skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This presentation made me leave the page before the first graph, because bits would only start to appear half cut-off at the top of my window as I scrolled down. I'm using the latest version of out-of-the-box Firefox on a desktop, not some gimpy "browser" on a tiny phone or IE6 or heaps of functionality-destroying add-ons.
like mentioned in the answer..?
I don't know if you are familiar with DoTA, but can you comment on why DoTA doesn't seem to have the problem with games stalling as players fight for vision control? I believe the DoTA ward model is very similar to the original LoL ward model.
Things like this really make me miss the old Firefox experiment "Ubiquity". It was truly a marvel for the time it was up, and I often wonder why they did discontinue it.

You could search websites, send emails, look at maps and much more (you could build your own commands) without ever actually opening a webpage. It had 200.000 users when they shut it down.
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Tumblr content is read primarily from a tumblr account dashboard, which has a consistent look.
Never understood the whole 'illegal privacy invasion' thing. Sure, it should be prosecuted if nothing was found, BUT if something is found, who cares how it was found? Unless it was planted of course, but AFAIK these two points are not connected. Can someone explain?

EDIT: Not that it should not be prosecuted if something is found also, but WHY does the obtained evidence have to be dismissed?
Opening first-class mail and standard parcels from the Postal Service requires a warrant[1] by federal law, whether or not it is in a mailbox. Is there some specific example you are referencing?

[1] https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/contactUs/faq.aspx
While LoL is by far the more popular game, I find what Valve is doing with Dota to be more interesting. They're heavily investing in the spectator portion of the sport, and it's paying off in spades. They've added in the ability to watch replays, see instant-replays during live games (especially useful when the casters miss a battle off screen), see post-battle stats, and view player analytics all in-client.

The article mentions that Riot lost money in hosting The World Championship, but during The International (the Dota 2 equivalent), Valve made over $30 million from selling interactive playbills for the tournament. Twitch has become a huge part of the events as well, but I think it's telling that Valve is strategically moving forward with trying to make viewing the game just as important as playing the game. Esports as a spectator sport is definitely going to become much bigger moving forward (LoL's World Championship already has more viewers than baseball's World Series, and in Dota 2 to win more money than a superbowl winner you'd only have to take third place in The International). I suspect that we'll see Esports taking over physical sports in terms of numbers in the next decade or so.
Ok, I'll add "necessarily" to accommodate you.
Yeah I did reach out to RPS, no coverage yet but they are typically dormant near the weekends so it could possibly go out next week (they have covered me in the past).

Yeah, to be honest I am really bad at putting together marketing materials and videos. I tend to talk about the stuff I'm comfortable with, which is mostly technobabble. I have gone into further details in one of the updates on the page, and posting a few more now.
> So any property which, at the time of a search, hasn't been "sufficiently demonstrated [that it belongs to you]" isn't protected, according to this judge, by the fourth amendment?

That's not what this means. You can't claim fourth amendment protection on someone else's property: I can't claim my rights were violated because the police searched your car. The court is saying that you have to claim it's your car first before you can claim that your rights were violated by the search. (Well, not exactly. The situation is more nuanced.)

To put it another way, the court's not saying that this was legal, or that nobody's rights were violated. The court is only denying Ulbricht's specific claim that his rights were violated, and the denial seems to be based on a procedural technicality.

Yes, this is bad.
Aha this is amazing. Would be a nightmare if you were a bombing comedian and the audience was trying not to laugh at you to save money.
How does traffic speed increase with wider lanes, but capacity doesn't?

How many lives are saved by fire trucks, police, etc... being able to get to/from emergencies more quickly? I feel like experimental data will be much more useful than models to measure the impact of 10' to 12' lanes.
There are definitely options between letting you hack falling snowflakes into your MySpace page and not letting you use any markup at all. A usability-oriented framework could exist which allows self-expression without all of the problems of Geocities, MySpace, and tumblr.

But this text isn't strictly about the fact that Facebook doesn't let you inline CSS and HTML and I think it presents some valid arguments about the social problems created by Facebook. People should actually read the article.
Personally I find the judge's ruling utter rubbish. It is irrelevant if the server was Ulbricht's or not. If the FBI is trying to use evidence found within the server against him, then they should have to prove that they obtained it legally, whether or not it belongs to another individual or Ulbricht.
And continuing on your point about best interests, this would amount to rolling up to random cars parked in a parking lot and having a drug sniffing dog walk around until they find something, then trying to arrest everyone parked around the car.
Of course, real life sports take tons of practice too before you can have much fun. A total beginner can't just pick up a tennis racquet or basketball and start volleying or shooting hoops.

Making a game/sport that is rewarding at the pro level and also has no learning curve- does such a game even exist, electronic or not?
Why do you dislike X language/framework/library?
This has nothing to do with performance, right tool for the right job or what have you.

For one reason or another there exist a "software technology" that you simply do not like.

Who cares what Y fanboy says, or what X fangirl thinks? maybe it looked at you funny... but if you've got a legitimate, pragmatic reason that's ok too!

Tell me YC... What is it, and why?

Bonus points: how do you respond when someone within shouting range has the bright idea to use this technology that you loathe?
It's a cheat. Bannable.
It'll be interesting to look into how the Clojure people implemented this. I released the same library a few weeks ago: https://github.com/jlongster/transducers.js, and I'm about to release the next version with an API almost the same as the OP. I think mine has more integration with JS data structures and stuff like monkeypatching existing ones (like immutable-js) to work with this. We'll see how all this shakes out though; not sure if it'll be good to converge on one official library or if it's ok to have multiple.
I strongly doubt that's a direct quote.

Even paraphrased, it doesn't make logical sense: It should be really easy to prove that you have a duping exploit in a game, so why didn't the prospective-buyer at least ask for a demonstration, or why didn't the OP offer such a demonstration? It's just too convenient.

It's far more likely that OP was either unable to prove it or refused to do so, and the potential-buyer said "stop wasting my time then".
Eep. Thanks for the writeup. I'm really glad we didn't go with imagemagick.
We used to have completely free "brutally honest" feedback from legit experts on comp.xxxx newsgroups in their heyday. The eternal september killed it forever.
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So for one example, if you sign up to gmail or Facebook using anything other than your real name, they can break it, conduct a search and then whatever they find is totally admissible in court just because they didn't know who it belonged to?

Based on the third-party doctrine and United States v. Graham [1], even if you used your real name, you would not enjoy 4th amendment protection of data stored on an outside company's server (they would be protected, though).

It's fairly well established by the Court that there is no "reasonable expectation of privacy" for information disclosed voluntarily to a third party, as with your Gmail example.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Graham
Ask HN: Are you building a hardware startup?
I'm working on some ideas for hardware products and I'm curious what people have learned in their attempts to build hardware products.

To this end, I have two questions:

* What are the biggest challenges you're facing outside of finding a manufacturer?
* What did you need to learn on the technology end that helped you the most?
I think you could look at short term consulting services like AirPair (recent YC company) or HackHands- they offer on demand video/audio calls with specialists that can help with specific technological problems. OP's service is more about absolute honesty than specific knowledge.
Vision choices are more limited, access to team stealth is just an item away.

However, I would say that Dota still has a problem with stalling, maybe even more than League of Legends. There are often one-sided games that drag on for quite a long time before the winning team has a decisive enough advantage to actually finish the game. This comes from a few features, foremost 'buyback' which lets players come back from the dead before their timer expires for a fee, which means that even if you kill their entire team inside their base, unless you have the force to kill them all again, you usually cannot take any ground.
Where can I find the source code & instructions on how to reproduce this benchmark?
> but WHY does the obtained evidence have to be dismissed?

Because to permit it effectively allows the end to justify the means. It would effectively permit law enforcement to ignore any and all laws they wanted to in the course of investigations in order to produce a favorable result. Why the hell would you only conduct searches within the bounds of the law if you could get the same result more expediently by just doing it however you want?

If the police are willing to break the law, then who is going to enforce the consequences for doing so?
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Yes, but note that for this the IDE needs compilation, which is why I used the word "build" (perhaps confusingly).

Eclipse for Java does this perfectly, and I assume many other IDEs do so too. Scala IDE, which is built on top of Eclipse, does a terrible job at this. For a statically typed language such as Scala, it's aggravating when your tools report spurious compilation errors.
DoTA games definitely stall, part of which I think has to do with a desire by the developers to avoid "freak" outcomes- it's rare to be able to win in DoTA with only a small advantage, so even if it is pretty obvious who is going to win they have to build up their advantage to end the game. Most of the time it's frustrating, although the extra time sometimes leads to incredible turnabouts.

I am most curious about the ward aspect, specifically. Are you saying DoTA has less vision choices? And you are referencing smoke?
I think there's a great point inside your comment, but that the way you have expressed it is unkindly biased against those on what I surmise to be the opposite of your side of the debate.

When describing the first group, you use lots of seemingly negative descriptions: "rule-oriented and binary", "quickly seizes on any violation", "extends that into a personal judgment", "express their judgments harshly", and "that acid".

When describing the other group you use lots of positive language: "pluck and self-motivation", "admire the ingenuity", "generally more indulgent", and "relentlessly resourceful". Plus there is an appeal to PG's authority on this site.

There are positive and negative aspects of both sides here, and I think you're being pretty harsh toward one of the factions.
Because incentives affect behavior.

If you're allowed to use evidence from an illegal search, there's a huge incentive to keep doing illegal searches.

If you want to curtail illegal searches, then you make such searches have a worse payoff.
Although they are my primary languages :

I dislike dealing with setting up specific python instances. I hate the differing versions and the specific libraries of software that each version breaks vice-versa. Virtual environments serve to make things easier if you have a singular routine, but usually add unneeded complexity. I have felt that the split between the pythons was a detriment ever since it was announced, and it has lead to more work for me overall. (I understand the reasons, before anyone tries to convince me to change my mind)

I hate setting up my common lisp environment, but that's thankfully pretty rare.
Try building stuff for yourself. If you like and it find it useful, then it's a success! If it makes money, then that's just a bonus; but even if it fails financially at least you built yourself something practical that you can be proud of.
> While he admits that it was a tactical mistake, he never addresses why it ever seemed like a good idea, and his next sentence basically says "I would have been an amazing employee but their hiring system is broken."

It's because he sees the corporate world as a game to be beaten, exploited, and hacked for profit, the same as he did with MMORPGs.

There's truth about the hiring system being inefficient, and there are clever folks who find ways around it to gain entrance to a world that might be otherwise inaccessible. However, it makes me uneasy when those things are done with a narcissistic edge, i.e. to fulfill a grandiose sense of your worth and value.

See: "Until I prove otherwise, consider me a 'nobody' trying to accomplish great things."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree

In short, if illegal techniques can be used to find evidence, and that evidence can be admitted, that's a pretty powerful reason to use illegal techniques.

Barring that evidence is a way to prevent that abuse. Aggressively prosecuting the use of illegal techniques is another way, but given that we're not willing to prosecute prosecutors who railroad the innocent or government employees who torture other people, well, I'd say that's a non-starter.
Hey everyone - thanks for the feedback. I wasn't sure how the response would be but it's been mostly positive so far.

I came up with the idea because I wanted to use such a service, but when I couldn't find anything I figured I'd create it and thought it would be fun. Most importantly I want to help people out - the $10 is so I can (somewhat) justify it from a time perspective. So far it turns out I'm spending a lot of time on each request, but that's fine because I'm enjoying it.

I'm really appreciating the snark as well!
Aren't there now around 50 gender choices on Facebook?
I have a notion that you are not a natural born American citizen. Please, don't hold it against me if this assumption is wrong, but its the first thing that springs to my mind by your confusion proposed.

I (and many others) view the government as a service by the people, for the people. It should adhere to the same laws and constraints that the people do in order to be kept in check and not all-powerful. One of these regulations is that citizens have powerful rights of ownership over their personal belongings and no one should be able to rifle through them without permission. Objects/data/articles/ideas can be held private for a multitude of reasons, and due process should be followed in order to gain access to these details. By removing the government's requirement to abide by this, you grant it an immense power to control and have knowledge of your life. That simply isn't necessary for the true function of government. Our original constitution and amendments attempted to protect its citizens from that fear.
Because this is the basic deterrent against illegal searches. By making all evidence from an illegal search be thrown out, it offers a real-world incentive to not violate the 4th Amendment.
Also specializing in questions starting with "If you're such an expert... " to totally undermine the claimed expertise of said experts.
Aren't you agreeing to all these nonsense terms when you do business with the entity? By giving the entity money to enter their gym or use their money to pay for a house, aren't you saying, "I accept the terms you've set, even if they're absurd"?

Why do you have a right to their goods if their terms aren't reasonable, and are you the judge of what's reasonable?

Can you imagine a scenario where the "you" in question is someone who has a mental disorder or otherwise is incapable of accurately estimating value?
The same people being "robbed" when you counterfeit money: It's divided across everybody else whose achievements and items are reduced in value.
I would imagine that fire engines and the like will rely more on traffic getting out of their way than on greater overall throughput.
E-sports betting is where the real money making opportunity is.

Of course, finding the way to do it legally (in the US at least) is the big challenge.
I would have done it on Fiverr or something so that payment was easy. Actually that could be kinda fun! Here's mine...

https://www.fiverr.com/s/6e795u
Awesome! It will be cool to see what his response is to a business idea that is somewhat similar to the service he is providing you.
I feel very similarly, and even though I can rationally understand how I'm still morally on the hook, the disreputable nature of the debt industry changes my outlook on the scenario substantially.
I have no idea what I would use this for, but I really wish I did.

Very cool.
It probably does seem more narcissistic because I wrote it recently after having gained back some faith in my competence. When you're at the bottom though, and you feel completely worthless, there is little narcissism left.

I didn't express myself well when I said, "I truly would've been a great employee at Google[x]." What I should have said was something more like, "Even if I weren't great at first, I'd do whatever I could to improve because that was a profession I passionately wanted to try."
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Kind-of. I think the case hinges on all the evidence of wrong-doing that was found on the server. Obviously if someone else was DPR, they wouldn't have a case against Ulbricht. But this ruling doesn't really effect whether it belonged to him or not, only that he did not /own/ it. It wasn't his server, but a 3rd party's server where he had his data. And there was no ruling on the legality of the search methods (ie; the judge could have ruled that the server had 4th Amendment protections, but that they weren't violated) only that in this case they didn't apply.
I give you $10 when you give me your credit card nr, so I can take $20 from you if your answer is not satisfying for me. The $10 for me is for my time wasted on you..

Dude, the fact you propose this seriously, gives me the only answer I need from you.
And the gap between (1) and (2) is most of the middle class.
"No way, I'm like a thousand times better at being humble than that guy." /s
These are city streets. Capacity is probably limited by the rate at which cars go through traffic lights (which is probably largely unchanged by 10 vs 12 feet lanes), not by how fast a motorist can accelerate when driving away from a light.
Damn, I just paid $10 in Bitcoin and I'm not sure if the checkout works. The only thing I was asked was my email address, and I don't see anything in my inbox. Well, I hope they deliver.
Halpern seems to have been doing (or getting?) a huge press push. I don't mean that to criticize; everything I've read/heard related to this has been really interesting and I really want to read his book.
I, personally, cannot imagine any question to which I would get a more valuable answer from a 28-year-old software engineer in California interested in finance, men's fashion and weightlifting than I would get from my wife, family, friends and peers -- people who know me; whose lives actually overlap with mine in some way. What is "telling it like it is" if you don't share the same context? How likely is it he can pick up on something you should really know (like: "you interrupt women more often than you do men") if all he knows about you is what you've told him?

I imagine myself paying $10 and asking "hey, what do you think of my outfit tonight?" And he would kindly inform me that my chances of scoring (or whatever they call it these days) wearing these sandals, hiking pants (pull these zippers and they become shorts!) and grey kinda stretched-out long-sleeve t-shirt are next to zero. But my Friday night activity was going out with my wife, toddler & 5-year-old to have dinner with a bunch of retired English expats in the middle of nowhere in central France. I sat next to a guy who was a large-scale industrial engineer back in the 70s -- extracting helium & natural gas in communist Poland, in Iran when the Shah fell... And my little ones had great fun racing around and then choosing the winning tickets for the lottery.

But: there are plenty of people in this world (or at least in the more Californian parts of this world) who share his particular little slice of the human experience, who are a bit less far along than he is, perhaps, in figuring out who they are and who they want to be, and who have not yet built any meaningful friendships.

(It seems like it should go without saying: if you have built a meaningful relationship with someone who cares about you and has a bit of wisdom, they will find a way to tell you the things you need to know with no brutality required. You will also do this for them.)
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whoops, book here: http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Paper-Chasing-Street-Underworld/dp...
He's probably referring to Nathan for You, a recent comedyish show[0], though 'Ethan' seems like an interesting app. Have you tried it?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_For_You
Apples to apples, this does not really apply to SF or even most of the Bay Area.

Perhaps all of Texas, Arizona or NM.

Not here.

I hope some smart Alec SF supe does not get any ideas, reading this.

The bulb-outs at the intersections [1], the rules-dont-apply-to-us cyclists [2], the abundance of parklets and dedicated Muni lanes are already making driving in SF a hugely cumbersome affair. If it isn't already, with its 20%+ grade roads [3].

From my experience living in SF, drivers here are not the most skilled as it is. This will only worsen things.

If Mr. Wiener catches wind of this, I'm certain he will call for miniature lanes, like when he called for miniature firetrucks, when firefighters expressed concern over the width of streets. [4]

[1] http://sf.streetsblog.org/2014/07/03/bulb-outs-noe-valleys-g...

[2] http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Bicyclist-sentenced-for-...

[3] http://www.datapointed.net/2009/11/the-steeps-of-san-francis...

[4] http://sf.streetsblog.org/2014/05/09/monday-speak-out-on-sff...