skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And to sum up what is told on that video :

The eight traits are :

1. Passion: Love what you do.

2. Work: Really hard.

3. Focus: On one thing, not everything.

4. Push: And keep on pushing yourself.

5. Ideas: Come up with some good ones.

6. Improve: Keep improving yourself and what you do.

7. Serve: Serve others something of value.

8. Persist: Because there is no overnight success.
Those guys should use big grab toggles, none of that "my rig needs to look small and slick so I make my toggles hard to grab"-stuff.
My first thought was "Wow, somebody made that work!" After reading their site, it's clear they have a long, long way to go.

In the early days of There, Inc., I was recruited by them, and was in on some early design discussions. They wanted to build a planet-sized 3D virtual world with physical simulation, with all the scaling problems that implies. My comment was "Now let us all join hands around the world", which produced groans. (Doing physical simulation across a cell boundary is hard enough, but if the users can force you to have to do it across N cells, you have a real problem.)

For that system (and for Second Life) the assumption was that all the servers were in the same data center, with low inter-server lag. Trying to do this with home servers and lag in the 100ms and up range is going to suck. However, a distributed system where all sites are hosted in data centers on the same continent with low-latency connections might work.

Now they have to deal with the security problems, the delay problems, etc. They also need a really big MMORPG to exercise the system. Something like a planet-sized version of Minecraft would be a good test. The rules are simple and users create the content. A tougher test would be to create a simple, but huge, driving game, using Open Street Map, "seamless.gov", and topo data. Then load it up with automated traffic and let people drive in it.
The author evaluated what made the games fun, that he enjoyed back in the day, and then goes on trying to evaluate modern games to the same standards. That is nostalgia pretty much per definition. What I suggest to do instead is evaluating new games the same we he evaluated the old games when they were new to the world and he was new to gaming. He will find that many games don't get great points according to his evaluation but still will be great games and he can enjoy them a lot. Just not the same way.

And what's bad about asking people to broaden their horizon? I don't really get that. If you accept that new games can be good in their own regards suddenly you don't have 100 good games you need to replay because no games like that are made anymore. Suddenly you have 100000 games which are fun in very different ways, and you are sure to get your share of new great games forever. Wouldn't it be great?

Btw. Just yesterday I started playing a new game from a very old genre: Text Adventures (the game is called Heroes Rise). Thanks to mobile platforms there are a lot of games nowadays that are as great as the games old people complained about when the author was the young guy playing all the games that are now awesome (-ly nostalgic) according to him.
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iPhone? :P
something that got "broken" for me in recent version of firefox (I think starting with 32) is that doing a console.log of a very long string does not display the whole string anymore

i.e it will print

"a looooooong string [..]" (with the [..])

same if i try to observe the variable in the debugger. And I cant find a way to get the full string in anyway, I understand for a lot things you dont want to print accidentally a 200k characters longs string as it will use a lot of memory for maybe nothing, but in my current use case (getting long xml documents to copy paste them in a beautifier / send to colleague as attachments for bug report etc.) it breaks my workflow (I'm posting here because google does not seems very talkative about this issue)
50/50 works for the people it works for.
Chances are there that a prior art may exist. it can go in either way. It may get granted or may be not. However, the tech mentioned in the patent is really good.

I think it is somewhere connected with IoT. And LG has been filing a lots of patent on devices and apps related to IoT.
I think HN comments will continue to approximate slashdot's old comment system, as features are slowly added... first moderation, then meta-moderation...
I'm more familiar with CouchDB, and I know Couch doesn't have to do that.

Even if MongoDB does at least you don't have to write the functionality yourself in client code.
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Agreed. Mini-USB is very popular in the digital camera industry.
The more important test is not the technological one, but if the idea is useful at all. So far 3D worlds haven't proven themselves as necessary or something that leaps forward communication. It provides all kinds of constraints with few upsides. Just because the world is in 3d for my normal life doesn't mean that constraint is natural or useful by extension -- when I read I absorb language and abstract thoughts mixed with imagination without any "real world" basis. 3D avatars might look cool but they also visually become the hero when that might be exactly what we want to get away from in a community context -- the potential for new forms of representation that dont resemble the physical world. Second life was predicted by some to have already taken over all of business world, and thus far it had the most uptick and chance of all of these systems. Yet am I reading HN via some dragon emitting nerdy fireballs? No I have a simple web page with the ability to hyperlink me straight to interesting content that is more text typically. And it's working way better in this form than a 3D world could because the concept doesn't make sense to add that extra graphical dimension and navigational constraint.
As long as it is efficient and compiler supported (I.e an int add ends up as the proper instruction, and improper assignment ends up as a meaningful compiler error) I think the implementation doesn't matter. Going to
Natural numbers and such feels like a separate topic from just having efficient and type safe (modulo overflow) integers.
Assuming you mean two 32 bit integers, the result is a new 32bit integer that may have overflown. The compiler doesn't care in any language I know of.
Yeah, Ok, if we must.

I'll chuck it in as an appendix to the spec. Not that anyone will ever use it! I'll have to limit it to 160 characters though because I've only got 140 bytes to play with.

It's not like you can write anything meaningful with 160 chars anyway! When the hardware gets better we'll write a proper text messaging implementation. Lol!
Rotatable sued us and immediately asked for $75,000 to go away. We refused. And we fought. It’s Rackspace policy to not pay off patent trolls, even if it costs us more to fight. Eventually Rotatable offered to just walk away – but we refused again. Just as we promised last year, we challenged the patent and the USPTO invalidated it.

This is an excellent strategy and will pay dividends to RackSpace in the long term: what minor patent trolls will touch them now?
Yes, I agree that there are more simplified games today than ever before. But the same is true for deep, detailed games. There are simply way more games AAA, Indie, and free/open-source. Ever heard of Dwarf Fortress, CataclysmDDA, or Skyrim (yes even AAA titles)? There are many games with more depth and details a single person can handle in a lifetime, look around. And if GTA doesn't offer more flight simulator than any of the 90s games, I don't know how you evaluate flight simulators. If it is the details in physics and control have a look at Kerbal Space Program (never played it, never was a fan of flight sims, sorry). If you want simulators in general have a look at Truck Simulator. There is even a harvester simulator but that might only exist in German, not sure.

I bet if you look around hard enough you might even find an open source implementation of your favourite flight simulator with better graphics. Wish you the best luck in finding one. :-)
I consider jack to refer to the male connector, e.g. 3.5 mm jack means the plug on a pair of headphones. Interesting that it's not universal.
> Random numbers coming from God is cute.

It’s far from a new concept — it’s in the Old Testament:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleromancy#In_Judeo-Christian_...
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Because it generates an incredible tax break and makes it almost impossible to remove management.
Really surprised to hear they still allow that. I haven't done business with eBay in years.

Way back when, I felt pretty smart when discovering that I could just add extra pictures I served from some other webspace into my listings. Because eBay would charge you extra if you wanted to add more pictures. But I always thought that if people can add anything to such a listing, how is that different than visiting some malware invested site? Just add the payload and you have a website distributing your malware and all you need to do is choose a popular item to sell and you immediately have a very large audience.
According to VOX it's the extra 4% of teenagers using the IUD, sex ed, the crap they put on MTV, the lack of lead in gasoline. Chyeah. I'll stick with looking at what modern teens look like, and blaming soybeans, and probably be closer to the mark.
Also, the fact that things like VOX exist makes me want to join the voluntary human extinction movement.
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So, if I were to go to such a site with noscript activated, I would be okay? I mean, noscipt would probably set up to allow ebay.com so the site actually works, but this different domain will most likely be blocked, yes?
Survival of The Sparsest, in Nature's Systems Biology.
My computer uses Linux kernel, init, Gnome3 and Gnome terminal together. What's your point, bro?
> or "The CIA is watching me" are examples of delusions.

Yes it is, it's the NSA actually ;).
The question that burns me is - when will we see this amazing algorithm implemented as part of OpenCV ?
A little over a year ago I wrote a post about the problems I saw in Coffeescript, Terry commented that switching to TempleOS would prevent my complaints as I could use his C variant. Made my day to have him comment.
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It's not about the second mover advantage anymore (and certainly not about the first mover advantage). It's all about the LAST mover these days. Doesn't matter how many others have tried something before your or how successful those somethings are. Can you create an app / a business which will be the LAST to dominate its space?
Sounds interesting is there a name for that technique? Or more to the point something that can be searched for
Canonical updates nss, brings Netflix closer to Linux
very useful stuff for enhancing efficiency.
Not sure if it's intentionally "slain" or if you meant "slay" in most/all of those occurrences.
How to build a custom laptop computer with original chassis, keyboard, etc?
Gotta suspect that would bring the US Government to the patent clerk's defense and end up being exactly what you don't want to have happen (pissing of the US Govt for no good reason, as they can be incredibly vindictive).

Further likelihood is that a judge would toss that lawsuit almost immediately.
Notice the reason why. In fact, the idea of a startup producing laptops targeted at developers has been mentioned before.
The fact that upstart is covered under Canonical's developer contribution agreement and copyright license counted materially against it in the Debian debate.

Canonical's insistence on control and ownership ended up torpedoing its project. Which is really quite sad.
I've been playing with Infobright community edition but also evaluated InfiniDB. I found InfiniDB was not compressing my data nearly at all whereas Infobright was utterly jamming it down - factors of over 300x for even small datasets of ~2m rows.

I don't know what the differences are to produce that, but when it comes to storing as much crap as I was looking at, I was willing to design around the limitations that Infobright CE has (ie: no insert/update queries) rathre than deal with the massive extra disk cost. I have currently got 223m rows sitting in Infobright and it's taking about 38MB.

I really hope that the OSS project takes off and that InfiniDB sees some better compression implemented, similar to Infobright. The extra features that InifiniDB has over Infobright CE (not only insert/update but also a multi-threaded infile loader, for example) would convert me if only the compression were better.

I'm all new to this though so if there's some good reason why they differ so greatly I'm all ears and would love to know. Maybe I screwed something up in the configuration? I'm not sure.

Either way, it's sad to see them go. Columnstore databases fill a really useful application that I can only see growing over time as more and more operational data is collected by industry.
With 3D printers growing to the size where they can build houses from concrete (right now), I can see our spacefaring offspring in a few hundred years flying to remote planets and 3D printing pyramids.
Wow. Brutal. I was a bit suspicious of the claim that it was the best admin interface without any justification for why it was better.
Introducing "we are the world's largest scraped round 202 and no one seems to notice or care."
Why do I need statically typed languages to compile to Javascript? Isn't it just better to learn functional programming and dynamically typed languages?
same here (european, non english country, if that matters)
Thanks for pointing that out! And when this was written, Dropbox had been in operations for 11 months...

Joel assumes the reason why synchronization apps didn't succeed was because there was no market, whereas the success of Dropbox proved the market was there alright, it just waited for the right app at the right time.

I've needed file synchronization for my whole professional life, which started in 1991. At first there was no Internet; then there was Internet but you couldn't connect to it at work (imagine that!) and the rate at home was so slow it wouldn't have made any sense to try to exchange files over the network (even when most Excel files weighted 20k).

I used floppies, and Zip discs (remember those?) and removable hard drives, with bizarre synchronization and copying applications that never worked properly and with which you could very easily erase your own files if used in the wrong way.

The day I found Dropbox was like the Second Coming. It was the day I stopped worrying.

I very much disagree with Joel about architecture astronauts; contrary to what we hear sometimes, being early is not the same as being wrong.

> The people? They love twitter. And flickr and delicious and picasa and tripit and ebay and a million other fun things

I would trade a million Twitters for one Dropbox, and I bet I'm not alone. Dropbox we need; Twitter? not so much.
How our botched understanding of 'science' ruins everything
I agree that's a matter of opinions but I think that the OP has a point. JavaScript is easy to understand for everybody coming from C, Java or PHP even if its core is very different from those two languages. Haskell might be cleaner but it's difficult to get for people that used only procedural languages, which are most of the programmers working today (especially if the expected domain for PureScript is web programming, frontend or backend).

There is a functional language called Elixir which runs on the Erlang virtual machine. Elixir has been designed to look like Ruby even if it's very different. That makes Ruby programmers (and maybe Python ones too) feel at ease in their first approaches with the language. When you realize how different the two languages really are you already grokked enough of Elixir to keep you going. There isn't that feeling of "oh my, I can't make it" one might have when looking at code like this http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/src/Pugs/Eval.hs when knowing only about C/Java/PHP/Python/Ruby

Anybody knowing Ruby or possibly Python should compare that with this https://github.com/elixir-lang/plug/blob/master/lib/plug/con...

So, my take is that if a language designer wants to create a functional language that will lure really many procedural programmers into it, s/he has to design something that looks like C or Java. PureScript is too much like Haskell (plus I hate indentation-sensitiveness, but that's almost only a subjective matter). Time will tell.
Are there reasons why Linux couldn't just adopt it?
It sounds like the app opts people in to having calls recorded by default, which isnt legal in my state. It will be interesting to see if any legal challenges are brought -- I sure wouldn't use it.
I'm not too thrilled with the idea of a phone that automatically records and archives my voice conversations. When I call someone, I prefer to not have the stress of being careful of every word I say, lest someone try to make something of every inane comment I make, and I make a lot of them.
>Wonder how much of Adobe's revenue is based on Photoshop (or inclusion of Photoshop in CC)

I don't think it's much. I imagine most of the revenue, or at least where the healthy margins are, is the marketing and publishing clouds. Extremely lucrative enterprise software.
"Let's remember we are talking about a couple of talented kids from MIT, who could be building the next $1bn business instead of being bogged down by some bogus nonsense. Also, can imagine what sort of financial/emotional/time sink this represents."

While I agree with your remaining points, them being talented kids from MIT should be irrelevant and so should be their business potential. These are exactly kind of things criminal law and process should be blind to.
There's nothing stopping a Linux distro doing this.... but

It would be a step backwards: it is simpler, and does less stuff, so booting would be slower and some features are missing.
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I know it's really popular to use a lot of different TLDs these days, but there was a time when I saw a .is domain and could be very certain it was Icelandic (where I'm from).

I don't particularly like people using TLDs randomly, especially when they have a very strong correlation with a specific location, and the person or company using the domain has zero relation to that location.

(of course it's entirely your right, since you pay for it, and I have no right to tell you what you can or cannot do, but I'll still express my opinion)

Anyway, the project is cool, thanks for posting!
Apps are the protocols of the 21st century.
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> This happens much more often than the analogous situation for spoken language.

Citation needed.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptophasia

The analogous situation for spoke language simply doesn't happen as often. But there is nothing special about sign language here, the creation of language is the same either way.
223 million rows in 38MB would mean less than a fifth of a byte per row. Is your data really that extremely repetetive?
Though I haven't studied it, the idea of higher standards is good. Listen to a recent debate on the subject here: http://goo.gl/VnDoAN
I have a suspicion that if enough high-karma users upvote a dead comment, it becomes undead. I've seen dead comments become live again after I've upvoted them; it doesn't happen every time, but I wouldn't be surprised if multiple upvotes is a signal to undead a comment.
This is neither here nor there, but it's “Hear, hear”.
Technology to save patients lives
Hello,

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As the researches show, people with overweight, disability or critical ills are at risk of bedsores. Unfortunately, there are only few nursing institutions, hospitals that can provide required amount of attention to each patient – turn him every two hours. Research conducted for last ten years in the United States proved that bedsores and compilations caused by it kill more than 300 people every single day! In Eastern Europe, this problem is the main cause of death in retirement homes.

The idea is that people can be saved if they get enough care and nursing. We see this problem and we already have solution to save those who already have or are at risk of bedsores. We created prototype of technology that can help to prevent formation of bedsores.

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Apps are significantly worse than protocols.
Did they purposefully go out of their way not to copy the Apple Lightning connector? Because this design is just stupid.
The upside is that it will become much harder to blackmail people for the same reason.
Agreed, small business have they own methods to hack, in a form of authenticity, sincerity or creativity?
You cite an example of enforcing private property rights. And you're right, violence is used to enforce private property rights.

I'll admit some libertarians might use "violence" to indicate "badness" a little too readily and/or implicitly in these kinds of analogies (because they likely would be okay with violence to enforce property rights), but both thinks are fundamentally enforced with violence.

This admission doesn't make the analogies meaningless. Eg, a libertarian might say "I'm okay with using violence to enforce property rights, but I'm not okay with using violence to do [other thing]".
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Fantastic. Because making a flat bit of plastic and metal that goes into another bit of plastic and metal constitutes "intellectual property", the world will be stuck with a crap design for another 10-20 years.

This is the sort of stuff that ensures eventual aliens will say "let's not go to earth for it is a silly place".
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Is my work on a developer test being taken advantage of?
I find JS a thoroughly unpleasant language to work with. When will we reach the point where JS could be abstracted away entirely? (Just like how I never need to interact with assembly language any more.)
Is a web based photoshop something anyone needs? (I'm talking an app with comparable features, not a basic photo editor).
Or total control by transphobic or homophobic society
Russians care less about physical safety then West. It has nothing to do with freedom.
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Patents etc... They may have other reasons as well, like price of replacing a plug/wire vs. damaged socket. I've broken many a plug by pulling on the wire at an angle due to laziness, but luckily, nothing in the port broke.
The connection can break mid-download leaving you with a partially executed script.