skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, its better for the OP to get a train of all the possibly negative things that (s)he can get here on HN which might be helpful in making the product better. At the very least, it will make him/her well prepared to answer such questions when asked by others. So while I agree that many here may have a "self-aggrandizing superiority complex", that may not be such a bad thing.
Man these Samsung phones just keep getting bigger and bigger.
Not just a game but a very interesting social experiment. This is amazing on multiple fronts. I think a movement started with second life and hopefully there are many more similar interesting social experiment/games to come.

Don't know if there are any neuro/psychological researchers in the background examining the dynamics but hell, this type of a game, in a given scenario and carefully tweaked can potentially provide at least very interesting insights into human behavior and group dynamics in a certain context.

This may be a bit hyperbolic, but games such as this may be an interesting "evolutionary" step for people as well. In nature play is a way for animals to test out and perfect skills. Given that humans have somewhat transcended the need to perfect motor and physical skills, the future of our play is probably better in a world where our greatest potential threats come from others of our own kind and navigating a more nuanced human centric world where our "play" is more specialized too.

Enough dreaming for me, but very cool...
Why does anyone involved in payments not bother to QA their Android offerings? I can point out about 20 UI issues just in the screenshots on Google Play. Installed the app; hitting menu items in the drawer stacks Activity upon Activity, breaking the interaction. Everything is non-standard or ported from iOS, when it takes all of half an hour to pop in the support library and use the official Action Bar and Navigation Drawer components. Even worse, the entire app is locked in portrait orientation.

It's shit like this that degrades the Android experience, and it needs to stop. Stop treating Android like the "second platform". Hire people who can push back against shitty design. Use the tools that the platform provides.
Cool product. Looks similar to Pipedrive[1]. Incidentally, they came before Trello.

[1]: https://www.pipedrive.com/
Using 12-bits per color would seem to give more precision within that axis, but doesn't seem to say anything about the dynamic range covered. sRGB is a subset of what human vision is capable of, e.g. the CIE XYZ/RGB colorspace.

Seems like the ideal display can:

1) match the dynamic range of the real world in luma and chroma
2) resolution that makes seeing pixels very hard
3) enough precision/gradation within the dynamic range to avoid banding
4) support high framerates
Due to mobile we've more or less moved back 10 years. Getting things to work consistently across all kinds of mobile browsers is on the same level as struggling with IE6 but with much more randomness.
I was still stuck in Windows (Windows 2000), and it was quite a bit faster to write the program than find a solution on the net like that on a live CD, download it, etc. Having started on C in 1979 (sic) I knew it cold by then.

But, yeah, confirming exactly what was the problem was good, especially since it was extremely odd. All blocks readable except for those 8, although the drive knew it was in trouble.

It reminds me of problems others have reported, especially those using high level error checking file systems like ZFS, where the drive accidentally writes to the wrong location correct data correctly, so the internal CRC passes on reads. The firmware in drives is said to be getting to full OS complexity....
You can die penniless with way less math than that.

The problem I have with this analysis is that -- at least with my first read-through -- it has no floor on income. It's just trying to maximize the amount of money spent during your lifetime, with the only penalty for spending early being that you don't earn interest on the money later in life.

The question most people want answered involves a floor to the amount of money they have to spend in the year. If I spend all my money at age 90 and manage to live to age 91, my regret isn't the 5% interest I missed out on, it's that I'm now destitute and homeless at age 91.

How do I maximize my expected lifetime spending while maintaining some floor on my annual spending?
You mean another galaxy, assuming the supernova would create inhospitable conditions throughout all of M82.
I spent some time working for a company that made switches that would do that (Guaranteed minimum, but the sum of the maximum allowed speeds could exceed the link speed). There was no interest from anyone who sold to consumers, but business ISPs liked it.

The perception in residential is that customers don't understand what they want and can't go somewhere else, so you slap the biggest speed number on it that won't get you sued and then provide them crap service.
Unfortunately it looks like the ideas of Ted Kaczynski + Internets + Snowden/NSA feeding into a new Luddite movement of ultra-woo. It could be a full blown cult within the year. Personally I don't think it is possible to avoid this escalating, is just about whether it is just briefly messy or turns into a more long lived affair.
U.S. issues 320,000 requests for Verizon customer data
Except there is an API for Gmail.
> College is not the place to go to learn yesterday's cool framework. Anybody can do that.

Slightly pedantic : you can do that anywhere. Just about anybody (who can teach themselves a development framework) can probably handle going to college as well.

I agree that college & Uni is a good place to focus on core fundamentals, and less on instant gratification or application.
> at some level.

(Sorry if I'm reading into an implication that isn't there)

To clarify, everything is based on Math at some level, just like everything is based on Physics at some level. My question is does it follow that solving difficult math problems make you better at solving difficult Foreign Policy problems, for instance? That is, if one student studies 10 hard math problems, and another studies 10 hard Foreign Policy problems, which will be better at solving the next Foreign Policy problem? The next Literary Analysis problem?

I don't think it follows that math being a required part of a solution for difficult problems makes it the best tool for the task of solving the problem at hand. But its common to argue that rigorous mathematical education will make you better at solving problems in general; I just wonder if there's any actual evidence to it, or if its all based on belief (however logical and well argued).
And yet, some things are eerily familiar. In 1999 online life was dominated for non-geeks by AOL. In 2014 replace AOL with Facebook and the dynamic is pretty much the same. The difference is that AOL had to spend a fortune to produce or acquire content. Facebook gets us to do that for free.
Personally I think that GCC would do much better under something like LGPL that way it could be used much more like Clang but still not sacrifice their principles. As the LGPL is one of their approved and favoured licences already it shouldn't be a problem for them.
Haha. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I love how many sites (mine included) used the "Under Construction" mention back then.
Good point. Now we are back to discuss about the valid business model. Making cost effective products and services is one of the value proposition for a new business. But Google and Amazon's contribution are not only to make the services cheaper, they also make the information available easier for online users to retrieve. This is a big step in our information era. Without them, we are still living in a slow and small world.

However we need to move further. People know that the web is messy. So we need to organize it to improve the efficiency finding relevant information. So quality should be over quantity. And instead of sorting out from the large amount of information from time to time, we need some way to keep the useful information and share it easily. This is the goal that I'm working on.
Check this out: http://www.asterank.com/3d

I'm pretty sure the creator of asterank is on HN.

For what it's worth, I think the OP JS is obfuscated/minified for load times; not for self-interested reasons.
I don't have a huge beef with this, though. I am assuming that Apple has vetted the company and the app already through their normal process of allowing the app in the app store. Am I being overly trusting?
Looks like it's not quite finished. Their "Terms of Service and Privacy Policy" page is a 404. (https://info.trove.com/policies)
Take a look at the Faker Rubygem:

http://rubygems.org/gems/faker

https://github.com/stympy/faker
Thanks for the test (very useful!) and for the update.

A couple of comments:

"Servers that do not support Forward Secrecy with our reference browsers are given a warning."

Why aren't such servers capped to a non-A rating?

Also, the current scoring scheme that puts Cipher Strength among the bars at the top but doesn't put Forward Secrery there. Is there a reason to believe that it's more worthwhile to highligh symmetric cipher key length than to highlight Forward Secrecy, including the DH group size?

Considering that the security of AES256 might be closer to AES128 per https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/new_attack_on... and running more rounds might give more opportunity for timing attacks in case a round isn't constant-time, it seems weird to me to highlight the lack of AES256 more than DH group size. Likewise, it seems weird to highlight the difference between AES128 and AES256 more than the difference between RC4 and AES.
I want something like this for my "family cloud". Are there any open source equivalents except for Owncloud?
So, where's the secret staircase that leads to the lair of angry geese on the river? It sounds like a fun time for me and my wife.
Given math is not going to taught any better than how it has been all these years, I don't see why some of today's and tomorrow's software stacks cannot be created/developed/maintained by say, liberal arts students and professionals.
I didn't see "procedural" listed among the paradigms. I find that odd, particularly as it seems to be, by far, the easiest to teach to beginners.
The Battle in Kiev, Ukraine
Off topic question here - what software is made to make videos like the one featured on thumbprick.com homepage?
I believe this is incorrect, anyone can confirm?
Thanks! I wasn't aware of that.
I'm not speaking about politics here. You are calling to support one side and I just want to make very clear that when you are helping one side you are not helping "the people", you are not helping "ukrainians", you are helping conrete doubtful political forces to take power.
I'm surprised they didn't call it "T-Money".
How to Season a Cast Iron Pan
CSS Regions Considered Harmful
>This, IMHO, is the best advice.

Sure, it works well in Disney movies.
You should be careful when adding translateZ. If you go beyond the GPU memory it's going to be extremely slow and has high chances of crashing the app.
How a Non-Tech, Thirty-Something (With Kids) Started His Company
I think you misunderstand the point of gabipurcaru's analogy. nmc's confusion was about time, not energy dispersion. That is, nmc indicated that we would somehow be safe because the explosion happened 12 million years ago. But gabipurcaru pointed out how long ago something happened is irrelevant if the energy that reaches you is high enough.

You are correct that we are safe because of energy dispersion - or, put another way, because it is 12 million light-years away. But nmc thought we were safe because it was 12 millions years ago, and gabipurcaru tried to show by analogy why that is not true.
There's a vanity address generator, which bruteforces private keys until it finds a corresponding public key that matches your desired pattern.

I forget where the generator lives, but it runs locally and eats CPU for hours.
GCC error messages aren't that bad. Could it be that you compare the old Apple GCC to the latest clang?
Game Networking Made Easy
no idea, but after <4.5 hours, already past its $250,000 target by $10k and growing...
Yup. Reddit had bitcoin tipping functionality back when bitcoins were a buck or two. Getting tipped a quarter convinced me to figure out this cryptocurrency thing. Taking that mechanism outside of the Reddit sandbox is a big help.

And yeah, I spent my quarter-BTC on Humble Bundles. Oops.
ESR's response to Ian Taylor:

"Then I don't understand why David Kastrup's question was even controversial.

"If I have failed to understand the background facts, I apologize and welcome being corrected.

"I hope you (and others) understand that I welcome chances to help the FSF's projects when I believe doing so serves the hacker community as a whole. The fact that I am currently working full-time on cleaning up the Emacs repoaitory for full git conversion is only one instance of this."

(I haven't been following ESR (not being part of his tribe and all), nor have I really been following Emacs. Do the other Emacs folks know about his "clean-up" there? Is it going to go any better than his clean up of the Linux kernel build system?)
If building a Javascript (MVC or not) app is still a pain for you, you should check out some more feature packed framework like AngularJS or EmberJS and you'll see that most of the pain have been medicated.
> there is no real reason why render time should scale at all with content hidden below the fold

The reason is that CSS layout is exceedingly complex and all of the elements within or even across container boundaries can influence the position and appearance of other elements.

If they did their own custom layout using absolute positioning + JavaScript, then they could easily create "virtualize" the items in the container, only rendering those that are currently visible.

This is a major reason that I'm a believer in the React.js or other "Immediate Mode UI" models. This is how games have worked forever: You simply query your world state for "stuff currently in view" and draw that as fast as you can, caching anything that change infrequently and is expensive to recompute.
Slightly off-topic, but I was so glad when as an individual I could pay for Trello. It makes me feel a bit safer that they'll stick around rather than do the ol' shutdown or bought out and shutdown dance.
Why a lot of techies have no manners? 
Ok you made it!
You sold a company you made a few million dollars.
Congrats from the bottom of my heart! (seriously) but why do you have to behave like a neanderthal?

Startup idea: Classes of savoir-vivre for techies. Big companies have all these harassment training startups should have savoir-vivre and common sense...
When was that? 10 years ago?
... hah, link that to mining costs and make your miners automatically switch currencies as the market fluctuates.
Should App.net Accept Bitcoin?
Looks like the git repositories used to submit solutions are over SSH? Unfortunately this won't work in an environment that requires outbound traffic to go over an authenticated proxy. Any chance of getting git-over-HTTPS support?
For an investment opportunity, the price has quintupled over the last 72h you know. And for fun. :)
> It's not just a dramatic change; for most, it's a cliff thrown in the middle of the learning curve.

When I transferred to a new university I was placed in their first year calculus program over my own protests. I had already done AP Calculus in high school, and completed the first year calculus course at my previous college, which was admittedly of much lower quality than the university I was transferring to. I thought this new one would be a complete waste of my time.

The first thing we covered in this new course were limits. I rolled my eyes; everyone knows how to find a limit. Was this really the kind of thing we were going to cover in this class? Then the professor said these words I had never heard in relation to limits before, "epsilon" and "delta." And here my troubles began.

That turned out to be one of the hardest courses I've ever taken, I had to relearn almost everything I thought I knew about math.
There are still commits (latest ~1 month ago) https://github.com/gccxml/gccxml/commits/master
Can you please make it like this: http://bitcointicker.co/
Hootsuite does not offer security for free accounts
Younger Startup Founders Pay Themselves Lower Salaries
Software developers don't need to know any advanced math the same way electricians don't need to know quantum mechanics, and plumbers don't need to know fluid dynamics.
I can't even work on my regular job or projects without seeing at least 4% packet loss, intermittently spread out across the day. Not only that, I clearly see pings taking too long even with wired connection. Comcast has told me they cannot do anything about it. They say that the 2 MacBooks and a couple of iPads is a lot of traffic for the router+modem they have given me.

Not only this, I know that the moment I start Youtube or Amazon instant (I do not have Netflix), the packet loss starts to go up or at least the ping return times sometimes go up to 4000ms. This also happens when I RDP into my Windows PC at work when I telework.

I have tried resetting the router, use it with other channels, use it with and without all possibilities of encryption (WPA, WPA2 etc.) and I really cannot think of doing anything anymore. The Comcast representation said they will reimburse $30 bucks if I got my own router because the issue is not their fault.

I am not sure how to approach this issue anymore. My apartment building does not have Verizon FiOS or any other service. I have given up all hope. Sometimes I feel like adding unlimited LTE/4G on my iPhone from T-mobile and use that as the main Internet hub.
If you have a strategy for investing in 10 companies and having 5 of them exit at 50MM+, you should raise money for a fund.
Hypothetically, what would you be looking for in an S3 competitor? Specifically:

1. How much data do you have?

2. What would you use it for?

3. How important is it if the API isn't the same as the S3 API?

4. Any specific certification requirements?

5. Would you have any SLA requirements?

6. Specific performance metrics? Think Amazon S3 vs. Glacier.

7. Are redundant data centers important?

Hypothetically!
> Valve's intention is to work with Oculus for consumer VR products.

That is a interesting topic because from the interviews with Palmer that I have read there seems to be a big disconnect between Oculus and Valve. It would make sense though because Oculus's success would help line Valve's pockets.
My ISP was Prodigy back in the day, and possibly something else before that. Paying per hour was awful. I spent hours downloading a WAV file of some video game music from Nintendo.com and was so excited when it completed successfully. Little did I know it was a 1-2 second random sound clip - ugh so disappointing! :)

I spent a good month or so (unsuccessfully) changing my modem initialization parameters (?) in an attempt to be able to play Doom 2 (or Duke Nukem?) over the internet with my friends and their fancy Gateway computers. It was so frustrating. I had no idea what I was doing and no Internet to turn to. I upgraded my DOS modem to a Windows modem and it made no difference. I was sent a link to TEN.net on IRC a year or so later and finally got to play my first online game, woo.

Things were much more anonymous back then. I remember applying for a job with XOOM.com - I had been active in their support community for a while and they sent me an employment application. They had no idea I was underage until I sent in my application, haha.
http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/results/usa/graph Looking at comcast over the last two months looks like there is some data to confirm your notes about their backbone having issues. They are on a steady decline.
If you're itching for VR, you can order an Oculus Rift dev kit right now (https://www.oculusvr.com/order/). The consumer version with significant improvements should be available in about a year.
You talk of parroting the dictionary as though that were desirable. While a dictionary is a good and useful thing, there is much of value which is not to be found in such a book.

In particular, a dictionary concerns itself with what a given word is currently agreed upon to mean, and not with the history of the phenomenon that word might happen to denote; your apparent desire to constrain such historical consideration, to include only incidents in which a protest occurs at a Google employee's house, is quite neat, I suppose, in that it neatly sidesteps any concern over the implicit threat of violence which is part and parcel of any deployment of the tactic. But I don't find such circumscribed historiography particularly compelling.
Perhaps, but the view fails to understand what a city is and that cities change, grow and die. Cities are not monolithic static entities. They are not 'living' museums.
Starting a Business as an Open Source Consultant
I wish to developp games next year, I will go to a school, I know that we'll have to make project where we'll be able to choose our Engine.. I will use Unity3D Editor if it comes to linux !
> GCC's parts cannot be included in other projects because they are licensed in such a way that tells us that the GCC code is more important than the code we are using.

That's simply not true.
How Internet Addiction is Treated in China
Work Alone? How to Force Yourself to Get Shit Done.
But targeting developers is exactly backwards! Or at least it would be if development was, net, increasing the number of housing units. SF has some insane zoning laws; why aren't they a target? Or is there an implication that SF should only ever serve the interests of those that live there as-of some unspecified date in the (recent?) past? Will the police enforce the borders of the city to prevent anyone from entering or leaving? How exactly is this worker paradise supposed to work?
Try Corkscrew - it lets you tunnel SSH over http proxies: http://www.agroman.net/corkscrew/
Historical accident.
I think it's a great name for a product. Almost every name which has something to do with photos is already taken. And I like Lychees ;)
German Information Security Office service to check hacked e-mail accounts
Are you talking about hotel on top of the casino? Why is it ridiculous? It seems like natural and good business development for casinos to have hotel near by. Or are they pissed about funds reappropriation back into business instead of being spent on community needs?
Antarctic ice line patterns detected by Cryosat spacecraft
Prevent common problems when writing CSS from scratch
they'd have to get 18 chargebacks per successful charge in order for them to stop. I'm sure this was a calculated risk.
I still have my first website that I ran on a web server in my dorm room on a 19K serial connection in 1996. It helped get me my first post-college job at a corporate bank despite having a psychedelic purple background, animated smilies, and a prominent picture of Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes) burping on the homepage. I think the fact that I was running my own web server in 1996 in my dorm was of more interest than the content... except my resume, perhaps.
Progressive rendering is obvious if you have things below the fold. But it makes sense even if everything is supposed to be visible from the start. The total download+render time can actually become faster, not just because some things are not visible. This is because xmlhttprequest is truly asyncronous so you can parallelize the download and the rendering. This also prevents the "page seems to be frozen" warning most browsers pop up after being stuck in javascript for > 3sec.

I found this technique to make major improvements for a similar task. This only makes sence once rendering is a big bottleneck of course, you don't want to over-parallelize.