skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 0 A.D., entities (units and buildings and other world
objects) consist of a collection of components, each
of which determines part of the entity's behaviour.
Entity template XML files specify the list of components
that are loaded for each entity type, plus initialization
data for the components.

-- http://svn.wildfiregames.com/public/ps/trunk/source/tools/en...

Have a look at the source code: http://svn.wildfiregames.com/public/ps/trunk/source/simulati... and other code there: http://svn.wildfiregames.com/public/ps/trunk/source/simulati... and there: http://svn.wildfiregames.com/public/ps/trunk/source/simulati...

(I used Google to find the related code)
Remove the DRM from your ebooks; convert to an open format like epub; read it with open source software on anything you like without tracking.

If you don't do this, acknowledge that you are renting a reading experience -- and pay what that's worth to you, as opposed to the price of owning a copy of a book.
He probably should have been fired due to his abrasive attitude, but he allegedly did good work, and so they created a night shift just for him.

I wasn't implying that success at one job has anything to do with success at another, I was just curious what one would do at Atari that isn't coding, yet is so appreciated that the company would go to great lengths to keep from firing him.
Yes, those horrible arms dealers, so morally bankrupt as to sully the noble and honourable tradition of killing for oligarchs with that of common trade.

Who would want money when you could have your name read at a Cenotaph?
I've said it a couple of times. Google (with others like Facebook, Apple) is so big, its essentially infrastructure, and needs to be regulated.

That's been obvious for the better part of a decade now. People will scream bloody murder, and not without good cause, but it's either going to happen, or there's no point in even pretending to regulate public utility monopolies.
They advertised.

Smaller companies seem to be replacing the "advertising dept." with "our rank on Google dept.", in which case it's not exactly Google's fault they are dependent on Google, any more than when a Craigslist scraper is dependent on Craigslist.
It was first published in 2005 according to the URL and comment permalinks.
Pet peeve: saying "you can just" and then describing something completely esoteric.
Look at the URL. Blogspot allows you to retroactively change the date, but the URL stays the same. Obviously one might wonder why he changed the date.
> The point is that Google sets the rules for the internet based on what makes their algorithm work...

Google sets their own rules for their own product. They don't run the Internet.

These RapGenius guys consciously decided to try to game Google and lost. Boo hoo. Can't win every game you play.
References all the way to 1998 can be found over the internet these days..
We thought about that, and it would be pretty misleading. If they did find out data that way, they should really tell people how inaccurate it can be.
I'm glad early access games are encouraged. I enjoy them. However I feel like they run the risk of having potential fans becoming bored relatively early in development and not staying hooked till release. Prison Architect was hit with that for me, I played it none of the updates since have added enough to keep me interested and testing.

Thank you for itch, it's a great service and I hope I can use it in the future.
I contributed to the RREF implementation when I was in high school on here for PHP.
Pardon me for being a bit pedantic here but not all bio fuels require farmland.

Bacterial based processes (generally e.coli) work in digestor/reactors), algae based fuels simply need access to sunlight (can be grown in tubes attached to the side of buildings). Further some starter crops can use land that is not deemed arable by farming standards.
"The company has deals to plant 250,000 acres of jatropha in Brazil, India and other countries expected to eventually produce about 70 million gallons of fuel a year."

This does not sound promising. Scaled linearly to the current level of oil production, this would cover more land area than Brazil and India put together.

(Current production is 90 million oil barrels/day [0] or 1.4 trillion gallons/year. If this biofuel yields 70 million gallons/year out of 250,000 acres, that's 280 gallons/year / acre; dividing out that's about 5 billion acres, or 18 million km^2. Brazil and India put together are 12 million km^2 [1]).

Perspective on the 280 gallons/acre figure [2]:

"Estimates of Jatropha seed yield vary widely, due to a lack of research data, the genetic diversity of the crop, the range of environments in which it is grown, and Jatropha's perennial life cycle. Seed yields under cultivation can range from 1,500 to 2,000 kilograms per hectare, corresponding to extractable oil yields of 540 to 680 litres per hectare (58 to 73 US gallons per acre).[17] Time magazine recently cited the potential for as much as 1,600 gallons of diesel fuel per acre per year.[18] The plant may yield more than four times as much fuel per hectare as soybean, and more than ten times that of maize (corn)."

Also: [3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatropha_curcas#Biofuel

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel#Yield
My feeling on what's going to happen here is a shortening of the time in "as time goes on." As in, as soon as RapGenius shows Google they've cleaned up, Google will poke GoogleBot to jump RapGenius's queue-position in PageRank re-calculation.
This is one of the greater reasons why so many are convinced that Nick Szabo is in fact Satoshi Nakamoto.

I'm personally undecided/don't have an opinion yet, one things for sure Nick Szabo must be bummed if he is not Satoshi Nakamoto.
I like how the initials are inverted. Cute.
Also, of course knowing the functional paradigm helps you write code in all languages but why subject yourself to that level of pain? I'd prefer to let the compiler do the compiling and so I choose an expressive language to begin with.
>After identifying all the links which are causing the penalty, they should create a Gmail to outreach to all of the sites to remove the links.

Just slightly curious about this, because I receive these 'link removal' emails all the time for a site I run and have never acted upon them (our comments pages are indexed by google but not linked publicly after we switched to Facebook comments). Is there any reason a website owner should act and remove the links? Surely it's not my/our problem?
Financial services companies have legal obligations to cntroll the ways their information is managed. Even in other industries there are some kinds if information for which legal restrictions and responsibilities apply to their storage and dissemination.
I personally like the theory that Satoshi is Nick Szabo and Hal Finney, with maybe one other. Nick Szabo was way ahead of the curve on the design of a proof-of-work based cryptocurrency. When Dan Kaminsky looked at the Bitcoin source early on, he reported that "entire classes of bugs are missing" [1] and that it was almost "preternaturally sound" [2] and Hal Finney is one of the the few people realistically capable of producing that kind of code. Hal Finney was the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction, and was active on the mailing list that Bitcoin was announced through. Further, a few months before the Bitcoin paper announcement, Nick Szabo put out a request for collaborators to try and prototype out the proof-of-work currency system he'd been thinking about [3], and he and Hal Finney were known to get in touch around that time.

I hope the identity of Satoshi is never confirmed. If it's them, good for them! If not, it doesn't matter!

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34458.0

[2] http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/05/lets-cut-through-the-bi...

[3] http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2008/04/bit-gold-markets.ht...
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> They're not in a position to "negotiate" with Google, and Google doesn't "negotiate."

I would get pretty frustrated and angry in that situation, and given that Rapgenius' founders seem to be pretty immature, they are probably extremely angry. So...

I wonder if there is a "nuclear option" for Rapgenius they can threaten Google with. What could they do that would create so much damage that it would force Google to move (possibly at expense of Rapgenius' business)?

Throw their entire capital into a probably fruitless lawsuit? Create fake sites and spend all the money on SEO, then litter Google's search results (but not Bing's) with obscenities? Hire old fashioned thugs to clean up the Googleplex? Get together with other disgruntled people and start a dirt campaign?

(I guess I have an unhealthy fascination for evil (rap-)genius schemes...)
Steam, PSN and Nintendo eShop are down
I disagree a bit on houses not increasing happiness. I enjoy owning my house much better than renting.
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Great work! Now the question is how to find a way to do this sustain-ably (:
The Ministry of Magic official site
This is probably one of the most helpful UI resources I have ever stumbled upon across the Internet: https://hackdesign.org/

They go through design from the basics to how you could apply it to websites, mobile devices, etc. I still find myself returning and perusing through the chapters.
Okay, so you could tag your release in the repo and then add the result of `make distcheck` to the release afterwards, without having to check in things like configure scripts? That's not too bad.
I'm confused and concerned by Google's policy. I make a product. If I send out product to blogger with a review request (which would, of course, include a link to my site), am I running afoul of the guidelines? I don't even care that much about the Google juice as I do the coverage.
Yes, internal links can be extremely valuable especially in narrowly relevant niches like SO.
Not going into all the regulation talk (partly because don't believe that Google needs regulation as another search engine is just an address bar/couple of clicks away) but with regards to:

"One is to force Google to make their rankings more transparent."

Google does not care about SEO; they care about bad SEO. You can see this from their Webmaster Help Videos[1] to saying how they 'serve' the results[2] to explaining how their search engine works[3].

It also becomes more apparent within their Webmaster Guidelines[4] that, they do not like bad SEO.

You can easily use all of that knowledge to figure it out.

"Google could have offer a kind of appeals process if a manual penalty is applied"

They do. It's called a reconsideration request[5]

"The EU could put a special tax on the market leader, which would fund a subsidy for promising competitors. (Google's European office is currently registered in a low tax haven in Ireland.)"

That would actually discourage anyone from making a decent product. Why? Well if you make a good one people will use it, you will become market leader and you will receive a special tax.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/GoogleWebmasterHelp

[2] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/70897?hl=en#3

[3] https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/insidesearch/howsearchwork...

[4] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en

[5] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35843?hl=en
I found myself amusingly insulted by seeing ß called a "German esset", which should at the very least be "Eszett".
Could you provide an example that is even more unrelated? This one is still about writing...

(Seriously though, this is something absolutely different)
Why even use two magnets instead of one magnet (optionally in a magnet cup to increase the attractive strength) and a steel plate?
It wasn't brand search terms that they where monetizing - they where obviously targeting general rap related terms by doing some very dark hat SEO
>I used to pay high prices to eat lunch at IBM Cafeterias, and it was terrible food. But this infantilized me less?

Well, obviously yes. At least you knew you were in a employee -employer relation, not a "nice person giving you nice food" relation.
/me crosses fingers
Can I ask why Justin Bieber in all the examples? Was this site somehow bieber-focused or bieber-promoted? I've never heard of it before this actually.

edit: Followed links to past stories and got my answer here http://jmarbach.com/rapgenius-growth-hack-exposed
Do you mind expanding on it a bit? Is it the volatility of oil prices or lower margins in aviation fuel compared to specialty lubricants?
> Whilst this may be surprising to some people on HN, this happens all of the time to sites who build links in an unnatural way.

What (if anything) happened between Google and Reddit, by the way? I remember Google results being stuffed with basically identical versions of the same Reddit comments pages (due to Reddit's language-localisation scheme: it.reddit.com , pl.reddit.com and so on), and then big chunks of Reddit (in all language versions) apparently becoming invisible in those Google results.
Different DB drivers and connection pool setups for example.

Taken to extremes I've also used Spring to configure a rudimentary ETL framework for example, where the entire pipeline could be (re-)configured post release.
Can't every version in Github be downloaded as a zip or zipball?

https://help.github.com/articles/downloading-files-from-the-...
No, but I guess e.g. physics.stackexchange.com or judaism.stackexchange.com benefits a lot from the SE internal links, and I guess for those smaller sites it is the main source of page rank.

That is, if page rank still works like Google claims. I'm pretty convinced that there is a lot of manual curation going on. At least for popular terms and for the first page of results.
Look at Googles multi class share structure and ask that Q again.
Before the search that we know of today, there were directories (see http://dmoz.org for example) where you submitted your site. Originally it was a list, then a hierarchal list, then there so many entries they let you search their database, then they crawl the web to find other sites, then they search the _content_ of other sites, so you can see how it evolved.

Web rings and pages of links to other sites were also common, basically what RG did, but more reciprocal.
There are other efforts to create structural editing:
* JetBrains MPS : http://www.jetbrains.com/mps/
* The project I currently work on at JetBrains jetpad-projectional. https://github.com/JetBrains/jetpad-projectional It allows you to have structural editing on the web with the help of GWT.
Thanks for the honest answer - I look forward to watching you over the next few months and seeing how things take off. I guess you're working towards the critical mass required to make this viable, so it'll be quite intriguing to observe your progress!

Are you going to pimp/promote/campaign/whatever a bit more with the Ludum Dare and 24-hour game jams that go on around the scene? I'm guessing you already know of these avenues for promoting your site .. well I for one will be encouraging my fellow game-makers to consider itch.io as an option for distributing their indie work ..

Thanks again, and keep it up! You've got a fan here!
>Is that not against Google's goal of giving the searcher what (s)he wants?

definitely. That should tell you just how pissed off Google is - they are willing to go so far as to give their users an inferior search experience just to punish RapGenius. This isn't about being fair or getting even, this is about setting an example. If they have to give a few people inferior searches for a while, i guess they feel that's a worthy compromise in order to discourage this kind of SEO tactics in the future.
Google does not care about SEO; they care about bad SEO.

They should care about delivering the best quality search results to their users, and nothing else. As a user, I don't give a crap about SEO or link farming ethics or anything else. That stuff is Google's problem. By penalizing what is (reportedly) the best lyrics site, Google has made their problem my problem.

A fair page ranking system would be entirely transparent, rigidly enforced, and not "punitive." Should they delist RapGenius for breaking the rules? Sure, if the rules themselves provide for that outcome. But the second the infraction is corrected, the penalty should end, and the site should be restored to its proper rank.

Google is not a government agency. The more they act like one, the more people will treat them like one. Believe me, they aren't going to like where that road goes.
Do you seriously equate armored car guards with tree spikers? I can't imagine you mean your comment to be taken at face value, but I also can't imagine any other meaning with which you might have loaded it.
The relationship between Szabo and Finney goes back way further than that. They were both on the cypherpunks list in the 90's. See this paranoid rant [0] from the 90's about Hal Finney, Szabo and others being fake personas invented by Tim May (author of the Cyphernomicon).

Additionally, Szabo was an employee of Agoric Systems, publisher of the Agoric Papers [1], a treatise on market based systems. He was also an employee of Digicash [2], a failed electronic money startup created by David Chaum.

However, Szabo has released a bit of code [3], which is very different than code I would expect Satoshi Nakamoto to have written.

That said, for someone who was a professor at GWU law school, there is a remarkably small amount of public information about Nick Szabo.

[0] - http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Folklore/Humor/squish.hoax

[1] - http://e-drexler.com/d/09/00/AgoricsPapers/agoricpapers.html

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash

[3] - https://github.com/nicksz/jTime
The filters aren't optional.

Setting them to "on" or "off" is currently optional, but the traffic of everyone in the country will soon pass through these filtering machines.
As I understand it, currently it's only the major UK ISPs offering this filtering, and they're doing so only as a result of political pressure rather than primary legislation. The big guys like BT, Sky, Virgin, etc, are just too scared of a bit of bad press or being called out by a politician, hence their craven (but voluntary) adoption of these suggestions.

There are plenty of smaller ISPs around and few of them are remotely interested in joining the filter party. There's no reason for them to do so if they don't wish to. At least currently. There's nothing to say that at some point in the future a new "crackdown" won't be announced by a politician looking for an easy headline and their face in the papers.

Thin end of the wedge, obviously - but currently these filters are entirely optional, both for ISPs and end-users.
Google is neither a public utility, nor a monopoly. You can always use one of dozens of other search engines. In fact, if you felt that Google was so bad, you can simply suggest others do so as well. Why does the government need to get in there and make Google the exact search engine you want, rather than the search engine that, clearly, the bulk of their customers want?
Yeah, I just tried to access Steam, and it does not connect. I believe it is due to the huge influx of people trying to get free copies of Left for Dead 2.
lower margins sums it up, the entire premise of the company depends either on subsidies or being bought out by the chinese.

throwaway_yyD1 above has a better analysis.
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I understand that Google is its own legal fiction. I don't see any inherent human rights issues in turning one piece of paper into two.

I think there could be some questions as to whether Google is engaging in anti-competitive behaviour in the way they use search revenues to undercut other competitors. Perhaps they are doing nothing wrong, perhaps they are doing something wrong, and perhaps an effective remedy to that is to split the company.
> Hire old fashioned thugs to clean up the Googleplex?

Clearly they should join forces with those anti-gentrification protesters that keep smashing the Google bus windows.
Right on. I am 100% with you and you definitely do not sound like a rebellious teen.

I had a very similar year to yours regarding personal reflection and I think ending your's off this way gives so much more meaning moving forward. It's not a perfect choice because there are some good things about Christmas to enjoy, but there are compromises either way you go.

Wish you all the best for the New Year.
But I don't get why they didn't block Google Code in the first place, given it is part of Google. Google Drive or Skydrive is probably the best alternative, depending on the corporate environment.
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I'm not making the case for regulation. I'm just saying that it will be made, and when it is, it will be hard to argue against because of actions like this one.

You can always use one of dozens of other search engines.

That won't help Google any more than it helped Microsoft.
Much the same: imprisonment for the attempt, execution for the success. I suspect you will take this response as cause for horror at my unthinkable whatever-you-call-it in equating the gravity of a tree spiker's crime with rape and murder. If so, then you will be no less amazed than am I at the idea that the crimes of such saboteurs are of any less gravity than those of anyone else who, lest the nature of tree spiking be forgotten, sets out to maim or murder, or -- hardly less grave, or more permissible -- to use the threat of such mayhem, occurring at random, to enforce their will.
I hadn't noticed your poll, or your criticism. But I've gone and looked now, and, quite frankly, I'm shocked.

I'm shocked that so many people on a site called Hacker News haven't explored, experimented, and generally poked and pried. I'm amazed that so many people just assumed the "New" meant "Make a new post", and that "Ask" meant "Ask a question", and didn't actually try them out!

Do you really need every little detail spelled out for you? You claim your criticism was genuine - in return, this is a genuine question!

Did you really not explore?
>The current government believes that the free market will resolve these problems.

Except the housing market in the UK is anything but a free market. Help to Buy, Tax breaks for Buy To Let, a bubble that should have collapsed back in 2007, but instead the government seems to be trying to do everything to keep it inflated. The majority of home owners in the UK could not afford to buy their home at current prices. Especially in the south east.
I find this line of argument fascinating.

To take a parallel argument, we appear to be living at a time of mass reduction in violence and crime. Yet violent video games are everywhere.

I like to think I'm in favour of evidence-based policy. What evidence do you have for believing that pornography is a destructive force in modern society?

When I look, I tend to find things like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President's_Commission_on_Obsc...

> On balance the report found that obscenity and pornography were not important social problems, that there was no evidence that exposure to such material was harmful to individuals, and that current legal and policy initiatives were more likely to create problems than solve them.
Why not just take a random sample of 5000 users and look at their snaps to determine if they're male or female? You won't be exact but you'll know if it's 70% women instead of 50%.