skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's really a pointless low blow at Notch. He's delivered a number of variations on Minecraft. Deciding not to make a very ambitious new game like 0x10c (which was also attracting a lot of very negative attention and pressure to be everything to everybody) is a different thing altogether.
Getting Started Again: Midlife Crisis. Quit job. Follow dreams to be a game dev
> You have to set aside time to do reading... there are so many other things competing for your attention.

+1. If it is not aligned on the lines of "snacking" then it's not meant for mass consumption on the web.
It's fun and personally rewarding.
In the first case, you only know the AMOUNT. You can't undo transactions because you only have 1 object stored, the total amount. If you store DIFFERENCE, then you'll have a table of every transaction and can undo them individually. The cost is having to sum the table whenever you want to know the amount (which is usually worth the flexibility).
The Code Book by Simon Singh is one of the best intros, I think.

It covers a lot more than Bletchley, but it gives Bletchley really good coverage and context.

A friend of mine built an enigma machine based on the description and wiring diagrams in the book: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/19946053957/enigm...
I believe OP is saying IF "alternative medicine" can pass the proper clinical trials, then it no longer deserves the "alternative" label, and is just medicine.

Let homeopathy go through trials. Let it fail & put these discussions to bed.
I could see that if it weren't backed by someone who's credible and proven. He didn't raise 41 million dollars for nothing.
There's a big difference between amateur dans and professional dans (which is also why professionals are usually denoted with a p rather than a d).
In the end, it's the experience of the games you care about that matters.

I bought my 3DS for basically 3 games, and while the graphics don't compare to my phone or tablet, the fact that I can even have them in a portable form factor prevents me from caring that it's underpowered.
The only way to get something that works like Photoshop.....

I bet you can guess the answer!

It's a bit like all those people who try to get a PC to run OSX. Just buy a damn Mac for goodness sake!
Exercise your mind
Enjoy finding the solutions using your logic and problem solving skills. Work out the secret color sequence using just 7 moves. Place the colored balls into the empty slots and hit the ok button, a black circle represents the right color in the right place while a white circle represents the right color in the wrong place.

The tricky part is working out which colored balls are represented by the black and white circles. Use each of your turns to narrow down the possibilities and find the solution.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mastermind-logic-game/id837920941?ls=1&mt=8
Make the font size smaller and center the text. Most of the screen is occupied with irrelevant data.
What Platforms and Marketplaces Can Learn from Super Mario Bros.
First “Cybathlon," or bionic Olympics, is coming in 2016
I think the idea of a "book discussion page" where readers and the author can interact is very promising.

In the past I've used an etherpad to "live chat" and collaborate on problems with students (e.g. https://piratenpad.de/p/linearalgebra ), but I think a forum dedicated to the book would be more interesting.

It's a win-win situation: the author benefits from receiving feedback from readers, and readers can connect with like-minded people. Excuse me while I go learn how to install discourse with MathJax support ;)

> use drip emails to track your progress through a book,

Yes. This would be awesome as it might push you to read the book, but it would have to be done intelligently to work. Just a nagging reminder prodding you to read won't do it. Maybe receiving a weekly batch of exercises or review questions?
> So San Francisco will certainly do much better than Turkey or Haiti, but I don't think it will resist as well as Tokyo.

I've lived in both SF and Tokyo, and agree with this statement. Put simply, seismic danger is a Much Bigger Deal(tm) in the latter. It's on everyone's mind, and it's reflected in just about any and every building you enter.

I don't have hard data to support my case, but at least in terms of noticeable seismic activity there really is no comparison. I probably experienced more tremors during any given month in Tokyo than I did during a full year in SF.
Can anyone explain this line from commenter Darren Cook: "Once this enforcement is in place, browsers will simply refuse to connect to Google over an insecure or compromised connection. By shipping this setting in the browser itself, circumvention will become effectively impossible."

Some browsers are open source, and it seems to me that developers can never definitely rely on their behavior. Surely the enforcement depends ultimately not on the browsers but rather on the server refusing non-TLS connection attempts?
Genesis: A futuristic 3D printed car body at Geneva Motor Show 2014
China's Central Bank orders banks to shutdown BTC exchange accounts (Caixin).
is there any image recognition software working with texturized 3D models as input for data training ?
Yeah, like US and UK populations voted out their chief warmongers pronto, once it came out that the rationale for getting into the Iraq war was fabricated... oh wait
I haven't tried it myself so can't vouch for it but GimpShop (http://www.gimpshop.com/) fills a similar niche.
PencilCase: An iPhone and iPad app maker and private publishing platform
We may be interpreting "relatively" differently....

He's lived there quite a while and has experienced several which have woken him up.
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Remember when everyone could do whatever they want without the threat of even being charged and held to trial?

edit: It's like everyone forgot what happened with Mt Gox and now assumes that Karpeles is the second coming of Julian Assange
Kaizen is a small part of the Lean philosophy that originated in Toyota. I dont understandbwhy the article focuses on kaizen technique only.
Actual former SF resident here. I'll tell you exactly why I would live in SF, it's because it's one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and I also choose not to live my life in fear.

Yes, there's a threat of earthquakes. Yes, I'm sure there is going to be an earthquake at some point, possibly even large. I experienced a tiny earthquake in SF a few years ago and it scared the shit out of me, because my entire apartment was shaking.

But there are threats everywhere. Would I buy a house (if I can afford one, that is) in a liquefaction area? No. But there are plenty of areas of SF that don't have imminent liquefaction risk. And the chance of actually dying is quite low. There are plenty of things to worry about, but earthquake would be on the bottom quartile for me. And compared to the benefits of living in SF, it isn't even a big concern.
I'm very excited for bunnie's open laptop.

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3597
How to Save Snapchat Pictures Without the Sender Knowing (Shhhh)
It really depends on what you mean. It is a private git repo, so in that sense yes.
Yahoo Japan buys SoftBank's eAccess for new mobile service
I seem to recall that imaging the bootloader ROM straight off the silicon was how the original Gameboy's bootloader was finally pulled out.

I just forget who did it, which is unfortunate.
Whenever people ask me how I pronounce my last name, I answer "I don't".

Even my compatriots have problems spelling it properly; in US I had my credit card re-issued three times due to misspellings and Amex doesn't allow as much characters on their card, so I mix my Americanized first name with an original last name. The only benefit of keeping it as is in US is when someone tries to call you in the crowd - "Mr. erhm... ugh... hmmm..." - is usually me. :)
This is what I understood (s)he means

Scenario:
Laptop's price is initially $800 and then increases to $850 before dropping to $825

Design 1: with columns Amount and Kind will just have a single row which will get modified with the latest value

Design 2: Will have 3 rows in the above case

Difference | Kind | Time stamp

800 | 'Laptop' | ts 1

+50 | 'Laptop' | ts 2

-25 | 'Laptop' | ts 3

So this latter design has 'undo' builtin

edit: formating
Also Kosovo :)
As sbarron noted, the two boards are very very similar. What color do you like more?
No time for reading is the biggest issue which is also an excuse for most of us. I like the idea of having a book club with interesting people, but don't you think there are already some meetups out there for that? I found myself joined "one week a book" meetup but never being committed.
Well the odds are probably against it. The re-election of Bush in 2004 is one of the most recent instances I can think of where an electorate was more concerned about stability of their country than fabrication of a war. If the majority of the Turkish people are like most western populations they will put their heads down and vote conservatively because they feel threatened by events surrounding them, even if that threat is being manipulated by their own government.
We've (me and a friend) been working on a publishing platform that revolves around keeping the connection between author and readers. Using my own book as test (about 2 months or so away from launch, first draft is in the editor's hand!):
I write about learning the web and learning how to program, targeting people with no clue. So the idea of a "forum" was a given, I went a bit sideways from a forum, a searchable knowledge base, stuck on a chapter? Go on the website, check the knowledge base to see if other user asked similar questions, if not ask yourself and author will reply.

I think it's a win/win for both authors and reader, as an author this would enable me to update my book, clarify section that a lot of users are having trouble with, and for the readers it offers another dimension to a book, you can discuss it, talk to the author, other users.

I'll probably link it to HN when we are closer to launch.
All my support goes to the Turkish government for trying to abrupt the Western propaganda and disrupting the influences of American secret national agencies. It is no secret that the protests and revolutions in Syria, Egypt, Tunis and the like were caused by internal fabrications from American soil so they could use the uproar for settling marionettes and proper satellite states instead of having to deal with nations which are against America and Israel.

Hopefully the Turkish government is successful in its endeavors to protect its citizens from a faux-revolution fed by propaganda easily spread in this digital age (i.e. Youtube and Twitter, Facebook is of high concern too).

The only counter-measure is to shut. it. down.
Obama seeks to end NSA phone sweeps
Discoverability is definitely due to self-publishing. If you can't afford to fund your own book tour you're less likely to reach customers.
I believe Ducky and Leopold make mechanical keyboards under or near $100.
Worked for me. I think they have a weekly limit you can read for free. Try incognito/private browsing mode.
The name of someone to help a startup with tech skills
Hi,

I cannot think of the name so I was hoping you could help, if I needed an advisor / co-founder who was solely technical who could invest off experience in return for equity in the business what type of person would they be ? I am guessing they wouldn't be your standard VC / Angel Investor
The moderation system largely mitigates that problem.

Also, the SO/SE people have long maintained that Google is their homepage, and from this view it's easy to see why they would encourage people to answer their own questions: so that SO gets the googlejuice instead of some blog.

On the other hand, to the degree that we believe that individual blogs are good, we absolutely should worry about auto-answering.
I see something totally different. The email sharers are older and conservative, the Twitter users are younger and liberal. Older people are finally comfortable with email but not new forms of information sharing. Also, conservative groups prefer to use email to spread hate propaganda because it is less public and hard to trace the source.
You can get a uno clone from China for 9-10 us plus free Shipping.
This is too generalized. There are born leaders and there are born followers. Followers are influenced by those around them, while leaders forge their own path no matter what. However, a well rounded person knows when to adapt. They lead when necessary, and take instructions when required. There are some people who will never become like those around them, but will instead shape those around them to their own image.

Edit: Downvotes with no counterpoints? That means I must be right, because the truth hurts.
23 Reasons Florida (Yes, Florida) Is Quite Possibly The Best State In America
I for one got confused - I assumed the link is about real-time systems and not a web app (I'd be interested in reading about the former but not the latter).
It's sad that one corrupt politian has this much power
Quite a few guys I know in nyc get their shirts custom at 50 a pop, if I recall. It's quite popular.
I also think the secondary concern is fabric, ie wrinkle free.
I would also say eliminate the hassle of measurements, ie have them take a picture with a standard object, ie credit card, and you do the measurements.
Take a look at Europe, there are plenty of companies doing what you want to do.
The basic crux of how the app works is similar to how regular bitcoin miners work. As you run the app, the app runs compute jobs (known as Stynts) which generates proof-of-work (that it did something) and sends it up to our servers. The more you run the app, the more proof-of-work you generate. You get rewarded via virtual currency (we assign to you) when you successfully run a Stynt which can then be exchanged for real goods.

Of course, the amount you get compensated should feel valuable and commensurate to the "effort" your device expended for this to be worthwhile. It largely boils down to user expectations, but given economics of scale, I'm confident that we can have more than a 1:1 ROI of effort to reward.
I think the causation is at least partially the other way around - people you choose to spend time with reflect who you are.

When you try to game the correlation by forming friendships aspirationally, this largely breaks down. It's much more important to come to terms with who you are than to try to become more like someone else. When you're trying to be X, you're not X, you're just someone who's trying to be X.
Introducing the all-new Cloak 2
Ex-MP3tunes chief hit with $41 million copyright verdict
Isn't the mysql test suite no longer open source/available ?I thought oracle decided to hide them ?
Tuenti start to use Webrtc with web and phones
Tuenti Spanish social network & MVNO owned by Telefonica start to use Webrtc to make calls to all tuenti devices for free using VoIP
No, but it's still spectacular. Not so long ago, I could defeat the strongest go computers. I have no chance in hell with 4 stones against a professional, or even against an amateur dan player.
Krita may have a different aim on paper, but that just looks like a way to avoid conflict with the GIMP devs until it's clear to absolutely everyone that they've replaced it.

One of the real shockers with the GIMP is how badly it plays with Ubuntu's Unity, where the menubar will get emptied whenever you change something in a non-image editor window.
Obama announces plan to dismantle NSA phone record database
I like the entrepreneurship story, as well as the overall message.
Note also that you want tickets for the National Computer Museum as astonishingly, Bletchley Park no longer includes it on the tour. Bletchley are behaving like arses, in my opinion

http://www.zdnet.com/national-computer-museum-downgraded-by-...
Turkey – Youtube – Traffic Graph – Google Transparency Report
Science fiction is becoming medical practice. In Lois Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan books, the main character is killed by a grenade to the chest. The emergency medical procedure was to dump the lower-ranking dead body already in the portable body freezer, exsanguinate the corpse by opening the carotid arteries, and pump the circulatory system full of "cryoprotectant fluid". The body is then frozen. Replacement parts are grown from the corpse's own tissues, which are surgically implanted when the body is thawed in a fully equipped, state-of-the-art medical facility.

In the context of the fiction, the procedure was imperfect, and is not without side effects. The frozen dead people often fail to revive. The main character, for instance, was left with a debilitating seizure disorder for the remainder of his life, something that was eventually treated by a neurological pacemaker implant.

Based on existing studies and technology, the fiction is a very plausible future technology. Between stem cells, volume printers, and extracellular matrix, autologous donor organ replacement seems possible. Hibernating amphibian studies tend to indicate that a blood replacement containing glycerine, perfluorodecalin, raffinose, glycogen, and drugs would help minimize human tissue damage from the freezing and thawing process. It would be an emulsion, and would probably superficially resemble the android blood from the Alien movies.

The only question, really, is whether the person that wakes up after surgery is the same person that "died" beforehand. Is it really saving someone's life, or is it just replacing them with a simulacrum that has their memories? And that question hardly matters at all.
Thanks!
Being pragmatic is in our DNA.
would you like 1024 chickens or 2 oxen ?
Is there any information about when the recordings were made?

I ask because, well, after weeks knowing that their conversations were being intercepted, it would be utterly stupid to still discuss sensitive matters on the phone.

If on the contrary, they're old recordings, this seems like a strategy by the spies to slowly release damning evidence. Nice.
A real time strategy game with go's strategic depth would be totally unplayable for any human.
This is so true and also helps explain how echo chambers develop. I always try to change my perspective on something big at least once a month. Last month I disabled flash and all my Chrome extensions. Holy cow, the default internet is weird!

I build web sites, so this helped me see the way certain people (my dad) experience the internet.
The article deals with immigrants to the US trying to fit in the 1930s, a time when great pressure was brought to bear on people to conform to a narrow, archetypal notion of Americanness, and appreciation of diversity was far from people's minds. I'm hoping that in 2014 incremental progress is being made in a direction in which there will be less and less pressure to change one's name to fit in and advance economically.
Brilliant! So simple.

I'm still quietly rooting for an E-Ink resurgence. Platforms like this and the E-Ink phones announced recently are great to see, something about E-Ink's simplicity is just so damn charming.
Your move, Microsoft Azure.
Free our bank data
just morbidly curious but what's the date that came out?
I self-pub comics. Weird sci-fi comics about robot ladies with reality problems to be precise.

A major part of my business strategy is going to comic book conventions and sitting behind a table, talking to people who stop there, telling them about my book and possibly exchanging one for some money. Sometimes I'll have someone buy my comic and come back the next day to rave about it. It may be relentlessly physical and retro, but it's working. I feature the URL of my site in my physical books, and let people comment on new pages as I draw them; there's a modest amount of back and forth between them now and then.

I dunno what parts of that can be transferred to tech books, I don't think there's a vibrant network of tech book fairs out there! A book club sounds like a pretty good idea, really.

(If you're gonna be at ECCC in Seattle this weekend, stop by table CC-09 and say hi.)
A company like Leanpub is in a perfect position to solve the interaction problem: have a dedicated forum for each chapter of each book it publishes.
As always, just google the link so that you've got the proper referrer.
Crime committed on the Internet is a crime committed anywhere
> (Personally, I'm interested to see if anyone reports any kind of dream-like experience while undergoing the procedure. I know, I know, it's impossible. Still fun to imagine our scientific understanding of the mind being turned upside down.)

There is a famous case from 1991 [0] in which a patient's brain was drained entirely of blood in order to operate on an aneurysm near the brain stem. Her eyes were taped over and ear plugs emitting loud clicks (> 80 db) were inserted into her ears and also taped over. These were used to determine when brain activity ceased. During the period in which there was none, she reported having a near death experience which also featured an out-of-body experience. She later accurately reported conversations in the OR, named the songs that were playing on the radio, and described the saw used to open her skull, a tool which was not wheeled into the room until after her brain death had been induced.

My abridged retelling of this most dramatic account comes from my memory of the book Irreducible Mind [1], which presents a vast corpus of evidence that the mind does not originate in the brain. The authors propose a different theory, the Filter or Transmission Theory of Consciousness originally proposed in the 19th century, but their main drive is really to provoke the further study of exhaustively documented empirical evidence that are at this time reflexively tossed aside as paranormal and unscientific. The evidence they present is compelling in its breadth, consistency, and in the reputability of its creators--most of the evidence they discuss is that reported by doctors, and as often as not skeptical ones who dutifully wrote down what they witnessed despite being unable to come up with a satisfactory explanation for it.

If you're interested in seeing our understanding of the mind being turned upside down, there is no need to wait for new reports to roll in, though I hope that with procedures like this becoming more commonplace they will do so. All that's needed is to take a critical yet unbiased look at the empirical evidence already compiled by serious researchers. One or two of the authors have a bit of a chip on their shoulders concerning the dismissal of evidence by mainstream science which made me wary when I encountered it. However their discussion of problems with current theories of mind and the evidence that uncovers them is rigorously scientific, clearly explained, and makes a pretty solid case that, if nothing else, our current theories are sorely lacking the power to explain real events.

I recommend this book to anyone interested in the science of mind. Even if you are thoroughly and inalterably convinced that NDEs, OBEs and the like are rubbish, this is the perfect book to read in order to argue against it because it will challenge you to defend those positions in a way that dreamy-eyed spiritualists won't.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Reynolds_case
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Irreducible-Mind-Toward-Psychology-Cen...
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After reviewing about 30 YC applications, here's some general advice
Froody!
Given the hype (from them), I was very underwhelmed with the demos. I then remembered that this stuff is supposed to run well on phones (not the WebGL stuff, obviously, at least for iPhones). So I ran it on my phone and several of the demos stuttered / jerked a lot if you tried to use it while loading. Though once they fully loaded, they ran really well (smoothly).
2 bishops is IIRC about 700 ELO-equivalent, so this looks like a good estimate to me. (That said, 700 ELO difference is >99% winning rate, so we're in outlier territory, and as said in the other post, that would prevent me from taking bets :)
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