skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting from level3 or 5 is gives you all you need, really. I even had more gear when starting from "5" savegame than when playing normally from 1.

If you really want to have a ton of loot, start in original level3, go to the secret boss fight (doesn't always spawn), and spend a few minutes thinking what to leave behind.

I'm disappointed Random Starting Gear is crap. Most weapons are strictly worse than their equivalents using the same ammo. It quickly degenerates into a knife run, because you have no starting pistol until you find a "second" one in level3. The exceptions are sspoon (higher damage per round, perfect accuracy) and fat john (very accurate shotgun with better penetration). These are the tradeoffs you might tolerate into the endgame... although mg3200-drm has a big, undocumented accuracy boost.

Nailguns are questionable even when used optimally.
Pato11's stories are always inspiring and interesting to read. They were a huge motivator to start my own business, which I eventually did.

My first attempt in online business was GetSSL.me (https://getssl.me), which has been one-man shop most of the time. It was pretty simple to set up and run, but the biggest pain point was payments, because of my geographic location. Also marketing was a big issue, because I am not a marketer and had to learn everything on the go. To be honest it was more like trial and error approach.
It is still interesting. It has been discussed before on HN and people may want to read some of the previous comments. (I'd link but HN's mobile search is unusably bad[1].

HN has a lot of submitted articles. People really should stop submitting fluff and people need to stop upvoting fluff, because it means the interestin stuff gets missed.

I am surprised that malware can make its way into orbit. Is there a market is reducing weight of consumer electronic items for astronauts? Because each gram costs $X so maybe the people paying for the fuel might be interested.

Has there been any kind of realistic depecition of malware in orbit? The terrible terrible use of a laptop to infect the alien mothership in Independence Day doesn't count.
Sorry for being unclear: my response was wholly about the 'understand' part. You can't integrate Stack Overflow's editor into your yen web page. I do think that a user can figure it out really quickly (the little formatting buttons above the text area and the simple markup help a lot).
Try POWDER. It's inspired by Crawl, but has enough ideas of its own. In particular it makes Crawl's weapon and god systems look pathetic. And the writing is spectacular.
I haven't because I wasn't here then...

So yes it is interesting to me.
The Collaborative Consumption Trap
While the two stolen passports are suspicious, it's important to realize that there's plenty of flights with people with stolen passports. The most common reason is illegal immigration rather than anything more untoward.
Horrible spelling, no content.
Maybe try Bombfell? http://www.bombfell.com/

It's too expensive for me, but they do what you describe.
Well, it discusses them on a meta level, and it doesn't pretend to be productivity advice itself, so not much irony to die from.
How did he make the wrapper functions persist between sessions?
'Bitcoin creator' denies involvement
That was the whole idea. Microsoft would license BASIC and MSX-DOS for whatever they felt like while computer makers, unable to differentiate on features, would compete on price alone and grow the market for Microsoft.

I'm quite surprised clever execs bought that...

Also, the fact MSX was obsolete when compared to similarly priced Commodore and Atari machines of the time didn't really help. Also, MSX2 and 2+ were still 8-bit designs, Trbu-R being the first and only major overhaul, far too late to really matter.
Haskell will tell you that

toRational 0.1 = 3602879701896397 % 36028797018963968
toRational 1e50 = 100000000000000007629769841091887003294964970946560 % 1

Both of those values are precise, although I admit the first isn't really useful for human beings.
Ah, I didn't know this, makes sense though as they were 'perfect' (as far as my memory goes).

Typically the arcade to Amiga conversions were ranging from so-so to downright awful (with some notable exceptions like Pang which as I recall was very faithful), so I was amazed at seeing him loading up these arcade perfect versions on his X68000.
I wonder how that squares with tech companies providing shuttle buses in the Bay Area. I found a reasonable looking comparison that said bus travel is more dangerous than flying.

My guess is the company has more control over the bus, or the bus charter company shoulders the insurance burden.
This looks great! The upcoming developer edition that will work with templates sounds really useful as well.

Any plans to support the SASS version of Bootstrap ?
Good project managers are very valuable. Unfortunately they're not easy to find and evaluate.
hey.
The good thing about a one man operation is that you dont have any overheads. I started my startup with 4 people, but later learned that one was enough to start off with and i should scale according to the profits im making - instead of putting my own money into it (which i didnt have much of anyway).
My startups: (http://opensource.com.pk) and (http://sells.pk/) are web agencies specializing in different areas. The former provides managed freelance outsourcing for larger projects and the latter specialized in e commerce for small/medium businesses.
The first few clients help you pay the bills and buy bread, but if you keep at it and be persistent after a year you will have more clients than you can handle, that is the time to get employees. I am almost reaching that point, and that is what excites me these days.
Ah yes, my response was more in the context of me having the same inaccurate sales pitch as that of your friend, but I realize that my 'best thing at the time' came out wrong as I was referring to the time at which I was proud of my Amiga :)
Agree that the blog post does seem to be written by a non-native English speaker.

But there is content; the post claims that First Meta was a trading site for virtual currency (e.g. gold in WoW) and not a bitcoin exchange as has been implied by most coverage of her suicide.
Thirded. I'm from Israel and would love to watch this online.
Not too fast with that logic, else we can just start reposting everything from any amount of time ago :P

OT unbelievable that in such an environment as a space station there is no standard protocol that denies network access to 'alien' machines that have not been properly checked before. Like an infected XP laptop. Or actually any machine wit hany OS for that matter.
Turbogears 2.3.2 web framework released
Although patio is an American he lives in Japan
I completely accept and agree with your criticism of my criticism.

My gut sense is that this proposal is simply too amateurish to be worth the effort of thoroughly debunking. Floating point is kind of like cryptography: the pitfalls are subtle and the consequences of getting it wrong are severe (rockets crashing, etc). Leave it to the experts. This is not a domain where you want to "roll your own."
Is there some robot I'm not aware of?
I find this game interesting : http://roguelikegames.com/star-wars
So it's a lot like the following comment which I grabbed from somewhere on the Interweb:

"Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information." - Michael Scott
Related standard: http://mobiledeeplinking.org/
Interesting point about mangers being an authoritative source, but if the manger is just the first user isn't that a bit arbitrary?

Good luck anyway!
I personally found win-c for the charms bar essential, also gonna try the win-q and win-p trick.
Exactly my thoughts! No matter what the cause is of this disaster, we're talking about human lives here. Please keep this in mind.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Missing (Radar)
"Because, WYSIWYGs suck"

I think this is a bit short sighted. I like Markdown and I'll eventually integrate it into my product, but to discredit the usefulness of WYSIWYG would be foolish. Maybe there is a lack of good implementations for it to show any value. I'm currently evaluating redactor (http://imperavi.com/redactor/) as my WYSIWYG editor and I've been happy with it so far.

For example this is how I render the html that is generated by redactor:

http://screenshots.gitsense.com/wysiwyg-1.html

If you click the edit button on the bottom right hand corner, it'll bring up the WYSIWYG editor:

http://screenshots.gitsense.com/wysiwyg-2.html

And if I need to do a complex layout like the one in the screen shot, redactor lets you edit in raw html, as shown below:

http://screenshots.gitsense.com/wysiwyg-3.html

If you are working on a product and believe Markdown is the only way to go, you'll probably do yourself and your customers a disservice.
Tab doesn't work.
Shift+tab should unindent
1. Press start
2. Type "power butto"
3. Press down, enter

Here you can change what the power button, the sleep button, and closing laptop lid will do, including the different sleep modes.
The missing factor is time for recovery. If an employee, even an executive, dies, it may be a problem, but probably not a catastrophe. Others can pick up the slack, a replacement can be hired and trained, etc.. You can kill the entirety of the original team and not be in dire straits, provided they die over the course of several years.

If an entire team dies at once, there's no one to pick up the slack, and no one to train replacements.

It is both unlikely that an entire team will be on a commuter bus at once, and even if they were, it is unlikely that a bus crash would kill all of them.

Plane crashes, in contrast, have a nasty habit of killing everybody on board all at once.
Alex's blog: The good, the bad and the bold one
>> By the end of round three I was starting to feel like an abusive jerk and was about to give up and be fake nice instead.

Feel like an abusive jerk? -She is one. She's behaving like one of those Chinese "Tiger Moms".

>> But then in round four everyone took more than an hour and started playing well.

But then, her bullying started getting results, and she let out a sigh of relief. She wouldn't "need" to tone it down and fake niceness after all.

Fear is an efficient motivator. The kids work hard to avoid the psychological pain she'll inflict on them for not performing up to her expectations.
Last year, when my employer had an offsite event, nearly the entire flight was filled with my coworkers.

When I was working for an event management company a few years ago, it was very common to have 10-15 people of the same company in the same flight..

Forget about suspicious.. There is nothing odd or even remotely unusual to have 20 people of one company travelling in the same flight. Let's not add more to the mystery than what's already there.
People who call Mac toys have probably never used one for a good amount of time. There are legitimate ways to criticize Macs - this is not one of them.
I'm sorry. I don't get this.
Suppose you run a professional services business where you have appointments. If people don't come to an appointment, you don't get money. You might pay an office manager to call people the morning of their appointment to remind them, so that they come into their appointment, so you get paid, right? Appointment Reminder is like an office manager who costs $200 a month, not $4,000 a month, is vastly more likely to successfully reach a customer, (virtually) never forgets to call, and does not consider boring, repetitive work to be an insult to her intelligence. For many of my customers, $200 is substantially less than they earn for a single appointment. (Think less "hair salon" and more "HVAC repair firm.")
> It's the sign of a corrupt state if you're hoping to get justice by having the cops ignore the law.

Look, I don't disagree with this. But the die has been cast. You probably spend more of your waking hours committing crimes than not committing them. You can blame cops for enforcing laws just like you can blame anyone for doing something they know is wrong, whether because "it's their job" or for any other reason. There's not just one way to attack a system you don't like. Fight on all fronts. You'll make better, faster progress.

Do you think more laws are invalidated by being actually repealed, or by shifting the culture to the point where enforcing them is impossible? Why is this particular case different?
Well I didn't try that, but other comments here say that you may suggest changes which then must be approved by a manager.

But even if anyone could post and edit content without any approval process, the content could still be heavily moderated after the fact.

So my question still stands.
"Oh boy, here's an easy in for me to snark" --thejosh
Good timing this one; just picked up a very cheap T100 which I really like but lousy Linux support so will need to have patience. I never tried the hybrid concept before this and I really like it so it'll be worth it getting linux to run.
Is this an example to what I wrote or a way to prove me wrong? If it's the latter, please read it again.
Show HN: fuckitdb, an experimental ORM for Google Spreadsheets.
Just a funny project I've been working on. It's fairly slow and a terrible place to store your data, but I did use it to run the Secret Santa on /r/longboarding. I had lots of data stored in Spreadsheets from forms, and it worked well.

Comes with lots of handy features (from Google), like arbitrary cell execution, automatic backup/patch control, and non guaranteed uptime.
>> This website is protected and guaranteed secure by a 100% hacker free security guarantee. This guarantee ensures that this website was scanned and deemed free from of any phishing scams, exploits, or malware that could infect your computer and jeopardize your safety.

So you're selling snake-oil too?
Did the employee contract include a waiver:

"The undersigned, for one, agrees to welcome our robot overlords."

Also, clear title at 33 should meet anyone's definition of successful. I just got a mortgage at 28 and that day is a long way off. Must feel good :)
Plane hijacked over Swiss air. Airforce does not respond citing office hours
Google notifier is no longer supported
I think before they can get to terminals, the audio subsystem needs to be reworked once again. Because it's been a few years already, and pulseaudio seems like it might slowly start to become reasonably stable if they don't do something about it.
While we are going for crazy conspiracy theories, 24 of the Chinese passengers were from a calligraphy art group returning from having their art displayed in KL. Maybe it is someone who really really hates Chinese calligraphy?

The point is that there are all kinds of reasons why groups of people end up on the same plane.
I can't think of any reason someone would bring down a plane just to kill 20 probably low-level Freescale employees. I can't even think of any reason someone would be specifically targeting Freescale employees at all -- not even their myriad competitors would stand to gain in any material fashion.
There is a video? Where?
Your point basically boils down the whole issue of why Win8 is a failure: MS blindly followed Touch UI trends in a context where Touch UI is simply weaker than Mouse/Keyboard, and they threw away many of the advantages of a Mouse/Keyboard oriented UI in the process. Metro might have an advantage through its consistency across applications for Touch devices, but as long as it's being forced onto Desktop users it will continue to alienate a big chunk of Microsoft's core userbase. Considering the current developments I expect a full 180 for Win9 - even the Vista start menu might come back at one point.
> There are also 255 representations of almost all representable numbers. For example, 10 is 1 x 10^1 or 10 x 10^0 – or any one of 253 other representations.

You are not correct. The smallest significand possible is 1x10^1, but you can't delve further into positive exponents. Conversely, 56 signed bits allows the largest integer power of 10 as 10 000 000 000 000 000 so the exponent will be -15. So there are exactly 17 representations of 10, and that's the worst it gets. All other numbers except powers of 10 have fewer representations, and most real world data affected by noise has a single representation because they use the full precision of the significand, and you can't shift them to the right or left without overflow or loss of precision.

So the redundancy is much less than you think, one in 10 real values has two representations, one in 100 has three etc. This is common for other decimal formats and not that big of a problem, detecting zero is a simple NOR gate on all significant bits.

The real problem with this format is the very high price in hardware (changing the exponent requires recomputing the significand) and complete unsuitability for any kind of numerical problem or scientific number crunching. Because designing a floating point format takes numerical scientists and hardware designers, not assembly programmers and language designers.

Heck, the only reason he put the exponent in the lower byte and not the upper byte, where it would have ensured a perfect compatibility to most positive integers, is that X64 assembly does not allow direct access to the upper byte.
Not sure if this is what Hacker News would normally consider a business but I run a YouTube channel as my one-person business: http://www.youtube.com/cgpgrey
One of my colleagues commented earlier this week how impressed he was that his doctor's surgery sent him an SMS the day before the appointment, presumably driven by similar software.
Now and then? This kid is 17 now. Have things really changed that much? I think it's more likely he went to a different school and his parents had a different temperament than you and your fellow parents.
I stand corrected. I somehow read that as 'replace integers with floating point type'.
A nigger writes a GPU driver.

God says...
incoming humility oh_oh why_is_it foul The_good_stuff you_should_be_so_lucky
sex patience ghastly repent sky I_donno money do_you_want_another
home chill Jedi_mind_trick you_talkin'_to_me atheist spirit
and_then_what ahh_thats_much_better whale I'll_think_about_it
off_the_record in_a_galaxy_far_far_away Percival bad_ol_puddytat
I'm_on_a_roll genius perfect Shakespeare how_bout_it sex
vermin end not_in_my_wildest_dreams vote absetively_posilutely
Background: XEPs are the protocol building blocks of XMPP.

The XSF (XMPP Standards Foundation) are working hard to make XMPP more mobile friendly. (disclaimer: I'm an XMPP board member).

There are three problems to solve:

1. knowing when to retrieve messages (push notifications)

2. retrieving messages (message archive management)

3. synchronising messages between devices (what this solves)

More background: XMPP is designed around keeping a connection open to the client and pushing through updates and new messages. These assumptions worked well in a desktop environment on a solid TCP connection. But for power, intermittent network, and mobile OS design reason, holding open a socket isn't ideal.

Push notification work because the OS provider (Apple, Google, Mozilla etc.) keep one socket open and then push through important notifications. This keeps the phone's radio from powering up for silly things like "contact came online/went offline" type messages.

A push notification might be "xyz posted ... ". Your phone needs to now come online and synchronise messages that might have been posted on your tablet or desktop client. Hence XEP-0280. It helps resync messages from other clients.

The XSF is also writing up a push notification XEP that makes it easy for mobile apps to use XMPP as a signalling channel and throw out push notification where necessary.
If you're talking about google fiber they said after seven years it'll be the fair market value for 5mb/s which they're hoping at the time will be $0.
The Borg Design Pattern
When's the end of year money period?
Dunno if this was the same as the other reply mentioned, but Phillips (and probably others) makes Wake up lights: http://www.amazon.com/Philips-HF3520-Wake-Up-Colored-Simulat... - no idea if they really work though.
86. A infatuated Shahjahan is supposed to have raised the Taj over the dead Mumtaz, but carnal, physical sexual love is again a incapacitating emotion. A womaniser is ipso facto incapable of any constructive activity. When carnal love becomes uncontrollable the person either murders somebody or commits suicide. He cannot raise a Tajmahal. A building like the Taj invariably originates in an ennobling emotion like devotion to God, to one's mother and mother country or power and glory.

Uh, ok, if you say so.

This seems to be a conspiracy theory website with an anti-Muslim bent whose nuances are difficult to comprehend without an understanding of India's internal politics...

Next up: did you know that Obama's evil muslim healthcare plan was actually invented by Assyrians in 1500 BC?
It is slow for me too =/
> "needing ... supporting IdPs (email providers)"

Over at FastMail we seriously looked into implementing Persona across the board. We're one of the bigger "small" email providers and we figured that it would be a good thing to get in on the ground floor if it succeeded, and have a(nother) feature to differentiate us from our competition, and to be able to give feedback on the system from the iDp perspective.

The hard requirement for HTTPS or DNSSEC is what raised the bar too high for us in the end (see https://github.com/mozilla/persona/issues/1523 for more info). Basically, the domain owner needs to securely delegate to the identity provider. Since we provide DNS and basic web hosting for most user domains, that means we have to provide HTTPS certificates for every domain we manage (and at least one IP per domain) or be able to serve proper DNSSEC records for every domain we manage (difficult when many registries we use still don't support it).

DNSSEC is something we're working towards, and I'd really like to have full support available this year. HTTPS without needing one IP per domain and multiple certificates is still not yet feasible, though there are specs gradually coming down the pipeline for it (DANE, DNA, POSH, etc). Without all this tech in place, Persona seems to be a non-starter for a IdP that wants to manage lots of domains.

I don't blame the Persona guys for this. I know they tried and they got a lot of it right, and should be applauded for that. Maybe the next round of federated authentication will work. I have no idea, but I know we'd still like to be involved, and we'll be watching the space with interest.
I think he's talking about the marketing style, or perhaps the art style of the eyecatcher.
Though not the event to which you are referring, Trump lost 3 senior executives in a helicopter crash back in '89. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/11/nyregion/copter-crash-kill...
Ask: Who's at SXSW Interact and wants to meet up?
When you chose a side of a fork, you risk having chosen the wrong one. So it seems rational not to chose. Let the other miners take the risk. After all, they won't let the currency collapse right?

It seems that the Nash equilibrium for this game will then be that none of the miners take the risk, consensus is lost, and the currency does collapse. Perhaps I'm missing something though.
Only slightly related, but the Nintendo AVS (unreleased) has a design similar to many MSX models http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20071214134519/nintendo/e...