skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting criticisms, but I'd have to argue against most of your points here.

- You're right: card games inherently involve luck. But games like Hearthstone and MTG let you control your deck so that less luck is involved. And I would argue Hearthstone actually has the better model -- there's no way to get screwed out of mana or flooded with mana like in MTG.

- Card starvation exists, but is typically a problem with deck construction or gameplay rather than the game itself. Two ways about the problem in deck construction: more card draw, and bigger cards. Playing is more complicated, but consider keeping your options open rather than playing things immediately, since you can gain card advantage if you can 2-for-1. Consider the HandLock deck in which a warlock draws a huge hand to abuse abilities involving hand size. Rarely will their games go past 30 cards, and yet their hand is filled with options all the time.

- You are right, each class has but one or two competitive deck styles and are predictable. But knowing the meta is part of any card game, and I think as Hearthstone grows this will be better. Coming from MTG I found classes brought quite a variety of play styles (at least 9!), if somewhat unbalanced and artificial.

- Again you are right. This issue arises as a necessary consequence of classes. Blizzard has actively done this for balance. Cards outside class decks need to be generic or else they would make some decks too powerful in combos. For example I might want more spell power cards for my Druid deck but that would make Mage control decks unbelievably strong.

- This is a subjective point and your view is valid. IMHO their quest system is a pretty versatile option of getting gold. If you want you can play 2 games a day and earn 40 gold, or you can play 10 and earn 100, depending on the quest.
That would be Tiger Airways https://tigerair.com
I thought about this, and because I worried of coming across as an entitled parent I didn't say anything to the teacher. If I keep seeing it, whether it is my child or any of the other girls I will say something though.
I am not sure what you are referring to. I was talking about the laws in relation to the original comment, which was related to whether the 'right to be forgotten' was a good law or a bad law.

I never said anything remotely related to whether it was administered correctly or not, or how effective it was in any way.
> adblock plus won't block

I was wondering if this is true. It is! Take a look:

Here's ABP's policy on "acceptable ads":

https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads

From there, you can find the "acceptable ads" whitelist:

https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/exceptionrules.tx...

And indeed, PageFair has a few domains listed. Fascinatingly, there's also a link to a forum thread where the whitelist was requested:

https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=20718

That thread links to a page that uses PageFair. After enabling a bunch of JavaScript domains (what, you're still not running NoScript?), an ad does indeed show up:

http://forums.utopia-game.com/forumdisplay.php?1583-Suggesti...

Rather hilariously, the ad is for a "Free Mp4 Player" and links to Ask.com or something. If this is PageFair's idea of the future of quality advertising, I don't think their company is long for this world.
The Site That's Worth Over $5 Billion But Has No Revenues, Assets, Employees
An interesting GC-related find earlier this week: it can help a lot to allocate in large chunks when you can:

https://plus.google.com/+ChandraSekarS0/posts/MNMWAXr63qz

Note that the entire chunk stays "alive" while any element in it is reachable, so this only works when arena allocation would in a non-GC'd language, i.e., when you're going to free the entire chunk at once (or in those rare cases you never need it reclaimed, e.g., 'cause it's a big fixed-size pool that you'll recycle forever).

To my surprise, allocating big chunks performed better than a Pool or manual recycling in this case. My best guess, and the author's, is that fewer allocations meant less space on memory-allocator bookkeeping (so fewer GCs) and less time spent sweeping in each GC.

If anyone's more aware of the guts of the runtime than I am and can confirm or disconfirm or elaborate, I'm curious.
Here, have a data point: GCHQ had a sub-1kbps voice codec in the mid-80s (it sounds horribly 'squelchy'), and they used tape when they were doing it back then...
This is cool. Everyone always talks about the idea of recording and analyzing calls, but I've never thought about actual implementation. I appreciate the perspective.
Obviously their running platform wouldn't be "I'm more of a fascist than the other guy". No, it's probably going to happen like it usually does- somebody gets voted in for being less of a nutjob than their opponent, something bad happens, and the elected official uses that as a excuse for all the horrible policies that follow. It's already happened at least once here with McCarthy; he was just a freakin senator, one of many across the nation.

It almost happened once again with 9/11. Bush basically gutted Habeas Corpus, since he decided that anybody arrested under suspicions of terrorism wasn't allowed the protections afforded under it. The government could arrest you, send you to secret prison, and that would be the end of it since you were never allowed a trial.

True, none of the above examples are true fascism. But, they are scary steps in the right direction. Fear is an excellent political motivator, and with our fear-mongering media we have, that's a more powerful tool than ever. Invent an enemy scary enough, and it seems people will actually hand you their rights while thanking you for it.
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I don't know about public records, but if you believe this Reddit AMA, it was an MIT grad student.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/xove1/iama_97_year_old...
You should join the Dynamic Circle, the membership community behind TropicalMBA. It is full of ballers all around the world.

http://tropicalmba.com

With your savings, I would take Dave Ramsey's advice and invest it in stable growth stock mutual funds, and then not touch it. You can use the interest to fund your retirement - hell you could probably retire right now.
Try sending an email to help@avp42.com with what you think the answer is and I'll look into it.
IntelliJ IDEA 14 EAP 138.1029 is out with a built-in Java decompiler
Revcomp AAAACCCGGT at DuckDuckGo
Replying to myself to ask Sean a direct question. Your ads appear to be really crap quality. "Free Mp4 Player" with a link to Ask.com is really your idea of better advertising?

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8021255
I think it is more than just possible, that is how you typically show the chart of learning something. Time across the bottom with advancement on the side. Granted, I realize these charts aren't exactly viewed that often.

The steep hill is definitely the visual people think of in this regard. I just think it is strictly due thinking of a hill, though. Not because they thought of what it would mean on a chart. :) And no, I wasn't at all confused by this. Nor was anyone else, I'm sure.
Is not being able to raise any VC/angel funding a sign of a failed startup?
What is really interesting about this announcement is that the decompiler is part of the "community edition", and thus open source under the Apache license: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/...

I doubt it will run easily outside of IntelliJ but it does a very nice job and thus I hope other projects will be able to benefit and vice versa (where licensing is compatible, of course).
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When the location isn't available, and they try to use it and you state that it isn't available...

Can you at that point have an option to initiate a call to 911 (through a locked screen)? I'm not familiar with android development.
> It's certainly not beyond the capabilities of the NSA to target powerful people that oppose the NSA while ignoring those that support them.

I had to think something similar when I read this in your parent post:

if NSA is missing major activities of other countries (the Russian intervention in Ukraine) and nonstate terrorist groups (the "Islamic State" capture of much territory in Iraq), then surely NSA doesn't have the time and resources to analyze all of the data it gathers, and maybe it is not gathering as much data as some people claim.

That is, how do we know for a fact the NSA missed this? Could it not also simply have not acted on it, for whatever reasons? E.g. I know on the surface it's in the interest of the US to have "stability" in the Middle East, but even former CIA people have been warning since the buildup to the Iraq war, that some strategies and tactics can lead to more terrorism, more instability. And then exactly that happened, because their warnings were not heeded. Am I to believe that was incompetence? I know this borders on tinfoil terrority, but I really don't mean to outright claim what my questions might imply, I am just wondering and genuinely curious/clueless, I don't read news regularly, so I have no idea what the NSA having no idea about the Ukraine and ISIS stuff is referring to.
> I meet more and more people who are wary of putting all their trust/data/etc into only one provider, be that Google, Apple or anyone else.

I'd be wary of assuming from this data point that people are willing to be even slightly inconvenienced for it. Just take a look at Facebook: the entire history of the company has been one of disrespecting and subsequently pissing off users, and yet out of the huge amount of people I know who have repeatedly expressed anger at how Facebook treats their users, I know exactly one person who stopped using it or even reduced their usage.

I'm not sure whether your assumption that people's concern will translate into even the slightest bit of action is sound.
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Ask HN: What clothing do you wear to a tech interview?
I used to think it was a suit and tie, but apparently that's frowned upon now? If so what should I wear? I also don't want to wear something too casual, so I'm confused.
What is the deal with the embedded ticker symbols with popup stock info? I suppose they're trying to drive traffic to some of their other articles, but I can't help seeing those things as irrelevant distractions to an otherwise interesting article.
Yes it does. If you touch type, there is less effort involved in refactoring code. Because typing is not a chore you have to spend energy on. You just have to think out how you want the code to look and your fingers does the transformation automagically. If you can't touch type, you have to both spend energy thinking about the code and about what keys you should hit to get there.
Rhetoric from a16z in a thread of 50+ tweets:

"Bitcoin, billions of phones, and NSA eavesdropping are among trends that may eventually result in cloud successor: data-local computing"

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/487403585445978112
Some places require you to get a test authorization in advance, others don't. Everyone allows testing though. Most encourage it.
How do you define straightforward? Magic has a lot of cards, but formats restrict* the pool of cards that can be used, and within each format's legal cards, the majority of them are unplayable.

*(in the colloquial sense of the word restrict, except in vintage (and trivially in commander/EDH/Australian Highlander/Chromandercore), where cards are restricted in the magic sense of the words restrict)
Yes, I wanted this addon to be an easy way to toggle that setting on & off. Especially for people who are less tech savvy, and might be intimidated by "about:config".
If you watch the first two minutes, he explains what the talk is about.

But I'll save you two minutes: Underscore describes itself as affording Functional Programming, but in fact.. it doesn't.

He then goes over several examples of common FP patterns, like currying, composition, and functors, and shows how underscore fails in these regards, and how you can do so much better if a few things were done differently in the library.
I really have no problem with people marketing future products. My problem is with the view that there is a simple transaction of "I give you money and you give me product eventually" going on, which Kickstarter (et. al.?) seem to me to either encourage or endorse through silence. I think they should instead make it explicit and obvious that there is no expectation of any prize delivery at all. They don't want to do that though, because then the absolute amount of money going in (which is what they make their money on) will be smaller. Basically these sites are profiting off of these really huge campaigns without taking on either the financial risk of the backer or the delivery risk of the project, without making it very clear (at least to the backers, and arguably to the projects) that those risks exist.
Not if you use X11rdp.

I should really do a Show HN of my X11rdp-o-Matic script, which automatically builds and installs X11rdp/xrdp from the github repo - it's been in existence for 2 years and I update the script(s) with enhancements from time to time.

xrdp and the X11rdp back-end X server is in constant and full development, with an actual Xorg module being worked on as well.

Edit: Indeed, I just submitted a Show HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8021592
No, you're making a very confused argument based on extrapolating from your premise that Uber is better than taxis in the suburbs (undoubtedly true), to the conclusion that Uber can replace personal cars in the suburbs (highly unlikely). Yes, Uber is better than cabs in the suburbs. But hardly anyone takes cabs in the suburbs. The only people who don't own cars in the suburbs are people who can't afford them and have to rely on the bus.

Your example about forgoing a second car totally misses the mark. Families have multiple cars in the suburbs for one of three reasons: 1) householders need them to commute; 2) stay at home spouses need them for school drop-offs and errands; and 3) teenagers need them to go to school, friends' houses, and after school activities.

Uber is not a practical replacement for any of these core functions. The average commute in Metro Atlanta is 17.5 miles and 30 minutes, or $30 each way on Uber X. A stay at home spouse will generally make shorter trips, but more of them. Two trips per weekday to pick up/drop off kids at school, and potentially several more for errands and after-school activities. Moreover, most of these will be multi-hop: drop the kids at school then drive to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription, then drive to the Costco to get groceries, then drive to Giant to get stuff you don't need to buy in bulk, etc. Teenagers with cars will take several trips per day as well, to/from school and to after-school activities.

There's a reason that the U.S. has almost as many personal autos as people old enough to drive them. In most of the U.S. you can't even leave the house without driving, and unless you only leave the house once every other day to go to a place within 10 miles (which is nothing in terms of suburban distances), you'll spend vastly more on Uber than on a personal auto.
Anything that has a volume of changing data that needs to be close to real time would benefit. Anything that has that requirement and also wants to be available on the web would most certainly benefit. High-frequency trading and games/betting/TV-related-data (e.g. NASCAR), etc are definitely cases. How about just anything that is currently done via polling and wants to reduce network overhead? There are a lot of those types of applications. (full disclosure - I work for Kaazing, the leading enterprise WebSocket company, though I'm most definitely not speaking for them in any capacity).
What are some other useful flags to set in Firefox that don't noticeably break functionability?
Definitely. Here's my (outdated) resume for reference: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r9m2j0msphbwdmq/resume.pdf
Buffett is an investor though right? Whereas Gates built a company. The two closely related but not the same? So it doesn't surprise me they turn to different books.

Investors usually recommend books on security analysis, which would hardly have been useful for Gates in the 90's.
>'Wow, you're still missing the point.'

Not really.

You just seem to be taking half a dozen suggestions by a 'Series A investor and board member at Uber', some of which are anecdotal, 4 out of 6 of which hinge on the San Francisco or NYC and treating them as universally applicable facts while trying to boil a whole range of human preference down to simple math.

It's all pretty myopic, just as the parent suggests.
Innovation out of necessity. How mobile apps are improving the lives of Africans
The Deep End: Identifying #winning Developers
I wouldn't think so, I considered a few options when I last overhauled my CV and ended up just using Word (exported as PDF).

I dunno maybe I'm lazy because I don't generate from LaTeX or Markdown or JSON or whatever but I feel that nobody reading your CV really cares as long as you present the information in a concise and clear way.
Satya Nadella Proves That Microsoft Hasn't Changed At All
Check out the Innovator's Solution, the follow up.

It explains why most of the profit (ability to charge your costs plus a premium) was dominated in the 90's by OS's, and not by the now notorious disk-drive companies.

Gates probably understood this (how to position yourself not be disrupted) and it's why we're all reading his favorite book - which is great by the way.
You've disrupted the world. Now it's time to disrupt your outfit
Perhaps I'm misreading your tone, but it comes across as very elitist.

Who cares if the person speaking is famous or not. Does notoriety somehow make words more true?

Some of the most important things people have said to me were never famous. I hardly remember their names or faces, but what they've said has resonated and stuck with me. That's the important part.

Keep an open mind.
WebSocket – persistent across page loads?
Are you working on a CCG? I'd be interested in seeing how an automated system's results would compare to the MtG model of balancing, which sounds pretty intense.

From what I understand, design makes and tests sets at a flat power level, development adjusts the power level and creates more cards, and future future league plays the new cards for months/years and makes more adjustments to balance before the cards go to print.
Nearly every place I've worked I've had two divergent messages come my way. The first is usually that I'm really productive, positive member of the team, and this shows up in reviews, promotions, etc. The other is that I just don't look like I give a shit about anything we're doing. The truth is that I honestly don't get emotionally invested in any of it. I'm emotionally invested in my career and love new technology, enjoy learning, etc. But if the proverbial shit hits the fan then it's a minor nuisance because I'll probably be working late for the night or for the next few weeks depending on how big of a problem has arisen.
Same here as a developer. The server was down. The clients' sites were unreachable. I was busy trying to figure out what happened instead of panicking and was told I need to be more engaged because I seemed to have no sense of the scale of the problem and how were they supposed to know otherwise if I wasn't visibly upset?
When I see products like this, my first question is: could you write an free, open-source app with this without having to shell out your personal money to make it happen?

For Amazon Cognito, the answer appears to be "yes, until all of your users together store more than 10GB". ie. until your app gets popular.

So for free open-source apps, I think I'd prefer to stick with Dropbox or Google Drive, where the billing is associated with an account the user already has (which most users can operate entirely within the free tier). That way you don't run into a situation where you are a victim of your own success, by exceeding a free tier that applies to the sum of all user data in your app.
What happened after day 16?
Agreed, there is no 14 CFR (part 61 or other) regulation that I'm aware of. But the regulations are very concise, and not thorough enough to evaluate every possible scenario.

The point of the FAA's letters is to address the many variations and nuances with real world application of the regulations. And they do so in very readable language (in contrast to regulations). I've found them to be the best guidance on the FAA's opinions & likely actions when the regulations are vague and/or unclear.

I personally use prior personal relationship as a strong guide. One personal exception: I believe I'd be ok sharing costs on a flight with members of my flying club (all pilots or student pilots) who I do not currently know, so long as the means of establishing the flight is more private (club newsletter) than public.
Show HN: Storybyte – stupid simple photo stories on your phone
fascinating article about two similar businesses yet opposite approaches to market.
There are not a lot of things they are not allowed to intercept, and it is very unclear (and classified!) what their interpretation of those rules are.

And then they break them sometimes anyway.

Same with GCHQ, really.
God yes. This is the only book about computers that I recommend to my non-technical family and friends. It is the only way I've found for people to understand the love of computing as opposed to just understanding why it may be a good job.
Maybe it's just because we approach it from different sides of the fence, but I always found accelerometers very easy to use in hardware but impossible to use in software!

I'm not good enough at DSP to isolate the signal from the noise.
What makes you think he didn't understand the Innovator's Dilemma?

When he was CEO some of the more innovative products not part of their core business included smart watches, internet TV (MSN TV), the XBox, and many others. Granted some were way ahead of their time, and I would agree to saying Ballmer didn't understand, but I wouldn't say Gates didn't.
Using pry-fi on my Z1 made my wifi connections unstable to a point where I might as well of not had wifi.
I'm really intrigued by this model of internet infrastructure. Would you mind helping me understand the relevant difference between what you, Sandstorm[1], and OpenPDS[2] are doing?

[1] https://sandstorm.io/
[2] http://openpds.media.mit.edu/
Thanks for the explanation. Does the same math apply for founders (just with a higher % to start), or is it calculated differently?
I said "your process." You can make meaningful measures in whatever way suit your company. It's not some mandate handed down from the stone age.

You've taken "so be it" totally out of context, as well. My point was if your evaluations determine a best candidate, you should take that candidate.

If you are not hiring the best candidate, the evaluations need a revamping.
> Running Emacs via X

Emacs is a relatively simple application, which behaves very differently than, say, Firefox.
This is actually how Xpra (mentioned earlier) works. It creates a dummy x server and installs itself as a compositing window manager.
That scene in the movie ("you have to make this, fit into this, using these") was a big aha moment for me, in realizing just how fundamentally hard space travel really was. I'm very glad to learn it wasn't movie-exaggerated.
But don't people get the same results from free ones? And even if rnovak [1] was paying for it, that's still pretty cheap for the traffic to be shifted like that, with Netflix being aware of the costs, so it's still (AFAICT) hard to reconcile with the claim that Verizon isn't deliberately discriminating against Netflix.

[1] sorry, rn -> blurred into m
American spies in Germany: Up pops another… and another
No. Mobile and landlines, too.

Satellite calls have been intercepted worldwide for decades now by numerous intelligence agencies.
Greenpeace ask Lego to end partnership with Shell