skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, either it's broken or everyone stopped playing it. It hasn't found any competitor after about 5 minutes of searching.
Why would you ever play dice, if rolling 1 meant losing everything?

Lots of situations. If you had $0, obviously.

Probably if you had less than $833.33 (the expected value of the dice in my game), slightly more subtly.

Maybe even other scenarios, depending on how long you wanted to play for, if there was a time cost to playing, if you could play for as long as you wanted, what your utility/risk preferences were, etc.

The point is that there are appropriate tools for reasoning about such games correctly - utility, decision theory, etc. - and they beat minimax.
>I then turned inward. I thought of the women in my life, my wife of almost 18yrs and my little 4.5 year old daughters. What would they think of their father for not saying anything and letting this jerk spew his sexist beliefs?

I am confused. Is she calling herself her child's father? Is she in a Female-Female marriage?
> Google does pay some of these local taxes, because they have a small office in San Francisco

350,000 sqft is not small.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/07/google-...
While the idea is nice, I'd rather not use a bookmarklet that tracks me through a unique ID across websites and not only keeps a list of pages that I used it on, but also of pages that I came from: https://github.com/cameron/squirt/blob/gh-pages/bm/squirt.js...
You practice, thats how. You practice eliminating subvocalization and regression. You practice focusing on multiple words at a time rather than a single word. And - once you get a hang of those skills- you practice moving your eyes across a page at a faster pace.

I have been practicing for a little under a year with the help of a speed reading app (not Spritz). It was frustrating at first; I won't pretend that I internalized even 50% of what I was reading when I started learning how to speed read. But as my eyes assimilated to reading larger chunks of words at faster speeds, I incrementally increased the speed of the text. Eventually, I was able to increase my reading speed AND understand what I was reading.

I can't attest to the effectiveness of this specific app, since I have never used it. But when you write "its way more fun & time saving to be able to imagine, drift-away in thought and understand what you are reading...", you suggest that one can only understand (and enjoy) what he is reading by reading the way you do.
The only way this could ever work safely is if you partnered with a credit card company prepared to treat a record in the blockchain as sufficient proof to refuse a chargeback.
Yes, it runs on linux. (I use linux and I've tested many of these demos, perhaps not this specific build though.)

The only issue with linux is if you have older GPU drivers, they might be blacklisted by the browser and WebGL support will be off. But if WebGL is enabled and your drivers are stable, will work fine.
Great job on the relaunch and rebranding, and on the blog as well! Thanks for sharing.

Just so you know, I had a few minor issues on the blog:

- None of the images are visible.

- I think a word and period are missing at the end of this line:

> Todd, one of the Eventjoy co-founders, began the design for the new web product and necessary updates to our existing
Go 1.3 will remove Windows 2000 support
I've now fixed this, and it should be live at some point soon.
i think we can assume "veganarchocap" talking about getting physically ill being called a marxist is trolling.
Point of pedantry, but you never need commas at the start and end of parentheses. So, (illud) == (, illud). Also, (illud) == (illud, ), etc.
I'm impressed with the general quality:time-spent ratio.

I think the basic level design and polish steps are fairly well done. Even the sluggish controls (as a number of people have pointed out) feel more limited by lack of engineering time than your understanding of what feels good, and I would guess that through some rigorous testing and closer scrutiny of your code that could easily be fixed.

However, I think you exhibit some game design anti-patterns. I am referencing Zileas' List of Game Design Anti-Patterns[1], that I think game designers should reference more often until it's a quick checklist whenever they design any game.

Most notably I think Dark Blue succumbs to "False Choice" and "Or We Could the Player."

[1] http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=...
Socialized flamewars. It's sorta awesome, in an oil tanker alight in flames coming to port sort-of-way.
> I'm not sure I see the win

For a user that can install a native build, the native build will run better. No doubt. But, most users in the world do not know how to install apps, and even if they did they shouldn't because of security concerns.

For that reason, game devs know that asking people to install a plugin or a native build will kill off most of the potential users of their game.

Instead, if you just give people a link to click and it jumps right into the game, that will maximize the amount of users able to play it. This is the main reason for the anti-plugin and pro-web movement in games.
I'm a little slow, my Googling skills suck, and I've been living under a rock for... let's just say "months". Can you spoon-feed me the exact article, line, and phrase where you got this idea that Microsoft delays fixing vulnerabilities at the NSA's behest?
He got a lawyer involved first to make sure it wasn't crossing any boundaries with his actions.
Hmmm... that doesn't make much sense.

The UK was in terrible economic shape before Thatcher.
Squirt : Read 750 words per minute, in the browser
"He thought we should abolish private property. People should not be allowed to own things."

No. that's just straight wrong. Property is revenue generating, it's not the stuff you own. Marx wanted to abolish private ownership of the means of production (ie, factories)
OK, bear with me for a moment, but why would a CEO who is so openly and blatantly sexist have accepted a women interviewee in the first place? I am inclined to thing that either he was either testing her, or this is fiction.
So I watched Man of Steel today.
It was thrilling and in my books gets 8.5/10. At one point it actually made me emotional, when clark returned to her earth mom and said, Mom! I have found my parents, it made her happy and sad, as she thought, they will take him away from her.!!!

But hey! Did producers ever think, SuperMan is kind of property of this world rather than U.S.A. I meant, I have grown up watching the cartoon series.

This entire movie suggested, that I do not exist in this world, only Americans do :/ which hurt a bit. It was an overly american movie, which is not bad for a movie, but I want the directors to know, every kid in South East Asia, aspires to become a superman too, Oneday! Hope they take care of next time.
What your flight attendant really thinks of you
So you're saying if someone need $100 right now and has terrible credit, that's it's better that they can't get the $100 at all, rather than pay a high interest rate?
MUNDO DE JUEGOS
Did you contact the companies looking to hire full timers / freelancers? Or did you just post your ad and hope someone would proactively contact you? If the former, how many companies have you contacted that you got “no response” from?
I don't see this as a "youth" problem. To reframe the discussion, this is about the ever present cycle of innovators that become incumbents and innovators that disrupt incumbents. If you haven't heard of Clayton Christensen's book, The Innovator's Dilemma, it's a good read.

While some of the people mentioned in the article are young (Bicket and Miswas of Meraki are in their 20s/early 30s), other entrepreneurs in the news today are not: Acton and Koum of WhatsApp (recently bought by Facebook for $19B) are in their late 30s/early 40s.

Google's founders, Larry and Sergey, are 40.

Twitter: Jack Dorsey is 38. Biz Stone is 40. Evan Williams? 42.

Steve Jobs' best work at Apple was when he was in his late 40s/early 50s. Arguably, the success of Apple today is due to Steve's leadership, not due to the company being saved by some young person who breathed new life into the company as this quote from the NYT article suggests: "The most innovative and effective companies are old-guard companies that have managed to reach out to the new guard, like Apple". (If you disagree with this, look at Apple between 1985-1997 and 2011-present, where plenty of young (and old) people worked at Apple)

To simplify the claim here: there are those who know how to adapt to the current situation and those that don't (or can, but don't care). Some of those who know how to adapt are "old guard" and some are "new guard" -- it's not the age that is the determining factor.

As for other items in the article, like the lack of young people "help[ing] cure cancer or fix healthcare.gov", there are plenty of old (older) people who don't want to work on those problems too.

As for the claim that startups are the bastion of youth, that's not true either. I see plenty of 40-something founders and startup employees. While young startup people can easily afford to do a startup because their financial commitments are low (e.g., no mortgage or family to support), the older folks tend to do a startup for a similar reason: they've earned and saved a chunk of money where they're no longer worried about money and they can take on more risk.
What is Scala doing in the same list with Rust, Julia, Nimrod, and C++? You do realize there is a JVM preventing it from being a systems level language, right?

Also, you should need no more reason to avoid Scala than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1lpKBMkgg

If you're interested in Scala, learn Haskell. It's faster, its design is re-enforced with proven mathematical concepts, and it doesn't have the worst syntax ever.
Bizarre. It worked fine for me. I wonder how these paywall algorithms decide who to demand money from? Are you on mobile?
Could it happen? Sure, but the State would have to agree to it. I am pretty sure the majority would not do that. Now, a State to State registry would likely happen.
¿Cómo puedo bajar de peso rápidamente con la fórmula secreta?
Hay varios alimentos que por las características que estos tienen, ayudan de manera especial dentro de muchas otras cosas a poder adelgazar rápidamente. Uno de estos alimentos es el ajo, que ayuda a bajar de peso rápidamente gracias a las propiedades que este tiene. Este es uno de los motivos por lo que se ha creado la dieta del ajo conocida por muy pocos y es una de las dietas que utilizan las celebridades.
if you are using chrome, use

command+shift+N and then cut and paste the url into an incognito window :)
I like imagining the other end of this. Walmart notices guy starting to gain some traction with a competitor. They use their private army to "convict" him and hold him prisoner. Which private army fights to get him free?
Buying a cryptocurrency with a credit card is expensive, and AFAIK the online merchants who accept cards for digital currencies don't distinguish between credit or debit cards. The companies that accept cards are going to charge you fees to cover the risk of a reversal (remember if you reverse, the exchange rate may have changed significantly since the original transaction making their managing their cash flow much more complicated), plus you may incur international card fees depending on who the merchant is, and they're still going to charge you their normal spread over and above this.

(This is true for fiat currencies too - cash and cash equivalents are a special case of purchases, and can attract cash advance fees, reward exclusions, etc. Try reversing an international credit card payment some time, too, you can be out by as much as 5-6% in fees even though the charge was reversed!)

If you want to still want to go this route you could try buying Second Life Lindens (SLL) at e.g. VirWox and using those to buy Bitcoin (BTC) - of course you're going to pay the spread twice, making your BTC even more expensive.
Presumably, this a reference to the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, and apparently the reputation of E.D. Tex. relating to its popularity for patent litigation based on the way its patent-specific local rules has become generalized even further.
I don't understand how it could be interpreted as anything other than a direct imperative.
What's wrong with contacting a lawyer if someone is writing things that are blatantly untrue? Has anyone here actually read the posts?
"However, I believe that in the past few decades, modern nations have had no guiding principles other than economic growth. This begets a huge host of problems, mainly resulting from parasitic and wasteful economic practices which tend to be zero or negative sum when all externalities are accounted for."

This book discusses this problem in depth and suggests some possible solutions:

How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life

http://www.amazon.com/How-Much-Enough-Money-Good/dp/15905150...

They explore how the focus on unlimited growth and acquisition as an unquestioned good is a recent phenomenon in human history, and how almost all major philosophical and religious lines of thought throughout history have placed limits on the optimal amount of wealth and possessions to accumulate. They cover the same ground on Marx as this article, but include many other thinkers and systems of thought as well.
To cross the paywall google the title (http://google.com/search?q=A+Relentless+Widening+of+Disparit...)

Its amazing that Google doesn't nuke sites that do this into oblivion.
at this point i think it's worth reposting the citigroup memos from 2005. in which they were basically saying what the 1% has accomplished and what they want to improve.

http://cryptome.org/0005/rich-pander.pdf

i think there was an update on that paper
Regarding tooling, I agree Flash's tools were a huge benefit for it. The same is true for engines like UE4 and its competitors, they all focus a lot on tooling. When those engines are ported to the web, the tools are part of that.

Some tools might not just work, of course, like profiling tools or anything else that runs while the game executes on the target device, as opposed to the dev environment. But:

1. I have seen even things like profilers being ported together with the engines. Takes some porting but the result is you have the engine's normal full set of tools.

2. You have the in-browser tools as well - all modern browsers have profilers, debuggers, etc. And also they support source maps, which means they can see the original source code and not the hard-to-read compiler-output JS.
some pigs can actually be quite attractive with carefully applied lipstick
> Today I wrote 3 lines, they were really important lines, they took me 4 hours.

Haskell? :)

Haskell is like a fine wine. It is meant to be sipped.
http://www.businessinsider.com/here-are-5-tips-you-can-try-t...

Little old, bu should help.

Take-away: Clear your cookies/use another browser.
$35,000 for a better algorithm for identifying asteroids
The interviewee appears to be a man.
This looks awesome, as in, too good to be true. I don't get it...who's paying the difference?

And why would you not charge for a service like this? You're providing a service people should find valuable.

EDIT: I just checked the FAQs on the website and I'm still not convinced. Coupons? Promotions? What if I already maxed out on coupon codes? What if there are no more left?
i was under the impression they nuke it for crawling purposes
Curious why you say so? Have you tested it?

WebGL works on mobile devices, not all browsers have caught up yet, but there is progress.
I thought it was hilarious.

And clearly intentionally so.
There are two issues here. One is "10,000 hours of practice" and the other is "10,000 hours of deliberative practice." I wish fastcodesign had downplayed the Gladwell/Blink reference, as it makes it harder to figure out what they are talking about.

I haven't read Blink to know if Gladwell emphasizes the first or the second. I have read some of Ericsson's works.

The first of these is a myth. No research has ever backed it up, and Ericsson's work outright says that deliberative practice is the key part, and that only about 4 hours of deliberative practice are possible per day.

The actual research papers (which cost $36 each!) concern Ericsson's "deliberative practice" definition only. The new article is http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289614... and response http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289613... .
Apparently not, nytimes still has pagerank 9 (out of 10)
No, it's satire. Presumably written by a bored techie, fed up of seeing one-too-many "Speed up your computer, with this one weird trick!" links.
I hang out in some indie/amateur game dev communities and it's like everyone and their dog is making a top-down stealth shooter with the exact same effect, the exact same mechanics, and the exact same "FPS in 2D" feeling. That's what I'm tired of, not 2D raycasted lighting/shadows in general (yes, I thought of Nethack while writing the grandparent comment).
> we had to announce our name change in an upcoming edition of a local newspaper. Yes, it’s exactly like it sounds.

I don't think this is out of the ordinary (in the US). My understanding is that printed fictitious name filings are required in most places when you do business as a name other than your personal name or corporate entity name.

If your town has a weekly alt newspaper, it's usually pretty easy to go through them (and usually < $100).
Simple trick to beat 2048: left up, left down, repeat
In contrast, I know a couple of people that work for Otto directly (i.e. not for Otto owned companies like Hermes or MyToys) and their work environments are fantastic. I also have friends in other big companies like Unilever, Mondelēz (former Kraft), and more, and based on what I am told, Otto offers the best working conditions.

Logistics companies are currently in a hard and cut throat market, and the only place where you can order and be kinda assured that the workers working conditions are o.k. is, I think, Deutsche Post. Doesn't make it right, but as explained above, some of Otto's other endeavours do indeed excel with very good working conditions.
No, he is calling himself his child's father.
Thanks for catching that, turns out I cut off two words :x

Images are working fine on our end. What browser?
Hey thanks for your response.

Some follow-on questions:

1. How often do you visit HN in day?
2. How do you generally spend your time on HN? reading new articles, reading comments, Commenting and participating, or something else?
3. Are you actively looking for a job, or you stumble across a good job posting when doing your normal browsing?
In many roles, that would be irresponsible, as you would drop your colleagues emails and leave them hanging. I agree it would be freeing, but I don't think its fair to the rest of the team.
For me the the most obvious win is still being able to merge, move forward in time, move backward in time, rebase, etc. Everything that makes Git great.

Once you have submodules in your repo, all that becomes heinous. PLUS everything you mentioned...

Sure, if you don't use those features, then submodules would probably work fine. But then why not just use Dropbox?
"the US has already seen private companies running company towns and using their own private army to kill people."

Sounds pretty tame to the actions of the US state, doesn't it?
Hey thanks for your response.

Some follow-on questions:
1. How often do you visit HN in day? 2. How do you generally spend your time on HN? reading new articles, reading comments, Commenting and participating, or something else? 3. Are you actively looking for a job, or you stumble across a good job posting when doing your normal browsing?
Web inventor's biggest surprise about the Internet? 'Kittens'
I really don't like sites that don't let me register emails like foo+chilledlime@gmail.com
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We also source from other vendors. So you may order via a Walmart checkout, but find that your item comes in a box from Target. This is the largest source of per-order savings.
The Incomplete Google Ranking Signals
Did you post as in hn/jobs or in "who is hiring"
We're all trapped in this prison of money. Reality is more absurd than anything we could think of. People forget they are fundamentally free. The prison is a mental construct. Even the rich are trapped.
You need to get into the habit of checking your TODO. I find it quite easy to get into that habit with Andreas Klinger's system, but I haven't been able to with any other system I tried. I think it's because I see them on the right.
Developer.apple.com down (DNS issues)
Thanks for the feedback! It is the current Coinbase SELL price:
https://coinbase.com/api/v1/prices/sell

We'll add it to the order confirmation page soon!
There was a discussion of Andreas Klinger's system that also included a Google Apps script for catching emails you forgot to mark as needing a response. I can't find it though - anyone have the link?
Kafka is focused more on throughput rather than latency: if latency is critical, you should use a database rather than a message queue (may be with some caveats, e.g., for finance, telcos, or air traffic control; TIBCO et al cover that market well, however).

Kafka's use of the JVM does not really impact throughput. Very little portion of the messages' lifecycle is spent in the JVM heap, Kafka makes aggressive us of the OS page-cache and avoids copies (e.g., using sendfile() whenever possible).

I agree that, e.g., if Kafka had to make heavy use of in-process memory (this is appropriate for databases) as opposed to OS managed buffers, then a language without a garbage collector (or perhaps a garbage collected language that gave you an option not to generate garbage in the first place...) would help.

That said, there's other advantages to using C++, but they won't bring significant performance improvements -- although I suppose one could experiment with, e.g., using AIO but that might end up causing more harm than good in case of Kafka.

As the "slow compilation times" feature, scalac and sbt do a much better job of it than cmake and g++/clang :-)
Lenin's not exactly a reliable source where it comes to describing Marx (in much the same way that the ocean is not exactly free of water), since he was trying to sell a program radically divergent from Marx's under the banner of Marxism.
Until a year or so ago, they were our #1 most effective recruitment vehicle. (We got better at hiring; HN didn't get worse.)
Perhaps his intention is not to just compare system level languages.
In the past, the reaction to pitchfork was usually emigration
From the article: "Never mind the fact that Section 230 of Title 47 of the United States Code holds that website owners cannot be held responsible for comments that their users make."
Flow batteries
That was my recollection, but looking at plots of real GDP per capita and debt/GDP, I'm not seeing any substantive changes associated with the Thatcher years. Is there any metric where it pops?
Git is not as bad as you claim, and Hg is not as good as you claim. Yes, I have used both.

If you're looking to derail this post and do some trolling, then congratulations. You're off to a great start.
I visit HN few times a day. It is my guilty pleasure and a quick break from the work I may be doing. If I comment, I browse often to see if anyone responded or to follow-up on my comments.

I read articles and comments if I find article title/submission interesting. I comment only if I have an opinion, experience or something new to add.

I am actively looking for job, was laid off end of Dec.
This is kinda neat! Cheers!
Last I checked, NYTimes.com was still using the "X free views every Y days" model. So chadwickthebold most likely reads the Times more than you do.