skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we could say that Bruce Wayne knows well how to purchase fuzzies and utilons separately [0]. He spends a lot of his resources to help effectively by donating to local charities, and he gets the fun and good feelings from helping people by chasing criminals himself as Batman.

[0] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/6z/purchase_fuzzies_and_utilons_sepa...
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Watch out for the big harkonnen missile on the maps with the castle. Enjoy!
Check out https://permafrast.herokuapp.com. OP built this as well, and it makes it really easy to read cases without signing into Lexis, Westlaw, or, well ... anything.

Just one of many examples of how lawyers can use tech to make their day jobs easier.
Using a Circle CI build server as an ad-hoc QA environment
Incorrectly, though. 300 cm is a long way for a human to shift his weight.
How does something like Phonegap / Apache Cordova fit in to VoltRB?
Linux client, and the client source code is also available.
Nope. :)

EDIT to add even more courtesy.
I hope he means 'abandoning it to people who will develop it further so more people can enjoy it: I'm not going to deal with that aspect anymore'.

But I could just be optimistic.
I get the impression that Notch may not actually be all that talented. I mean, he's probably more so than the average Joe, but not super exceptionally talented.

It seems like he got lucky, and was good enough to leverage his success into more success and was good enough of a businessman to profit handsomely from the whole thing, but that's about it. I understand that he hasn't done anything on Minecraft in quite a while. His attempts at something new don't seem to have gone anywhere. (That weird space programming game from a while back got a lot of attention but never resulted in anything.)

So, maybe that was it. Notch is a one-hit wonder. And there's nothing wrong with that. I'm sure he's already contributed more to the world than most of us ever will. But that doesn't necessarily mean that we're all losing out on anything significant if he doesn't keep trying to make more big things.

And from the other side of things, it seems like Minecraft came out of one of these ridiculous idle amusements. If you had described Minecraft to people before it was made, they would have thought it was ridiculous. Oh, a volumetric 3D world with a 1990s-era renderer. Great. Sounds about as useful as a Doom map viewer written in Dart. Yet it turned into something huge. So if Notch does have another hit in him, it will probably come about the same way, through more strange messing about.
I've built this as a sister project of RandomStartup.org
Actually R0 is a measure which captures both population mixing activity and the infectiousness of the pathogen - the two processes are confounded. That means that it varies a lot over space and time.
Interesting point, but besides Cheetah being a sexier, more accessible name, the main problem they are trying to solve here is gait and top speed. The efficiency of batteries (heart/lungs) is a ancillary problem they have to solve, but not their main goal.
Useful for articles that have sluggish javascript behavior, span multiple pages, or are otherwise hard to read.

Example use with a TechCrunch article: http://justread.mpgarate.com/read?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunc...

Also works well as a bookmarklet:

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I remember playing the lego creator game. The reason minecraft caught on instead is the controls are much easier, and multiplayer.
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One of the things you need to understand about these deals, and deals like it (Nokia), is that Microsoft is using trapped overseas cash to make these acquisitions.

(If they repatriated this cash to the US instead they would lose something like 40% of it to taxes)

Its a good time to be a foreign (to the US) company.
only $6.30 profit per trip and that's the best example of a profitable airline, crazy
The technological problem of power density vs. limbs and the control of the limbs seem fairly separate to me. If we had 10 times more efficient batteries, this would simply run ten times further without any other changes. Unless the bottleneck here is heat dissipation in the motors, but even that would be way easier to fix than our battery problems.
I remember telling my brother about two years ago "You know what would be a great game? A game where you can make things, worlds etc., from a few fundamental pieces, just like lego." He said good idea, but it's already been done and is called Minecraft and our cousins play it non-stop.
But why do we HAVE to use the servers at facebook as the server in the middle

"pubsubhubbub" as a protocol would let you choose your "hub"

in general, any publisher of information could designate one or more computers to store the data redundantly, and even encrypt it so that only my friends with the key can decrypt it.

that's how the web works btw
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It's been years since I've visited this site. While it could use a technology update, the content is still quite humorous.
I think China shows us that a totalitarian regime can in many cases be worse for the environment than even the most unrestrained laissez-faire capitalism. That's because totalitarian regimes will apply forcing functions to things like industrial activity and will make wasteful malinvestments for political purposes at scales far beyond the froth you see in market economies. Google China's ghost cities.
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> Market research won't get you...any of the Beatles' songs.

That's exactly how we got most of the Beatles' songs. The Beatles' function in the music industry was to repeat and popularize the ideas of other artists and to follow nascent trends, the same as any pop artist.
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Is the info hash different from a magnet url? can they be translated from one to the other?
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I suppose people working on such projects don't think of their creations as "scary as fuck"? Because that is exactly what I think when I see an effective dog-like robot. I cannot help but imagine, for example, that in the future, campus shootings will be replaced by campus robots hunting down students and faculty (due to malicious programming)! Is the fear I feel that irrational, founded only on Hollywood movies in which mankind always ends up fighting the rise of AI?

Also, (before software and hardware eat the world, literally) I don't think the capitalistic structure + unbridled automation is a stable combination. Because those who own the capital will always prefer an uncomplaining and efficient worker, the robot, to a human being 9 out of 10 times. And those who own their labour are, well, outdated. The pace of automation is beyond unprecedented; it is incomprehensible.
> We just need to reflect on what our values are as people.

That's the hard part. Automation is coming whether we like it or not, because is being forced into our throats by the combined mechanisms of our economy (or by The System, or Moloch, call it what you like). But "reflecting on our values" requires coordination of the whole society. Which is hard. We might coordinate eventually, when the going by gets too hard, just like people eventually fixed the industrial revolution - but it took riots and revolutions and communism spreading over half of the planet to get there. If we want to do this before blood gets spilled, we need to find a way to coordinate sooner.

I'm still not sure how we can approach that.
Think Microsoft-VR.

Billions in VR-device/console sales secured via platform exclusivity. See Halo(Bungie)/Xbox etc. Games dictate console sales.

Minecraft will actually be a lot more effective. Massively popular among every demographic. Smart move and good timing.

Hats off to New-Microsoft.
50 of them got released as Kindle Singles a few years ago.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/06/news/la-jc-the-readi...
Nope. If the city of origin is another airline hub you could theoretically do another hidden-city trip back, though. (eg Denver->Indianapolis->XXX)
That's really cool. A dozen of my bookmarks don't return 404 anymore.
Your first question is "can you make a conscious effort to get better at [being resourceful]?" The answer is almost certainly yes.

Techniques for being resourceful are very specific to the individual, so what works for one person may not for another. That being said...

The first thing I would do is meditate. It is becoming trendy, but I think for a good reason. By complete coincidence, http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/237313 is a news article that showed up this morning. I think if a man like Steve Jobs arranges for a book on meditation (and self-actualization) to be given to the attendees of his own funeral, that is a powerful sign.

Talk to other people about challenges you face. This sounds simple, but it is effective. Another way of saying "I need a creative solution" is "I need a solution that I wouldn't have come up with". To me, that sounds like "I need a solution someone else came up with". Every successful business leader has advisors. So should you.

There is a talk by Charlie Munger (of Berkshire Hathaway fame) about decision making. It tends to focus on mistakes, but if you know what mistakes to avoid, it can help you find the right answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqzcCfUglws

Tell me what you think about these.
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You should try haskell, it has more syntax but as a result it provides more context and is much more concise.
This is awesome! I built something similar as a side project a few years ago [1]. Our approach is a little bit different since we're focusing on crawling updated opening hours weekly (when available), so our data will never be stale.

It's currently very popular in Denmark, but we have a US version as well.

We have been looking into opening up our dataset for anyone to use, shoot me an email if this is something you would be interested in: me@codemonkey.io

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whats-open-nearby-find-hours...
"If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately."

That is a very nice option to have.
Interesting, I never really gave it much thought. I always wanted a Java plugin for Visual Studio personally. Oh well. I guess IntelliJ is good enough. I guess it makes sense, if I remember correctly some of their download managers use Java themselves, or used to.
Calling RyanAir "high quality" must be some kind of joke.
Is there a way to just centralize friends only? And then other providers provide every other service?
not only was RadioShack the only computer store in town, but they also helped open up the IBM platform by selling the Tandy computer (produced by their parent company, Tandy). Prior to that they created and sold the TRS-80.

It's easy to toss rocks at them today. But it's hard to understate their importance to the early PC industry.

Ultimately Jobs was right. This sort of hobbyist market wasn't going to last (and RadioShack has completely missed the boat on the 3d printing and "maker" movements). We don't have smartphones with BASIC installed. Computer makers don't even care about that aspect of their devices (that is, that they are programmable). Things have changed quite dramatically.
Instead of pulling a Wozniak, why not pull a Sergey Brin?

Use the incredible resources you gained from your first success to finance all the cool side-projects you ever dreamed of?

Notch could start any web experiment he wanted, and when he got bored, pass it along to an army of coders to refine and finish.
It doesn't really look that impressive. Sure, the tech probably is very advanced, but the gait just looks silly and quite far from the "elegance" of fast land animals. While the article does imply that "getting from bounding to galloping is not that hard", I don't think it is that easy either or they would have done it already.
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Code doesn't execute itself either, to be fair.

/compiler geek
> We just need to reflect on what our values are as people.

Maybe, but this seems to assume that there aren't a sufficiently large quantity of the already well off whose "values as people" aren't centered around protecting their own short-term relative position in society. I think the history of humanity and what it takes to get change that distributes some of the benefits of progress rather than concentrating in the already-best-off suggest that this assumption may be unjustified.
There was a great Stack post on this a while ago. Basically it always boils down to booking early, really, that's how you get those cheap flights. The "book a few weeks before" option is bunk.

For most of us Europeans, jumping off at a stopover isn't an option, although it is possible to do this on trains sometimes (and actually it's very legal, you're entitled to break your journey at a valid calling point).

https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/2952/flight-ticke...
The "Docs" and "Download" buttons on the front page have different height and font sizes. (Chrome on android)
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I would assume that canvassing with false information would then become a federal crime, as it would be a conspiracy to prevent a legally compulsory act. Add in bounties for whistle-blowers who can show conspiracies like this, and internal greed will prevent these types of shenanigans.

Voting is a fundamental right to self-expression and self-determination. And I think that any attempt to prevent a citizen from voting or preventing a legitimate vote from counting (barring votes that are unable to be interpreted) should be considered treason.
You have to book two one-way tickets. One IND-LAX thru DIA, and another one DIA-LAX. If you booked a round-trip IND-LAX, both thru Denver, and you skipped the DIA-LAX on the outbound, the rest of your ticket will be cancelled.

It can be substantial even doing it one-way, a popular route I flew into ORD was $454 each way on its own, but going thru ORD onto somewhere like MKE was $89-105 consistently. So even with the full-fare ticket back, it would reduce the price from nearly $900 r/t to $600ish. YMMV.
Grigori Perelman documentary (with English subtitles)
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Not to mention society changes law, and when society doesn't like law, they can ditch it and make a new one
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Part of my job is to prevent this. We are very good at cancelling your ticket based on airline rules if we know you wont get on a plane based on your other flights. Airlines ban/fine travel agents (and sometimes passengers) that abuse their rules.
I think messenger works very well on mobile, which somehow I see most people use for actual messaging.
did they remove rss though?
> Instead of simply copying US businesses Brazilians should innovate in markets that make sense for Brazil. Focus on local customers in services that can be expanded worldwide.

Interesting point of view. Do you have any example about that in mind?
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He sounds depressed and frustrated. All I see is bad emotions in all that.

With all the money he has, he could at least try to share or expand his passion in some way.

It's true that he's lucky, you sense the modesty, that he doesn't want to be perceived as talented.

But even if that's true, he could at least try a little bit more. I mean he seems content with his work, but if I had such fame, at least I'd try to use it and approach game companies to negotiate deals, and share his vision of gaming.

Hasn't he ever tried to lead some team and get in touch with programmers he likes to do something ? Can't individuals like him hire a manager to do the job and project his vision into something ? I mean aren't there decent people able to know when there's potential, and solve the relational stuff ?

I mean you can't be modest like that all the time. at some point it's grumpiness, not modesty.

I wish there were businessmen able to notice those modest, hard working loners and just get small companies working with them. Not even companies, just small teams and projects. Some coaching. I wonder what's Carmack's story. I'd love to hear about the work stories of those guys, or maybe hear them talk about work politics. Of course they don't want to, because they might be made fun of, but meh.
Programming is like cooking. You don't have to know it, but it comes in handy and you can impress your friends with it. Just don't thing you can open a restaurant just because you make a great risotto.
It seems to me the makers of this documentary pride themselves in not trying to explain what the conjecture is and how Perelman proved it at all.

This is nice, since they could only have failed and leaves more room for Perelman as a person.
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The economic impact of robotics/automation was discussed quite extensively month ago here at HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8183172
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As i understand it, a magnet URL is a way of transferring an infohash as a URL scheme, so that it works with other programs. For example, the following magnet URL:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e666231c9a34be278f6cfc390099e4084b30e023&dn=The.Giver+2014+720p+REPACK+HDRip.x264+AC3-JYK&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337

contains first the protocol (magnet:) which tells the OS that this is a magnet URL so give it to some app that can handle that. Since it's in URL form it's all broken down into & separated key/value pairs, so next part:

xt=urn:btih:e666231c9a34be278f6cfc390099e4084b30e023

is the infohash (actual infohash is e666231c9a34be278f6cfc390099e4084b30e02, the xt is just the key for that value, urn:btih probably means something, google it).

The other ones are pretty self-explanatory, the name of the torrent (presumably so the client can display something pretty before it has downloaded the metadata) and some trackers
The term "community manager" is perhaps a misnomer. A better term might be "community supporter." We have a community manager/supporter at RethinkDB, and here is what Christina does:

- Proactively reaches out to users to see if they need help, then
connects them to the developers on the team in case they need
something but haven't reached out themselves (which is
surprisingly common).
- Searches for meetups related to our product/company and helps
meetup organizers by sending them gifts for the attendees,
gives them occasional food budget, organizational advice, etc.
- Organizes our own meetups and makes sure food, drinks, label
printer, venue, and a million other things that go into events
are all set up and ready to go for the attendees.
- When she notices community members are working on related
projects, she acts as a network hub and connects them to each
other.
- A million other things that need to get done when you have a
large, distributed, non-hierarchical group of people trying to
accomplish something.

We use the term "community manager" because that's what the industry standardized on, but really she's not managing anything. She supports the community in every way she can, so really, she's a "community supporter". It's a vital role, and every good open-source project has someone doing the job, though they may not necessarily have an explicit title.
1,000 years in the future, an advanced alien civilization digs up the remains of humanity, decodes all of our DNA, figures out all of our interactions, and decides to recompose the businessman and bring him back to life after discovering he was the creator of Minecraft.
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Or for something heavier, try Emperor's "Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise," written while Ihsahn took a classical music composition course. I think it has an interesting structure and brings out some of the best aspects of using distorted music and voices for dramatic effect. Might take a few listens to get it though.
> Everything I've read seems like Minecraft totally failed to learn from id software and valve when it comes to modding. And still Minecraft mods are massive.

I have played it but I'm not really a Minecraft person myself. However as far as I know the modding situation isn't that bad because the Minecraft jar can be easily decompiled. The problem is only the lack of a stable API (which seems to be in development though) which means updates can break mods and other mods can break mods. There also doesn't seem to be an official loader or mod list. Thus people are forced to deal with obscure websites and obscure mod makers.

Mojang is not putting any artificial hurdles in the way of modding. Something which I highly doubt would have ever been possible if it had been a Microsoft company.
That is on about 3-4B revenue or so though, so its actually a pretty good profit margin.
I didn't see an Open Source license listed anywhere on the website, so I downloaded the client to verify. Looks like Cyphertite uses the ISC license, an all-permissive Open Source license.
I'd also be interested in that.
I thought the story was directed to the general readership, in which case I find it a naive oversimplification of wealth/labor and raldi's addendum to it realistic. If it applied specifically to notch, his financial freedom would be very obvious to a passing businessmen; ie, he'd be ordering burgers from the local joint to feed himself, not slaughtering cattle for meat (unless he enjoys that part).

Only Hollywood seems to think we all work like rats without considering why. If I had all my student loans, car, house, retirement, recreational allowance provided for, I might never touch a keyboard again.

Point being "striving for excess without considering your needs" is more concise and accurate than any interpretation of this "parable".
Or as me and my uncle describe it: it's like legos.
Take a look at this Coursera course, Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship https://class.coursera.org/innovativeideas-015
No. Like the homepage says, the site is incomplete. But really you shouldn't be looking at the solutions, anyway.
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This is so great. I tweeted this idea a few months ago with the hopes that someone would make it. I doubt you guys saw it but it does makes me happy that this exists.
If you have a high zone number when boarding, the odds of the overhead bins being filled before you board are higher. About half of my trips to and from NYC in the last 4 years have required zones 4 and 5 to check their bags at the gate, due to full overhead bins.