skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not every technical person is (or even can be) an expert in cryptography or goes into a technical field for their career. It's just not practical. This is why our legal system reaches conclusions collaboratively with experts in both the law and the relevant technical fields.

That said, he's got an MS in mechanical engineering from Stanford and a BS in mechanical/aerospace engineering from Princeton. If his technical background isn't sufficient to you, I'm not really sure what to do for you. It seems that you have mistaken him admitting that he doesn't know something as a sign that he is not technical.
kinhr is also a cute little startup out of Chicago... tho Bamboo is what many local startups use.
> Number 3: collection. You collect items or upgrades or in game currency that help you later.

You mean you like hoarding? That's one of the most annoying parts of many games, managing endless inventories and collecting stuff for the purpose of having more. It distracts you from whatever goal the game might have.

> Number 4: human adversaries. Playing against AI or against some in game metric (e.g. get X amount of people in your rollercoaster park) is not very fun. Playing against human opponents is much more fun because they are unpredictable and intelligent.

Really ? You have a strange conception of gaming then, because your world of gaming has basically started only with online games. There's tons of great solo games out there that require absolutely no one else but you to appreciate their depth. If you subject the definition of great gaming to human adversaries, then the issue is that you don't always find worthy opponents to play against, and the necessity to have people to play with. That's why great solo games never get old while MMORPGs and online games come and go and disappear forever.

> Sadly rts appears to be a dying genre...

Well RTS have been about micro-management for far too long, and that's just grinding when it lasts forever. There's not so much you can do about it unless you make the genre evolve, and it did not evolve much.
That is one of best deconstruction of current media spin I have read.

The hypocrisy of many knowledgable people is astounding and when you dig deeper, you realise they are unaware of it. That is the depths to which we have sunk.

To rebut many of the common arguments it would take hrs given the layers of spin that needs to be peeled.
Sure, I'm not suggesting there would be permanent data loss... but doesn't Dropbox renaming a bunch of files deep within .git folder result in an unusable repository that you'd have to fix by hand or restore from backup?
1)Content is not categorised. It is filtered on a personal level (your self) then again on an application level (sagebump) to provide a reading digest. I am not sure how I would categorised such a product.

2) Where you using either the default views (technocrat for instance) or your own personal feeds? The articles selected are only as good as your feed filters on your different sites and the settings selected in the menu.

Thank you for taking the time to look at it!
MinION USB stick gene sequencer finally comes to market
Gone Home is not really a game, though. And it was not particularly well received either. Not sure what you are trying to demonstrate here.
Productising a Service Business (Part 1)
> If such legislation passes Congress and fails to be ruled unconstitutional, 1984 was just 30 years late.

What rot.
The Uberfication of Everything: Directory / Master-list
I actually checked them out before, but especially their displays seem to be quite limited for writing long texts.
Free Jquery Gantt plugin: new release
Turn based games do not have that.

i often forget to do something important and quickly lose the game

I liked playing the first Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War against the AI by pausing the game, issuing orders, running it for a while, pausing again, issuing orders... The replays would last a third of the game time and they were actually quite enjoyable to watch. A lot was happening at once since I could actually match AI's speed that way.

It also made it harder to skip some important step, or forget about a unit doing nothing at the edge of the action, etc.
I don't think healthcare expenditure would have reduced cost, because health is not a negotiable goods.

If anyone becomes permanently unemployable, he will become poor. If there is demand for restaurant meals, prices and profit margins will increase and poorer people will be unable to afford it.

Each person that becomes poor, is another consumer less and the rest of people will become richer. Once you have waiters/chefs that have super high wages, they'll be automated and removed permanently from their job. Repeat until there are only few producers/consumers and the rest are living on a fringe.
Thanks for writing the article - it was well written. One item to point out to any fellow migraine w/ aura sufferers that are worried right now they're going to have a stroke...

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/patent-foramen...

Generally, a patent foramen ovale doesn't cause complications. But, some studies have found the disorder is more common in individuals with certain conditions, such as unexplained stroke and migraine with aura. In most cases, there are other reasons for these conditions, and it's just a coincidence the person also has a patent foramen ovale...The possible link between patent foramen ovale and stroke or migraine is controversial and research studies are ongoing.

I'm 42 and have had migraines with aura (mostly blindness) since I was 15. My father is 72, my oldest sister is 51 and my youngest sister is 45 and they have all had migraine with aura since a young age with no strokes reported yet.
I don't see how they can be in breach of yelp's "terms of service" seeing as how yelp is also taking the stance that restaurants will be listed whether they want to or not
So because other organisations use email for which it isn't really suited, you "banned" email?

Also, another point to think of: when one of those tools you use go away, how do you salvage your progress / information?
It's not bad to try to minimize email usage, but I do find it bad to rely on external services for such critical stuff (meaning the documents with information).

Why not use a selfhosted option? That way you can be sure that it won't go away anytime soon.
Have you considered that the reason you're having trouble is because you think that wages are 10-15% lower than London? You are competing directly with London. Therefore you should probably just put "London Comparable Salary" in your advert and see how that works out.
Money Is Pouring into Tech Like It’s 1999, and That's Not Good
Rockefellers to switch investments to 'clean energy'
Scientists have “hacked” photosynthesis, could help speed up food production
A few months back, someone posted this online remake (in Javascript!) of Impossible Machine. It's quite accurate. I spent many hours with the original and beat it several times:

http://impossible-mission.krissz.hu/
I deal by creating multiple windows, ideally one per general topic/use case. This works great with Chromium because you can easily drag multiple tabs between windows to organize things, and the shrinking tab bar encourages you to close things you don't need. Doesn't work so well in Firefox, where you have to manually drag each tab over one by one, doing so is kinda glitchy, and the scrolling tab bar makes it easier to just fill a window with a ton of unrelated tabs.
I just picked up these
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005N8W1TM/ref=oh_aui_detai...

Liking them so far. Decent amount of dampening of noise (not actually noise canceling, but closed-ear), super comfortable, good price.
> Imho you can spend all your life being sad about missing the old days and hoping someone revives them

Oh come on. You dismiss a whole page of text to such a simple argument ? That old stuff was better than the new ? Did you even read the article ?

There are measurable ways to look at games, and it's actually very clear that while game hardware has been evolving very fast, game design and options left to the player have been decreasing exponentially with time.

Why do you think there's a retro game movement? No, it's not pure nostalgia, there are genuine reasons to prefer older games over the new ones we have in 2014. And in all media there are ups and downs, there are "golden ages" where stuff is discovered, invented, discovered, and darker ages where nothing much happens and it's just rehashing the same thing over and over again. You see this kind of things in every form of culture, why would Gaming be any different? Why do you think Games would be linearly progressing towards an ideal state ?
Hey, don't give up on that dream. You can write a book. You're only a want-a-writer if you fall into the trap of believing that. And there's nothing wrong with wanting something.

I often find that if I'm not making any progress in a given area I'm practicing, a change in process helps. There are at least two components to skill: practice and strategy. Strategy is what you choose to practice, and skill can't be had without both. If you find your practice ineffective, what's probably needed is a change in strategy.

If you want to write a book, then perhaps a revision of "don't break the chain" is in order: If your writing wasn't coherent, practice making it coherent. One idea would be to devote each week to writing a different chapter of your book. That way, you're still writing every day, but the focus changes each week, so that if you're unhappy with the current week's output, you have a higher chance of feeling better about next week. I realize it's hard to write a book in a nonlinear fashion (earlier chapters guide later chapters, almost by definition, so it's tempting to try to perfect each chapter before moving onto the next) but the goal is to practice writing a book, not to write a good book on your first try. Forcing yourself to hammer out a chapter per week will bring coherence, if not quality. But quality is simply a matter of practice, so keep at it!
Apparently the idea for Twitter came to Jack Dorsey from listening to a police scanner:
http://www.cnet.com/news/jack-dorsey-on-his-childhood-inspir...

It's very much a techno thing, reminiscent of a track like Space Manoeuvres' "Stage One". I'm not sure if it's ethical to do it with live emergency communications, though.
Was it a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KoalaPad?
Jardinera de Poliester
What do your donations to keep Wikipedia “online and ad-free” really pay for?
The problems with email in this article are nearly the same as those given by Klink founder Leerom Segal in an INC magazine article about Outlawing Email. Though Klink opted to build their own workflow management system to address these issues.

http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/the-company-that-outlawed-emai...

Key highlights from INC article:

>“While email makes for a decent communication tool with clients, internally it doesn’t facilitate collaboration and basic workflow. Email has no intelligent mechanisms for prioritization, lacks context, lacks a framework for knowledge management, and saps accountability.”

>“We’ve all been on an e-mail thread where people are answering questions but really just creating more confusion,” Segal says, “or maybe referencing some missing yet critical attachment. So we looked for tools to help us better manage our basic workflow.”

>Knowledge can get lost in a person’s mailbox and prioritization is basically nonexistent since inboxes assume that most recent equals most important.
Yes and no, it's more nuanced than that. An analogy would be that LoC is not a great way to judge the quality of a program, but a good developer will produce millions of lines of code in many different applications before they master their craft.

What hitting a daily word count does is force you to produce something even when you don't think you have anything to say. Or more importantly, when you are stuck and have to painfully work through how to express a tough idea. 250 is quite low for a daily target, honestly.

That said, blind word production obviously doesn't do much unless you're going back and fearlessly editing your work, identifying what you're doing right and what you're doing wrong.
Silicon valley talent wars engineers come get your 250k salary
> ... Android, to iOS ...

On iOS, only starting with iOS 8

On Android, only with Firefox. OEM modified browsers don't do it. Chrome only enables it in specific devices.
Making an issue

"...in a market that moves very fast, saturated with product..."

even worse

"...there has been a counterpoint: the wave of DRM-free indies..."

Look at Steam Greenlight.
Except Firefox OS apps are just web apps. They really should add just "Firefox" / "Web" as a target too.
Faking It: The Internet Revolution Has Nothing to Do with the Nasdaq (2001)
TrueCrypt lives on as CipherShed
Safest airlines in the world
Django Rest Framework – an introduction
"...Minecraft is exactly the kind of game he's talking about..."

I guess having a flexible system of optional plots is better than no plot whatsoever.
> Really ? You have a strange conception of gaming then, because your world of gaming has basically started only with online games.

SNES bomberman was fantastic if you played against other people, especially if you had the 4-player tap.

MicroMachines (Sega megadrive / genesis was probably best version) was similarly excellent multiplayer but not online games.

GoldenEye, SnoBow Kids, Mario Party, Mario Kart, etc were all excellent games when played multiplayer.
http://www.pnhp.org/excessdeaths/health-insurance-and-mortal...

http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10367&page=163

http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411588_uninsured_dying.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1829431/

Tell me more about how Americans can't be denied healthcare, please.

http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/09/27/because-fox-aske...
At one point, I "ported" stuff from C to assembler on my Amiga by compiling it, then disassembling and optimising the assembler when I found example code in C etc. for something I wanted to do. The C compilers at the time were so bad at optimising that it was not unusual to delete about half the lines, which of course led to keeping up the attitude that C was not acceptable.

Then I got interested in writing compilers, and got a bit more respect for the challenges involved...
> Maybe it helps weed out the lesser engineers.

Problem is VPNs require money, not just skills and tor can be dead slow.
Too much, or too little? :)
> "Trust us. You want us involved. The other computers in the chain between you and your facebook account aren’t so trustworthy."

I'm sorry but I have to agree with some of the others, without technical data behind the magic this just looks like a scam to me. Telling people 'don't trust them, trust us' doesn't give you any credibility.
Code everyday, contribute to open source, write n words everyday, read books everyday, exercise, learn new skills, market yourself, socialize, travel. Is there an end? I am surrounded by so many productive activities and each one within my reach that each time I am not doing it, it feels I am frittering away very valuable time. In fact, even when I am doing it like reading a book, I feel working on my mini-game could have been more productive.

Someone has written 40K words in five months, someone has created a kernel at the age of 18, someone has made 365 days streak on github and someone has done a biking trip across India. I wish there was an easy way to avoid feeling guilty when you see other people's achievements.
Gay Talese is one of the best profile writers. He has often said that he prefers to write profiles of famous people after their peak because that's when it's possible to see who they really are.

He also wrote one of my favorite essays on New York, titled "New York is a City of Things Unnoticed"
So what? there were not the only games out there. I enjoyed playing Civilization, Colonization, Dune, Half Life, Ultima for hours and hours without having the need to play with anyone. Human opponents are not necessary to have great games.
Ask HN: DB for syncing devices offline / online?
I have a little project where different users on laptop takes notes and after all their notes must be synchronised. But they have sometimes to takes notes whithout any network.

What is the best database for this ?

And if i want to include mobile / phone device ?

regards and thanks
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Peek.js – simple object oriented charts based on D3.js
A Drug More “Dangerous” Than Roadside Bombs? – Psychology Today
Dim light, ambient noise, a little wine, and, if it suits you, write by hand. Shuffle around when stuck.

That's the thesis, anyway. FWIW. YMMV.
Redundancy in EC2 for ex-Fotopedia
What has also changed is that for each one of your examples, there are steps that someone needs to know / take before they get to the point where they end up writing any commands that most people won't take, because they are unaware of them.

On many of the 80's home computers, one the other hand, you had to write BASIC commands even to start your games. And moreover, the manual for most of them started talking about programming pretty much from page 1, and programming was a sales feature for a large enough subset that "everyone" got exposed to features related to programming already in the sales literature and reviews.

Add on to this that even game-heavy magazines often had articles about programming and even listings, and the exposure was very different.
I have to agree. I always want to start a somewhat personal blog, but I can't think of many topics. My thoughts are often half-baked, not very original and once I wrote them down, they tend to be obsolete again, more or less.

I never got paid for writing directly, but then I figured that in a certain way, I am already a writer. Because I write articles for my business and they make me money. I didn't rank for a certain keyword two years ago. Then I ranked. I have this little code snippet that checks which landing page converted to paying users and I figured that my writing made me a lot of money, because Google is a major traffic source. So this one article took me 10 hours to write and made me 5,000€ so far.

Odd, isn't it? I can't think of stuff to write about personally, but I do make money with writing indirectly through my business.
It looks quite interesting. Thanks for sharing!
There is a case where 8 people snorted two lines of pure LSD each thinking it was cocaine (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1129381/pdf/west...). All survived with no lasting effects, although they were fortunate to receive emergency medical care within 15 minutes after administration. 5 were comatose and 3 were in respiratory arrest, but unlike the elephant none experienced convulsions.
Before the Commodore 64, there was the Atari 2600 and it sold 30 million units:

http://www.atariage.com/2600/?SystemID=2600

But nobody considers that a computer, it's a game console. Just like the Xbox 360. As you imply, it does all come down to your definition of computer. If defined very loosely then there are plenty of contenders. If defined as a general purpose computer, the Commodore 64 is it.
I didn't remember that. Time to replay Fallout...
How Not to Pitch a Billionaire [Chris Sacca critiques a pitch]
> You mean like hoarding?

Hoarding is what you get if you take this as far as you possibly can to make a game addictive. Cookie clicker is the ultimate version of this. The fact that you get a mindless grind if you take it as far as you possibly can doesn't mean that a little bit of collection can't be fun. e.g. picking up a new weapon in a FPS.

> Really ? [...]

Compared to playing against human adversaries, I find playing against AI or in game metrics less fun. I realize it's heresy because many classic games are single player. YMMV.

> Well RTS have been about micro-management for far too long

I agree, but on the other hand most other genres are even more about micro management and less about decisions. The situation has actually improved. If you compare Starcraft with a modern RTS like Forged Alliance you have far less micro management nowadays because of UI improvements. Starcraft 2 on the other hand, even though it is a newer game than Forged Alliance, has a lot more micro management and fighting against the UI instead of against the opponent.
Excellent read. I also recommend his memoir of Istanbul.
For me it reminds of Comme a la Radio from Brigite Fontaine. (But her take on that subject is wayyyyyyyy better)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1HseInfDiE
The part that i really connected with is:
"The biggest problem I face, though, is that I’m a perfectionist. I have a hard time writing shitty first drafts and postponing editing until after getting something down on paper first. Instead, I often try to get it “right” the first time, thereby making the writing process unnecessarily painful. The number of blog posts I’ve published this year is evidence enough of my struggle."

I've struggled with this too - not necessarily just with writing but with other undertakings too. I did read the reference that was linked and other literature connected to this phenomenon. It'd be very interesting to learn from the OP (or others here), some techniques to overcome this barrier?
Could it be an opportunity for my country (Uruguay) to host large-scale studies on marijuana? (100% legal here, though it's likely the next government will backtrack at least a little)

What would we need to make it happen?
I wish I kept my C64, I would probably still play it if I did.

Ironically, I just took a break from work to play Jumpman on a Commodore 64 emulator:

http://www.ccs64.com/

You can find the games in any number of places that I won't link to from here. I run that emulator on the custom MAME cabinet that I created about 15 years ago and it hooks up well to the keyboard-simulated arcade controls I have.
Strange Loop: “Fast, secure, safe: the web that can still be”
Thought this was the stupidest thing ever, then I listened. It's rather cool and seems to work. Kudos.
His technical background is clearly insufficient in that he doesn't understand the BASIC technical problems in his argument. Yet, he feels he's qualified to authoritatively call for radical government access to our data in a mainstream media publication.

He's changed his position to "need more information to decide". Well DUH! how about getting that information before scaring up a call to backdoor all of our data?
This is exactly what I mean. Bomberman is actually a dull game if you play it against the AI, but I've had way more fun playing bomberman with friends than other games just because of the multiplayer aspect.
Define a game? I disagree. I thought the main point of the article was that the major game mechanics are these forced scripts guiding the experience, or incentivized,reward mechanisms which provide no real story telling or exploration? I was raising the point that there are other games actively shaping what it is to be a game.. Trying to create more of a self exploratory story.
What I learned from exhibiting Minecraft in a museum
Ah, the perennial not a game argument. In response to an article that claims that Kickstarter and Twitter are video games.

You're welcome to that first opinion, but not the latter: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/gone-home
No, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem
There's an addon for that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-...
No "Google exec" cares whether you build your service in Golang or Python.
To the sycophants who ejaculated their "Isn't science amazing?" jizz all over this and every other website (without troubling themselves to read the paper) when the news was first pumped out by the ignorant and self-serving media: suck it.

It's OK, Sheldon. You can come home now.
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