skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends on what you mean by "interactive movie". I've seen some games that rely too heavily on cutscenes, and other games that keep the character pretty strictly on rails (e.g. Call of Duty and Half-Life series), and I generally detest both of those.

I like to get into high tactics, if not strategy, in the FPSes I play, which means I like games that have the scope and openness for emergent action. Typical examples would be Far Cry and Far Cry 2 (but not Crysis, being spoiled by the suit's power). These aren't really what I'd call interactive movies, because even though they have plot to keep the character moving along, the main meat of the game is in how you tackle "action bubbles" - but those action bubbles are nice and broad that there's plenty of scope for deception, diversion, distraction, improvisation with explosives in the environment, and an openness to lots of different approaches that linear games like Half-Life (particularly 2 and episodes) can never really match.
Self-tuning robot guitar
Not sure how I feel about moving the conversation off twitter completely. I think I'd still like my comments to be posted to twitter in their entirety, not as a link to another site.

Right now it seems like a simplified message board that authenticates with Twitter and pushes a link to your feed when you participate in a thread.
Lightweight appearance, but it's not that good as it could be. Try more spacing between comments, and (maybe) some other format for indicating authors instead of "username →". Message counts also definitely need a different style, e.g. bold or italics, or -- better -- gray color.
I get more than a whiff of morality being correlated to income, and a lack of respect for the winds of fortune here. The idea that good people work hard, and hard work is rewarded, therefore only bad people are poor and it's their own punishment.
I think you can make a very solid case that crimes of the rich - war, fraud and expropriation of public funds - outweigh the crimes of the poor by quite a margin.
Ask HN: Review my non-IT business idea
So this is an idea that I still have not fully figured out in my head. Not sure if there is a market there for it, what do you think? Just going to chuck it out there...

I am sure everyone has noticed the rise of cafes and tons of other places offering wifi all over the world and from what I can see there are lots of people sitting in these places mainly for the wifi.

Anyways, what I am wondering is do you think the demand for a place where you can sit down in a comfortable environment and use the wifi got to the point where it be almost viable to open airport lounge type places in city centers?

I think you would have to start in a premium end of the market and charge an entry fee of $10 or something. Obviously have other revenue streams from food or what not but hopefully you get the idea.

Basically think of it like a really spacey cafe / business center / internet cafe type place...
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Again in 2009 I am bring you the HOTTEST, RAWEST, NASTIEST (and Always) Most Jerkable shit on the web. JerkersWorld.com is taking You to Greater levels of HomeGrown Filth.
Sure. I was just trying to point out two things.
1) While the rest of the article presents great points, this point is much weaker.
2) Lawmakers need to take the content of this article to heart. Unfortunately, the mention of drugs will probably make that less likely.
If concurrency is easy, you're either absurdly smart or you're kidding yourself
Dear Developer: Step Away from the Keyboard
Windows 2008 R2- When will I get it?
As a cafe owner... I don't think there is much you can do. As far as I can tell, you did the right thing (or certainly not the wrong thing). The problem is that this is happening in the first place...

I'm not sure i can reasonably come up with a solution. My first thought is to have more shelters, some policies about not enforcing crimes that a) don't hurt people and b) are unavoidable and lessons for cops on dealing with the homeless in a productive manner, but I am as far from an expert as one can me. Anyone with more knowledge on this topic have any ideas?

Edit: Sorry, I went a little off track here. Obviously what was happening did hurt you (in the form of lost business), but I'm seeing what happened as the end result of a problem.
This is a highly emotional article, which sets off a lot of alarms for me. I found several places in the article where I felt the author was doing a lot of hand-waving and navel-gazing.

But instead of critiquing the article, I would encourage people who are interested in homelessness to actually learn about and help homeless people -- don't sit around reading what one person wants you to think and feel proud that you're one of the few that "gets it" This is a tough subject, and at the end of the day, after learning and understanding what is going on, you might end up taking the side of the cities in some of these cases. I'm not saying the author is wrong -- "confused" might be a better term to use.
One of the users on their forum said that if you crack it open, there's still a bunch of empty space. Even though it would raise the cost a little bit, I'd like to see it add wifi, bluetooth, powerline networking (so it could act as a router between powerline and ethernet) and X10/zwave compatibility. Those things wouldn't add more than $20-50, and it would make the SheevaPlug a kind of hacker's Swiss army knife.
It's funny how you can just predict the title of blog posts for days after a major deal closes.

All those people that would have done a better deal jumping up and down to show they know better.
Very true. Another difference is, the rich choose to commit crimes, the poor don't (at least in the majority of the cases). That homeless guy at the street corner didn't choose to be homeless, but someone like Madoff, chose to commit fraud, knowing fully what he was doing.
Yeah, its weird because my SheevaPlug just arrived in the mail 2 days ago and I've been thinking about what to do with it. My original thought was to couple it with my arduino board and see if I can do anything useful with that. On second though, a cheap network storage device and auto-backup system also sounds useful.
Thid could be big. Amazon customers have the "shopping chip" turn on. Obviously they are going to be more engaged in ecommerce than traditional keyword pased google placement.

Amazon already runs an API which can we used to build widgets and interactive media to sell products. What I would like to see is Amazon opening its platform/API to allow product page interactive applications, somewhat like facebook did but ecommerce centric.
Thanks for these recommendations - I'll be sure to check them out. Thanks to sharpn too, I hadn't heard of The Hub before and it looks like a great resource.
Don't forget the magic 2012 number! Guaranteed eyeballs!
> This is a highly emotional article, which sets off a lot of alarms for me. I found several places in the article where I felt the author was doing a lot of hand-waving and navel-gazing.

Generally a good sign that it ought to be flagged, especially since the emotional content is not about how people are wasting their lives using vim when they could be using emacs, or something in a similar vein.
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the Battle for E-Books
There might be certain areas of the economy where this is the case but I haven't seen anything like that since I've been here. I work for a startup financial firm and we have no "local" partners I'm aware of. The regulatory requirements are similar to operating a financial business in the US or UK. The legal system here is based on common law, I'm able to read and understand contracts as well as I can in the states, and I've personally met people who received legal training in the UK and practice in Hong Kong. Frankly, I think the market here is appreciably freer than that in the US given that the taxes are much lower and the infrastructure is on par.
Complex Event Processing Is Cool - And Very Hot
Unix's everything is a file versus Adobe:

ln -s /dev/null ~/.macromedia
ln -s /dev/null ~/.adobe

Winner: Unix
The most common term for this is coworking space. Major markets have these, such as Hat Factory, Citizen Space in SF, Blankspaces in LA. There's also niche ones, such as a place in NYC that caters specifically to just writers.

It's a pretty nifty idea and I thought of getting this going with my business partner in Silicon Valley but dropped the idea after market research and a variety of roadblocks/problems popped up.

Things such as:

- Real estate costs are prohibitive. Despite the surplus of office buildings costs are still insane and lease terms weren't flexible.

- Permit requirements for operation and hours. In our area things have to close at certain times, limiting access to patrons such as the students in off hours.

- I believe in Silicon Valley (south bay specifically) the market for something like this is too small to be operational. On a tangent, there's a huge workspace with a bevy of expensive tools called TechShop in Menlo Park that after 3 years of operations have only attracted 400 or so paying monthly members.

- Most people don't want to pay the fees. The inconveniences of Starbucks sitting is worth the free wifi. Again, in a similar vein in Silicon Valley a few years ago PC cafes where you can play Counter-strike or World of WarCraft were really popular. I remember 10 shops open in the area one time but they all eventually one by one folded. The only one that's still open charges $3 an hour to use their computer and even though they have a decent sized regulars (about 200 or so every week) they're still struggling.

These things might or might not affect you in your market, or they might not even bother you. We had intended to scale this but if you can get a decent sized room for something with a good lease, some good marketing, elbow grease, you might make it work.

Alternative revenue can be from renting out desks, lockers, selling drinks and snacks, charging for access per hour, offering long term memberships, rent out the place for special events, conferences, rent computers or equipment such as projectors, scanners, printers.

Access to capital or a credit line to last for at least 6 months is definitely necessary.
One notable observation from morning watching top searches of a client: A lot of websites which "were" high on SERP based on links are now gone.

This also connects well because of the recent change google announced in the way link juice is distributed (to avoid misuse of no-follow attribute and paid links) http://searchenginewatch.com/3633972
This is a whole lot of text to describe determinism and non-determinism.
I've about had it with the vim and emacs fanboys, davidw. I think maybe I've flagged five articles in the three years I've been here.

But some of us (ahem), are much quicker to flag than others!

I'm always for mixing up the topics to get things a little more interesting. Do homeless people prefer emacs, vim, or ed? Is Apple using the iPhone to keep Latino kids from attending school? I don't know -- anything but the same fifteen types of stories over and over again.
Price: US $1749

If you want to read the PDF they link to.
But Python evolves fast! Every 3 years GvR finishes a chapter of SICP and Python gets better.
Stanford engineer makes $1 million machine to decode his own genome for ~$50k
Emurse.com has had Word/PDF/RTF export for years.
They love the JVM because it's everywhere they want their apps to be; ubiquity has its own beauty.
I'm interested in your proposition - if they don't have an SVN repo and bug tracking systems they're not real developers.

To clarify: I am not partial to SVN. My key point was that if they have no SCM whatsoever, they are not worth their salt. No sensible developer would develop any application with more than 1 developer without an SCM. Few sensible developers would even develop a 1-developer app without an SCM (unless it's really just a test app/prototype to be thrown away.. and even then...).

I don't have any other major indicators, other than the ones in my article.

With respect to software infrastructure, I'd recommend using hosted solutions (github, fogbugz, etc), whichever ones you find most useful for your project.
Nokia E51 ROSE Steel 
Nokia E51 is near by you that le you do more with your daily job. E51 is having very good quality like Messaging features as SMS, MMS, Email, and Instant Messaging. It has 3G network with HSDPA and allows that you can access internet with high speed, with WLAN support. It has huge internal memory and also MicroSD card support up to 4GB.This Nokia product has screen size of 240 x 320 pixels
Niche Tire Marketing: Female Tire Tread Design (Pic.)
Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools
http://www.rot13.com/
> In computer jargon, when your hard drive becomes overwhelmed with too much information it is said to be fragmented—or “fragged.”

No it isn't
Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL On Debian Lenny
Delicious Founder: I Wish I Had Not Sold to Yahoo
Have you heard of 3G? I am on one, and I can get online anywhere throughout Sydney. When WiMax comes around you will be seeding torrents from your mobile phone.
"Load 16-wide vector register from scalars from 16 independent memory addresses, where the addresses are stored in a vector!"

Wont that cause 16 memory reads that are much costlier than what one can benefit on a 16-way SIMD ALU operation?

What I wanted when I tried to write highly optimized computer-vision code was to have multiple "cursors" in memory that i would read from and increment. I.e. that the hardware would prefetch data and my code would operate as if data was a stream.
Can Your Concept Scale?
I do not see that happening. It is actually a good thing that each application can have their own isolated configuration that is tailored for the application's needs.

It is that most file systems are optimized for large files.

Reiser FS promised to be a killer FS, handling small files and arbitrary file-meta-data, but well... <insert un-tasteful joke here>.
With content-free content like this, one wonders what newspapers have to fear from the internet.
[Website name]. The man said he didn't want this to be made into a story, you went there and capitalized on it. Welcome to the scum list. Flagged.
Wonder what happens if you use Flashblock?
Massachusetts Internet Startup Investments Soared in July
SQLite ported to C#
4iP invests in FestBuzz, crowdsourcing opinion about the Edinburgh festivals
gah. thanks a lot for making sure none of our other celebrity community members will ever say anything truthful or revealing, ever again.
As a professional C coder for 20+ years, with well over a million lines of code under my belt, I can tell you that anyone that is ignoring warnings because of a buggy compiler is using the wrong compiler and should fix that immediately.

I work on SIL-4 rated systems for life-protection applications. Absolutely ZERO TOLERANCE for warnings is a requirement in this job, and every single time it has been addressed, the warning gave us a clue how to fix something. Whether it was the code that needed fixing, or the compiler - either way, the alert is there. Ignore at your own peril.
Google potentially has every search you have made, every email you sent and received, and every You Tube video you have watched, and every phone call you have made, most sites you have visited, and knows which adds you have already clicked on. Over months to years, heck they know which addresses you have gotten directions to. Finding ways to use that information is hard, but it's a lot wider than what is this search.

Amazon might have a lot of information about some of their customers, but Google has an insane amount of information about some of their customers. Which is more useful across the total web is a several billion dollar question. But I don't think Amazon can scale advertising information into that level yet.
Really? Have you seen their financial statements? How do you know they're far away from that? Because everybody else says so?

Last I heard, they were expected to post $550M of revenue in 2009. Any insider you talk to says it would be trivial for them to become profitable, if they wanted to. And, in fact, they may be quite close to doing so in their current plan.

But then again, I don't have any inside information either. One thing's for sure, though: Bringing out the tired "Facebook is overvalued" and "Facebook will never turn a profit" lines is seriously annoying.
Wait just a minute, here, Joe - what is your "backup porn plan"? I actually haven't ever come up with one and am intrigued (a) that you have one, and (b) that you think others have one. :)
WPF 3D with animation
Delicious Creator Quietly Launches Threaded Twitter Conversations
It seems that Flash doesn't even have a "yield" operator. And if you try to busy-wait, the machine grinds to a halt, because Flash events do not preempt code execution.
New game in town
key words: crowd sourcing/social trend profiling/mmo/environment all wrapped into one! Would that fly you think?
Smart Miner: A New Framework for Mining Large Scale Web Usage Data
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=754895
I can put up with the TC garbage, the political articles, the endless bickering about how HN used to be a lot better, but this seems to have crossed the line. Here's an author/site that deserves banning.
BBC Hovers On iPhone Apps Due To Apple Terms
How to Compete Against Open Source Competition
The Earth’s period of habitability is nearly over
Your processors fetches a whole cache line at once anyways, so it isn't more memory reads. The memory address needs to be aligned to 16 byte, though.
I am the OP - Just found this HN thread discussing the same - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=754906
Finally... this has been blogged about for at least a year.

http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/online-gambling-priva...
Live a healthy life with LifeMojo [video]
see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=754906
"It's our total inability to mentally reason about concurrency that makes it difficult"... hyperbole much? Ugh. Less ranting and more solutions, please? :)
Man, the Helicos PR machine is running at full speed. This headline is grossly misleading. Yes, you can decode a human genome for 50K, but if I'm not mistaken, the instrument itself is a million dollars. So, anyone decoding your genome certainly isn't going to do it at cost if they have any hope of getting a return on their instrumentation investment.
How turf wars and miscues crippled SpiralFrog
Ask HN: Best Mathematics book for complete noobie?
Here's the story, I have never been very good at maths in school and to be honest, any other subjects really. I could get by, but never pushed myself. School was never the best environment for me to learn, but when I'm studying at home, I like it.

So over the past few weeks I have been thinking about trying to learn mathematics again at my own pace (starting at the basics), what books would you recommend?
Ask HN: proposing improvements to existing web services - why startup?
I was just thinking about one of the projects I would like to do, which would be an improvement of existing web sites/social networks. Obviously the easier route would be to get one of the existing competitors to implement the feature. Otherwise I would not only have to work on making that feature great, but at the same time at creating a successful social network, which seems a bit like a waste (and difficult, too).

Ideally they could hire me to implement the feature and allow me to pour my energies into that thing I am excited about.

The problem is that I can not really afford to work as an employee. So I am practically forced to do a startup, to have the chance to get rich.

Something seems to be wrong with that system then. I guess in this community startups are kind of the highest thing to reach for, but the truth is, I don't really care for startups, I only care for doing great things. A startup seems to be the only way to reach that goal, but it seems to be rather wasteful.

Couldn't there be some way to enhance an existing companies product in a sort of "startup mode", that is, with appropriate compensation in case of success? It seems such a system might benefit society as a whole, because it would become easier to improve things.

Unfortunately I don't think the classic way of making a career in some established company to eventually reach a position where I could do something interesting is not open to me (I think), because I am already too old.
nice! I'm from the Zürcher Oberland! my uncle lived in Dübendorf for quite awhile.
Headline is a tad misleading: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=755041
SpiralFrog's turmoil, in missives
Facebook… The Search Engine?
Yeah when I tried that it was blank unless I had already entered my personal data.
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by The problem is that I can not really afford to work as an employee. So I am practically forced to do a startup, to have the chance to get rich.

Why can't you afford to be an employee? And what's stopping you from getting hired as a consultant with a given company with a clause in your contract tying compensation to success, for example, paying you in stock or options?
He doesn't work at that startup anymore as far as I know. I think he might be on the board still. I have only vague memories of the exact current relationship, but Eric Ries seems to have (1) run a "lean startup" before they were cool, (2) left the lean startup, and (3) started blogging about lean startups and consulting.
Off to a good start...
The One Minute Case for Designer Babies
Google web search given shot of Caffeine
Using "determinism" with respect to concurrency means about a billion different things depending on who you talk to.

For example, is the process that results from parallel composition of two deterministic processes deterministic or non-deterministic?

The answer is "it depends".

Concurrent "deterministic" processes are not significantly easier to reason about (informally) than non-deterministic ones, whichever definition you choose.

In fact, re-reading, I definitely don't see anything in there that could described by either "determinism" or "non-determinism", so either your definition differs wildly from mine, or you're choosing to be dismissive deliberately :)
Looks like the main purpose of titles/headlines is to get people to read the article, than being accurate.
What makes a "good" programmer?
What kind of math do you want to learn?

There's a lot of great resources out there, but you need to be more specific.

For example: I really enjoyed Gilbert Strang's course on Linear Algebra, available as a series of video lectures on MIT OCW (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Spring-2005/Cours...).

If you are interested in Discrete mathematics, Knuth's "Concrete Mathematics" is a great book--but it might not count as "basic" enough for your purposes, depending on your background.

If by "basics" you mean "the stuff you should have learned in high school or as an undergrad", the Standard Deviants videos are fun: http://www.sdlearn.com/default.asp
Arrington. Where's the Crunchpad?  
Arrington. You said more Crunchpad info was going to be released late July or early August. Well it is getting past both of those dates. Where is the info?
Tor wants more Wheel of Time books
Is Basic Authentication Really Insecure?