skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a dream a few nights ago about a first-person version of 2048. I don't have time to code it, but would love it if someone did a first-person version!
> .io

not sure if legit
Free to Play – A Valve documentary about E-Sports
This is absolutely incredible.

I'd like to extend an offer to the OP to purchase this app/company for 50 billion dollars.
How i Killed my Reddit Addiction and became more Productive as a programmer
Hahahaha someone actually made it. But I said it had to be MMO!!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7418400

But seriously this is hilarious.

Edit: Oh the one Nick posted in a comment here is awesome too. Actually super challenging to move squares while playing flappy bird.
This neglects the still noticeable difference between "high end consumer sound setup" that might cost a few hundred bucks, and studio grade audio recording. Yes, making a movie takes magnitudes more capital investment than making an album, but I'd argue the scale of the initial investment is irrelevant - the larger the initial commitment just expands the required adoption to turn a profit.

But all media requires, first and foremost - and most scarcely in an economic sense - skilled creative people putting in the hours forging their craft. That never changes, regardless of where you extract value from (and you might as well just extract the value from the act of the craft at this point, by kickstarting or something else your albums / films / games / etc to be made).
I believe so although I do see Dropbox support in their settings so I'm guessing you can have your data sent to your own Dropbox for more long-term storage.
My Friend Makes Amazing Whiteboard Art
I believe 2048 has now officially jumped the shark.
How to "Cheat" at BuzzFeed Personality Tests
I agree with this article. Who is going to make those multi-million dollar movies if no one is going to pay for watching them?

What new business models can we offer these guys?

I would say that Peter Jackson's days of making massive flicks are numbered....
A static culture is dead. If you mean you don't think it's a good idea to try to force change, never mind.
FWIW, I got way more value out of the Matasano challenges than studying classic ciphers.

Do you think it'd be a not-terrible idea for newcomers to focus entirely on studying this? http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-11-cryptographic-rig...
The Real Reason Why Photos Of Bin Laden's Body Haven't Been Released
Yeah, but this is actually pretty lame compared to the proposals you linked. I was hoping someone had built one of those.
What's a good symbol for snafu?
You have just sent a pour soul on a questionable endeavour.
The Age of the Smartwatch is Upon Us
That's a completely spurious analogy. This is obviously meant as a more sophisticated version of the whiteboard for coding interviews. There's a lot of value in that.
I follow Tom on Twitter (consume his feed in Flipboard) for this exact reason. Every time I look at one of his photos posted from around the world, I dream a little. Dude seems to be living the life he always wanted. The snarky side of me grumbles that he's probably still not happy .. but damn he sure looks it.
Jobs are for those cheaters who practices interview questions everyday while sending out resumes everywhere at work. If you are actually making worthy stuff at work, you might as well try to create yourself a job.
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Interesting take -- I guess I was trying to generalize a tad too much :]

Thanks for the great info.
Er, how about the section of the article titled "Aftermath"

"After having received information that widespread communal violence against Muslims in reprisal for previous atrocities against Hindus,[17] Prime Minister Nehru sent congressman Pandit Sunderlal and a mixed-faith team to investigate. Reporting back the team estimated that between 27,000 and 40,000 civilians have died and that some members of the Indian army and police force participated in violent acts.[18]" I wouldn't call that a minor overreaction. My grandfather didn't leave Gulbarga in 1948 because he was sick of the climate.

The article also fails to mention that Nehru's agent to Hyderabad was the incredibly communal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._M._Munshi
Nailed it. I felt the article was a bit much on the hand-wringing of constant technological changes.
> If a company is currently worth $10m, options for 0.1% are worth $10k.

This isn't really accurate. The company is not giving you 0.1% of the company. It is giving you the option to buy the gain on 0.1% of the company above that value at the time you start. If the company never gains in value, your options are not worth anything.
> Many of my friends are entrepreneurs. A few have mentioned this deep hollow conflicted feeling. Their business ideas are not things the world wants. They're following the current tech entrepreneur stereotype, building social apps and pursuing investors. They're hating it, and having to admit they're doing it only for the jackpot. But if they stop, what's left?

I feel like this article is ignoring rich entrepreneurs who do use their wealth for far more interesting and/or useful things. First example that comes to mind: Elon Musk. Could he have made SpaceX or Tesla without first getting rich? Probably not. I think it's worthwhile to struggle to get rich, if you plan to use that monetary wealth to invest in more long-term plans.
Ah yes, The Right Thing. A well-defined category if ever there was one. This is kindergarten morality.

Human beings will never stop creating art. They don't need a Media Industry.

There is no "we", and none of us control the future.
Thanks!

This is definitely in the same space as CE. When I just started writing this, tptacek wrote: http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2013/07/22/applied-practical-cryp...

... and that was a huge motivator and inspiration to me. So:

1. (Unlike Applied Cryptography) focus on things that you are actually likely to hit in the wild

2. (Unlike Cryptography Engineering) Written today, and hopefully perpetually updated; including things like ECC, all sorts of CBC attacks, et cetera.

3. (Unlike either) Free of charge, and freely redistributable :)
Both coursera and udacity have amazing courses on crypto.

Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/course/cs387

Coursera crypto I: https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto

Coursera crypto II: https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto2

I took coursera crypto I myself. It was a lot of work, but I learned a ton.
On the other hand, what value do hedge funds produce again?

You can change 1 billion people's jobs every day with a handful of 3-year old technologies, starting today and ending as a VC-funded Internet startup. You can literally start today.

This is mostly going to be of interest to people building value though.
I've found there are two particular thoughts that need to occur for the "motivation to improve and better myself" to manifest itself.

1) honest love for oneself; a belief that bettering oneself is not a completely selfish goal, but actually helps everyone and everything else in your life that you care about (insofar as you interact with them)

2) an honest belief that energy spent on self-improvement is effective; if I try to change myself in this way or that and am unsuccessful, it makes the next attempt much harder to get started.

just my two cents.
Twitch Plays Pokemon-themed Flappy Bird clone (Flappy Bird Jesus HTML5)
Oh, I see, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks!
SpaceX and Tesla were really possible because of the large amounts of money that Elon put into the companies, it is estimated that Elon invested $100MM into SpaceX. his extremely impressive resume was not enough to receive the level of funding to get the company off the ground (get it?)

how can a first time entrepreneur actually receive substantial investment without putting in such a large personal investment?
How to Add Rapportive to Your App in 30 Minutes
It's very easy to add a fallback, though. If the CDN goes down, load the local version.

> This doesn't really have anything to do with how reliable the CDN itself is, but rather with how reliable the client's connection is.

If they have the CDNed version of jQuery cached then it doesn't need their connection to do anything.
"Angry 4D Flappy2048 MMO doges are belong to us in 140 Bytes!" comes next and it goes on until there are so many references that no one gets the joke. At least, that's what I wish for.

Seriously, I love when people extend ideas well beyond the point of absurdity. It's fun and it actually stimulates creativity.
Andy Scott Of Sweet Faces $78,000 Legal Bill Over $1.25 Used CD
There is plenty of culture that they don't control that is thriving, no need to exaggerate their power.
100% uptime just became possible.
Sorry, they picked this fight, they deserve no mercy.

http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html

When they change their behaviour maybe I could do anything other than play cheerleader for popcorn time and its ilk, until then bring it on, give them a quick and merciful death.
Robot solves Rubik's Cube in seconds
I think your statement is a bit extreme. While relying exclusively on a cdn to serve your static assets is risky, doing it using require.js with a local fallback works very well. You still benefit from cdn caching, while preventing your assets to become unavailable (even in China).
ok, i would like to pay this 50k one day.
Your score should double after every level, instead of increment by 1. Otherwise it would take forever to get to 2048!
U.K. to Replace 1-Pound Coin With 12-Edged Design for Security
Hmmmm.... a 2048 Minecraft mod?
Can you explain more what you mean?

I'd say hashes aren't going to make everything faster, but they will always be faster than disk lookup. But more to the point that I understand you to be making - hashes are excellent when you have large amounts of _repeated_ calculations.

For instance, counting word occurrences in a large body of text. Rather than run through the body N times for N words, you run through it only once and increment a word's tally every time you come across an occurrence.

Do you mean that a cpu-bound process could improve on this?

To be fair, he refers to the strength of lookup time in the quote you cite, which is not exactly the property that improves the algorithm I just mentioned (which is that the use of a hash completely restructures the algorithm). I'm curious to know more about situations in which you find writing cpu bound code to work better. Including - what sort of N are you dealing with when you make this choice?

I can imagine that generating HTML on the fly is a simple enough computation to outweigh the benefits of caching every possible view - which is to say, the N of each rendering is small enough not to be truly cpu bound. But even then, that ignores the fact that we'd be reading from disk anyway, and so I don't see how that's worse than paging.

These are my thoughts. Not gotchas. I just want to know what I'm missing.
The audience ^_^ -- haha.

I targeted the post towards the tech industry. I should probably make that more clear.
Google Keyboard 3.0 released with personalization based on Google service
A lot of mobile games and apps could make use of this. So, while the price seems cheap for a Triple A studio, it's a price that individuals and small mobile devs can test out. More mobile games and apps with an incredible engine behind it is good for all of us.
Popcorn Time was exactly the kind of media service we've wanted for over a decade. It probably wasn't even as good as it could have been had it been developed in an environment where there wasn't a lobbying industry actively trying to suppress this kind of innovation.

It almost seems like the entertainment industry is just extracting rent from the status quo.

I've been curious about volume collective licensing schemes and the like built into your ISP fee.

There must be a better way forward that doesn't stifle seriously useful technology.
Ah, I guess I wasn't aware this was a forum for jokes. I suppose cat pictures and memes come next.
You know what, if we want to attribute the state of Pakistan and its conflict with India to the British occupation, I'm fine with that too. I'm not spoiling for an argument over this.
Akamai does not offer a public CDN. So they are not a competitor. Apples and oranges
Light Table 0.6.5 is out
Through iteration and the test of time, the media industry has a way of doing things that contains value. I think it's hard to argue against that, but welcome it if you can.

We all control the future. We are the future.
I didn't get a "don't pursue certain technologies in order to protect certain industries" vibe from the article. Most here will agree that is futile. There will always be someone willing to take it a step further for another dollar.

The takeaway in the article is to be mindful of our work, and feel (some) responsibility towards the PEOPLE whose lives it will change. The collective "meh" on HN to any person outside the tech industry is disgusting.
No point in arguing with tptacek. Just consider him a right-wing nut job and move on.
Reminds me of the hilarious column by James Mickens, "The Slow Winter", on how these kinds of improvements used to be easy:

"“I wish that we could predict branches more accurately,” and you’d think, “maybe we can leverage three bits of state per branch to implement a simple saturating counter,” and you’d laugh and declare that such a stupid scheme would never work, but then you’d test it and it would be 94% accurate, and the branches would wake up the next morning and read their newspapers and the headlines would say OUR WORLD HAS BEEN SET ON FIRE."

PDF: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1309_14-17_mickens.pdf
I'd bet this is just the first iteration. It's better to ship it before no one gets the reference =)
Twitch Plays 2048.
About #3, have you considered hosting a git repo with your (presumably LaTeX) source so that others can contribute?
India has led the genocide in Kashmir of over 100,000 kashmiris, Mr Venkatesh, Can India even be regarded as a civilized?
There is plenty of technology that isn't covered via patent, either. That doesn't mean isn't still easy to step on someone else's copyright (or in some cases trademark) and your recourse is precisely jack and squat.

I'd think it's ideal to identify and stomp out overreach while it's still a smaller thing and before it's a much greater thing...
nice. looks to be built on d3.
I could make it to 2^11, but this way I lose interest.
The Corruption of Agile
There's a lot of that in Europe too. There's a lot less overt flaunting of wealth in the richer countries (Denmark or Sweden, for example) than in the poorer countries.

However, I think even upper class people flaunt wealth, but in different and subtler ways. One example of this (for the super rich) are art collections (such as paintings).
This is a good kind of stupid. I love it!
As someone else who has also been in the industry for quite a while, it used to be fairly common for me to implement linked lists back when I was programming primarily in C. But lately, yeah, it has been mostly abstracted away, even in languages where doing pointer operations is useful or allowed.

As far as companies attempting to emulate Google or Facebook when it comes to interviewing, this sort of thing is even older than either of those companies -- in the mid-90s it was common to attempt your own spin on the "Microsoft interview".

I totally agree with the basic point, though... for all of the supposed rational thinking that goes on in tech, hiring people is mostly cargo cult and voodoo magic.
I'd love to see someone create a version of Popcorn Time that does its absolute best to find legal streaming options for movies first, and didn't actually let you torrent if there was a legal option available to you to rent (I realize this varies widely by your country). There's definitely a market of people willing to pay for content, my Amazon rental charges alone prove there's at least an N of 1 here. But the act of searching 3 times anytime I want to find an obscure movie or recent release is a bad user experience. Check Amazon, check iTunes, check Netflix. If it's a TV show it's even worse because now you add Hulu/Hulu+ into the mix. Give me one place to let me pay for all available content and I'll use that every time.
> patronage systems lead to undue influence

I'm not an art history guy, but my understanding is that Italy is littered with art with "cameos" of the wealthy patrons who commissioned it.
For years, I've tried to "do the right thing". Buy my music. Buy or rent the videos I view. Safari subscription...

The last few days, the Roku is rebooting multiple times per show. Content seems to be disappearing from Netflix streaming more rapidly than its appearing -- and no, I'm not interested in the episodes of yet another faux-reality TV show.

Although its not impacted titles I particularly care about, there has been a slowly increasing trickle of emails from Safari regarding titles "no longer available".

The cost of the pipe I'm viewing some of this over continues to rise far in excess of inflation. And the moment I stop paying my several monthly fees, it all "goes away" for me.

As much as anything, these and other limitations now primarily serve to get in my way.

So... look out, government-granted and ever-extended monopolies. "The People" are, I increasingly suspect and directly experience, about to tell you to go stuff it.

P.S. And on the other end, many of the people I care about seem to be ever more marginalized. Songwriters and musicians I both enjoy and can actually afford to see, who all have to hold down one or multiple day jobs. Special effects artists who, directly or indirectly, win Oscars while losing their jobs. Writers who... well, "writers" is a broad category, but there have always been plenty of good ones who live economically marginal lives.

The status quo is a money grab for entrenched interests. I no longer identify with those.

P.S. I get physical discs from Netflix, as well. Measured against my viewing habits, they make plenty off of me.
It would clearly be a different path than Elon's startups. But it's impressive that YC is willing to do the funding legwork for such an ambitious company, if they believe in it.
Again, what's the point of having a tool you never use?

I have had to implement a sort once in 10 years of professional programming, it was in IE6's painfully slow js to fix a slow table sort. More than most. I didn't do a CS degree, the people around me with CS degrees didn't know the answer.

I googled it.

After the 15 minutes it took to find and implement it I mentioned it to one of the CS people, he promptly reeled off the definition to me, but couldn't see how it solved the problem.

Give me someone who never cuts and pastes over someone who know algos any day.
The best way is a browser extension, but even that has its pitfalls (firefox especially since there's no real sandboxing).

It's never a good idea to do crypto over a website.
Much easier than flappy bird.
Interesting. For me, being happy starts positive reinforcement cycles that enable further learning and growth.
> not least because the state of Pakistan was in part a reaction to genocidal violence against Muslim Indians.

Are you actually naive or you are just playing this? Do you even have iota of an idea of India, Muslims, Pakistan, genocide or anything about this subcontinent?

I have seen you comment here on almost all the topics and your comment is generally a "scramble" of things without a backup, without a flow, without any intellectual merit, you just say things. But that's mostly about technology but this time you ventured into a field which you seem to have mastered minutes before writing this comment.

Not only that, you embed history in it and make it worse. I wanted to respond to your comment instead of this rant but this one particular statement just stuck out and how do I respond to this factually absurd statement. I've lived here for 28 years. I am a native with friends (and distant family) on both sides of the border so I can safely say that there really aren't many comments that I have found as meaningless on HN as yours, well in a negative way.
Not HN material: Political.
> Or just ask "what else are you working on?"

You could say something like this: "I'm generally not able to disclose details about other projects. But I can tell you that their effect on my availability will be..."
Improving paid conversions
It would be nice if there is a system which monitors politicians who don't do much (other than raising funds for their campaigns) and automatically sends their resignation letters, and sends a self driving car to take them to their home!!
It's really refreshing to have a site just give you the material without making you make an account, or sign up via email first.
Some of us work for today ... but many of us work for tomorrow. Let's hope your side projects prove fruitful.
I agree completely random is not good. I meant random in the sense that there is not a set agenda and you are meeting them for the first time. But yes, there has to be some context. In these meetings I have done 100% of the people have been in tech.
Anyone else only get:

<html><head><title>Processing Failed</title></head><body><b>Processing Failed</b></body></html>
This looks sweet!

Is there a way to hit these via the API, or using RSS/(some nature of feed)?

I'd love to be able to set up a script to show me new repos in my chosen categories via IRC/XMPP/whatever.

EDIT: It looks like https://github.com/showcases.atom is a feed for showcases as a whole, but I don't see one for particular categories.
It's so interesting how our generation is so deeply interested in this idea - what would we do if money wasn't an issue? I really loved this video - a good reminder to feel okay to break the "traditional" structure and pursue happiness.
Ben, this is a very well written PR (even if you copied the style) and I think you should go ahead and publish it (I personally feels most of the Press releases are not worth it but yours looks to be something which can be published).

Can you check at fiverr.com and oDesk.com, I know there are some really good people there (you need to some searching though) who can make it better, I had done some PR work myself (syndication) so feel free to contact me via http://www.inboundio.com/contact_us if you need any help or guidance.
Yep. Too many open file descriptors. I'm trying to figure out how to fix that without taking the site down now.

EDIT: It should be hopefully slightly better right now...