skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In all honesty, I do not seem to share the same disdain/hatred as others are about Gone Home. However, I would maintain that Gone Home isn't a game, however it does share its heritage.

In Japan, there exists a video/picture book called Visual Novels. They run on a computer, either with video or pictures, along with sound. They also have light amount of text, as 3D landscapes aren't terribly used as of yet.

This Gone Home should be more part of a Visual Novel genre. Like I said, it does look like a game in some aspects. Admittedly, having not played it, I cannot say there aren't game elements in it.

Well, that would be a good criteria for what a game "is":

'Is there a chance of winning or losing? And if you lose, does it cost you a loss in resource (including time)?'
Thanks for sharing this! I wrote a similar post recently:
https://medium.com/@morphmail/the-first-300-a-startup-launch...
Because the products only sell themselves once they are in front of the right decision makers at the right time. Sometimes arranging that takes much foresight, skill & determination (and not a small measure of bull too, if I may be more cynical for a moment!).

Also, SaaS offerings are not new and therefore rare & exciting any more so you are unlikely to be alone in the market - you need your sales+marketing people to compete with everyone else's.
The A8 chip is "only" a dual-core and clocked at a relatively modest 1.4GHz. It's heartening to see it beat competing 2+GHz Quad-cores. To me, it looks like Apple is comfortable enough with their marketing strategy to stay away from the pointless GHz rat-race that exists in the Android world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_myth
Thanks for the info. Foolishly I didn't commit history. Anyway, I'm happy enough with flask-admin, just wondering if there was something else I was missing out on.
Software is good enough, why improve the hardware?
Another Patent Troll Slain. You Are Now Free to Rotate Your Smartphone
The really interesting data point to me is the 6+'s 13.7 hours of WiFi browsing versus the LG G3's 8.8 hours. Both are 5.5" screens with ~3000 mAh batteries, but the iOS/A8 combo lasts more than 50% longer.
I don’t think that’s very valuable. We are (sadly) at a point where you can ruin your battery life in iOS depending on how you use it. With great power (to actually run things in the background for real) comes great responsibility (to micromanage your apps) …

The improvements we see in benchmarks can thus easily be lost in the noise.
I got turned off multiplayer RTS games way back in the C&C: Red Alert days, where every single game was "build a shitload of tanks and rush your opponent". Every time I have dipped my toe back in over the years since I have found basically the same mechanic. Plus, I don't really want to get better at a game where the primary skill is clicking around the map like a manic Jack Russel terrier on speed.
Another thing that might have happened - the queen might have swarmed. It's not uncommon in the spring. Sometimes they don't like where they are living, sometimes there is a queen power struggle, sometimes it just happens for no reason.

I have heard that some beekeepers use a trick where they keep a spare empty box somewhere else on their property. If the queen wants to swarm, she'll often decide to move into the empty box. Then the beekeeper gets to keep a hive that would otherwise be gone.
Shouldn't this included iPad too comparisons too, since it includes the Nvida shield? Else, the Nvida shield should probably not be up there.
The biggest crimes have come from states because states are the biggest organizations of people. It's almost a tautology.

I think it's just as naive to believe that the State always sides against your interest. Hitler and Stalin were heads of state, but so were FDR and Churchill.
Quick-time events are just a "Simon Says" mini-game. It is supremely lazy game-making; not a single gamer I know likes QTEs and I would venture to say that not a single copy of any game ever was sold because "Oh! This game has awesome quick-time events; I'm going to buy this game right now!".
Ok that explains it a little bit.

So Standby time is basically "Time off Charger", and Usage is supposed to be "Screen on time"? Except I have a feeling that "Usage" includes any time when your phone is not sleeping (which would include not just the time when you have the screen on but also any time when the processor is doing stuff in the background).

What draws me to that conclusion is the ratio of usage to standby time that some people in that thread have. I have a hard time believing that most people are staring at their screens for half of their waking life. I mean even if you didn't leave the house all day you'd still have to take your eyes off the thing to prepare food, urinate, put your clothes on.
A Fundamental Disconnect
I would be up for that, I've wanted to learn Haskell for a while now.
I think the desire to make games "open-ended" is inherently flawed (if you also want players to enjoy themselves.) The more complex and unpredictable a game becomes, the more difficult it is to balance. A certain (probably small) number of paths will be gravitated to leaving most stories unexplored and ending up equivalent to a linear story line (with a lot more work.) One way to attempt to fix this is to create multiple balanced paths (essentially a "choose your own adventure.") This can be brute-forced by adding more and more optional story lines, but in the end it is just many linear stories which is functional equivalent to selecting from different games to play.

It is fun to think about creating a virtual world that is as rich and complex as the real one, but we already live in a reality that often sucks so hard we want to retreat into fiction. Stories with minor interactive components are a fine genre (if well done and compelling) as are puzzle and action games. The fact that they are different than reality is their primary feature, not a flaw.
Does anyone know of good headphones with a microphone and that they are over-the-ear type or have noise cancellation?
As both a novel writer and blogger, I actually recommend going for sheer word count first, but still editing vigorously afterward. I find it much easier to edit after I've dumped everything from my brain.

Case in point: I only reached this concise comment after drafting two other, much longer versions of it.
Not sure what makes me more sad, the idea that you think journalists are in some way involved in the task of "finding out the truth" or that you are surprised by the ratios. Journalism has been on its death bed for at least a decade with the number of people working in that field dropping every year, while marketing and advertising have continued to grow in a world where the standard user expectation is to not pay for online content and where they instead expect to be surrounded by advertising as the price of admission.
Even if they are able to do that, they still need to shutdown 21 other VM, probably on 21 other hosting provider in different countries, all that in the same time. I'm sure they can but I'm also pretty sure TPB can start new ones faster then authorities can stop them.
Why would anyone ever want something as mission critical as DS, to be outside their own control?
Especially considering that these devices are all thermally limited: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/SoC-th...
I rather like the idea, at least in theory. It turns out that nature can actually be rather noisy, not to mention filled with mosquitoes and the like, so I've found it less productive than hoped in practice.
Yes but extending your analogy, the knife is sharp. I totally agree that the government needs careful watching, but I disagree that we should totally fear all government. A government without power would be like using a butter knife...you probably won't cut yourself, but you'll also have a lot of trouble cooking.
I've on more than one occasion used Lisp's "everything is data" idea to build little domain-specific languages in JSON. One of the easiest places to start is with representing HTML this way; you can e.g. start to write the Python or JS code:

["table", ["tbody", ["tr", ["td class=first", 1], ["td", 2]]]]

instead of:

<table><tbody><tr><td class="first">1</td><td>2</td></tr></tbody></table>

A really early attempt at this is: https://github.com/drostie/d.o/blob/master/build.js but I haven't maintained it in a while.

If you're interested in language design, there appears to be a "little gap" which means a lot between a Lisp data structure and an XML data structure: In XML's view, every list's first element is a string; in Lisp's, it can be anything. This little gap actually corresponds to one of the interesting habits which has disappeared since compilers took over our assembly-writing: it used to be the case that programmers would sometimes compute an instruction code for the next instruction; similarly in Lisps you sometimes (but not too often; it's confusing!) compute a function for your next operation.

If that confuses you because you're not good with Lisp, it's equivalent in Python or JS is:

(f(x, y, z))(a, b, c)

so that you figure out which function to call and then immediately call it on some parameters. It's not necessarily a difference in expressiveness, as the XML-style just can add an atom 'call' which expresses the above as:

call(f(x y z) a b c)

but it does seem to correspond to some deeply different philosophy for the system.
I actually threw together some very lazy (just trying to do a little something every day) graphs on VC yesterday[1] if you want to see the dot-com bubble in terms of VC disbursements and number of deals. Both the old bubble and the recession are extremely visible. It'll be interesting to see what these graphs look like in a couple years when reporting catches up to 2013-2014.

[1] http://btus.us/venture-capital-in-the-united-states-1998-201...
Mobile Marketing Is the Next Step in Your Business Success
I'm not certain there is a direct correlation between the apps that make the most money in the App Store, and the apps that people spend the most time in.

It would mean that all the built in apps, and all the free apps in the App Store relatively unused, and that advertising models are a fools errand as no-one spends enough time in the apps. I suspect companies persuing these kinds of apps, including apple, are seeing enough usage to make a business case for their actions.
Yes, this. It's hard to make arguments about quality of experience when every step of the way there's many uncertain variables and your best evidence comes from personal experience (that most likely wasn't shared by the person you're trying to convince).
Just returned from Hack the North in Canada this weekend. It was an awesome event. Lots of great people, including Sam Altman, were there presenting and providing mentorship.

We ended up building an 'off grid webserver' with a raspberry pi. Several groups have done something similar but we decided to do it all from scratch. When I get a chance, I'll put an image of the SD card on github so you can avoid the serious pains in configuring the pi. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Phonearena benchmarks Xperia Z3 vs. iPhone for battery life
I think emacs needs a POSIX-like environment to run inside. (I think this is roughly correct even though I don't really understand what it means.)
> Each night, I took the box of Lovenox syringes and carried it to my husband, sobbing. “It’s time for my shot,” I said, tears streaming down my face.

> Each night, he pinched skin on my belly as I screamed like a toddler and he injected the medicine.

Her husband sounds like an awesome guy - taking care of her in that state sounds incredibly difficult.

> My husband and I decided to get a divorce.

> “I think in hindsight, it was your stroke that changed everything for me,” he said.

> I thought it was the affair he’d had. But maybe he had a point. “Maybe that was the year,” I said.

Dang.
How is it the handheld console of today when there are so few good games on the platform? I personally find the touchscreen a terrible input device for most game genres and play styles.

I can't imagine Smash Bros. on a phone. Not unless the phone gets analog sticks, face buttons, and shoulder triggers. Maybe there will be a shell that gets wide support, but given the fact that cases come in so many form factors and that Android phones have no standard shape, I doubt that will happen.

I don't mean to be negative, but phones utterly suck at the kind of games I enjoy most. 2048 is genius, but it's a phone thing.

Does anyone foresee a non-casual, non-contol limited future for mobile gaming? What changes could give it the ability to compete with the 3DS and Vita?
It is way harder to exploit a machine through a properly sandboxed process. Sandboxing restricts the process's access to filesystem and network. On Linux for example seccomp can restrict the number of system calls the process can make which further reduces the attack surface greatly. So to exploit a OS vulnerability through a sandboxed process you also need to exploit a vulnerability in sandboxing itself. That's significant.
VESA Brings DisplayPort to New USB Type-C Connector
My phone is 2.5 years old at this point. Maybe I've been losing battery capacity so gradually I've never noticed.

That would be amazing to have 13 hours of browsing with a new phone. (as reported in the article)
How we updated our teen birth rate feature (and the futue of journalism)
Am... LSD and MDMA are 2 completely different drugs, with different effects. LSD causes hallucinations, while MDMA causes euphoria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoactive_drug#Uses
I'd say that the advent of 3D graphics made games look worse. Just compare StarCraft to StarCraft 2 - I honestly feel that the original, pixel-drawn game looked better. It's hard to get 3D right, it takes much more work to produce something that the brain won't find weird-looking or uncanny. SC1 had a dark tone and looked like a serious game; SC2 feels much more lightweight and comical, and I'd argue the big part of it was moving from 2D to 3D, which made all units look kind of silly.
DuckDuckGo joins Google in being blocked in China
The LG G3 has a 1440x2560 QHD screen. It takes more power to dive more pixels.
Of the free apps in the US store right now are keyboards (new for iOS 8 and don't really count as "apps") and Facebook Messenger, iTunes U, Amazing Thief (game), The Maze Runner (game), Instagram, Facebook, Beach Buggy Racing (Game), etc.

Games are extraordinarily popular on iOS. I see people gaming constantly on planes, trains, busses, etc.
That's the plan. Work in progress.
Developers need to stop relying on the Mac App Store
Kept waiting for this to turn out to be an allegory about a startup.
Problem is, there are tons of other diseases that look like stroke. Migranes, epilepsia, etc. IF you have one of those, going to ER every time you have something weird going on will suck you dry of money and your doctor will probably start treating you like an hypochondriac. There is no subsystem in US health care to handle this. Your primary care physician probably sucks and not available when you need them the most. ER does not care, prone to misdiagnosis and like to dope people on drugs before figuring out what's wrong. Been there, seen that, and it makes me really angry.
Your battery us probably dead. Maybe get that checked?

For what it’s worth, my 5s gets about six hours of intense use. 50% brightness, Twitter, Safari, RSS reader, mix of WiFi and cell towers, mostly good reception. Five hours with only cell towers, average to good reception.

However, since the iPhones have such tiny batteries their battery use is also highly dependent on how you use your device. With something downloading (especially over LTE) I can practically see my battery draining and it gets quite hot.

Bigger devices with much larger batteries are a bit more sedate in their reactiveness to that, e.g. my iPad is much more constant in its battery usage. No matter what I do, it always gets nearly the same battery time. (Maybe because battery usage is much more dominated by the screen which has a constant battery use, so the other two big battery consuming components which are variable, radios and SoC, have a smaller difference in impact between being nearly idle and running at full tilt.)
These guys had a successful indiegogo campain, and raised $66,611 of $50,000 goal.
Which is more important, technical knowledge or domain knowledge?
MIT Students Battle State's Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner's Source Code
Hah. I give up.
Ask HN: Good casestudies for marketing channels?
Today I saw a small billboard ad for a local radio under a bridge and it got me wondering what are the economics of it. How much does it cost? How many people will see it? how many people will tune in the channel because of it.

I know they are many factors in place, like what's the ad about, the demographics of the area, etc. But I though it would be cool to run an experiment, getting an ad with a unique URL to test how many people access it, the setup a blog sharing the data and comparing it to other more and less conventional channels.

I don't have the time or resources to do it, but then I figured, there must be other people doing this things already. Are there?
JumpCloud launches new Directory-as-a-Service offering
At the moment it does not include past entries, but it will soon!
Yep, listening to podcasts (with the screen off), for example, is definitely “Usage”.

I’m not quite sure how the phone counts background activity that doesn’t notify the user or require user interaction (e.g. Mail checking for new emails, …).
I am totally with you. I must admit that at first I was taking ecstasy (MDMA) in a club setting. Yes, it was a ball. It opened me to the idea of talking to the opposite sex and not expecting them to roll their eyes and walk away.

After a while I began taking it at home and listening to music that inspired me. I began to reflect on my childhood when I had 2 verbally abusive parents. I had shut those thoughts out, and at 25 began dealing with them and seeing the effect their abuse had on me. MDMA allowed me to look at those relationships in a completely loving light and realize them for what they were; 2 people who could not express themselves appropriately. It changed my love for them in a very positive way, even after "the roll" had stopped. I forgave them for the many years of anguish I experienced in middle school, high school and college. I had literally ignored them since college out of anger for a lost childhood. Being able to love them again made me realize that I can love others too. Around that time is when I began to trust people and it is when I met my future spouse.

It's a tough thing to admit, but MDMA had better reparation on my emotional and psychological state than many years of church and reading books. I love God, I know he's guiding us, and I think sometimes healing power starts on the inside of your mind. If you're a religious person, the first two commandments are "Love God", and "Love your neighbor". MDMA helped me on both of those.

I just read a statistic the other day that veteran suicide rates are increasing. As a non-combat veteran, I wish I could take the many troubled and PTSD afflicted and have them try MDMA to work through their issues in a controlled therapy session.
Ask HN: Handling a dispute on Elance with an unrelenting client
I was awarded a job to work on Elance that involved Django. I gave an estimate of the cost & schedule of 24 days and started working on the project immediately based on a word document that had specifications. Looks like the guy who awarded me the job was a recruiting agency guy who did it for his client.

Within a couple of days of starting work, I was told that the project deadline will be 11 days which was a significant reduction. So I asked for more money to complete more work in less time and delivered code for the first 3 milestones and asked for the client to verify the code and release payment for the same. The client did release the payment for the milestones and I started working on milestone 4 when I found out that my work is dependent on the work of another freelancer who was also contracted to work on the same project. The rate of discussing with the project lead and completing work was dismally slow and I was down with fever for 4 days while working on the project. And when I wanted to stop working on the project, I requested the same and was persuaded to go further. More details were added to the work and involved a lot of UI and jQuery stuff which I had 0 expertise. So I asked out and there was no response except that I had to complete the project. So I cancelled the job and they asked their money back. Initially I refused saying that it was for the code already delivered, but they were yammering on and on about how my code is useless to them unless I finish the project. Fed up with it, I offered to do full refund provided they sign an NDA that they will not use my code in any project and provide me a receipt for the payment.

But the guy went and raised a dispute on Elance, wants my account suspended alongwith the refund without providing NDA. Now it is in the Elance mediation stage. How should I handle this? I have proof on the workroom for code submission and that he has released payment after verifying the milestone.
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Ask HN: How much equity to give early folks
Here's the scenario: a company's been around and idle for a while, yet growing organically with no product development/new features/marketing/etc. Now its at the point where the founders are ready to put a team in place, build out the features/etc. Characteristics:

* 100's of thousands of users; many of which are active
* High sticky factor
* Past "MVP" / product-market-fit status
* Huge potential market opp (let's call it a Dropbox-sized opportunity, though in a different feature/product category)

The founders still own the entire company. How much should they expect to give up for first engineer, first designer, etc in the context that they will likely skip a Seed round, and possibly never fundraise at all. In other words: strong potential of little-to-no dilution.

Any thoughts would be great!
Ask HN: Parallel programs that could be optimized with genetic algorithms
I'm developing a tool for my scientific initiation which uses genetic algorithms for optimization of parallel programs in C with Posix threads, setting mutex locks position and granularity.

I'm searching for problems that could get a real improvement from a tool like that.

The repository with the source code https://github.com/MateusZitelli/Qeopps.
Instincts and any other genetic behavior would come back. Only learned behavior would be gone, but it can be relearned.
Thanks. I've actually been saving links to articles and stories that I consider well-written for various reasons (flow, style, grammar usage, etc.).
> [...] can deliver full DisplayPort audio/video (A/V) performance [...] and up to 100 watts of power – over a single cable.

I'm not sure it will actually work in practice, but if so this gets rid of the power cable for the monitor.
Two-Factor Authentication Startup Duo Security Raises $12M from Benchmark
This is what happens when you control both hardware and software.
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