skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Only the largest and most powerful organizations in the game, alliances, can actually build or fly titans, and they tend to jealously guard them. That really underscores just how big a loss 75 of them is. Such losses cause tectonic shifts in the balance of power.

Additionally, War in EVE is largely about sapping the opponents' morale - it could take months of fighting for hours every night to take a defended region, but if you get the enemy's pilots discouraged and not logging in or avoiding the fighting or even switching to another group then you can win a lot faster. This is called a "fail-cascade" and it's how GoonSwarm (the infamous lead alliance of CFC) won a lot of early wars - key wins cause players and leaders not to log in which makes future fights easier which causes a "rats fleeing a sinking ship" effect.

That's also why the unpaid bill was such a big deal - it would have taken a week or more of victories for CFC to otherwise capture the system.

That said, it's unlikely in this instance that the losers (Pandemic Legion and friends) are going to fall apart as a result - they've gone from "most Titans in the game" to "second or third most Titans in the game", and they've survived and rebuilt from considerably worse losses before - both GoonSwarm and Pandemic Legion have at various points lost everything and been down to a few hundred demoralized pilots but clawed their way back up.
I thought that was the case. They phrased it so badly i actually quit reading it in the middle because it was giving me a headache.

Loss of working hours for businesses does not mean loss of jobs it means finally people can work decent hours and employers can't take advantage of them as easily.
Angular? Repo? Popular web browser that does not suck? Being a force behind new HTML5 APIs?
Sadly, it's part of the toxic startup/marketing/web design/etc half of hn that's really quite terrible.
Yep, I don't think we're disagreeing, I'm more commenting on - I'm certainly not saying that Android isn't open, more that open should be seen as a continuum rather than a binary switch.

The interesting thing for me is how Google react to the areas where they're losing control of Android. For them Android is (or was) a means to an end - it stopped Apple getting control of the mobile space which would have made Google beholden to Apple for traffic to their services.

I personally don't believe Google have particularly strong feelings about Android as an open source property, they care about it for what it does for them in areas they do care about. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out over the next few years and what that means for Android.
I dated a woman who was born blind. She could listen to JAWS speak text faster than I can read.

If you really want to know how your website "looks" to a blind person, ask one. Every state has an association for the blind. I am sure they would be happy to arrange a time to sit down with you. Expect some honest feedback.
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We managed dozens of clients at a time and one of the biggest compliments we get is on how easy it is to use Basecamp. Really looking forward to the new ideas they have in store.
Maybe relevant, Steve Jobs wanted to license OS X to Sony for their VAIO line.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/5/5380832/sony-vaio-apple-os-...

http://nobi.com/en/Steve%20Jobs%20and%20Japan/entry-1212.htm...
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>> but it depends on the person

And what makes the person? A Person is an amalgamation of inherited genes and collated personal experiences. Most of the personal experiences are a direct result of your location.

I think it is very important for us to go easy on someone who has gone astray or in our opinion is not living a life the way we think it is ought to be lived.

A Person who is a firm believer in free will would not judge anyone or for that matter force his/her view on anyone else.
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I like the social contract, Marxism, Schopenhauer's writings, what we've learned in psychiatry, and so on...
We have plans to add (free) server monitoring to App Enlight.
I would be more than delighted for you guys to comment here:

https://github.com/AppEnlight/main/issues/29

and tell us what you would like to see.
That sucks. Shouldn't there be a way to work around it though? Something like 'I sell them this pretty logo/picture for 6k and then you sell me a pretty picture for 6k as well.', with me being neither an American nor an Iranian and the picture/logo being very hard to judge in value but easy to make ("art"). You might lose some money to taxation etc here, but hey. Or is there a problem I don't see?

Edit: Hm, anti-money laundering laws maybe?
On every Microsoft topic a lot of old stories come up. I think many people at Microsoft know that things have been going wrong during the Vista development, and a lot has changed since then.
I agree on funding, but talent (1) can be found elsewhere (2) is much easier to attract when you're not in Silicon Valley, competing with thousands of other great companies.

Talent is in Silicon Valley only because opportunities, and opportunities are in Silicon Valley only because of funding.
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Eh? What about the lack of heavier elements at this stage of the universe? Or the fact that it wasn't this warm for the next 3-4 billion years (about the time it took to form complex life here)?

Also:
>By demonstrating that life could have formed so early, Loeb may even have delivered a blow to so-called anthropic arguments about life in the universe.

What? No.
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https://hn.algolia.com/?q=teapot#!/story/forever/0/teapot
Culture is not being ignored. Wars are fought over it. Human rights unfortunately are being ignored, and that's partly a result of nationalism.
Steve Jobs wanted Sony VAIOs to run OS X
I was looking at https://stackdock.com/ and for 5$ I get hardware wise what I get with DigitalOcean ... Except DO is a VPS, and this is dockers based. What should I use ? I've got MongoDB and nodejs running on my VPS, can I do similar with Stardock ?
Remembrance or revision? Brain study shows memory misleads
Will they also be selling the bucketloads of Vaio bloatware they force down your throat? Good riddance.
Reading skill-building books is like grinding orcs for two hours to get to the next level. (Reading fun books is another mini-game. Every now and then, you can find a book or 2 that is both fun and skill-building, which is more fun than any game I've ever encountered).
Depends where you live in Jersey City. Exchange Place to WTC is 1 stop and takes 4 mins on a weekday - http://www.panynj.gov/path/full-schedules.html

Hoboken to Christopher St takes about 8 mins.

Alternatively, you can also take ferries.

Driving through any of the tunnels is pretty painful on bad days.
I think the target market has a big influence here.

For end user software, it's not such a big deal to drop support.

But for a project like Basecamp, businesses are buying it and potentially investing a lot of time and money to integrate it into their processes. Companies buying that kind of software expect it to be around a while. It's a bit disingenuous to sell to them knowing it may not be supported after a short time.
My question is why all of the world's largest companies fall in line with this so easily, especially when some have official support for persian/Iran. How does that dynamic between Corporation and US Government really work?
The most useful information I found on accessibility was this video, which really showed me how the blind use the web:

"Victor Tsaran: An Introduction to Screen Readers"[1].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izrC4R7SsH4
ReSharper is being made by the same company, that makes IntelliJ IDEA. They're trying to bring the goodies _from_ IDEA _to_ VS.
The /r/dogecoin subreddit has some _very_ active "tipbots." Many threads consist of people tipping each other back and forth. It's almost like a Potlatch. It's pretty ridiculous and fun and it's one of the reasons adoption among redditors has taken off.
If SV is as severely broken as you say, then it should be possible to repeat the same phenomenon elsewhere, but better, provided you can manage to attract true talent which has been cast-off by SV for the wrong reasons. Create an alternative without the sexism, ageism, and groupthink, and it will attract the mistakenly rejected talent. Getting the right ingredients together might take the resources of a state, however.
Not from stripe, but from looking at my own account and the documentation - You can charge in any of those three currencies (where a additional 2% conversion charge is added between different currencies) but need to choose which single currency you're going to be sending those payments to. You can do so just by making the charge and specifying the currency you want to charge in.

There is an additional feature for US customers that allows paying out to arbitrary bank accounts, but this isn't available in the UK yet.

https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/sending-transfers
I remember that they even saved Apple from going bankrupt back then. Its true that they dominated Apple, but i wouldn't say that they wanted to destroy them.
Right, they seem to be confused about what the anthropic argument means.
I have no love for Anonymous (far from it), but some of this is disturbing.
Can anyone else verify this or similar?
I find this very interesting. Most of us who have crossed the 25 year mark, would already have read/seen something like this.

But this is an awesome way to teach some valuable lessons to kids. The analogy of life to a game is something that is clear, simple and pretty intuitive for a growing kid. Since most of the kids these days have played some games or other.
I think Time Warner has started doing this now as well. Right after the ruling, Netflix quality was so poor that I bought a new modem. No improvement. I will have to check the other AWS services I use including my own stiff. Thanks for posting.
(Lest I come across as a complete ass: this is a cool piece, of course.)

At least the discussion of gravitation is wrong. Somewhat unintuitively, the gravitational force on the inner part of the torus (the surface closest to the center, on the plane of the axes) is 0.

The pathological example is a hollow sphere of dense material. Outside the sphere, it "looks like" (if you just measure g) a solid planet. Inside the sphere, there is no gravitational field whatsoever, no matter how close you come to the surface.

Surprisingly, this holds no matter how large the sphere is. Suppose you're sitting on the inside of the surface of the sphere, and you decrease the radius a bit. Now the gravitational pull /away/ from this surface decreases like r^-2, so you would expect the gravity towards the surface (which is essentially unchanged) to increase. The issue is that the amount of material opposite you - the surface area of a sphere, really - also increases like r^2. (This is informal, but the best I can do for an intuitive explanation.)

Tough to find a good explanation of this online. http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/364/gravity-on-a-...
These were our first ever Facebook statuses, what was yours?
Although the security bulletin is dated February 4th, did the updates roll out before then? I just visited the 'About Flash Player' page and it claims that I am up to date already.
I'm doing FFTs at regular intervals using the Accelerate framework. Then a lot of rolling window comparisons of frequency data to try and determine which fingerprints these frequencies match closest.

Expect a blog post soon (Y)
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5732718

Other submissions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=firespotting#!/story/forever/0/fir...
He's not denying that they don't allow trading of any currencies, including BTC. What he says they allow is selling BTC-related products (such as mining machines).
Agreed, I see no reason to hold a balance on Paypal.
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Italy threatens to sue S&P for €234Bn for failing to value its history and art
Perhaps. I feel EVE is a bit like reading about politics.

In the same way that SC2/LoL is a bit like reading about sports
Good one timv. I wonder what Paypal would do with Bitcoin ebooks.
It's using a ton of videos we recorded with Tinie on one grey London afternoon
Sorry, but could you back up your statements with facts? This sounds to me as a rather generic statement.

I have no idea about the adaptive capabilities of tuna, nor do I know the actual change in pH values, or levels of chemical pollution.

Overfishing and the collapse of ecosymstems in the ocean is major factor (see also whales, sharks, etc).
Mozilla's update page says: "These plugins are up to date
Shockwave Flash 12.0 r0	12.0.0.38"
(the Jan 24th update)
Whenever I think 37 Signals may have started to slow down or stop innovating they throw another curve ball.

Nice work guys, and thanks for all the stories and transparency. Here's to the next 15 years.
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Time and time again I wonder if i should laugh at the absurdity of such articles this or worry about the excessive, obsessive usage of the word Indian.
There is a lot of complexity involved with network connections. There are many plausible alternative explanations for your and the author's problems. One or two people talking about their experience isn't the kind of data you would need to jump to the conclusion that your ISP is throttling your internet connection.
Aristotle thought that women had fewer teeth than men.
Ireland won anything lately ?
Your arm chair quarterbacking is adding oh so much to the conversation.

Are we really back to the childish argument of "this is so easy to build, would just take a few minutes"?
I don't disagree. But, even a bad mother is one who gave existence.
I want to switch to new basecamp, been a basecamp classic customer since 2005 (do i get a gift basket?), but rely on time tracking for my business. I don't want to have to rely on an external time tracking tool.
My guess is that Valve is being watched by every other game maker. I wonder what is being said behind closed doors in meetings with a lot of suits. If Valve is successful, I don't think they will be alone for long.
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They literally stated that during a support call "we throttle cloud services"

Can anyone set up a "speed test" online on AWS or something similar? This way we can experiment with connections.
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It is prettier, but I didn't find a way to switch from 'Top Stories', to 'Most Recent'.

I hate 'Top Stories'. If I followed/friended you, I want to see what you have to say. If I think it's to much I'll suffer, or unfollow/unfriend. 'Most Recent' preserves order, and timing. Many of my friends post in such a way that timing, especially in relation to earlier posts, is important, 'Top Stories' doesn't preserve that.

As far as it's 'News' stuff, I still use rss. I already curate content I am interested in. I have spent a fair bit of time (across time, not all at once) curating my feeds. All of that to say, It didn't appeal to me.
Not sure the person in the chat understood the question. Doesn't appear to be a native English speaker.
Why freelancers should have side projects
A lot of that is passive time though - it takes a year to train the skills, but if you've already bought the skill books that just means logging on every few days to rotate the skill you're training according to an optimized plan you pre-determine. Similarly it takes months for a Titan to build, but that means moving components between the factory and the CSAA and the storage every once in a while and re-fueling your tower-stations weekly or something. It's not someone working 40/hours a week to build a Titan.

The hard part of that is the infrastructure - you need to own a star system and put up a bunch of towers and fuel them and haul/build/mine the components and minerals to your (hopefully out-of-the-way) system, and you need to have firepower on call to defend your operation if you're attacked. And the character training to pilot the Titan needs implants that are expensive and mean he can't be risked in combat (so you need a second account). Most of that (owning star systems, on-call firepower, maintaining towers, hauling/mining minerals, having spare/secondary accounts) is stuff that large alliances have to do anyhow for their other strategic needs (equipping sub-capital players, paying bills, constructing jump bridge networks, etc.) so for them it's just a bit of extra load on the logistics team, and they usually have economies of scale (they have so much money and space they can have 3 Titans in the hopper at once).
if only we had a distributed group of people, all of whom with a vested interest in figuring this out, that could help us with doing speed tests in variety of configurations…
67 Signals hasn't changed a thing
I think I qualified my analogy correctly. For general purpose, high-performance efficiency, you can't beat a knife. However, there are tons of specific applications where a tool other than a knife is preferred. That's the idea behind the phrase "the right tool for the job".

I wouldn't say a hatchet or a machete is a "crappier version" of a knife. Surely a hatchet is much better suited for chopping down a tree, for example. On the other hand, a knife would be very inefficient at the job, even if it could get the job done eventually. However, a hatchet is arguably less safe than a knife for many kinds of jobs, and a knife for hatchet-jobs, etc.

So really I guess my point was the idea of a "safer" language is dumb, because not every tool is "safe" for every job, and not every job is suitable for a "safe" tool.
This reminds me of this wired article[1] when Steve Jobs died, whilst not directly related to blindness - it is touched upon - in my experience few firms have gotten it as right on accessibility as Apple, and definitely nowhere close several years ago, I haven't checked much in the last few years on android.

The top comment on Jobs personally intervening when a bluetooth stack had a bug in an iMac is pretty touching too.

[1] - http://www.wired.com/business/2011/10/steve-jobs-disability/
That guy doesn't probably have any idea about what he's talking about. Call center types wouldn't know this and "throttle cloud services" just translates to "throttle the internet." The cloud is the internet.
Unless they were told to specifically say what they did, which seems unlikely, the chance of a first level technical support person having any clue what sort of QoS policy is implemented on the network is basically zero.

That sort of person would not have access to see such things directly and wouldn't have the skill set to interpret configuration.
Totally true, but let's be honest even if the chat representative understood English perfectly and denied up and down that Verizon was throttling, he probably doesn't have the expertise to know one way or the other what is actually happening.

I think the evidence speaks for itself however.
Netflix is already doing this:

http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/usa
I think it would also be a glaring error to assume these are retirees. What evidence do you have that they are retirees and not 30 year olds that are purposely holding back productivity because of the incentive the government is now giving to not work?
I think the ISPs are going to eventually regret this. Once you get a reputation for having a crappy product, it's hard to lose it. And they will get that reputation.

Their own advertising has often touted how well their service can stream Netflix. People are already primed to judge them on it, because the industy's own advertising has taught them to.

Stupid stupid.
Do you even know anything about 37Signals?

With even a superficial study of the company, its public figures, or their publications you would know that "taking VC money" or massive growth would be anathema to 37Signals. On the level of "Doctors without Borders" going into the landmine business.

37Signals has an interesting and often counter intuitive approach to a modern software business. While I don't always agree with their methods or dogma, it is fascinating to watch what they try and, more specifically, how they actually execute on their ideals. It's like a science experiment that I don't have to pay for :-)

The worse thing for everyone, customers and voyeurs, would be to take VC money and become like Atlassian.
Someone should write a speed test website that looks to read from a set of common cloud services and then compares the speeds and records this based on ISP and location.

This shouldn't be hard to setup and you'll get a ton of page views probably for ever.

One can then see degradations over time and based on ISP. Would be even nicer to have some controls in there too so you can see if well known cloud services are slower than non-cloud services.
How they could be ahead, when in their design a piece of drawable does not indicate if it is actionable or not?

It their mission for minimalism, they threw out a few good pieces. Now they have to figure out, how to catch up and not to blow up in their face.
I'm more amazed by how they can just "freeze" other people's money, with no repercussions at all. I'd expect the police to get involved fast every time they do that.
I would not take some offhanded remark from an outsourced, minimum wage, offshore worker as confirmation of anything.
> But still, a country lowering taxes to a point where it would attract most of the income of companies operating throughout EU is acting like a parasite, the host being the EU, the blood being the income.

Makes for good political rhetoric, but I don't think it bears much relation to reality.

Germany for instance is not 'shriveling up and dying' because of Ireland, and neither is France for that matter.

Also, the economy is, fortunately, not a zero sum game with a fixed lump of money to go around.

You only need to look at the US as an example: California and NY are not low-tax states, and yet... and yet... there are a lot of companies and a lot of business there.

And yes, US states compete.
This is probably only the beginning. On demand video directly threatens the television business model of these companies. They will use every technology available to them to throttle users like crazy until they are compelled not to, either by the market (consumers en masse) or by regulation.
Yes let's arm ourselves with pitchforks based on an anecdotal experience of a stranger on the internet.
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Are you taking into account the correction from centripetal force, though? Even in the case of the hollow sphere, if we spin it fast enough it'll work just like your standard spinning space station, on the inside surface (or at least on a band-like area of the inside).

I find it difficult to believe that the author made such a glaring mistake, even after doing the simulations and all. Also, he says " the surface is an equipotential surface, so gravity (plus the centrifugal correction) is always perpendicular to it. " The spinning is the reason this ridiculous configuration is at least theoretically stable.
Again, silly to argue that dedication, concentration, work ethic, attitude, family support are not cultural. They all affect how well that swimmer swims on the day. This is really very obvious, and its disingenuous to pretend otherwise.
IN the perfect world of competition, true.

Unfortunately most people have very few ISP options.
How long did it take to process?

Also, is there a reason the video becomes unavailable on /lookback after the first time you watch it? Damn near broke my heart when it vanished... had to get it back from cache.
Why is a minor zoning and permitting issue getting this much attention? It doesn't even have anything to do with Google per se, this is an issue between a few regulatory bodies.

I get that this pushes the narrative that SV/SF is 'fed up' with Google, but can we stop with the linkbait?
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