skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the only on-line game that I played at a seriously high level(ut2k4). It pretty much burned me out on multi-player games but... Dare I ask; will there be TAM? I never really experienced the "dance" of ut2k4 in any other game. Spiritually it could be compared to guntana I suppose. Once you get the muscle memory down it's a complete mind game. 100+bpm mind game. How I miss it :|
They also did the ultimate sin - lost a bunch of my bookmarks in the transfer from Yahoo. I had backups - so yay - but it meant I never trusted the service again.
Quality is in the eye of the beholder, and there were several blokes sporting them on the U-bahn train this morning, all much cooler than me.
Please don't do this

I'm warning you

Now I'm really annoyed

I'm really upset with you

.....
Self-Healing Armor Patches Itself Within Minutes
I'm not convinced by the example given at the end of the article. For this precise very simple use case it might be ok, but what about more complicated syntax extensions?
Weird, I was just thinking about the difference between "muscle memory" (procedural), and declarative memory. Except I was thinking about people on the opposite end of the spectrum: Hyperthymesia. I was wondering if those with the condition also have superior procedural memory, but if the two forms of memory don't share the same neurological underpinnings, hyperthymesiacs shouldn't have perfect procedural memory, correct?

edit: and as a corollary, I wonder if there is a condition for procedural memory parallel to hyperthymesia for declarative memory. It seems very possible, since hyperthymesia wasn't even recorded until 2006, and a superior procedural memory would be less salient.
it looks like a cleaner, nicer version of cocoa-rest-client (opensource, free) + code generation

> https://code.google.com/p/cocoa-rest-client/
Given the background to this, and how bad this could have gone I could not have been more happy. This is years late and completely lacking in teeth.

I protested in the streets of London when the digital economy act came through, and I am so glad that despite it passing, this is as far as it got.
Which would be great if the iPod wasn't a decline market.

They can put them in with iPhones (adapted to include hands free) but I'm not sure how much that would influence people to buy an iPhone over something else.
> The radial arm saw doesn't get enough love, probably because it has space planning requirements that table saws can bypass on account of their portability.

No, the radial arm saw does not get enough love because it is dangerous when used for anything but cross cuts and straight angled cuts, both of which are easily handled by a miter saw, which is safer and more versatile.

I used one for years and was happy when I finally gave it away. A sliding miter saw and a table saw are a safer combination, for sure.

Wholly agree with the dust collection. You can actually get far with a shop vac if you add a cyclone type pre-filter bin to it.
There are a few hedge funds that are quite happy to contribute open-source to the world.

Blue Mountain Capital for example;

https://github.com/BlueMountainCapital

One of their projects is Deedle; an F#/C#-equivalent of the Python 'Pandas' data frame package. Which would in fact make a nice complement to CShell I imagine.

Jane Street would be another choice: http://janestreet.github.io/

Their work on OCaml is currently trending on HN.

There are others I am sure, don't have any links handy.

Who'd a thunk it, hedge funds occasionally produce some social good ;-)
Ask HN: Is Google+ nailing it for Google?
I personally think that Google+ is actually succeeding, if it's perceived as a platform (in progress) and not as a pure social product.

Eg. I login everywhere using Google auth, use GMail, circles (but not for G+), Youtube, Comments (= disquss, but login with G), Android (backups my pictures, organize my contacts, ...), Google Drive, ...

What do you think?
Having used Fluxbox, Windowmaker, KDE, Gnome and Cinnamon, I find XFCE's start menu design the most productive. Recently used items appear on the top and you can start typing and the menu items start filtering - this happens for some other DEs as well but XFCE's matching is truely outstanding. I'm able to get to any item in less than 2 seconds (obviously I've assigned keyboard shortcuts to frequently used items) - very satisfying.
In short, I agree. Youtube coments, arguably, have become more saner though they have long way to go. My documents and pictures all are on Google drive linked to google plus accounts. Sharing them is a breeze, which works amazingly well for office-work.
Hangout is our staple for cross-team communication.
Kadena Air Base: We Could Take Godzilla
Incorrect, DSL was left behind years ago. It's not a competitor. Most DSL offerings have upload speeds measured in kilobytes.
Reading through these comments, the thought of Apple bundling beats with devices scares me the most. Ironic that if I acquired another one of their devices, i'd still have to throw their headphones into a draw to collect dust.
Guacamole – an ODM for Rails for nosql db ArangoDB
it's more about who's got the most money on their side.
Possible WooThemes Credit Card Leak
Bloodletters reported high subjective improvements back when it was the fancy new magic treatment.
App servers like TomEE, JBoss and GlassFish are not hard to install at all, and certainly not to dev against. What's the author smoking?

These servers are just unzip == fully installed things. We have them checked in and just deploy them automatically whenever there's a need for an update, pretty much as every other library out there.

I wonder are we missing something or do people just wrongly think there's "something" difficult, where there's no need at all for things to be difficult?
From a business perspective, i also use it a lot, eg. Google Drive as my CMS for clients (there's a builtin editor for html) and the client doesn't have to pay much. I use the sharing principle for letting them decide who can edit what.

I have tried Google Hangouts, but don't use it in my business. Do you use it with clients to demonstrate some things? It would be my only use case for it now.
Fedora 21 will use Wayland as its default display server
Don't celebrate just yet it may be lacking teeth at the moment but it gets their foot in the door so they can "adjust" it later.

Just look at the NSA as a good example of an organization that steadily amassed power over time.

I expect this to happen in about 3 years when the copyright holders decide it's not working (doubt anybody would actually double check) and they start making noise to give it more teeth.

Lesson: Encrypt all the things.
"They actively monitor your connection": This isn't the case is it (for this purpose at least)? It's the rights holders that contact the ISPs with a list of IPs that they claim are infringing. All the ISPs are doing is mapping IP addresses to real addresses and sending letters? The ISPs don't actively monitor for copyright infringement...
Flux Application Architecture
Watching the video is the closest I've ever come to crying from something I saw on the internet. Moving stuff.
Graphics people are a lot harder to find in open source and on an open source budget. I'm sure if you have graphics skills and propose them to them they will jump on the occasion.
Voters don't have much say in this.

I wrote to my MP a few years ago regarding some copyright issue (I think it was the proposed extension to 70 years). The reply was pretty much,
"Our party believes this and that is what we are going with"
(their stance was pretty much the opposite of what I was writing about).

I wrote a second time explaining that I though representative democracy was supposed to be about the politicians representing the people, and their wishes.

The next reply seemed to acknowledge that, but I have my doubts that I was actually represented in any way.
A cynic would say the same about the iphone. I think there's a good fit here - the same kind of people buy both, so there's lots of opportunity for cross-promotion.
The Invention of the First Wearable Computer (1998)
Agreed I would have gone with SharpShell
It's most probably because they have KPIs to fulfil set by Uber and they are gaming the system that way. If I were Uber I would definitely monitor quality of service by measuring the arrival times for each driver.
Looks like Nimbus Roman: http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/nimbus/
Is it guaranteed to blow your mind?
The next release will include the option to resolve (potentially download) all dependencies without launching the app, if someone finds that useful. If dependencies are resolved, or are embedded, startup time is increased by 100ms or so.
I highly recommend buying a LINQPad licence. I use it several times a day now and it's so much better with the extra features.

My favourite feature is the ability to point it at a DLL which has an entity data model in it - and then work with that model 'live' as if you were inside app code.

Normally, to do that, you'd have to put a breakpoint in your app and use VS's Immediate window - which doesn't support useful stuff like lambdas.
I take victories where I can find them. (Not giving up the fight though)

It helps that the ISP seem to on the whole not want to cut peoples internet off, it is rather bad for business.
Intelligence Policy Bans Citation of Leaked Material
As languages improve, they keep moving towards Lisp — a story that has been playing out for decades. There is a reason Lisp is called "the final language".
Apple can drown them in quality control engineers in the first few months, and then they have a really solid brand. There hasn't been a headphone brand with such mass-market appeal in a long time - they are like the sony walkman of headphones.
Doubler – A double dating take on tinder
NYCxDesign
Good point, I might go ahead and make a patch.
Alibaba owns UCWeb is top 1 mobile browser since Windows Mobile ages.
Ease of use and convenience outbids free 90% of the time.

The other 10% can barely afford food every day so there's no point in getting upset over it.

If you're wondering why they have internet then the answer is simple information is power and there's no other place on the planet where you can find so much free information.
There's a well-known problem in Brazil with English acquisition. This is due to the actual need for it (or rather lack of), the false "become fluent" promises by the language schools (like CNA, Fisk, Skill, Wizard, etc.), the cost of taking a course for the student, the methodology of said schools, and the lack of daily contact with people from other cultures in Brazil (tied to my first point).

As for the teacher, working in a school like the ones mentioned, you get low pay (not too many years ago it was about $7/hr) and no leeway in terms of hours and method. Being a private, one-on-one teacher, though, one can command higher prices ($30-50/hr in the largest cities) and have more control over everything (just not always whether the students keep their appointments).

Nonetheless, cool video in the link.
Show HN: bitcoin-akka – a btcwallet client, written in Scala and built on akka
Some people, perhaps most people, want a strong bass. Are they wrong?

Not to say that Beats are great or anything, but applying a bass boost to something with a flat response is not going to produce better bass than housing, speaker, etc that all resonate together at the right frequency.

Another thing to keep in mind is that most people will be using these in noisy environments.
They had their own Dalvik-like JVM implementation, other than that, UI stuff and meh.
Voters absolutely do have a say in this. Look at how disproportionate the influence of UKIP is. Only a small number of people vote for them but it's causing enormous panic in mainstream parties and (sadly) reflecting in policy.

The voting system is hardly perfect, but if, as the young and technically literate are wont, we don't vote much, then sensible policies don't happen.
If you get it from the Mac App Store, there is no need to give an email address...
Stanisaw Lem's Summa Technologiae portrays a grim and sober singularity
Google Music natively on Linux
The mole hunt is a great thought.

It simultaneously gets rid of people that leak to the press as well as anyone working for the company that hears something like that and not only believes it, but doesn't speak out against it.
This - I bought AT headphones (c£150) at Christmas, and they're astonishing. I had a listen to some Beats 'phones in the apple store (£279) last time I was getting a repair done, and they were astonishingly bad - fuzzy, tinny high end, massive overbearing bass.

But - from an Apple perspective, they're not buying just the headphones tech, but the manufacturing capacity as well, I'd assume.
> This present experience falls outside the domain of physics. [...] This present experience is real.

So does/is the "material world" (assuming it is a thing of its own).

A model of the universe that doesn't take consciousness into account is incomplete.
That's how I read it - all it made me do was make a mental note to remind my teenage son to use a VPN if he downloads stuff (NB which I do not approve of, but I'm not going to monitor his internet access to the point where I could block such activity).
Show HN: Targeted.io – Smarter Emails
It sounds to me like this agreement changes that... that's what the £750k is for - to implement the monitoring and heuristics...

I think!
As much as i like C#, static typed languages are inadequate when using them in shell. You really don't want to type all that.

Powershell has access to the BCL and can do all that with a nicer syntax when using it in the shell.
I <3 your work on the JBIG2 decoder!

When I started to work on JBIG2, it was kind of irritating as you were often one week ahead of me. When I started to make some optimizations I would see a PR from you with the exact same things. :p

It's really nice to contribute to PDF.js. Overall between your work and Opera's contributions the font caching, images decoders and color conversions got significantly faster! And there is still a lot we can do.
I honestly don't see why this is so bad. It seems to me the opposition is just upset that their "freedom" to thieve content is being reduced.
It's not really, when frequency response is a measurable quantity - sound quality can be, and is defined, and Beats do not fare well[1]. But you're right, they do look cool, and they have a fun listening experience.

[1] http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/monster-beats-dr-dre-so...
What a ridiculous analogy. "Not available in your country" isn't personal. It's not racist or unethically discriminatory.

Spotify wasn't available in the United States for quite a long time. I saw the "not available in your country" sign and sadly walked away. When it was finally available you know what I said? "Sweet! I've been waiting for this! Yay!" Because why would I not be excited to finally be able to use the thing I wanted to use?

What is the actual long term impact? Every day you aren't available in another country is another day a competitor has to get there first. Wait too long and you'll miss your opportunity. That's pretty much it.
I guess I'm old. My first thought was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_shell
And yet... Bose QC15 are simple, light, comfortable and sound fine. The real point, however, is that they are amazing at tuning out the outside world, and thus are fantastic for coding. Their lack of audiophile cred means absolutely nothing compared to all the above, and if you are in an environment with noisy children or coworkers you won't want open headphones anyway. So for the actual use cases of many of us here, QC15 are actually a good choice. Regarding Beats, I actually have no opinion since I've never tried them, but people who like them enjoy them...
The strong design influence is Niklaus Wirth, mostly Oberon and Tony Hoare.

Rob is also a Squeak fan, implementing Newsqueak and adding Channels for CSP

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

This inspired Phil Winterbottom to create Alef for Plan9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alef_(programming_language)

They then combined along with Sean Dorward and created Limbo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo_(programming_language)

This was sold off to Charles Forsyth & Co. at Vita Nuova where Roger Peppe was employed.

Lucent lost loads of money in the telecomms crash and Bell Labs was decimated

Rob & Russ created Go at Google with similar ideas. Roger joined the Go community and now works at Canonical doing Go development.
Looks like they forgot to conceal the full name and email of the guy from s21sec in one of the quoted emails...
Why would you dispute someone sending you an educational letter? To tell you about struggling artists and starving music A&R men? What are you, some kind of communist? /s

Besides, you can always just ring up or email your ISP with "I dispute your assertion/implication I was illegally downloading or uploading copyrighted content."

I'm not sure if the courts would force an ISP to release the information if going after the account holder would be in breach of a prior arrangement. Besides, pretty sure it has been shown that an IP doesn't identify an individual.

The other thing is that the information isn't centralised, which means someone could just hop from ISP to ISP, never hitting the 4 letter a year limit. If you port using a MAC code, there's very minimal downtime when you switch.

It would seem to me like the ISPs have acted in their interests and the interests of their customers by heading off legislation but still not evening showing teeth, let alone using them.

Edit: replacing typo's and autocorrect mistakes.
Similarly, 'surf' maps for Unreal Tournament (if I recall correctly), which was capture the flag without the shooting, requiring players to run an obstacle course and abuse the game physics; dodging sideways up a steep ramp caused people to launch in the air, that kinda thing.
Why Apple Is Betting Big on Beats: Hardware for Now, Streaming for Later
This game is awesome.

Here is some footage of my team from the tournament in February: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44O1fWfj2QY
I hope this at least least will motivate more developers to use GL/GLES for game development since it will be easier to keep it multiplatform (iOS, Android, OSX, Linux, Windows). But still there are a lot of things mentioned there that also applies for general big project development on Linux.
The sentiment (that'd you'd want to use something that's "railsy" for making static pages) sounds completely batshit crazy to me -- but given the number of upvotes and (sane-sounding) supporting comments, I suppose there might be something to it. I'll have a look, even if I'm more in the camp that thinks "how does any of this improve on m4 anyway"...

I suppose it really does demonstrate that rails has great mind-share and a lot of developers still using it (and enjoying using it) -- which is great. Still a little surprised there's so much apparent overlap between people that thing that "hey rails is a great way to make web-apps", and people that thing "static html is great for content". Perhaps an indication of how "ajax-driven" web development have forced everyone to look at webapps as api+rendering -- and how (apparently) well rails have been adopted to that design (because, I'm guessing, everyone's been forced to break their architecture into a view/template layer that's driven by data --- much like a well-structured coldfusion, asp or php app -- but with ajax).
Self-healing plastic inspired by blood
Bayesian model makes final Eurovision predictions
Thanks to Henry we know far more than we ever would have about human memory. He literally gave the memories of his life to science. In return, he got none.

RIP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison
Check out Lynckia a WebRTC framework( https://github.com/ging/licode ) it includes a MCU that allows recording and more...
> TL;DR: It doesn't work

But it does work. "There have been therapeutic effects shown in clinical trials involving Parkinson's disease,[18] tinnitus, amblyopia, fibromyalgia, and post-stroke motor deficits"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct-current_sti...
Now, what works better?
iPhone 5c
http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/iphone...

- or -

Beats 5c
http://i60.tinypic.com/103hnjb.jpg
But not $3 billion+ worth of opportunity. If all they wanted was cross-promotion there are plenty of ways to do that without buying the company outright. If Apple wanted to get into the fashionable accessories market they have enough brand clout to do so on their own, without having to buy an existing player.
It probably should have been named CSShell :-)
Well, it's not just HTML/JS. It's Word/OpenDocument, SMTP/POP/IMAP… Those modules are going to make for the vast majority of the code. We could easily go from 50K lines to several millions.
Lets be honest here if you want to listen as the engineer and artist intended[1] then you probably want Yamaha NS10s sat on a mixing desk bridge.

See this sound on sound article for more (and why you might want a mixing desk)

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep08/articles/yamahans10.ht...

They are not great speakers but they are probably the target of most pop / rock music in the studio.
This is a fair point. Improving the product is probably relatively straight forward compared to building a brand like Beats.

On the other hand, when have Apple been interested in selling anything branded with someone else's name?
Reminds of the way LMAX achieve high throughput and low latency on their trading exchange. One of the key points is that they use parallelism but not concurrency. Keep your threads busy doing one thing only and avoid synchronising with other threads. No blocking, no queues and they achieve >100K messages/s.

Where they do need pass messages between threads they use the famous LMAX Disruptor which keeps data copying and blocking to a minimum.
The biggest issue I've had with this sort of editor is pasting from word or other programs which attempt to insert formatting, how are you planning handling that? Do you currently strip out spurious tags received like comment tags? It'd be great to see everything stripped except b and i tags for example.
Well, since I'm Norwegian and can probably read it, I'll thank you for the tip. :-)
£3 million plus to send out a bunch of letters to, assuming 20 million UK households, what could end up being more than one in 10 of us?

Imagine they'd collaboratively invested that cash into British startups tasked with finding new revenue streams for the entertainment industry, and then worked with them to provide legal access to films / music / whatever.

They could be in a completely different place in three years. This feels like spitting into the wind.
There's a closed-source firmware running on your PC mainboard, HDD/SSD/SD card, mouse, keyboard, GPU, Ethernet card...

All of it can be rather nefarious. Get rid of the PC?
(or simply use phones which connect their modems as a peripherals and implement monitoring, like Neo900, not as a master with DMA as most phones today do)
Portability of Java helps you avoid the situation when your sysadmin tells you that he just upgraded a production server because the previous version of your distro reached its EOL and now your product does not start because libfoobar.so that you depend on is not included in the distro any more and he can't build it from source because the distro's default compiler also switched from gcc to clang.

Portability is important, even when you supposedly know your deployment platform.