skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to do Half-Life modding, you can come a long way just scripting using AMX Mod X[0]. AMX Mod X has 260K LOC[2]. For comparison, the SDK has 273K LOC, but that's mostly headers. Plugins are written in Pawn (formerly known as Small) which is compiled and then interpreted. AMX Mod X is GPL.

For example, there's the SuperHeroes mod, which is also open-source[1].

Here are two videos demonstrating how radically gameplay was adjusted in SuperHeroes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGmCKQ57z-Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vY7bBhXA0k

[0]: https://github.com/alliedmodders/amxmodx

[1]: https://svn.alliedmods.net/viewvc.cgi/amxmodx_plugin/trunk/p...

[2]: https://www.ohloh.net/p/amxmodx
Either you wear your jeans ridiculously tight or you've never tried to put one of the Galaxy Notes in your pocket.
I see lots of numbers in there, but none relating to a desire for military action, save for the fact they're "95% confident" that people who don't know where Ukraine is are more likely to support military action. How much more likely are they?
Yes, pretty much. This is coming as someone who has helped build ARM clusters. You'll spend a lot of time getting all the parts mounted in a decent way, wiring them up, getting power done properly, writing dozens of SD cards for the operating systems, and then you realize you have a cluster of 700MHz nodes with 100Mbit interconnects. You'd be better off spinning up a bunch of VMs if you want to "learn about distributed systems"
This is all over the internet today. Why is this a bad thing? Everyone knows the smartphone market is maturing (or matured) Samsung/Google has exhausted all its options (all screen sizes) where as Apple still has the bigger screen sizes to release. So we know Apple atleast one more product cycle to go through.
I mean comletely removing publicly visible points, from the profile too.
Well said. It is always interesting to watch hackers age. When I read the article I felt that much of the angst was pining for the "old days" when things were better. But reminiscing always gets it wrong :-).

That said, I've been wondering of late about hacker spaces. I've been a member of Hacker Dojo now (Mountain View CA) for about 6 months and by and large when I am there it has a lot of people hanging out on the free WiFi and perhaps hacking but not a lot of interacting except with perhaps 1 or 2 close associates nearby. But in part it seems to have no purpose as hacking has had in the past. I'm trying to come up with ideas to change that.
While I disagree that screen size is all about marketing, I switched from a Galaxy Nexus (4.65") to the iPhone 5s and have found that the smaller screen hasn't bothered me at all. This was my biggest concern in switching and I am actually a little surprised that it hasn't bothered me. Generally, I always want bigger and bigger screens, I'm the guy that wants 3 27" monitors to work on, a 70" TV, etc., etc.

Tangential note: I recently switched from the Nexus 7 (2012) to the LG G-pad and the 1.3" bump in screen real estate has made a huge difference. I hardly ever used the N7, but I use the G-pad every day.
It's an antipattern the inexperienced frequently fall into. Just one little extra bit of functionality, and ... whoops! Suddenly, you can program there, so now you will have to program there.

Same applies to markup languages. TimBL held HTML back from Turing-completeness for ages, then JavaScript came along.
This. In its 35+ years Apple created - or at least codified - the personal computer, the mp3 player, and the modern smartphone. I think it's closer to a big new product category every 5-10 years, really.
Every time I have purchased a smartphone in the last 5 years I have got one with a larger screen than the previous I owned. It is fantastic. Up to a certain limit (probably another quarter- to half-inch bigger than my Nexus), bigger is definitely better for me. And my wife. And basically everybody we know. That said, whether it's boring or not, Apple has a problem.

Apple has (almost) always been a marketing company. They appeal to and market a certain kind of culture, which they bundle with hardware and charge a kind of fee for "joining the club" in the form of a brand-based premium over similarly functional competitor devices' retail. That's just how they make their money. Show me an Apple product and I can almost guarantee there is an alternative that performs almost identically in every way, but is 50-95% of the cost of the Apple product.

Their "sexy" is all about marketing; not substance (although the latter is necessary to some minimum level of quality). I don't know if "boring" is the right term to use, but it's not unusual; companies try to differentiate their products from their competitors' with appearance and marketing all the time. What is unusual--as demonstrated by their enormous cash holdings--is how successful they have been at it. But the genius driving that success has passed away. They need to: a) find another Jobs-like genius; b) adapt to the market.
It's a court exhibit, filed in Apple v. Samsung.
It shows up on the pacer docket.
It's authentic (AFAICT), presumably part of discovery apple was required to turn over to samsung.
I am having troubles with Safari.

Here's interesting insight: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/35817/youtube-why...
Google Launching New Entertainment Hub
It's also dangerous and irresponsible from a security standpoint. Not advocating security by obscurity, but advertising it doesn't help.
A trope that refuses to die: "It’s been an incredible journey".
His site has a cool domain name: http://www.kleinbottle.com
I agree. I spread my hand out and my thumb and pinky touch the edges of the long side of an 8x11 sheet of paper. I'd rather use an iPhone as a projectile than a productivity device.
So, I guess, the answer is - there is no such material/metal/etc?
At the peak, Microsoft's profit margins on their core products where hovering around 90%. If I remember right, Apple's profit margins on the iPhone peaked at a bit short of 75% with the 4S, and have generally been sub-60%.

Furthermore, Apple hoards cash in a way that Microsoft never did. What this means is that Microsoft was sinking the cash into other business ventures - in other words they created a heavy reliance on those wide profit margins by creating a bunch of units that needed to be subsidized by other units' wide profit margins to survive. By contrast, Apple's taken a strategy of building up an enormous nest egg that they can use to help get them through the lean times should that ever become necessary.

Who'd you say is living at greater financial risk? Someone who makes an enormous salary but is only a brief period of unemployment away from foreclosing on their palatial house and having their Porsche repossessed? Or someone who relatively recently fell into a very high-paying (if not quite so enormously lucrative) job but has stuck with a relatively frugal lifestyle and instead devoted the extra money to investing in more liquid assets?
I had one of those... it was installed on a IICI, I think it was manufactured by sonnet tech and it was marketed as a PPC upgrade card for the motorolla 68040

Here is a list of all of the sonnect upgrade cards and how they connected
http://www.everymac.com/upgrade_cards/sonnettech/

Edit: Added link
I don't dispute the conclusion of this study, but this might be a great example of when the choice of map projection used has a significant consequences.

For example, would Greenland have been chosen so many times if a projection were used that didn't make it look so huge?
The problem is, these "cool" things you mention are mostly just marketing and don't work very well. I have only heard complaints about Galaxy Gear. Same for the eyeball tracking stuff on the new Galaxy phones--it just doesn't work very well.
It might not be a better alternative to Comic Sans for /that/ particular use case - but for most situations where Comic Sans is used today, Comic Neue would be an enormous improvement.
I wonder if they're working on a RPi II; in the two years since its introduction I'd hope you could get a lot more for the same price.
Banks get exposed in secret recordings
I'm into figuring out a fast, self-developed mechanism more than using libraries. But you absolutely got it: a solution when the number doesn't fit in a single CPU register.

Great read by the way. Thank you.
You think a funeral announcement is bad, try a funeral home's sign:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dove+Funeral+Home+Inc:+Dau...
It's the difference between an employee of McDonalds embezzling money from the company and an employee of Buger King doing a really good job on a marketing campaign that causes McDonalds profits to go down.

Now, if you work for McDonalds you're certainly entitled to not like either one of those people. But the rest of the world should decry the first and cheer on the second.
Anyone having issues with performance, try opening it in Firefox. It was very laggy for me in Chrome, but Firefox runs it perfectly.
More that this method finds the edge of deliberate-practice more effectively than someone trying to figure it out on their own. The iterative process causes a rapid calibration between teacher and learner, until the just-hard-enough level is found. Rinse and repeat as the learner progresses. Variations of this approach have been used in sports, music, flying, etc.
> I should clarify that I am using the request module to make GET requests on the url submitted.

Yeah I saw (I had a browse through your source after your previous post).

As a side note, I was impressed with just how readable your code was (even for someone like myself with very poor Javascript skills). I can't comment on how much credit node.js deserves for that, but I've seen people turn even the most readable of languages into line noise in the past. So it's always a pleasure to read code that doesn't require lines of comments to explain their function.
This is a scary thing to be the person running, no? Could be the hook for a great thriller.
A system where no one can do this or that eliminates the ability to profit off of such a position. Some have suggested a minimum limit on how long one can hold a stock. Seems reasonable to me.
Ha ha, excellent stuff. Econ 101 is Econ 101 because it is simplistic. It's like saying "Pi is 22/7. This is high-school mathematics, guys". The whole thing is made simple so you can grasp some concepts. You learn the complexity when you progress through the classes.

Realistically then, saying something is Econ 101 is saying that "looking at this without considering any of the subtleties of the situation, we have the following result".
>> I have the iPhone as a phone.

Yes, but this is your use case.

While there are a lot of people who share your use case, there are probably a lot more people who don't.

Which is why the product diversity on the market right now is good. There's a decent chance that you'll find a phone that will work for your particular use case.
World hunger. Discuss.
and yet TDD is formed on starting with failure :)
Maybe that should be taken as an indication that there isn't any one size that will suit everyone's needs. Some people want a phone that is larger than an iPhone and some people want one that is smaller than an iPhone. Those people are served well by other phone manufacturers who have a variety of sizes, but aren't well served by Apple who only makes one size of phone.
What I always find interesting about "look at how ignorant Americans are" type articles is that they never bother to compare against any other nationality and see if the ignorance is in any way abnormal in a broader context.

Is a "look at how ignorant non-Europeans are about world geography?" going to have a different result? (And I would be quite curious to know how many, say, British or Spaniards can accurately place Ukraine on a map. I have a sneaking suspicion that the number is surprisingly low).

This coming from a non-American, by the way.
I agree, math is used as a domain for black box abstraction for the same reason banking is used for the example domain for concurrency and graphics for data abstraction - the domain provides good examples for trivial implementations.

A person no more needs extensive understanding of mathematics than they need such understanding of accounting or image processing.
It will be certainly useful to review. Thank you very much.
What do you think would happen to spreads if there was a non-trivial minimum limit on how long one could hold a stock?
How Techmeme Became The  News Site For The Tech Industry
I always figured the Mac toolbox was in ROM because ROM was cheaper than RAM at that time.
Little to no benefit from C based HLS
they can be turing complete. that just looks like lisp.

there are other turing complete DSL's too though. Puppet's isn't though...
Put in a PR! Currently, it is easy to do things with the Request object. Any ideas on what quirks/bugs to look into?
I think the only reason we ever got away with it was because the system was naive and society at large was more ignorant of the technologies. See one of Kevin Mitnick's arrests[0]. That's pretty normal for society just because it takes time for ideas to propagate. "They didn't know what they didn't know" is a phrase that comes to mind. So, there was no way the culture was going to persist when it entered society's spotlight. I don't think this is the "the scene" failing to preserve its own culture.

[0] http://goo.gl/mY8CaE
NK is "Nordiska Kompaniet", a mall in Stockholm that has been around since early 1900s. The logo (also a clock) is quite a famous landmark in Stockholm. The clock/logo was put on the telephone tower in 1939 being the biggest clock in Europe at it's time with a diameter of 7.6 meters and a weight of 7 tons.

It was removed from the telephone tower in the 50's and put on NK's building instead.

This is the clock today: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NK_klocka_2013.jpgv
The more people actually know about a place, the less they think it's a good idea to kill people who live there.
TL;DR added. What else could be improved?
Ask HN: Asking technical advice on HN
This seems to be a great place to dip into the minds of tech guys since all/most of the audience work for tech companies. I do not see many questions asking for technical advice. Why so? Does HN not encourage asking for technical advice? I am genuinely surprised by the lack of technical questions on HN. Is there some written rule that you don't ask technical questions? Just to be clear, I am not talking about compilation issues or other stackoverflow style questions but generic high level technology questions.
Sorry, I accidentally down-voted you..
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> Since Jobs died, Apple hasn't really created a new product category that none of us knew we wanted.

More like since the PC. Since then, they've mostly capitalized on market needs that were widely recognized (and, in the case of portable digital music players, that were already widely popular), but where there was an opportunity to execute better than the incumbents were executing. (Not saying this isn't noteworthy, but its very different than creating "a new product category that none of us knew we wanted.")
They don't advertise it as a general programming language. The end of the video they specifically state it only works with optimizing algorithms that deal with images. General stuff like trees, they have no application towards.
Yes but say I need to run a rails application with a DB on a Lan (less than 15 users), perfomance is not an issue (nginx + postgresql + puma uses less than 115 MB of RAM!) The only thing stopping you is SDCard's reliability!

A friend of mine had two unrecoverably broken Kingston class 10 SDCards on the same RPi in 6 months. Bad luck maybe, but still I'd love to have something more solid to run applications without fear of data loss.
Interesting conjecture. I would like to see if there's any hard data to support that.
The problem with that is, unless you are running a charity and you are expected to lose money year over year, regulating the returns is just not sustainable.

Despite the fact the interest rates are so high, payday loans are not a very profitable business. The reason the interest rates are so high is because they are rarely paid (expectedly). Most of the payday loan companies in the US have profit margins on 6%. Compare that to legitimate banks who have 30-40% margins. Any tighter restrictions would wipe away what little margins they have.

Chances are if you did regulate them, it would be same as outlawing them. Legitimate businesses wouldn't be able to keep the lights on, leaving the entire business once again to criminals.
Yes, but it's a bit of a misnomer, isn't it? I mean, it's not really Comic Neue is it? You wouldn't use this for an actual comic.
>Predatory traders break this information advantage. Instead of Goldman, David Einhorn or other informed traders gaining the full benefit of their information, predatory traders detect that information and split the profits with the counterparties (taking a cut in the process). Predatory traders improve market efficiency by turning information about market demand into price movements. They are simply criticized because the price movement happens before the whale actually wanted it to.

This is the exact same defense used against insider trading and front running in general.

There is nothing special about HFT in this respect, other than the fact that it is currently still legal.

Edit: downvoting without responding. classy.
I'd imagine all but the first two were taken in the later part of it's life as there are not many cables!
S.F. cracks down on Airbnb rentals
Bop.fm’s music-streaming aggregator now lets you import playlists (YC S'13)
How are the crowds in the SF area lineups? It always looks packed in surf videos. I've been to SF but never had the chance to surf or go to a beach other than Muir Beach.
We'd be better off if some scientists were obligated to serve in a political capacity to regulate the sciences.

As it is now, the idiots are running the show, to everyone's detriment.
I think it is part of the opposite.

I think that the "hacker" ideal permeated American media, rather than the other way around, with everything from books to movies (Matrix, Hackers, etc). It became something that was not limited to the intellectual elite anymore.

Oddly enough, this is exactly how a 1940's Superman radio program is attributed for being a major player in bringing down the Klu Klux Klan. They would air the KKK secret codes as part of the kids program, and it took away part of the "exclusiveness" of the KKK community.
Fine on my Chrome
Brought my machine to it's knees in Firefox. Chrome wasn't much better.
Not sure about the parent here, but I was certainly considering longer term. I would expect early on that there would be high tech tools and items brought on the ship or built form parts of the ship. Actually setting up local production from local resources (beyond what could be constructed on the ship) would probably take some time.

Longer term though.. is it practically/economically feasible to build and run a chip fab capable of building modern ARM CPUs for the needs of 10,000 people? What about the rest of the manufacturing chain for these sorts of devices? Or is the only reason we can buy a smartphone today for a few hundred dollars because of the economies of scale of building tens of millions of them on a 2 year replacement cycle?
In addition to the coffeescript / browserify detection, here are the headers it checks[0]:

var frameworks = [
{name: 'express.js', s: "express", h: 'x-powered-by'},
{name: 'koa.js', s: 'koa', h: 'x-powered-by'},
{name: 'sails.js', s: "sails", h: 'x-powered-by'},
{name: 'ecstatic', s: 'ecstatic', h: 'server'},
{name: 'flatiron', s: 'flatiron', h: 'x-powered-by'}
]

All in all, this should prove relatively inaccurate. A vanilla http server from node sets neither server nor x-powered-by headers. Many frameworks don't set them, either (Walmart's hapi, PayPal's krakenjs, etc).

Fun toy project but if you're really interesting in fingerprinting, check out the OWASP entry on the subject[1].

[0]: https://github.com/dotheyusenode/dotheyusenode/blob/ea235619...

[1]: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Testing_for_Web_Application_...
The state of consumer productivity
> I couldn't help but feel that s/he was glossing over some perfectly legitimate reasons why you would want to charge using a flat interest rate instead of using an APR in order to fit the post's narrative.

They might have all the legitimate reasons in the world to want to use the flat rate. But none of them detract from the fact that the rest of the industry uses one metric to describe their products, and they come in and use a different metric that's easy to confuse with the usual one and looks a ton better.

That lies somewhere between not very transparent and outright scummy.
Looks to me like an overzealous lawyer at Oracle. There are plenty of 3rd party reference sites for the Oracle database that don't get shut down, why target a JDE reference?

Unless they really-really think their docs are superior? (Oracle's docs for Middleware or Database usually are world-class, though I am not familiar if this is true for JDE).
Well, not exactly, but rather the most efficient way to deal with elements (big numbers, in specific) that aren't going to fit in a single CPU register.
Current libraries I've had a look at has some limitation on the speed of calculations.
Good questions.

* Along with order routing, market data is heavily legislated under RegNMS as well. Both the creation of the SIP feeds (the slower consolidated data) and the rules around exchange proprietary feeds are legislated there.

As part of the Fair Access Rule, exchanges cannot favor a certain participant with preferential pricing. Therefore, even if proprietary exchange data products are expensive, they are equally expensive to all participants. I consider that fair.

An argument could be made that the price of the feeds is exclusionary. I do not buy this - there are many types of data available in the market that come at a high price. The next question (if you assume that the price makes it effectively non-public) is if there are effective substitutes. I think for non-professional traders (moving less than, say, $10mm notional per month) the SIP and similar feeds is acceptable (just as many retail traders accept 15min delayed market data as acceptable). For more serious traders, there may not be an acceptable substitute, but given their usage the higher costs are more justified.

* Ethical rules around front running of orders is covered in the Manning Rule. In short, it prevents placing a firm's trading interests in front of a client. The details can be found at FINRA: http://finra.complinet.com/en/display/display.html?rbid=2403...
>For as long as no one catches on, the person making this large order has a tremendous advantage because supply-demand is misunderstood by everyone else

Why is the market entitled to knowledge that I'm currently in the process of making a big order? This knowledge being disseminated clearly doesn't benefit me. Should I not be entitled to the sole benefit of my reasoning in deciding to make a big order? Furthermore, how does this knowledge being disseminated mid-order rather than after the full order has completed benefit the market as a whole?
I agree with this criticism. I'm also skeptical that literacy rates have ever been high enough to plausibly drive selection pressure.
No, it's the difference between a CEO insider trading and a guy who looked over the CEO's shoulder at his laptop insider trading based upon what he saw.