skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because combat is inherently exciting in a way that most things are not. Combat naturally engages the mind, it changes the world in a visceral and immediate and often flashy way, and it ties in neatly with the narrative concepts of conflict and struggle. Video games are uniquely well-suited for combat. It isn't the only thing they can do, certainly, but I don't think it's fair to suggest that having combat in a video game is a failure of creativity. Combat just takes up a really large portion of the creative space there. Similarly, dramatic films have a strong tendency to focus on humans despite the fact that there are narratives that could be constructed around non-human entities.
do you have a link to that quote? i'd like to read more
The modest proposal was to extend this approach with all its complications to western alphabetic scripts where possible. Of course nobody wants to do that for obvious reasons, which also apply to the various languages that use Han-derived characters. The extra mechanisms required to work around unified Han remind me of the pre-unicode days when you needed to know what language a text was in to render it.
I can't even guess without looking at the OPML file.
I am not really a fan of the pastel colors and the new logo. I know they were trying to make photos and such more prominent but I find it harder to navigate.
This is great! I've played around a bit with some tutorials online but it's great to have an all-in-one resource.
I clicked the page, scrolled up and down, did not see visually what this was and left.
Twitter App Install and Engagement Ads – Does it deliver?
Airbnb wants you to feel like part of the neighborhood, no matter where you are
I really like this. Can you please add the ability to stream a podcast (play while downloading). That would sell me on this completely.
It may be easier from the engineering perspective, but its a major turn off for the user. Building good user experiences is often harder than the engineering part.
The site looks great.

However, is it just me, or do the videos in the mantle not really add much? I find the movement in some of them distract from the space itself, while others just seem a little staged or even a bit creepy. I think I would have much preferred photos.
This doesn't make sense. If you stole the software why would a demo video work against you? Why bother with a demo video if you have the real thing to demo? You'd demo functionality not code.
>> Let any part of what is now California cease being part of the union.

That's an interesting point. If five new states are created, do they have to petition the United States to become part of the Union?

>> Assign twelve senators to what is now California.

The other states will likely object to this, as it will be a reduction in their own voting power in the Senate. Aside from the "joining the Union" part though, I don't think they have any say in it.
As someone who admins a bunch of Debian powered servers, it would've easier for me if the Debian LTS project had been announced last year instead of earlier this year.

The 1 year gap between the release of the new version and the end of support for the old version just wasn't long enough. Sadly I'm also switching servers to Ubuntu because of it - along with a push towards using Docker containers powered by distros with long term support.
Yes, and programmers on a development team change with time, taking their knowledge with them.

So the next guy touching the code just makes the code blow up, due to wrong assumptions.
Company dashboards in 1 min using Shopify's dashing.io and Bowery
> Local libraries already lend ebooks as well. I'm not sure why more people don't take advantage of that.

One would think that since ebooks are digital, any number of people could borrow the same book at once from a library. Alas, that is not the case. Just like libraries might only have one or two physical copies of a book, they might only have one or two copies of an ebook available to lend as well. If you want to borrow a new release, you might end up on a lengthy wait list. Additionally, if you borrow from a library, you miss out on a ton of books (especially self-published books).

As a reader, I'm excited about the prospect of Kindle Unlimited. As an author who self-publishes on Amazon, I am apprehensive (though the compensation for my books that have been borrowed with Prime has seemed fair so far).
I would love to see a national scale project to convert libraries to hackerspaces/coworking spaces.. Digital media should still be available (Kindles, iPads, etc with access to libraries through Amazon for copyright material and Library Of Congress/Internet Archive for public domain material), but its time they evolve.
Amazon Tests ‘Kindle Unlimited,’ a Netflix for Ebooks and Audiobooks
Not bad, but I have to say the old design/logo/identity just seemed like more ... fun.
You should delete this and re-submit with the correct URL. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/cryptome-is-pushing-for-all...
Bootstrapping leads to simplicity,Simplicity leads to boundlessness
This was incredibly informative, thank you.

How automated are the control segment operations? After the zombie apocalypse, if the power grid is still up, will I still be able to use my GPS?
What was wrong with the old design? IMHO, the current site doesn't look as good.
Building Better Web Sites (2013)
It promotes development to the extent that the people being prosecuted

a) really infringe on the patent, and
b) would not have known to use the insights of the patent but for it having been published

This is because such people break the "good" kind of monopolies we want from the patent system. To the extent that the above isn't true, it reduces to the issue of "crappy patents being granted", not a problem with litigation specialists per se.
What did he use to create the wireframe images?
It's unpopular but I really enjoy reading on my phone. It's small, it's always with me, it's much more convenient than lugging around a physical book(and I love physical books). But that's why I buy ebooks(they're just expensive which sucks).

It's interesting to listen to the cascading excuses when bringing up books with friends. "Why not use a kindle?" "I like holding the physical book." "Oh, then why not go to the library?" "Well, I like owning the book too." "Oh."

I think you're right in that people like the "culture" around reading more than reading itself.

You can save a ton of money using your local library though. I really need to start doing that.
Flat design is successful because it's a system that allows unskilled designers to produce acceptable results.
It's hard to simplify something like bullying, but there can be a pecking order involved, where people who are bullied in turn bully other people whom they feel they can influence in some way.

So, in some cases you may only need to push back to the point where you're not the easiest target in the room. ie, you don't always have to be the fastest runner to get away from animal who is looking for easy prey. You just have to be faster than the slowest runner.
Review: Overcast is a winning podcast app (Marco Arment's app)
Libraries are not always easy to get to, have restricted opening hours, often won't have the latest books available, impose fees if you don't return the book within a certain period of time, can only supply a very limited number of copies of each title at one time, and (as pointed out elsewhere) might require you to be a tax-paying local resident. Libraries have been pretty solidly proven not to negatively affect the market in new books for all these, and possibly more, reasons. Kindle Unlimited is a whole other ballgame.
Sure, I understood the logic behind that. And having a more tight release cycle will also intrinsically help Debian, since maintaining backports/patching a system for a longer time is also more demanding.

My main problem with these sentiments though is that Ubuntu still has marketing for some reason. This means that it's actually more likely that you can find your $commercial package pre-built for Ubuntu, while there's no official support for Debian. Obsolete releases for commercial software are actually helpful (less support required). Not to mention that in most cases there's zero effort in making the package exactly the same....
I have a client who was in the same position. They actually still have a few boxes on Etch... and amazingly, one Sarge box:

$ cat /etc/issue

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 \n \

They're all running a very old hacked-up version of torque that no one remaining at the company can do anything with. At least they're walled off from everything else, I suppose?
Wow... I don't know what libraries you go to but libraries are generally not full of poor people...
This is awesome, great job! I love the flip animation.
> this is the first I've heard about the string/slice distinction

Strings got re-done like ~2 months ago, so don't feel too bad ;)
How Data Visualization Leads to New Business Insights
Just simple Illustrator boxes with a cheesy "brush" stroke effect.
Official verdict from the Stockholm District Court, in English: http://domstol.se/Om-Sveriges-Domstolar/Sveriges-Domstolars-...
I am very interested in why these improvements somehow only affect the CQL interface and not the Thrift interface: they sound like things that would affect core parts of query execution, well below the interface used to describe the query.
The tone of the game, and in discussions of bullying in general, seem to be that the player just cannot deal with social disapproval and the choices are:

1) learn to smile while others toss bombs at you
2) withdraw

How about a 3)? If your daughter is displeased with being at the bottom of the social hierarchy, why not encourage her to be on top? Encourage strength and stop squashing ambition. Ninja Pizza Girl can photograph them back with scathing Instagram comments or whatever. She can get a makeover and work out, which will not only increase her social standing but improve her mental acuity and fight depression. The game should end with the other pizza girls fighting each other to be her best friend.
As a non-trader, my question is:

Were the 24k shares being offered by one seller/broker, as in "I have 24k shares to sell at 17" or was the 24k just an aggregation of the availability all the smaller offers?

If the former, it seem to me that the seller is cheating, if it is the latter then I can see how the HFT systems would raise the price in response to a sale, but I also see how frustrating that is to the buyer.

I wonder why these trades are not being performed in parallel across the various exchanges, partially preventing this kind of arbitrage?
Nothing different than O'Reilly Safari for tech books. At least I sometimes need to reference old tech books. But do I need to do it for novels?
This isn't a feature of teenage-hood by the way. The same patterns (power cliques, bullying, etc) are common in prisons.

This is a feature of a coercive, homogeneous environment. Modern schooling - especially public schooling - looks like it was designed by someone who took "Lord of the Flies" for an instruction manual.
Decision making tips
Aaron & team, congrats on the front page! You guys should do a HN traffic/signup teardown for us after a few days have passed. I would love to see your numbers!
When milk gets made in a lab
YC Portfolio Stats
An IRC Bot in Arm Assembler
I'm from Ireland. Your ranting reminds me of the arguments nationalists make against greater EU integration. However, I have no wish to see the EU revert to being a bunch of mercantilist nations, and I don't support US-EU mercantilism either. The best way to make the US more like the EU is to deal with it, not lie on the ground like a child throwing a tantrum.
shit like this is exacerbating

shit like this http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasperhamill/2014/07/15/british-...

lolol
Since the Aqua look came out in OS X, there have been a lot of imitations used on webpages, knock-off UIs, etc. which tended to look terrible, in part because it's hard to do them tastefully. At least flat UIs are harder to mess up.

Personally, I really liked the modified Platinum UI from MacOS X DR2 code named Rhapsody, though it could have used some polish: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/rhapsodydr2
Reading about TTIP reminds me of the "Estado Novo" - the Portuguese corporatist dictatorship that lasted for a large chunk of the 20th century.
Corporation rights above people, that is the way forward...
Also, you should be able to push and throw windows around on the screen, and they should bounce off the the screen edges! ;)

Here it is in Lisp for Genera:
http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/103

And in Forth for X10:
http://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/piemenu/uwm1/hacks.f
This is a tough one. I will have to think about it, I'll try and respond here later.
The teenage daughter is already a zombie, why would other zombies scare her?
Sococo Virtual Office – startup for energizing startups
Also not working for me in Chrome.

I see 3 errors in the Javascript console:
GET http://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT (index):507
GET http://cdn.mxpnl.com/libs/mixpanel-2.2.min.js net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT (index):546
GET http://static.olark.com/jsclient/loader0.js 403 (Forbidden) (index):1
[Error] ReferenceError: Can't find variable: performance
(anonyme Funktion) (demo.js, line 155)
dispatch (jquery.min.js, line 3)
handle (jquery.min.js, line 3)
"Number of nuclear energy companies in the current batch: 2"

Awesome. I can't seem to find these two companies yet - have they announced or still under the rader?
While I understand the frustrations of tax dodging, I have to admit that this increasing barriers against capital flight reminds me of a economic 'Berlin wall' and ultimately doomed to fail.

Given the fluidity of people and resources, over-taxation could be considered damage and easily routed around (to borrow a phrase).

At some point, we're going to have to address the reasons why people/money are leaving. Unfortunate, that take is harder than rhetoric and simple laws.
It's a trap. Apple's always been the company whose products people want to use. Going for enterprise lock-in runs the risk of turning Apple into another company whose customers have no choice.
Virgin Atlantic Flying Club just emailed me my password in plain text
Just so people know, Virgin Atlantic Flying Club either stores passwords in plain text, or can decrypt them. As you all know this is incredibly bad practice.

What link should I send them to try to inform rather than simply shout and berate?
Disclaimer: I work at Sococo.

Nichole Kelly has a lot of good ideas for improving Sococo. What's missing? What does your startup need in a virtual office? We want to know.
I am interested in games as an art form. But a lot of these "artistic" darlings strike me as pretentious drivel. To me, Portal was much more successful than Bioshock as an art piece. It wasn't dancing around trying to tell me how important it is.

I also happen to think the mechanics of a shooter can be art.
These articles get about 50k visitors a month between the 3 Bootstrap articles. It's just clean SEO optimization to make Google like it, and then good content and tons of people who backlink them and tweet them.

It's legit ground-up SEO and content success, no magic. And, it helps that no one has ever tried to write Bootstrap articles and explanations like I did in my 3 articles.

BTW I am the author if that's not obvious =D
The United States was certain the Muslim world would "open its eyes" to Western style democracy if only we overthrew their governments and destroyed their infrastructure and just kept killing whoever disagreed with us until we were welcomed as liberators with flowers in the streets. It didn't work, though maybe we just need to keep killing until it does?

I think it's irrational, albeit probably a common bias in revolutionary thinkers, to assume that the likely result of such violence will be the people viewing you as their liberator rather than their oppressor. Which is of course why such revolutions typically require purges and secret police, and spawn violent counter-revolutions of their own. I don't see how one form of oppression is better than the other.
I can't say I really believe in Airbnb as a company and idea, but that is a damn well designed website -- I guess you could say the best money could buy..
The gas company that says it can take your backyard
Parachute flying upside down? Is it possible? YES
Nit picking: Redis, not Reddis.

Question: Do you use NodeJS cluster mode? Also Python has a very nice asynchronous task system such as Celery. Is there any equivalent software in NodeJS echo system?
where does it go ?
What changes for IBM? They could already write iOS business apps and they could already sell support contracts for iOS devices. All that's there is the ability to mention an official relationship with Apple during dog and pony shows. Still if the client says "What about Android?" the response will be "Here's a proposal for Android based options".

If I were to hazard a guess, I think this relationship is driven by Apple's inability to dogfood their logistics infrastructure - Apple can't run the supply chain Cooke built with Apple products. They're the sort of business that is likely to be a customer for IBM's systems integration expertise. Apple needs iPhone apps that help it run its business.

I think, to the extent this relationship is serious, it is desperate on Apple's part. They are giving up their one market advantage, control in exchange for entry into a market where calling things "magical" won't cut it. What matters is vertical integration and Apple doesn't have it on the hardware side. The only way they can maintain control is to purchase IBM.
In short a lot of this comes down to the distinctions between sex, gender, and sexual orientation. Over the past two decades attitudes have shifted to where most people can clearly distinguish sexual orientation from sex and gender, but society still has a way to go in figuring out how gender differs from biological sex. The distinction between these two does not affect the majority of individuals, however, which is probably why most people do not care to distinguish the two.
How will my IP addresses work with WAN load balancers?
It is amazing. Adults worry about their peers. When you look at what professionals want out of their careers, it's "respect of their peers."

Yet they seem to think that this doesn't matter to teenagers.

Now, as a teenager, it's true that 1) your peers are a bunch of idiots, and 2) none or few of these people will be in your life in 5 years, let alone 10.

Those lessons can be hard to sink in, and the adult can be too quick to forget that the teenager has no reason to have internalized them.
Sounds interesting. I'll definitely watch for the Android version :)

That said, the "insert" benchmark source for SQLite is a bit disingenuous. It makes a new compiled statement every time it inserts - if you're doing 150,000 inserts, you should definitely be reusing that thing. And on Android, greenDAO (probably others) does this automatically for every insert/update. It's not some edge-casey optimization trick, it's normal SQLite use.
The site has consisted of straight-forward tutorials to date. That will slowly evolve and change over time.

Thanks for the suggestions!
IIX gets $10.4M to help companies bypass the public internet
The Three Stack Drag Formation starts when three members of the Canadian Armed Forces Parachute Team the Skyhawks get out of the aircraft at 6 000 ft and form a three stack. The pilot brings the formation close to the crowd and target. At about 2 000 ft, he calls for the transition. The bottom member gives his leg to the middle man who keeps them together throughout the stunt. The bottom member does a 180 degree turn and then flies upside down. When the pilot is happy of their position relative to the target, he drops them and they become a down plane. They keep this down plane until about 300 ft and break down landing in front of the crowd!
When you convert CSV to and from JSON(/XML) then the interesting part IMHO is how to convert the hierarchy (of JSON/XML) to CSV and how to encode it (e.g. in a header-line). Do you account for that?
The most important change for this post was the reduction of overhead for processing each message off the wire, through improved thread scheduling/communication. The changes do not affect CQL, so much as the 'native' protocol - CQL over thrift is no faster/slower.
Specifically in Python, if you're appending lines of text, for example, then you have to add a \ before the newline. Also in Javascript if you omit the semi-colon then sometimes the interpreter gets confused and functionality gets jumbled.

Sorry if that's not that specific. I just in general prefer semi-colons being required, because then it fails fast rather than producing subtle bugs later.
It is possible. There is a technology called dynamic subsetting that only loads the necessary glyphs on a web page:

http://www.monotype.com/services/screen-imaging-solutions/dy...

http://en.justfont.com/
Ninja Sphere – Give Your Home a Mind of Its Own
Not a critique of the design overall, but if someone responsible for the home page design is reading this: it might be worth applying a slight translucent layer over the background images/videos to help make the white text more readable (something like (0,0,0,0.4)!
https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV...

via google
Senate passes cell phone unlocking bill without opposition
"As for the lesson, I think it should be "learn how to love yourself, so people's negativity can't penetrate you"

Agreed, so much of the hell experienced through other people can be averted by focusing on building up one's confidence and self-esteem.
> At least in modern usage, "They" is flawed. For starters its plurality is ambiguous.

In the cases where it is used in a gender-neutral but expressly singular sense, this is false. In cases where whether the number of the referent is ambiguous and might be either singular or plural, the use of the plural they has been acceptable longer, and has never been objected to even by the prescriptives who have tried (and are still trying, though their influence has waned somewhat from its late 19th Century height) to force generic he in place of singular they as part of their effort to impose Latin-inspired grammar rules on English.
CoFoundersLab merges with RockThePost to create Onevest
Thanks.

I wrote the explanation above. Just good content on a topic that gets a ton of searches, but a lot of people don't write about it in clean, understandable ways. At the time, the Bootstrap doc didn't explain it in the same amount of detail. Now that google recognizes the content and the backlinks and social proof via HN, Twitter, etc, it's just on a snowball. It's at about 50k visitors a month, mostly from Stack Exchange and Google organic searches.

Once a blog gets a few top 3 ( and a few #1) hits in a google search, it just snowballs. I consistently get more and more visitors each day, more retweets, etc etc. Like after today, my average visitor count will jump up and then stabilize at a much higher average than yesterday, since once content like this that is instructional makes waves, people just link it and tweet it exponentially and it never dies off. Really crazy how useful content and targeted organic SEO can work.
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I cannot talk proficiently about a project I haven't worked on in months. When it's in my brain, I am living and breathing it, but afterwards if I'm asked to talk about it, it stumbles out as I try to recall the pieces. I can rehearse beforehand, but it becomes clear as soon as the interviewer does any digging, that I don't remember the details.

Ask me to code something beforehand and I'll excel at it, but ask me "what's going through your mind" as I'm coding it and I'll sound like a scatterbrain. I need time, low pressure, and privacy to code well.
As the father of only boys, I just took the article to heart without trying to feel excluded. It's not my exact experience, but nothing is.