skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the same complaint about Star Trek. Star Trek pretends to have explanations for things, but they are never consistent, because it's random technobabble. Because of the Monster of the Week format, with little continuity between episodes, an explanation crucial to the plot in one week will be ignored the next. Voyager is the worst series for this, Enterprise has it the least, because the first few seasons of Enterprise had significant overarching plots. But in Voyager, they are trying to reach home, and find many cool technologies along the way -- extremely useful ones even. But most exist only for the length of the episode. Occasionally, a plot device will return for a second episode, but not much more than that.

Don't get me wrong, I love Star Trek and Doctor Who, and you are right that Doctor Who is very loose on strict continuity, but I think Doctor Who is more honest with its technology. I admit, Doctor Who often solves the problems in its plots with a solution completely that is made up in the last 5 minutesWho ith no foreshadowing, but they call back to previous episodes very often. Anything that was taken as fact in one episode can be rewritten at any time, and often is, but as often as possible, they use something from the huge array of existing plot devices. I like that. You can tell that the writers like the lore they have created. They leave enough hints that when old plot points reappear, they fit -- like a riddle, they are on obvious in hindsight.

In Star Trek, however, the technobabble explanations are just fill-in-the-blanks. The writers write a script, then later on someone fills in some scientific words. All of the numbers are random. Occasionally, whoever is filling in those numbers or tech words will be able to reference a past event, but most of the time it's just another spacial distortion that does what the writers say.

In short, I think that Doctor Who respects its canon more by using previously established lore when it serves the plot, but a acknowledging and embracing the ridiculousness of the world they've created. Star Trek, on the other hand, rarely cares about previously established lore -- each episode gets a new species or new temporal disturbance. In many ways it's very good and very interesting -- going where no one has gone before -- but it feels like they could explore the already existing things a lot more. Each alien species wears one hat -- they are all plot devices, because when the 6 acts of the episode are over, the Enterprise will warp away never to return. Their purpose is fulfilled. Maybe that's why I'm a fan of DS9 -- it focused less on exploring strange new places, and focused on just a few species and planets.
I'm surprised it took so long, and he didn't suffer ballistic lead poisoning instead.
You need to read the article more closely
This is just kind of ridiculously fallacious. Surely a slightly inaccurate paper is not comparable to malicious code. That's not a fair comparison to make.
Microsoft reports record $24B quarterly results, doubled Surface revenue
From the Twisted link: "twisted.manhole", is that an underground punk band from the 80's?
I hoped the article would be not about look-and-feel, but about building a stripped-down version of Emacs without obsolete parts like TRAMP or LEIM (because there are system-global subsystems for those nowadays), or maybe even trying to tear chunks from MULE.

In a perfectionist "must be a pure gem, no imperfections allowed" sense, ton of seemingly unnecessary libraries is the only thing that actually bothers me about The Editor.
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Unix may be 45 years old, but only code from the last 30 will probably compile. That isn't even talking about apis that may have changed, etc.
I tried to understand your question but I'm sorry - I don't think I understand what you are asking. Can you be more explicit?
> Yes, you had to spend some time/money/effort for promoting it and yes, the success might have been dependent on your ability to promote it.

And you're back in exactly the same situation. Where are you going to promote it and who else has control over that communication channel?
Well, Zynga is still worth $3Billion dollars...
The path to 'Bitcoin as currency' crosses 'Bitcoin as medium exchange'.

Its that simple. Really.
Microsoft’s great quarter suggests its next CEO should be Steve Ballmer
No offense, but China has been getting tons of gold on its balance sheet for awhile now. USA wont even let Germany have theirs for 8 years, as it'll take that long to get it... which means I question the reserve amounts the US has...
Aaron Swartz's dream coming true. Be a part of it
For anyone trying to go to the Erik Meijer link, the correct url is: http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Erik-Meijer-Func...

I think vasquez put an extra right angle bracket by mistake.
It turns out, mucking around with server software is not one of my hobbies sadly.
On the Importance of Coffee
South Africa adopts IEC 60906-1 electrical socket
Please add [video] or something to indicate autoplay to the title - I just blared out the music to my office! I normally put in headphones before clicking on videos...
A Double Standard if I ever saw one. Who could have guessed that a company that develops a 'human skinner box' and brands it Candy crush would be evil.

"Pssst.. want some candy? Just give this game a try, there's no reason for fear, we're not evil. Look at the sparkling colors!"
As if shitting isn't important?

We can live without wind turbines and scuba diving, but shitting and having something to read on the crapper is essential.
Ask HN: I hate startups, I love HN — am I weird?
Of course, I love some aspects of startups: the dynamism, the scientific curiosity, the quest for ways to better the world...

I love science, especially mathematics and computer science (algorithmics, programming, formal grammars...), and I have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, so obviously I love HN: for the articles, as well as for the witty community around.

However, I am strongly anti-capitalist, I abhor the eternal meaningless fight for profit... hell, some might even call me a communist! I believe that whenever anyone creates something valuable, that should always belong to humanity as a whole.

In startups, I see brilliant people dedicating 80h/week of their lives to improve the way we comment on funny cat videos; I see startups being sold for millions of dollars while losing crazy amounts of money; I see some guys vaguely listening to a keynote, and signing cheques, and I hear people call them "angels". I see a purely money-driven world, and it sickens me.

I know HN is about startups, so I was wondering: is it so weird that I think like that?
For values of "anti bullying charity" equal to "company making money from online extortion", but yeah. (Their website Cheaterville has ads for services offering to remove "slanderous" and "defamatory" content from Cheaterville for the fee of $500 per entry. They handle all their advertising inhouse, so at the very least they're entirely aware of where their advertising income's coming from. In fact, at one point those were the only external ads on the entire network of sites and there was no information on how to advertise with them, so they'd obviously cut some kind of private deal with the companies offering these services.)
Or you know, you could keep the volume down at all times.

Besides HN links, where one might indicate "autoplay" there are also popup pages that play music and tons of other sources of unwanted audio.
Yes, adverbs, ranked matrix operator and some other parts of the APL/J approach I miss a bit and find them tedious to emulate/avoid.
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It may not be a rule, but why does it seem like the companies who shamelessly steal from others are usually the ones to attack others for infringement when they turn into bigger companies? I remember Zynga being in a similar situation, ripping off other people's games early on, and then attacking others for copying "their" games.

It must be some kind of "organization insecurity", or some kind of "thieves knowing thieves" kind of thing. I actually don't mind seeing companies "being inspired", even more heavily, by other companies' products, but it pisses me off when they do it themselves, too, and then start attacking others for doing it to them.
Yes, for the 0.1% of people who have that problem, as opposed to the 80% that has the very opposite.
I thought this was rife in the game industry. Everything's a remix these days anyway.
I do think the Apple hardware is beyond reproach for the most part. But it should be at the price I'm paying for it. I grab my rMBP for on the go trips before I grab any other laptop I own.
Really? C'mon man have some self control for god sakes. It's a video game on a phone.

I'm not particularly fond of micro-transactions, I cannot stand the way intellectual property is handled in this country (US), and I dislike rip-off artists such as Zynga/King.

However, all King is doing here is playing ball with current IP legislation, protecting whatever trademarks they can. There's hundreds of games that are exactly the same in every category of gaming, just because King has the capability to create a high-quality successful series of mobile games (which are based off of extremely common gaming concepts) does not mean they are horrible people.

People get up in arms when these large corporations sue eachother over intellectual property. Why does the HN community have this double standard whenever a "little guy" can be made out to have been harmed? Just because you're the first person to think of a popular idea doesn't mean you own it forever.

Patent/Trademark/Copyright legislation is very clearly all bunk in the age of the internet. Get mad at the stupid laws, not at the people taking advantage of them.
1. I never said we should redistribute the wealth. I believe that will only create more problems.

2. I never suggested Bill Gates should give away his wealth.

3. All I am saying is whatever caused this (85 richest human have wealth equal to 3,500,000,000 poorest humans) extreme inequality is blocking the progress of poor. For example - In India corruption in government is making problem of inequality worst. If you spend sometime trying to understand the corruption problem of India you will be surprised to see it's extend and scale. Therefore if we agree that we have a problem we may find the cause and finally remedies.
Improved Xen support in FreeBSD 10
I suspect it is more the bias than the technical difficulty. You can you the same techniques used to predict words to predict the language they are in, especially if you limit it to a user-defined set of languages. I would be tempted to try it but I don't speak multiple languages so I would be a terrible test subject.
How about car keys then? Are those strong?

Edit: I meant the encryption used to remotely unlock and lock a car
You are quite right. The implosion I refer to is the share price going up to $15 mid 2012, and dropping down to a fraction over $2 by the end of it.

Its future is not bright, but it could still pull something magical out of its hat.
Justice wasn't really served in Zynga's case, Marc Pincus managed to cash out quite a bit, the people suffering are the "Death Star contractors" that is the developers hired at Zynga.
Large UK Solicitor Firm Suffer Google Whiplash
Building a team knowledge base to help people on their first day
>I burst out laughing at "truly worldwide democratisation of creativity". Yes, that expensive personal computer, intentionally aimed for most of its career at media and education in western markets.

Expensive compared to what? Because to do the things you can do with a $1000 PC, you needed $100,000 or more before depending on the field.

Your personal typesetting engine? 128-channel audio recording? With effects? Video editing? Bitmap editing? CAD?

Those are all things that existed only for high end workstations or specialized devices before the personal PC, and the Mac played a huge role in the development of this (it will take years for Windows to catch up.

Democratisation doesn't mean it also magically broke poverty barries.
Well, a lot of banks, insurance companies, trust funds, mutual funds, pension funds, social security funds, other countries and individuals own US treasury bonds.

China's holdings are significant - over $1.3tn or around 7.5% of all US government debt. If they were to dump all of it onto the market at once (a crazy idea which they would never do), the simple excess of supply over demand would cause Treasury prices to plunge and the USD would likely drop in the foreign exchange markets too.

As soon as someone at one of the big US investment banks realised what was going on, phone calls would start being made to wake people up in London and then New York (this assumes that the sell-off starts during Asian trading hours) and eventually someone would wake up Bill Dudley (head of the New York Fed). He, in turn, would wake up Bernanke and Lew, who would call the President (who'd probably already have been woken up by the IC/military).

By that point, the markets would be in turmoil. The combination of the sell-off with a big military move (i.e. declaring the South China Sea a closed zone) is interesting, because an increased likelihood of military conflict typically causes investors to sell riskier assets and buy less risky ones, like US Treasury bonds. So, stock markets would drop across the world - I'd say at least 3%, probably more like 5%. Buying gold and oil is like a bit of a kneejerk reaction in times of geopolitical turmoil, so those would probably rise.

I doubt the increased demand from investors for Treasuries would be enough to absorb $1.3tn worth of bonds so Treasury prices would be dropping through the floor. That introduces a new dynamic because Treasuries are commonly used as trading collateral, so you'd start seeing margin calls, just like we did during the credit crunch (which is what caused Lehman Brothers to collapse).

So, Dudley would almost certainly act to stabilise the market by instructing the Fed's trading desk to start buying Treasuries. I don't know what the practicalities are of the Fed buying $1.3tn at short notice (e.g. whether they can simply create that many dollars out of thin air and credit them to their counterparties' accounts) but, assuming they could, that would support the price of US Treasuries although yields would probably still end up jumping by at least 100 basis points, and the USD would probably drop significantly against the Euro.

So, all in all, I'd be inclined to disagree with the idea that China dumping US bonds would have absolutely no effect. :-)
Thanks. I did fix it soon after posting, but guess the incorrect one could be cached for a while.
http://jezebel.com/one-womans-dangerous-war-against-the-most...

this article explains how he was not just hosting a site for user-generated content, and some other difficulties with it.

And hn comments on this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6788203
A remix is like 'lets take the slick visuals of X, but with a Zoo theme, the power-up system of Y and the smooth movement of Z to create something new-ish but recognisable!'.

This is a large company realising that their smaller competition doesn't want to sell - and reacting by cloning the game and trying to push it to market before the smaller company can get it out there.

It's just Zynga all over again.
I, for one, welcome our new pensioned overlords.
Hit the road with President Obama in the 1st ever Presidential Hangout Road Trip
Newer car keys have a RFID so that you can't just copy the physical pattern.
I do normally, but I forgot this one time. and I didn't expect it to make noises, because it didn't say [video] and I have adblock et al.

I have seen it on some posts before.
Same here. Some refreshs did the tricks though.
That's a simple one, I just don't use Google+. I toyed with it for a while and deleted my account. Yes they nag me about joining Google+, but this is it. My search results are clean and no red square.
Anyone willing to spend non-trivial resources to retaliate, because of a business deal that didn't get completed, is a sociopath.

Also king is currently involved in a banner saga "saga", suing developers of a game of a completely different genre because they used the word saga in their title. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/22/king-are-trying-t...
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I just right arrowed through the whole series of pictures. Thanks!
All places where the US deploys drones has the support of the host nation's gov't at least. Drones are extremely easy to shoot down currently, and would not be effective in any hostile environment.

Not sure if that's what you meant, but it's an interesting point to consider.
if i had 1 billion dollars, i would not trade it for all of zynga.
I'm betting on Julia and Rust really. Julia for Scientific programming and Rust for system.
That sounds almost exactly like the current problem I'm grappling with in Puppet. Variables can be overridden and inherited, except when they can't.
If those RFID tokens are dumb ones like common anti-theft stickers in supermarkets, one can copy the electromagnetic pattern just fine.
In the European Union storing personal data like that has been illegal for many years.
Ya ever feel like all us bloggers were the miners during the 1990s blog gold rush? CmdrTaco and all of us turned out to be the miners, Matt Mullenweg and Dries Buytaert turned out to be Levi Strauss. I'm not sure if Trove and all the similar things are shovels, or just some nuggets.
SpiderOak
Scientific papers are rarely perfect. Papers are often sent back for revision.
you might want to hit something like Huff Post to counter Drudge.
I'm in Brazil and can only dream of BRL 100k/y, which is about USD 41k/y.
Fastest ever commercial Internet speeds in London: Download 44 films in a second
How can he be so successful otherwise?

By a certain measure of successful.
I don't see this as a free speech issue. If you want to put a website with pictures of yourself naked, that's fine by me. You do not get to make that decision on my behalf.
Because industrial design and UX doesn't matter when stacked against a spec list?
Why Violence Against Tech Firms May Only Be Beginning
How about this comparison?

BlockBreaker is a game by a friend of mine:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/block-breaker/id412901690?mt...

It won a best game award 2011 and King offered him a job after that competition. He turned it down though.

King then came out with:
Pet Rescue Saga (quick google will give you images of how that one looks)
I get that regularly with the stock keyboard; a design flaw, imho.
#5 was a couple of fun minutes; it made my day slightly better. You deserve a pint, sir.
From the website, main features are (with my comments):

* a ready repository for kernels and the worlds that takes buildworld/installworld steps not the obligatory.

* when steps of buildworld/installworld are undertaken,
src.conf for a world customization is supported

* base the catalog can place on MD/RAM/TMPFS on a disk that can be useful at a big num of jails with RO mounted base

* support of ZFS of file system, ZFS of quotas, ZFS snapshots

* GUI configurator of jails (DIALOG/WEB)

* VIMAGE support (separate network stack per jail container)

* traffic count per jail, RACCT/RCTL support (resource restrictions)

* import/export of jails, jail replication, cold migration of a jails between nodes

* descriptions for jails

* management of sequence of start of jail and their priority

* a repository with ready jail template

* possibility to create own scenarios for creation of jails/repository

* jail converting into PXE/ISO/Memstick-image

* support for jail non-native architecture via Qemu User mode (eg: arm or mips64 jail on x86-64 host system)
If you did a list from the pc world, you would get a much longer one which would eclipse the achievement of these macloving people, who usually happen to be egomaniacs on top of that. Guess it fits with the Jobs image.
Looks like their penalty was fully deserved. It will be interesting to see if they are back in a few days like RapGenius was. I'm guessing that since Matt Cutts doesn't have any investments or connection to this UK firm that they probably won't be.
And when that old shopping cart demands a full page refresh: FOR FUCK SAFE JUST WRITE SOME JAVSCRIPT TO UPDATE THE QUANTITY
Stephen Hawking claims "there are no black holes"
What is the javascript framework you use for rotaville? Is a single app packaged across iOS, Android and mobile web? It looks pretty good.
The first time I experienced culture shock. I nearly crapped my pants
Not necessarily.

HN is a great news source. I'm definitely anti-communist, but I'm neither skilled nor rich not creative enough to actually found a startup and never intend to. I would theoretically work for one, but first I'd need a large degree of financial stability that is currently missing in my life. I read HN both because I'm interested in how startups function, get funded, get sold and fail,. but also purely as a news source.
Well android's default keyboard learns it pretty well. Not only does it learn words, but also their usage by observing patterns in sentences. One time i had to type a fb comment 3 times because the sending kept failing . On the third time, the keyboard was predicting entire words of the sentence, sometimes even before i wrote a single letter!
So the governments of Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen and Libya all support US drones being deployed. Where would I go to verify this? Seems a reconnaissance drone was downed over Iran, who have demanded an apology[0].
Perhaps you only mean drones capable of attack.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...
Google Glass Sex App Lets You Watch, Record Yourself In The Act
I'm very happy to use this app to be honest this just improved a lot how we keep track of our PR's across all the repositories that we currently have.
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More like a silent tax on the rich and hoarders. For people who are in net cash debt inflation is a bonus.
Because money.

Firms don't aggressively protect their IP out of some sense of global justice, they do it to make money. These firms understand the value of IP and the legal mechanisms that exist to protect/acquire/monetize it better than the average. Why would they hesitate to use this knowledge offensively?
I know, I know, I was being a little tongue in cheek and perhaps it didn't come off too well, but in all seriousness it obviously is just a lack of self control on my part. It isn't easy for me.

But this story isn't about the fact they copied the idea at all. It's about the fact that they done it as a petulant response to a business deal that fell through. As for "just because you're the first person to think of a popular idea doesn't mean you own it forever" I see where you're coming from ethically but I don't agree. Love them or loathe them, patents are here to stay and although the rules do need cleaned up, they're not fundamentally wrong. You do deserve -some- protection.
HN was about startups originally. Nowadays most of the items on the front page are general programming/IT stuff. Personally I come here for that. To me HN is a superior alternative to /r/programming, because the comment section here is much more intelligent and civil.
I'd never heard of Opa before. Thanks for sharing, it looks interesting!
Fair point.

But one of the issues with Marmalade is that anybody can fork your project (patch it or not) and just push it. With MELPA, they try to get the original authors to submit the projects. If you've got patches, they are pretty strict about it and encourage you to get them merged in the package rather than accepting a fork.
I thought anti poaching pacts were legal, arent they?Big tech companies like Facebook and Microsoft have them.