skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yea the upwards pricing model has this strange assumption that indie games will get a cult following, whereas in reality there are not a ton that have much replay value.

i consider Fez to be one of the better indie games I've encountered. it cost a few bucks, probly wouldnt have bought it if it were more. after playing for a while i thought it was aesthetically pleasing but after realizing the task of the game & how id have to decipher these things it kindof seemed like the conclusion was already mentally within reach & playing it out would be sortof laborious.

the reason high price tags fit high-budget games is they make the missions nuanced enough that even if the game is a flop there is enough variation to keep you entertained, as a lot of manpower went into the features of the engine

i like the concept of indie games but i'm too skeptical to get one with a high price tag only to find that its focused around 1-2 core tasks and therefore barely worth the value whereas full-featured studio games have probably already dropped to the same price or below. prices are relative, its a competitive market

i'm all for ingenuity & creativity but any realist will note that lots of indie games are lacking in this as well
How Prerna Gupta Got Millions of People to Download Her App
Also worth mentioning, Maven manages dependencies but it's primarily a build system.

Gradle is another build system with dependency management.

The initial setup of publishing an artifact is high on Maven Central, but Sonatype makes it easier. Even easier is publishing to clojars.
More dots means the author has deeper understanding in npm and thus found more to write about it.
Does anyone have a solution for using F.lux + Shades?

http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/shades

If I run them simultaneously my monitor flashes yellow-and-normal.
Yeah, I used it for a year but could never get a configuration that agreed with me.
Best and Worst Case Scenarios for Four 3D Printers.
Lots of people seem to be moving over to Gradle now? I don't suppose anyone can provide an opinion on Gradle vs. Maven?

Personally I've always found Maven to be a pain, but a necessary evil for larger projects / teams. I've tried using it for smaller personal projects and the benefit wasn't worth the time invested.

I'd rather not invest more time learning Ivy / Gradle / anything else until someone can convince me it's not the same old crap under a different label...
Curious, how feasible would it be to simply call into existing C/C++ libraries from python instead of writing it in pure python?
If you look at the history of music as a whole, rock is not ill defined. It's a pop music movement from the last 60 years, with a lot of similar characteristics. Of course, it sells itself as a myriad of subgenres, because part of it's idea as a musical movement and as a commercial product is to be very specifically tailored to it's target audience, but "Asking for Rock is only slightly better than 'Play me some songs that are music.'" it's not true, from 'Play me something done in the last 2200 years from anywhere on earth' to 'Play something done from 1960 to 2013 that identifies itself as some subgenre of the Rock family' there is an enormous difference.
You make it sound like "papering over issues in backward OSes" is a bad thing. The fact is, those "backward OSes" have a HUGE user base, no matter how much you may judge them for being inferior. There is clearly demand for a tool that:

1. Allows developers to distribute their stuff to users on those OSes.
2. Requires the least amount of effort as possible on part of the developer.
3. Does not require the developer to custom-package their stuff multiple times, once for each OS.

Face it, developers are lazy (not meant in a derogatory way). Most solutions do not meet requirements 2 and 3, which is why developers will largely choose to avoid them until they have no choice.

And also, what matthewmacleod said in this thread is very true.
I'm conflicted... my eyes give me a ton of issues and this is tempting, but I also do a lot of front end work and visual design. I don't want everything I design at night to turn out blue because my screen was orange when I made it. I think for now I'll stick with my computer glasses, they've helped a ton.
> They increased the price of this domains from $28 to $140 without sending any notice. The domain was configured for auto-renewing, and I just got charged for $140.

That is most definitely a violation of their merchant agreement. Probably some consumer protection laws too.
And Gradle http://www.gradle.org/
As Bitcoin expands its adoption this will become less of an issue.
As I understand it, pip == PyPI.

When you type 'pip install package_name', pip connects to PyPI to retrieve package_name.
From your second link: "Please note that for security reasons I have chosen to only allow Encoding via the scripting interface."

It also seems a little odd that it's doing XOR with the sum of all previous characters if there is no attempt to obfuscate.
Rap Genius Explains Why Worse is Better
Python has wheel, which is a binary package format that pip supports. It is something I've been looking into for deploying Python packages in production.

Edit: Link to PEP for Wheel: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/
Your analysis does not take into account the 2000 election.
Property theft is theft.

Intention doesn't come into theft. "I stole his car but only for a day" doesn't change the fact that a crime was committed; neither does it for houses or offices.
C with no doubt possible.
All you should know about unicode - No Excuse
A much better title to this article would be "Comparing Programming Language Package Managers".
As a Linux user who hasn't dabbled in the BSDs for a long time, I can't but agree about having them around. My first reaction to this headline was to find a donate link, and I don't even have anything running OpenBSD, here or at work. I'm not sure uniting would be a good idea, however; having separate projects focused on separate needs seems to be a good thing to me.
Nice! I had been wondering if this project was still alive. I hope they're successful; it sounds kinda like a long shot though.
It's configurable to make it less extreme. Did you try that? If you go 'to the max' on first use then it will definitely seem extreme.
I love the confidence of F.lux's domain name. "JustGetFlux.com" -- it's like: "why is this even a question?" Judging from most of these comments, I'd say we're all in agreement.

I definitely make a habit of telling everyone I know, especially when I happen to be looking at their screen at night.
Macworld reviews Nate Kontny's Draft App
Has anyone tried doing something like npm for C?

Or would we consider apt-install <whatever>-dev to be that?
How to be Ultra Productive
Sky-High “Vertical Forest” Takes Green Living to New Heights
I was all prepared to be cynical about this, but their big genre diagram both included our household's favorite obscure genre ("nl folk", ie Newfoundland folk) and started off playing a track which was clearly in the genre but not in our very extensive collection. Cudos to them!
Maybe I was not clear enough on that point. Of course Lein is using a Maven Repository as backend. But the official Clojure Repository is not search.maven.org it is https://clojars.org. And there is no Mirror of clojars.org. Of course it's possible to mirror it, because it's a Maven Repo. But currently nobody is doing that.
I'm well aware. He wasn't compensated with stock, options, or any other sort of payment. After 2003 Apple gave him nothing besides travel expenses.
That sounds like a fair and lively scientific discussion to have. It's a shame that won't happen.
Yes- I always point to f.lux as an example of little feature that every single graphical operating system could benefit from having, and yet that no OS creator includes as a feature. More than that- I want an entire OS that has dark on light windows/text/widgets/etc. during the day, and light on dark at night - this would be configurable, but by default automagically determined by your geographical location. On OSX, one can hack such a setup using an app like Nocturne, but it's clunky.

At every new Windows, OSX, iOS, Android release we get new features (some debatably useful - i.e. notification center in OSX, or integration with the new social network of the day) - but some key stuff that would make human-computer interaction noticeably better is just missing.

A few other things that I can't believe are still not standard in a 2014 OS: better copy and paste (the damn thing has been clunky for 30 years, see Ted Nelson's rant), better window management, better support for interacting across multiple nearby computers (Airdrop is a tiny step in that direction), ...
The tagline for such a payment system should be "Let's not have another heartfelt message from Jimmy Wales".
> Usually GEMs are not cryptographically signed! This can lead to security issues! It is possible to sign GEMs, but it’s not mandatory and most developers don’t sign their GEMs.

Unfortunately, Nobody Cares About Signed Gems: http://www.rubygems-openpgp-ca.org/blog/nobody-cares-about-s...

We've tried making a difference in Phusion Passenger by setting an example, and supporting gem signing (http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Nginx....). All Phusion Passenger gem releases since 4.0.0 RC 4 (1 year ago) are signed. All our other gems (default_value_for, etc) are also signed. Unfortunately not many people followed.

We'll continue to sign all our stuff, but it's sad that it never took off community-wide.
I don't think you seriously believe that this is an example of a writer simply trying to make the mental picture he was painting more vivid.
It's a grey area. You can have a great deal of fun between 0 and the posted speed limit. Acceleration, breaking and handling matter at any speed.

However a cop may judge that you are driving recklessly regardless of whether you obey specific traffic laws.
I think that's mostly due to Austin's small size and exclusivity, but it's also a lot of 'image' that Austinites like to reinforce. I also find it entertaining that the self-described most 'progressive' city in Texas is actually the least diverse major city in Texas, with ~70% white population. Don't worry too much about the regional politics of Texas, especially if you don't live here - it's often quite maddening. :-D
Why Audio Never Goes Viral
> he no longer does this because he had issues with people not cashing his checks.

Slight correction - he had issues with people attacking his checking accounts:
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html
The debate seems to be more whether he earned the (imho outrageous amount of) money he made, or just turned up and received it.
I feel like it's useful to point that OpenBSD won't say exactly why the bill is so high, and apparently they don't have open accounting. That bothers me a bit.

Link to relevant reddit comment thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1vakm9/openbsd_develo...
Any plans to make this into a browser extension?
If you care about your freedom, use this, definitely.
> The OpenBSD project uses a lot of electricity for running the
> development and build machines. A number of logistical reasons
> prevents us from moving the machines to another location which might
> offer space/power for free, so let's not allow the conversation to go
> that way.

I don't understand this comment. If the choice came down to moving versus shutting down entirely, why is moving an unacceptable answer?
Responsive Web Design vs Adaptive Web Design – What’s the Difference?
Hmm. This is an appropriate implementation for an operating system, but I don't think it's suitable for a programming language.

To take Ruby as an example - I have lots of different interpreter versions installed. 1.8.7, 1.9.3, 2.0, 2.1, jruby, rubinius. There's some scope for managing this in OS package managers, but it's already complex. Then for each of these environments, I want a different set of packages with different versions (some are compatible with older versions, and some aren't, for example). And finally, I want different versions and combinations of these packages for different apps that I might want to run - again, there's limited scope to implement this in an OS package manager.
You may not be using OpenBSD, but the same organization is behind OpenSSH.

Imagine being without ssh, then go donate. :)
But the mirror posted their doesn't work for me. I get always a Forbidden message: http://mirror1.prod.rhcloud.com/mirror/ruby/. Or is it just me?
I disagree. What it teaches is how to accept dogma without reservation. It's a brainwashing technique on par with anything the CIA could come up with.
I don't know how anybody "Ultra Productive" could stand to spend all day developing dull tools for Cisco.
I agree with your points, I'd personally prefer full transparency over anything else but that is something that needs to be hashed out by the legislative branch, which conveniently gets very little blame. If any of us have an issue with the way government surveillance is performed we shouldn't be looking at the President, we should be looking at Congress since they control the budget and can pass laws to limit actions they find are in legal grey lines.
There's a side project idea right there, hnlist or something similar which lists things/questions that HN users are fond of posting. Maybe auto updates to include every mention's thread as well!
Just out of interest, what is your temperature setting for night? I'm at 3600K, decreasing it every few weeks.
> creators of such are reinventing the wheel

It's kinda funny how they named the latest and greatest in the Python world because of this: http://wheel.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
>why is everyone using the the term "hack" for every expression?

It makes your thing sound cool even if it has none of the things that gave word "hack" the cachet it has. It's a watered down, mailable enough descriptor that you can stick it on anything. See: 99+% of "hack"ing on "hacker" news.
I was hoping this was the new version being released on OSX, but alas, it wasn't.

Oh well. Soon I hope!
It appears to be biased towards npm given that one set of dots is "JSON Based" and could have just as easily been "XML Based." I mean strictly the chart, not the article. The article seemed fair.
That would have gotten her kicked out of the place my friends were living in, plain and simple. Nice house in Greenwich, CT that you're preventing the sale of? Nope, you're history.

When I was a landlord, I let my tenants stay in the house while it was for sale (at the end of the regular lease, they signed a month-to-month lease to cover this), with the understanding that they were to keep it ready for showing with 12 hours notice. The one time this was a problem I made it very clear that they'd be out at the end of the month if it every happened again. It didn't!
yeah, i am trying to clean up the formatting now :/ published too soon
If so it took about 3 days.

http://c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/transcript/transcript.ph...

See the question and non-answer at 17:36.

The first time I saw that live on C-SPAN my heart actually sank. It was huge wasted opportunity for the people, through their direct donations to a candidate, to make things better. In that moment the President-Elect proved one of two things: he had no idea what was going on, or he willfully misrepresented the notion of reform through the election. A third possibility is even more frightening, something or someone changed his position for him.

But more than that, the President-Elect laughed it off as a joke, as if asking a question about the state of intelligence reform was the same thing as asking the contents of the PDB, as if the plebs simple weren't entitled to a straight answer on something affecting the function of 'their' government. And this wasn't a nobody asking, it was Candy Crawley (I believe, the transcript did not state that but her first name was given as Candy.)

We elected an former Constitutional scholar as President, and he appointed a Civil Rights division lawyer as Attorney General, and they have seriously damaged both the Constitution (whose spirit remains the saving grace of this nation) and Civil Rights and Liberties.
F*ck latin. learn to code
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They could probably kill support and power for some of the "dead silicon" platforms they support. If the CPU hasn't been manufactured in the last decade or two, why support it?
So if a browser like, say, Sleipnir implements the EME standard and is then able to act as a channel for streaming DRM-protected content... how does that imply that Evil Demons of Corporatocracy are taking over the entire system?
If anyone else was wondering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
I talked to many C devs, and they all use some kind of linux native package managers. For example apt-get or yum or RPM.
You don't have to only do work for your company, if nobody's looking over your shoulder.
Show HN: Static draft posts with Harp
Correction: OpenSSH, not SSH at all.
Actually I'm using in my daily work more Bundler and Maven. But I'm anyway a big fan of NPM.
Yeah, that's what I use, but that also means that on Windows I sometimes have annoying troubles hunting down dependencies. Then again, there would be the temptation to somehow bolt that functionality onto cmake, and then we'd all be doomed.
Bundler is just a dependency manager, not a package manager. Is the same if you told apt-get is a package manager. Dpkg is a real package manager.
I have some questions / issues before I blindly use this software:

1) It's not open source, or is it? I don't see anything about getting the source. In today's world, utilities like this are open source, or have an open source alternative. This is something that runs in the background of my computer all day, every day, so I would like to know what's going on.

2) How does this affect graphic design? Does it make it impossible to get colors just right?

3) Why does this matter? My lights are on in my office. It's ALWAYS the same brightness in my office, all the time. Daytime. Nighttime. I don't really understand what my monitor is adjusting to. Is it JUST that my eyes are probably more sensitive when I'm tired? If so, that makes sense I suppose, but how does it know that I'm tired just based on the time that I'm using my computer?

Anyway, I'm not trying to be negative, these are just the questions I have and the reasons why I haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet.
A More Modern Scale for Web Typography
I don't disagree that contempt for freedom of thought--which includes the freedom to think thoughts and believe things that are false--is a serious threat to a free and open society. But I would also point out that, taken to its logical conclusion, this is an argument against public education in general. Any system of public education will end up teaching children things that their parents disagree with on freedom of thought grounds (or indeed the children themselves--I was taught plenty of things in school that I disagreed with, but I still had to give the "correct" answers on tests if I wanted to get good grades). If freedom of thought is a fundamental right, then there is no justification for any system of public education.
Marc Andreesen & Glenn Greenwald debate about the NSA on Twitter
Obviously it can be wrong... but it isn't scientifically falsifiable. This is entire crux of what I'm trying to say. You can no more use science to disprove creationism than creationists can to prove it. It isn't a claim which is subject to scientific inquiry. Science has nothing to say on the subject of supernatural events with apparent natural causes. Science is a tool for providing natural, empirical explanations. Supernatural events are by definition invisible to science, because science chooses not to accept supernatural explanations. That's what makes it science.

You are free to criticize the legitimacy of religious beliefs, but science will not help you. Science cannot disprove what it does not accept or examine (namely, supernatural events). Science simply says that a natural explanation exists. Whether that explanation is "true", science cannot say. If gravity is really caused by an invisible flying spaghetti monster pulling everything with his noodly appendages, science will never see it. It cannot. Science refuses supernatural explanations.

I am not saying that popularity makes supernatural beliefs correct. I'm saying it makes them important. The concept that science is one way, but not the only way, people choose to understand the world is important. Whether science is "true", no one can say. Untestable, supernatural phenomena are just that: untestable. It could be that the flying spaghetti monster really controls everything in universe. All we can know is that if he/she/it does, he/she/it does it in such a way that natural explanations still work. There's no way to actually test the theory of a supernatural spaghetti monster. The distinction is subtle, but I think it's important.
One idea, at the scale of large companies, a single building isn't really that big of a deal. Most medium size and even smallish-large companies have empty offices, empty floors and more. I can think of half a dozen companies I've been to in the last few years with whole floors in their buildings that sat unused. At a large scale there's no reason an entire building wouldn't sit idle. It only seems weird because this building has obviously sat this way for a long time.

Look at it this way, suppose they decided to lease the space to another tenant - say for 5 years. Market forces could change a year after the lease is signed and they'd suddenly need the building again. But now they don't have the space anymore and need to get yet another building.
Read Alexander's foreword to that book. He considers his earlier work to be a failure. In the sense that design patterns didn't work to allow people to make living buildings. However he seems to be very satisfied with his new Nature of Order series.