skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Barring some exciting breakthrough in physics that gives us either a new energy source or high-efficiency solar and the ability to store it, eventually nuclear will come back. It is the only viable civilization-scale power source that can keep the heat, lights and computers on once the oil runs out.
What was fun to me was when Howard interviewed Paul McCartney. Howard tried ever interview trick in the book, and Paul deftly swatted them away. It was great watching two masters spar at each other.

I saw the same thing when Prince Charles was interviewed by 60 Minutes, where Prince Charles effortlessly parried every tactic tried by the reporter.
2014: The Year of the Vonnegut
Wow, a new attack vector for terrorists. Wreak havoc by setting up terror groups using names that are confusingly similar to important organizations. This way, they could deny a lot of scientists and researchers to travel to the USA and therefore these people would have to develop their innovations in foreign countries that still have common sense like Malaysia and Japan and China and Russia.
Procedural generation is a widely used term in the production of media; it refers to content generated algorithmically rather than manually. Often, this means creating content on the fly rather than prior to distribution. This is often related to computer graphics applications and video game level design.
C# Delegates and Events Explained with real world examples
This approach seems roughly similar to what Sangamo Genetics has been trying for HIV - with some recent success - http://www.aidsmeds.com/articles/Sangamo_genetics_1667_24579...
Ask HN: How can you teach practical regex to normals?
I'd like to teach regular expressions to some friends who do a lot of clerical work, but I'm at a loss with where to start. I want to avoid as much of the theoretical stuff as possible & get them to a practical level as quickly as I can.

I haven't really found anything geared toward teaching regex to kids or non-coders. Anyone have any experience with this or tips for how to approach the problem? What about unique ways to visualize regex?
It depends on the workload. Linux seems to scale to higher workloads slightly smoother without masses of tuning.
Twitter Bootstrap is a CSS framework which makes site presentable. If the intent of the site is not design innovation, why bother. Personally for me, I am allergic to CSS and so bootstrap is great for developers like me.
There are superior solutions to vitrification. Synroc [1] is technically far superior as it puts the long lived isotopes into mineral phases in which they are stable, as opposed to metastable glass.

Once stablised as synroc it is simply a matter of storing the waste. Storing above ground (i.e. in a shed) seems to me to be a better solution than pursuing geologic disposal, given the waste is now stable, and can be easily monitored.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synroc
Funny epic split ranking
Only on HN or Slashdot could you find a person who'd look at that pie chart and say (with no sense of irony whatsoever) that Microsoft is the company in critical danger.
I am convinced that the entire badBIOS story is an application of this technique to shake out remaining bugs in the design. Look at the large number of subject matter experts who dissected every aspect of the claims and universally concluded... "Impossible unless [expert explanation of method] ...and even so, unlikely."
Interesting presentation of the story - but I'm not so keen on the "sign up for the next episode" bit...
And then makes money from people using the people that use the platform.
Old school vs. new school as academic publishers brawl over Web
The above video has also been removed.

Use this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNVgVl6v6YU
This is awesome. How about a PDF with all chapters combined?
wow, i would use nearly ever single one of those.
great job AND thanks for sharing!
I know some awesome guys at EdgeCast. Great job, congrats.
Banksy Was Here
I didn't mean to imply entirety with my comment, but it does read that way, apologies. Another issue could be the artificially low value of the Yaun?
sounds like a great holiday project!
seriously, most of these algorithms are easy to code up in C. Parsing and encoding handling can be tricky. If you stick with latin-1 encoded materials, you should be fine.
Um, actually, on the other hand - re: Sangamo Genetics: http://seekingalpha.com/article/1705622-sangamo-a-fiery-biot...

Yikes!
I don't get it. If you're using a smart phone for all the things that smart phones do (audio, photo albums, video), 16GB just isn't enough. Even my 32GB iPhone requires active file management to avoid hitting the limit.
We've heard this same claim so many times before. Procedurally generating each atom? Come on, this is just a marketing gimmick. These never turn out to be decent games, usually it's just running around a world with randomly appearing enemies who all act the same and you're bored within 10 minutes. I'd be more optimistic if this exact thing hadn't been claimed before every year for the last 20 with no results.
> why are boom and bust "logical" in the first place?

They're not, they result from humans not being logical creatures.

> price stability of the aggregate inflation measure.

Depending on how you measure.

> Housing went mad, but it wasn't included in the measure of inflation

Case in point. The largest lifetime investment of 95%+ of the population and it became a bubble/mania largely because of central bank intervention in interest rates.

> Hard currency does not prevent expansion or contraction of the money supply

That is not my understanding. If your currency must be backed by gold for example, then the money supply would grow slowly and prices would adjust accordingly. This is very different from today's practices.
What I don't like about many worlds is that it's spectacularly inefficient w.r.t. energy. A whole new universe is created for each option. That's very wasteful and doesn't gel with so much of what we see around us. Sure, you can say that energy is fixed within each universe but not in the whole system, but that sets off my internal Occam's Razor.

You also don't just have two worlds, you have infinite. In the coin-flipping example, whenever a coin is flipped there are many other universe-splitting this-or-that events happening elsewhere in the universe at the same instant. So each instant there are infinite worlds created (or infinite x infinite to describe each combination), and again a split in each universe in the next instant for every next possibility. Mmm. Dodgy.

My favourite: John Cramer's Transactional Interpretation. Doesn't require infinite universes' worth of energy, doesn't require an observer to collapse multiple possible waves. Does require you to accept backwards-in-time communication (breaks causality) but brings some very interesting what-if questions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality
Comparisons between countries like Norway and the US are a bit misguided IMO. It's hard to imagine that an oil rich country with a homogeneous society of 5 million people at the edge of the world can be fairly compared to the leader of the world's current Pax-Americana with a population of 300 million. Norway enjoys the benefits of being an almost-city-state as described in Antifragile by Nassim Taleb.
T-Mobile Slowly Rolls Out Bonded (aka Faster) LTE Network
I have not had a phone with over 32GB for the past 2 years and yet I've never had to perform "active file management" or delete any media from my phone. I consume all my music through Grooveshark and Play Music and watch videos on Netflix or YouTube.
I think the target demographic isn't a heavy media consumer, so going with lower storage keeps the price down. Also, cloud.
Remove the httpS in the link, it gives SSL error.

Also, you are 4 days late, right?
> Despite being highly rational behavior, it was at times deleterious.

Very true, but the lesson of what can happen when caution is thrown to the wind would minimize irresponsible behavior for a very long time. Contrast that with current practice which is to drop interest rates to insane levels so people can continue doing what got them into trouble in the first place.
Which specialized tech jobs are rare to find?
Yeah I think it has potential but the abuse of the term procedural for blatant marketing purposes is a bit overboard. Procedural down to the "atom" yet when you watch the trailer, you see the same old trees, rocks, 2-jet engine spaceships and an extremely Earth-like world..

The only thing that looked procedural are the seemingly random colors. Everything else looks like they modeled a bunch of 3D assets.

Maybe they're procedurally generating the terrain like Minecraft but they're definitely building the world from pre-modeled assets.
Looks quite cool and such. But what do you actually do in this game? I mean, in what ways do you interact with your environment?
It's true. Speaking as a gamedev, more people should really study how Notch was able to make procedural gen so interesting to look at. It's rather involved, and took a lot of testing to get right. And even that starts to get boring after awhile.

Every environment you see in this video will probably look roughly the same: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNVgVl6v6YU

The reason is because most programmers simply do 'procedural' gen like "if desert, then X. If temperate, than Y. If..."

But you can achieve much more interesting results by using weighting instead of special casing.
Today we are still writing code like 20 years ago and one could think there has been little evolution regarding that. But this imo shows where the evolution has gone. Today a team of 4 is able to build a procedurally generated game of high visual quality with a gigantic scope like that because our tools, libraries, techniques and also hardware have evolved to a point where this is possible. I think thats pretty amazing!
Do you only use your phone at home or when you have Wi-Fi access? (Do you live in South Korea?) Most US cellular data plans don't allow very much streaming audio, let alone video, before you hit a cap. Certainly not a month's worth.

Source: I've easily hit my cap when I mistakenly turned off Wi-Fi.
I've had multiple projects of mine on the front page of HN, and while I got lots of upvotes, there have been many negative or overly harsh comments.

Once my business hit substantial revenue, I realized it didn't matter, that it was more important to make a few people love us than to make everyone like us.

I also realized that a lot of hackers on HN are having a hard time making their own business because they don't realize people like things that they might not. Taste is huge.
People use "hate" to mean "mildly unpleasant" all the time. "I hate it when i just barely miss the bus" or "I hate it when the package is so hard to open I spill most of the sauce in the process of opening the package" or the like.
10% at the time
Right, my presentation is clear that it's not just monads, but rather the interaction of purity, strong types, and monads that gets us those benefits. I list them when people ask about monads because, while they might not be what monads are actually about, they were big things that Haskell gained with the introduction of monads. So I think they're an important part of the explanation that we give to Haskell newcomers.
Whats a resume book?
At least instructables usually has decent content, even if there are many pages for non-paying users.

It is sad that most people do not pay for things unless you poke them a bit.
I agree the OPs quote was less than ideal, but that doesn't mean you can speak for him. There's a difference between you saying what you feel and you saying what others said/feel. The latter should be avoided, if possible.
I would think it's rare to find a Cobol coder today though the financial industry need it for it's legacy code.
The issue is that you don't get any support with this phones, while with Moto G they will just replace your device with a new one If something happens. To many average customers this factor is enough to deter them from buying phones you mentioned.
If you watch actually funny shows that have a laugh track, such as Seinfeld, and removed them - they're still funny. Idk I just find BBT humor very bland, like the punch line to a joke may be just someone screaming out a nerd reference just for the sake of saying "Hey were nerds!"
But this isn't China only. Even Europe is much cheaper then US. And eastern Europe is as cheap as China
For my money I'd rather a proper integrated system like the Panasonic range: http://cycle.panasonic.jp/products/electric/

I've ridden a number of electric-assist bicycles and the panasonic system worked brilliantly - seamless and intuitive boosting exactly when needed, so hills just seem to disappear. They seem a lot more convenient, too, with the battery integrated into the lights system.

Yamaha's pedelec system is also worth a look, though I didn't find it quite as intuitive as the panasonic: http://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/pas/lineup/
Neat tech, but the problem with procedurally generated games with large worlds is that the core game mechanics are often bland or shallow, and the content can come across as very samey.
Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Looking into it. I understand there might be legal issues around Airplay and that Google did something to Chromecast to disallow "unofficial" use cases :(
Nobody was talking about animals.
First, I want to say how amazingly cool I think "No Man's Sky" looks -- as an enjoyer of scifi content and indie games, I will certainly be among the first in line to buy/play it when it comes out.

That said, I agree with this criticism of "procedural content" completely. A while ago I created a little toy WebGL tech demo featuring "a vast virtual 3D universe containing billions of unique stars and planets" (it's open-source on github if anyone's interested) -- so I encountered this issue first-hand (and saw it come up many times elsewhere in the past, of course).

IMO, the fundamental problem lies in a subtle distinction between "infinite variation" vs. "infinite novelty". Most procedural generation amounts to not much more than random noise passed through a variety of hand-tuned filters and/or custom code. In most cases it's how you tune that filtering and custom logic that leads to any amount of interesting results, not the underlying random noise generator (from which the too-good-to-be-true claim of "infinite variety" is derived).

I don't think it's completely impossible to derive interesting variation from a combination of mathematics and randomness, but I think the degree to which we find something interesting or "novel" is at least somewhat related to the amount of computational complexity put into its derivation (at least, that's my intuition on the matter).
What difference to regular spreadsheets makes Pyspread unusable for you?
Smart music services (such as Play) will use this radical new technology called caching so that you don't have to stream everything you listen to if you have things you listen to more often.
That's pretty bad.

So, what we're saying is these guys are merely using the open source Arc webapp that HN is using and changing a few styles?

If so, that's actually not dishonorable and more like just starting a niche community with forum software.

And, I have been educated.
1) http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joshparnell/limit-theory... (pledged $187,865 of $50,000 goal)

2) https://www.inovaestudios.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6a69dMLb_k (has been in development for years, about to start a campaign on kickstarter)

3) http://pioneerspacesim.net/ (free, open source, alreaady playable, alpha stage and actively developed)
UX Critique of iOS 7 flaws
Point in case: I have a Galaxy Nexus that is fewer than two years old that won't receive any future releases because it's old enough they don't want to bother with.... not that it isn't capable... they just don't want to bother updating devices that are older than X (where X = less than the average contract length in the US).
Ever played rogue, nethack or dwarf fortress?
It depends. 1.5 hours of facetime will use ~1gb, and streaming 1 hour of music every day will run at 1gb over the month. Add browsing during commute and you're getting close. It's probably not "normal" in the sense of average, but for the heavy consumer, they will have to moderate their usage.
The Galaxy Nexus was launched in the US 2 years ago today. It was sold until about 1 year ago, by Google. They are refusing KitKat for it due to it being obsolete.

A (barely more than) one-year-old NEXUS phone is obsolete......
Time dilation and time travel are two very different things.
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Yes, and 300 years ago there was no Universal speed limit. Hawking has stated that he has no theoretical objections to time travel, but thinks that there is probably a theoretical reason for why it isn't, he just doesn't know what that might be.

Let's not forget, the brightest minds in the world, self admittedly, don't know that much about how the Universe actually works. There are theoretical objections to time travel.
I very much like the idea of open source medicines.
What it Takes to Give a Great Presentation
As I understand it, the "spooky action" is completely an artifact of the perception of randomness in the initial process.

Take a black stone and a white stone, shake up in your hand, put one in one sealed container and one in a second sealed container. Take the two containers a hundred light year apart. Open one and "suddenly" you know the contents of another container light years away.

I don't know how "spooky action" differs from this except in the way the process gets described. You could say "wow, until you know whether there's a black stone or a white stone in there, it's like the stone is half white and half black." You could but how does that help? I mean quantum seems to take a "because it absolutely can't be measured till, it absolutely doesn't happen till later" but that seems to just contradict ordinary understanding in gratuitously unnecessarily fashion.
Whoa I didn't catch on to this. Thanks! He truly is incredible.
"I apologize again to the press and the members of the public for having to ask you to leave…. I don’t believe that the SSI [Sensitive Security Information] is really that sensitive, and I believe that it’s a mistaken public policy to exclude you, but for the time being I have no choice."

Judge Alsup for president!
Revolution vs Evolution. People want to think that progress comes from a handful of revolutions that change the world. It's a lot more exciting than what we actually have: evolutions, over long periods of time.
I don't and never did use much Flash/AS, but wouldn't Haxe be a more logical choice? It is already battle tested and it is a lot more like AS/Flash than Dart? Not sure what experienced Flash devs would think; any here?
Browserify v3 released
Odin is certainly not stolen code - it's simply the tool Samsung distributes to partners to update firmware on their devices.

Also if you have a problem with Odin for whatever reason, you can use the OSS Heimdall - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755265
You might as well post a link to the Wikipedia article [1], when you copy its blurb.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation
At the moment the demand here for developers is clearly higher than the supply. However, mainly CS/BS are demanded. And if you're not experienced or you don't want to make an apprenticeship, the market gets very thin.
I dislike this kind of news coverage very much. It is designed to tease rather than inform. Although, I have to admit I was intrigued less by the claim that the game procedurally generates every atom, and more by the question it begs of how you'd actually generate every atom.

Usually, of course, atoms don't matter. The ideal gas law, for example, is essentially a "rule of thumb" which gives you useful ways to predict the behavior of large ensembles of atoms; e.g. to average over the movements of statistically significant (avagadro's number or so) individual particles - indeed, one of the most amazing things in physics is the connection between Newtonian physics and thermodynamics via statistical mechanics.

In any event, my naive answer to the question of what should we simulate would be "don't simulate anything you don't have to" which means that unless you have scanning electron microscopes in the game you don't simulate atoms at all. You mostly use approximations. In games, collisions are important so surfaces (and their properties) tend to be important. And so those simple geometries defines the data structure you use to define the world. In essence mass is defined in a computer program to be a volume that behaves a certain way in the presence of acceleration. But there is no need to describe materials as a lattice of much smaller particles. It's almost never relevant to the simulation.

So, yeah, I don't think it's reasonable to expect a game to simulate a world such that ad hoc chemical reactions can take place, etc. But it's not unreasonable to expect in-game scanning electron microscopes to be able to realistically resolve the details of any material.
New app will transform the infamous "Selfie" into an Interactive Photo Booth
I think credible is more accurate.
Science and Space
I seem to remember that he didn't exactly start from zero, but had some idea prior to that and simply learned more about Java. Just sayin', because I think it makes it even better.
I like the list. I'm thinking/hoping that sandbox games with generated content will becomes a larger part of the core game market.

Mostly, we see success in the indie 2D world:

Don't starve - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsWm_gWyk4s

Binding of Isaac - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5PLC6nmOO4

Terraria - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHPX0kR9h7I

And just released Starbound -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvrmB4tw33Q

Certainly 3D games are quite exciting in this space, too, but the 2D games seem to have a lot more traction with the big exception of minecraft.

I suspect it's simply easier to make an engaging sandbox when you don't have to worry about complexities in art assets that a 3D game requires.
Anyone know what engine they are using? The visuals look excellent.

EDIT: Think I found it: http://www.crytek.com/cryengine
Ask HN: Does anyone know of any good MOOCS/Online resources for writing?
I am looking for any resources regarding writing. Preferably not something specifically aimed at Academia nor Fiction but something more general and applicable to blog posts for example. Anyone on here aware of any such guides/tutorials/books/moocs which might deserve a recommendation?
Guys, the editor is almost tweetable! (143 characters)

http://xem.github.io/miniCodeEditor/tweet.html
"In law, rendition is a "surrender" or "handing over" of persons or property, particularly from one jurisdiction to another."

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendition_%28law%29
You're thinking of extraordinary rendition.