skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your intentions, and you make a good point about bad native advertising not being a "new" thing. However, I think as rational, reasonable people, we have a hard time accepting that this idealistic intention you express is what will actually happen in practice:

> "Good" native advertising is the practice of letting brands pay to attach their names to thematically-relevant articles, whose content is not bought, directed by, or advertising the brand who wishes to advertise on it.

It rings very much like industrial sponsors of medical research, and that has failed in particularly spectacular ways in the past.
I would second alsetmusic. The veracity of ES as a source hasn't faltered since Day 1. Plus, why lie now?
In proportion? One party has armoured personnel carriers, grenade launchers, tear gas cannisters, rubber bullets and M-16s. The other has fireworks, homemade rockets and projectiles from the street.

There are ways of controlling looters without using military gear: batons, horses, shields. It doesn't require this sort of military equipment.

Also, I think you should take a look at the various videos, tweets and images coming from the town. The majority of people are assembling peacefully, if angrily in protest.
And since this will be magnitudes cleaner than natural gas/coal, you might be able to get some "green" alternative energy subsidies from various governments, which might make it more cost effective.
So you're telling me it's not total bullshit to hire someone for a coding job based on how attractive they are/seem?

Just because we have evolved heuristics for something doesn't mean those heuristics aren't stupid and irrelevant in some contexts.
I wonder how relocations along towns near state boundaries, such as moving from the Arkansas side to the Texas side of Texarkana, reflect overall interstate migrations.
What time period do you have in mind then? I don't really see, say, during the middle ages, or further back during the Antiquity, a period during which the population was helpless in the face of state security forces and widely oppressed.
and because of our remoteness, we don't have nearly that fast of a backhaul to the outside world.
Nuclear bombs aren't that dangerous though... in the grand scheme of things. That's because their use could trigger a chain reaction which creates a virtual apocalypse scenario. Basically ensuring their use impossible.

What's scary is a weapon that can cause massive damage, that we are actually willing to use.
Hey azdle, thanks for the question and being honest. Do you mind me asking who you work for? Just curious more than anything.

To answer your questions about the alert code, yes it runs in a sandbox, but we also parse it and take it through a pretty lengthy pre-check process to weed out any code that might cause performance bottlenecks or general security problems.

As for websockets, we actually do support them (well, technically socket.io) but just don't make it very clear in the documentation. If you take a look at our open-source javascript client (https://github.com/buglabs/dweetio-client/blob/master/dweet....) you can see that we're actually using it there.

Hope that helps.
Open up spotify on your mac and start playing a song.
Visit http://bonsaiden.github.io/Tuff.gb
is the audio from spotify garbled?

I submit this bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=403907&t...
The point is to allow people to get along, get to know each other, and profit from each other's company, despite our human failings. We all have things we'd like to hide, moments of weakness, beliefs, distastes and intolerances both logical and otherwise, all of which keep us apart. Politeness is the strategy which allows us to keep all that shit to ourselves, in check, so that we can get along.
Yes, that makes sense, thanks for the insight.
humane (hjuːˈmeɪn)

2. inflicting as little pain as possible: a humane killing.
I don't understand your first sentence at all.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=scotus+predictions#!/story/forever...
Do you think that brands paying for their name to be associated with articles does not influence the content and quality of the journalism?

Do you think a series about solar energy sponsored by BP is not going to be less critical of BP?

While the distinction you make is valid in theory, it requires a legitimate firewall between advertisers and journalists, a safeguard that is in rapid decline in most places.

Personally, I presume any sponsored content is influenced by the sponsor.
It's a very indicative part of the story. Given the story of the Wash Post guy and the Al Jazeera guys, both very well documented, it does indeed seem like a substantial portion of those particular cops do wake up in the morning thinking something other than what I'd like.

If this is how they power-trip and shove around journalists, how are they treating people who are less of a PR threat?

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/live-news/2014/8/al...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-ferguson-washingto...
> heresay.

heresy + hearsay = heresay?
Of course, and I'm sure dealing with the many different data sources (ie. weather and TV listings) makes it even more complicated!
Another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYk3sQzD7SU
MeterHero uses a simple method to solve a worldwide problem
> I did some research and this seems to be an original idea. Why hasn’t anyone tired this before?

I've done it. Making the emulator, debugger, and hooks to extend games is the easy part. The really hard part is getting people to then go back and enhance games.

In my case, I created some new I/O registers for the SNES. One set is called MSU1, which lets you read in up to 4GB from a data file, and also lets you mix in CD-quality audio (which you can use for voice acting, or replacing audio tracks while keeping sound effects.) Particularly nice about the MSU1, was that it was designed to be possible on real hardware. And a flash cart called sd2snes implements it.

Here's an example of Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past with a remastered audio soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnAg2T7d6uU

And here's an example where the Playstation full-motion video intro was inserted into the SNES version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn_jXf7FHGA (yes, that full motion video really is possible on a real SNES.)

Not an enhancement, but d4s ported Road Blaster (a full FMV game) to the SNES, even: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THJvsIezXrQ

Another I/O register set I put in place was called HSU1. This one lets your SNES game send and receive network packets. I've used it to implement a high-score leaderboard in Campus Challenge '92 and Powerfest '94. You play the game in the emulator, and your score shows up on a website. But it's bi-directional. You could take this concept a lot further, with dynamic content in games, special events on certain days, etc.

I've also toyed with adding rumble support to the controllers. Although I was beaten to the punch there by some patches a guy made for the Xbox port of ZSNES a few years prior.

Lastly, in our community, we have some pretty sophisticated OpenGL pixel shaders. One person implemented a real-time map display of Super Metroid where the shader read in the player position from the SNES' RAM. You could utilize that concept to show any kind of additional information to the player.
Reminds me a lot of Knytt and Knytt Stories created by Nicklas "Nifflas" Nygren [1]

[1] - http://nifflas.ni2.se/
I think your biased opinion and dependency on advertising is clouding your judgement wrt the decline of investigative journalism and rise of advertorial/promotional "journalism". Editorial independence and integrity have been shown again and again to not be maintained.
xmb yes, development kits no
Your project was made to solve some problem, you have to figure out who has that problem and how to reach them.
> Sure, one can think up use cases. But I never had one.

Welcome to your very own filter bubble.
I don't know OP, but a quick glance at his bio quickly shreds the "PUA" assumption you lobbed on him.
We're hosting a webinar with alumni from each online coding bootcamp next Thursday- you should tune in! http://webinars.coursereport.com/online-bootcamps/
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Most interesting things aren't new.
I'm really not sure where you get the idea that the drivers are along for the ride. Certainly not in that video, where the only input from a driver (Rosberg) shows that he's very, very busy during the race.
Generally I would expect direct fire weapons to have much less collateral damage than bombs.

Building a better bullet can save lives.
It's ok though :-) It's a little inaccurate, maybe, but it's not really insincere. What he's saying is that he'd like to hear more. And he would.
In grand tradition I'm going to bitch about the graphic design elements.

For those of us with bad eyes, contrast is important. Coloring the oceans yellow while having the actual data colored in various shades of yellow makes this a major pain to read.
Wired has a good write-up, too:

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/largest-robot-swarm-ever/

The quote at the end, about needing a larger table to handle a bigger swarm, made me think of the movie Jaws: "We're going to need a bigger boat."
Whenever I read this, I just interpret it as, "I have jobs, I just don't want to pay for the talent to fill them"

I interpret it as "I'm unwilling (or unable) to invest in hiring inexperienced workers and help them grow into progressively more demanding roles".
I've been looking everywhere for the inverse of these graphs = states that former-residents of each state moved to.

I used to live in a state that many went to college in, but none of those stayed after graduation.
I'd release those devices before the tag. Otherwise, you're just catering to the hacker/maker crowd. They're just going to opt to using something like the SensorTag.
Also, a bonus amusement: French Guiana is identified as France. It almost always is with these statistics maps. This always throws me for a loop, but I guess it is technically a region of France, so maybe that's how it should appear.

Any experts care to chime in?
They're doing some non-profits, which i'm not sure if that's what he was getting at... but is still pretty cool.
"Maintaining a positive perception amongst your constituents" has almost no relationship to "doing what the voters want."
I like the idea, but...

why twenty years late to the party?
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Walksource (YC S14) helps hotels solve relocations
Not in recent races, where there's been real competition.
I was vital enough to my full time employer that I knew they'd give me some contracting to hold them over. And, I had a couple of contacts who I knew were interested in my doing some work for them.

I started planning 3 months before I gave notice. Made sure I had 6 months' savings. Formed an LLC, talked with a business attorney and CPA, and lined up projects before my quit-date. So I was basically ready to go from day 1.
San Francisco laws are now forkable
Maybe offtopic, but what do you think about the economics of plug-in hybrid cars (like the Chevy Volt)?
Really interesting. This would be improved with the numbers for that country of origin per state. It makes me want to go grab the data and do some deeper digging.
Object Storage versus Block Storage: Understanding the Technology Differences
It's known issue, I've to the exact same issue here on Linux, seems to be related with their Web Audio implementation.
There's a built in deployment method called "msdeploy" that makes it super easy to deploy a website. It's either one click from visual studio, or highly scriptable from the command line. My company hasn't manually deployed code in years, it's one click in team city to build and deploy.
That's clearly a tale rather than a true event. The guy would have noticed during other extremely short trips that his car wouldn't start afterwards.
The funny thing is if this was a kickstarter campaign, all the comments on this post would be super negative.
Start sending emails and reaching to those who have the hair on fire problem you're trying to solve.
>Really? By whom? Where?

By the prevalent public discourse ever since the 50's at least.

>* In a nutshell, it's collapsed due to government not being able to deliver on a great deal of what it promises.*

Seems to be able to deliver just fine in Germany or Denmark for example. It might no be infallible, but then is there any private entity that is?

>And remember, if you're inclined to start making excuses for why the public may not trust the government, you simply end up explaining why the public doesn't trust the government, it doesn't make the mistrust go away.

If you change "making excuses" to "finding the causes", then it's actually the very first step to "making the mistrust go away".
I had the same problem though I was playing music with Radiant Player. However, I switched my sound output from HDMI (a Vizio TV) to my MBP speakers and it went away.

I'll also submit the above as a comment on the bug report.
True, you're right. Except for the college thing though. :)
Yeah, I wanted to mention that too. The save mechanic is very similar.
I think he's referring to the "Pick-Up Artist" community and their tendency to eschew empathy and solidarity in favor of manipulation and competition. "Don't hate the playa, hate the game"

http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/

Warning: Possibly NSFW, features ads about how to "bang 6 girls a week", etc
The name escapes me, but I remember seeing an episode of a television series about pick-up artists where the guy talked about the importance of dressing outrageously and not conforming to a dress code.

Perhaps this guy is assuming that because pick-up artists and the original poster both have similar thoughts on dress codes, the original poster is therefore a pick-up artist?
You got me! I enjoyed Knytt so much, and it was the game that first inspired me to make the first version of Tuff way back in 2010 :) https://github.com/BonsaiDen/Tuff/commits/master
PUA means Pick Up Artists.

There are lots of people in the PUA community who just use the same techniques that work to "pick up" people to be more socially confident and meet people.

Often people will talk about things like maintaining eye contact, escalating, inner game, etc. In the end, its just exploiting how we are as humans the same way slight of hand works and we all clap at David Blane.
That's ridiculous. What do you think is driving the traffic when an ISP doesn't accept the hardware. It's the same hardware just running in Netflix's data center.
Ah yes, the scroll is annoying! I think I tried some sort of preventDefault thing, but definitely need to get that working. Thanks!
I do get it; it's something that we're acutely aware of, and there's a lot of effort being put into improving the integrity and transparency of the whole affair. The first article is syndicated from ClickZ - they're one of our syndication partners, but I'm not sure what the criteria for syndication are. It's not actually clear that there was any sponsorship by BIA/Kelsey on it (I think that's who you're talking about?)

The other two examples are much worse, granted, but it's worth noting that the other two examples are almost 3+ years old at this point; we ran with that for a bit while trying to figure out native advertising, but the company has moved on from that kind of advertising. You'll also notice the giant [SPONSORED] in the headline, slug, and highly visible advertising disclaimers at the top and bottom of the post. There is no ambiguity about their "bought" status.
"I just want to work with one GREAT company for 30-40 years..." - and yet you are applying to companies, 90% of which are likely to fail?
It sounds like a useful service, but I'm not going to pay you $49 to submit to "100+ sites" without first knowing what those sites are. You need to post a list of sites you submit to, or at least some general description of them.
He clarifies that his interest is genuine, at the end.

"For all of my irony I really do want to know about the process of hanging jewelry from celebrities."

On the other hand, I know what he means when he says "I’ve found that people will fear your enthusiasm and warmth, and wait to hear the price." I know someone who operates like him, and based on that experience, it's weird for someone to be super nice and try to engage you enthusiastically when they know nothing about you. Maybe the person I know just does it wrong, I'm not sure, but even if they are genuine, I always have an inkling suspicion that they aren't.
Here is the daily Medium article
As someone who was programming at this time, and before, I agree with all these and the child comments. Java being OO but a "simpler C++" plus having garbage collection generated a lot of interest, even in places that were all Windows shops.
Late 90's I worked at a place that sold software to customers that had to run on Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris and HP-UX. Java went a long way of saving us from the #ifdef nightmares.
Fan patches for various games can go pretty far in this direction too. For example here is one guy making a D3D10 renderer for Unreal (the original one): http://kentie.net/article/d3d10drv/

Sure they usually do not employ emulators, but still often afaik they place themselves between the game and the API, translating it to something more modern in passing.
There has been looting Sunday night. It is Wednesday today.
My collision code is overly simplistic, and so I went with squares to give the asteroids some jagged edges. I should totally try out circles to see if they look better, though. Thanks!
Nice. I'll check this out. I was also hoping that it did some type of heuristic detection, but I know how hard that can be to get right.
Personal growth through empathy.

As in the example of the jeweler, the author's politeness caused the woman to reveal information about herself. And as he states later in the article, he actually enjoyed learning about her work. He now understands this person's perspective a bit better.

I would be interested to know how he has handled conversations with similarly polite people. Did they arrive at a common ground, resulting in a profoundly enlightening conversation, or did they end up in a sort of politeness stalemate, with neither party wanting to disclose information about themselves?
Tried your link and got:

Your request for http://ad-assets.nytimes.com/paidpost/dell/will-millennials-... was blocked.
Block reason: Host matches generic block pattern.

Yep, definitely noticed it was an ad. One more reason to install Privoxy.
Ask HN: Standard server health/statistics REST API
If you're implementing a REST API in say, Node.js, is there any standardized set of endpoints you can implement for reporting basic server stats, such as uptime, number of transactions processed to date, etc.

A very crude example might look like this

GET /stats

{

"uptime" : 1234,

"transactions today": 234

}

Rather than re-invent the wheel I wanted to see if there were any standard formats for this.
Thanks for the comment. It's ideally supposed to be the same as the original. If it is not, it's because I haven't implemented some features yet (spaceships, slowing down eventually if you don't thrust, ...).
If you can add anything to the bug listed above that would be super helpful for the chrome team :)
Oh well :) Here's a copy http://web.archive.org/web/20140814200929/http://ad-assets.n...
"Mozilla cannot fix 100% of the bugs that we do not know about."
We'd certainly be concerned about those kinds of applications. Fortunately we don't use beams in this approach. The plasma used in the Fusion Engine is akin to a balloon or pillow, granted - a really hot pillow, but luckily a terrible projectile.
I'm unsure they are different for everyone.
That's very impressive work.

I really had no idea any of this existed before writing mine, and so far people have pointed out several instances of this applied to consoles (which I haven't explored at all), but none about PC games. I wonder why is this? Do consoles have higher-level APIs you can hook into that makes this more reusable across games - more similar to adding hooks to a game engine vs an individual game in the PC world?
Thanks, didn't mean to request another. You can bypass Privoxy's filters with a click, but it's nice to know I have a huge warning page when I reach an ad article like that.
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He takes it a bit far... but its true that fuel is a primary driver of politics in our current times. What that means though is a bit less known. Honestly i'd assume it would be a stabilizer more than anything. It could lead to the end of propping up regimes in the middle east for instance.
Yeah, I immediately thought of this beautiful N64 mod for Super Mario 64.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYCl6eazCTQ
Regardless of everyone's feelings on whether weapons research is or isn't a good idea, this strikes me as a grossly unlikely application.

The problem with direct-fire weapons is not something like "bullets don't do enough damage." It's aiming and range and so forth. A plasma weapon seems unlikely to have good range or good aiming, and if it does not come with a fusion reactor alongside it, it's also kind of hard to see how you'd power the damn thing.

I'm sure someone can imagine some upside to such a weapon, but in practice, the odds that that particular result would come instead of a million other variations that would be inferior to just shooting bullets at things seems deeply unlikely.

And as everyone has already said, we already have fusion bombs. And for that matter small tactical nuclear weapons for more battlefieldy uses.
Except these cops are eager to escalate the situation even if no looting is taking place: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/dispatches/2...
In the eye of the storm: Typhoons in Hong Kong
Brett Glass is a bit of a crank, though. His ISP is unviable but rather than just going out of business honestly he's looking for others to subsidize it. It was discussed extensively on NANOG: http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2014-July/068290.ht...
It's not only Spotify. I've had the same issue with Adium notification sounds while the game was running in Safari on OS X 10.9.

Funny, the sound became all 8-bit like, so it fitted the game quite nicely. :)
Has anyone had any experience with Amazon Web Store? Although I haven't tried it myself, one of the most appealing things about it is that the customer can use their amazon account and if you opt for the fulfillment by Amazon option (which is a different optional service), your customers can use their prime shipping account to get free two day shipping and Amazon takes care of the entire shipping process. Sounds like a killer feature but I was just wondering if anyone had any real experience with it.
Cool! wasn't aware of it.
I got that part. I just didn't see the PUA signifiers in the comment they replied to.
Asteroid collisions completely change the game! You also nailed that vintage look! Nice stuff! I'm diving into your source code for polygons in detail!