skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telize : a free and open source JSON IP and GeoIP REST API (IP Geolocation)
But you still have a crippled game - one which you can’t even play as often as you’d like without shelling out money. Do yourself a favour: delete it now. Stand up for decency and the future of the industry.
When I saw the title of this article I knew it would mention the Luddites. Yet, this has nothing to do with people fearing the technology. They are complaining about a social phenomenon that is increasing rent prices. Had the prices stayed the same, few would care.

Some personal anecdote: when the company I work for opened a huge chocolate factory in a very small and poor city, and had to hire employees from outside that area, the citizens complained (and still do) that rent and groceries price are very high. People hide their badges when going outside of the factory to avoid any hostilities.

This has nothing to do with technology.
It seems that in average one could expect a 4.2% interest rate (4.6% avg at a 8% faulty). I am wondering if a higher interest might be more beneficial?
I think they've just filed for "saga" I don't think they've been granted it. As far as I know filing for it can block other trademark applications, but it doesn't stop others from using the word in their games. But I'm not a lawyer.

The "candy" trademark is pretty insane though. I expect it will be challenged. Disney must surely have the Candy King in their Wreck It Ralph games.
"To try to keep the banks from catching on, he said, he even sprays his cash with Febreze to disguise the scent of marijuana."

Wow, somewhere there's a storage locker (probably more) with a stack of cash just like we all saw on Breaking Bad. Except this cash was made "legally" and yet the owners still have to operate like an illegal enterprise just to pay bills and employees.
'Is there a large chasm between "upload content" and "submit [content]"?'

There would have to be the most enormous chasm, because the latter includes every publication that uses the work of freelancers, which is pretty much every newspaper and magazine, and their online equivalents, everywhere.
I agree with several things in your post, but I don't want legislators anywhere near my games.
Serious question. If you consent today to let me take pictures of you nude... Don't I own the copyright of those pictures? Now, presumably if you and I were dating your consent would be very casual... I'd say, "Hey, mind if I snap some photos" and you'd say, "Go right ahead"... Because I'm quite charming.

A year later I still have these photos and we're not dating any longer. Do I own copyright on photos as the photographer? How far does your casual consent go? Do I need formal consent saying I can reproduce them?

A photo journalist will take a photo of a couple in the park as a child plays in the fountain behind them and use it in the paper the next day. What consent do they need to get from those being photographed?

It just all feels very fuzzy. Presumably most of the nude pictures are taken by someone other than the subject of the photos... meaning the photographer owns the copyright.. I'd think.

Anyone have more info on how this actually plays out?
Ask HN: What do you call this style of front-end design?
Hi everyone,

What do you call this kind of front-end designing?

http://www.polygon.com/a/xbox-one-review#
https://www.apple.com/30-years/

(where scrolling unveils the content/photos/text)

Thanks!

- K.
> What kind of things to people use FreeBSD for?

HN for start. And then there's (off the top of my head) Netflix, NetApp, Juniper, Sony, countless ISPs, DuckDuckGo...
it isn't that difficult to white list a few domains.. It's a grand total of 1-5 lines of code that contains a string you can change...

CSP is super valuable and it's worth the few extra lines
Even the 0.6.1 changelog is hardly noteworthy.
I guess that is what I don't understand here. Why was the trademark granted when it clearly isn't unique? Do they just grant all requests and let the courts sort them out, or what?
Looking forward to 0.6.3!!!
This goes back to at least XP, if not 2000. You don't see it since you're just pressing a hotkey and get something in the clipboard. In the same way you would make a screenshot which is also not a visible operation per se.
Sorry for the harsh criticism (this is HN after all) I just was confused and it's probably my fault based on assumptions I had going in. I tend to eat up SEO articles because I have small business web clients for whom I perform SEO service but this was more targeted for larger online brands running blogging or content creation networks.
It's not real clear why this article is worth reading.
I disagree; the article is essentially about manual query optimization. Theoretically, a great optimizer could do this by itself, but the fully optimized query will run the same way pretty much everywhere; query execution engines are not very different, basically grace hash joins and B-trees.
Bob Garfield (On the Media) interviewed Hunter Moore a few years ago: http://www.onthemedia.org/story/173718-revenge-porns-latest-...
Those graphs should really start at 0, the improvements (as good as they are) are needlessly exaggerated.
VPS is entirely new OS level virtualization that's in beta as of now, while Jails have been in FreeBSD for years, are well tested, stable, actively developed.
>from autocorrect accepting words for two languages at the same time

I agree this. This is so important and so easy. I have basically gotten used to those red markers to the point I barely notice them anymore. It is easier to ignore them than to change language every time.
Serious question, are Emacs users seriously in the habbit of typing things like M-x some-long-command-with-minuses? In Vim to go to a line number it's just colon line number, e.g. ":34" goes to line 34. I mean that's the default, not something that's been keymapped. Or do you guys end up keymapping things like that frequently aswell? Then again you guys don't have modal editing so I can see why it's always M-x before doing something non-edity, so it might seem assbackwards for a Vim user :)

I take for instance the most common commands I use in Vim to edit with that I use 95% of the day and they're rarely more than a single character or 3 at the most.
Google Chief Warns of IT Threat
Why does a keyboard need permissions that include:

1) Network communication (full network access)

2) Your social information (read your contacts)

?

The first makes it sound like it's a keylogger, and stops me in my tracks.

The second... just why on Earth would a keyboard need to have a list of contacts? Are you going to spam my friends?

If #2 was asked for without #1, I could charitably hope that the contacts are just used for word suggestions based on names and addresses. But due to #2 being asked for in addition to #1 I really just think this is a spam machine at best, and a leaking of private contacts at worse.

Is anyone from Minuum on here who can explain why those permissions would be required.
How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down engineers’ wages
I can't stand how people bag on Rovio. Their games are intelligent and fun and even a bit educational (educational content stuffed into Angry Birds Space, and Amazing Alex is great for getting kids to solve problems creatively). Yes, they're derivative, but they add a tremendous amount to their predecessors. Angry Birds is a far better game than Crush the Castle, and The Amazing Alex is the first solidly-good implementation of TIM in over a decade and has a ton of interesting ideas that add to the concept.

And they have only the most minimal inclusion of the In-App-Purchase crap. They don't make cash-driven Skinner boxes.

People bag on Rovio because they were the first big smash hit of the mobile world, not for any good reason.
The Rotaville web interface is mixture of backbone.js models along with my own solution for view routing, view rendering/templating and also keyboard controls.

Rotaville mobile is available on the web and also iOS and Android (using phonegap/cordova). The backbone.js models are re-used from the web app. jquery-mobile is used for the view styling and transitions.
The declarative language promise was that it would be possible to perform such optimizations. Indeed, by-and-large, query planners do a pretty great job. I don't think it was ever a promise that query planners would be able to always find the fastest query for what you want.
The rise of Dogecoin, the internet's hottest cryptocurrency
Text:

A broad range of jobs that once seemed beyond the reach of automation are in danger of being wiped out by technological advances, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, warned on Thursday.

Speaking in a briefing at the World Economic Forum in Davos, he said that an acceleration in technological innovation made this one of the biggest problems the world faces in the next 20 to 30 years.

“The race is between computers and people and the people need to win,” he said. “I am clearly on that side. In this fight, it is very important that we find the things that humans are really good at.”

Mr Schmidt’s comments follow warnings from some economists that the spread of information technology is starting to have a deeper impact than previous periods of technological change and may have a permanent impact on employment levels.

Google itself, which has 46,000 employees, has placed big bets on automation over some existing forms of human labour, with a series of acquisitions of robot start-ups late last year. Its high-profile work on driverless cars has also led to a race in the automobile industry to create vehicles that can operate without humans, adding to concerns that some classes of manual labour once thought to be beyond the reach of machines might eventually be automated.

Recent advances in artificial intelligence and mobile communications have also fuelled fears that whole classes of clerical and research jobs may also be replaced by machines. While such upheaval has been made up for in the past by new types of work created by advancing technology, some economists have warned that the current pace of change is too fast for employment levels to adapt.

Mr Schmidt said governments had to encourage rapidly growing “gazelle” companies to counter such trends and create new jobs. He cited shale gas fracking in the US, a technology developed mainly by smaller companies that had created an employment boom.

“There is quite a bit of research that middle class jobs that are relatively highly skilled are being automated out,” he said. The auto industry was an example of robots being able to produce higher quality products, he added.

New technologies were creating “lots of part-time work and growth in caring and creative industries . . . [but] the problem is that the middle class jobs are being replaced by service jobs,” the Google chairman said.

He said that governments needed to invest in education systems to improve skill levels and human cognition. “It is pretty clear that work is changing and the classic nine to five job is going to have to be redefined,” he said. “Without significant encouragement, this will get worse and worse.”

Mr Schmidt expressed doubts about Microsoft’s decision to allow foreign customers to have data stored on servers outside the US to provide protection against surveillance by the National Security Agency. This would not stop the agency requesting such data under US law, he said.

“My understanding is that data in another country is still subject to [US intelligence] laws. It is not obvious to me how you get around that rule. You would have to transfer the assets to a foreign corporation,” he said.
Who needs clones when you can have Ron Gilbert's Scurvy Scallywags! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scurvy-scallywags/id59329984...

I'm a huge fan of Match 3 games and I can honestly say there's plenty enough choice in that genre without having to rely on Candy Crush.
I know a few Libertarian Socialists who read HN including myself.

The whole making money thing isn't of interest but the creative use of technology is...
An email subscription function for blog updates but no RSS or Atom feed? Seriously?
On the assumption that aside from publishing some useful information, the blog post is also meant to drive awareness for Periscope...

even a small landing page with some expected features or more information about the product-to-be would be a good idea.

(I saw the one-liner at the bottom of the post but would suggest a bit more to pique the interest of more people. If I missed it, my apologies.)
An Iranian Girl, Battling to Be an Astronomer
I'd put the Huffpo's publishing vaccine denial advocacy on that level.
If the author is reading please post the EXPLAIN ANALYZE results for these queries. I'd much prefer the raw text psql output to the GUI representation in pgAdmin. More importantly it has the actual numbers for the intermediate steps to see which is the culprit.

Also, any idea how many times each variation was executed? 10M rows is not that big. At 1K per row (which is probably an overestimate) that comes out to 100 MB. That easily fits in memory. After the first full scan all of it would come from the cache. It's not a fair comparison unless you flush the cache between tests.
Outrage does not equal surprise.
Again, that's not cash on the barrel head. That's a rumor. Was it $3 billion in Facebook stock? Was it $1 billion plus a performance bonus? Would Snapchat continue to operate independently, or was it a huge acquihire?

We know what IBM's server business is worth. Snapchat's valuation is just speculation.
I don't find this to be the case at all, we produced a game which was free and had a single purchase for the rest of the levels. People didn't complain any more than normal, conversion was good.

I also believe this model is executed well on the App Store — I personally play and purchase Tell Tale's episodic games, the Layton Brothers Mystery Room game, Phoenix Wright, Ghost Trick, and so on. All of them use this sales model.

One of the biggest, most loved games ever also used this model: Letterpress. It is free and offers a single purchase for unlimited multiplayer opponents. People love it.
Yeah, in theory the database is supposed to take care of things like this for you.

In practice, every time I've seen a slow DB query, I've always been able to get huge improvements on it, even though the DB in theory had all the knowledge necessary to realize that I don't care about the intermediate results.
Time for a Kickstarter for iWoz: The Movie.
Because he's the Woz, he's immutable and immovable like the Bhudda

Funny how Jobs was the 'Bhuddist.'
came here to suggest people who are interested in where kubrick got his model for the character dr strangelove to study herman kahn. just read a book about him - 'the worlds of herman kahn' - and cannot recommend it enough for this subject. his book 'on thermonuclear war' was widely talked about when it came out in the 60s, one of the huge impacts that RAND had on our society.

it was an absurd time as the world changed so radically so quickly and strategists scrambled to figure out doctrine, policy, strategy, and how to use the emerging thinking of game theory.

another book on the evolution of nuclear policy is 'the dead hand', which looks at the emergence of nuclear deterrence from the first bomb through the recent years following the breakup of the USSR. the dead hand referred to in the title is the failsafe the soviets built to strike back once they had been demolished.
I think it was more of an example of the absurd legal gymnastics they're able to do to justify the desired conclusion of a case.
There is a period of public comment before trademarks are granted, to give any other people with similar names a chance to object. I've been at places where our trademarks were held up by that.
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I don't think it's that fuzzy, because even if you gave consent at one point to be photographed naked, that doesn't mean that the person having access to the photos can do anything they want with them. I mean it's one thing to send a nude pic in a sext and it's another to upload the pic to the internet with all your personal information.

There was a great interview about this last year in a Canadian radio show: http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2013/06/13/end-revenge-porn/
Carl Icahn Losing Netflix Bet With Son Brett as Shares Advance
From https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/the_doghouse_...

On brute forcing cryptographic keys using an ideal computer that uses the absolute minimum energy possible:

A typical supernova releases something like 1051 ergs. (About a hundred times as much energy would be released in the form of neutrinos, but let them go for now.) If all of this energy could be channeled into a single orgy of computation, a 219-bit counter could be cycled through all of its states.

Quantum computers won't help break cryptography because they must still consume energy to work, and even a supernova's worth of energy won't even let you count to 2^256, let alone actually do that many hashes.

The only real problem that could occur is if some weakness is found in current cryptographic standards... which while possible, seems unlikely given the massive amount of attention they've already received from incredibly smart people.

But, even if something like that did happen, all bitcoin would have to do is roll out a new client that fixes the problem.
It's not ideal, but I actually think it's a good thing that e.g. gambling is restricted to adults. A fairly difficult topic IMO. Ideally, people would just be educated/interested enough to identify and avoid scams. Definitely hoping for that.
It would be useful if the data was loaded into different RDBMS' and their execution plans compared. My understanding is that MySQL has the worst query planner and Oracle the best. MSSQL sits somewhere in between, near PgSQL but better in a few areas.

I think MySQL basically gives up optimizing the moment you ask it to do a correlated subquery.

I use MSSQL at work and given it some really dumb schemas and really dumb queries and it still manages to pick good plans. It wouldn't surprise me if MSSQL generated the "optimal" plan from the first query.

It doesn't choose good plans if you break 3NF by a long shot or avoid the most obvious indexes. Otherwise the only thing to watch out for is stale stats and parameter sniffing.

Oracle 12c has adaptive plans which would be a great addition to MSSQL in the fight against parameter sniffing. Basically it figures out that it's probably got the wrong plan ("this nested loop join stopped making sense about 10,000 rows ago") and adjusts it accordingly.

Again, wouldn't be surprised if Oracle got it "right" from the first query.
One-liner for publishing npm package updates (including git tags)
it't primarily a controller issue. The type of games that the touch screen allow for optimally isn't those types of games.

And so we are left with the old card & puzzle games.

There is also room for some great RTS but we have to wait til the tablet market becomes a little bit bigger.
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Pretty much. Trademarks aren't really granted they are "registered." Instead of a presumed legal right like say a patent or copyright, it's more like a warning "Hey I'm using this name!" It's purpose is so that you can pick a name nobody is using.

Trademark law isn't like copyright. It's not universal. It's limited by market scope and market geography. And the analysis is mainly focused on how confusing it would be to customers.

Trademark law is actually pretty sensible when you learn about it. But it's not easy to describe in short summary.
The law surrounding the intersection of copyright, photography, and the internet (with user generated content and Safe Harbour thrown in for good measure) is indeed fuzzy. Honestly, I don't know whether there exists any hard and fast rules per se. When you have so many laws together and sometimes in conflict with one another... I don't know. It's difficult.
They've done it twice with their "one app at a time" videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOUfzyAEQHk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGtP6ZQ6Lt8
I don't understand why people think Candy Crush is bad. I've played Candy Crush for close to a year (I'm on level 153) and I haven't spent a dime.

Sure, I've played the same level for weeks on end, but I haven't bought anything.

Of course I've been tempted to push the button, spend 99 cents and bypass the level, but I have something called willpower and a certain amount of pride that every level I've beaten is legit.
I've seen it called a couple things, but many people refer to it as a "curtain" effect.
South Korea rules pre-installed phone bloatware must be deletable
Or you could read it as programmers being only subset of all people and computers were finally becoming mainstream enough that the ratio began to reflect that?
Apple's iconic glass cube store shatters in the New York cold
Here is an article you should read...

http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/21/5307992/inside-the-mind-of...
The founder of Asana gave a great talk on that subject for Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (available online if you search). If I remember correctly for him changing the world was making it easier for others to do their thing more effeciently. One example he gave was cancer researchers that use Asana which gives them more time for research due to easier project management.
While I like the idea man do I her hate that term. You can't just be isomorphic: you must be isomorphic to or with respect to aomething.

It's like McDonald's named their new hamburger the RESTful Patty.
Looks like a substantial number of upvoters didn't read TFA at all [1]. I wonder what the front page would look like if only upvotes that happened after clicking the link would be counted.

[1]: Or they are all LT users with light themes. Don't really believe that though.
Amen. It is the Jobs-Wozniak syndrome re-played again and again. We focus on technical issues and (mostly) ignore the business value we produce (aesthetics included). Guess what, the money is being made not because of code quality only, but from the business value it produces. So whoever presents him/herself neatly and can accentuate the awesomeness of the product (taking credit for your work), becomes the rainmaker and assumes power.
Yep I played flash versions over 10 years ago!
There's a "modern" qbasic called qb64. Have you looked at it?

I also second the recommendations on python (which has a built-in turtle and awesome libraries like pygame).

Racket is also a very good choice. DrRacket is a solid IDE and the language has plenty of good basic libraries. The book Realm of Racket might also be of interest: http://realmofracket.com/
What's the deal with the gif in the "feel weird?" block (the one with the guy holding the microphone)?

Otherwise I get it, but couldn't I just set a timer using the multitude of timer apps (or a physical timer) to do the same thing?
As for pricing, you should have a free trial, at least for a few of my users, so that we can kick the tires really hard - and you MUST have an export capability so that we are not your hostages if we decide to go elsewhere - the alternative is bad press.

It would also be good to have tiers. $19/month doesn't seem all that much, but for an unproven product from an unproven company, well, it seems high. You are competing with github and Trello and Quip and iDoneThis and a host of other tools that are either free or much lower cost.

CRM companies leave bad tastes in the mouths of many small business owners because they are only marginally more useful than a lot of the low-cost freemium tools but much, much more expensive - and require us to adjust to them.

Improve that situation, you may win more you think.
I'm guessing that most people who are taking the sort of violent action mentioned in the article probably don't understand that.

That may be part of the problem. For most people outside of the tech field, all this technology is just a magic black box that is producing outsized wealth. There isn't a sense that people are doing work to produce this stuff.
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