skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently this is done with Ruby/Rails... any chance this is going to find its way onto Github?
It's a mix of that and the bird vehicle from Machine Gun Jetpack which used the same tap/flap mechanic. Thrown together with some mario sprites and not so great hit detection.
Putting it on the top of the stack would prevent the first stage engines from being reused.
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Teachers often think of teaching with artifacts as teaching ancient cultures. However, it’s possible to learn about present indigenous cultures who still live as their ancestors have for centuries with 3D objects. For students, learning with artifacts from the indigenous cultures of Panama can open whole new worlds to them. The Ngobe-Bugle of mainland Panama and Isla Palenque, the Kuna Yala of the San Blas Islands, and the Embera and Wounaan of the Darien jungles have stayed true to their ancestral roots. Using digital 3D objects of molas, baskets, masks, chacara bags, and tagua nut carvings can give students a starting point for exploring the past and present of these indigenous cultures.
How I've reduced asynchronous test size by ~50% (and be DRY) with meta-language
Also eliminates any libel lawsuits if the subject decides what occurred wasn't 100% as-described in the book.
I bit OT, but I saw something similar once where the head of QA reported to the director of development. So the guy in charge of QA's annual raise/bonus/etc was himself compensated based on hitting release deadlines. I wonder how people here would have set that up differently.
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I haven't played Flappy Bird, but it seems really similar to a helicopter game that was inordinately popular in my middle school 10-12 years ago. It looks like it's still up. http://www.addictinggames.com/action-games/helicoptergame.js...
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True, and I don't understand why he wouldn't have brought that up. When he wrote

"The SEC issued Michelle a Wells notice, a letter
stating that it planned to recommend enforcement action
against her personally. It was not an indictment, but it
was a formal investigation, and it would be very
distracting. I had to ask her to step down."

... he made it sound like he threw an innocent (as in "until proven guilty") and valued employee under the bus at the first sign of trouble. The way he recounts the story, it doesn't sound like he had a good reason to do that at the time. He went out of his way to make Abrams sound like a victim, even at his own expense, when that apparently wasn't the case at all.
What both game players and developers want is VIRAL. I admit to downloading it and playing for few minutes, but only because it was covered on so many news sources. That is the only thing is has going for it.
We had hundreds of expensive Macs at my last gig. Guess how many of those we bought AppleCare for? Zero. This was also true of pretty much every piece of electronic equipment we owned.

Note that this isn't very unusual either at most companies. Given the low failure rate of most electronics, it is simply cheaper for the business/IT team to buy a replacement Mac / router / whatever than to pay any kind of yearly maintenance fee, which is always designed to make more money for the vendor.

$250/year for a $999 piece of equipment is not a good deal. If it were an option, like AppleCare, most would advise you to not take it.
A blogger sentenced for finding documents via Google [Translated from French]
Could you explain in a little more detail? I was under the impression that the FCC would fix prices for common carriers, and therefore they would have to at least charge everyone in the same manner.
This is quite nice. You should submit it as a "Show HN". You can be sure that as soon as you have a free software replacement for btsync I'll use it at least to serve my personal website.

By the way, have you heard about Freenet? https://freenetproject.org/
You can calculate the minimum volatility portfolio directly with linear algebra, idiot. It's called 'efficient frontier'.
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I guess different people go for different things. I have never gotten too excited about SHA hashes.
This is an illustration of why mens rea should be required in all criminal complaints.
Much of what a GC will do in a Silicon Valley company is support the CFO in ensuring legal compliance for finance and accounting. In this context, it can make sense for the GC to report to the CFO. In another sort of company where the legal issues might be more diverse, say a place like Wal-Mart that has complex labor and environmental issues in addition to the financial issues, this structure would be less appropriate.
Much of the reasoning behind not prosecuting wall street (post MBS meltdown) has been the lack of malicious intent.

But here, we see SV hanged for "mistakes". Wtf?
Twitch Beats Out Facebook and Amazon in Online U.S. Traffic
It's only mentioned briefly in the blog post, but one of the biggest wins with this system (and the aspect that I absolutely love when using it internally at Google) is the simplicity of screen sharing into a meeting. Anyone who wants to present can simply join the hangout from their laptop and then share their screen. Not only does it mean you don't have to fuss with cables/adapters (which can also break/wear out), it also means that if someone wants to share something while someone else is presenting, you don't have to disconnect and reconnect various computers; the other person just shares their screen as well (and/or the first temporarily stops sharing their screen). It also means you don't have to have dedicated rooms for presenters - someone in a remote office can present from their laptop to a meeting room elsewhere.

Having a meeting that doesn't involve slides? The meeting organizer can just throw up the meeting agenda with a click or two - or if it's in something like a Google Doc, the meeting agenda can even be dynamic, with people adding topics they want to visit as they determine them, and the organizer simply working their way down the agenda as it grows. Add the agenda as an attachment to the google calendar entry for the meeting and people can review/add to the agenda ahead of time, and then look back at it after the meeting for a reminder of what was covered.
Earth Science is only 10% of NASA's budget.

From NASA's 2014 budget request (in millions of dollars):

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/750614main_NASA_FY_2014_Budget_Estim...

Science 5,017.8
Aeronautics 565.7
Space Technology 742.6
Exploration 3,915.5
Space Operations 3,882.9
Education 94.2
Cross Agency Support 2,850.3
===============================
Total Request 17,715.4

To break down "Science":

Earth Science 1,846.1
Planetary Science 1,217.5
Astrophysics 642.3
James Webb Space Telescope 658.2
Heliophysics 653.7

By comparison, most of the "Exploration" budget is spent on the development of the Space Launch System -- which some sarcastically refer to as the "Senate" Launch System, because it is designed to spread money among the states. Just the SLS alone is bigger than the Earth Science budget.
What I take from this story is that the financial law is so complex and unapproachable one can not reliably navigate it without landing in jail, even being a seasoned professional. The author's council could have given him "yes" answer as easily as "no" answer - many other lawyers obviously did since 200 companies got "yes" answers from their councils. And he'd never known anything was wrong. Basically, one can become a criminal not only without knowing he's doing anything wrong, but even without a theoretical way of finding it out - unless you survey all the lawyers you can find, you can not know if a yes from your lawyer would land you in jail or not, and you have no chance of understanding the law even if you spend years studying it - ultimately, the only thing that matters is the word of the enforcers on how they understand it.

It's like living in the same apartment with alcoholic gorilla prone to random outbursts of violence. One day it eats too much of fermented fruit and you're toast. And you have no way of knowing when it happens. Maybe you'll get lucky and you'll be out that day. Maybe you won't.

If I had code that is that bad and unpredictable and nobody knew if it would work or not except by seeking an opinion of a soothsayer which nobody can validate until it's too late, and it would be prone to random catastrophic failures which nobody can predict or find out why they happened, even seasoned professionals, I'd say not even refactor it. Just bury it and start from the design up again and redo the whole thing. That's pretty much the financial code we have now, as far as I can see. Good thing I have to deal just with segfaults and buffer overruns...
Show HN: 500Startups Batch 007 by their AngelList tags.
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Just looked up CRAM-MD5, and the password is used as a key to HMAC-MD5, which means you can at least store MD5'ed versions of the passwords.

Add on a layer of encryption (unique key per password, keys in a separate encrypted table) and you're way better off than you are now.

Also, since MD5 can be collided, consider SSL for the login process.
The audience is whatever flavor of the week all the sheeple are downloading to be cool and fit in with their friends. I have never played nor downloaded angry birds flappy bird or W/E
Often all or most administrative (read: non-revenue-generating, non-operational) functions for the company fall under the CFO--simply because the finance function is administrative but the CFO pretty much has to report to the CEO. The GC is administrative--as is HR, real estate, etc.--so they all often report to the CFO.
Similar, but even less forgiving.
PR software built with machine learning for startups

I don't understand where the machine learning part comes in. Is it just figuring out which reporters report about different topics?
Just use outside counsel. It's more expensive, but it solves the problems of internal structure.
'Why I did not go to jail, but if I had, I would have served 1/20th of the sentence of some poor guy who got caught with 5 grams of crack.'

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/snitch/primer/
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Are we able to get a higher-res of Clippy? Seems a little grainy.
> Need to meet with a customer who doesn’t use Chromebox for meetings? That’s easy too—all they need is a Gmail account.

This would be amazing, except no partner or customer our company works with has a gmail account. I have used quite a few different solutions, and while none of them wow me, the one thing all of them did was work for everyone.

For this to become a viable solution for this market it will need to include non-gmail users.
Google looking for the next up-and-coming developer artist
I looked and your wrapper did look similar (and not obviously incorrect), but if you plan on publishing this benchmark, I would suggest including a comparison against raw Java code, for credibility's sake.

I guess I'm really wondering: let's say Java 9 mutexes use Linux 4's user-mode threading syscall; in that case do we need Quasar's scheduler, channels, actors etc. Or can we just use "good-old" threads and mutexes? Where would Quasar's benefits come from?

It sounds to me like the subtext to Google's patches is that rather than accepting the conventional wisdom that "threads don't scale", they've instead just fixed threads.
In addition, big US companies apparently tend to have a very high CFO turnover rate...
These guys won second place in the github data challenge.

https://github.com/blog/1544-data-challenge-ii-results
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(a) opsware was acquired by HP before she ever went to jail.

(b) opsware was publicly traded. part of her punishment was not being allowed to serve as an officer at a publicly traded company.
Nobody mines with CPUs/GPUs any more. If you do, you'll lose money on electricity.

That's pretty interesting, though. I think. Brb, looking up terminology.
Backdating stock options per se is not what's the legal problem -- it's that failing to account correctly for the resulting compensation charges ("comp charges") can result in materially-false filings with the SEC.

This is the key point.
It's not just hardware support, though - it's service support. Unlike a Macbook, which doesn't rely on Apple services to function, this system is built on top of the Hangouts service.
Like accepting a shared password?
Could you elaborate on where exactly machine learning comes into play? Why is there additional value with that tech?

Very interesting product, I will definitely be giving it a try.
So while there are pros and cons to a plural versus unitary executive, at least for public companies, it makes a lot of sense to have the GC report to the board or a specific committee.

Yes, I'd say that from a governance perspective the ideal situation is to have a GC or CLO reporting directly to the board. In startups the board doesn't necessarily do as much governing as they normally would, though, especially in the case of a founder-CEO; in such a case of a dysfunctional board, having the GC report to the actual nexus of decision-making (aka the CEO) might work better.
The BT phone bridges that sales and marketing seem to enjoy so much (whyyyyy) are a recurring cost that dwarfs this outlay.
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I have been wondering if the developer has made much money from the app at all really. In spite of the overwhelmingly vast number of downloads, the adverts only show whilst you are playing the game. Aside from the momentary lag when they appear, most users probably don't even notice them because they are concentrating so hard. Users are almost guaranteed to pay the adverts no attention lest they risk the possibility of sacrificing their amazing score of 1.
That was the big WTF for me too. Before you start microbenchmarking and talking about the machine instructions for a function call, get rid of the damn function call.
Just launched as a paid service. Any feedback is appreciated.
Evidence of them being given due process is off topic. We are talking about the motives behind the unlawful attacks on Anon. It is not up for debate that a lot of illegal shit is being done and taken credit for by anonymous members of Anon. That is the reason for the actions, not because of Anon's politics. You can't just say since they haven't located specific Anon members to prosecute for those crimes, therefor there cannot possibly be a reason except "rrrr I need to silence you". That doesn't follow.

The DEA raided the known drug den, but since they hadn't conducted court trials first, it could only be because the drug dealers espoused anti establishment political messages!
Regarding your desire for the Chromecast to have a webcam hookup - one factor that might play into why it doesn't is that in general encoding video is somewhat more computationally expensive than decoding it.
I like that it comes with an integrated camera, but I would like to be able to use an existing A/V systems as well. I've been in meeting rooms that already have a camera in every corner, plus one in front on an actuated gimbal. Leveraging that existing hardware would make a lot of sense.
Thank you for placing your professional responsibility ahead of getting a job. I wish there were more people like you.
Acting on advice of counsel is indeed a defense. You have to show that you disclosed all relevant facts to your attorney and that you acted within the parameters of that advice. Tbe government may try to get around this by alleging a conspiracy between you and your attorney and charging you both. This is unusual. Not rare, but not the norm either.
The government will subpoena your attorney as a witness and threaten him with this. Your attorney will then claim that you failed to disclose X relevant fact. The defense will not be allowed where you failed to disclose all the relevant facts to your attorney. There is a good deal of case law on these issues.
Reminds me of Line Birds, but Line Birds is actually playable.
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/line-birds/id438084823?mt=8

I can make it past 1 pine. :(
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"Michelle had no intention of breaking any laws and no idea that she’d broken any laws. [...] Once the SEC decided that most technology company stock option procedures were not as desired, the jail sentences were handed out arbitrarily. "

I find this quite disturbing. Especially the second part.
First, they want games about birds.

What kind of conclusion is this? It's a 2-d side-scrolling game with basic sinking/gravity dynamics. There are only a few ways to make a game with those rules.

(1) use a flying object/animal

(2) put the level underwater (eg Super Mario Brothers, 1985)

(3) make the game entirely abstract.
We generate a press list by comparing the results of your story wizard (all of the text about your story and your business that you enter into our system) with reporter archives.

To go into slightly more detail, we've train classifiers for each reporter in the system using the articles they've written. Comparing your story against the articles reporters have written in the past few months gives us a very accurate picture of who might write about you and therefore who you should be spending time trying to contact.
I haven't used ATS. My understanding is that it's a dependently systems language which makes me think it'll provide good region types and things like what Rust is trying to offer. In that way I'd say it still differs a lot from, say, Agda, where you're likely to encounter fairly heady questions about equality and algebra very quickly.

But again, I've not used it so I can't much say for certain.
What about "Chromebox for workgroups" ?
Good for you mr. grumpy monster.

There's nothing wrong with playing a game that others find interesting. Just like there's nothing wrong with reading HN because others find it interesting. :)
Much of what a GC will do in a Silicon Valley company is support the CFO in ensuring legal compliance for finance and accounting. In this context, it can make sense for the GC to report to the CFO.

I'd say the exact opposite. If the GC is spending most of his time making sure that the CFO isn't doing anything illegal, the GC needs to report to anyone other than the CFO.
More likely Amazon's planning an Onlive-like service. It would be a better fit for their cloud-based services approach.
How does this conductivity compare to something like gold or copper?
There are less computer programming jobs in the USA than there were 20 years ago.

Stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (USA):

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/c...

1990 Number of Jobs 565,000

2010 Number of Jobs	363,100

2012 Number of Jobs 343,700

This is a shrinking industry. Computer programming jobs are tied to manufacturing so as manufacturing leaves the USA, so to do the computer programming jobs. Don't get caught up in the hype about startups: look at the actual numbers. The government tracks these jobs. The numbers are shrinking.

Especially worth a look:

http://americawhatwentwrong.org/story/programming-jobs-fall/

"In its 1990 Occupational Outlook Handbook, the U.S. Department of Labor was especially bullish: “The need for programmers will increase as businesses, government, schools and scientific organizations seek new applications for computers and improvements to the software already in use [and] further automation . . . will drive the growth of programmer employment.” The report predicted that the greatest demand would be for programmers with four years of college who would earn above-average salaries.

When Labor made these projections in 1990, there were 565,000 computer programmers. With computer usage expanding, the department predicted that “employment of programmers is expected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations through the year 2005 . . .”

It didn’t. Employment fluctuated in the years following the report, then settled into a slow downward pattern after 2000. By 2002, the number of programmers had slipped to 499,000. That was down 12 percent–not up–from 1990. Nonetheless, the Labor Department was still optimistic that the field would create jobs–not at the robust rate the agency had predicted, but at least at the same rate as the economy as a whole.

Wrong again. By 2006, with the actual number of programming jobs continuing to decline, even that illusion couldn’t be maintained. With the number of jobs falling to 435,000, or 130,000 fewer than in 1990, Labor finally acknowledged that jobs in computer programming were “expected to decline slowly.” "
Apparently they make $50k a day in ad revenue (http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/5/5383708/flappy-bird-revenue...). Seems like that would be 'much money'.
Iimperically this has had little effect on the quantity of stupid apps on the store.
That's not how those kernel modifications work. You can't just use them with a mutex. The idea is that a thread will be able to say, I'm yielding the CPU to this other thread. When you unlock a mutex you don't necessarily want to park yourself. These changes require either an app-level scheduler, or the use of synchronization mechanisms that can better specify what you want in terms of scheduling. An example for such a mechanism would be an API that says: I'm sending a message to this other actor, but I'm going to wait for it to reply. In this case, the implementation would tell the OS, switch me out and switch that other guy in instead.
Fascinating. Based on what everyone is saying, it seems like it is relatively much more difficult to wind up in jail if you are trying to do the right thing.
I've always thought this is what I wanted too, and until now, never thought that maybe this makes the Chromebook the right platform going forward. Though still 'first class citizen' machines, they're probably the thinest client available, which kinda gets to where we're going.

Or maybe Microsoft (with that shiny new CEO) can deliver on the streaming OS vision and truly provide I/O focused devices http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/streaming-os-micr...
> Putting it on the top of the stack would prevent the first stage engines from being reused.

That's true, but reusability was the wrong goal. It forced a bad design to be adopted. It also led directly to the wishful thinking (50 flights per year!) that caused the schedule pressure on the Challenger.

The actual goal should've been low cost.

Instead of designing the most awesome closed-cycle engine that we could, we should've mass-produced a low-tech and low-cost engine. That's what the Russians did, and that's what SpaceX is doing today.
It looks amazing. I'm buying it right now.
... not sure it's that simple. Angry Birds became popular in part because it's a fun game to play. The gameplay probably doesn't live up to the hype, but it's at least capable of living up to some amount of hype.

Flappy bird is just incredibly awful. It's like QWOP[1], but much simpler.

[1] http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html
Just thinking, won't change complexity, but it could make sense to try and always choose your pivot at the front of a cache-line when possible and then choose this added pivot at then end of the cache line. Probably would only be worth it if the elements in the array numbers or tightly packed structs, and not just pointers to some allocated object elsewhere.
Well mentioned. I gave up reading. I am already -4 plus!
Iimperically [sic] this has had little effect ...

Do you by chance mean "empirically"?
in gaming though, everything is inspired by something. Nothing is truly original. See all RTS games, shooters, 4x games, etc... Anything that's not an outright clone is different enough to be it's own oeuvre, IMO.
I think everybody pretty much knows what's wrong with Sony. No need to hire 12-year-olds or anyone else, besides a Jobs- or Gates-like authority figure who can put the DRM-obsessed content division and assorted NIH die-hards in the PC division in their place (or preferably ditch them altogether.)