skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that, the entire reason harassment against women in gaming is in the news right now is to attack GamerGate. Nearly every article is focused on using it as proof that GamerGate are misogynistic scumbags. It's been a huge boon for every asshole who actually wants to drive women out of gaming - they're guaranteed widespread media coverage about how awful gaming is to women and how their actions represent gamers as a whole, and as a bonus their actions get blamed on people who hate them. Win-win!

People have even called for gamers to be forced to use their real names as a solution to the harassment, which would of course make the harassers' lives even easier - but hey, it'd let the people making the proposal bring down social consequences on supporters of GamerGate, so why not?

The whole thing's fucking ridiculous.
Britons petition banks to make foreign exchange fees clear
Very nice! I've been using Burner for my artists/bands as a privacy layer, fan engagement, and a community management tool New app looks great. Looking forward to using it.
The funny thing to me is that this is quite possibly already solved, and it's just being fed into a big data center in Utah.
I couldn't get into Snow Crash because it seemed very overdone, seemed forced (the hero/protagonist's name is Hiro Protagonist for crying out loud). Would I be able to get into Ready Player One?
Whose problem is the city solving by banning Uber?
I'd argue the same goes for languages, not just tools. At home I like to spend most of my time with Lua, Scheme, and C, and only sometimes Ruby or Python. The less the language does for you, the more you can focus on the concepts and forms.
Nope, not much different - There were two developers in the team (me + another dev) and my co-founder, who's a business (non-technical) co-founder. So it was between me and him where the specs and activities were not properly defined (it was my responsibility, and I didn't know any better) so we'd always have these long debates on what to do, and what's worse, these debates usually occured in the middle of other activities, so everyone was working on a lot of things at the same time, which resulted in work not being done on time, or even at all.
Free smart surveillance app + cloud recording. Can you think of innovative uses?
Meanwhile, in the land of not vaporware:

https://www.spaceglasses.com/
A quick search reveals, that the Week/ Month view is not available on phones (I only own an N7). Definitely a step backward.
Right, but Linus didn't turn Linux into a product. And Stallmann didn't turn GCC into a product. What you're describing is essentially for the authors not to turn lighttable into a product.
An embarassement of Brams.
I don't think specs are ever going to be perfect. Simply because the people typically writing specs (project managers, user experience designers, business analysts etc.) view the requirements through a different lens than a developer.

In my experience the best solution is for them simply to be available to the developers to answer questions that arise in a timely manner.
Your post is very politicized. There is no use arguing politics.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/
User experience (UX) audit of iOS 8 for iPhone
It would have been nice to hear how they went about solving all of the different device UI issues they ran into. Looking at the screenshot in the article, there seemed to be a lot of inconsistencies amongst devices. How did they come up with a solution to fix each issue? Did they target screen sizes and pixel densities like the app were a webpage and styled things differently depending on those factors?
Did lighttable? I thought EVE got the VC funding and LT was kickstarted?
Most data scientist these days use scikit-learn or R. Weka is really out of fashion. Mahout and mllib are difficult to use and perform less. Often it's better to just down-sample or rent an EC2 instance with a lot of memory.
Despite the awesomeness of the robotics achievement, I can't help but be mildly disappointed this isn't about cstross' works: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/01/laundry-...
Isn't there a setting on FB where you can ask to see all the updates from a particular person or page? There used to be.
Just playing around with it, do typical strategies for using these tools include "bad" data? I drew a '-' and got '4' as the guess, which feels very wrong.
PR push? This article doesn't seem like a PR push at all. It seems like someone scraping as much information out of as many sources as possible.

If it was a PR piece, they'd have animations and pretty renders about how all the things work and where they're going. Instead there are patent diagrams and quotes from job listings.

This seems more like journalism.
ArangoDB 2.3: Overhauled query optimizer, AQL improvements, new Foxx features
Let's reformulate the question: "Do (capable) people have an obligation to help other people (which are maybe less capable or just capable in other ways)?" You don't have to answer that. On a smaller social scale we all have been helped, merely by the fact that we had living conditions, like having warmth and not having each of us to reinvent the fire for that, or benefiting from security for not having to fear all the time for our survival in a hostile environment, and so and so on. Your question won't occur any more wen we'll extend a little bit what we consider "we" to include the entire human race. We're all humans, right?

P.S.: I'm not assigning blame.
Albert Michelson's 100yr Old Mechanical Fourier Analysis Machine
C and C++ communities Help biicode going open source
You must have really interesting stories to tell, but I guess it's classified.
PyCharm is in a pretty good cost/benefit spot [I'm not affiliated]...are there any IDEs people actually prefer for pure Python development?
My company[1] is a similar service for the artisan/premium beverage industry (focusing on coffee, beer, and spirits). We use machine learning and data science to understand what individuals and populations taste in a product, what attributes they're selecting for, and what they like and dislike in the product.

We then use that data to monitor their products in real time for quality control problems (flaws, taints, contamination, and batch variations), and create production and flavor profile optimizations.

I think Shazam (and my company) are offering a valuable service to artists and creators, who never had access to these types of optimizing and feedback tools before. At some level, music and cooking is an art - but its also a business, and the art is based on appreciation and consumption; and thus feedback, assessment, and optimization are critical.

I believe in the future, both music and high end drinks will be created on a near individual level - that they will be targeted and modified and optimized for very small groups and demographics. I believe that is a good thing for everyone; better products, higher quality, made for me, and that its tools like [1] and Shazam that are making this possible.

[1] www.Gastrograph.com
>It's odd that people read my comment and assume I'm binary about IDEs

The title of the submission is "Do not use IDEs". Seems pretty binary to me.
Coders in Congress are still a rare breed
That's akin to a kidnapper expecting to receive a thank you from a child they just gave bread crumbs and rusty water to for dinner.

I am far from a self-entitled individual, but I expect proper communication from the company I've given $499 to in faith of receiving a product. I refuse to act like I'm a sufferer of Stockholm Syndrome.
The amount of combinations is way too large for changes to happen fast enough (strategies/tactics/selection of characters).

Look how long it took for some of the characters presented in this game to surface (6-8 years for some)- that cycle could literally take decades for some heroes in Dota & co. I actually like patches as a forcing function in this case.

Your examples are actually great at proving my point: it took decades if not centuries for the current varied chess and go strategies to emerge. By that point we won't care about Dota & co anymore, we'll all be in the Matrix :)
Yes, passive works as well, as long as you don't need to have 2 or more agents doing different things. Still it's longer, contrived, and sounds like legal text.

Regarding small changes - not possible :) In English I would like "hen" to exist, cause it's often useful. In Polish it wouldn't change a thing, you'd need to change the underlying system if you want gender-neutral language, and at that point you may as well invent a new language. Every word (ending) will change anyway, that means words work differently with cases, numbers, plurality works differently. People would need to relearn the whole thing.

But most importantly I really don't think the language is the problem. In Poland there are more female doctors than male. Same with teachers. Yet the default word for unknown gender doctor or teacher is male, and the plural is made from male versions usually. Haven't stopped women to dominate these fields.

Anyway, thanks for discussion.
This is sexist and ostracizing :P.

Such service doesn't have a natural gender discrimination so it's actually additional work to create one. Sure, it might be worth to focus on marketing it to women, if indeed they get "disproportionately large share" of abuse (it sounds plausible to me, but I don't have data) - but there's no need for artificially limiting the service itself. Male privacy nerds would happily use it too.
As a front-end engineer who works on desktop Firefox for Mozilla, I think we have actually held to your "no major redesigns more than once every 2 years" request ;)

Australis was a UI change that we don't anticipate doing more than once every two years. We recognize the costs of doing so, for users, add-on devs, and Mozilla devs.
I would prefer an 8.09:5 aspect ratio screen that can easily be rotated 1/4 turn.

But that's mostly because my love for (sqrt(5)+1)/2 is near-Pythagorean in its scope.
Going Back to VFF S14 with Grobo Inc
It's more about capturing the spectrum from AR to VR in a single device. With controllable opacity (which I argue is required for a truly useful AR display) you also have the option to deliver purely VR experiences by blocking out the real world completely.
It's a way to practice writing. Take a quick topic and see what you can make out of it.

Just like reddit's /r/WritingPrompts.
Win 7 x64. No menus. Alt key does nothing.
You're telling me it's my first amendment right to mail a knife to your home address and suggest you kill yourself?
This sounds like me before I was diagnosed with ADD. I thought I couldn't work hard, even if I wanted to. Not saying that's your issue, but something to think about.
Video interview with Ed Freyfogle, founder of real estate search engine Nestoria
Philae Discovers Organic Molecules on a Comet
http://xkcd.org/1441/
I don't say this often but: Everything you just said is factually wrong.

- Windows had an indexer long before Vista (many many years)[0].

- Windows Search supports (and supported) UTF-8 and UTF-16 strings, as well as unicode if you had the correct language pack installed.

- Windows supported file content searches in Windows 95 (up through Vista).

- Microsoft could have allowed plugins to enrich search results WITHOUT gutting raw text searching (see Windows XP for a compromise, before they removed the work-around in Vista).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexing_Service
What about cultures that don't have problems to define, or where 'problems' are defined in such a way that solving one directly causes one to be created?

> Scary territory like postmodernism or constructivism or whatever just use these concepts in different combinations to express their ideas.

Not true. You begin with a foundation in order to assume that concepts like form, size, color, contrast, proximity, structure, action, relationship actually exist. You have your foundation, and you see post modernism through it. Post modernism is then an combinatorial expression of what already exists, to you.

What if nothing exists to begin with, or it is undefinable, or it is only definable in relation to a definable undefinable? The transience and dependency of terms on one another is what I am trying to express.

> There are rules and concepts which one must understand and know when to follow or subvert

One must not do anything. The most absurd, ridiculous, and controversial creations are what shape wave after wave of art, to then be analyzed and sifted through, to identify and separate something that was not separate to begin with, to define good and bad. But the definitions of good and bad are dependent on the context. The terms exist in relation to that which has already been defined.

The rule of design is not "follow the rules or do the opposite". There is more to do than use the rules to measure the value and define the potential of design, if you choose to do those things at all.

However, in general, in broad culture today and historically, I would say you are correct. But things change subtly, until everything is completely different.
Confessions of a former Swing-aholic
Brilliant, absolutely going to try this! Thanks for building it and for sharing it :)
This. I refuse to click on gawker links but I would love to read the article.
It would be nice with a pastebin / imgur link when people post things from gawker.
Like python, just `e = equal(...`
I don't know how they did it but I know how I would do it: stop fighting Android and work with it. "Issue 1" is a classic example of someone trying to have a lot of control over their layout and ultimately creating a lot of work for themselves. Instead of trying to lay things out exactly, use the built in layout managers in Android. In this example one could use a LinearLayout to stack items one below the other, ensuring the "Connect with Facebook" button would never overlap the text above it.
C++ STL for Embedded Developers
Upvoted, you're right here. It's the media bias. I personally found asking for covering both sides equally futile, because only one fits the ongoing popular narrative. I personally am waiting for the whole thing to blow over; there ain't much room for a rational discussion or figuring out proper courses of actions right now.
What about Namecoin?
"projects light onto your eyes"

Pretty sure my laptop does this :P
There might be a small difference between "Do not use IDEs. Ever" and "Do not use IDEs. In this course."
"Writing good specs is important" - it's also really really hard.

It is all too easy for a developer to blame difficulties on poor specs.

But if you're doing agile properly, you shouldn't consider a user story a 'spec' - a user story should be a placeholder for a conversation.

It is unrealistic to expect a non-technical stake holder to deeply and accurately describe anything but the most trivial feature. It needs a developer mindset to poke the idea, see what holds water, see where it falls apart, foresee the consequences.

You can't do that in a spec. It needs to be a conversation.

Agile favours 'Individuals and interactions over processes and tools', and this is too often forgotten when someone is pimping their tool, or blaming their process.

Have a conversation, understand what's needed, build good software.
Hubble does not have the angular resolution to resolve the objects left behind on the moon; you can do the calculations for yourself.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope
Kris here. Thanks Chris for putting this together, it was a really fun set of questions. I think a lot of what makes NSONE different is the philosophy behind the tech. We're not a DNS company, we're a traffic management company and we think DNS is a great place to do traffic management. Hope that comes across in this article.
I know you can enter email addresses as x+y@example.com where x=your regular email and y=some word/phrase to indicate who might have sold your email.

For example, if you register bill+NG@example.com with national geographic, and you find yourself getting to: bill+NG@example.com from spam, you know who sold your info. My question is, do you think companies know this trick and just remove the portion following the "+"?
No, iOS has had tools for building apps with flexible canvases, that has very little to do with the resolution of the screen these days.
Yes, for complicated things like this, explicitly declaring the type is probably preferable.
If you keep this point of view, then no one will do their duty as a citizen.

If you take a systemic stance on improving the problem, then you have a chance at improving the rate at which people do their duty as citizens.

Your choice.
As wrong-footed as Uber appears lately, don't take buzzfeed's word for anything. Dishonest trash-talking + a financial conflict of interest. Headline-baiting 'journalists' trying to steal attention+emotion for profit w/ gossipy attacks do need to consider their own glass house, especially when their sole productive output is stirring up drama.

Being agnostic on the Uber CEO's character (don't know him) I'd caution him to stop giving material to a nascent angry mob and those stoking it.
ASRock Q1900DC-ITX Intel Motherboard a Good ARM SBC Alternative
Great idea, like a programmableweb.com but for core algorithms.
That's because those companies are doing it wrong. They view social as yet another mass marketing channel, one where you spam, convert, etc, and the use the same Google Analytics/Google Ads type of approach to CPM and 'conversion'.

What they are missing entirely is that, unlike the traditional web marketing world of clicks and IP addresses, social media gives you an opportunity to understand your target audience, see what interests them, what influences them - and lets you interact with them.

Once you truly know the audience, it opens up whole new opportunities for marketing (subtle product placement, indirect promotion via influencers etc) - which almost nobody is doing effectively right now.

What we see instead is the same tired web banner concept, clumsily applied to FB or Twitter, and we're getting inundated by ads (that annoying DOMO 'are you still using Excel for your data?' ad comes to mind) - no wonder they are not seeing any ROI.
Show HN: Using Simhash and DOM trees to scrape HN with 3 lines of configuration
You would be surprised. I was apart of the smash community for a long time. I can attribute part of this to people being very attached to characters and like what's been mentioned with the way the game was created (catering to "casuals") much of the tier listings would change over time due to new bugs or people just trying to push the limit for certain characters.

We can see artifacts of this with the combo videos competitive players would put out.

While I agree competition and the metagame was the real objective (like in CCGs for example) people did like looking in the crevices for that next thing that could give their character that extra wave dash or what have you. I dare say that's what made smash so much fun.
I guess you are (though I personally didn't); this topic is totally politicized and leads to long and unproductive threads.
The examples pictured are very trendy, but most of the tips are about ways to create a minimalist design, and that's something that's been proven to be timeless. (e.g. Dieter Rams: http://goo.gl/ncLg0j)
Random bonuses (items) are fun. Random penalties (tripping) are not.
Google is currently making a number of design changes to bring products in line with their new "Material" design guidelines. These changes may or may not be in response to actual usability issues. The hypothesis is that an overall design consistency across Google products will improve overall usability over time.

However, this is still just a hypothesis. It might turn out to harm usability on some platforms while helping on others...or harm usability across the board. Adherence to a standard is not necessarily the same thing as a usability improvement.
Well, I live in the UK and I have literally never seen a pistol with a functional locking clip. Ever. Maybe there are petrol stations here which have them working,but I am yet to see one.
That does only work with Gmail, doesn't it? I don't think this is that widespread yet, so few companies (if any) will remove the part after the plus.
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Meh, nobody is using guns, and the discussion is interesting. I just don't like the assumptions some people make (I've heard that my culture is inherently sexist for example).
Stop worrying about work. It will make you physically sick.

Also, stop playing those video games. Start doing stuff instead of reading and talking about it.
It's very unusual and ironic to find an argument _for_ punitive incarceration here on HN, which is more typically a bastion of anti-incarceration advocacy. I guess it depends on where societies' and governments' fears lie (the more representative the gov't is the more these fears overlap).
Kris is a great guy and the team at NSONE are really solid.

Really good to see such a detailed article that addresses the topic from top to bottom.

I think more and more people are going to want to use something like this to build a global infra, especially across multiple providers. DNS is an often forgotten (other than everything being a 'fucking DNS problem' :-) part of the stack, and it's good to see a fresh approach.

Great article @mxpxrocks10

(disclosure: I was founder@Voxel and am investor@nsone, so my opinion is probably more than a bit biased ;-)
It popped up on the Google search results page as in the linked post
Good call, we have plans to embed this and also have a demo mode. That being said, signups are doing really well today!
The first amendment doesn't protect criminal activity.
You aren't doing yourself any favours by making these comments... you seem a little too easily offended that some people disagree with your message.
What incentive do your developers have to ship faster ?
There's nothing special about + as far as email in general is concerned, that's just a convention some mail servers (such as gmail) use. Any server using qmail, for example, uses '-' for the same purpose, but + can be part of a full name there.

While cutting out the + might still get your mail to gmail users, there's no guarantee it would for anyone else. I don't really think the people doing the spamming care, and they'd rather it arrive in an account at all than burn their sources.
In that case, maybe there is a link, it's just the other way round...
> make this take up half my screen space

For what it's worth, in GNOME 3 and Unity (Ubuntu) moving a window to the left or right border will make that window half of the screen. Same with top and bottom border. Moving a window to one of the corners resizes it to a quarter of the screen.
You simply don't. If it's your last 2X bitcoins, you probably should not trade on anonymous p2p marketplace in the first place. Ask your relatives and friends to help you with whatever problem you are trying to solve.
The ususal stance is against punitive incarceration for crimes like drug posession and maybe even sex trade activities. Crimes where someone is actually harmed? I don't think you see a lot of arguments againts punishment for those.
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Seems far more likely that in 40k years, humans will have discovered the ability of interstellar travel. Heck, at that point we could go out and fetch Voyager 1 ourselves before it comes within 1.6 light years of AC+79 3888. If we can't in 40k years, it's likely not possible that we'll ever leave this solar system. It could be that's it's just not physically possible. But more likely, do we survive long enough to develop that technology?

I've always viewed the Golden Record as a way to make humanity feel better about its future. The need to leave a legacy behind is core to who we are, and that's exactly what we did with those two discs. We left something behind that will survive for 1 billion years, with the infinitesimally small hopes that someone will find it. But, it makes us feel good.
Exit earlier?