skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PC sales to homes are down, think tablet / smartphone users who want a box to hook up to the TV. Valve already have the software distribution part solved and a catalogue of proven games. For users the SteamBox isn't so much of a gamble and cheap enough for people to take a punt.

What's more, the upgrade path is there, imagine an XBox where you can buy next year's model and the games you already bought look better.

Xbox One games are already last gen graphics, even some smartphones have better res.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/09/console-crisis/

http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/
How does it read glucose levels with impedance? Surely diabetics would have jumped on this technology before mainstream wearables.
I write distributed-memory software and that was my first response when I first saw this a few years ago. But we are getting more on-node parallelism (and further on-node parallelism is where most of the next 10 years of performance is expected to come) so these techniques are more relevant to our large-scale computing than you'd otherwise think. Especially as we push strong-scaling limits and attempt to coordinate threads in order to share caches, the standard application of domain decomposition entails higher overheads than we would like to pay.
You forgot to mention that Obama runs the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, that the Legislative Branch creates tax laws and passed the enabling legislation for ObamaCare and that Delaware is a state and the author's payment has nothing to do with the Federal Government at all.

What should one expect from a person so out of touch with the impact of health care access on the lives of ordinary Americans that they would carry on about how improved access is a social ill? The best I can say about the article is that rather than two piles. a great deal of ignorance and foolishness has been gathered in one place.
I said the idea was off the top of my head!

It could be a double-blind. Hospital doesn't know which of the companies you work for, and the company doesn't know which employees are costing them money.
Malaysia Jet Changed Course at Time of Disappearance, Officials Say
Have been trying to avoid piracy for the past few years. Started by buying and then renting dvds from a local dvd rental library. Currently renting movies from youtube seems like an option. Tried Bigflix, a netflix like service but a subscription service doesn't work with a very outdated collection.
Youtube seems to get movies after they are approved by cbfc (the hollywood ones,I can see free nigerian movies without a cbfc rating. cbfc is India's movie certification body). This limits the content that is available. No TV content is available. So even with all the Internet bandwidth and some money, I still cannot watch shows which someone in the US can.
Things are improving. Many US/UK based series get same week broadcast on TV. But more can be done for the subscription or rental market.
btw there's a syntax error in your markdown.
"Spurned botnet employee left with access to Twitter accounts, tweets millions of times"
> Do you know how often a majority in the primary occurs?

Its early enough that the political strategies and funding streams haven't really adapted to it yet, so I'd be cautious in generalizing either way from the experience so far with the new system.

That being said, AFAIK, there have been very few, if any, first round majorities so far in the offices that used to have party primaries.
House of Cards is a fictionalized view of politics based largely on the parliamentary system (specifically, the UK parliamentary system on which the original series was based). The political maneuvering in House of Cards simply isn't possible in the U.S., including most especially, Frank's ascension in Season 1 to the VP or any of the bizarre inter-party maneuvering that dominated Season 2.
So I was briefly a candidate for Congress in 2012 :-) There is an interesting set of things here. Setting aside the money issue (its really a _visibility_ issue rather than a money issue) there is a certain amount of support that is needed by voter influencing groups. Well known vote influencers are Unions, Churches, and Civic groups such as the Rotary club. Additionally if you're running as a member of a party, that party should nominally know you exist (they will be asked questions).

The idea that you can get elected just by direct influence of the citizens is not well founded. :-). So when I was doing this and got more serious (I had permission from Google for a 2 year leave of absence if elected) I talked with some political consultants, and their input was that like jobs, politicians have a resume and a 'trail' which is to say they do simpler, smaller, roles and the people around them develop a notion of what it is like to work with them. It is that credibility that allows people to believe you can serve them if you are elected. So if you want to run for congress, you should ideally get a job that exposes you to the politicos in your area so they are at least somewhat aware of your existence. That also shows that you can do the scut work of being a politician, and for any job above a certain level of influence (city supervisor, county supervisor) it will inform on how you can be influenced.

Easier to launch a run for the Senate as the former Mayor of San Francisco for example, than it is to launch it as "Oh hey, I can do this! Vote for me." guy with no name recognition. Not that the latter is impossible, but Meg Whitman shows that someone with a ton of money can be beat by a better political record.
Fair enough; I only ran it a couple times and it got to 2048 so I assumed it's a guaranteed win.
Aligning operating hours with when you have active staff monitoring and responding would be a reasonable assumption.
Nice example, but ray casting like this is overkill for this effect and with a low number of rays it's pretty inaccurate.

I prefer using the technique shown in this classic article on 2D soft shadows:
http://archive.gamedev.net/archive/reference/programming/fea...

The basic idea is to project the geometry, rather than ray cast. I've implemented this sort of technique in the past and it works well.
three point plan:

- add two new brackets to capital gains taxes. positions held for more than 5 years pay 5% capital gains taxes, to encourage long term investment. positions held for less than a week pay 50% capital gains taxes, to reduce churn.

- use a shortest splitline algorithm to make congressional districts fair

- lower the voting age to 16.
I tried some of those twitter handles and they're already suspended.
It depends on the open space. I have seen one setup where you have a choice of working in a project room, which you should not expect to be quiet (though it can be quiet at times), or an open plan area that is designated for quiet work. Work-at-home is also an option for most project teams in this setting. That appears to work.

Mixing coders (or CAD engineers, or anyone who may need hours of uninterrupted concentration) in with people who are likely to interrupt them is asking for trouble.
A children's book for makers
I don't agree that approval voting is a poor choice for political elections. I particularly reject any implication (if present) that plurality should be preferred to it.

I recognize that ranked methods have some substantial benefits over approval voting, but there are drawbacks. Considering just the theoretical benefits and drawbacks in this context, I would agree with a preference for ranked methods. However, when we consider the complexity (and resulting decrease in transparency) I've come to prefer approval. Even so, I wouldn't strongly object to a ranked method.
Good article. I think one area where it could be improved slightly is to specify which type of use case the recommendation is appropriate for:

1. Node as a scripting language

2. Node + Express or Hapi or whatever as a web development framework

The recommendations in this article work well if you're targeting Node as a scripting language.

However, if you are developing using a web framework, then some of the recommendations are too lean (IMO).

1. npm init

When I'm developing for the web, I use a more robust application skeleton. There are a ton to choose from. However, I do use npm init when developing scripts. My guess is the author's point is something like, "good Node devs include a package.json".

2. Declare all dependencies

Absolutely. Works for both web and scripts.

3. Specify a start script

Yes, for scripts.

However for the web task runners such as Grunt / Gulp / etc. work better. For web dev starting the server is just one task of many. For example, if you need to start the server after checking the environment, watch for file changes, run jslint/jshint, and so on then a task runner makes web development easier.

4. Specify a test script

Yes!

5. Keep dependencies out of source control

Yes, but use npm-shrinkwrap because the code you deploy (your code + deps) should be the exact same code that you ran during testing.

6. Use environment variables to configure npm

Absolutely. Config files are another option, but this is a matter of personal preference. The authors point is totally valid.

7. Bring your own npm registry

This is an interesting one and one where there is no clear "best choice" yet. It'll be interesting to see how npm (public and private) evolve.

8. Keep track of outdated dependencies

Yup

9. Use npm scripts to run custom build steps

This is now being debated. There are some in the community who specifically prevent pre/post scripts from running automatically when installing via npm.

10. Try new things

Debatable (at this time). These new features can also go onto the todo list in the near future. If someone is new to node, they may be better served by focusing on what node / JS does now.

11. Browserify

Depends. If you're using Angular, then it has its own module system. I think Ember has its own module system as well.

require.js is another option. But the author's point about having client-side modules is totally valid.

Again, nice article.
> It's not easy for people to just pack up and move.

You're right. But that's life. For example, I had to pack up and move 8 times in the last 14 years, and it sucked every time. But I dealt with it.

Having to move merely once every several decades is a comparative luxury.
Ah, good to know! Makes a lot of sense. Do you know if it actually does reduce emissions?
"Its early enough that the political strategies and funding streams haven't really adapted to it yet, so I'd be cautious in generalizing either way from the experience so far with the new system."

An important point, to be sure.
> Car dealers exist because

If it were really the slam-dunk win you claim it is, Tesla would probably have used dealers too.
Archive and ALA brief filed in Warrantless Cell Phone Search Case
Your algorithm has a flaw, assume something like this:

fun1:
...
cmp rax,rbx
je fun1_a
call fun2
ret
fun1_a:
call fun3
ret

There, you will miss the call to fun3.
I think it's clear that what was meant was "You'd have to be a Democrat to have much access to many of the votes that have been going to Feinstein, and you'd need access to those to win". Again, same party as the incumbent being the salient feature. If you want to assert it no longer quite fits, I'm on board; I don't agree that it's fair to call it "a meaningless phrase".
They seems to just stream the movies from YouTube.
Agreed. The other option is the site could provide a way for a group of people to collaborate and make a bunch of items together at one time, co-op style.
Two things about that:

1. He's still earning ad revenue from existing installs.
2. In the last 22 hours of the app's existence (when he announced
he would be taking it down) more than 10 million new people
installed it.

In other words, he's likely making just as much if not more today. He could have instantly removed it from the app store instead of saying "in 22 hours", so it's entirely possible that he's way better off due to all the publicity and attention from the app's removal.
I don't know.

This is actually one area where the refining industry wants federal regulation: they would vastly prefer to deal with a single set of standards for the whole country than tailoring individual plants to 50 different standards.
Its a good way to make sure 3rd parties never get the first 5% in an actual election or become any kind of factor (spoiler candidate). Its an establishment trick.
All I know is that coming from the Windows world with Stereo Mix and the configurability/stability of recording/playback devices, I have been constantly frustrated with my experience in Ubuntu. There have been a few moments of surprisingly pleasant features, but most of it has been frustrations such as:

- Low volume levels, and all the means I have tried to amplify cause quality degradation
- Random devices showing up on streaming sites depending on what version of flash I'm running
- Complete inability to access certain devices, non-functionality of "monitors" or just confusion about how the hell they work

Back during the times I was trying to deal with this I had attempted to switch over to ALSA/OSS or whatever and it was not a pleasant experience. I recall not even being able to get back to the functionality I had with pulseaudio before, and found no improvement on the low volume levels that have been the primary source of my woes.

One of the main reasons I find myself rebooting back to Windows is so that I can be back in the audio environment. Windows has been perfected to give me ultimate control over all my audio devices, with RealTek's drivers allowing me to duplicate my audio over both my front and back output jacks, monitor my stereo mix on other playback devices, and play with the quality/levels as I please.
I fail to see the reason behind your panicked verbiage. You seem genuinely upset by this discovery, care to explain why?

Also, it'd be interesting to read some of your reasons for believing this is in any way, shape, or form a "government sponsored bot". By saying that without any reasoning, you're placing yourself squarely in the "tinfoil hat" camp.
I have written a pretty simple job-worker system in c ,and I'm interested in this field. Do you have any recommendations for books/resources?
> What you're arguing for is essentially the difference between a shell script and a more complicated shell script

You seem to have a really shell-script-centric view of the world, as if the shell is somehow a fundamental and "pure" tool, and everything else is a more complicated version of a shell script.

What you are missing is that the shell is just another tool, and does an awful lot behind the scenes to achieve the functionality that appears "simple" to you. Bash is tens of thousands of lines of C and its manpage is hundreds of thousands of words. Using the shell is not "free", complexity-wise. The shell is a programming language, and not a particularly well-designed one at that. Shell script programming introduces its own peculiarities, and it is known not to scale in complexity very well.

> Your debugging argument is bonkers. You claim shell scripting is too hard

No, I claim that the shell is not a particularly simple tool. There is a difference.

I write JIT compilers for fun. I don't shy away from things that are hard. But my brain has only so much room for uninteresting and arbitrary facts. The very pecular way that conditionals work in the Bourne Shell is not something my brain can be bothered to remember.

> Did you even read the executive summary of the position paper?

You have edited out precisely the parts that contradict your position: "It replaces the venerable SysV init with a clean and efficient design [...] It is better than existing alternatives for all of Debian’s current use cases." Yes, the momentum of systemd was clearly a factor, but your claim that it is only but a popularity contest is not a conclusion that a dispassionate observer would reach.
It's not a decent service, though. It's a service not many want to pay extra for. Personally I would even pay a bit extra to be able to pump my own gas. It certainly doesn't save me any time to have them pump it for me, and it's awkward to boot.

There's no shortage of things they could be doing, but instead, we're paying them to stand around most of the time inhaling gasoline fumes. We could instead be paying those people to do something actually useful, like running fiber to homes and businesses, or delivering goods so that we don't have to travel, or a million other things that would increase our productivity.
Poll: Do you literally stand up at your stand up meetings?
...but, why would you need it?

Once your path gets longer, aren't your essentially just stuffing your file name with metadata which should belong in the file in the first place?
Selling followers AND tweets. Seems like an easy task with little risk compared to hijacking actual user PCs for a botnet.
I wish the game industry as a whole was a lot more like Dong, instead of being all about the money. He gave up 50k a day, no doubt if the app had stayed in the store it might have even climbed higher before peaking and slowly coming back down. That one line in the interview when asked why he took his game down, "I'm master of my own fate" says it all about the type of guy Dong is: a decent one.

Sure he's still making money from the people that downloaded it, but he's not being greedy and I respect that. He put the well-being and privacy of himself and his family above the crazy amounts of money he was making. He made his money and he is grateful, he didn't try and push it as far as he could have. Heck, he had so many offers from people wanting to buy the game, he could have easily commanded a six-figure sum for the IP alone, but didn't. He just decided to take it down and leave it at that.

The world needs more people like Dong.
Mt. Gox U.S. Affiliate’s Assets Frozen by U.S. Judge
I haven't used npm tasks yet, so take this with a grain of salt. Grunt has two main advantages: a rich plugin ecosystem, with easy-to-configure/use tasks for pretty much anything I can think of (preprocessing, concatenating, minifying, linting, live reloading etc.) and a standardized "language" to configure Grunt plugins (third party or your custom tasks).

Once you familiarize yourself with the Grunt way of setting up tasks, it becomes trivially simple to obtain and run plugins for your tasks.
January 2009 - Executive Order 13491 - Obama restores policy on interrogations to pre-Bush norms (i.e., rolling back the instructions that resulted in US soldiers torturing prisoners) [1]

January 2014 - Obama repeats call to close Guantanamo prison:
"With the Afghan war ending, this needs to be the year Congress lifts the remaining restrictions on detainee transfers and we close the prison at Guantanamo Bay," Obama said in the address Tuesday night. Obama ordered his administration to empty the prison camps in the first year of his first term, by Jan 22, 2010. But Congress steadily thwarted that ambition by imposing escalating restrictions on transfers and blocking civilian trials of the captives.[2]

What he did not do is to aggressively pursue judicial action against the previous administration. Was this right or wrong? I personally wish he did, but I can also see why he chose not to tear the country apart over that.

So I'm curious - did you know about the executive order he signed? What else were you hoping he would do? Where do you think he lied?

[1] http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/EnsuringLawfulInt...

[2] http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/01/30/obama-we-need-...
Yes. There is a lot of data. Managing tile servers can be quite involved.
>"Oh wow, a "My tax dollars!" complaint in the middle of a "My tax dodge is inconvenient!" complaint with a little "Thanks, Obama!" thrown in for good measure."

Delawares taxes are competitive but not actually the lowest. The following is a succinct explanation from a 3 second Google search on the issue.

"There are two major reasons for Delaware's dominance of the corporate incorporation business. One reason is the bi-partisan political consensus in Delaware to keep the Delaware corporation statute modern and up-to-date, and to rely on Delaware's corporate law specialists for advice in how to do this. As a result, law students at every law school in the United States study the Delaware corporation statute and the decisions of Delaware courts interpreting that law."

"The other major reason corporations choose to incorporate in Delaware is the quality of Delaware courts and judges. Delaware has a special court, the Court of Chancery, to rule on corporate law disputes without juries. Corporate cases do not get stuck on dockets behind the multitude of non-corporate cases. Instead, Delaware corporations can expect their legal disputes to be addressed promptly and expertly by judges who specialize in corporate law."

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/brandywine-to-broad...
Same here! Would love to share ideas about this with both of you!
The city is expensive, poor people are clearly willing to stay in these illegal units which is a better option than staying in a car. What exactly is government's problem ?

I am pretty anti-regulation as such things go, but one plausible reason:

Such "close quarters" tenancy is bound in the aggregate of a big city to lead to a large number of he-said, she-said disputes of the sort that are nearly impossible for the city to resolve or regulate in a just way. I say you're using more than the agreed share of electricity, so I'm evicting you immediately. You say my car is blocking your access to the unit through the garage and want to sue me for breach of contract. Yes, the tenant and landlord could, in a regulation-free Utopia, negotiate a specific binding agreement that could cover all contingencies, but again, those will be very expensive and time consuming to litigate.

The city agrees to enforce rental agreements that fall within certain parameters, and one way those parameters are set is by looking at what kinds of disputes they're likely to produce and which the city is actually capable of adjudicating.
Working fine here.

$ git pull
Already up-to-date.

$ git push
Everything up-to-date

The website is also working fine for me, albeit very slowly.
Neil Young Launches Digital Music Service/Player Pono
As a web developer I'm kind of impressed how broken it is. It takes significantly more effort to break something to this magnitude.

I mean, you have to go out of your way to break things this badly. If you just play normally, your website cannot and WILL NOT crash and burn like this.

I attribute it to malice, I just don't see it happening this badly without intent.
tl;dr - I'm scared. Don't sue us too please.
>>I'm not saying we shouldn't help these people, but if you are complaining about not being able to get by in the most expensive city in the country, I really don't have any sympathy for you.

I have sympathy for them, because the current tech-boom is displacing(or greatly accelerating a process that was already happening much faster than they can handle.) them and I think that's a shame. IMHO, what makes SF great is its diversity. For reasons I won't get into right now(could probably write a book on it), diversity & high-income don't overlap too much... so watching high-income people displace the diversity is sad to me. I believe it to be a worthy goal to preserve SF's diversity of culture & history like this lady carries; preventing events like this from happening. I don't know how though, but I definitely don't think it's okay to lose it.
What is interesting is though the state has an incredibly fast evolving legal ecosystem, it has obviously not maintained the same technological policies.
It's not that "my identity has been stolen". It's that financial institutions (and others) have established procedures for freely creating binding obligations in my name on the flimsiest of actual evidence. It's fraud, enabled by financial institution's weak procedures.
Won for me on the second run: http://i.imgur.com/zc0uNLz.png