skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What hardware platforms are supported?

Give it one, three, five, ten or fifteen years. When will these proprietary binaries stop working?

I look forward (probably in vain) to the day when game developers want their games to be playable by anyone on any system, any time, even long after release. Played by everyone. I mean, who wouldn't want his work to be loved by everyone and forever? Why?

Freeing the code is a first, inevitable step.
As the world slowly moves to a knowledge and innovation economy as opposed to a hard-graft economy of the last few millennia, I think we'll see a tipping point. Those with money/power will be increasingly made up of pro-legalization advocates.

I'd be surprised if there isn't full legalization in the US within the next twenty years. And books with titles such as: "How To Expand Your Business And Increase Your Revenue Through The Power Of Marijuana" on the best-seller list.
> LessWrong’s founder, Eliezer Yudkowsky, is a significant figure in techno-futurism [...]

What? Is this true, or just gullible journalism?

> Yudkowsky said that Roko had already given nightmares to several LessWrong users and had brought them to the point of breakdown.

It seems like some users of LessWrong need to spend more time in the real world and less time on stupid thought experiments.
There is also "Leaking Sensitive Information in Complex Document Files--and How to Prevent It" from IEEE Security & Privacy earlier this year. All copies might be behind paywalls, however.
If you're willing to deal with delays and exchange rate fees, sure.
A good debate would be useful. Good debates don't generally start off with "Browsers suck". I found little of true value in this post.
I've used it when needed (i.e. someone picks that to get started), but honestly Pivotal Tracker is the same thing with more features and even crusty old JIRA has an agile board view option it nowadays where you can drag card versions of the JIRAs around. So Trello is kind of an also-ran that doesn't compare well with the current leader or the industry standard.
It's incredible how such a simple idea could become so big.

I'm sat here trying to think up some grand scheme that's going to make me my millions. Its a great lesson that really all I need is a simple idea. The key is in the execution. Take that simple idea and develop (and market) it to perfection.
My team tried it several times over the first 1 - 2 years it was out. I have not tried it recently. That said, at that time, we could never get it to stick. It was good for high level stuff, but like all project management software, we ended up constantly working to keep it in sync with reality. This was especially acute when using github because for any stuff that was code-related, we were basically duplicating tickets and tracking in both places. So github tickets were the real source of truth and Trello always lagged. Once that happens, the non-code milestones start to suffer as you start wondering why you're doing all this in the first place.

Tracking issues in github (and we use FogBugz as well) has the benefit of being where the "rubber meets the road", so it's effortless and transparent to keep up to date. Merging non-code tasks (e.g. design work) with code is still something we struggle to track and keep tabs on.
Do they? First I’ve heard of that…
You mean with Bitcoin?
Shuttle was alway fairly low-frequency, far below its design goals, so possibly not a great comparison. Here's 2014 in space launches: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_in_spaceflight

At peak, in the 70s, there were about 140 launches per year.
Somehow having their names out in public would help tremendously, so far they remain a nameless one-liner in an article about the doctor :/
Gosu – A pragmatic language for the JVM
There's something very religious about the whole singularity movement.

Roko's Basilisk doesn't appear very different to me than Pascal's Wager, with the added twist that the God you have to believe in is actually a malevolent demiurge (as envisioned by the Gnostic christian sects more than a 1000 years ago).

If you already have a cynical viewpoint on religion, then this thought experiment is very similar to the "deal" monotheistic religions have been offering through the ages.

Either believe in our god (and therefore give us, as his sole representatives enormous, unfettered power), or suffer eternal hell! (or not ;)

Throughout the ages, people were terrified of hell. This is just a modern twist on an old idea.

I used to be scared of hell, until I realized that hell "existed" only as long I believed in it. If I stopped believing in it, it "disappeared". That's the power of belief. Yes, it might still exist whether I believe or not, but life is full of "what ifs", the contemplation of which might drive you crazy.

Better to follow a positive and compassionate path then a fear based "what if" path.
I'm fairly new to the language, as it hasn't been mentioned much since it's public release several years ago. The language takes many queues from Ruby; for example, "enhancements" are similar to monkey patching in Ruby. The syntax, semantics, and standard library (especially in collections) are also familiar.

e.g.:

Ruby

[1, 2, 3].map { |x| 2 * x }

Gosu

{1, 2, 3}.map (\x -> 2 * x)

Unlike Ruby, Gosu provides a static type system which includes type inference and structural typing (similar to Go's interfaces). It also includes an open type system (http://devblog.guidewire.com/2010/11/18/gosus-secret-sauce-t...), which allows first-class representations of user created types at compile time – no code generation is needed. F# programmers would find many similarities between Gosu's open type system and F#'s type providers.

Like most JVM languages, you can leverage Java compatibility to use all of the third-party libraries you want. Compared to Scala, Gosu tends to eschew complexity for simplicity and pragmatism. Their implementation of generics is a good example of this.

And of course, Gosu just has a lot of features that make it enjoyable to work with. Such as the null-safe invocation operator (?.), elvis operator (?:), type variable reification, terse syntax, etc.
My opinion: let's try true democracy first, where people don't feel helpless and can change the world together.

Think Ancient Greece democracy, not the "democracy" they sold us. In any country, if you think "a majority of people cannot have a real direct and strong impact on political matters", there's a good chance it shouldn't be called a democracy...

If that's not enough, the people may then choose an alternative economic system...
My research lab uses Trello to coordinate on protocols, results, and publications. Each project gets a board, with lists for each step in the process. Cards are used to describe what was done in the processes like a typical lab notebook. Add on comments and file attachments and we can collaborate remotely.
ALIVe: Automatic LLVM InstCombine Verifier
There's nothing stopping you from converting the BTC to fiat the moment you get paid, or for a service to automatically do this like BTC merchant services (no idea if this service does it).

For merchants Bitpay guarantees that you'll get the exact fiat value transferred to your bank account that the item was originally priced at.
My Morning Workflow
Since Saleem's limiting this offer to 5 MVPs, to cap off the summer I'll build 2 MVPs under the same terms, with a few exceptions:

* Backend will be in Clojure or Python instead of PHP

* $8,000 delivered in 1 month so we don't rush the communication

You can e-mail me via the address in my profile.
> Am I the only one who just gave up because of video and sound driver issues?

No issues here. I guess you may be running AMD hardware hence the video drivers issues, but I haven't had sound issues in games for years.
The Challenges of Performance Testing in Scaled Down Environments
Its not an apt title but the comparision is probably because it does most of the tasks Google Glass can perform right now.

From the video at lechal.com and article it seems you one can save / share certain location or place and get directions ( shoe/sole vibrates for navigation ). Of course like any other wearable tech it is synced with your smartphone.
Web archive version: https://web.archive.org/web/20140714183916/http://dheera.net...
Having plenty of money and flexible "work" schedules helps achieve those goals (staying good looking, focusing on health, going to the gym a lot).
President Bush: Why Can’t He Stop Lying?
I've been using Trello daily for over a year now to keep track of projects and tasks at work, and it has been great. While I sometimes freak out that Trello alone holds my work to-do list (instead of nice, safe paper and pen), I have yet to experience any significant downtime or lost data.

Good luck to them!
I once sent Kimbro an e-mail (in 2012) about whether he was continuing with this system, and he replied:

> No, I use a new system that I've been using for I think 3 years now. Much simpler and less time consuming. Google around for it- it is also described in book "Mind Performance Hacks 2". The key ideas are open spaces, numbered pages, and tags-like indexes.
Anyone know of the tax benefits/pitfalls of paying (and being paid) in bitcoin?
Not to minimize the accomplishment, but most of those "first time on Linux!" titles were previously playable via Dosbox, or free software source ports. That said, can't wait for Rollercoaster Tycoon.
Does anyone know how this type of spin out works? I would imagine FogCreek has an ownership stake in the company for "seed funding" Trello with resources.
Funny how often, musicians and directors feel the same about their work and encourage people to "illegally" download their products.

I don't think developers are the problem.

I've played World of Warcraft a lot. It's a game that has affected tens of millions of people directly, and hundreds of millions indirectly (through WoW's influence on other games, game models and so on). It has built careers, businesses, companies, and so on.

Yet one day, it'll close down and nobody will ever be able to play it. All that'll be left will be the game files - 3d models - and a lot of screenshots.

Sad.
HIPAA EDI Gateway and Governance for Fortune 500 Healthcare Insurance Company
Website looks like shit.
Tesla Asks Chinese Hackers to Flag Vulnerabilities
Haha, was thinking the same thing. This would make a great xkcd.
> It seems, though, that java's default modifier was maybe ill-chosen, as private and public modifiers seem far more prevalent than no modifier

My impression is that people often simply don't know exactly what the default modifier does, whereas they're more confident in the behaviour of public and private.
From what I understood, it doesn't require 100% determinism OR a perfect simulation for the thought experiment to hold.

It just needs enough to sort most of the humans into "will help basilisk come into existence" and "won't help basilisk". It probably doesn't even need to be 100% accurate at that.

I don't think being able to imperfectly simulate thoughts requires Godlike ability, either. I could see it happening in my life time.

Assuming I'm not being simulated right now, that is :/
There is this LWN article (that I wrote about it):

http://lwn.net/Articles/317154/
GOG now supports Linux
What? Trello's UI is like the only web UI that doesn't totally suck!
The Rise of Nanosocial
I have to ask: Why do you care?

This is great news, why care about the small, completely irrelevant things? Why make it look like the Linux community is blasé, whiny and will complain about anything?
It's also the same name as one of their own CPU cores (the A6 CPU core was called Swift). And another programming language. And a spacecraft. And a bird.
I think you're right that guns are probably a necessity to some extent, but I would rather spend the money on feeding my neighbors as much as possible rather than fighting them. I ran some quick numbers on webstaurantsupply.com, and for a simple "donut diet"[1] you can feed 100 people 1800 kCal/day for nearly a month for $1000 (the price of a decent quality rifle where I live).

I've been trying to work out a way to organize neighborhood-level basic essentials storages on the cheap, so that people in that kind of situation can afford to take care of themselves until the power comes back on. Food is pretty easy, but water and sanitation are a bit more problematic so far.

[1] - just calories to make it over the hump, this is not health food. Ingredients are white flour, white sugar, vegetable oil, and some white rice for the people who can't do the wheat products. Add vitamin pills to prevent deficiency diseases and you can stay functional for a long time at about $0.30/day.
Co-founder of Trello Joel Spolsky wrote a blog post about today's news. Worth reading if you're interested in the thinking behind the deal: http://indexventures.com/news-room/news/trello-raises-10m-se...
24 Hours With Google Glass
it's not a simple idea, it's a deep idea refined over decades and implemented simply. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban
Oh man, there goes my time. I remember FlatOut 1 fondly from when I was a kid and was still using Windows (great soundtrack too, I remember sending No Connection an e-mail and they even replied). Now I couldn't resist buying FlatOut 2, even if just to show my support.

I read on the forums they're wine wrappers though (officially supported, but still). Native ports would be the best, of course.
I agree about WoW. I've never played it, but I could imagine loving it. Chances are I never will though.

> I don't think developers are the problem.

It depends on the project. So I guess big commercial titles have other problems. Smaller groups though -- whether indie game studios or just individuals making freeware games (Dwarf Fortress, anyone?) -- they're usually what the developers make of it. And it very often is the case that the developers do not care about others' freedoms or portability and all that. It's too much work, nobody uses that platform, we don't care about minority users, whatever. The same old excuses, which are mostly BS.
"it is preferable to torture a single person for 50 years than for a sufficient number of people (to be fair, a lot of people) to get dust specks in their eyes."

Only if all living beings are distinct and separate from one another. If however there is a single animating force (i.e. soul) in all living beings, and which experiences everything that is experienced, then things would be preferable the other way around.
We must define secure differently.
It works really well for smaller projects, but in my experience quickly falls apart when more extensive planning and collaboration is required. YMMV of course.
https://software.techendo.com/leaderboard

Leaderboard URL is raising 404. (The page you were looking for doesn't exist.)
They claim to be the first, but what about BitPay? https://bitpay.com/bitcoin-payroll-api
Of course what I mentioned is also called the 'axiomatic' derivation of the Poisson process. In part it's nice because it starts with 'qualitative' assumptions and ends up with the full algebra of the process and its distribution and independence of times between arrivals.

Details are in E. Cinlar, 'Introduction to Stochastic Processes' in his chapter on the Poisson process. There he
also touches on the non-stationary case, and what he has may (I'm in hurry this morning) be equivalent to your
"average out over ... the cycle".

Since a finite sum of independent Poisson processes is a Poisson process, your 1 in 15 over the next cycle may be
equivalent to 1 in 2014 - 1859 years over the next year.

I do the same for asteroids: We have a good ballpark
estimate of the rate of killer asteroids, and the rate
is low enough to f'get about it.
HTML5 Canvas Fingerprint – Widely Used Unstoppable Web Tracking Technology
We use it as our (kanban style) task board.

We're a pretty small team, I wouldn't be sure how well Trello scales to larger teams.

It has some nice features though. It's integrated with our slack chat, and it's very easy for users to pick up.
However, it's free and simple, and JIRA and Pivotal Tracker are both not free (and not as simple).
Ask HN: What do you think of my game trailer?
Congratulations to Trello. I user Trello for almost everything, from planning what to buy/not-to-buy, travel planning, to choosing a school for my daughter.
Sure, if you are /actually/ paid using bitcoin. I think what is being suggested is bitcoin is really used as an interim currency, or transfer protocol - to avoid the cost and time of current international banking processes.

Therefore, you would still be paid in a real currency, and the underlying number of bitcoins used in the transfer is not relevant.

However, this product seems to be suggesting paid it bitcoins - which I would also not be able to accept. :)
That's the Landmark Alpha test, which is solely the building/minecrafty-aspect of the game. Actual Everquest Next parts have yet to be shown off.
Could some explain technically what happens to transformers with a solar storm? Can they not be repaired in some manner?
The thumbnail is part of the EXIF metadata. It's reasonably well-known now, but it was not always the case... http://graphicssoft.about.com/b/2003/07/26/techtvs-cat-schwa...
How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe
I think it's simple in the "simple made easy" kind of way that Rich Hickey has spoken about [1]. I think something can be deep, refined, and simple. I'd also say that those are my favorite concepts. I guess it's what I think of when I use the word 'elegant'.

It's really clean and straight-forward to use, but the simple components provide a lot of flexibility and power, while being easy to teach someone.

I use trello for just about everything, and I would have dropped it a long time ago if it took more than five minutes to show someone how to use the fundamental concepts. I can get them up and running in no time, and the users (even non technical users) tend to find all the interesting bits on their own as they go.

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
What is difficult to grasp is how a technology devoted to "presentation" failed so utterly to provide a decent layout mechanism consistent with its philosophy of separating of content from presentation. The absurdist kicker of this fiasco is that the existing semantic <table>, off limits for use as presentation, actually did the job ok.

[1] http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2009/02/17/wanted-layout-s...
Yes, I was being entirely sarcastic, in response to the comment above my own. I recognize that Musk has done and continues to do the impossible on a daily basis.
iTunes sync via wifi those days, backup is done on iCloud.

There is not that many reasons to plug a cable other than charging nowadays.
Yes. It works well for us because you build your process on it rather than having a process dictated to you. A lot of the "agile" project management tools are too opinionated about how you should work, and hence are difficult to use unless your process fits exactly.
I consider myself pretty adept at UX and have no real issues with Trello and it's been quick to learn and use for our technical and non technical staff alike. It may have slight issues but nothing in the scale your comment suggests.
Trello at its core is just a list of lists. Very simple concept.

It can be used to implement more deep ideas such as Kanban, but these aren't forced on you.

I remember before Trello came out I needed an app that provided a list of lists (who doesn't). I designed it all out but never implemented it. I saw how much competition there was in the space. There are hundreds of tasks list and to-do apps out there.

So when Trello was announced I secretly scoffed at them thinking they were doomed from the start for choosing such an obvious and already implemented idea.

Still I signed up and started using it. It has been fascinating to see the app evolve and become a huge success. I only feel a little bit miffed that it was something I almost did myself since I know I would not have implemented it anywhere near as well.
Xamarin Cross-Platform Application Development – Review
It looks like a nice building block to have in your toolchain. Written by the guys from mail.ru, it's not the same author but nginx comes from them as well.
"Investor Links"...

This feels like a 'me too' thing. I don't personally see the value in it either.
Because you know, the baker, the supermarket, the landlord all accept the said BS as payment.

It is very easy to wave BS to software developers. Now try to earn a steady income from FOSS desktop software.
I choose box One'); -- DROP TABLE History;.
I wouldn't want my salary to be measured in BTC. If you got hired in December, when the price was $900/BTC, at say 1000 BTC pa salary (so $90k pa), these days you would be on a $60k salary.
$25 per site/month?
Ah, yes, sorry.

> The big difference is that the screen doesn't scroll smoothly, but instead flicks across. Annoyingly you can see part of the next area, meaning the screen flicks across before Mario reaches the edge, totally destroying any sense of timing for precise jumps. Plus, turtle shells will bounce off of scenery even if it's on a subsequent screen, threatening to kill unsuspecting players. The fact the screen doesn't scroll can, in some cases, make this appear as if turtle shells are bouncing off open space.
I was actually more terrified by Smile.dog :)
It is not about sharing content anymore, it is about sharing context. The rise of this wave of single purpose social apps (Yo, Hoi, Snapchat) is exactly all about that. To communicate with a single click. Traditional social media should beware.
Indians make sure not to wear the "good shoes" to the temple for the precisely same reason.
Would a screenshot work?
Wine wrappers are fine, for such "old" software the performance should be plenty sufficient anyway, and as long as there's no bugs in the implementation, why not.
Well, my country (Uruguay) fully legalized marijuana, and in other countries it's decriminalized, which IMO signals a wider shift in policy .

Many things which my country adopted early (usually copying progressive European countries) ended up spreading, for example women suffrage which was adopted by the U.S. half a decade later.
We would use Trello if they added two things:

1) simple way to delete a card, list, or board (not this archive nonsense)

2) multiple lists in a column
It was a 355 spinoff. If you are into reading boring IRS guidelines, you can start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Code_section_3...

tldr; imagine a stock split like Google did recently where the shareholders end up with 2 different stocks.
That was some valuable tip. Thank you.
There are many others. First, many games that can run on DOsBox on Linux (probably several hundreds from their catalog) and many other indie ones. And Witcher 2 (however the port/wrapper used was horrible).
Yes, it made it easier for everyone, however, because the NSA had a lot more money to throw at the problem, they could do such years ahead of anyone else. Also, the NSA originally was trying to get IBM to use a 48-bit key; 56 bits was a compromise.