skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I looked an hour ago the link was pointing to the Devnet article but the title still mentioned Google.

Was that not the original link? The Google Code link is better but still lacks context as the significant piece of information is that this has hit Chrome beta - which is buried at the end of the very long Google Code page.

Mods - what happened here?

EDIT - my guess is that Akhilan posted with the Devnet link originally and hoped his top comment would add context. Akhilan - it doesn't really work like that on HN. It's best to post your own short blog post (or Tweet or Google+ or whatever) - give some context there and link to that.
Back to basics: encapsulating collections
Ok. This isn't obvious at all by looking at the documentation, also since extent doesn't seem to appear in the type signature of a matrix instance.
Great lessons, for investors, business folk, developers, and actors.
Kind of offtopic: As a professional of web development and operations with ~10 years of exp... Any ideas where I should start if I want to learn game development? I want to be able to create something by myself, like the Dwarf Fortress guys. Not sure if something with better graphics is even possible as a one man project.

Where else can I ask this question without being treated like a noob or a "gimme teh code plz" beggar?
The evolution of the light echo around V838 Monocerotis (read: a star exploding)
Ask HN: I need a better backup solution
Currently, most of my stuff is backed up via Crashplan, and semi-duplicated between my work laptop and home desktop. But this doesn't really work very well for me, because Crashplan is of the opinion that each computer is a distinct entity and the files on them don't overlap. Dropbox seems to have a better approach that suits my needs, but I don't trust them and don't want to support them.

As a specific example of what I need, I have:
Digital Photos: 45 gig
Scanned Photos: 15 gig
Documents: 9 gig
Random images: 2 gig
Porn: 5 gig
Misc: 50 gig

I'd like to keep my documents and random images on my work laptop, and have the changes I make there synced up with everything else - if I update my resume, and then throw my work laptop into the river, I'd like to come home and boot up my desktop and have access to those recent changes. I don't want the 60 gigs of photos cluttering up the work laptop, but on occasion I'd like to be able to go through a few of those folders at work to find a specific photo - without having to sync the whole 60 gigabytes down. (Which is what Crashplan would require.)

Ideally, I'd have a server running something like OwnCloud.org, but I'm not sure if I want to pay out of pocket for a few hundred gigs of storage; plus, I'd have to sysadmin the whole thing, keep it secure, distribute it so that there's no single point of failure, etc.

What works for you, and what would you suggest as a solution for me?
This assumes all test prep is equal quality. Having worked in this field while in grad school I can assure you it is not.
Speaking of weird Google UI. I got an odd G+ share thing over my movie selections today with no close button http://imgur.com/lhXgt9z

temporary glitch I imagine
Yeah, that's pretty crazy. If zipping a zip causes "corruption", they should probably file a bug at bugreport.apple.com
To those people who don't browse the internet in multiple languages, allow me to elaborate.

With the new translate popup, you have to acknowledge it before you can continue typing. This means always having to press escape or cancel randomly when browsing the majority of webpages you visit.

Worse, the popup only shows after the page is fully loaded, so if you are browsing a page that is slow to load for whatever reason, you're sure to get interrupted in the middle of whatever you are doing, and if you were typing something, you aren't anymore because you just lost focus.

Now imagine this behavior on nearly every webpage.

My options are to disable the translate feature, which I use quite a bit, or to just put up with a crappy user experience, which is what I've been doing.

If you live in an English speaking country and only visit the occasional foreign website, you're likely never to notice this problem.
It's lacking a good deal of polish, but it's a good effort. It's more or less a direct clone of Frontier/FE, practically to a fault, though sadly without any of the original ships due to copyright restrictions. Surprised oolite hasn't had similar problems.

There's also a commercial space sim based on it in development called Paragon which might be worth keeping an eye on: http://www.paragongame.com/
I'm almost 100% sure others will disagree but I'd say start with Unity. The most important thing is getting something small done to give you a taste of what's involved and then you can dig deeper and develop Opinions and eventually go pick a new engine/roll your own.

I definitely do not recommend trying to roll your own engine at first because you'll never get a game done.
Wow thank you for the second link. That was really interesting read.
Here is an example of an unexpected Google Translate behaviors. I don't recall seeing these behaviors on this page before this week. http://imgur.com/0xPSsfn

This report generation tool is displaying names of locations located in the Netherlands, so Chrome suggests translating the page from Dutch to English.

I addition, it displays a dialog box asking if there is a better translation of the label for the 'Download CSV' button.
Definitely! Like alcoholism, there is a risk factor in the use of psychedelics for some people, with a strong genetic component. It's important to take your own mental health history, as well as family history into account when experimenting. Especially before taking any high doses of anything, experiment just with lower doses first, with relatively sober, experienced friends present should anything go wrong.

If you have a personal or family history of psychotic episodes though, including delusional thinking, be extremely cautious, and either only take lower doses or abstain entirely for your own safety and well-being.
Yep. It was the wrong game for that time. Gamecube and Nintendo were fighting a "kiddie" image, and people were expecting a Ocarina of Time look especially since two years prior Nintendo showed off a great concept demo[1]. People really wanted that game.

So when Windwaker was announced it was a big let-down and had minimal cultural impact (even though it was a critical and financial success).

In fact, it seemed like the entire Gamecube era can be defined by Nintendo trying something different and kinda being punished for it due to preconceived expectations. Things like FPS Metroid instead of 3rd person Metroid. Mario Sunshine instead of Mario 64 2. Mario Kart Double Dash instead of regular Mario Kart 64 2. Donkey Kong Jungle Beat instead of proper 2D Donkey Kong Country. And of course WindWaker. It's no surprise that some of those games became cult favorites even though they didn't resonate at the time. They were good games, but wrong for the time. Sometimes it pays to give people what they want.

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Nintendo is actually pretty clueless with market trends in general. Sometimes that's ok, but sometimes it hurts them greatly (e.g. sticking with the cartridge format one generation too long - which I think is THE reason why Sony owned the console market until the PS3 era. No DVD on Gamecube which did hurt their sales in the US. Ignoring online gaming until well into the Wii generation, and even then being clueless about it for many years. No answer to Xbox Live/PS Network. Missing the HD era by a generation - though they got really really lucky with the Wii _initially_). More recently, a Nintendo exec couldn't understand why people would want to watch streamed games[2]!)

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBtAvX4Pkyk

[2] http://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2014-wii-u-s-lack-of-twi...
I thought your comment was too aggressive. I like to have a nice civilized discussion here in HN. Then I RTFA and now I have to agree with you. Flagged.

Just a token paragraph:

> Antibiotics - Chemicals that promote superbugs, which are deadly antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria that are killing tens of thousands of Americans every year.
By this argument studying at all doesn't work... Why bother studying Calculus... Just take the AP test.
I should point out that the pifm code is a bit of a hack and does not properly reset the DMA controller when you stop running it. It will leave the FM signal active until you reset the pi.
http://ubuntu-snippets.blogspot.com/2008/06/tasksel-install-...
I participated in a top incubator and totally agree with this comment. cofounder breakups are such a nasty affair and I've part of one. we tried to resolve the issue but by the time it got to that point, it was a bit too late. I sometimes wonder if we would have addressed our issues sooner through counseling if this would have impacted the outcome of that company. I do think it could have resolved some issues faster. The problem with this incubator was the MD was also an investor, so it was very difficult to talk to him about our issues. I'm happy to be involved in a new company at a senior level, but like a long lost love, you kind of never forget.
English, for one.

I'm unsure what point you try to argue here. The author of that post explained what is wrong with the feature. You provided zero arguments against that. Saying 'Nope, you are wrong' is not really helpful.

For me this feature is highly annoying and utterly broken. I agree with the author and think his points were well made
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This is the subject of a classic joke about tenure:

“The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore, so it eats it! It's rather like getting tenure.”

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/52415-the-juvenile-sea-squir...
> I've learned that there's a strong correlation between knowledge and humility. People who spend 10 minutes on Google studying monetary policy think they have it all figured out, while people with Ph.D.s and decades of experience throw up their hands in frustration. The more you study economics, the more you realize how little we know about it.

This is the problem with Congress making decisions about science, the internet, and the economy.
noticed the "Datalove <3" at the bottom.

I'm familiar with this through Telecomix, but nowhere else, really. Seems to fit the bill of a Telecomix op.
> It creates a bar that someone has to be "this sick to get diagnosed".

You're using incorrect language there. It creates a bar where a person has to show "this many symptoms" in order to be diagnosed with a particular illness. This is how modern medicine works and none of us question this model when it comes to physical illness so why should it be different for mental illness ? For example flu-like symptoms alone should not be enough to diagnose someone with the ebola virus or AIDS and the same principle applies to mental illness.

>It creates a fear of being told that your problems aren't really problems, and you're just not dealing with them correctly (regardless of the intent of your original argument).

No. It creates an expectation that one should refrain from automatically assuming that normal human experiences are indicative of mental illness. It's normal for human beings to experience certain problems (such as fatigue, anxiety, trouble sleeping, weight gain/loss, etc) during the course of their life and it doesn't mean they are necessarily sick.

The view that "almost everyone is sick but most people are hiding it out of fear" is a ridiculous notion that is probably being injected into the cultural conversation for commercial reasons and I doubt many people take it seriously.

It's never been more socially acceptable to start taking drugs for mental illness due to the pervasiveness of drug advertising. I think it's easy to make an increasingly strong argument that it's been over-normalized to the point where misdiagnosis is commonplace
If you enjoyed this, there's also a good breakdown of the techniques used to build Shadow of the Colossus on the PS2: http://www.scribd.com/doc/170524064/The-Making-of-Shadow-of-...

It goes into detail about things like how the inverse kinematics work, and rendering layers of translucent textured polygon shells for its fur effects since programmable shaders weren't possible on the hardware.
If you enjoy reading and absorbing this kind of knowledge, I suggest reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. It's a book of personal thoughts/writings/observations that Aurelius wrote while he was emperor of Rome. It's absolutely stunning how much knowledge from back then is still applicable in the modern world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations
Have you looked into rsync?

Rsync is more for a general file back up system. It works slightly like git where it saves incremental updates of your computer instead of a full file system snap shot every back up.
> I've learned that how you reacted to past bubbles is a good indication of how you'll act to future ones. The same people buying dot-com stocks in 1999 were buying Miami condos in 2006 and gold in 2011.

There was a saying that emerged in the first .com boom -- "You know we're in trouble when the UPS guy is giving you Internet stock tips." Maybe we should ask the UPS guy every few months what he's excited about investing in? Canary in the coal mine, as it were...
He's known for 2 projects, rails and basecamp. Both are almost 10 years old now (if not older) and have armies of people who probably do most of the programming. I doubt he's doing 60 hour coding weeks any more, probably not even 40 hours. I bet that having large amounts of money also takes pressure off.
...the types of dangers inherent to an open Internet...

You haven't made the case that the NSA's shenanigans are in any way "inherent" to the internet as currently designed and implemented. I would suggest that these phenomena are due far more directly to the current organization of the USA federal government, and to the oligopoly that exists in internet service in that country. I think we ought to give Cerf, Kahn, and Postel a pass on this one.
Oh, I wasn't aware Scalaz had applicative. Then I stand corrected.
I wonder if it's all parts of the US that don't know foreign languages. I went to highschool in Texas and we all had foreign languages since grade 6. Most of us can at least read spanish. My friends that went to a local private school were usually fluent in two other languages. I myself am fluent in Spanish and can read/write Latin/Greek.
An unfortunate trend.

Chrome / Chromium have introduced a few non-optional changes recently that seem to have been implemented by North Americans / native English speakers / ex-or-current Microsoft windows users. Any or all of which are annoying for non-North Americans or people that don't use Microsoft Windows.

Two that spring to mind - clicking in the URL bar now selects the entire contents. It now has the dubious honour of being the only text entry box in any GNU/Linux application to work that way.

Similarly, dragging the scrollbar now has a snap-back feature if you move the mouse more than about 40px from the scrollbar 'region'. Again, the only application on any GNU/Linux DE that abuses the scrollbar in this fashion.

Requests by non-MS-Windows users to make these configurable settings, and/or respect OS defaults, are met with disdain.
Although the change from a top bar to a full-on pop-up box likely had to do with visibility, the biggest problem is that it now steals focus from the user.

I don't care where the option is on the screen as long as it's not randomly taking my cursor away from the webpage I'm trying to use.
What Is Going Wrong With BYOD?
If that's your goal. There are some people who do things because they are difficult, because whatever activity is most difficult is probably the most mind-expanding.
Simple free open source hosting control panel
I've been using this for a while, and it's wonderful to parse the output from API calls requested via curl, as well as quickly checking a specific package.json field from the npm output. The --json flag is handy for the latter.
It's not a link (causation), it's an association (correlation). Which should be more than obvious, fat people drink diet coke precisely because they are fat, it makes no sense to prefer that wretched taste if you are not weight-conscious.
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Focus on customers/networking/blog/social media etc.
Maybe the increased number of people on the internet is connecting those who are making open languages. (I know the poster listed many ones made by closed teams too.)

I thought the technical/scientific computing market that MATLAB serves was too niche to get critical mass in an open competitor that could surpass it. I saw Octave as always being a second place clone playing catch up. I don't know what it took to get it going but Julia has me very excited and I'm grateful for the team that chose to make it.
Having gone through this, my recommendation is to avoid talking about depression while depressed...
PL are one piece of the (user,problem,tool) trinity. Every time you ask yourself why ? the reason is because for a particular triplet, it was the best solution.

Give a newcomer sml with no easy way to integrate with a HTTP server and watch the confusion grow. On the other hand PHP has good apache integration, is a simple platform : a .php file with html and code, press F5 observe your results and is a deceptively non complex language.
It's (another!) on page SEO tool with few unique features. Not a revolution, just a tool to solve few issues.
In the expansion to the star trek voyager elite force game, it was possible to go through the whole ship for a paperchase.
this is totally unrelated but you know you have a "clone" on android? more broadly your game is very hard to clone because it is very heavily content based...unlike other hits which are easy to mimic because based on a simple game engine...what are your thoughts about this? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appslight....
Ask HN: Apartment provides Free Wifi, wan't to create my own network
So I'm moving into an apartment complex with free Wifi (and it appears to be good, high bandwidth, etc) however I want to run my own wifi network for security reasons such as the following.<p>1) I don't want my neighbors casting to my chromecast all the time
2) I don't want my printer visible
3) I just don't want my surfing habits made public to my neighbors.<p>Is there a way I can use a wireless access point to connect to the public network create my own secure wifi network and then tunnel all that traffic to a VPN?<p>Yes I could get my own internet service, but if its free I would prefer not to. Thanks!<p><p>Thanks for any tips and pointers on this.
There’s no perfect solution to a problem: Caitie McCaffrey, developer at HBO
Made me think if this: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVshkVF0SY&feature=kp

Also, helps to remind me of how cosmically tiny the problems of building my SaaS product really are.
Or rather, for everyone, at least those that are not economics related. My favourite one:

"I've learned that strong political beliefs in either direction limit your ability to make rational decisions more than almost anything else."

Actually you can just leave the 'political' away and it only becomes more general truth.
I am glad it was done this way and not the other way around.
What happened to the mantra "Never get in the way". Focus stealing spits in the face of everyone who worked so hard to make chrome silently updated like it does.
I'm not sure that that really justifies saying anything happened to CS at all.

Most majors shown there -- even the female-majority ones -- seem to show a drop-off in the share of degrees going to women from around 2000 (Agriculture, Art and Performance, Education, and Public Administration seem, visually, to be the only exceptions, and even most of them seem to show a reduction in the rate of increase.)

What may have happened is that some broader change happened that made college less attractive for women, that interacted with the distribution of women who were on the cusp of college/no-college.

But you need to look at a lot more data than the gender breakdown to get any defensible theory about causation.
And now they are buying bitcoin.
I use Google Drive to back up my stuff, makes it accessible on my phone, other computers and through a web interface on any internet connected device. I however don't have the data collection that you do.
Suicide – a true story
i remember listening to it here once:

http://youtu.be/6yPfxcqEXhE
What I don't understand is, why doesn't the "never translate pages in language X" option solve you problem?

My own experience is that I often read pages in a couple of languages which I understand well (and don't want auto-translated, so I put those languages on the don't-translate list) and occasionally come across a page that seems interesting in a language what I don't understand (and then the offer to translate is helpful).
Precisely the same kind of awe I was in. Even several years from then, I still listen to the WW theme songs as part of my morning ritual. Too bad I couldn't play games like this too much lately...
Actually as someone who also did mostly web development professionally before starting games as a hobby, I think it's better to start by coding a small game without any engine (like a shooter or a platformer) to fully understand the concepts like game loop, FPS, sprites, etc. Then only you can move to using an engine and you'll understand better what's going on.

That's especially true for someone who already knows programming, the answer would be different for someone who had no programming experience.
My best friend was recently diagnosed with ADHD, at the age of 26. He was really surprised to find it out.
I, On the other hand was not surprised.

We discussed how is it possible that he was only diagnosed now.
His response was striking and ming opening: "I had never experienced not having ADHD. How could I know that my experience is not normal ?".

I completely agree with your response. We must talk about mental health and raise awareness to mental health problems.
Your zeal has lead you to an absurd conclusion. "Invalidate everything they have ever said or done"? That's not how it works... People can be completely wrong about one thing and have good insight into something else.
Thank you Jean. All I can add is 'Happy Fathers Day'. I pray (despite being agnostic) that i never have to use your dads invention. But grateful that I could. If need be.

Great site. Keep up the memory.
> It creates a bar where a person has to show "this many symptoms" in order to be diagnosed with a particular illness.

Go read the DSM-V, or the DSM-IV. (In fact, don't, but at least read up on how they work.) They are the diagnosis guides which are used as a baseline across the USA, and in fact for some things across the world.

They quite explicitly list out symptoms, and how many of them one has to have in order to be diagnosed as having a mental illness, and even within those a scale which allows doctors to prioritise care.
It would also be nice if this were a standard option and not just one that appears randomly when the auto-detect succeeds.
Cross-platform is not the be-and end-all in software.

Cross-platform has the covenience (and bigger market), but it's also crippled by catering to the lowest common denominator. You won't get stuff that takes full advantage of a platform if it's cross platform.

Some people like native dedicated apps. I, for one, like cross platform stuff for common infrastructure (servers, unix userland, etc), but prefer platform specific and integrated desktop apps that take full advantage of my OS (whether OS X, Windows or Linux).