skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What bothers me, is that the addictive nature and spending is up 2 par with poker sites/ casino's. You can play for free with playmoney there, and sure if you have discipline and constraint you won't deposit on such a site. Then advertising comes in..
DNSSEC surpasses 50% of root domains
Only by nutters or reactionarys
Well, I had a hunch it was for this reason. I usually get grumpy when an arguably superior solution is presented as an 'alternative' to something that's just more popular because it's easier that way for people to grok what it's all about. But on the other hand, I've never been good at marketing, so who am I to complain. :)
I couldn't agree more with your sentiment.

The last mobile game I worked on at a (now defunct) company, started out as an innovative open-world exploration / action game (See http://www.slantsixgames.com/games/strata-scavenger). I can honestly say, having had first-hand gameplay experience with it, that this game could have been a standout in the mobile game crowd.

Unfortunately, the day came when our CMF (Canadian Media Fund) money ran out, and the company had to look for external funding. Needless to say, publishers are not interested in this kind of game. They expect simple gameplay, in-app purchases, social features, etc. It it very hard, in the current mobile game climate, to come up with truly deep and innovative games. I applaud each and every indie dev trying to do so.

EDIT: edited link above to point directly to the company's website
Websites should be free to host user generated content provided they're not intending to host illegal content. Taking reasonable steps to remove illegal content is only part of that. If the illegal content hosting is the public premise of the site, then that's proof of intent. For me, the distinction is pretty clear. Reddit doesn't allow subreddits devoted to child porn, for example, and I think that's reasonable.

I don't think laws should be applied retroactively, but normally they aren't, and that certainly isn't what happened in this case. The fine was related to a civil case, and the criminal proceedings seem to be related to hacking activity.

Bear in mind that although revenge porn wasn't covered by criminal law until recently, it was always covered by civil law. These photographs count as copyrighted content. According to the Jezebel article, the website owner refused to take down photos even when issued with a DMCA takedown notices. As I understand it, that means the owner was breaking civil law. So it's not really fair to paint him as a law abiding but sketchy businessman. He broke the law, but he got away with it by targeting vulnerable people who didn't sue him because it would have been public, embarrassing and expensive.

Revenge porn isn't a good thing, on balance. The freedom involved isn't worth the damage done, so I'd be happy for it to be illegal to host. However legislation on this has to be very carefully written to only target revenge porn. You wouldn't want someone getting put in jail for torrenting an amateur porn movie.
Store ASP.Net identity data in CouchDb or in the cloud using Cloudant
Recently I put out a simple NuGet package: MyCouch.AspNet.Identity, that lets you store ASP.Net identity data in CouchDb or in the cloud using Cloudant, instead of in a SQL Server using Entity framework. It’s about a three-five minute change and it is really easy. And to show you this, I have put together a small screencast as well as a small sample, which you can find in this article.<p>Let me know what you think.
How old is he? I have a 11 year old niece, and she is learning Javacript (using code combat and codecademy) and Python at a good pace.
How Verizon plans to weaken the cable industry’s grip
Show HN: The no bullshit approach to tracking your fitness progress
Hello HN,

I wanted a simple app to track my fitness progress. Every fitness tracker in the AppStore had too many features for my liking so I made fit-stitch (Free, iOS). It allows you to take snapshots and attach a weight and date to each one. When you've made some progress you can create a before and after picture with a few taps.

Hope you find it useful.

www.fit-stitch.com
Cloact becomes Reagent: Undo is trivial
The buy sell spread on LocalBitcoins seems to be in the region of $150-200/bitcoin for cash deals. That doesn't seem too attractive for using bitcoin as an alternative to a checking account.
Light Table 0.6.2 released
They should have trademarked Clone Cash instead
"The cost of losing a particular employee at a particular point in time can be far greater than the individual contribution they will ever make. That cost is transient because it depends on the state of a particular project." I think what you're trying to say here is that if a competitive company can time it right they can derail a project by scooping away talent at the right time (say, right before a product launch) which will cause greater harm at the moment than what the employee is "normally" worth (by "normal" I mean an average of their normal value output). I agree with this, but it is a failure of the company's compensation structure if this is the case. For instance, project base bonuses (upon completion of the project) should relieve some of this pressure because they would only get paid out upon completion of the project.

Regarding "better products" do you mean in my analogy, or our real world case of companies competing for talent? In the analogy, the competition causes both company A and B to beat each others' products in order dominate the market (either by lowering price and improving the product). In the case of companies competing for talent, the "product" is really the overall compensation package. Some combination of salary, options, benefits, etc will attempt to be found that will keep the employee where they are.
"Get salt in signed numeric format by doing sqlite3 query SELECT value FROM locksettings WHERE name = 'lockscreen.password_salt' on /data/system/locksettings.db"
Is this a surprise to anyone? In capitalism, money is the only thing that matters. What do you expect?
Not true. What probably happened was that your Google Play account was tied to your mobile (i.e. Verizon) account, so charges made in Google Play was pushed to Verizon, who then pushed those charges to you. T-Mobile used to do that, and I needed no credit card, until about two years ago, when one was needed because T-Mobile or Google no longer wanted to do business that way.
i assume you work on the team at FB. Are you considering writing jsx compilers for platforms like the jvm?
Stanford launches latest version of iOS course on iTunes U
Really? I'd much rather they acted stupidly over names than went out and blatantly copied people's games. The former is an annoyance which can be worked around, the latter destroys peoples livelihoods.
Because any maker wants their stuff to be in front of as many people as possible - and staying with Jobs sure made that happen.
Mobile games have pivoted from being short, fun to play vignettes into honey traps that lure you in and get you hooked to consume your time and/or money.

Every major studio out there makes formulaic bull that basically copies some other schmuck's idea and adds their own "StudioCoin" on top to monetize the game.

Temple Run spawned hundreds of clones, then Candy Crush clones came out and now apparently it's Clash of Clans clones.
Everyone from EA to Mobage does this cloning instead of focusing on bringing new ideas to the table.
If only they tried to innovate, the crappy studios like King would go out of business.

Indie developers try hard, but it takes a team to make a well rounded game with large scale mass appeal... :/

tl;dr Today's mobile games are time consuming black holes, and once done credible competition comes forth, they're sure sink.
I was, I'm ashamed to admit. No longer.
Great Firewall of Cameron blocks game update "XerathMageChainsExtended"
Library Things Needs PHP Wizard
What we want: LibraryThing is looking for a kick-ass programmer (coder, hacker, engineer, etc.) to join the team, working mostly on LibraryThing.com.

Basics:

You can be anywhere. LibraryThing is headquartered in Portland, Maine, but most technology employees are remote.
If you’re not local, we’d expect you to visit the office for team meetings from time to time.
Tangibles:

Necessary. LibraryThing is made with in non-OO PHP. You should be a sure-footed, experienced, secure and rapid PHP coder.
Core. JavaScript (with JQuery, Prototype), CSS, MySQL.
Bonus. Mobile development (native or not), Python, Solr, book- and library technologies, systems skills, design or UX chops.
> 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.

In Europe, Atari ST and Amiga ruled in terms of music, DTP, 3D and video production at consumer level, before the PC got widespread.

Mac was always out of reach for most pockets.
We expect some regulation to uphold the supposed ideals of capitalism, one of which is competition. But if that regulation just doesn't happen then, yes, capitalism looks pretty broken.
I have one of the Final Fantasy games on my cell phone, and the user experience is really not good for a cell phone game.

One kind of game I expected to do really well and I'm still waiting, is graphic adventure games.

In either case, I think the problem is recognizing that smartphone games are similar but different to handheld consoles, I'm sure there are plenty of insights to be had - maybe game sessions of 5-15 minutes instead of whatever handhelds have

This article says they're equal, but maybe it's a chicken and egg problem :)

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/iphone-gaming-sessions...

"traditional mobile games are played for around six minutes at a time"

"with Rolando .. the average play session is 22 minutes"
Another interesting article about the F-35: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/5c95d45f86a5
There are free Match 3 games, at least on Android, I have downloaded and played several :) .

Example - JewelsStar

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.game.Jewel...

However, I'd pay for a polished experience like a PopCap made game (Bejeweled).
To play devil's advocate: If Samsung had just stored it in plaintext, as you suggested they might as well do, then the title of the article would've been along the lines of "Samsung security FAIL! Stores your PIN code in plaintext, doesn't even try to obfuscate it."
Rovio isn't doing this (as blatantly) for example. Neither does Supercell.
>I think most people just use face or pattern unlock these days though?

Most average users, sure. I've seen a couple of family members using face unlock, and many random people and coworkers using patterns. Myself, I use a password.
Lots of games do that, and that seems to be the only respectable way to monetize....
that and in-game item sales.... but those tend to go too far and then cripple gameplay.
Sunny Day
Given how the US has treated JP Morgan in the past couple years, it would be stupid of any bank to partake in any illegal activity simply based on this:

"The rules are not expected to give banks a green light to accept deposits and provide other services, but would tell prosecutors not to prioritize cases involving legal marijuana businesses that use banks."
Definitely. This makes me wonder how other Android implementations store it though, as the space for brute forcing a 4 (or even 8) digit number is so small as to be essentially nonexistent, as long as you're cracking some kind of hash rather than typing in attempts.
http://mnmlist.com/w
How embarrassing would it be for a gamedev to be working for them... I hope their best coders will leave.
Ghost ship carrying cannibal rats could be heading for Britain
Most VFX for Film (at least by the big studios like ILM, Weta, SPI, MPC, Framestore) is done on Linux. Even Pixar are mostly Linux-based.
Utterly disgusting. Candy Crush deleted.
> Get mad at the stupid laws, not at the people taking advantage of them.

Indignant rage is plentiful enough for both. Bash (metaphorically) the hell out of any and all entities you can find who make everything awful.
Beautiful site, nice memories and all, but I find this a bit worrisome.

The Mac's 25th anniversary went by rather unremarkably under Steve's management, if I remember correctly. He famously gave the Apple's museum to Stanford as soon as he returned.

A company as old (for this industry) and successful as Apple must always look relentlessly to the future in order not to fall too much in love with its own accomplishments to prevent it from reinventing itself.
Sure, you're welcome to do try it in another language, they almost encourage you to. No one said there's only one way, but for many simple problems a hash is a good solution.

The best answer is one that passes the test, and using ruby it is pretty easy to do so, but you could do it any way you like.
I agree this is extremely important; every optimiser is different!
Mac users are annoyingly vocal.
Debian repositories are not gateless, in that you can't just create a repository with a text file in it and call it a project. You have to be sponsored, which mean you got to have some working code that is useful for someone.

Or to take a statitic look, 2 out of 3 forks on github are empty[1]. The quality per "project" on github is order of magnitude less than on debian.

You can test this out by randomly picking github repositories and read code. It takes several tries on the randomizer to even get code, and then even more to get code that actually do something.

Using statistics from more mature projects will provide different results than code just thrown at the wall.

As for the beer, it is a bit of a fringe view to allow others assault oneself with beer bottles. Most people will expect physical assault to have legal repercussions. The GPL in the same way trust that most people will not go out to hurt others, but in the case they will, repercussion will happen.

I now really hope you never end up in a court, complaining about assault, and having your comment above used as evidence against you. You basically gave everyone a license to hit you with beer bottles.

[1] http://blog.ram.rachum.com/post/4472104984/2-out-of-3-github...
Prior Art: Bangkok Tuk Tuk Taxis

You walk up to a driver and tell him where you want to go. He quotes you a ludicrously low price. You hop in. He drives you several miles out of your way and stops you in front of a Priceless Gem Broker's shop, and refuses to budge until you go up and at least take a look around.

This is common enough that you need to actually specify "No Shopping" when you hail a tuk tuk so that you can get a price that involves driving directly from here to your destination.
So it does not judge whether this effect is due to an actual physical activity or just the fact that the rats had some stimulation and were not dying from boredom like the control group. Not to mention that this data is from only single experimental and control cages holding 11 rats total, so there may be some social structure biases.
ESR's intimidatingly huge task list
5 Greek startups to look out for in 2014
Not a lawyer, but it seems like posting the content yourself could ruin a Section 230 defense:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicatio...

Also, I'm not sure why a quality-review process would lessen culpability if all the illegal stuff gets through anyway.
It is - I just open Chrome dev tools and disable it.
> but sqlite should be there, as it is being used in the system (if I am correct, at least by pkg, the new package manager).

AFAIK, no. PKGNG is intentionally not part of base, it's meant to always remain in ports. The reason is that it allows pkg developers to iterate quickly (and this ties nicely into the recent ports infrastructure overhaul efforts). Once something is part of base and goes into a RELEASE it pretty much has to stay frozen apart for security fixes, and this was deemed not flexible enough for pkg. The only thing in base is a shim pkg which on first invocation installs the real thing from ports (and, I think, later just routes everything to it, unless you remove it or change PATH). So nothing in base uses sqlite and it's in ports/packages.
Even making a 2x or 3x return is a failure for a VC and not seen as worth their time.
Like the US really cares about international drug treaties.

The reason that drug policy around the world is similar to drug policy in the US is specifically because the US has forced its approach on the rest of the world, not the other way around. Notice how many of the international anti-drug operations are carried out by the DEA.

If the US suddenly decided overnight that it wanted to do things its own way, I have a hard time believing they'd face any real international resistance.
A self-driving Taxi + Ads. The mind boggles.

Imagine. The taxi would probably take a sponsored route through commercial hubs. Show you a good view of a hotel perhaps so that you take a room there. The radio would play ads and the windows would be transparent panels with overlaid ads.

This whole focus of Google on ads is sickening.
> I really miss the Doom model of give away a few levels cor free and buy the rest.

Sadly, things like this get tons of hate in the reviews... People would rather be annoyed with stupid social media and IAP crap than pay a dollar for the rest of the game. The only way to really make it work is (from my experience) make an ad-supported, shortened lite version, so people can test it out before buying it. That's a real pain because now you have two malls to manage, update, and promote. At least that's how it works on iOS.
At some point can they mandate DNSSEC?
One interesting angle some people have taken in the absence of RP-specific laws is to make copyright claims (since a lot of the pictures are either outright stolen, or self-taken and then later uploaded by angry exes)
Very common in Delhi, India too. There are all these emporiums located not so close to the metro stations so footfalls are less. They pay the autorickshaw drivers to stop any customer there for a minute. Didn't know this existed until it happened to me :)
The patent system of America needs to be shot in the head.
That's classic. Certainly more innovative than the typical "drive several miles out of your way with the meter running" one.
I'm sure that someone will join in shortly with a list of successful startups which are sincerely trying to change the world and make it a better place, but I'm having a really hard time naming one.
Is it not copyright infringement? You post my pictures without my consent, I send a takedown notice, you refuse, I call the FBI.
https://www.fpcomplete.com/ is trying to do this
I don't think his website would have existed if he had honoured takedown requests. The entire premise was that these pictures are hosted without permission (and according to the Jezebel article about 90% were). If he honoured DMCA requests then that would become widely known pretty quickly. Part of the point of the site was to publicly humiliate the women, so if they had any easy way to get rid of the pictures, it wouldn't have had the same impact.
Being slightly more complicated is a feature, IMO. I always get the impression that the logicless templates end up as quite logicful languages once you add all the control flow directives. But its all very ad hoc so some simple things end up being tricky to do, like passing parameters to a subtemplates or giving different CSS classes to the even and odd rows. If you just use a regular programming language from the start these are just a matter of calling a subroutine or using an if statement instead of being something you will need to go to Stackoverflow to figure out.
Honestly, articles like that get more attention and discussion on HN.

After the first person comments about how they're sick of articles that are titled like that, a real discussion starts among the other comments which is the goal.

If the author named it: "React: A great way to do this and that". It'd get 5 upvotes, 10 minutes in the primetime and die off.
Distributed Exchange: An answer to the HFT arms race
It's interesting (based on the poll "tell us about your first mac") that the Programming category essentially disappears in the early 90s.

This roughly corresponds to the decline and near extinction of the Mac. Having programmers leave your platform is a very, very bad thing.
Collaborative Sharing Just Got Better
Hawking: Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes
Rise of the machines? Seriously?
XKCD: Cold
There was a time when those industries belonged to Atari ST and Amiga systems.
> You also have states that have said it is completely legal to possess, grow, and distribute it. Right there, that strikes me as a weird combination: Don't federal laws trump state ones? (And wasn't this sort of a central part of the Civil War, that states can't just make up their own laws that contradict federal ones?)

Sort of. But there's an argument to be made that the federal government doesn't have the constitutional authority to criminalize drugs.

In fact, the very first laws restricting drug and alcohol use were phrased in terms of other language[0], specifically because the common perception was that the federal government couldn't simply prohibit the states from allowing sale of a substance, due to the Tenth Amendment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights#T...

I'd recommend reading the Federalist papers (they're long, but there are a few that serve as a nice summary of the whole work). It's fascinating to see how different the attitude towards government in the 18th century was compared to today.

The Federalist Papers were essentially written as a "propaganda" (in the literal sense of the word) piece for the new form of government, directed at people who were concerned with the idea of a federal government and wanted the states to retain authority. This was especially true in large states (like New York), who feared losing control, and a lot of the papers are intended to assure those citizens that the Constitution, etc. should to limit federal power, not to grant it.

[0] For example, taxes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marihuana_Tax_Act_of_1937

[1] Note that the 18th Amendment was exactly that - a Constitutional amendment, and not a simple bill passed by Congress or executive order.
FaBrickation - Fast 3D printing using Lego bricks
They've mandated DNSSEC for new gTLDs, and the uptick is usage is almost entirely down to that. 100 or so have been delegated so far, and there are hundreds more in the pipeline. To some extent the 50% stat is meaningless as there's about to be a ton of gTLDs with tiny amounts of traffic relative to .com etc.

More DNSSEC uptake is still good news though.

Prior to opening the floodgates, DNSSEC was at 35% and climbing slowly: https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/data/zfr/root/ds
Very nice first blog post. Definitely caught my attention right away and made me curious about the company.
Full changelog:

0.6.2

FIX: styling bug that caused light themes to be unusable

Names do bring you on the front page, however minor the message might be.
Internet itself was called "a fad" by some.
Settlers on the iPad is brilliant. The touchscreen interface is perfect for such a game, and I’ve certainly played it for hours at a time. Not sure how well it would translate to phone screen size, or if it’s even available.
how does this compare to http://www.7he.at/freebsd/vps/?
How about "Everything in Dr. Stangelove was Plausible in Hindsight"

Less link-baity of a title but much more accurate.
I'm not a fan of huffpo, but considering Drudge routinely runs conspiratorial things like "Obama born in Kenya", I would not put them on the same level.
LXC is to Jail as Docker is to CBSD
> Names do bring you on the front page, however minor the message might be.

That is just a quick fix for 0.6.1.

0.6.2 was released about 2 hours after 0.6.1.

https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/releases
If the game is what I think it is based on the screenshots, then it's existed in various forms for a very long time.