything :-) I think what you are doing is good. Stick to it :-))
That's a pretty good list, actually. Thanks for posting this, I'm sure that any start-up could do a lot worse than to print this out in big type and staple it to their wall.
Woah, lost karma? That is something I've never heard or seen before. How much karma did you lose? Just 1 or 2 karma pts or more?
Why I Will Never, Ever, Go Back to the United States | Niels Gerson Lohman
Pixar Online Library
The only danger is if the drone happens to fly over a wedding, and has to stop and bomb it. Old habits die hard.
In 2012, it seemed that Newsstand was a lucrative option for some publishers. Future PLC (which makes PC Gamer, Computer Arts and Computer Music magazines) earned $8 million USD in one year. They were really happy with the number of people who signed up for marketing messages (5 million out of 12 million downloads), which was an early stumbling block for publishers because Apple doesn't share the customer contact info by default (traditional publishers always had access to this).

Have other publishers seen a serious drop in users or revenue since then for the article to recommend not putting magazines inside Newsstand anymore?

http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/27/future-has-made-5-million-...
Facebook announces tool for advertisers to target people who visited their site
Very true article. CoreData has a lot of path and legacy behind and thinking it would solve some problem magically because it is vended as "the high level problem solver" is a mistake. More than once I have seen performance problem appearing 2 weeks before release by (mis)using it.
Judge for yourself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jacquesm

Definitely not a part of any elite.
Owned by Google = Privacy nightmare?
Spinach - Cucumber alternative to BDD
Yes, taxes pay for education for all. Considering that a large part comes from taxes on income, which means the rich pay more than the poor. Damned socialists, giving the same education opportunities for everyone!
(Well, unfortunately it's more and more the middle class that pays due to tax evasion and fiscal advantages to the rich)