skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You left out the inability to keep a trading engine running under modest load after two years of lost opportunity to fix the problem. Turns out most of those "DDos" attacks on Gox were simply their customers wanting to trade at modest to moderately-high Bitcoin volume (aka low volume in traditional exchanges).
Ask HN: Why my game studio failed?
URL: http://www.gamodo.eu

Hello,
My name is Henry Keller from Germany. Two years ago I started a indie game studio called "Gamodo Games" by myself without any help and I thought I could make a living with game development. I developed some causal games nothing fancy and nothing innovative but with a better production value then some other Top Games in the Windows phone market. With my game "Furry Jump" I even beat Doodle Jump and was in the top 10 over 4 weeks. All other games didn't get very popular maybe because of no marketing at all. I've won some prices but never got the attention from users. I've earned like 2000 maybe less.

so why my start-up failed? I'm mean, I know my games are not that awesome, but I saw worse games making more money then my games together. After one year I had to quit my business. I'm working for a marketing agency right know making games. And they give me the job because of gamodo games so it kinda worked out for the best, but I would like to know what did I wrong?

If someone have some constructive critics it would help me a lot.
what's the name of the game? i'll give it a shot!
Show HN: Pixter on the web
Why bitcoin won’t disrupt digital transactions
Breakthrough bionic hand restores amputee’s sense of touch
See my reply to boyter. The white paper does not adequately show that fewer "gay people are beaten in Russia".
Bank of Indonesia changes course, now says Bitcoin is legal
Evan Miller has really good guides and tools : http://evanmiller.org

Check his site out. Start with How Not To Run An A/B Tes
The thing these companies never mention is that video surveillance doesn't deter criminals from committing acts of crime

Well that's not as clear as you make it seem. Likelihood of getting caught is a very strong factor people consider when making to choice to commit a crime or not; much stronger than e.g. the severity of the punishment. What video surveillance does, is increase the solve rates, in other words the chance of getting caught. When this is internalized by criminals, it's not unlikely that crime rates will go down, i.e. that surveillance will have a deterring effect.

So it's true that putting up a camera doesn't deter by the fact of being there. What does deter is the pervasive cognition that you're always being watched. Whether that's a worthwhile trade-off is another question, but one for which the debate is much harder to win.
Quite a few apps change their behavior post-review, quite a few. :-)
Why is that scenario "more likely" exactly? Do you know something we don't? It's all a bit fishy. If my bank did this I would be livid (and yes, I realize that some banks have asked for a reason to withdraw large amounts of cash. Likewise, I would be livid.)
Why the downvotes? This just reminded me about the ruins in Syria I saw earlier this week!
I actually think the potential value of this technology to commercial businesses far exceeds the value to law enforcement. Walmart could see who is shopping at Safeway, and send those people targeted mailers. Businesses that don't have loyalty programs could also see who comes to their store most often, and offer them special deals. Data about who goes to sporting events, concerts, etc. would also be quite valuable.

There are just a ton of commercial applications for this that would be incredibly useful for businesses.
The moment I saw brackets, I fell in love with it. I really saw it as an opportunity to replace SublimeText, so I went with it. I tried the Sprint 35 version on Ubuntu 12.04 x64, and my PCs performances are well over the minimum requirements.

Unfortunately it turned out to be very slow, I opened an existing project I am working on, where my JS files were not larger than 500 lines / file. The cursor is lagging, literally, when I press the "down arrow" for instance, the cursor disappears, then I stop pressing it and it reappears somewhere below.
Scrolling had the same effect, just as well as changing the currently opened document, it all takes time, the amount of when you feel that something is not right.
At first I had a couple of extensions installed, so I threw them all out, but it didn't change a thing.

I would really like to use brackets, it's concept/idea really works for me, but until it gets faster I simply can't . Looking forward to the next sprint, I hope things will change.
Save Valentine's Day
Are you seriously saying that you can legally fire somebody for being gay in some US states?

Yes. I'm surprised that you're surprised. Under Obama the tide has definitely turned in favor of gay rights, but gay people are still very far from being equally protected under the law nationwide.

And if the next US President is a Republican, many Obama-era gay rights advances might very well be rolled back.
Comparing Nadella and Ballmer
Flappy Bird doesn't have any puzzles.
What part of that semi-coherent rant is supposed to make it OK to jump into every comment thread about Russia and post the same unrelated article?
Sounds a lot like the DARPA 'ARGUS', a drone with a 1.8 gigapixel sensor that "can observe and record an area half the size of Manhattan":

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/1/3940898/darpa-gigapixel-dro...
FIRST LOOK LaunchES ITS FIRST DIGITAL MAGAZINE
> If it took a powerful senator weeks or months to fix the problem, I knew it was hopeless for us mere mortals.

I see there've been a few references to the no-fly list and Judge Alsup, in this discussion, but I find this quote to be pertinent enough to warrant highlighting:

"At this point, Judge Alsup interrupted to ask a hypothetical question about the process. Suppose there’s some wrong information in a file that suggests that someone is a Communist, and as a result they get put on a watchlist. They apply for redress, and say, “I’m good person. I’ve never done anything wrong.” If they don’t know that they’re on the watchlist because they have been accused of being a Communist, how do they know to say, “And by the way, I’m not a Communist”?

“I can see that DHS TRIP would clear things up in the case of misidentification.” But how does the TRIP process allow the aggrieved party to address the secret information. “How does a person know that there is an improper reason that they would need to try to rebut?”"

Taken from the summary at:
http://papersplease.org/wp/2013/12/07/no-fly-trial-day-5-par...

Discussed on hn:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6868845
Our Rover on Mars Looked Into the Sky and Saw Earth
Is she going to be hired by other companies as CFO after?
Historically, collapsing banks simply collapse all at once. There is no incentive to slowly unveil a fraud. The depositors might kill you.
LEAKED Lindsay Lohan's Facebook Lookback
http://youtu.be/5csqzB90QSs
Oh, poor man. I'm not sure this article is on-topic for HN, but it's such a sad story and I feel bad for him.
If electrons only traval a few mm or cm a sec how can I ping a server in Europe an fractions of a sec? I know much of the internet is fiber but surely there is a lot of copper there to. Could you explian?
For comparison, the same city in 1935: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ea_396LPo
I'm not the OP, but I've always wondered just how you find these kind of small contracting jobs, especially when you work remotely. I hope these articles mention that.
> if MtGox is trying to play with their deposits, they should say so.

That's the problem with unregulated "banks", they don't have to say anything and they can for example pay all the money for themselves as for example "bonuses" or salaries and then go bankrupt. There is no protection for assets at "banks" like mt. gox.
> Wow. That's full of falsehoods like these:

> "What happens is that variable i is converted to unsigned integer." No: 'long i' is converted to 'unsigned long'.

Actually, unsigned long is an unsigned integer. He didn't write unsigned int.

> "Usually size_t corresponds with long of given architecture." No: For example, on Win64 size_t is 64 bits whereas long is 32 bits.

"Usually" is the keyword here. He could have said "Usually size_t has at least the same amount of bits as long" and it would be better related to the referred rule.
The major problem with mass surveillance is asymmetry:

Whenever governments get additional power to track what citizens do (and ultimately think), citizens need to gain an additional degree of transparency regarding its government [0], so the system keeps its balance. If that does not happen - and obviously the opposite is the case for a very long time now - the degree of abuse of the new power imbalance will continue to increase, at the cost of the citizen.

[0] (This is something the President has emphasized, but his actions have, as we must expect from every politician, gone in the opposite direction - including the persecution of whistleblowers.)
Isn't that a real danger in itself though? I mean, "a hell of a lawsuit" can bring plenty of people down in economic despair - regardless of how it would end, litigation could continue for years.
I'm sure that there are plenty of people like me that are holding out (probably forever) from moving to SV until salaries rise high enough. I currently have a good job with reasonable hours and a short commute. And I have nice house which has separate bedrooms for my kids and a fenced yard. In the rest of the US this really isn't anything to brag about, but in the valley this would be millionaire living. Is anyone there going to pay me enough so I can keep my standard of living? I doubt it. It's either naive or disingenuous for SV companies to complain about developer shortages. It's all about the economics.
Being a Part of YC
Node, Arc, MongoDB, and Heroku are not difficult to learn at all. All are borderline facile.

I don't think it's an unreasonable boundary at all and I strongly dislike those specific technologies.

If you don't have the willpower or gumption to contribute to the community, then I don't really care to read what you have to say at all.

tl;dr lazybones need not apply
[edit: formatting to conform to intended dramatic effect]

I find especially the conclusion hilarious (hilarious because I'm not a US citizen, I suppose I should find it tragic):

(...)

C. The government must inform Dr. Ibrahim that ███████████
█████████████████

(...)

IT IS SO ORDERED

[edit2: It just occurred to me that Dr. Ibrahim would probably risk being placed back on the no-fly list if she made the full ruling public...]
Conditions at the Sochi Olympics are bad/hilarious
Looked at your site and it looks nice and your games look good. Hard to say why you failed exactly. But what I can say is that just because you start a business does not necessarily mean it will be successful, even if you have a great product and proven team (see http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-start... as an example). You might have answered part of your problem in your own statement when you say you did not do any marketing.

My suggestion, is to keep working at it (it appears you have a good talent at developing games), and start working to get the word out via forums, blogging, Twitter, Facebook, etc... Start building a fan base around your individual products.
IRC servers form a spanning tree which makes it really easy to split an IRC network in two. I think this is the protocol's main weakness which should be addressed somehow. It's difficult without overcomplicating the protocol though.
Curiosity rover takes snapshot of Earth from Mars
India to Build World's Largest Solar Power Plant
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.

That's pretty much it.

I remember not feeling any sympathy for my friends who ran in to tax problems. It's easy to assume that this stuff is well understood and it must be their fault for failing to do it properly.

What I found out later is that even if you make every effort to pay your tax correctly, you will still get screwed eventually.

Provisional tax law, for example, requires literally knowing the future to avoid penalties.

I'm in New Zealand and I thought it was complex here. Then I encountered the US tax system. Holy crap!

Even hiring expensive US accountants our company still managed to get a 20k fine out of nowhere for reasons I don't understand. Supposedly this is being appealed and our accountant assures us that we will get the fine rescinded, but there you go.
Wish Carl Sagan could see this...
If organizations such as the NSA continue to be allowed to exist, then you are certainly right. But as long as you live in a democracy, you have the "obligation" to elect the people who will represent your will, that is your responsibility.
In July 2011, after the MtGox hack and price "crash", iirc MagicalTux sent a 424,424.42 (an amount suggested in IRC) transaction to prove control of the BTC funds. This time, we know they control the 60k+ BTC stuck in withdrawal because mtgox published the list of transaction hashes (and a lot if it is change going back to MtGox).

But he did also accidentally push a bad tx one time (6k BTC iirc), to an unspendable output.
Can't believe that there are no negative comments yet. So ridiculous. No wonder so many people are sending endless sales emails. No reply after several attempts is a NO. DOH.

Now thousands of people reading this ridiculous blog post will copycat. FACEPALM.

Please. Stop. this. nonsense.
Who else read that as 'Julian Assange Here to Stay' ?
I'm quite disappointed in people saying that I should have replaced recursion with iteration. That wasn't my goal - to tune a binary search algorithm. I've know the exact result of this research before writing post. I've already known that it gives you literally nothing in terms of performance. The only question I had is why is so? And I wanted to show how to combine math and complexity analysis in order to figure this out.

it's not about tuning something and getting gain (in business, in performance). It's about digging into the challenging problems and finding answers (and of course - having fun).

Think about why we split the input array into two equals parts? There is a nice question in Skiena's algorithms book: what would be with time complexity and algorithm itself if we split the array in two parts: 1/3 and 2/3. The best answer is for sure: "Dr. Skiena, are you simply stupid asking these questions? Just rewrite it with iterations instead and relax."
On the other hand a mouse is more efficient for pointing at things than anything else I tried - touching the screen, touchpad, etc... it's why when I'm working on my laptop, even though being on a MacBook I have a pretty good touchpad, I'm still attaching a mouse.

Same goes for the keyboard - no matter how big the screen real-estate is, it doesn't beat a physical keyboard, because a physical keyboard gives a tactile feel to your fingers and thus you can do touch-typing. My wife doesn't do touch-typing, she's just an ordinary user, but even she complains that things are hard to type on her 11 inch iPad.

Indeed there are applications that are more productive with a touchscreen, coupled with the possibility of carrying them around and looking at the screen while walking, it's a good combination - but for very different things.
This device addresses a lot of those issues. Walk into the room; joining the hangout booked for this meeting just requires a single button press.

The Chromebox is bound to a room (GApps resource) so it is aware of which meetings start when, and shows this to you on the screen.

Also, the Mac Mini solution involves creating named GApps accounts, and inevitably those sessions time out or people log them out. These devices also solve that problem (they are 'bound' to your GApps domain), which for a company with more than a few conference rooms can get really old.
>Churchill in particular seems to have tried very hard to do the right thing.

I'm not saying what's right and what's wrong but your sentence made me think of the age old quote "history is written by the victors".
A Different Gates Is Returning to Microsoft
Ah, yes. I was thinking of Datacenter licensing.
After long time Smartphone user I bought a tablet last year for three reasons - and only these reasons: A browsing device for the Couch, a reader for the evening and a photo viewer (holiday photos aso.) I love it. Works great for these three things, better than a phone or notebook.
All we have is their word on that.
The end of Twitter (and Facebook)?
I got fired after 2 weeks of being hired. Please help me understand something
I was fired from a company after 2 weeks of being hired. Their reason for firing me is that I wasn't productive enough. How do you guys deliver code/value fast on the first days without knowing their codebase at all? Or are those type of companies just unrealistic?
There are some apps that I almost never open, because I get _all_ of the utility of the app from the push notifications. Two examples are:

- Pushover

- CN Air Quality
I have a 3 year old, he likes my iPad, but I don't get the fascination of people with children that are "using one better than their parents".

Are they using it for anything useful? Are they reading emails? Are they browsing websites? Can they search YouTube for their favorite cartoons or songs? So what the hell are we talking about anyway? Moving stuff around the screen and opening their favorite game? I don't see how that's in any way fascinating.

My son likes to draw on the iPad btw. But he's way more happy when we draw things pencil on paper. Just something to consider - being able to use a device, doesn't make it useful.
Well if it were a ponzi scheme and they didn't have the assets they were supposed to, it would be in their best interest to convince people as long as possible that everything is okay.
Because electricity is not actually electrons coming out of the wall, but rather electrical field which propagates significantly faster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_field
97 reviews, 3 star average rating. Not sure what the rating distribution is, but probably almost half (40) of the reviews are legitimate.

Assuming a 10% review rate, this game probably has 400 legitimate downloads - $400 revenue. Not bad.
Webex is more suitable for outside sales calls or running through decks.

We've found this unit excellent for team meetings or coworking with remote team members (we were part of the pilot). The audio and video quality is very good, and unlike with Skype, the meeting is just a simple URL you follow to join; distributed in the Calendar event.

You can also bookmark named hangouts; for example if you have a 1:1 with a remote coworker every day. Or, I dunno, if you wanted to hold regular office hours - you could have essentially a static hangout that you use for an hour or two every day. Google is really trying to make Hangouts a solid videoconferencing tool, and for companies already using Google Apps, this is an incredibly valuable addition.
If you can program your way out of a paper bag, you're good enough to land an 80k job in SF at the moment. People whose entire programming careers are measured in weeks are hireable in the current environment, for at least some engineering roles, at at least some companies.
Warsaw is happy to have any walls - Minsk was reduced to runis completely (you could say, bombed to be like moon ground).
IBM developing Self-Destructing Microchips for US Defense – The Hacker News
Jogging maps show rich and poor
Ask HN: Are there any jobs where a primary task is writing reg exps?
You're getting a lot of downvotes, but I see most people aren't bothering to explain your error to you. Let me help:

We're concerned with the amount of oppression actually occurring in Russia, and with the actual life of actual gay men and women in Russia. Your comments and links focus on the laws, but it is very possible to pass a wonderful sounding law and then ignore it in practice. In fact, Russia's predecessor, the Soviet Union, was famous for doing just this. Their constitution guaranteed a wide range of freedoms which were never actually enjoyed by the subjects of the Soviet empire.

If we want to evaluate the drafting of a law, we would of course turn to a legal scholar; their views on phrasing are critical. But if you want to know about life on the street, you turn to a journalist.

You stress the word "effectively" in the phrase "effectively illegal", as if this undermines the importance. It does nothing of the kind, because we want to know if you can hold an actual gay pride parade in Moscow (which you cannot), not whether any given law, if read and applied fairly, would ban gay pride parades (which it arguably does not).

And I see this same mistake (trying to analyse the laws rather than their application) repeatedly in your comments and in the sources you cite. You're effectively arguing that it doesn't matter if a law is being used to repress and hurt people, if you can find someone arguing that the law shouldn't be used this way. As if this magically makes the actual harm to actual people go away. But this is nonsense.

At the end of the day, their are gay pride parades in, eg, Utah, but not in, eg, Moscow. And everything you've said and linked to does not address this core point, that homosexuals are being brutally repressed in Russia, and not in the US.
How important is the domain name to you? It doesn't sound terribly catchy.

That said - if you're just worried about the email functionality - educatornews.net is available. You could use that to send the emails.
War is shit in general, when looking at pictures like that I really understand hippies.
All these flat areas covered in rubble hills used to be housing estates (usually 5-6 stories high) in the Warsaw Ghetto. It was blown up, bulldozed, razed to the ground. As you may see, other parts of the city survived in a slightly better state.

Born and raised in Warsaw I sometimes feel I'm literally walking on history. There are hundreds of commemorative plaques/stones everywhere you go in the downtown and neighbouring districts.
Absolutely right-- always leave pricing off your home page. Also omit a product description and features list. And for god's sake, don't include a link to a live demo.

In order to build synergistic relationships with a customer where you enhance strategic value, it's essential to make a connection on a fundamental emotional nature-- not the kind of transactional decision based on an assessment of costs and benefits.

The first is lasting. The second is temporary. The difference is transformative.
Well done. Great service!
Scala Tutorial Through Katas: Mars Rover (Medium)
Agree. Just like the distributed search engines which are not quite practical in the real use, the concept is cool.
A women's mindset
Compare it to US deaths in Vietnam (60,000) and in Iraq/Afghanistan (~7,000).

The irony is that for all the warmongering politics of the US, the population are highly sensitive to actually losing soldiers in battle. There were single days in WWI (and the US Civil War) that saw single countries having more combat deaths than the US has seen this century in total. The US public wants wars it can win effortlessly (conscription anyone? rationing perhaps?) but has no stomach for the realities of war.

Hell, every time Australia lost a soldier in Afghanistan, the papers would do a double-page spread with portraits of all the soldiers lost so far. It's not a particularly difficult war if you can fit portraits of all the lost soldiers after 10 years in the field on a newspaper page. We've lost 40 soldiers... and in the same timeframe, we've lost 36 police officers in the normal course of civilian duty.

We really have no idea what it's like to actually be a society at war.
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