skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't talking about a spring mattress, but a foam mattress just like these. Ikea's start at $79.
It looks an awful lot like Svpply and The Fancy. And he's an investor in The Fancy. I guess this time the curation is through friends instead of the site itself.
The kids aren't playing CoD for the story. The single-player campaign is, at best, seen as a light warmup for multiplayer. That is where the kids are spending their time.
Spec Ops: The Line was a video game and the message was a good one.
I'm not concerned, actually I find that sort of retargeting preferable to less relevant ads. I was just intrigued because a 1500W power supply is a pretty niche gadget that I was surprised to see here.
Not to mention the improvement to drivers, etc, will rise the tide for everyone.
I've always loved reading what michaelochurch has to say. I generally make a conscious effort to stay optimistic, but I see a lot of truth in what he writes.
Wow, that text is very difficult to read. I'm having a difficult time figuring out why the type used is so illegible.
In fp, those containers are known as modules.
A Month of Bugs
Everyone thinks their tattoo artist is the best.

Consumers don't care what their _friends_ recommend, they want to know what _most people_ recommend. Amazon reviews have a ton of value in aggregate. The more reviews, the more value. My friend's subjective recommendation of a Canon DSLR because he's already invested $2K in lenses? Not so much.

Also, how is this not exactly http://svpply.com, a much better execution of an item discovery site that sold to eBay over a year ago.
So well written. Git commits and the instances are such a nice way to show the code running! Congrats and thanks!
Haven't been able to get AntiChamber to launch without crashing
>One set of stereotypes is directly about the purported effects of age. For example, that older workers are less energetic or less able to use new technologies.

The problem is there is a lot of truth to these stereotypes.
>I also think this is more a problem for non-tech jobs. In today's world, if a software-engineer wanted to travel the world for 8 months I suspect she could easily get a job when she's done.

My sister did just that and landed a job immediately upon returning.
That doesn’t mean you can say nothing about it or that any opinion about it is equally valid. Your blanket dismissal of this criticism makes little sense.

I’m also not sure what your point regarding intent is. If something has a certain unintended effect the authors’ statement that they never intended that effect may be interesting (especially when looking at the creation process and when looking into why certain things turn out the way they do) but it’s not exactly a valid defence. The effect is very real, intended or not.

Is the stated effect a reasonable interpretation and is it likely to be at least no completely rare? That’s the question you should ask and discuss. I don’t think intent is even a tiny bit relevant here.

However, this whole topic is still a vast wasteland. All the discussion always seems to focus on violence and whether or not video games cause it (for which there is very little evidence and if there is an effect it is likely to be quite small) – but completely ignore the importance of talking about art and entertainment and the messages it has. This isn’t about censorship, this is about serious criticism.

I’m too tired for a nuanced discussion on this today, so I will allow myself to be a bit harsh: When I look at popular games I see the most brutal violence being celebrated everywhere. And it sickens me. I want more better games with less violence for this awesome medium. And I want game creators to ask themselves why they feel the need for violence to always be so, so central.
You could install wine on it and use it to run photoshop if you wanted whie mining bitcoins and running an apache webserver. It is a linux box on pc hardware. Never mind install, you could develop another store on it.
Add two spaces in front of that line, please.
Scientists discover Indonesian cave with 'stunning' record of tsunamis
What viewer is this? It's really nice. I'm not getting any hints from a quick view of the source. Is it something custom?
Thanks! We think it's especially useful since it lets you take advantage of GitHub's code browsing features (diffs, history, search, etc.)
Did Mark actually use the term "exocortex" in his talk? I see no mention of this anywhere else on the net.
I know one person who bought the wrong game on Steam by mistake: he couldn't get a refund but he was able to persuade Steam support to add the value of the purchase to his Steam wallet.

Nonetheless, this seems to be a good place to mention GOG's 30 day money back guarantee: http://www.gog.com/support/website_help/money_back_guarantee
BLIS/COBOL
Archaic but widely used crypto cipher allows NSA to decode most cell calls
That's only known in viral genomes, right?
After install it didn't boot correctly on my Macbook Pro 7,1. Booted to grub but then black screen. Also note (as now stated in the official documentation) it wipes your hard drive for the initial install.
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You know "it's just a game" does have a lot of mileage left in it if you had to write an article on edge-online.com about the issue. I can promise you that none of those teenagers that play CoD ever even thought about that or even tried to interpret the story at all. In fact, the single-player campaign is just something you do when you get temporarily bored with multiplayer. If a teenage player did think of what the story implies then I am sure that he is also smart enough to think about it further and conclude that that's quite silly.

I wouldn't be bothered with what one source tells you (if you look really closely at it) when there are so many other sources of information out there. Especially when that source isn't considered serious by pretty much everyone who plays the game.
Oh, I thought I did. Will do.
The quickest answer is that we've learned a lot about legible type in the intervening half millennium. Conversely, this typograhic style was probably considered pretty readable by the people who were used to reading it.
This prooves that the biggest examples come from the smallest things.
This should apply to all startups in this place.
I always thought that a president should serve its people, but it seems that nowadays presidents only serve themselves. Jose Mujica is way ahead of this time, for a world with a different kind of mentality. Only thing i can say is that he is right, and the most of the world seems to be against his ideas and ideals. It is getting more common to see latin american presidents go agains the defacto world standards. Lets start by Evo Morales, Rafael Correa, Maduro and lets remember Hugo Chaves. So what if Uruguay is poor, at least they dont have the enemies NorthAmerica has. So what if they tax or not the weed, at least they have education to all children unlike mexico or colombia who are fighting a drug war that is affecting only its people and not the narcs money :)
Interestingly, this article has survived a whopping 8 years on Wikipedia without a single source or citation.

There's virtually no real information on it, although from what I could scavenge it appears to have originated around 1978 and had an officially registered user group of six people: http://www.wysk.com/index/florida/winter-park/44jatgd/blis-c...
This article raises a valid point, but sadly doesn't fully address it.

Are the same group of conspirators who illegally spy on us also pulling strings in Hollywood and at game studios to promote their agenda? This concept may seem hard for certain to believe. But a quick look at history clearly shows that oppressive and feudal rulers have actively promoted different types of story telling/theater acts or bible scripts that implicitly match their agenda.

Some articles for your thoughts...

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/18/video-game...

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-01-17/government-p...

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/01/the-cia-and-other-gov...
Fantastic. Interesting to see that it's flush-justified with a proportional width font. Imagine the effort it would take to create this, and then again how much effort a reprint would be.

Sure you have a press, but after your print your first run of copies, start over.
Fixed, didn't realize. Thought I had the 2 spaces there but I guess not.
The writing in this is absolutely gorgeous at this high-res. This feels like a weirdly futuristic way to preserve something like this. Would love to see this with the Dead Sea Scrolls (it took everything I had to not write the Elder Sea Scrolls right there).
Why should FreeBSD want me?
I particularly liked:

> Removing friction from existing user behaviors almost always has a higher ROI than building castles in the sky

> You do not have 20% time. Identify your top three priorities. Throw away numbers two and three.

> “Focus is saying no to 1,000 good ideas.”  -Steve Jobs

Maybe (roughly condensed):

Work hard so users don't.
"Your browser is out of date"
-no, actually it isn't... it's Firefox 17 on Linux.
but, just for the fun of it, click on the Firefox icon.
-"Hooray, your browser is up to date!" (with no updating because... the browser was already up to date).
click back and refresh
-"Your browser is out of date..."
ok then...
presumably for many of them you can have a software wrapper that translates directx to opengl calls
Doom might be just a game, but it's underlying message that we should be killing demons makes me very uncomfortable.
Logic programming is about specifying what is wanted without worrying about the methods used to produce it [beyond the correctness of the methods]. SQL shines a bit of light on the subject at a less abstract level (relational algebra). Writing a query describes the result, and does not address the algorithms used to calculate it, nor does it even depend on the actual way in which the data is organized - if the interface is there, that's all that matters.
>Why are kids consuming CoD?

Because it's a lot of fun and guns are cool. What lasting impression would CoD make on a 12-year old kid's mind anyway?
There are two factors here: 1. illegible to whom? 2. what do you expect a book to look like?

The Textura letter forms would have been more familiar to readers at the time, and were used widely in German until surprisingly recently. Even today we use them in English-speaking countries for short pieces of text that need to look authoritative. See the header of the manuscript of the US Constitution or the masthead of most old newspapers.

More importantly, these shapes looked similar to the letterforms from expensively hand-written bibles of the time. Different scripts take different amounts of time to write. A script like this written by hand takes an enormous amount of time because every stroke doubles back on itself. So only quite expensive books would be hand-written in this way. Of course, when you're printing, it makes little difference, so might as well print with the most-expensive-looking letterforms.

Here are some alternate scripts used in English writing around the same time: http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic453618.files/Cent...

(Source: wife studied paleography at Oxford, we have lots of fun books about this. There are far, far worse hands to decipher than textura, some scribes were truly terrible. You can also date manuscripts based on small characteristics of the hand-writing. Although, it can be a bit inexact. My wife once corrected a museum placard dating a text based on the writing. The docent argued with her about the characteristics of the script before she pointed out that the text mentioned a Saint born a century after the supposed date.)
It seems that was what people at the time were used to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter#Origins

Does anybody know what the purpose of the red marks in some of those letters is?
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(In fact, for heavy processing stuff I'm pretty sure it's architecturally preferred to have it on a separate machine than the web-app server)
I did the same thing (~2 years), but then it took three months and five rejections (including flying to four offices) before a compatible offer materialized. I was getting worried and kinda running out of money. Whoops.
People are downvoting all my comments on this story, which are saying "I think Google and Mozilla are both acting in good faith to move the web forward."

Stay classy, Mozilla fans. I'm trying to be one of you but you're not making it easy.
considering she plastered a massive picture of "ctrl+alt+delete" pillows as her background/herounit I think that's unlikely
that one in the center of the circle is what making me confused.

if i can't rest my hands on the keyboard, what's the point of ergonomic!
The only downside is to keep it dated since Meteor are changing fast.
2. what do you expect a book to look like?

obviously lucida console
Just to provide a counterpoint, I've never had a problem with Antichamber, and it is a very, very good game.

Sorry to hear about your difficulties though!
In fact blackletter was generally considered more difficult to read than other scripts (that's one of the reasons Italic became so popular, IIRC). But it's also incredibly compact, which is a big deal when paper (or parchment, or whatever) is as difficult to acquire as it was at the time.
>Second, I don't think we should ban Call of Duty. I think we should shame the executives responsible out of the industry and set the developers right or not work with them. However my opinion would be different if the games were less vulgar/parents had better control over them.

Why? The game is rated M, the game shops doesn't let children buy M-rated games. Educate the parents instead. Leave my games be, please.
S&P through a low fee mutual fund or ETF. It is boring but over the long haul will probably have the best performance.

If I was placing an all or nothing bet with $5k it would go in bit coin. I doubt the volatility will go away anytime soon so I suspect that it will either continue the explosive growth or crash.
Just posting to confirm that this is indeed the case. Paid like £7 for an indie game that doesn't work on Mavericks and never even had a chance to open it.
dude... if you think democracy will save the world, then you might as well believe in the spanish inquisition... well, only if you believe in american democracy. But what democracy is there when Bush was elected twice and Obama twice as well, and , in the name of democracy, declared a war on a poor little country.... for me you can call Tor quemada to be the next american president and i will still prefer the democracy those south american countries have...
Hopefully they make the backported eglibc .deb packages available. I'm betting they'll have an updated version of the graphics driver and possibly mesa too.

On Debian this has been a headache for me, so I'm hoping they'll make these things available :)
yeah right. No legal info, not even a hint who is responsible for this. But wait, there's even more, you need a facebook account to attend the party. Oh boy, this thing is gonna storm everyone's heart for sure. Like Bitcoin will be the next all purpose currency.
</sarcasm>
There's far more than the plot lines that are troubling.

For example, much is made of the fact that real-life Special Forces soldiers aid in the development of these games for the sake of authenticity. That's great, but that authenticity is then baked into products that paint a wholly misleading picture about the realities of war. The Medal of Honor franchise is also guilty of this.

In a much larger sense, it just feels like there's a giant entertainment industry cash grab that's been taking place off of ongoing US conflicts, and it's being masked in soldier worship and flag-waving. In my opinion, this phenomenon only serves to obscure the real sacrifices made by service personnel.

This is even more unfortunate when you consider the franchise is heavily marketed on the basis of its supposed authenticity, and its main audience tends to be quite a few years below each game's M rating. I don't even remotely care about violence in videogames, but messaging that resembles propaganda seems troublesome, especially with a younger audience.

That said, I realize they're games, and the object of games is to entertain. Therein lies the second problem: Call of Duty games tend to be mediocre at best. The fact their sales are so strong is a testament to Activision's marketing powerhouse.
According to the article he is a former bank robber who had shootouts with the police. I hope he's changed since then, but robbing banks tends to lead to long prison sentences in any country I know of (unless you're a banker, but that's another story...).

Now, I'm not claiming to know anything specifically wrong with him, though an endorsement from the Daily Mail generally has the opposite effect for me.
When books were hand-written, anything that took longer to do was more expensive: extra colors, pictures, or scripts that required longer to write. This printed book is attempting to incorporate elements from a very fancy handwritten version. So there is a luxury association to these sorts of things.

It looks here like it's setting off the first letter of each verse, rather than having the verses numbered. Because sentences start and end at different places in different languages, finding a specific verse requires the book marking where one ends and a new one begins.
The red marks are used to decorate (or maybe indicate) capital letters.
While I agree, I do think this underestimates the power of a person's subconscious. The details outlined in the article might not be explicitly called out in the gamer's mind, but might set a subconscious expectation for it to be the case; that "America is a superpower". When this expectation isn't met in reality, then the user might find themselves defending the position that "America is great" without them ever realizing why they hold that position in the first place.
He was imitating (some, mostly liturgical) handwritten books at the time. One of the goals during the creation of the books was to show that he could approach the quality of expensive handwritten books at the time at a fraction of the price. It’s not like just printing something is really complex technology (I, too, carved potato stamps in kindergarden), but approaching the quality of the gold standard at the time while still keeping the price lower was the hard problem.

While the typeface has some issues (m, n, u, i all look confusingly similar when next to each other, for example) I think the issue may just be that you are not used to reading it. This particular typeface is about 500 years out of fashion so you were never really confronted with it.
Mirrors:

http://instockalerts.net/files/SteamOSInstaller.zip

http://firefly.epicconstructions.com/files/SteamOSInstaller....
Its been ages, but does a brick and mortar take back games that arent shrinkwrapped anymore?
A pub/bar crawl iPhone app which uses London Underground lines for routes. The code is all up on GitHub [1] if you'd like to build and try it out, but if you'd like to just see how I did the interaction (I'm quite pleased with how slick it's turned out) here is a not-too-out-of-date gif I put on dribbble: http://dribbble.com/shots/1326115-London-Pub-Crawl-Interacti...

[1] https://github.com/basicallydan/pub-crawl-london - Before anybody points it out, the API keys I've left in the code will be deleted before I release this, and I'll use new ones - don't worry :) it's just easier this way than having to set up some kinda build system for such a small project.
That makes sense, then. Looking at the source code briefly, it looks very similar to what I mean, especially if the parts are able to be used individually.
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There is (debated) speculation that Gutenberg made several forms of some letters with different widths so that he could justify lines with very small adjustments rather than adding space between words.

The Wikipedia microtypography page has more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtypography
See also the CIA's role in promoting abstract expressionism during the Cold War:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-w...
Build your own Steam Machine
End Game: Inside the Destruction of 38 Studios (2012)
Great, all the value of a USB drive with all the disposability of a Post-It note.

This is a waste of time.
"Our brains are not, as far as I know, running any kind of recognizable simulation like we would with a computer."

One way to implement the 'remembering' of the ball position is to run a forward model of the trajectory in your head.

Your brain has specialized hardware for running forward models (short-term simulations) of physical systems. You need these to control your body precisely in the face of delays in the feedback from your limbs.

A nice story - it's a just-so story, but a nice one - is that we repurpose this simulation hardware to simulate systems we observe outside our bodies. Expert ball-catchers have a very good simulation, beginners have a bad one. If you're already an expert, you can get even better by running your simulation off-line: this may be why experts can practice by visualizing their golf swing or swim stroke but newbies can not improve much that way.

There is some physical evidence that the off-line model stuff is real, as when you imagine yourself walking, or watch someone else walking, some of the same parts of your motor cortex are active as when you are actually walking.

My very favourite part of this explanation trail is as follows: animals got very good at modelling the behaviour of other animals, in order to predict what they will do next: Eventually, they/we started re-using the same systems to understand and explain our own behaviour into the future. This is (at least part of) what we call consciousness.

Now, you may or may not buy this, but it's rather elegant as a hypothesis.
Right on. Worth mentioning that the illuminated manuscripts of the time were the gold standard, and even though the Gutenberg bibles were not illuminated in the print shop, that's most likely why they had plenty of room in the margins.

Edit: Since you seem to have a convenient source there, could you link to some of the better medieval manuscript repositories online? Bookmarks got lost over the years.
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> I live ok without pattern matching and I build compilers/runtimes for a living; is that blub conceit?

No, I would have quoted it the first time if it was. But if you want to repeat that again you will certainly sound conceited.
I met a guy the other night working on something called Toursome: http://tourso.me/ - are you in London by any chance? If so, you definitely need to meet him because he's looking to speak to more devs or people relevant to his work. Email me dan [at] danielhough.co.uk, I'll intro you if you like.
Jagged Alliance Online.

The game was advertised as it works on OSX, but it doesn't work on Mavericks, and still has issues in other cat versions. Read here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/218450/discussions/0/846955554...
Wrote up my thoughts on DM: http://pchristensen.com/blog/articles/meteor-discovered/

tl;dr: A+ tech book that I wish every tech writer would read and take to heart, plus Meteor looks great.
So are you saying that 14 years is not a long prison sentence?

By the way, that is about 10% longer than the average prison sentence for bank robbery in the US. See http://www.popcenter.org/problems/robbery_banks/4