skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Games are played and any amount of variation that isn't reflected in the game play is quickly filtered out. It isn't a problem of better sliders or more sliders or more realistic ranges of results, it's about the variation in gameplay they produce. The variation in game play is all down to the rules of the system and how the generated world influences that.
Apple's 2014 Q3 results
Could someone explain, in layman's terms, what the difficulty in building a smaller inverter is? I unfortunately paid less attention in high school Physics than I wish I had.
Apple's 'iTime' Patent Hints at Possible iWatch Features
Thanks for the detailed replies folks.
There is still plenty of awareness generation on digital ads, especially desktop. Across I few products/brands I have monitored this effect. Typically I find on desktop display ads you will generate 2-4 additional visitors for every on ad click. Mobile interestingly is significantly less, more like an extra 0.5 visitors for each click generated.

More than logos, you need consistent and recognisable look and feel to an advert. This way the companies presence is communicated at a glace, which is what most people offer to digital ads.
didn't FINsix solve this problem: http://finsix.com/dart/
I have been trying to resist the temptation to purchase the beta edition :)
Tel Aviv's tech hub scrambles amid disruptions
I get that's what they do but why do they need to do that for each individual country instead of just running everything through their own bank + only subject to their own state/federal regulations?
By the time an engineer is tasked with implementation, a sufficiently-constrained problem or set of problems should be established. Execution risk tends to increase significantly when engineers are tasked with building solutions to an unwieldy set of problems.

But at the earliest stages, when exploring a market and business opportunity, premature constraints can be deadly because they often encourage you to ignore feedback from the market and make assumptions that aren't necessarily correct. The result, in many cases, is that companies end up solving problems that don't exist, or that aren't painful enough to support a real business.

In my experience, there are just as many engineers trying to make their jobs easier (by pushing to constrain scope at all costs) as there are product managers/business owners who aren't very good at defining problems and crafting sensible solutions to them.

Your manager-centric versus engineer-centric comment suggests that managers are inherently less capable of developing solutions to problems than engineers but in reality, the real issue is that there are relatively few product-savvy engineers and relatively few engineering-savvy product managers.
One of the decisions we made very early on with reddit was to specifically not use a redirector. In exchange, we gave up a lot of potential revenue in the form of selling usage information to people.

I still think that was the right decision, but I can see why Twitter relies so heavily on t.co.
Maybe I misunderstood the SHowHN submission instructions - I thought I could share either the text or a link but not both
I disagree. Layering a new UI on top of an existing OS is a lot of work, but ultimately thats all it is - another layer. What iOS and Android do that is fundamentally different to OSX and other desktop OSs is not so much to do with the UI, its to do with quickly killing or hibernating any process that isn't being used right at that time.

When you learn to write an app for iOS or Android, the first thing you learn is that your app needs to be ready to freeze and save state at a moments notice, and then re-hydrate itself later, also at a moments notice. This is the fundamental difference in the OS, not the touchscreen and widgets.
Long furled blades is another way to go, then you can have a heliroc. They work pretty nice as toys.
And for those who didn't see the live presentation, they all made the point that the biggest story here was that they hoped this announcement would galvanize the community in order to drum up more attention, excitement and thus money.

As an example, many of the big pharma companies have already or currently are pulling out of the psych field. If this huge investment jump starts more researchers to go into this field instead of something else (e.g. cancer) it could create a positive feedback loop.
Show HN: A Pomodoro Timer built on the Yo API
Would love to have this for GChat, which also intercepts your links and which drives me crazy since it seems their service is often slower.
Thanks for your help! I am certain that they like me -- I mean, I have an official paper offer that I can sign.

It is in Silicon Valley. I haven't disclosed salary history.

I thought they may agree to 100k and 0.2%, and/or I could use that as leverage to ask for more salary instead.

I would be happy with 100k and 0.2%, 120k and 0%, or anything scaled in between.

I had already read that post.
Given this was a 'great-grandfather' story a logo could have served a secondary purpose. As literacy rates were much lower having an identifiable business symbol like a barber pole would help people who couldn't read. Also there's no reason a name cant be a logo e.g. Google.
Sorry for the double post - I messed this up earlier.

It is very primitive, but the code can be found here:
https://github.com/thebrettd/pomodoryo

It is running on Heroku and waiting for your Yos :)
It bothers me that this is a War-and-Peace epic that makes it difficult to find the various models in a digestible form. Many have told me how good life will be if I charge for support of an open source app. And yet no one compares that with support revenue PLUS unit sales of software. I don't want to be in the support business (acknowledging that some support is always required, paid for or not). I want to be in the software business.

The security argument for open source no longer holds any credence with me, because under standard assumptions, open source and proprietary software is security equivalent in the sense that opening up the code helps both the attacker and defender equally -

http://idei.fr/activity.php?r=1898 - Ross Anderson, "Security in Open versus Closed Systems - The Dance of Boltzmann, Coase and Moore".
Nonsense website surfing on the similarity to 'msnbc'. Story is bunk:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-23/german-gold-stays-i...
The No Man's Sky approach to curation is interesting. Bots that roam around and create animated gifs of the universe so the developers can get an at-a-glance cross-section of the universe.
I'd get a Pro and use OSX BootCamp to dual boot.

My i5 Air, however, has a turbo boost option that up the processor speed from 1.7ghz to 3.7ghz when it's needed, and it's very fast comparing to my i5 lenovo running anything because of SSD.
Dominion is balanced largely through the fact that it's symmetrical. No matter how good or bad the kingdom cards, both players are interacting with them in the same way, so, barring things like writing cards that give additional advantage to the first player, it's hard to unbalance it.

If you played "a game like Dominion, except each player had their own independent set of Kingdom cards," it would be big-time not balanced. Like, kingdom sets aren't balanced against each other.

Or perhaps you meant that it's balanced like "a given card tends to be about as good as a given other card." But that's just... not very true. In any Kingdom, there are typically a few must-buys and a few must-not-buys, and there are cards that are almost never good buys and cards that are almost always good buys.

Source: played a few thousand games of Dominion on isotropic back when that was a thing.

Disclaimer: Haven't played Dominion since Hinterlands, so this may not still be accurate.
If your dynamic content is static content that is dynamically updated (with the mutable path), then it would seem like it would behave as if it was a dynamic page. For example, think of a REST API that was pointed at a bunch of static json files on your hard disk. This doesn't really handle writes, but it would certainly handle shared updating.
Google are the sort of company who would rather have 5,000 crappy, unreliable, but efficient and tiny inverters attached internally to crappy, unreliable commodity servers than spend 5000x on a single, huge, expensive, only slightly more reliable inverter covering all 5,000 servers.

It's just another way of pushing unreliability to the network edge where it minimizes systemic effects and can be replicated away cheaply, much like they did with GFS or even their UPS system (at least previous server generations at Google included a large per-server battery).
Clever! Thanks for making this open source. I really like small services like this written with Lua+nginx.
This also neatly ties in with the Mythical Man Month. You cannot increase the headcount to in the hope that you can accelerate. There is a great deal of domain knowledge that is locked up, and initially - growing involves having a person who is wearing multiple hats to give up one of their hats.
I agree and would add that constraints gave us Star Wars: A New Hope instead of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.

Which is to say that creatively working within hard constraints being a good thing is a universal creative rule, not specific to tech or social networks at all.
Someone merely held a Bitcoin address sign on TV and received coins from all over the world: http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/1/5163926/one-college-footba... How awesome is that? It sure beats the reach of sitting on a street corner...
Mission Possible
Really?

Because the article literally says:

> I’ve personally never heard of a man in the games industry getting rape threats for having an opinion.
Haskell
“Haskell is compiled from .hs-files which means HOMO SEXUAL”
~ Oscar Wilde on Haskell
You are going in an infinite loop trying to equate something (gold) to nothing (bitcoins). Typing zeros into a screen will not equate to a hand full of gold coins. The value of gold or any other metal is not a relevant argument because in a free market you can have competing currencies. Bitcoin could compete if the USA was a free market (its not) and if it was backed by something (its not). Thus the reason why investing in Bitcoin in any manner has risk. The argument with the asteroid doesn't support simply bc the metals will still be around after it hits earth. Your hard drives with stored zeros will be annihilated (much like your premise).
That's the total number, which includes the Nokia results.

Both Office 365 and Azure grew at 100+% y/y growth rates per the release above.
Tails Has Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Lurking Inside
On a related note, here are the keyboard shortcuts for Tower: http://git-tower.com/help/mac/faq-and-tips/keyboard-shortcut...
Google does the same thing, which annoys me to no end. I'm not sure when they started, within the past few years. They don't even return a Location header, so the links don't work with things like wget or curl.

A link to google.com from the google seearch results is really:

hxxp://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&ei=LPrOU6a6NYS2yASDzIGADw&usg=AFQjCNG5-9Jej-ukVeakTgwonqt2narbYg&bvm=bv.71667212,d.aWw
Far as I know, the answer to this question is by far the most relevant in the entire thread.

Even if I were an expert, the starting point is asking the question, and if I made claims about the answer, someone would come along and say it is still unknown as to whether they can do that.

It should be framed as a question because it is an open question. That's the way technology works. You don't really know you can do something until you do it.

So this question is an attempt to inform you and others of the correct context for discussion. Of course it failed.
> Lots of songs have the words "cunt" and "motherfucker", but quoting those lyrics does not mean you are intending to insult a woman or accuse someone of having an Oedipus complex.

And yet many people (women and men) will find them insulting and offensive nevertheless, regardless of what you say your intent is.
FINsix solved a AC-DC power converter problem. This is a DC to AC inverter problem.
In contexts such as computer security and reverse engineering an open source approach gives more shares within its own community. I understand other people only care if their needs are satisfied.
You may also like The Tanning of America, Horowitz is interviewed in parts and it's a really interesting documentary, but none of that story is mentioned in it
If you consider a language to be more functional, because it forces you to use functional approaches even where it produces an inferior solution, then F# will certainly win this comparison.

Just have a look at F#'s higher-order functions for collections to see what I mean.

I consider a language "functional" if it allows me to write good functional code. Scala supports that by enabling me to choose good object-oriented code instead of bad functional code where it makes sense. (There a certainly other approaches to enable good functional code.)

I wouldn't consider C# functional, because it lacks purity, higher-kinded types, useful type inference, first-class functions, good support for immutability, dependent types and typeclasses.

(Note that I'm not saying that functional language need to support all of this. But a language which supports none of those items: I think we can make a clear call in that case.)
I've found this chrome extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-track-me-goog...

quite useful for this issue. It's also a userscript:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/121923
Yes, GAAP EPS is(7%), mostly because the Nokia acquisition and the EU fine. That means that their core businesses grew, that can be considered strong as many were expecting a dying PC business. Their operating income increased by 7%. That's why analysts see this as a strong quarter (considering they've been dead for a while ... /s).

It's good to keep in mind that they're not really a startup and they're squeezed in almost all areas, so approximately maintaining revenue and income is all right.
> Liberal economists support reducing or eliminating the corporate income tax if you offset it with drastically higher personal income tax on wealthy people along with an elimination of the capital gains tax rate, and you prevent corporations from becoming vehicles for making pre-tax political contributions.

Yes, absolutely. But as liberals, let's be indignant about the impossibility of what you describe, rather than the impossibility of getting Apple to pay the same tax rate as an individual.
There's deceleration involved as well. Here's a very nice video of the shuttle boosters on their way down to give you an idea of the velocities involved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aCOyOvOw5c

An enormous amount of inertia to overcome so 30% doesn't sound so unlikely.
Apple Class-Action Lawsuit In CA Over Alleged Labor Violations
Is this the counterpart to Inbox.py[0], the Python SMTP Server for Humans?

[0]https://github.com/kennethreitz/inbox.py
Hootsuite Opens new major expansion Vancouver office (Photos)
I too like the ads. But programs with "tip of the day"s in them have had this problem solved for a long time, just including a check box for never show me again. You could make the argument with some programs that it interferes with a minimalist design, but you'd have to admit this does not appear to be what steam is going for.
Insights from Boston's UberBOAT trial
answering my own question, you can use Sabre or google QPX.
Why don't you just show the back of the license?
Typically you want AC on the input or output and DC on the other. You can use that shield to produce AC by driving the outputs with PWM (it is intended for that). If there was a 3rd channel on the mega-moto, you could drive a 3-phase AC motor with it. If you put a transformer on it, you can connect it to the line and do DC->AC or AC->DC. Normally we want the DC voltage to be higher than the AC, so it's not the ideal shield for line connection - hence the transformer instead of simple inductors. And yes, the inductors add to the size, but if you are driving an inductive load like a motor, they are normally not needed.
>>If you imply that women are inferior though, the statement has to be vigorously opposed.

I said perceived inferiority. I didn't say they are inferior.
Is there a final video of the example given? I see it all the way up to the mesh with the glasses, but after that, it's just still shots.
> "As a technologist, you know that the worst thing that you can do is over-constrain the problem before you start. You'll kill creativity and prevent yourself from getting a truly great outcome."

> As an engineer, I love hearing firm constraints from the beginning.

Sure, but note that these two points aren't in conflict. As someone building solutions, of course you want as firm a definition of the problem as possible, and constraints are part of that. But its still a critical failure to over-constrain the problem at the start (or any other time) -- constraints are essentially just a different way of phrasing requirements, and overconstraining a problem is exactly specifying superfluous requirements. Extra, unneeded constraints make the ultimate solution worse, because they mean you are solving the wrong problem -- and a more complicated problem than the one you actually needed to solve.
More than being automated, DACs operate autonomously across an infrastructure built to run them for a fee they pay to be run.

Example: A Bitcoin address is created with a simple script [1] in it that causes it to pay for it's 'existence' by periodically sending BTC to a local printer it has entered into an arrangement to print flyers with it's own Bitcoin address on it. It also pays a Task Rabbit employee periodically to go to the printer and take the flyers and put them in people's mailboxes. The flyer then 'sells' itself by asking people to donate a small amount of money to a cause that was found to be somewhat important to the people who live in the area that was canvassed. It then gives X% to the cause, and pockets the rest so it can pay for more flyers to be printed and more Task Rabbiters to deliver.

Once more feature rich blockchains like Ethereum come online, you'll be able to code up a bot that is able to do all this by itself without human intervention. It'll know where the API to the printer is, will know how to pay for research APIs for BTC and find the best couriers to deliver. It'll also provide bounties for humans to improve its software so it can make more money.

I'm thinking this is maybe 10-15 years out, with hints of it happening in the next 2-3. Going to be interesting, that's for certain.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script
2cheesy4me. In fact, if Git for Windows would add visual merging tool it would be just as good, if not better.
The Sniper Attack: Anonymously Deanonymizing and Disabling the Tor Network [pdf]
This sounds a lot like Freenet[0], though w/o the anonymity & plausible deniability guarantees. Freenet shares some of the same features + Limitations:

* Content keys are based on hashes of content, and don't change (unless a new encryption key is used to re-insert a file)

* keys that are not requested frequently will fall off the network automatically.

* Keys can be signed so only the holder of the private key can update said key

[0] https://freenetproject.org/
"Franklin Family Foundation" is a striking example.
>But its still a critical failure to over-constrain

Well yes tautologies are tautological and all, but the point is that GP and the people agree with it suspect that their definition of "over-constrain" happens way way past where the article's author does.
Here's what Jason Cohen wrote on naming ideas:

http://blog.asmartbear.com/naming-startup.html

And on naming his company (Smart Bear):

http://blog.asmartbear.com/pick-company-name-brand.html
But a lot of devices convert to DC internally! Would it be hard to dispose of that redundancy? It seems to me there'd be less need for a power inverter that way.
EDIT - some semirelevant discussions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7730205
- in the past thread, reasoning about usage of AC vs. DC
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8071524
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8071670
- DC vs. AC
The Heartbleed logo comes immediately to mind as well.
Unfortunately these asinine password requirements occur quite often. It's basically an indication that the site itself has poor security, and they're requiring a strong password to mitigate that risk. Also, if they are storing the password in plain-text, then it doesn't really matter how many fucking special characters your users have in their passwords :)

Also, users will just write down the password.
One serious question do people really use Yo now?

edit: I personally couldnot find any better use of it.
If you don't speak English, your phone probably isn't set to EN-US or another locale where the voice recognition would accept english. I'm guessing this depends on the voice reco being set to the right locale.
I don't see $60 of value over a few customized git aliases. The 'easy visualizations' in a GUI can be just as easily teased out with .gitconfig snippets:

> lg = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative
Things you didn't know Git and GitHub could do
This is bullshit, If they wanted to actually do that they would just remove the links from the actual tweet.
If the "DAC"'s wallet ever got stolen a DOS of epic proportions could take place! You could literally bankrupt the company by buying up their services with their own money.

Using a file hosting DAC as an example - if you kept uploading junk data the DAC would continue to procure server space using the stolen money from its own account. Seems an ideal way to rid yourself of competitors.
You can start working with this CMS right now. I created a new terminal.com container with Pagekit up and running. Check it here: https://terminal.com/tiny/4NEUNXJUy8
Cool stuff.

When you click on "How about you add something ?" to add a new item to list, the text input should be automatically focused.
Google has been doing this for more then 5 years (probably closer to 10). The real search result link only gets revealed once you right click on the search result (the destination is changed using Javascript's on-click).
I wonder how much of the growth is just a transient bump from businesses dumping the last of the XP machines.
I don't think a single blogpost or video won't be able to capture it. Audience in general may be pre-disposed to think and reason about it in terms of the existing underlying abstraction layer. (This is an unqualified personal judgement).

This problem and the proposed solution involves new ideas and changes across the boundaries of that layers of abstraction, so it would be hard to digest in a single sitting. Unless of course all this was synthesized in your own head :)

My guess is you would need need a more agile version of the Douglas Engelbart's "Mother Of All Demos", a functional prototype that shows everything works together in synergy to create more than a sum of the parts.

The best case would be if all the components of the puzzle are independently valuable, like Musk's SpaceX model.
> I think this one is particularly egregious given that the quote includes the term "nigga" - even though it was of course self censored - which I don't think is particularly appropriate coming from a white man.

I think it's fine that you don't like the word 'nigga'. If you don't like hearing something, it's your prerogative to tell people that so they'll stop saying it.

But realize that by giving white people a double standard in terms of how they can express themselves, you're being racist against white people, and for black people, furthering the racial and cultural divide. Rationalizing treating people differently based on the color of their skin isn't any less racist just because you're on the populist, politically-correct side.