skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not to be a parade-rainer (because this is really cool!), but it's not really a 'clone'. it's really just a cube rendering engine with a handful of textures and a barebones python socket server.

in my very humble opinion, a minecraft clone would have (at least stubbed out):

- ui. if you've never made a game, you'd be amazed at the amount of code ui takes up. even ugly ui. good lord.

- mobs. while you can data-drive a lots of your mobs, something like minecraft still has vast swaths of business logic to drive interactions with everything from creepers to mating wolves to the ender dragon.

- crafting. again, you can get a long way with data-driving your crafting system, but you've still got to build in all the mechanics that control your crafted items behavior among all the other various items in the game.

and none of that counts any of the polish that publishing a game requires. as a guy who's shipped games, it's really (even more so than traditional enterprise software) a case of the last 20% of the work takes 80% of the time allotted to the entire project.

in my experience, that's where "indie devs" fall down. they solve the hard, interesting problems (look! i've got an environment rendering! boom! the combat code works!), but then lose interest and chase other shiny things when it comes to the rote, painful tasks (wait... i've got to data-bind the hud? and handle socket disconnects without crashing? and the camera behavior? the animation has to blend? what about handling a network timeout on the dynamically loaded textures? you want to deliver "news and updates" to the client? from what server? and you want a cms with that? oh, and write the checkbox code for options screen? and qa insists we can apply and skip the first 30 levels so they can test 31 without playing the entire game? but, but, but... look! the environment loads on my machine! what kind of video card do you have?)

anyway.

sorry about the rant.

this really is super-cool. just more of render-plumbing and not really a clone.
We've found RNA on asteroids? Not just amino acids?
I like the idea of prepaying bit coins on bounties [presumably tied to an issue/bug report in GitHub] which is what I thought this was at first. As is seems a bit confusing, are all commits treated equally? I'd be peeved if I donated money then saw it get split up among people who did minor clean up, typo fixes, etc. Flip side, I'd be peeved if I spent a bunch of time on a commit then saw the same money go to someone doing a typo fix level commit.

Don't know if the whole intrinsic/extrinsic motivations factor will make this idea crater in any form but I think tweaking the current model is advisable in any case.

Best of luck.
> If you are now asserting that teachers, in addition to wanting more men in the industry, also think that the lack of men is a problem with their industry, then it's up to you to prove your assertion. And not with 'if you talked to any random teacher'.

Actually, no. You made the first assertion that teachers don't have a problem with the lack of men. I'm countering with the opposite. There is no assumed default in this case, so it's up to either of us to prove our argument. Here is my proof: http://www.menteach.org/ There are outreach programs to get more men into teaching, which means teachers do think it's a problem.

> I'm not going to bother spending time arguing with a child.

I can only assume the name-calling is due to your frustration with being proved wrong. You should spend some time learning how to better handle yourself.
Is pretty slimy to misrepresent Academia.edu's business.

If they were trying to bootstrap a business based on violating Elsevier's licence terms, then why have they complied with Elsevier's requests to take down content?

If their business is based on violating the licence to that content then removing that content would remove their business, and this might be true if all scientific papers had to be published through Elsevier which would mean that a service like this then would not be able to operate without violating those terms, however that is quite clearly not the case.

You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for all Member Content that you make available through the Site or Services. Accordingly, you represent and warrant that: (i) you either are the sole and exclusive owner of all Member Content that you make available through the Site or Services or you have all rights, licenses, consents and releases that are necessary to grant to Academia.edu the rights in such Member Content, as contemplated under these Terms; and (ii) neither the Member Content nor your posting, uploading, publication, submission or transmittal of the Member Content or Academia.edu’s use of the Member Content (or any portion thereof) on, through or by means of the Site or Services will infringe, misappropriate or violate a third party’s patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation.

http://www.academia.edu/terms
How we used immutable servers to simplify cloud infrastructure
"WIRED: Doom is famous for having been ported to every possible platform, almost. Do you want to port Doom to Oculus?"

Carmack doesn't mention it, but you can get Doom on the Oculus here: https://developer.oculusvr.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=4...
Bitcoin Script - the Bitcoin programming language
I'm positive about Time Machine over AFP. iSCSI was indeed pointed out as a potential avenue with less issues, but if I recall didn't really fix it completely. If you're running wired+iSCSI you're probably much less prone to this. Try and yank some network cables during backup and see how it handles it.

I ran into more issues than most because the particular AP I have at home doesn't work well with the macbook air I was trying to backup and resulted in a lot of disconnects. So it was a bit of a stress test but the issue is real and well documented. You can find instructions all over the web on how to fsck sparsebundles to try and get back your backups[1].

This is particularly annoying because Time Machine is supposed to be a user friendly version of versioned backups like you can do with rsync+hardlinks. I have a script to do that for me on my personal linux machine and would love to be able to deploy TimeMachine+AFP for the rest of the family. Unfortunately apple decided it really needed to have hard-linked directories for just this case and so decided that the way to do that over the network was to have a single binary blob with a HFS image on the server instead of the proper files in the filesystem (filesystems don't usually support hard linked directories, HFS was hacked to do it). That way you not only lose direct access to the individual files on the server you also lose the whole backups when there's disk corruption...

I should probably have a look again to see if iSCSI is a viable solution to this.

[1] http://www.garth.org/archives/2011,08,27,169,fix-time-machin...
Hopefully not. For the most part, that list was compiled from either personal experience or networking (E.g., sitting in on a "how we use Python at Quora" discussion at Pycon, for example). Unless one specifically crafts their HTML to say "Powered by Python" or "Powered by Rails" (sometimes people do, but even those aren't necessarily trustworthy), neither Rails nor Django projects are likely to contain any artifacts that would indicate what they were built with.
I don't think there is anything wrong with that wording.
If your risk tolerance is having vastly different amounts of wealth over the course of the day...then sure.
Your second point is terribly exhaustively induced - I've two nitpicks, though, for the record's sake: there's the fairly low-lying target of whether the poweruser response to the introduction of Gatekeeper suffices to predict the response to any total lockout within OS X: the first was defended on the basis that it retained the option; the second violates that.

There's also the question of their role: while "power users"'ll make up little direct contribution to Apple's haul, they've forced Apple to expedite the usual inscrutability at times: Apple's been fairly quick with the reassurances after the dual (perceived) fiascoes that were the half-done rehaulings of both FCPX and the-suite-formerly-known-as-iWork.

The question then becomes whether a variable amount of scorn'll sufficiently tarnish the Mac platform as a whole, and whether it retains any inertia to overcome any blip in opinion; that'll depend on what proportion of Apple's Mac owners do care - that hasn't been established specifically for the Mac itself. But it's fairly easy to project along the lines of your note on Apple's dependence on the consumer when accounting for all business: no doubt adoption rates during the past few years've been up to the halo effect, and we only need decide whether the proportions line up - the power users, after all, have always remained, by definition, a minority; they've thus always had a disproportionate amount of influence.

But you're arguing just as well for simply getting rid of their business selling computers: perhaps they could just as well play that chance and feel all the better focused for having fallen into the second. I'm sure there's a surprise within that mold happening within Apple's future; it'd at least give the analysts an impression of sufficient prescience. (Or they'd grant the issue sufficient apathy on that front solely on the basis that their computer lines have reverted back into one of their self-proclaimed "hobby" niches - half the fun of Kremlinology's in tossing away the assumption that every actor must constantly execute, chop-chop.)

(Which takes me back to your first - I do understand that both App Stores don't even so much as consider OSS licences: precisely my claim that "I doubt open-source developers were paying to have their executables codesigned in the first place".)
I'm excited to see where this goes. I was recently on a team for the Salesforce Hackathon that created a pretty cool rewards and consumer statistics platform. Earn points for visiting, get a push notification when you receive a reward, etc. Awesome for the consumer. The business owner gets statistics based on foot traffic, peak hours, most visited beacons, etc.

We didn't have any iBeacons handy (only 5 days between idea and completion), so we were using an iPad to broadcast an "iBeacon". It was pretty neat. I'd like to get my hands on some of Estimotes beacons.
It is for this very reason that I think that Basic Income [1] can/will someday be a net wealth creator, even if 95% of its recipients end up sitting on their asses.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
We are a small company and are very happy with BTSync.

However, if you want tight admin control, you may have some issues. For example: If an employee leaves, we're not sure how to revoke privileges for them once they have access to the folder.

So, I recommend very small companies use BTSync since it's easy and free. But if you're a larger company, you have probably outgrown BTSync and should get something like AeroFS.
When are you headed to Houston? There's a community concert series http://www.Facebook.com/carolinesessions which has multiple artists, last when'd of every month, FREE, benefits a rotating non profit...
If I lose all of my assets in bitcoin it's an acceptable loss. If the US economy tanks and I lose my dollars, I'll be pissed, because I saw it coming.

Second point is this fits my narrative. I will be quitting my job and moving out into a van sometime this year. I feel my only ability to effectively protest against the people of this country is to stop contributing. Bitcoin will serve me much better in this regard.
I'd prefer empirical data, but before that's available (to the discussion, at least) I'd guess one teaches that by giving opportunities to practice and reassurance that it's normal.
> But even if you do view property rights as a "use of force", so what? -What do you think that implies?

that a philosophy that is founded on "there are only two rules: property rights are The One True Right, and initiation of force is The One True Wrong" is impossible to take seriously.

> Well, this will probably just get lost in our comment histories, so I won't expend any more effort on this.

nice way to try to take the higher ground while forfeiting. it's okay-- I know thinking is often hard for libertarians.
"Boring" services: who has good tech?
Car/renter/life insurance, plumbers, etc: the "boring" services of life. Which ones have good tech? This turns out to be surprisingly hard to research. I just had to buy a new car insurance policy from a company I started using back in 2007 because they were the only ones with full online policy management back then, and, well, a Flex app, OS-based browser detection, and PDF download pages that pretend to check if I have Acrobat installed later, I'm noticing that they haven't changed much since 2007.
> The nature of torture aside, taking the life of a sentient being is the ultimate violation of its rights. I don't see how any act less than killing can be considered morally worse than killing.

Why?
Came to say this. I think everyone should learn to code; I don't think everyone should "be a programmer".
Do they kill demons faster?
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Which is why I reference movements like the one Peñalosa is part of. (I don't have enough easy references.) It isn't something that can be well-answered by startups. Profit motive defines the shift from the purely physical realm into the abstract world. That's what money is: it abstracts trust and makes it less necessary. It makes us more efficient for the price of less effort spent on trust.

The answer isn't to remove money but rather to provide money-less connection points. Create debts that aren't monetary but personal and non-transferable. Talk to people for no better reason than to get to know them. Find out what makes them tick and what would make them happy. That kind of thing. It's... complex.
Yeah, I phrased that poorly (was fighting with links and not thinking about my words too carefully). I didn't mean to knock the release by any means. I was only making the observation that there didn't appear to be much in the way of asm.js performance improvement this time around.

And you're absolutely right; the fact that there are additional features/improvements and I get to keep the same (awesome) performance from FF 25 is very impressive and laudable. I can enumerate several FOSS projects for which this sort of thing is an issue.
Here's an about.com article that says it's medically unsupported. [1] (about.com isn't a great source but hey it's someone who's looked into it)

http://walking.about.com/od/measure/f/10000steps.htm

FWIW I live in central DC and walk for about 90% of my total trips (although I have a sedentary job and a short commute), and the moves app says I go roughly 3mi/day, which squares with my intuition looking at a map.
Planning Ahead for Your H-1Bs? Developments over last 1 year.
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10897/how-are-par...
Fred Wilson On Bitcoin, Unbundling, Data Leakage And Health Care
If you made the suggestion through a feedback mechanism, it goes into a big database along with the millions of other feedback entries. The support team at Mozilla is responsible for combing through that database looking for common themes and especially for trending issues.

I'd guess your request probably isn't very common, so you probably wouldn't get the same potential attention that you would get if you were to go to bugzilla.mozilla.org and file a bug there.
For me what makes it really interesting is the realization that all of linear regression (think y = mx + b) is based on linear algebra, specifically the notion that figuring out a best-fit line (in the case of a single-dimensional input variable) is projection of the N-dimensional vector space of observations (where you have N data points) onto the best-fitting 2 dimensional vector spaces (assuming you're fitting a slope and an intercept).

When thought of this way, a lot of linear algebra has geometric interpretations and for me this makes it a lot less abstract.
> Not everyone is capable of being a software engineer

Bullshit. This is a very narcissistic view that lots of programmers have. I think you have this belief because it helps you enjoy feeling superior to non-programmers.

If a person can learn how to read and write, then they can learn how to program. It just takes time and effort, and some people can learn it faster than others. But just about anyone can do it.

The only things holding them back are their priorities and misconceptions.
99% uptime is 3.65 days (3 days 15hrs) of downtime.

99.9% uptime is 0.365 days (8 hrs 45 min) of downtime.

99.99% uptime is 0.0365 days (52 min 33 sec) of downtime.

It's also hard for the average person to catch unless they have users that are going to complain or a secondary service to constantly test the connection. And if they fail to deliver 99.99%, you just get a proportional credit. The benefits of advertising 99.99% usually outweigh the consequences of failing to deliver.
> The author implies that everyone is smart.

No, the author is saying that software engineering is currently viewed (even by smart and capable people) as an intellectually intimidating profession. There's no reason why that should be the case. Working in this space doesn't require you to have exceptional intelligence; just a willingness to apply yourself to the task and think in terms of certain logical patterns.

At no point does the writer try to imply that everyone is smarter than average - that's silly.
I second this. I've been using youtube-dl for years and it's essential for viewing video content on your terms.

A little know fact that no one seems to mention about this tool is that, the name notwithstanding, it also supports many other sites besides Youtube (use --list-extractors for a full list, currently 108!)
That's why I'm convinced Bitcoin's inflation mitigation is irrelevant. If it proves to be a truly useful currency, people will simply mint other cryptocurrencies, which will be nearly-perfect substitutes.
Also some history: Satoshi's original client used BerkeleyDB which had a configuration issue that almost destroyed Bitcoin.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi...
Awesome! It looks like a virtuous circle for both open source & the bitcoin network. Really hope this will take off.
However, in my opinion, you should definitely switch to mB (mili-bits), and please add retina icons for the readme. I just added one of my projects there (github.com:mgcrea/angular-strap), this will be quite interesting to watch!
I hope that the web libs will improve, I'm trying to create a very simple web app, but the libs are in alpha stage.
Help --> Troubleshooting Information --> Reset Firefox

(if you can)
Certain processes are vital to the computer's operation and should not be killed. For example, after I took the screenshot of myself being attacked by csh, csh was shot by friendly fire from behind, possibly by tcsh or xv, and my session was abruptly terminated.

I wish there was something like that in windows.
> Numbers aren't intrinsically important

True, so yeah I stand corrected about that. Now, can we tell Mozilla this and get off this ridicul^H^H^Hrapid release cycle?
You can read Microsoft's SEC filings.[0] As is typical for large public companies, nothing very useful can be gleaned from these filings about any business smaller than Windows or Office licensing (maybe XBox?). Everything else is buried in noise.

And the SEC is really more interested in seeing the regular boilerplate than informing investors. It would take extraordinary leadership to make any large regulator operate in a more truly informative way.

[0] http://www.microsoft.com/investor/SEC/default.aspx
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Congratulations to the Estimote guys! I've borrowed one of these to test out their signal strength/consistency.

(At a recent AngelHack, I built an indoor-positioning system based on triangulation of signal strength. I tested with a StickNFind BLE device and a couple of homemade BLE(-ish) devices based on nRF24L01 RF modules. I'm hoping the signal strength from the Estimote is going to be more consistent than these.)
Exactly.

People have been well conditioned to believe that their governments are benevolent, do good deeds and that misconduct can be alleviated by stricter law enforcement and electing better leaders.

Anyone who doubts this is a "conspiracy theorist".
Is it possible to use Bitcoin or a bitcoin-like system to create listings in a decentralized manner? Maybe with Namecoin?

I worry that these types of sites centralize the marketplace in one easy-to-attack location.
Except you often need an index, so you can't just tell everyone to use a foreach and be done with it.
I don't think it is going to do too well by just removing the content they posted.

People think of their profile area on a social site as theirs, the law not withstanding, and pissing around with research scientists public profiles just sounds to me about as bright for a company that depends on academia as sticking your face in a bucket of angry bees.
I believe this "discovery" of prior art has already been shown in court a few years ago when the FAT patents were challenged. it has between some time, but this whole thread is very familiar.
> It's pretty reasonable to predict that, unless things go very badly for humanity, eventually many animals that we currently breed and kill for food will come join us on the safe side of the Golden Rule. We may start with the more inspiring or cuddly ones like Dolphins or Whales, but can you doubt that humanity from 500 years in the future will consider eating a dolphin as abhorrent as we would consider, say, eating someone's pet labrador?

Interestingly, humans rarely live as a solo species. Most concentrations of humans are part of a larger menagerie of symbiotic utility and pest animals that rely on human existence and activity and despite the constant presence, it's rare that those animals ever enter even the most carnivorous human diet outside of very specific cases.
"The whole idea is to further display and reinforce your own splendour, adding subtle peer-pressure to everybody else."

I hadn't looked at Academia.edu through this lens before. I think it's in a position to accomplish a lot more, so here's hoping they focus on 'impact' and not just 'engagement'.
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Why Bonuses Don't Work
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Set to Include Docker Container Virtualization
The difference is that in Europe, free speech is not as expansive as it is in the U.S. Hate speech is defined more broadly east of the pond, and is generally a crime in itself in many European nations. In contrast, in the U.S. only hateful acts are crimes (speech itself is not enough), though hate speech can be a a tort (a private action, i.e., for emotional distress).

The crack was done in cooperation with the Bonnier Group tabloid Expressen, in order to reveal politicians commenting on Swedish hate speech-sites.

Exposing politicians is a time honored practice in all countries and across all ideologies. It's possible that the hacking is still a crime in Sweden, regardless of the motives. No one is defending it--you seem to have done that on your own, as the linked article certainly does not.
Technology Leaders Establish Alliance To Advance 'Internet of Everything'