skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what you mean by nobody talking about doing a game like Flappy Bird. Of course, no one was talking about a game exactly like it - every game is different.

But there's loads of games quite a lot like it already - it's basically a very simple version of something like Jetpack Joyride with a subtly different input mechanism (repeated tap instead of holding down to fly). That's a game so common that there's even a tutorial (http://www.raywenderlich.com/9050/how-to-make-a-game-like-je...) on how to write your own version. There's a fair chance that the author of Flappy Bird used this as the source for the game.

I've no idea what actually made Flappy Bird successful, but whatever it was it's certainly not any huge gameplay innovation that others had failed to spot.
I think the answer to this question is pretty much obvious.
False, sending/recieving bitcoins/litecoins/dogecoins/monopoly money is not regulated in us. Only if you exchange those for real money in certain ammounts you need to aply for money bussiness transmition/exchange licence.
You claimed a hypothetical situation that doesn't exist today and claim that it's due to lack of desire on the part of the product companies. It's highly doubtful that the hypothetical situation is not real only because the industry players don't desire to achieve that level of success. The more likely answer is that they can't figure out how to do it, despite many attempts to try.
Unrealistic company. Consider it experience and move on.
> And you know at least Flash was separated from the browser and ported to several systems

It really is astounding, and bears so much emphasis, that the proposed DRM module system is actually worse than Flash.
You can see the code on GitHub at: https://github.com/pornzrus/videocontrols
Would an assert be any better? I guess you could print out a message to the log and enter an infinite loop if an assertion fails.

Similar problems may haunt you when working in kernel space.

But still, null pointers are easy compared to other invalid pointers that can not be distinguished by their value.

Best practices in C are not as easy to make as in other languages because the environment the code runs in may be anything from a micro controller to an embedded platform to kernel space to modern user space apps. It's not so much about the language as it is about the environment the code runs in.
I don't think people really grok random.

Like when they complain that their MP3 player plays two songs from the same album when it's on random.
Android client wants access to my calendar and contacts for some reason. I'm gonna install it anyway because I can prevent it from accessing those things after the fact because I'm running an OpenPDroid modified Cyanogenmod.
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Not surprised from NBC, this wouldn't be the first time they were wrong.
Can someone translate this article into layspeak please?
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You don't know if it was intercepted by Russia, but you sure ready to blame (Snowden part). I read that security service of Ukraine made the interception, which seems logically since one of parts was in the Ukraine. As of privacy, I think US did the same, did you forgot that foreign governments was spied on? Merkel wasn't happy about that.
I don't think any government in the world would be happy to know that protesters actively contact foreign powers and discuss who will be in the new government.

Of course we don't know if that tape is 100% real, at least someone have to check they sound the same as in public recordings.
Are you worried about employee having a second password for Google Apps? There is SAML integration available to enable SSO.
Decentralized Data Storage
only if you're expecting containers to somehow be a unicorn that lets you give people you don't know have your root password. :)
I'm confused: http://coinsight.org/mtgox.html currently shows a sharp drop in stuck transactions. is that simply because they paused any pending withdrawal requests? or are funds leaving gox?
This is an argument against DRM.
I don't understand what USA even doing there. Why should they interfere, when there's clearly 3 parts involved: Ukraine, EU, Russia.
>Okay, then why doesn't GCHQ intercede when they overhear someone planning a burglary, or notice them planning to murder some average plebe?

Exactly. These attacks by GCHQ on innocent members of the public are entirely politically motivated. If due-process is to be done away with "because terrorism" then I'm afraid this leaves a lot of doors wide open for civilians to denounce their government, and rise up in revolution - because without such checks and balances on power, we live in a totalitarian world where those in power, are the only ones with power.

Power, to the people!
Scrum isn't an acronym
(Co)author here.
The libswift effort got converted into IETF PPSP eventually https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ppsp-peer-protoc...
Also, folks in Sweden tinker with the codebase, mostly from the video distribution angle.
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It seems that their links are already running at half capacity. http://weathermap.ovh.net/

OVH is a big company though, so I'm more or less confident that they can handle this smoothly.
I can't understand how people trust (or even care about) server-provided encryption. There's no guarantee they or their friends can't open it on their servers. Unless you use your own solution, their encryption only provides protection in transit, against unaffiliated third parties.
About just as interesting as automatically generated novels. A machine has no intention. It doesn't "want" to turn itself on or off and play some music.
The diversity of sensors in the skin is impressive--it's not all sensed by a generic nerve. There are specialized mechanisms for vibration, heat, pressure and even pain. Here's a great summary with diagrams:

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/receptor.html
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So called "common sense" encourages [racial] profiling. That's the problem with it, and why the two comments are at odds.

The only way that you remove the profiling, incidentally, is to remove discretion from agents and/or have some level of accountability for each stop. If they had to publish statistics detailing the profiles of everyone who went through additional security searches and why it was done I think you'd see a lot of action
Super hexagon is crushingly difficult, it's the one game I can keep returning to over and over on my commute.

Flappy bird also hits a similar spot, it's a game that's quick, each game lasts < 1 minute so you can play right up to the minute your train pulls into the station, and it has the anticipation of defeat in a similar manner.
This is brilliant when you're at a mega-busy Apple store on a Saturday afternoon and all you want is a Lightning cable adapter. Pick, scan, pay, show the nice man on the way out, PROFIT.
"The company has eight datacentres housing at least 145,000 machines."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVH
yea, you are right. Flappy Bird is exactly the same. I was addicted to the Copter game, prolly around 2007..

https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/copter-game/id433399893?mt=8
Link encryption is good, and it's helpful to ensure the only attack vector is the service provider itself, not sub-contractors or someone being stupid and throwing away drives.

That said, Dropbox has done a pretty good job of lying about how much security they offered users in the past. But someone providing a service like this with a reasonable security policy which is openly communicated to the users is still better than no security policy.
Bitcoin apps hold private keys that can result in financial loss for the owner. What happens if a bug in Apple code results in phone compromise and millions of users losing their Bitcoins?
I think surveillance and piracy have a lot in common. They are both technological phenomenons at core. Morality, laws and norms come into play, but they are secondary. Data being recorded and stored forever is the default way our technology works just like making digital copies is the default way technology works.

The level of political & moral intervention required to make any impact on whatever the future holds for surveillance is massive. I'm not pessimistic, but I am scared/worried. I think avoiding the "natural" progression towards more surveillance will require as much political force as is/was needed to go from non democratic to democratic. To use a slightly dated and naive term: free societies. It's a big task.

I'm not American & US politics dominates on HN (and everywhere else). But, I am looking to Americans to make a stand on this and draw a line in the sand. The US has a liberalism deeply embedded in its political identity. It was there when homesteads could be claimed based on improving land and it exists today (often in slightly lunatic forms) in many ways. It's harder to get American to accept speed cameras and inner city police cameras than Europeans. I hope and think they have it in them. Come on Americans!
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/the_nsas_new_...
From their forum: "As nearly 270,000 of you now use hubiC, we have been able to confirm our technical decisions and this volume has enabled us to further optimise our infrastructure and its performances.
Result: we're now able to lower our prices again, and this time we're aiming for nothing less than a million users!"

Let's see how that works out, OVH isn't really known to run a uncongested network. I'm still excited because it's just a crazy cheap place to move additional backups to.
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The "random" algorithm in a media player is not supposed to be "random pick with replacement". It is meant to be shuffle, and that's indeed what it is called instead of "random". A shuffle algorithm that plays the same song twice is indeed a broken shuffle algorithm (except if, of course, the playlist actually contains two instances of the same song).
Thinking more of white-collar crime than working-class crime, I feel that my parents were pretty careful to set my moral compass in the right direction when I was growing up, but that exposure to the financial industry, the advertising industry and (especially) the diplomatic community has made me a lot more cynical about the prevalence of self-serving amoral behaviour amongst the "professional" classes. I am saddened to witness a creeping corruption in my own sense of right and wrong, as I see that success and wealth seem to be more highly correlated with cynical manipulation and self-promotion than humility and careful moral decision-making.
Privacy policy / TOS is something you can base legal cases on in some countries and something certain organizations try to check. And I just have difficulties to trust companies that simply don't say anything on the matter. It doesn't seem to you like they're hiding something?

Though yes, I agree that nothing you don't do on your own is really trustworthy. That's why I don't use online storage for storing confidential data, heh. Only puush for the little things. (what's going on with Puush anyway? They've been silent since "going down for maintenance briefly" in September). I guess treating internet as if there is no privacy is for the best.
Wow, only 18? I went to University for 5 years and only after that did I join a startup. No need to panic right now! If you could find a single topic to deep-dive in for the next 6 months you would be well ahead of many people and you would only be at most 19 years of age! Just show up at all sorts of meetups and find stuff to get interested in. Also, it's not like opportunities are running out for you. It was iphone apps one year, then bitcoin the next. Next, it will be VR or robotics or 3d printing...or touchless car washes (I'm not kidding, those things make money!).
If they fired you within two weeks, they're most likely the problem, rather than you. I mean - if they expect you to be 100% productive within your first few weeks, they're in cloud-cuckoo-land. We allow a three month probationary period at 80% of full salary for us to mutually get to know each other and for the new starter to get up to speed - and then, and only then, do we assess performance. If it's bad - you're out, if it's good, you're in - but two weeks isn't a fair sample.
I agree with you but to pull number out of thin air. I would honestly be surprised if 50mbps+ LTE mobile internet is even 1% of the connected internet.
That's entirely true, but did that Afghan civilian not have that choice "to get embroiled in a war pushed on them by Western imperial overreach", or did they not have a choice "to be dominated by an extremist militant Jihadist movement that imposed a ruthless ideological dictatorship and pursued an aggressive terrorist agenda, which we are attempting to free ordinary Afghans from".

Yes we have lost dozens of soldiers, but the US also lost thousands of civilians on 9/11. The UK lost 67 people that day. Even Australia lost 11. There are reasons we are in Aghanistan. Whether you believe those are good reasons is the issue.
Different approach to searching and navigating the web
Not exactly a black swan (because afterwards you know of black swans and can anticipated them) but more a lottery ticket. There is no recipe or logic behind why Flappy Bird got immensely popular, just sheer luck.
OVH (english website [1]) is the best French hosting company and one of the best French domain name registar (with Gandi [2]), and are starting to make themselves a name outside of France. Hubic is the "cloud" offer from OVH.

They both have quite a reputation of being reliable and very responsive, and have very fair prices (they are like the hosting counterparts of Free [3], a French ISP that drove subscription fees down to what they now are and forced other ISPs to make their prices fairer).

[1] http://www.ovh.co.uk/

[2] http://en.gandi.net/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_%28ISP%29
It's noteworthy because this one became popular. That's how the world works.
I guess next is for some so called news organization to put toy rocket motors into pickup trucks and crash them?

On a side note, who still takes anything the big three networks push? Let alone lets not forget, Russia isn't politically correct so portraying them in a negative light is allowed if not desired.
I'm not sure the UK was in much position to directly help Poland at the start of WW2, especially when Poland ended up being split between Nazi Germany and the Soviets.

At the end of the war Churchill did ask the military to come up with a plan to free Poland from Soviet control by force - but that was never going to be a realistic option, even with US assistance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable
I believe we've had technology similar to this for a long time, is there anything new with this in particular?

I believe the biggest problem is the formation of scar tissue around the implanted electrodes. This reduces the strength of the electrical signals over time, and eventually the electrodes need to be adjusted.
But we don't have to bend over for their believes! They can continue using Flash or Silverlight or write their own crap plugins. Why should we destroy the open web for them?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

Fucking hell, the countries are even the same here...
The price would be too high - Apple has never paid more than a few hundred million for any acquisition[1] and Square are reputed to be north of $4B[2].

[1] http://www.tuaw.com/2014/01/14/why-apple-didnt-buy-nest/
[2] http://www.thestreet.com/story/12099901/1/square-could-be-wo...
Everyday users fail at saving a youtube video. And someone who knows how to rip a youtube video usually also knows about pirate bay or other pirate websites.
It's interesting that their top value is "Create useful products that people lust after"

I've never particularly liked any of their products. My experience with Jira & Confluence made me want to scratch my eyes out and I only use Bitbucket because their free unlimited private repositories was what I needed as a freelance developer.
I agree. Russia is the gayest country going. http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/russia-just...
True enough, but you don't have to active G+ on your Google Account.
Rdio? Really? I don't know a single person who uses that service, it really feels like this was a bad decision.

Now, this is super good news for Rdio. They need the exposure.
Not true, a lot more in Minsk remained after a war with some 10% of the housing stock intact, with more damaged but inhabitable. Much like in every European city. I don't even say that almost all of the damage was done by the Soviets (there are pics of Minsk from spring-early summer 1944 where city is largely intact).
Hi,

thanks for the papers! I will have a look on them.
And that's fine. If they want DRM they should write a proprietary app or plugin. But we shouldn't turn the web into a proprietary app controlled by Microsoft, Google, and Apple.
While not directly related to the article, but more related to the headline -- I was just catching up on some of what Beardyman's been up to lately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPBM69nThkM

Now, that's one example of what human vocal cords (with various degrees computer augmentation) are capable of. While the things discussed in the article may be interesting... the reference to vocal cords seems somewhat misplaced?

[edit: I should perhaps clarify/highlight that the above video does not feature drum machines etc -- "only" sampling, looping and "warping". Easier to follow, is this video I like to call "I was hip-hop before ducks":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39n4wow8fWE
]
Relying on the compiler is not the way to produce safe code.
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Huge deaths in WWII were made possible by totalitarian ideologies which made societies insensitive to losses. It only shows how much totalitarianism sucks (and it sucked most in case of Soviets vz Nazi which were BOTH totalitarian).
They have been returning stuck transfers back to accounts. I'm not 100% sure if the API marks those as un-stuck though.
Git is an interesting example, even though the software itself is decentralized it seems to be most commonly used around centralized services. See how upset HN gets when github goes down.
The poster (not me) is looking for feedback on startups using a relocated employees team to reduce costs (in english at the bottom). Maybe someone here has some data? Thanks!
Yeah, in the grand scheme of things I think the A-bombs did relatively little damage, both in terms of human losses and material damage, compared to all the conventional bombing going on. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not destroyed in the sense many fire-bombed cities in Japan and Germany were.
Then beat the crap out of the poor fact until not even its own mother could recognise it and prove that aliens once walked on Mars because, like, there's a carrot in New York and Flappy Bird and THEREFORE TRUE.

Several quintillion dollars later from the sales of his book "I think you'll find the plural of anecdote is actually my 12 figure bank account", he retires.
Survival wasn't really the issue? At the height of the U-Boat campaign we had a only few weeks worth of food supplies left in the country. We were loosing well over half a million tons of ships a month. If Japan had never attacked Pearl Harbour, the US would have just sat on it's hands and watched Britain collapse.

Yes we broke the U-Boat codes, but without US ships and aircraft covering the western Atlantic, we wouldn't have been able to use that information to mount an effective anti U-Boat campaign.
"They both have quite a reputation of being reliable and very responsive"

Have you ever dealt with their support? - I for myself am quite happy with my service (Dedicated server) so far (because I rarely had to deal with the support) but I've heard a few horror stories where some of their biggest UK customers basically got kicked out even though they stayed within the TOS and the terms they signed the contract for, or the thing about their DDoS protection kicking in, rebooting your server even though they are legit requests.

You can't beat their prices though.
i5 + 4G RAM + 64G SSD = Excel, ssh, ftp, sublimetext, IDEs, full blown email program, virtual machines. Docking station for easy keyboard and mouse support + multiple monitors.

Use the pen to annotate pdfs, draw flowcharts, make designs, take notes.

Read flipboard, kindle on your lap.

It is a very good proposition for technical savvy business people. It's not as good as a corresponding laptop(better internals, better keyboard, better monitor) or a corresponding tablet (better design, dimentions, weight, app selection). But it is very well built, has decent battery life, truly portable, slick looking and powerful. If you are not concerned with your friends' opinion on it and you NEED the functionality and convenience of only 1 device, the surface pro 2 is a very good choice. And I imagine it will only get better. I don't use the cover tho. Very expensive without providing much convenience. If you need a keyboard for a quick email or smth like that, the onscreen will do its job like in another tablets and if you are committed to work, it will not suffice.
"blogging platform" - "wardrobeCMS". Uh, what now?
This is the real issue. They want more power while claiming it's in the good hands, so you shouldn't worry. Your private data is safe. Your rights are respected. Your have nothing to worry if you are not a bad guy.

Government constantly shows that it shouldn't be trusted with anything sensitive. It makes stupid mistakes, but never admits that. How many cases happen that nobody ever realizes, because they are swept under the rug?

In the end we all should believe that they are "good" and competent. In spite of them proving us wrong all the time...
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That's exactly the point (of the article - although it may in some weird sense also be the point of the game)