skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to follow this game, having many a friend who played it for a time last year. Know a few who dropped hundreds on this title.

Putting out "gold plated mechs" for five hundred bucks basically sealed the deal for a large portion of the player base. Also, they took up the trick of having sales for items to be delivered three to six months out. That lets them avoid the charge back period on credit cards, so if they are really late or never deliver there is no recourse.

Combine that with forever missing deadlines on key features; namely giving the game a long term point other than endless death matches; and its not a great place to be.

The even co-opted an early friendly site to where the postings by that sites presenters are routinely shouted down on reddit.

It gave fans of the genre very nice looking mechs but deliver a multi player version of MechWarrior 2 many wanted.
That's right, you won't find any regulations or bureaucracy in the court system!
I find having a live preview really gives me a better feel for the flow of the document. I love Markdown for it's simplicity, but that doesn't mean I only ever want to see it rendered in plain text.
Absolutely, and the best kind of learning is learning by doing.
"Built for Developers" - well, I certainly hope so!

Who else would a JavaScript library be built for?
Uber isn’t the problem; taxi regulations are

Can't it be both? Because I'm pretty sure it's both.
Sorry for being critical here, but are we all so easy to please that any random easter egg from google becomes top story on HN?
See to me it does. I currently have a Pebble and I was caught off guard by how much it has changed the way I use my cell. I don't carry my cell around the house anymore nor do I dig it out 100 times a day to check the latest alert. That change in use is much more substantial than I expected. I actually get frustrated with repeated alerts on my phone when I don't have the Pebble on. Now how much the extra functionality of these new touchscreen models will add I don't know but I do know I frequently wish my Pebble offered a little more interaction. I'm sure there is a sweet spot somewhere and this is early days for the form factor.
We're talking Germany here. Free healthcare.
I understand that it's useful for a taxi driver to have this knowledge, but do we really need the government to impose it as a strict requirement? One could imagine multiple taxi services that compete on different axes. One service, competing on price, could have less knowledgeable drivers equipped with GPS devices. Another service, competing on its drivers' knowledge, would be more useful for taking you to obscure locations or navigating the streets quickly.

It's like any other industry, really. Can you imagine if short order cooks were required to have the same encyclopedic knowledge as the chefs in a high end restaurant? You'd just end up with some very expensive diners.
The next thing Silicon Valley needs to disrupt big time: its own culture
Let's hope this gains some traction

http://wiki.hsr.ch/StefanKeller/ReMAPTCHA
Designers? Upper Management?
Gameboy emulation library in JavaScript
> astral characters

I was looking for the relationship between sushi and astral sign characters when I realised reading your link that, while I knew unicode was split in planes, I didn't know about most of them being astral, which deeply satisfied the roleplaying nerd in me.
I have a similar view of the taxis here in Edinburgh - I use the same taxi company both for work and personal trips and they are great, can use an app or IVR to book really easily.

The taxis are always spotless and the drivers very pleasant.
College grads are further along the learning curve when they come out. They've had more time to develop skills. They've had more time to make mistakes, which affected their grades only, and learn from the mistakes. Should they have mentors?

Formal mentoring should be the norm again PERIOD. Even a new senior level developer coming to a new organization should be paired with a developer familiar with that organization. Although it seems like overhead organizations would only be helped by it.
This is the first thing that jumped out at me. Taxi drivers in London are brilliant.

Try using a Taxi in Melbourne. Most of the drivers don't know the most basic of knowledge. Main roads in the city? No idea. The casino? "Could you direct me?". Getting into a bloody Taxi in the city for a fare less than 20kms is a lesson in patience. You often have to lie about where you're going until you get into the cab.

Regulations aren't the problem. Most regulations exist for good reason, and there should be more of the better ones (and less of the worse..).

I've used Uber and really like the service when I'm going a fare (sorry) distance. But they are just as bad, if not worse, than cabs when it's only a short trip around the city.

I believe both services could co-exist, but something drastic needs to happen to shake up the Taxi business. Perhaps charge a higher flag-fall and a smaller per km rate. Try to increase the rate of owner-drivers rather than a lease out to drivers. There has been a lot of discussion in Melbourne about how to improve the service, but so far it seems to be getting worse.
"Over a six-month period the National Crime Agency alone estimates that it has had to drop at least 20 cases as a result of missing communications data," she said in a speech on Tuesday. "Thirteen of these were threat-to-life cases in which a child was assessed to be at risk of imminent harm.

This is utter nonsense. If evidence is absent, you cannot just assume that it would have helped your case.
> To get into exploitable access, you need buffer overflows, which can and should be protected against separately.

Or you can use overflow to make the program to allocate too small buffer thus obtaining the buffer overflow you need to proceed further.
As someone who is currently implementing a next-gen distributed file system, I can highlight one aspect: you have a lot of concurrency and asynchronous processing. Thus you need at least reference counting.
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I'd say it teaches the current generation. IME the next generation tend to repeat the mistakes of their predecessors much more easily than our industry should be happy with.
I tried requestpolicy, I found it too cumbersome to use. with adblock edge, I subscribe to 2 lists and I'm done. I'd try again if they adopt such a feature.
For the vast majority of sites, I am happy for them to show me ads, and also use analytics. I would however like to block Facebook tracking.
So don't use Adblock Plus because it works too well? And if theres false positives with either the Adblock or Tracking lists it comes with whitelists get around certain website bugs.
CSF, http://configserver.com/cp/csf.html
Thanks, I already do
"Insurance companies pay out immediately if there are medical bills to pay."

That's not true at all. And it REALLY depends on which state (in the USA) you are in. Florida for example is a no-fault state. Which means, basically, insurance companies are on the hook for the first 10k. Which is about how much it coast to mend a broken leg. Anything above that requires a lawsuit. And you don't sue the insurance company. You are suing a person (or company).

Lawsuits take time. Lots of time.

A taxi driver in Florida has different requirements. So does the company he drives for. The amount they pay out is much higher. Also, not every issue requires a lawsuit. Sometime you just get a bad driver. With Uber, who you gonna complain too? Uber?

In most states, complaining to the taxi commission is a serious offense and has to be answered by the driver and company he drives for.

I don't have a problem with Uber itself. If people want to drive others around, fine. BUT totally unfair to require taxi drivers to be licensed and not the Uber drives. It's unfair to make the taxi driver (and company) have much higher insurance requirements than Uber and it's divers. And it's unfair to the rider. If you are in an Uber car and you have a wreck; you better hope that driver has more then "what's minimum" for insurance. Chances are, he doesn't. And you're fucked.

PS: This is true for car services, and even courier services too, by the way.
We have several companies operating in Melbourne and they are all awful. We don't have any (decent) requirements as far as road knowledge goes. I've also been to London, and the experience with cabs there was wonderful. The requirement to pass a substantial test is a fantastic one, and should be adopted in more places.
The company opted to ignore the Do Not Track setting on Web browsers ... other Internet behemoths, including Google and Yahoo, have publicly confirmed that they also ignore Do Not Track

Am I the only one bothered by the silliness of "Do Not Track"? Or even worse, the EU cookie law?

You have a browser that leaks all kinds of info[1] about itself, tells everyone where you came from (sends referral), takes cookies from strangers like an untrained dog, making you uniquely identifiable and instead of fixing that, you ask everyone on the web to please disregard that info your browser just volunteered. How is that not completely backwards?

AdBlock, RefControl, and Disconnect, or their equivalents should be built into modern browsers. And maybe do something about the user agent, fonts, etc, too?

Don't educate users. Fix it.

[1] https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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And later on in the article: "Therefore, if the home secretary is stating that communications data was unavailable in specific cases, then that would suggest that a warrant was either not submitted to, or was rejected by, the companies in question. The question therefore should be why is this the case?"

Or is she citing cases where the authorities did not seek a warrant, or the judiciary refused a warrant? And if so, why?
>> quite unnecessary in the age of smartphones.

Maybe in the USA, which always gets first class treatment from US tech companies when it comes to maps. In the rest of the world, which doesn't have as good as policy of open government data, or consitant addressing schemes, smartphones aren't always a wonder tool.
I've run into this problem a lot but end up getting around it by finding "gaps" and putting in null data manually.
Fifty Years of Transistor-Transistor Logic
Would you recommend this over FusionCharts for personal projects? (BTW FusionCharts is free for personal use)
I think the problem is (at least that's my problem with your posts, although I didn't downvote you) that you're, and from the look of it for your disdain for spreadsheets, arguing spreadsheet != declarative programming because <i>tenuous
definition of declarative programming</>, and the whole argument just smells like cognitive dissonance - declarative programming good, Excel bad, hence Excel not declarative programming.

Not trying to be an asshole, but since you were asking, I'm just saying what I suspect to be a possible reason...
"The home secretary says internet phone systems Skype and Facetime, as well as social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, have become "safe havens" for organised criminals and terrorists."

How exactly do you coordinate a terrorist attack over Twitter?
Is Meteor.js still relevant?
And thereby forcing them to try figure out "who" is creating the poison data, which seems like quite a difficult problem to solve.

*Edit:typo.
This is exciting. I don't track too many of these standards efforts closely, but I've been following this one for a while. I honestly think that offline-first will do more to close the gap with native than anything.
Awful video. I could barely hear what the guy was saying. And the few hundred panning shots with peeling bananas and spreading cream cheese on bread was bizarre.

It might be a decent product though!
No, don't use Adblock Plus because it blocks the wrong thing (if you're actually wanting to protect your privacy vs just avoid ads). You want to avoid tracking, so you avoid ads... leaving all the other methods of tracking out there, and blocking ads which don't track you at all.
This has happened in google image labeler. Now offline, it was a game where two random people were matched and needed to find new tags for the same image - the scoring was cooperative so points were given when you both chose the same word in the same game. /b/ of course quickly organised the jesusporn metagame... Label the first image as jesus, second as porn, third with jesus, etc. This resulted highest scores for some time.
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Not really, the NSA's actions were deemed to not be a search and as such would not fall under the same reasoning used in this case.

If you read this ruling about cell phones Roberts made it clear they were declaring the officer's actions to be a search, hence requiring the warrant.
I think Rickshaw is one of the best http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/

But there's also: http://tenxer.github.io/xcharts/
This would simply translate to the choice between a) using Uber with the driver relying on a navigator unit and possibly driving slow and/or unoptimal routes but with a cheaper price vs. b) traditional taxis that cost more but really know the city. (Or try to get an Uber driver with good ratings for local knowledge, if Uber supports that sort of rankings.)

In a city that has mostly bad taxis, I'd choose Uber. I London I might just not.
UI Design Now Looks Like It's From the 80s
To be honest. I find "The Knowledge" vastly overrated. Uber drivers have given me a much better and consistent experience than black cabs to the point where I stopped using black cabs altogether.
3 Myths about Public Cloud Everyone Thinks Are True
IT managers all over the world are buying into what the big vendors tout as clear benefits of the public cloud over the private cloud.

But is this really the case? The truth is that the distinction between public and private clouds is blurred, and before trying to analyze and pick your solution, you should be aware of the distinction so that you can make the right calls in the right time.
As someone who regularly uses taxis in Melbourne, I don't care if it destroys the lives of taxi drivers. That's just another perk of switching to uber in my opinion.
I'd rather pay cheaper fares, but thanks for deciding for me.
OzCode v1.0, a debugging extension for Visual Studio is Released
Preface: I know nothing about this game.

I feel like this is a preference setting. Either at match level or user-level (e.g. when two 'pro' players fight each other in the game coolant dump is disabled)?
Perfectly put! I got down-voted to -6 karma for challenging that attitude, good to see someone who agrees at last.

What baffles me the most if when they refer to what we have now, in the west as a 'free-market'. What we have is the end product of the social-democrat era of conflating big business and big government.
For people who want to get around cheaply, London has an excellent mass public transport system, between the tube, buses, and intra-city train services.
Blinks this too
https://www.google.com/search?q=%3Cblink%3E#q=%3CMarquee%3E
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more important than 10 billable hours a week.

Those 10 hours don't come out of work time, but out of family time.
The 17 Year-Old Spaniard Who Finds ‘Silly Bugs’ On Google Or eBay
Please do this!
Yeah. The data could even be pooled among some users to fuzz the stats even more, the same way some people shuffle their groceries card.
This combination is really evil: https://www.google.com/search?q=tilt#q=ocd
Bonobo 2.0 – A lightweight wrapper for the HTML5 Web Worker API
Ignorance and the defense of the same is the rotting meat of Hacker News. This whole discussion is absolutely rife with it.
Maybe this would lead to the model I proposed plus "business phones"?
Sell Like A Spy
Spreadsheets are a great example of a declarative ethos. You're nitpicking on details which equally applies to prolog too. The underlying theme of spreadsheets is definitely declarative.
Spreadsheets are older than excel.
There is one danger here. Getting started with a technology on its early stages is easier as you see the technology evolving and understand the reasons it happened in a certain way.

As an example: I've used Google App Engine with Python since the early preview and saw as many new services and APIs were introduced. Then I spent a couple years away. For the presentation I am to do at one of the I/O Extended events (TDD on App Engine with Python) I had a lot of catching up to do. Catching up from something is much better than catching up from nothing.

Also, one must consider differences in basic concepts. Learning to use Flask after using Django was remarkably painful.
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You can't sue Uber if a driver crashes, because drivers are independent contractors. You can sue the driver, but he has no money and can just dodge the judgment in bankruptcy.
Even with free healthcare you might be compensated for permanent injuries. In that case the insurance company still pays.
Don't terminate a mission-critical process. Garden variety software: yes, PLEASE, DO kill it.

You don't seem to realize that many of SW practices that are adequate for "normal" software, are NOT applicable to mission-critical, fault-tolerant scenarios.
If this sort of thing bothers you, please support the Open Rights Group: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/
نتائج شهادة التعليم الابتدائي 2014 برقم التسجيل
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Taxis in Bangkok are really something. There is so many of them and they are constantly driving around the city, most of them empty (red light). The economics of this must be really strange. Don't they have to pay for gas? How much fuel is burned by keeping all these cars in motion (not that there's anywhere to park them anyway).
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https://www.google.com/search?q=%3Cblink%3E#q=facebook

You can make it work with any keyword ;)
ISIS 1 hour from BAGDAD,BAD NEWS? AL QUEDQ JOIN ISIS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7948930

Unfortunate side effect of their incremental search system :P
Use of Drones for Killings Risks a War Without End
Well, yes. http://xkcd.com/1386/
I will leave with an elliptical meta-comment, for those whose competitive advantage lies in others not getting it right, have little interest in correcting misconceptions. You might have interest in this anecdote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7948170
There is a thing called: customer protection.
This applies for all sorts of products and services. One of those services is taxi as part of transportation. Part of this is, that drivers are educated, trust worthy and the vehicles are in good shape as well as having a minimum insurance in protection of the customer.

Also if you have 2 or more companies competing over who has the best service, that is good. But all of them have to provide a minimum quality service. Especially, for foreigners who don't know anything. For that reason regulation is required.

That regulation also can go wrong, is a different story. Then, of course, it has to be fixed.

But Uber (and some others) try to undermine any kind of regulation and so cutting costs to enable cheaper service.

That is like Food safety regulations. Like there is a new startup, which has provides a service like Amazon Fresh. It is cheaper by using just peoples cars, which may have no cooling possibility in their vehicles. Then blaming the food safety regulations are wrong because they require cooling facilities for fresh food not putting peoples life at risk.
Opera Mini 8 for iOS
You're not making any sense: I already wrote "protect against buffer overflow instead of integer overflow" and your response is "buffer overflow".
This is a very interesting idea and the App Coins rewarding system seems to map well with design/development and other one-time activities.

I wonder if it will be a good fit for those continuous tasks required once a product is ready for the market (e.g: marketing, customer support, operations...), or if those roles will involve regular hiring/salaries.
There is nothing wrong with your posts. It's just that recently the understanding of what downvotes mean changed drastically in the community.

I've no idea why and when it happened, but downvotes now seem to mean "I disagree, but am too lazy to write a comment", instead of "your comment is not fit for this site and/or it damages the quality of current discussion" as it was understood before.
Twitter was blamed, rather unfairly, for helping the "organisation" of the riots in London a few years back:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/dec/07/twitter-riots-how-...

No doubt to our government rioters and terrorists are essentially the same thing...
Final Report of the Task Force on US Drone Policy [pdf]
I have a spinal cord injury (snowboarding) and use a wheelchair as a result of having no sensation/movement below my chest. One of the most annoying consequences is being unable to move around London quickly. The tube is inaccessible, buses are slow and you often have to have a pitched battle with pushchairs.

Black cabs provided a relatively quick/convenient method of transport since they all have a ramp - not without issue but possible to get in one in less that a minute. I've not tried uber yet as I'm apprehensive about the hassle of getting in and out and getting the driver to help stow my chair. People are usually pretty keen to be helpful but it's a bit tricky and their default idea of helping is often counter productive. Also if they don't stop near the kerb you have to get them to move and the passenger side of a car is harder to get in and out due to the height of the kerb.

Black cab resides effectively subsidise my ability to get around so I am somewhat concerned to think they might be 'disrupted' wholesale.
He meant that the border police can search you, your car, your phone, without a warrant, as long as you are within a radius of 100 miles from the border. That's named the 'constitution free zone'
Haha thats great. You definatly should. Hell i think i juat found a project to screw around with this weekend!
Marquee likewise is not implemented using the <marquee> tag.
I note that queries like https://duckduckgo.com/?q=man+df put in a box from LinuxCommand.org
Why simplification of the tax code is never going to happen
What's mission critical depends on the mission, it's not the language's job to decide what is or is not mission critical.

Please tell me why killing my spreadsheet program is OK because the cat walked on the keyboard.
That means, the public should pay for one companies profit?
I have a problem I try to install it vía Play Store but it says Cardboard demo filme missing :(

Could someone tell me why?

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Ycombinator hacker news doesnt have any script detected by ghostery. cool!
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Modern communication technology also introduces more pressure on governments to behave correctly, which takes power away from them.
You don't have hundreds of colors to choose from.
Thanks for the comment samnardoni, we're currently enhancing the video and it will be live later today.
Presumably in some of those cases, the argument was that if they could scan a large number of peoples email for keywords they might have been able to find some evidence as to who was involved.

You generally can't get a warrant to scan a large number of peoples email. Especially if that large number amounts to everyone.

I don't agree that they should have the ability to do this, even if it saves lives. Because handing over this sort of power to a government only leads to the creation of a police state, which ultimately will probably ruin more lives.

Freedom costs lives.
Facebook Puts Everyone On Notice About The Death Of Organic Reach
This is pretty silly... good job making a thing! (And I hope to G-d my QA department doesn't find this stuff and start jamming it into my app.)
Australia: Government to seek boost to ASIO powers
Wait, what? A distributed file system written in Fortran? Is it even possible in a language like that?