skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's something that I think is in the spirit of the game and has a good chance of working:

Frame the game as two armies racing to occupy an oasis (four center squares of the board) in the desert. Consider that oasis occupied if either the enemy's king is captured, or if your king can camp there for X moves (if your king can camp there, the area can't be part of the front anymore, so it is truly yours)

I chose an oasis rather than a true stronghold such as a fort or castle because a fort or castle would have to mean the introduction of separate rules for attacks into and out of the stronghold (hm, that might be fun, too. Consider a case where captures into the four center squares require the capturer to have at least two means to make that capture.)
Rather than losing credit against your credit limit, however, while awaiting resolution by your bank one would be out actual cash. Credit card companies act like actual cash is more valuable than credit - lower cash withdrawal limits, higher interest - and I'd agree.
This is amazing. He's come up with completely new ways to do graphics on modern CPUs. This is genuinely impressive stuff and the breadth of it is mind blowing.

It's upsetting how dismissive of his work he can be, he deserves to be proud of this, I certainly would be.
The robots.txt from news.ycombinator.com reads as follows:

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /x?
Disallow: /vote?
Disallow: /reply?
Disallow: /submitted?
Disallow: /submitlink?
Disallow: /threads?
Crawl-delay: 30

So nominally you should feel free to set up a scraper that crawls one non-disallowed resource every 30 seconds.
You don't need to really brute force the pins.

What you do is you a separate list of known pins and work out the most likely pin is. Then you assume that all of your new Debit cards have that pin. Most won't have that pin, but for many of them you'll now have a working pin. For those you did not ever enter a wrong pin, so any sort of brute-force attempt detection software will never have any reason to suspect a thing.
Yes, you're right. The average college kid clearly isn't investing material.

How about this: a kid who is a solid programmer, well read with regards to startups, ambitious, and a reasonable thinker.
He meant physical locations. Of course keeping your data on external backups has been a good practice since forever but many lack the discipline.
Like Evernote can request permission to only communicate with addresses resolved from evernote.com, instead of anything on the internet.

That would seem to be a bit meaningless, since the same people that control Evernote also control evernote.com, so if they want Evernote to connect to some other place they can easily add a name for that place under evernote.com.
The difference is that since they are backed by your bank account (rather than a running balance that you owe the credit card company or bank), the money comes directly out of your bank account. Depending on your bank's policies, even an immediate refund (with no fraud involved) might take a couple of weeks to credit back to your account. So, sure you might be made whole again in the end, but you are still out the cash in the meantime.

That may or may not matter to you depending on your financial situation, but it's probably much better to be in a position where you are debating/challenging what you owe rather than what someone else owes you.

Note: I know that the mechanics are slightly different when you "run it as a credit card" rather than a debit card, but you may be in the same boat if the money has already left your bank account (unless Visa or MasterCard lean on the bank to make things go faster in such situations).
Got it, thanks. We'll have a better editorial process moving forward, sorry for the errors guys.
seems to be more complicated than that

if you put "why blah blah ... " as title that seems to also get put into Ask HN
My only objection to life extension, philosophically speaking, is a political one. What if life extension becomes another tool of dominance for the rich and powerful? An eternal, dystopic corporatocracy sounds pretty damn horrible to me.
>Why should food be so hard? That it's considered an extraordinary feat to cook a wonderful dinner? Why should it be on par with painting a painting or writing a book?

Painting a bad painting is trivial, as is writing a terrible book. (well, writing a few pages of a terrible book is trivial. writing a terrible 500 page novel still takes some stick-with-it, or at least a lot of cutting and pasting.) And cooking a not very good meal is pretty easy, too; Certainly no harder than churning out a few pages of bad fan-fiction.

Doing those things well is more difficult. And being truly great is difficult indeed.

In fact, I think music is a pretty good analogy here. It used to be that a lot more people participated in the making of music; singing was a pretty normal thing for normal people to do while working or even while making war. That just doesn't happen anymore; You could say that it is sad that the average man or woman can't sing at all, but on the other hand, we all have access to the very best musicians of our time.
I've had a bad experience with Unity, it would be too big of a switch. I doubt it would work on xp machines anyway.
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While this is true (a referendum is relatively easy to trigger) it's still rarely used indiscriminately.

Even though only 50'000 signatures are required to call for a referendum and potentially kill a law, significant resources are required during the referendum phase.

Referendums are usually carried by political parties (at least partially) and there's only so much money and man power they can pour into it.

There is a positive side effect in referendums in that it usually prevents extreme laws from being made by parliament. It also forces the parliament to compromise on a lot of issues, before a law is enacted.

You can argue that compromising is a bad thing. But don't forget that it's a big part of how Swiss politics happen. It's not a winner-takes-all system.
Not only that, why should bitcoin be enshrined as the only special crypto-currency worthy of recognition?

Not until we know who Satoshi Nakamoto is. Until then, bitcoin is just another internet clusterfuck.

Don't tell me it's not relevant who he/she is. It is relevant. It's a clear demonstration of our own incompetence. Without that information in hand, we're nothing more than rats following a pied piper.
Once-upon-a-time, Enlightenment was the cool future...

What I remember though (from E16 and E17 snapshots), is that although the screen shots all looked really incredible, nothing ever looked that way for me when I ran it... I'd always get text not fitting in its bounding-box and getting clipped, widget graphics misaligned and often very strangely sized, text displayed as little boxes instead of characters, funny pixelization, etc.

I suppose it just never got the polish it needed... but that does make a difference.
Obama is a politician: someone who says anything to get elected and once elected does what he wants instead of what he said he would do. A politician tries to amass power. Information is power. There is NO way the government would give up that power. Don't expect him to do anything nor should you expect most politicians nor the next administration.
Wow, sad. More than a decade ago Clanbase was all the rage. Their Eurocup tournaments were among the biggest and most prestigious in Quake3 and i loved to watch the big teams fighting for the crown each time.
In 2002 i even went from Germany to the Quake Pub in Rotterdam to watch the Eurocup 3 Finals live. A few years later their best times were over though and the gaming community was different, they have been on a decline ever since.

Good times...sad to see them go :/
You need to think about what you are doing, and why you are doing it. I had a similar experience a few years ago; walked away and never regretted my decision (I have 2 kids).

(I blogged about it here: http://tojans.me/blog/2013/03/30/freedom-learning-stuff-doin...)
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I am assuming in the very far future even if you die of an accident/gun shot etc they should be able to resurrect you as-is, like you are with all your memory. It will be like you fell asleep and just woke up!

If anything, I vote for the simulated reality thing. Its like once you are dead, they should be able to take your brain out and connect it to a simulated paradise which would run forever.
My impression is that HN's link and comment data is too valuable for pg to give away.

Certainly, if I have had access to it I know I could do some pretty useful sociology on HN's audience (= the pool of startup hire material).
Among other things, a commitment to "live forever" is a statement about acceptable risk tolerance. Ever wanted to climb mountains? Take up skydiving? Drink too much sometimes? Eat foods that are bad for you? If your goal really is to live forever, the risk profile of doing anything that doesn't minimize the expected value of the long-term risk to your person is probably unacceptable.

You personally might rather live a vastly extended span than spend the time you do have skydiving, parasailing, climbing mountains, and doing whatever it is that allows you to enjoy your life to its fullest for however long you have. But that's a real, legitimate choice, and choosing to take risks and experience everything you can is a perfectly valid choice -- even if there's a very real risk that something will go wrong at some point and you will indeed "die screaming."
Seems like the only ones who built a really sustainable business out of it is Turtle Entertainment (ESL). The Intel Extreme Masters stuff is huge!
Also key is the phrase "with the intention".
Except Apple make money on the hardware, Google on the services, and Microsoft would be shooting itself in the foot by cutting off its main revenue source, not to mention the bad press it would generate if Windows 8 failed to run sufficiently well on some of those (understandably) outdated machines.
I presume you are aware of the old adage that every time you see a statement of the form "I'm not X, but Y", you can save yourself time by just ignoring everything before the "but"...
Seriously! That's why all those Swiss people have American bank accounts!
The majority of people in wheelchairs couldn't care less that COW is named the way it is. Even IF one were to find someone that complains about the name, it is a single person that has chosen the lifestyle of consistently finding offensive with _everything_ anyways.

Your complaint is not unlike the PC people that forbid X, Y and censor Z "just in case" some minority could be offended. The minorities themselves never care.

Anyways, I leave it to you to get off your high horse and join us in the real world, were there are far greater problems than the name of a joke web framework.
China once blocked "freebsd.org" because there's a "free" keyword in it.
Capital gains are generally tax free in Switzerland: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax#Switzerland
I have a ScraPy-based crawler project available at http://github.com/mvanveen/hncrawl
The 3 branches of government were for settling disputes between those in power, not for those without power.... without all out war. If you look at history, look at the division of new states into equal portions of slave and non slave prior to the Civil War. Balance of power between Northern trading/industrial interests and Southern plantation ones. In this case, the countervailing power are businesses that cannot sell overseas because of this. So if anything changes, focus on external software versus domestic where they already have you over a barrel.
Add to that the fact that the hackable magnetic strip is totally history here, and in the vast majority of transactions, both physical and online, the merchant doesn't get any relevant data.

I'm sure someone at some point will hack the chip, but right now you can safely lose your physical debit card, and you don't have to worry about leaks and hacks at merchants.

Credit cards with their totally outdated zero authentication methods and that allow the merchant to store all the data necessary to use the account without even physically having that card are the ones that are completely unsafe.

It's ridiculous that this system is still in use. Using credit cards instead of debit cards is really, really bad advice for anybody outside the US.
Wouldn't memory layout on the stack be the same for a tuple vs a sequence of arguments?
"We have not added backdoors requested by any entity for the sole use of that entity to compromise our products," is how I read that.

Not necessarily a backdoor that is "open to anyone," so much as a backdoor that is intended to be used be any specific person/group/organization.
Me too, that is the point.

I found the moment I think things went wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P_vXi16F20#t=19453

Around 5:21.
Ask HN: What programming language will you learn in 2014?
After a long research I decided to learn Haskell. It is very unlikely that I will ever be paid to use it, but I am pretty sure that after more than 10 years experience in programming, Haskell will greatly benefit my programming skills and thinking.
I don't know Clojure, too much time in the MS ecosystem, I don't even have a JVM installed anymore. (I got tired of the constant security holes and updates that try to bundled software.)
Sigh. Yet another useful word that's been thoroughly misappropriated. ('Gay' is my other huge annoyance.)

L. intercursus, a running between - inter, between, cursum, to run.

An equivalent word is intercurrent. Same etymology, without the modern connotation.
> why should bitcoin be enshrined as the only special crypto-currency worthy of recognition?

I agree, but the reason you state has nothing to do with it. Who the fuck cares who Satoshi is? Why does it matter, given that the protocol operates independently from its original author and research can be done on it without his/her permission? Finally, who is this we you keep talking about?
Curing cellular aging would not, as far as I know, have any effect on cancer. Whether it would have any effect on other problems like decreasing bone density, I'm not sure. So even if you sweep one cause of death completely off the table, it stands to reason that whatever you would have died from next will still be around to do the job until it, too, is cured.

Much like when you add more of the limiting reagent to a chemical reaction, it just means that some other reagent will now be the limiting reagent.
There's no real reason for Samsung's success, though, other than lucky timing, some good pricing, and more recently, name recognition. Samsung makes decent phones but they're not particularly better than anybody else, and there are tons of other good Android phone manufacturers; Samsung could very easily be supplanted.

Moreover, Samsung has never been great at software. If they take over the bulk of their OS development, that may not bode well for the quality of the result.

If Samsung decides to strike out on their own without the support of the Android ecosystem, they could be in for a very rude awakening...
I agree. The best response to this nonsense would have been to not respond.
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A great read about the possibility of finding redemption in literature; I wish we saw more stuff with this depth on HN.

The opening of “The Odyssey” describes Odysseus as polytropos, a man “much turned” and “much turning.” He makes much happen, and much happens to him. When I selected “The Odyssey” as the first text for my English 101 course at San Quentin Prison, I worried about the choice. It’s a difficult work for readers of limited literary background, and I wondered how a population of mostly black and brown men doing long prison terms would relate to the story of an ancient Greek king. As it turned out, I had them at polytropos.
Why you should attend a Startup Weekend.
Not a full featured api, but a way to scrape all of HN:
http://jcla1.com/blog/2013/05/13/crawling-hackernews/

Disclaimer: It's my own blog

edit: Uses HNSearch, so it doesn't violate the robots.txt and can be crawled faster
The URL is xkcd.com/test, this is an undocumented URL.
The original strip URL is xkcd.com/1305.

From digging in the js I think that this has something to do with ab-testing for xkcd store.
Are you kidding me, I can RENT access to this paper for only 40 hours?

This research is conducted with public funding!

Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy. Grant Number: DE-AC02–05CH11231

AFOSR. Grant Number: 9550-13-1-0136

The current research publication situation is completely ridiculous, and I'm not sure how it can be fixed.
The sounds are actually extracted from footage showing this kind of equipment at work. The tape drive operations are controlled by random (based on what assumptions on the index and block locations should we do this?), but should usually feature some pauses and stops. The action of the tape tensioners is highly exaggerated in order to provide a substitute for the vacuum columns that can't be shown in this layout (providing a bit of a visual explanation for the asynchronous action of the reels).

Please understand that this is not meant to be a full emulation (like, say, Hercules compiled via Emscripten). Otherwise you would have to re-implement Google on top of zOS ... ;-)
Much respect for both Antirez and Aphyr.

I keep thinking Antirez is being forced into these problems by community pressure, though. There seems to be a lot of effort going into trying to make Redis some kind of super-featured distributed mothership of a database when we already know that it's not going to be possible.

Antirez and the community have put in an incredible amount of effort to create a datastore that is exceedingly good at what it does, probably best-in-class. To start asking for a distributed system with more guarantees than it was fundamentally designed for is unreasonable. The WAIT command, like every other command in Redis, was written to serve one purpose and do it well in bounded time. I expect that purpose was chosen keeping in mind what was possible without completely demolishing the current Redis architecture. If we can build a reliably distributed system using it, that's fine, but I don't think we ought to be demanding it this way.
Well, they are things to try. I actually haven't tried a steam bag /or/ DiGiorno for some time now. I've been doing the 'cook a weeks worth of food in the crock pot and freeze it' thing. It just seems so weird to me that a terrible cook like myself can make /frozen food/ that turns out better than the experts.
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Are the magic methods API frozen?
I was a bit miffed by that as well. I am going to check with my local library and see if I can get access. Many of the more popular ones are available for "digital checkout". The next stop will be a local university!
All it would take is something like the Morris worm.
It doesn't make sense. It's set up that way for historical reasons, and because the folk in charge have always really prioritised 1) over 2), and hence have had no motivation to suggest a better alternative.

While a separate organisation might be best, even a division within NSA etc. explicitly tasked with protection rather than intelligence gathering would be preferable to the status quo, so long as its head could be publically known. In the end it comes down to there being no individual with that responsibility. You need someone who is visible in that role, whose mission is purely to protect, overseeing a staff whose mission is purely to protect.

What am I missing?
Well they are either stupid and shouldn't be trusted with security matters or they are lying sacks of shit.

Yes technically NSA probably didn't tell them at the time what the weakness is but getting $10M under the table to change a default and not asking questions is either incredible stupidity for why that might be, or they are are just lying, they figure out why that might be and did it anyway. (Yes they probably never put it in writing in any of the internal memos or emails).

Either way they lost credibility and shouldn't be trusted with security matters. Hope that $10M was worth it.
That's a nice way to get at least a few upvotes for them, since I doubt you'll get just one taker.
You have a point but you are still missing the bigger picture. I'll point out certain arguments that may help you understand my reasoning:

1. if you offer an existing web service for users logins and account management, a native mobile app is probably going to be a much better investment, as it will provide tremendous performance benefits over using the mobile web.

2. If personal data is being collected, it can often be done so more securely in a native app than on a responsive site.

3. You are going to be missing out on the hardware features of the platform like accelerometer on an iPhone.

4. Always a better network connection.

I hope you understand my point of view by now and very frankly in the near future native apps are going to dominate the market even more rapidly.
Yeah, and hence moral education(which imparts critical thinking and rational moral values) of next generation seems like the most important task to me. Why too much money and power are not the most important things in this world and showing them examples of how they can corrupt you. Learning, sharing and making the world a 'better' place is what should motivate next generation and we urgently need to find a way to bring about that motivation. Right now most of the behavior revolves around what was selected by natural selection and we need to find a way to overcome that(atleast see if it can be overcome).
Alternative to Sparrow?
Development on Sparrow stopped after Google bought it. What alternatives are out there that support multiple accounts and push notifications? I like mailbox, but it only supports gmail. And it doesn't have a quick action bar like Sparrow.
cough bullshit!
I don't believe that HN restricts or discourages the scraping of HN content in any way... Other than the restrictions here: https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt

If you have a fabulous idea for how to use the data contained on this site, I'm sure everyone will be impressed and interested to see it.
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How do I get the Mail app...
...to only give me notifications during a specific time period? Can I use iOS's do-not-disturb mode for a specific app without applying it to the whole system?
It's hard to troll #haskell
Interesting that you noticed that only now :D. I like Airmail, it's similar to Sparrow and has great multiple account support. Also the GUI is very nice.
The doublespeak is desperate and only undermines their credibility. Obviously they are in a proverbial 'between a rock and a hard place'.

Anyone who bothers to read this carefully and knows the backstory about the general understanding that the DRBG was weak realizes that there is no way RSA could have not known it was compromised and they have pretty much completely confirmed the reports.

In truth, I'm not sure what is worse: that they did or didn't know what they were doing.