skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value is in scarcity, but it's artificially scarce. It's contrived.

Couldn't this statement apply to gaming as a whole, too?

Is it that being stopped half way through a game and forced to pay for some gizmo to keep playing is worse than having to pay up front for the whole game? Financially there may be no difference at all, right?

(Not a gamer here)

Seriously? On a forum dedicated to startups and development, many who like me do app and game development or lead app and game development teams; you can't figure out who I'm talking to? Seriously?

HN is hardly a game focused forum. The vast majority of people on here don't have anything to do with games.

It was difficult to tell if your "We" meant "game developers" in general or was somehow more specific to Minecraft mod developers (which is what I didn't understand).
In this age of economic rationalism, pretty much every employee brings in more value than they cost.
What Does It Take To Succeed for Robo-Advisors like Wealthfront and Betterment?
Not everyone plays games on iPads. Please be a little considerate. The gaming market is much bigger (in terms of hours played) outside of the mobile devices.
Thanks! I have background in Music Technology but I'm just starting with DSP myself. Most of the stuff I use are ported from code I found online so I can't really take credit for those though.

A modular piece of software like this can achieve pretty much the same as professional DAWs. Consider modules that add UI elements, automations, etc. It won't be long until the abstraction is high enough so everyone just assembles their own custom DAWs on the fly.
With cash, isn't it also easier to pocket tips without declaring on your taxes?
A field can remain highly regulated while having certain aspects deregulated.

This is what we saw before the financial crisis. For instance, the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act is credited with enabling the broad systemic risk that created Too Big To Fail - by allowing commercial banks to invest in securities and proprietary trading. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Legislat...

This was further compounded in Europe by loosening up leverage ratio requirements - but I don't have a link handy for that one.

You're also not commenting on the second word in there - financialization. The 2008 crisis wasn't possible in the 90s, because the residential mortgage market in the US hadn't been fully securitized prior to the aughts.

Anyhow, to pretend like there has been no deregulation is to be disingenuous at best.
did you even pay attention to why nyc taxi drivers didn't want customers to pay via credit cards? Because the answer was basically the company owners where taking a bigger cut and paying them at the end of the month instead of immediately (plus probable tax avoidance)
The distaste isn't that people are making consumer's lives better, it's distaste that people are making worker's lives worse by making consumer's lives better, and thus enforcing and widening a social divide that makes it very unlikely for an Uber driver to be able to afford Uber rides.

Yes, it's possible to make every single industry a brutal, dog-eat-dog race to the bottom. Yes, we can close every single factory in the Dominican Republic that tries to unionize. Yes, we can elastize production all over the world to make everyone compete with literally everyone else. Yes, we can uberify the entire world.

But as this article points out, in very well-argued and cogent thought that doesn't seem knee-jerk to me at all, such races to the bottom only really help the hyper-rich, and soon will not even help you or me.

What will the lifestyle of developers be when our industry is Uberized? When you no longer have a job to count on, with steady benefits and health insurance and security, but whatever comes down the pipe that day? What happens when you're commodified by technology?

Because, make no mistake, the ratchet of progress turns only every in one direction. One day the bell will toll for you. And then you'll find out too late that we really are all in this together, except for the people that are quite literally setting us against each other like dogs.
Who would pick the directors?
HN, DN, and Sidebar RSS Feeds All On One Page
Many of Robert E Howard's Conan stories are in the public domain now, due to renewals not being performed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian#Copyright_a...
>I cannot imagine retarding technology just to preserve existing jobs being a winning strategy which makes the world better.

The problem is accelerating technology doesn't make the world automatically better either.

It can also make it patently worse. E.g, someone presses the red button, and here's a nuclear war. Or some idiot gets access to viruses, and here's a bio attack that wipes out half the population. It's technology that will have enabled both. Actually, the number of people that have died in World War I and II (from the mustard gas to Belsen and from Dresden to Hiroshima) is already tens of millions -- all due to improved technological efficiency.

Compared to that kind of harm to the whole of humanity, some people getting an "artificial heart", a guy walking on the moon, and being able to exchange IMs with WhatsApp on one's mobile is not that much of an balance at all. Just something to keep in mind, lest someone thinks technology is all just "embetterment".

>People holding unionized or otherwise protected jobs are rent-seekers (albeit on a smaller scale than large companies in regulated industries). Rent seekers do not make the world a better place.

Quite the opposite. Protected jobs stop the madness of everything going forward for the sake of going forward, and ask for real improvements to the lives and treatment of real people. It's only a problem when the protection is to a small subclass of people, instead of extending to all workers. We have the 8-hour work day (well, had), we've had booming middle classes, and we've had safety laws and child labor laws because of those "unions" and protests. America was better in the fifties, middle class wise, when unions were strong, compared to what it's now.
>I'd love to see virtually all crappy jobs today disappear,

On that note, Graeber is fun to read on this topic http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

>I cannot imagine retarding technology just to preserve existing jobs being a winning strategy which makes the world better.

Well… that depends on the distribution of income, doesn't it? If my choice is between Elysium and the world of today, I'd rather stay put thank you very much.

The key criticism here is that there is a vast legal and cultural machinery in place that overwhelmingly benefits those who already have some form of wealth and that it is this class of people who disproportionately benefit - to the detriment of non capital holders.

I'm willing to accept a techno utopia where _everyone_ benefits and not one in which all the efficiency gains automation has to give accrue to a lucky few.
>>I don't think much will change until investors finally throw in the towel on the capital gains lottery and start demanding dividends at the point of pitchforks.

No public company should pay dividends in the current US tax regime. To do so is to leave money on the table.
It's not a matter of startups, or entrenched giants or any such thing, or the Innovator's Dilemma. It's a matter of communications, cost and performance.

A Predator can't fly as high as an F-35 or F-22. It can't maneuver nearly as well either. Can't fly as fast. It can't be refueled in flight, so it's range is lower than the F-35. So you'd have to hope that the missile it carried could compensate for these deficiencies. However, missiles are very finicky, and have launch parameters that help them improve their odds. The military looks at it in terms of PoK (probability of kill). So to be cheap (so you can afford to have swarms) you have to give up performance. This will affect PoK.

Next you have to have robust, un-jammable commlinks. So far, no one has those. That's going to be expensive to develop. Humans can make decisions when the comms are degraded, or non-existent. AI has a long ways to go, and AI is expensive. To remain cheap, you'll have to give that up.

With you napkin/elevator calculations, you would be trading 22 Predators for each F-35. 22 Predators is $88M, and the F-35 will eventually drop close to $100m as it reaches IOC. Still, not a bad bargain if it works.

But now, since you've gone cheap and off the shelf, you've got a slow, unmaneuverable aircraft that can't detect a target (no radar), can't communicate well with it's controllers, and can't climb very high, limiting the range of its missiles.

Then, even if you outfit this Predator swarm with an UberMissile, you'll have blown your cost equation out of the water when this swarm comes up against SAMs, or a squadron of F-16s. The swarm won't even see the F-35s due to frontal aspect stealth, and they'll be able to target the Predators and kill them like baby seals. They'll be able to engage, kill, and disengage before the low performance Predators will be able to react.
Like any other company's engineering blog, a post like this can help with recruiting and it's also a nice way for the team to summarize and share what they built.
>>Ironically, Wall Street might oppose this as it might make it harder to attract suckers to the game (if I may mix metaphors).

No way. The brokerages would brag about their access to inside information, and lure the suckers in with promises of excess returns. It'd be a goldmine.

There are very few "everybody wins" simple policy changes to be found out there. This is one of them.
Aww, c'mon. You're trying to promote a playfulness here that isn't justifiable in the present situation. How many stupid things can Facebook release before people stop paying attention to anything that Facebook releases?

You're also arguing, it seems, that there's now a condition in the app marketplace where people building things have no real understanding of what will play in the marketplace, so developers shouldn't think too hard about whether or not an app idea is a good idea by any criteria, other than "Build it -- you never know what the plebes will go for."

That may be how things seem to those of us who weren't lucky enough to build a stupid app and get rich off it, but who's gonna write that business book for McGraw-Hill?
That sounds like you presume he's like you, so he's OK.
Yes, and you used the correct term for them: targets.
I think this misses a huge issue with the internet,

* There is a lot of content being pushed in front of people
* There are a lot of click-baity methods/headlines to get people to the content

A tl;dr also distills the article down in a way the headline can't - by delivering a sentence closer to the true content than a headline. If I see tons of articles posted, why should I read tons of paragraphs if the headline offers no clues to what it's about (or is flat-out lying to get clicks). There's only so much time in a day to read, why should it be wasted on shitty content?
Great site! Been looking for something like this for a while.

It would be great to be able to search by view all by Studio or Director / Writer. In fact you tag things like Studio (eg. Ghibli) but clicking the tags doesn't do anything :)

I'm trying to go on a bit of a Maasaki Yuasa tilt following his Adventure Time episode, so it would be nice to see all of the stuff he has done in one list.

Also it might be nice to see an overview of ratings when you mouse over recommendations.

Great site though and I will continue poking around on it!
Yeah, lots of reliable services are built using cheap, unreliable parts, because it's often cheaper to have redundant nodes and replace the ones that break than to buy more reliable stuff.
I bet they prefer keeping it broad and ambiguous. It's a great US law enforcement tradition.
Googled the specs and commented without reading I see ;)

No - this is not meant in any way to be production hardware. It is a portable hardware platform intended to showcase Canoicals software.
Owners of capital and private property don't rely on the coercive power of the state to maintain their ownership? News to me.
Agreed! This is something we've had planned for a while! :)
Retina means one thing when using a display 12" from you face and another thing entirely when using a display 24" from your face.
The "meat head free" line was good. I'm really tired of seeing how often programmer-focused sites tend to advocate eating huge amounts of meat, equate muscles with health, bash on endurance training and simply ignore things like yoga or pilates. This could be related to the extremely male-dominated demographic of the audience.

Regardless of the reasons for this, I believe hacker-centric health services really could use more "meathead free options".
Wrong. They are opposites.
No, it doesn't affect the non-subscribing users. They will see ads either way. It is the artists and the subscribers who would be adversely affected by artists that do not participate.
If you like this and have an iPad you should also check out Bitwiz: http://kymatica.com/bitwiz
144hz or bust. No way I'm going back to 60hz.

Quad link DVI is the future.
It's worth noting that there is another Open Source Xcom game clone, UFO Alien Invasion: http://ufoai.org/wiki/News (has 3d graphics).
Jesus Christ man I was kidding.. don't actually do it. Whatever you attach the phone with probably won't hold, and the phone will turn into a projectile traveling at high speed in a random direction. And if the phone does NOT come off, then you've got your hands on an unbalanced angle grinder going full tilt. Bad news bears all around.
Well, this is the most ambiguous post i've read in a while. I think a little transparency here would have gone a long way to inspiring confidence in the new company/team
Going by (the abstract of) a paper i came across [1], it's possible-to-likely that this was the original meaning of 'mana', and that the use to refer to some kind of abstract supernatural charge is either a derivation or a misunderstanding.

The abstract begins:

Comparative data are assembled to suggest that in Proto-Oceanic, mana was canonically a stative verb meaning 'be efficaceous, be successful, be realized, "work"'. Where mana was used as a noun, it was (and in most daughter languages is) not a substantive but an abstract verbal noun: 'efficacy', 'success', 'potency'.

[1] http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3629696?uid=3738032&ui...
Heh. You might find my CMS (http://www.webhook.com) funny then. It's a CMS based on static-site-generator concepts... it deploys static websites for example and is easy to use and malleable. However it still has a firebase backend and a traditional /cms/ page with all the modern trappings you'd expect.

So I kind of went for both :)
I cannot find any hard data on the very long term trend of numbers of SEC enforcement actions, but they seem to be on the rise in the long term, though they have fluctuated greatly. From the books I've read and interviews I've heard, it seems that the opposite is true; financial sector prosecutions have become so common that it is now regarded as a 'cost of doing business' more than a stain on one's reputation.

edit: the comment I responded to has been edited, and I have not yet had time to review the new citations
Interesting timing, since Xenonauts (http://store.steampowered.com/app/223830/) came out of early release today!
You are absolutely, 100% correct. Whoah. My bad.

That's what I get for trying to be snarky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
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In the last sixty years, a tremendous amount of money has been poured into education

I wrote about adjacent issues in "Why can’t we solve poverty, or solve it through schools?", which got started in emails and Hacker News comments on the issue (http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2014/05/17/why-cant-we-solve-p...).

In addition, and as I discuss in the post, right now we can't "solve" poverty because poverty is a moving metric, usually defined as a percentage of income, rather than as an absolute value.

Thanks for your comment.
Relevant, if anecdotal: http://www.quora.com/New-York-City/Why-do-NYC-cab-drivers-ha...
Mike Judge says Office Space helped rid the world of “flair”
This kinda reminds me of the whole youtube / label debacle.
Reusing Roadside Remnants: DIY pea trellis from found materials
Calculating 640TBs Of Data In One Billionth Of A Second Read
In your experience, do VCs/Angels specifically seek these types of entrepreneurs out? It seems the people "spending time at conferences, PR events, etc" are the ones usually getting funding, while the former are not.
Actually, re-reading your post made me realize that this has been tried before. The USSR had a philosophy that pilots were expendable, and that their aircraft were to be rigorously controlled by ground control intercept stations. These GCI facilities told the pilots every step of an intercept.

The USSR also combined this control with extremely cheap aircraft (compared to Western counterparts). The idea would be that Central Europe would become a huge kill zone with swarms of Sukhoi and MIGs overwhelming the higher tech NATO fighters. This philosophy lasted until around the 80's with the introduction of the SU-27 and MIG-29 which were comparable in performance to their Western peers. The USSR was also alarmed at how easily the Israeli's dismantled the Soviet armed Syrian AF in the Bekaa Valley in 1982. This led them to the realization that the "quantity has a quality of its own" mantra had limits.
He didn't take anything apart. He's just another leftist that has a hard time comprehending that some people have differently ideological views that his own.
The Importance of an Abundance Mentality
Keep in mind that SLAM assumes a static scene. To stabilize a video with a moving target would mean that there's still going to be parallax otherwise you're going to get shadows (see the cool video on Oculus time warp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvtEXMlQQtI)
It is the artists ... who would be adversely affected by artists that do not participate.

Adverse affects for independent artists who do not sign up translate to adverse affects for non-subscribers that want to watch those artists on YouTube.
Google Now On The Record With Anti-Indie Negotiating Tactics
I've not used AniDB much, but I once half-finished an API wrapper for Node.js so I guess I'm about as qualified as we're gonna get.

In my experience, AniDB is effectively unmaintained code. They have developers, the developers just don't know the codebase well and they don't mess with old stuff. I've heard this is because it's a behemoth Perl script, but I don't know for sure.

But to cover your main point of "an API checking file hashes/fingerprints against episodes to add to your list", I just wanna say that this is kind of a silly system: you can easily extract that data from a filename.

For example, the desktop app Taiga has an open-source parser which extracts lots of data effectively (https://github.com/erengy/anitomy) and I myself wrote a simple regex-based one for my own client. Both are capable of extracting at least the episode number, subber, and series title.

So why would Hummingbird want to store hundreds of thousands of MD5 checksums when there's better options?
World’s largest video game collection sells for over $750,000
Spending more money on college is just a wealth transfer from tax payers to upper middle class teachers and administrators.

This is the case in the United States. In several places in Europe, however, it is a different story. Higher education is cheap or even free and schools are not bloated with a glut of unnecessary bureaucrats and administrators.
The no-brainer to finding pain points in the marketplace
I think you should look up the size of modern SAM launchers. They are massive and most of them consist of missile and radar system pair. It doesn't work the way you imagine.
Others are pointing out present issues with drones, but it seems that an airframe that doesn't have to carry a human or human support systems leaves many more degrees of freedom for optimization toward any set of airborne design goals than one saddled by carrying a human. I'd be highly surprised if there weren't air defense drones on drawing boards around the world right now.
>> "It doesn't seem fair for a user to pay a subscription, expect to see no ads, and then see ads for some video's because that artist/distributor did not agree to new terms."

Why not? Make it clear on signup that it's a premium service with guaranteed quality content, and x number of major labels are on board where you won't be seeing ads.

If there's actual value to users (and artists--their brands won't be associated with random ads) in something like this, there should be enough pressure to encourage these indie labels to agree to terms and go ad-free, no?
Just want to quickly add the Taiga will support Hummingbird fairly soon. Within the next week or so.

We also have incredible desktop apps like HAPU that detect what you're watching (including from sources like Hulu and Crunchyroll) and updates your library. No fingerprinting or hashes necessary.

http://forums.hummingbird.me/t/mac-hapu-scrobbler-app/56
Neoliberalism (of the Milton Friedman kind) hasn't taken over the world. It gained traction in the mid 70's, peaked in the 00's and is now, thankfully, slipping back from its extreme heights.

Slipping back to what - the horrors of statism that we saw in the 20th century?
24" is the perfect size for me. It's a drop-in replacement for a 1080p display, so literally a 'retina' upgrade.

Now to wait until all my core windows apps are either 4k native, or scaling compatible.
Menzies said as much quite openly after the confrontation with Indonesia following the Malaysian Independence.

If you're near Caloundra they have an open cockpit weekend coming up.

http://www.qam.com.au/ocw/ocw.htm
People with knowledge about airplane design, air force procurement, the personalities and politics involved, etc. could contribute quite a bit. They don't need to be Lockheed employees or to divulge top secret or proprietary information.
This is dangerously close to an appeal to authority. Yes, Pierre Sprey has more experience, insight, and knowledge than I do when it comes to aircraft design. But you also have to judge him on when he's been wrong (ie the F-15), and to also realize that he has zero inside knowledge of the F-35.
None of the metrics I've seen outside of Acquia marketing materials suggest Drupal is growing. Developer engagement plateaued a couple years ago if Google keyword searches and module issue queues are anything to go by. The number of purely Drupal dev shops have plummeted over the last few years. Job postings (locally and elsewhere) appear to be limited to well-established large enterprise and .edu, and regional shops that service these markets.

Wordpress, on the other hand, appears to be on fire.
Well, no. Originally drones could not land. That's a modern feature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_drone
Ok, but those who just do not want to be assigned a productive task, what would you do with them?
I struggle to understand how a non-biased, rational person can read that post (and the linked articles within) and not, at the very least, leave in broad (not necessarily absolute) agreement with what al3x is saying.
> It is basically Uber for Delivery.

I think you're confusing Uber with...umm Uber. This is exactly why Uber is evaluated at $17bil (or whatever number they're saying today) because it's ability to handle the software logistics of delivery...any delivery, regardless of whether it's a package, person or food.

It's also why we're seeing a plethora of restaurant delivery start-ups (Door Dash, Sprig, etc come to mind) as VCs race to capture the market.