skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience with Unity has been pretty solid too. I was incredibly surprised as to how easy it was to get my game prototypes running on pretty much everything.

My major gripe, much like the author's, is the Asset Store. It's full of garbage with no real demo or refund system. There's also a lot of assets that were built with old versions of Unity with no real way to identify them as such. This especially sucks for 2D games, as the Unity2D system is pretty new.

There's also no great GUI system built into the framework yet, so you're stuck buying nGUI or dfGUI.
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The "debate" about systemd is like the "debate" about global warming: all the people with any knowledge of the issue fall on one side, and the opposition consists largely of the ignorant and butthurt.

Systemd has won by being vastly superior to any alternatives. I suppose it's all right to use something else but the community has embraced systemd as the correct solution, and you lose community support and assume all the risk of breakage if you do not stick with systemd.
I don’t think it’s out of bounds at all to assume that these companies would keep as much data as possible—including your messages.
Firstly, I was comparing the way the companies pay staff, not the activities themselves.

Secondly, its not unreasonable at all. Sure the trip you may have done on vacation was an easy float down a class 3, but that's the equivalent of hiking a small hill an hour from your home. There are plenty of rafting expeditions that probably took way more planning and organisation and unknowns than some rich kid paying a million bucks for some company to hold their hand all the way up Everst.
A comment in this article about the "worn-down" telomeres in the lady's white-blood cells makes me wonder if it would be possible to study the size of white-blood telomeres in any person relative to their brain cell telomeres and predict how long someone is likely to live (given no other health problems)...
Facebook buys fitness app Moves
Rejuvenation would be a good thing. It may not be available to everyone immediately, but that's true of every technology.

What makes you think this would only be available to the rich? That could happen, but it's not a given. The actual techniques that we're talking about might not be expensive. The original article mentioned saving stem cells extracted early in life and reintroducing them in old age. That sounds like something that could be done cheaply on a large scale.

And even if it is expensive, we don't have to make everyone pay out of their own pocket. Redistribution is a dirty word in the US, but that's not true everywhere in the world.

So yes, there may be social issues to deal with, but that's not a reason not to develop the technology. It's a reason to develop our society.
Type in your title. The game is called Bonsai Slice.
To be honest, it's not that hard to have deeper integration than on iOS.
...good thing he didn't do that. There's a big difference between "my rafting experience falls in line with this story, it looks like there's a bigger pattern" and "my rafting experience was like Mount Everest Sherpas".
How many users do you need to start split testing?
We recently launched this website, wannity.com, and are having pretty much visits than we expected (around 1k/month). We have low conversion rates right now, and we're wondering if it's time to start split testing, or the number of users is not enough to start making decisions after these tests?

Thanks.
While you're right that I didn't mention them, and indeed isn't why I'd want to go if I could do it easily, it is the case that there can be "bragging rights" on both sides, just that one is bragging about the achievement and the experience, the other just the experience - if that's your goal. (Let's be honest, even if it's not the reason you want to do it, chances are you would brag, at least a bit.)
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The Supreme Court attempted to revive it in 2007's KSR v. teleflex, but the CAFC has overruled the Supreme Court on 35 USC §103 (the obviousness law).

The CAFC is subordinate to SCOTUS, and cannot "overrule" a SCOTUS decision. Consequently obviousness is very much alive.

The CAFC can try to ignore or "distinguish" a SCOTUS decision on flimsy grounds, but SCOTUS has repeatedly overruled the CAFC when it has tried to overstep its bounds.
Searching for "IT" turned up some results.
Mis-read title as "patients"
I look forward to the day when any candidate for a managerial job is tested for sociopathic tendencies. And then, to be clear, they aren't given the job.
Worked for me and installed.
Windows has historically sported better system integration than Unix, with system components of greater granularity and flexibility than Unix has historically provided thanks to the power of COM interfaces. If the tightly coupled Windows way provides a better solution, then maybe we should build things the Windows way.
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is it like argus? https://www.azumio.com/argus
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Isn't PhoneGap the same thing? What makes CocoonJS better?
Are you sure it's the syntax? Haskell can be pretty complex to understand due to the abstractions involved, especially if you are less familiar with FP, laziness, etc.

When I struggle with Haskell it's more "I don't understand the type of this" than "I don't understand the syntax". Syntax is the easy part!
Or maybe it's the wrong kind of shared culture, the kind that locks people into collective action dilemmas rather than helping to solve them...
Surely you can split-test at any level, it just takes longer for useful data to build up?

Then it just becomes a question of confidence interval.
Too bad the terms of the deal aren't public, because that would tell us if this is just another talent acquisition, or if Facebook has an interest in the app (or data)...

I've been using the Moves app to add important context to my "quantified self" data on zenobase.com. The Saga app is an alternative in case Moves languishes--at least until they get acquired by someone, too :-)
This is a good book, though a few years old now:
Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design
(http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517984.do)
Disclaimer: I'm the lead developer for one of the featured projects (though wasn't at the time).
Off topic: really impressed that Wolfram Alpha could do this: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+Germany+...
"Duty" is a bit too strong a word for this don't you think?
I agree. Both vim and tmux did exactly what they were told to do.
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:( I'll ask around when I get a chance. I thought it was a stream but it doesn't explicitly claim so.
> It is kind of cool that we are beginning to get rid of many diseases and people are living longer, but the people doing such research so never seem to give much thought to overpopulation and limited resources.

So you'd like to kill 100 people per minute to solve overpopulation and limited resources?
Ah good catch, I didn't notice he'd linked it through goo.gl
I am designing this Ngnix conf for use on small vanilla sites and static generated sites like Jekyll. Otherwise, yes I would rely on my CMS's index file.
I definitely agree - taking a hard line on cheaters is a great way to lose your community, literally.

I got featured by Blizzard for my Starcraft II map and banned by an overzealous bot in the same week for "hacking." Tried to contact support, but no one apparently cared. Never played since.

This isn't an engineering or moral problem though. It's a business problem. They're clearly making a bad business decision by refusing to acknowledge the importance of active community players over hackers. This problem could have been solved fairly with reasonable rules, but clearly was not.
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Take a task of some inherent complexity but that can still be coded in 10-20 pages of code or less, create one solution, and then try out various different versions of it, or even complete rewrites, changing coding style, decomposition into modules, performance tradeoffs taken, data structures chosen and so forth, and then compare those with respect to length, code clarity, create benchmarks, etc.

Example projects: ray tracer, hash table (way more choices and trade-offs to be made than you would expect), toy grep, toy pseudo-pascal or lisp compiler, basic web crawler, ... It's hard, but you will learn a ton. Even putting substantial effort into improving a one page program, incubating and trying out ideas over a few days, can be beneficial if there is some "meat" in that program to chew on.

In general I believe software architecture is much more low level and less philosophical than a most aspiring architects believe. It's really about knowing the trade-offs of a decision before making it, and this rests on knowing a lot about data structures, algorithms, existing components (like databases, operating systems) etc. Those little programs in non-trivial problem areas often already show up a lot of those things.
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Is anyone working on something better than signal strength triangulation for cell tower based positioning? It seems crazy to me that we can get accuracy of a few meters using weak signals from satellites in space, while the strong signals from nearby cell towers give you only kilometer level accuracy.
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> I think more emphasis should be put on reduction of suffering rather than number of years lived.

Oh yes. We already far outlive the end of quality of life with medical intervention.
That's not really accurate anymore.

Without assuming too much, I'm not certain when you went to school, based on those numbers it seems a while ago.

2013-2014, average in-state tuition for 4-year public universities is just over 5,000 per semester, and that DOESN'T include housing, meals, books and other incidentals - it assumes you only pay for classes, nothing else.

Wyoming was the lowest average in 2013-14, at $4,404 for the year (2202 per semester), and under $9,000 when you include housing and meal plan - not bad, really.

Anymore, even with Pell, state grants and federal subsidized loans, students still have to come up with 1,000-3,000 per semester. So, that's where the unsubsidized and parent plus loans come in.

Source - my own institutional research at a community college for the last two years.
HTML/JS apps subvert the Android and iOS walled gardens, so Google and Apple have no incentive to make things work better. It's no coincidence that there's still no straightforward way to deploy Chrome Web Store apps (either in HTML/JS or Native Client) to Android phones.

Microsoft made HTML/JS a first class platform for Windows 8 and Windows Mobile, so they don't have that problem - as long as you put your browser app inside their walled garden (so it goes on the store), they don't mind at all that it's a browser app.
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This isn't an argument for systemd at all; it's an argument against supporting any OS with more than one user.

If your OS doesn't matter enough to demand support, it's well within my rights as a developer to ignore you and your users entirely. Cowtowing to a hoard of complaining users is weak behavior.
Wouldn't a smart phone enable GPS automatically to try to get a more accurate location when 911 is dialed? Obviously this doesn't help with phones that have no GPS, but I would think with the amount of smart phones in use today it wouldn't be a big of an issue.
Obviously, the problem is not the technology, it's an antiquated government. A government that is run by bureaucrats, that don't know how to properly leverage technology, especially satellite technology.
Those are two distinct manifestation of potentially different issues.

Mobile is over-invested because there is a presumption of high user value that isn’t adjusted with history.

Organised click-farms use non-commercial links to avoid detection. There is a lot to be said about Facebook detection technology there.
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The SVG file format is getting a lot of attention lately, although it has been around since 1999. It is a very powerful tool that can be used in many everyday scenarios and in the age of retina displays and responsive web design, it will certainly become more common. This is article is the first part of a series of articles about SVG files and what they are about.
Can you explain further how that worked/helped the bank?
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Why does everyone have to use PR-Speak these days. "joins Facebook". That sounds like they're happy buddies going together now as equals.
Why not simply say "Moves was bought by Facebook". Nothing wrong with that?!
No, it doesn't redirect.

$ curl -I https://www.google.com/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
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Is it possible to go to Everest and climb the mountain without the use of Sherpas? How often are expeditions mounted where the members rely only on themselves to accomplish all the required tasks: gear ferrying, rope and ladder fixing, acclimatization etc? Do such expeditions ever encounter resistance from the companies or Sherpa collective?
Maybe not your fault. A bad teacher can make anything seem dull. I've heard some students even find math unexciting. (I love the scene in Monty Python's Meaning of Life where the teacher is actually copulating on the desk in front of the class, but his students are just bored).

"most of it required reading a translation of it on the opposite page"

As I said, it did not. And much of the class came from households where English was not spoken.
While this does describe a real problem that we want to address, article reads like surveillance propaganda. I think it reads that way because of strong implication that cell phone technology is bad because it does not allow authorities to obtain quick geolocation fix on a cell phone.
For those wondering what happened, it looks like this article was removed because the author was fishing for BTC donations somewhere in the middle of it
Got it streaming on the Mac now. Was not working on Win8, laughably.
Yes, she does sound like a nice person. Unfortunately when I worked for an investment bank, they seemed to encourage arsehole behaviour and promote it.
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A seamless datomic <-> clojurescript client/service framework is needed. I am just getting started with Om and hope to experiment with some ideas in that space. I don't think REST is the right approach. I would like to abstract everything to an AVET or sequence thereof.
Virtual Earth plays out fate of life on the planet
Statistically, the DIYers need not really think about it, either. If you work with it at most a few days of your life. you can be the unlucky guy who breathes in a lot of asbestos dust and dies, but chances are you won't (if you don't go berserk when demolishing a building, and are smart enough to wear a mouth/nose cap when working inside in dust)

Professionals in the industry, on the other hand, may work way more carefully, but still run a much larger risk of adverse effects due to their longer exposure time. That's another reason the men work in bunny suits.
Link's been removed from Techccrunch. Any other source?
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That is only an argument for patents if you buy into idea that private sector / capitalism is the best answer for every problem. The fact that you need patents to shore up that idea strongly indicates to me, health is not one of the well suited problem. The other non-patent solution is funding the likes of CDC and NIH to research disease prevention and related drugs. In general the things that aren't (or shouldn't be) inherently profitable but are none the less needed should be socialized.
Can you offer a good book on that coherently explains US federal monetary policy? You have a good handle on what's going on. I still don't quite understand it.
Functionality-wise it's going to be far more limited, but I think for the things it can do, it will be much much simpler to set up.
Serious question... why can't I SMS 911? This article focuses on geolocation data... which is fine. But what about cases where a person is unable to speak verbally because of either physical impairment, or because they are afraid or otherwise unable to do so?

This would be so easy to implement, can it even really be said to be a technology problem?
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Why would Apple or Google build such a thing? They are already both "winning" the market in their own metrics. They both have huge numbers of developers and have little interest in building tools that allow developers to work in a cross platform way. MS built the HTML5/JS tools because they are behind and need to attract every developer possible.
In the same way that OracleScript would be an odd choice of name for a SQL database implemented in JavaScript. Now that I say that, though, I guess there isn't really a name for what Datomic is except Datomic.
> at least the source of every test is available

Also true of the benchmarks game. (Also the command line used to compile and run the program, etc)
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Generally speaking, cell phones today already know where they are with pretty good accuracy. So the most obvious solution would be to have a standardized system for a phone to send its GPS/wifi based position to the 911 center.

In some cases the caller is not able to communicate verbally because they're choking, hiding in the closet from an intruder, or any number of other reasons. In those situations, being able to reach 911 by SMS would allow them to give a location. You can't yet, but it's being worked on.

http://www.fcc.gov/text-to-911
Fibre cement is a composite building and construction
material, used mainly in roofing and facade products
because of its strength, durability and fire-resistance.

Invented in the late 19th century by the Austrian Ludwig
Hatschek. Principally he mixed 90% cement and 10%
asbestos fibres with water and ran it through a cardboard
machine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_cement

Many factory workers, roofer, etc. died of cancer or will die in future :(

Many houses in central Europe and elsewhere have fibre cement roofing made of asbestos. Since ca. 1990 all fibre cement shingles are 100% asbestos free.
My impression is that the CII is far more corporate, just from the quick-skim overview. That can be good, but can also up a whole can of competitive interest worms.
> In an agreement with NENA and APCO, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon have voluntarily committed to provide text-to-911 service by May 15, 2014 in all areas served by their networks where a 911 call center is prepared to receive texts.

http://www.fcc.gov/text-to-911
There's some sound wisdom in this post, jerf. A couple of questions, though:

First, is it Haskell that drives you toward well-factored, reusable designs? Or is it functional programming? (I know, you can't do Haskell without functional programming. You can do functional programming without Haskell, though. Can you separate the two, and say which one is driving you here?)

Second, have you ever seen Haskell deployed in a large, long-lived production code base? How large? How long-lived? How did it work? (I ask because I remember reading an article on Lisp, which said that X in Lisp is just like Y in an object-oriented language, "with the proviso that in Lisp, all the types exist in the programmer's head". I'm pretty sure that won't work very well on a million-line code base that lives for 30 years. Haskell has a very solid type system, so it won't run into that particular problem but... does it have a track record for large-scale work out in the real world?)
Well because there are still more web developers out there than mobile (native) developers. So, in any case, it would help getting more apps in their store -> more happy users -> more money
love the way this stuff is written. no overloaded jargon. the Command pattern chapter was amazingly straight-forward and everything else learned was immediately applicable to a game project I'm refactoring. hard to say that about many similar books on the subject. bravo! :)
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According to the benchmarks game, one has to be careful about performance claims :-)

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclus...
I think HNers seem to be completely unaware that most Facebook users really don't care about user privacy that much.

These "oh crap I have to move my stuff, Facebook owns it" reactions baffle me. I can understand a desire for privacy, but using an online service by definition means you're at risk.

Hosting your own services on your own computers and communicating with open distributed protocols would be the most private way to go, though the problem with that is there's basically no money in building a social media system that works that way, so many attempts (Atompub/Atom, XMPP) have mostly remained niches.
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BMC BBCA - this was used at my previous company and trust me it sucked big time... It looked like an unfinished product, shipped in an hurry..

I am still confused why they took a decision to change well set MS SCCM into an product that doesn't satisfy half the need...
Not in this case. There's an implied duty when you represent your work as being suitable for critical uses such as securing the world's communications.
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It's so sad that the generation that benefited from the free/low tuition is the same one that has voted it out of existence for the next generation. Just another example of the boomers pulling up the ladder behind them. Their stories of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps generally leave out the free world-class education.
It's available now. Am I missing something or is there no login button? I only get an option to register.

Edit: Installed it on another device and the app only says "Hello world!". Seems like the Play Store distributes different versions for smartphones and tablets.

Edit 2: The login button is cut off on my phone because they failed to put the login/register screen into a ScrollView.

Edit 3: Also the positioning of the loading indicator is weird: http://imgur.com/jp6wtIA
Since the original topic was how to build an server side index that can let users find relevant documents in an encrypted corpus without revealing the corpus to said server (e.g. [1]), I think that whoever diverts the thread into a discussion about the right function to use with passwords is the one being pedantic and missing the point.

Is it possible to build a index for an encrypted corpus that preserves the user privacy even in case the server is taken over?

I don't know ([2], [3]?). But I certainly know that the main weakness is not that it's impossible to hash terms in such a way that a weak machine cannot reverse significant portions of the index in minutes/days.

Seeing the word "hash" in this context clearly doesn't specify a particular hash function. Saying that using a salt fixes the issue with rainbow tables too doesn't specify whether we are talking about naive md5/sha salted hash or a KDF. These details were irrelevant to the discussion.

1. http://people.csail.mit.edu/akiezun/encrypted-search-report....
2. http://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F11496137_30
3. http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~rafail/PUBLIC/SSE.ppt‎
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