skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>When an automated script that alternates pressing up and right and left every hundreth time can beat the game, then well, that's broken.

Except that it won't beat the game. You're lucky to get to a 256 block with that strategy.
Most Google Employees Can't Separate Work From Their Personal Life
Define "default". Both Python 2 and Python 3 are installed by default (it's a goal to not have Python 2 installed by default, but Python 3 is already there).

If you want /usr/bin/python to be replaced, this is unlikely to ever happen[0], but what difference does that make?

[0] http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/
This started as a comment, but got too long.

Main discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7486428
Journalists, media under attack from hackers: Google researchers
As others have pointed out: It wasn't the first time the idea had come up, but he came up with it and looked into it independently. That, at the age of 14, is the kind of thinking science fairs should be encouraging. As a Ph.D project? Not so much.
This is why some people will actually buy a new printer when their ink runs out.
Is there a bug in the train function? Using 'lambda: 1' for the default dict along with '+=' means that the first time a feature is encountered, the value is set to 2.

In [1]: from collections import defaultdict

In [2]: d = defaultdict(lambda: 1)

In [3]: d['foo'] += 1

In [4]: d['foo']
Out[4]: 2
Interesting stuff. Thank you for taking the time to explain.
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I shared this with my students. We're learning about typefaces and graphic design right now. Some of these comments picking about a 6th grader are pitiful. We want to encourage these ways of thinking -- not nitpick
GOG.com and Steam take 30% that is highway robbery. I bet you they make more money then most developers.
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Now just make Amberly into a virtual person and you've got something scalable.
Microsoft Builds a Digital “Monkey” to Hunt Fraudulent Ads
I'm just worried about Sony's long term viability. They don't seem as competitive as they once were, and as you say, they have this not-invented-here culture similar to other old line companies that are no longer dominant (Nokia, IBM).
This is why I think the Internet might actually be stifling innovation and creativity.

I find that more and more often I think of something, then search on the internet, and if I see that someone somewhere has done anything similar, I abandon the project immediately. After all, it's been done, so what's the point?

Net result if we push this to an extreme: instead of pursuing interesting ideas people end up wasting time in useless discussions on Hacker News, thus adding exactly zero value and failing to move humanity forward.

At a first approximation, everything has been tried by someone. It is very, very rare to have a truly groundbreaking idea. But that's not a problem! Humanity advances mostly through incremental improvements, not just by giant leaps.

So stop criticizing and start doing.
Some grep would be nice, and I don't mean the kindle touch search experience: tap, wait, tap search, wait, type, wait, type, wait, type, enter, wait, browse results, tap to scroll, wait, browse results, tap to scroll.
And if they had included floating point processing built-in they could have lost 486 bitcoins.....

Now I feel old.
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Given that "malleable"'s meaning has evolved from the same root, you're being pedantic.
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I agree, Sony has produced some excellent products and some of their laptop designs have made me very tempted to purchase their PC products in the past.

I own a few Sony products, but I tend to flinch a little with any Sony product that: (A) Probably has a DRM scheme associated with it (as most e-readers do, I assume this one does as well). or (B) Requires me to plug it into my PC and install Sony produced software.

It may have been a long time ago, but I tend to be one of those guys where trust is easy to establish, easy to break and serious loss of trust is nearly impossible to recover from. The Rootkit Incident was a serious loss of trust to me, so I'll steer clear for now. It's too bad, even at $1100, it'd be worth it to handle my collection of printed-to-pdf notes, documents and books.
I built something similar too: https://vine.co/v/hmu5IlBj2pQ

Mine uses NFC keys. Arduino does a lookup over GPRS against a web service to check if the key is permitted to unlock.

As someone else has commented, this uses an electric door strike rather than a servo.

You can register new keys using the webapp, make them allowed for certain time periods etc.
"Artificial Intelligence" seems to be a blanket term that covers an astounding number of concepts that would have to be fully realized and implemented before something like "Her" could ever be what the movie showed.

Self-awareness, self-actualization, genuine emotional response, subjectivity, etc. are not all one in the same.
Sometimes I feel the same: I'm not going to be able to do this better or even as good, so I'll stop working on it.

Sometimes, though it's the other way around. This has been done, but it still sucks so I'm going to do it better. Or sometimes, it's been done and works great for these people but not for me, so I'm going to make it better for my use case.

It goes both ways.
Fascinating, and so much common sense at the same time.
Great idea. Would you like to share the code, please?
I don't know about meditation, but when I write in the morning I feel like I can think more clearly and express myself more easily during the day. Might be a form of "re-arranging" your brain.
I don't think I was necessarily disagreeing with your second point, although a person with a legitimate claim doesn't necessarily have to join the class-action unless forced to by the court.

As for sleight-of-hand, I was referring more to the context that somehow the lawyers are pulling a fast one when it's quite clear what the outcome shall be.

But I can see how my statement can be misunderstood.
> I like to install Ubuntu and the first thing I do is get rid of Unity.

If you do that, why not start from one of Xubuntu or Lubuntu instead?
One of the demo videos specifically stated that you can rest your wrist on the tablet while writing.
I think the code is correct. To implement smoothing, you want to add 1 to the count of every word, regardless of whether it appears in the training data or not.

That is to say, a word that appears once should get a count of 2, and word that doesn't appear at all should get a count of 1.
That's only if you guys ship a new kernel in the next couple of weeks, right?
What does the Oculus Rift backlash tell us? Facebook just isn't cool
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I moved to a new job 2 years ago. Everything got better, the pay, the people, the work, except one thing. My commute got too short! My bike commute is the highlight of my day. I am privileged with not having to own a car.
No fly list == jobs program
eInk based ebook readers have been around since at least the iRex in '06. My current jetBook in the same format as the Sony here even has 4096 colors. The thing that always kept theory from practice for me was the high latency when doing the actual annotations. 150ms is too much when writing and your pen is 3 strokes ahead of the display.

Is this reader any different? Just looking at the page, I don't quite get what makes it different and HN worthy?
The problem with political debates is people just repeat things they've heard from authority figures and don't do original research to inform themselves because that takes time and effort. Even if you do the research and come up with a brilliant argument it's only going to work on people who can be convinced by arguments and then just one at a time if in person.
Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have collapsible comments?
I assume the coding to implement this is beyond trivial, so maybe there is a well thought out reason for not implementing them.

Any ideas what that reason might be? Has PG addressed this in the past?
SurveyGizmo down from DDOS as ViaWest bails
Which is a shame for both developers, as retention matters more (financially) for an ad-supported game than a for-pay one.
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Google is contributing code to WebscaleDB too, I don't know that their support of MariaDB means anything in this context. If you want MySQL+Google enhancements, WebscaleDB seems to give you that, plus the efforts of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and (since Webscale is not a fork) Oracle.
RealCrowd (YC S13) Raises $1.6M to Bring Crowdfunding to Real Estate
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That makes sense, thanks!

I should learn to read...
The lack of competitive markets on the supply side of research funding.
Credit card fees 'civil conspiracy', class action lawsuit says
> Ballistic grade aluminum armor plate...

That's from the same marketing phrase-book as 'aircraft-grade aluminium'.

Lightweight armour ( e.g. personal protection ) uses ceramic plates.

Heavy armour ( e.g. tanks ) still uses steel alloys with composite and plastic layers. There were a few AFVs with aluminium armour, such as the M113 and Sheridan, but ballistic protection was restricted to small-arms and light shrapnel. A Sheridan could be ripped apart by a 12.7mm DhSK.
A geek's approach to marketing
And just to give a sense of the orders of magnitude:

1,600,000
29,000
Thanks for the encouragement. Yes, I read once that Ross Perot went through about 70 rejections when first starting EDS. But prior to that he had been one of the top salespeople at IBM. What if he had given up after 69 rejections and gone back to being an employee? Missed out on a billion or two.
Application open but closes soon for Pres. Innov. Fellowship
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Red Hat reveals CentOS plans
Or it's paying 95 people for years of free lunches without getting any return on that investment.
Well, that and the increasing requirements based around safety and fuel efficiency. You have to suppose that there's one optimum shape for each type of car for fuel efficiency and all cars will eventually slide into it's shape. At that point only minor visual cues can be different from car to car.
The comparison to app store pricing is ridiculous. A better comparison would be with IDEs such as Visual Studio or IntelliJ. For each a free version exists, but no race to the bottom has occurred. Instead the free version provides students and hobbyists the ability to learn the tool, which provides employers a greater pool of applicants which have experience in it. It also provides startups a way to minimize their burn rate until after a mockup or even a MVP is validated.

Afterwards, in each case when the economics make sense businesses pay large amounts to buy additional premium version licensing, training, integration, and add-on tools. As primarily customer hosted software the additional cost of free riders is low, at least as low as the advertising costs required to grow the paying customer base by the same rate.
Improve your PC system unit with your hands
Embedding 2D Desktops into VR
The HTML that HN emits simply does not allow for anything like collapsible comments.
Seems like academia doesn't value reproduction of results and other corroborating research enough.
Sidekiq 3.0 released
The hardware seems really great. Sony has a ton of experience in e-readers, I trust their capability to pull out marvelous hardware, and this is a product that feels a really valuable spot on the market.

Except, there is so few informations on the software.
It seems the supported sync service is worldox [1], as it's the only link in the sidebar and there is no explicit mention of any other solution. Does this means one has to contract this service provider just to wirelessly sync this device ?

Of course, no mention of an SDK or any third party integration.

As usual with Sony, the hardware seems perfect and the software an afterthought.

[1] http://www.worldox.com
I visited the site and still have absolutely no clue what it does or what they offer. I know I can buy a Home Pack but I don't actually know what it does. Apparently, it can save me money somehow but I am still none the wiser.

It does show plants growing from piles of coins. Is it a fertiliser?
I don't think it's much a shock that they make more than individual developers.
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Thanks for the insight. I've seen similar patterns in areas such as recommendation systems. There are active research communities but really all of the detail work and pushing the envelope happens in private companies.

The financial incentives drive the pace. In the future I'm sure it will become more commoditized but right now the practical nature of integrating with large shopping, coupon, and marketing systems and scaling for millions of users place the progress mostly in the domain of industry not academy.
In which case there is nothing wrong with people defying market expectations and stepping outside of boundaries, even if they do not have the capacity and/or skills to deliver AAA-quality titles.
I just had a thought that Elon Musk owning both Tesla and SpaceX, the next logical step would be an electric powered airplane or a chopper. It could be an airplane/chopper that would glide down to safety in case of a mechanical failure, or crash land on rough terrain without fear of catching fire. That would disrupt aviation industry like never before.
There is a way to connect your steam account to your Humble Bundle account. Instead of getting keys, you can just click a button and your game appears in your steam account. It'd be nicer if they just kinda showed up without me having to click a button, but it's a start.

What other kind of integration are you thinking of?
I suggest you have a look at this if you think my comment sound silly:

http://vudlab.com/simpsons/
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Cost-benefit analysis, psychopath style.
Haha very true. It isn't really a newsworthy article for the BBC. They might as well start running articles on everyone with ambitions and plans.

"Someone plans for World Peace".
"Man wants to visit Mars"
"Student plans to get a job"

It's all very vague.

Might be useful if it works though I suppose, but hardly worthy of news.
And in mathematics, because you can't name everything after Euler.

(ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leon...)
yeah the link baiting was why i went out looking for and posted the flickr page
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Might be appropriate:

http://www.theonion.com/video/sony-releases-new-stupid-piece...

I too have stayed well away from Sony products. Last I bought was a PS2. I don't think i own any Sony products past that.
Perl references: create, dereference and debug with confidence
Office, welcome to iPad
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No but I'm suggesting this isn't nearly as big a deal as people are hyping and that the kid - whilst diligent - ain't a genius.
Can you articulate that any further?
> If it isn't broken why fix it?

Who says paper isn't broken? The only argument I see for paper in your comment is that a segment of the population are unwilling to use anything else. According to available statistics on the matter, we can assume that is around 20%. What about the 20% who only use paper because we're not given any other option (I count myself among that group)? How did the first 20% become a more powerful group and why are the remaining 80% of us letting them hold us back from realizing the advantages of electronic systems?
Ubuntu's user interface upgrades as of 11.10 (the "unity" interface) sucked so bad that I refuse to use Ubuntu beyond verision 10.04 on desktops/laptops.

11.10 was when I switched over to Mint and never looked back, and it seems that doing so was a wise move, given the Amazon adware/spamware/spyware that Canonical saw fit to include in more recent versions.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182

Even though Mint includes proprietary binaries (like Flash and Audio/Video codecs), which may or may not contain opaque questionable material, at least the third party non-open-source software is something that (arguably) improves the distribution and actually serves a purpose for me, as the end user.

Mint has changed over time too, though, and now I'm thinking about moving to a personally customized Debian image, and a hobbyist project. Hopefully it won't prove to be too demanding to pull off.
Comparing the race to the bottom of consumer product prices with a freemium (not really free i know) model for b2b tools doesn't make a lot of sense. These engines will now be accessible by people who didn't have a chance before. If you are an AAA dev (or hugely successful with your indie game) you still have to pay huge sums, at least with Unreal Engine. To use CryEngine for 10 bucks, you have to qualify as an indie dev.
So they are opening up to more potential users to upsell to, which in todays booming game market makes a lot of sense.
Here's a gist I might be posting too often:

https://gist.github.com/maxerickson/8456792

I always make sure to point out that I cribbed from here a bit:

http://alexander.kirk.at/js/hackernews-collapsible-threads.j...

So it's just a little awkward.
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Since Alibaba doesn't pay them dividends, owning a share of it has no effect on profit & loss.
How is it bad for the car? Are Tesla's accepting OTA updates while driving, and updating firmware while the vehicle is moving?

If so then you're right, they've made a terribly unsafe decision.

But if you have to stop the vehicle, put it in park or off, before it actually updates the software, then a bricked car isn't exactly dangerous, just a massive inconvenience and a source of incredible frustration.
XTouch turns any surface into touch-enabled controls for iOS apps
What are some creative or affective ways to find work as a freelance developer?
Up to this point I've had some success using Elance and ODesk platforms as a proxy for finding clients.

However, I'm sure there are better more affective and perhaps less competitive ways to find work.

Any and all suggestions are welcomed!

Cheers!
It is not really often I need a newer package than what is available, I can only think of Beanstalk because if this issue.

I am not really that used to build my own packages, but it is something I want to learn. And I didn't know that I could download from another version, I will look into it, thanks ! :)
Oculus Hack Uses Cameras And Music To Mess With Your Perception
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It's from Fight Club :)
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> otherwise I don't see how they are more than just shallow strawmen.

Both examples seem really common to me, although slightly exaggerated for comic effect.

It's extremely easy to find people who dismiss everything said after "INR,B" as racist — for instance, on Urban Dictionary whatever is said after it is DEFINED as racist:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=i%27m%20not%2....

(I'll happily agree that very many things said after "INR,B" ARE racist, but it also seems obvious to me that if you have an actual non-racist point to make, lots of people are going to dismiss it if you start with "INR,B".)
"In order to address this, Google's Dublin office has a program called "Google Goes Dark,"in which people have to leave their devices at the front desk before leaving for the night."

Come on Dublin, a front desk full of brains will attract, if not create, zombies.
The Internet is stifling innovation and creativity? Which Internet are you on? Mine is -full- of innovation and creativity. There's too much, in fact, to keep up with on a daily basis which is why I have to subscribe to aggregators like Hacker News!
No, it's about Valve's cut. ~75% of digital PC games sold are sold on Steam.

"Valve captures 75 percent of the global market for digital PC games through its Steam store, researcher IHS Screen Digest has estimated."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-04/valve-lines-up-cons...

And also:

"Publishers earn a gross margin of around 70% on Steam, compared with 30% via retail stores."

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0228/technology-gabe-newel...
Not sure if you've ever played it- it sounds like you maybe have not- but Flappy Bird is punishingly difficult, a fact which is commonly cited as part of its appeal.
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>The plans form part of Facebook's ambitions to extend its reach beyond its 1.2 billion audience, thinks Ovum analyst Mark Little.

Sure, Facebook will see some new users and this opens the door to some concerning data mining (SSL is heavy for the sort of latency and throughput I'd expect from a drone). That said, drone-delivered wifi is an amazing feat.
Sincerely maybe you should look into Islam where imbibing alcohol is prohibited. I used to drink everyday, I used to say I could stop smoking but not drinking. But one day something really really bad happened because of it, almost destroyed my whole life. But because I knew about Islam that this was out there. Now I realized why it was prohibited and called the mother of all evils. I used to jest about it before. A wake up call for me. God says in the Quran that there is some good in it but the bad is much more than the good. The Prophet Muhammad said that whatever is forbidden in larger quantities is prohibited in small ones, not a jot or tittle. Anyways just telling you sincerely. Hope it helps. Let it go but try to start over new, its never too late.
AMD, Nvidia, and Intel team up to demo ultra-efficient OpenGL
But, not that I know the situation, it is possible according to your example that 2048 to not be aware of Threes.
There should be a dynamic website that shows the percentage of all documents that are classified VS not-classified. That would be amazingly useful and revealing. We wouldn't know what the government is hiding, but we would know how much it is hiding.
Nice job Timmy!
I don't wanna be the asshole here, but something tells me the GPO is not paying HP prices for "ink" - they're almost certainly using toner-based systems that vastly reduce the incremental cost per page. According to the LoC, a single day's Congressional Record averages 272 pages, so printing 2500 of them A DAY is 500,000 pages. At that point, you'd be worrying about how many inkjet printers you were throwing away every day...
Please tell us, what is the correct amount of time to spend writing a game?
Well, he never asked her to compile the book and find a publisher.... It was explicitly not asked for, and we have a words for that; surprise, nice gesture, gift..
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> Or am I just being paranoid?

If you are then so am I. I don't knowingly let anything with sony written upon it touch my network.
Neither of us wants to move to the valley. I've seen startup culture before; it's not for me.
First bird flight simulator with body feedback powered by Oculus Rift
The user manual states, "By using the WebDAV protocol, you can access a specific network drive to synchronize documents
between the Digital Paper device and the network
drive, or transfer documents from the device to the
network drive. Connect to a Wi-Fi network
beforehand (page 38)." [1]

[1](http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/assetDownloadController/User_Guide....)
Good god yes. I would just about kill for that.

...though I might insist on nano ;)
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