skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really interesting article because I've yet to see real statistics done on all of this data we have of the game. One interesting thing to note though, is that each iteration of Street Fighter has had different important features in matchup analysis.

Take for example Super Street Fighter 4 (the second iteration in the Street Fighter 4 series). The game had a lot of value in more defensive characters.[1] Looking at the tier list, you can see that the top three characters were thought to be Honda, M.Bison and Guile, three charge characters. Charge characters require you to hold backwards to do most or all of their special attacks, meaning that you inherently play them defensively due to the requirement of needing to hold backwards. But, many players complained about how defensive the game had become, so in Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition, the defensive characters were reduced in power and the offensive characters became much better.

Yun, Seth, C.Viper, Cammy, Fei Long, Akuma and Rufus were all characters that put on a lot of pressure in this version and had very damaging combos. Many players find this more exciting than the much more defensive oriented Super Street Fighter 4, but eventually the offense was toned down in Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition 2012, which struck a nice balance.

[1] http://www.eventhubs.com/guides/2012/mar/29/tier-rankings-su...
Right to be skeptical of what, precisely?
It's deeply disappointing to see Google moving to a proprietary IDE for Android. I've wasted time in the past learning proprietary development environments, and it's not a mistake I want to repeat — years of muscle memory and ecosystem knowledge down the drain when the IDE owner went out of business or didn't support the new platform I wanted to develop for — but it seems like now I have very little choice if I want to develop for Android. I mean, Eclipse will still work, at least unless Google breaks it, but it's falling by the wayside.

It's also alarming to me that nobody else here on Hacker News seems to be concerned about this.

I know Google isn't a free-software business like Red Hat, but they've benefited enormously from the work of the free software community, in particular in building Android, and they touted Android as being open. It was inspiring to see a really open phone platform birthed, but every month it seems like Android is less and less open. Supporting only a proprietary development toolchain is one more step toward the dark side.
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Would this revenge be unjustified?
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So you're saying they should giveaway their competitive edge? Learn to survive competition.
Had this been happening before? I've been searching the sites about it and I found out that TPB will be back up soon but they don't know exactly when it will happen.
But how much more expensive is that robot to purchase and maintain as opposed to a low wage human worker? Remember, you only lease human labor so when one breaks it doesn't cost you anything. Also, low skill human labor is much more flexible than an automated robot. You can have them folding shirts one minute, to answering the phone the next, to rounding up shopping carts or trying to harass some kids you think my be trying to shoplift. If you don't need them as often you can just cut their hours. With a robot you are still paying for it. And the robot won't transport itself for free off the premises when you want to suspend your lease.

Decision making will be where AI is going to have it's largest immediate impact. Not physical labor. Because physical labor is much more expensive to replace than mental labor decision making.
We need open Android crowdsourcing platforms for modern science
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There was an offer on within the last year or so that took them down to crazy low prices. It apparently caused a lot of customer churn which is why they now do setup fees :(

Never had a problem with their service, but their pricing is all over the place
No, it does matter. If RAND_MAX is really large, the relative error in "incorrect" probabilities is really small. Unless you have a critical need for it to be precisely correct, the error is basically negligible.
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It doesn't actually. That's a proxy, not a mirror; designed to make TPB available from countries where it's blocked. Try a search, it won't work.

https://proxybay.info/

However, there's a script where you could download the whole TPB, it's only 90 Mb. That's possible because now they're using only magnet links, so a torrent is pretty much just a URL.

http://torrentfreak.com/download-a-copy-of-the-pirate-bay-it...

So if someone have a recent copy, it would be easy to setup a mirror.

Or people could just use one of the dozen torrent site still up and let the whack-a-mole game continue.
Meanwhile, legendary Silicon Valley angel Ron Conway appears to support the CIA and its torture program.

http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/12/09/ron-conway-twee...

https://twitter.com/RonConway/status/542404171865927681
The comment is general. The intersection is a tiny slice from each of two larger communities. There's no obviously good way to reach it with a marketing push and engage it enough to create a critical mass. StackOverflow works because it is so general and solves immediate workaday problens, but many many StackExchange sites have failed. Building community is a hard problem.

Have you listened to the StackOverflow and StackExchange podcasts?
yes, but because the magnet link is a hash of the content it is only ever a snapshot of the magnet bundle.
It's definitely leaning toward the functional side, but some things look very odd (like calling "filename".IO...). The new operators leave me dubious (eg, '*' to create a one-argument lambda function). And '»'? At least the equivalent '>>' is apparently available, but damn...
>What if your cloud instances could be updated with the same certainty and precision as your mobile phone – with carrier grade assurance that an update applies perfectly or is not applied at all?

Worst pitch analogy ever. You mean 2 years late to the party if at all? The reason the iPhone works so good is that carries have nothing to do with the phone.
Where was I excusing anyone? I am merely stating, it would be ignorant to assume that other western countries are not doing the same and the same investigation into the possibility is warranted.

Other Western nations facilitated capture and detention, they are helped get people to the CIA. So you are seriously telling me that they didn't suspect? Really???

Look, the EU is willing to drag planes from the sky to support the US in getting Snowden, so you think they don't know what the CIA was doing? Really???
I scouted some sites and found out that TPB will be backup soon and they also say that it had happened before. Ttuely I hope the best
Wish you supported more brokers. I personally am interested in support for Optionshouse and Interactive Brokers.
And, lets say you only need 3-5 of those $250/month instances... given AWS's services (or azure, or google) it isn't really a bad deal. I'm not saying it's for everyone. I'm still running some personal projects on smaller hosting providers... but with a modest budget, AWS and the like are decent offerings for what you get.

If you're designing for distributed data/services from the start, it's better still.
An actual building boom offers better hope that at some nearer point, the rent increases will pause and reverse.
This is a great post. Might I ask you to email us at hn@ycombinator.com?
Interesting I have just been working a few extract and load routines for data from google and wondered why this is an improvement on a perl script?

And don't get me started on Google amateur night approach to generating csv files!
Established and older residents, especially those without children, see no reason we should be "Manhattanized" so more people can live here. They "like SF just the way it is, thank you". If you don't have kids, and you have rent control, you never really need to upgrade your 1BR apartment once you got it.

Secondly, there is no upzoning, and subsequently no increase in density, without eviction, thanks to the rental market. Evictions aren't popular. The Tenderloin is completely insulated from any of this.

Historical preservation is bogus, but has a history. The reason that some people argue for largely have to do with the projects in the Western Addition, which bulldozed a bunch of victorians to make what most people consider an eyesore.

Local politicians don't really care too much. The reason being is any action they take pissed off established residents, who voted them in. That's changing a bit, as more people feel the pressure of the rental market and evictions. Still, there's more of an attempt to protect people who are established then there is an attempt to accommodate those who actually need housing, especially those in the middle class.
Not a mirror, a proxy. It doesn't work when the main site is down.
A couple of reasons:
- The use of C requires much more skilled developers then say Ruby or PHP. Note I am not saying smarter, I am saying skilled.

- In web development - for most products - speed of development and maintainability trump out right performance

- Most languages abstract away the machine architecture (Ruby, Java, PHP) and all simply with dealing with higher level primitives

- While garbage collection is available in C, modern languages such as Ruby, Python, PHP and Java have much nicer native implementations

- Web frameworks are far more advanced for other languages then C (RAILS (ruby), Yii(PHP), Django(Python), Grails(Ruby) just to name a few)

- The other languages have a much richer native types/and object models then C

Given these - there is nothing preventing you from using C for web development, given sufficiently experienced and capable developers.
Welcome to the club:

http://hackoftheday.securitytube.net/2013/04/my-code-made-it...
They kept the fact that they were going to deploy this on the search service that has a monopoly on search in EU secret until it was launched in Chrome. Before this, this link prefetching has seen very little use in the wild.
http://aprilzero.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8043203
In my experience, "passion" is (for some people) synonymous with "working a ton of unpaid overtime."
Thanks for the input! We're integrating more brokerages as we go. We've been swamped with requests, so any indications on your favorite brokerages would help us choose. Right now we've queued up Interactive Brokers, OptionsHouse, TradeKing and Wealthfront. Also have requests for Betterment, Loyal3 and Motif. If there are any more we should add to the list we'd love to hear it.
In Arlington, TX where I live I could buy a high quality 3500+ SF house with pool and an acre for $3000 a month or so.

However downtown Dallas apartments are approaching $2500 because the traffic is so bad people want to live in town.
> "and is joined by the new < > variant for literal strings."

... why? What was wrong with {} or [] , as most other languages do? Sigh.
So your logic is: The US is spending nearly a fifth of their GDP on medicine, it has no effect on chronic conditions. Therefore that is a good thing and we should continue.

I think I am missing something.
Not the OP, but as a dev I can not thank you enough for your post/feedback. Highlighting areas where the project can be improved is infinitely more useful than getting told the project is "awesome" or even worse "somebody else, who is not me, would buy this" - neither of which improve my project or give me cashflow.
Yes, they can't prove anything.
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It is illegal to use a monopoly in one market to create a monopoly in another market.
So, just purchased this. Very nice. Would like an option to change the art once every 12 or 24 hours, if possible?
Why do you continually focus on the cold room and ignore all the other kinds of torture in this report? It's unconvincing and reflects poorly on your argument.
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But the carrier lock on a phone does not protect any content. It prevents you from moving the phone to another network. It has nothing to do with content at all. There is no copyright involvement in any way.
They do because it's the next best thing to outsourcing: cheap labor (why pay a market-rate salary when we have a fooseball table with all of the Red bull you can drink!)
Honest and serious question - what's the purpose of this service? Do you think an investor will get higher returns if he knows what his friends are buying? What experts are buying? It seems to me that no serious investor would ever need this type of a service. I understand it's cool to make everything social, but I can get absolutely no useful information from this aspect.

The reporting side can definitely be very cool though, and it could provide serious benefits if done right.
> engineering is, after all, the science of achieving the stated objectives with the least resources

With a factor of safety at 2+.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_of_safety#Choosing_desi...
Great insight about liabilities.
But it's commercial. Does c or c++ have a django or flask or ruby-on-rails alternative? Something that has some abstractions, is fast and has a nice community. (i would prefer flask alternative)
And, to add to what everyone else said: there are out-of-towners who are buying up this newly-built property; either as a place to stash some cash (people from China, Russia), or as a crashpad for when they come in to town (from other parts of Bay Area) for an event or something.
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In this case, the candidate's thesis work explicitly dealt with game theory. In addition, this doesn't require much knowledge of game theory... if you think about the problem for a bit, you can re-derive the concept fairly easily.

Nash's brilliance was in proving that under reasonable conditions, a mixed equilibrium always exists, which is far less obvious.
s/A LOT/some
this seems great
I still have to use SOAP more often than I'd like to these days. It's a pain testing and dealing with all the different tools you have to use just to stand up a basic request.

A lot of vendors I've worked with will publish REST web services for public data but as soon as any private information needs to be accessed they use SOAP. I don't know if they just don't trust the tools to make REST secure or what but it's disappointing for sure.

Also the people who wrote the SOAP code are long gone which makes support for them even more difficult when I'm trying to get bugs fixed. REST server code has not been anywhere as bad to deal with.
That's nice, but it's irrelevant because there are not going to be many "flynn" executables.
Oh man, I find your responses to this thread hilariously ironic. A week ago on a thread concerning H1B's and immigration to the US, you refuted someone's claim that America could accommodate almost unlimited migration because this ignored the issues of having these people absorb and internalize the cultural norms that make the US a great place to live and which others places that aren't so great to live lack. You used the example of bribery being a cultural norm in the country your parents emigrated from and one of the things that caused your father to leave.

Well consider me convinced! We definitely need to limit immigration to America otherwise we could end up with large numbers of people whose cultural norms allow them to condone torture and try to make jokes about it! Can you imagine what a cluster fuck this nation would be if the majority view was that repeated anal rape leading to multiple attempts at self-harm was something to be made light of!? No we definitely need to make sure that we only accept a small enough number of immigrants that we can ensure that things like the concept of the rule of law, the right to trial, and the right to not be, you know FUCKING TORTURED, are fully assimilated by them. Gods knows what things would be like if they somehow managed to not internalize these concepts.
Automatic feature choice can actually lead to a set of features that resembles V1 receptive fields (as demonstrated by Olshausen and Field in https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse528/11sp/Olshau...).

I recently attended a talk by Geoff Hinton on "capsules." He pointed out that the max pooling used in convolutional neural networks effectively disregards information about relationships among features. Instead, he propose a network composed of "capsules" that each estimate whether an implicitly defined intermediate feature is present and its pose. The idea is that an object is present only if its intermediate features are present and their poses agree. He showed some neat results from these models (some published in http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.1897v1.pdf, and some from http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~tijmen/tijmen_thesis.pdf). Notably, these models can evidently learn to classify MNIST with >98% accuracy given only 25 labeled examples. (I am not sure how many unlabeled examples were used.) I don't have any experience with these models, but given that most of these images look like a single feature embedded in noise or as a texture, I would not be surprised if a capsule-based network would not be so susceptible to these images.
One recruitment consultant contacted me about a job. Told me blah blah blah, how such and such a company were hiring loads of people etc. I told him I was interested and he didn't get back to me. So I posted my own application to the same company, and got hired a month later.
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I agree, e.g. you cannot be first employee 5% and no salary.
>I like how Nix obsoletes a lot of what Puppet&co are all about, and does so in a very straight forward manner.

I like that a lot, too. It's a great example of taking a step back, examining a problem from a different perspective, and coming up with a better, simpler solution than the current state of the art.
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Your website doesn't work without a "www" in the URL.
Interesting perspective I had not thought of before. It aligns with my one and only experience with a professional resume writer, who took my resume and fluffed it up with exaggerations and borderline lies.
The organisation that reported Thepiratebay and therefore is the reason for this raid is called Rättighetsalliansen (The Alliance of Rights). The Alliance of Rights is the same organisation as The Anti Pirate Bureau but with a new name.
This is what they say on their website (roughly translated):

"The police raided The Pirate Bay today inside an Internet company in the Stockholm region. Rättighetsalliansen is behind the report against The Pirate Bay.

- Pirate Bay is an illegal commercial service that makes great sums of money by putting up other peoples movies and music on their site. The producers wont get payed for their work and the legal services growth gets prevented, says Henrik Pontén, lawyer at Rättighetsalliansen."

In other words they don't now what they are talking about. Thepiratebay is not putting up any files on thepiratebay.org, the users are (of course nothing is even uploaded, only seeded from user to user). I can recommend the documentary about The piratebay, TPB AFK where you will meet Henrik Pontén from the Anti Piracy Bureau among others.

Rättighetsalliansens website and article about this: http://rattighetsalliansen.se/nyhet/118

EDIT: I think their website crashed.
It's been a long time, but could Seuss' The Sneeches (those with stars and those without thars) serve the purpose?
iAppuApp features apps daily, developers can self-feature their apps at homepage as well for free.
I was under the impression that the "Android Gradle plugin" is a plugin to extend Gradle's behavior? So really you're dealing with 66 chapters plus Google's wildly-insufficient Android-plugin documentation.
It's not so simple. The larger the modulus, the larger the error; up to a limit. If the modulus is 2^30 + 2^29 for example, then values of r in the range 0 ... 2^29 will be represented twice as often as values in the range (2^29 + 1) ... (2^30 + 2^29). This is much more significant error than one in two billion (it's close to 1 in 3, nearly ten orders of magnitude more significant).

Subtleties like this are hard to detect on code review, and even in testing ... the real lesson may be that the very interface behind random(void) is just broken. It really should be random(int) and take care of all of this for you, as many other languages/libraries do.
I would be interested in an actual copyright lawyer's take on this.

The use here, especially lightly rewritten as it was, seems de minimis, justifiable in setting a scene derived from real events, and with no harm to the original author's reputation or livelihood. Maybe under other countries' law, a stricter permission regime applies, but for the US, it looks like a slam-dunk on fair-use grounds to me.

I also prefer the spirit of the Noisebridge reply to Dreamworks [1] – roughly, "you should be embarrassed for even thinking you need to ask" – to copyright-maximalist freeze-frame nit-picking.

[1] https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/DreamworksReply
One of the most interesting and beautiful code bases I had to work with recently was a modern, versatile and mobile-centric Intranet web application - fully written in C++ with wt:

http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt

https://github.com/kdeforche/wt
It's not so much that there is no fold as that there are a zillion folds. Where the content of a page rolls down off the bottom of the screen depends on so many things: display size, resolution, browser window size, browser chrome, add-ons, toolbars, etc. etc. etc...

So I always find it a bit amusing to hear people talk in the Web context about "above the fold." Oh, that goes above the fold? OK, which one?
On Windows, the easy way is to call `rand_s`: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sxtz2fa8.aspx
Url changed from http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/09/researchers-create-shapes-i..., which points to this.
Could you elaborate a little? I ask because the Perl 5 code looks a lot like the Perl that I write. I'd like to improve, but the existing Perl code that I'm writing on top of is really bad. Like really, really bad. I don't have much quality Perl to compare against.
Some of my favorites: http://imgur.com/a/d3brY
Ask HN: Why do so many worthless idiots still believe in chemtrails?
Seriously, just came across a YouTube video (a few years old) about chemtrails with over 13,000 likes (and relatively few dislikes). I won't link to it because I do not want to promote it in any way more than I already have.
No, their real crime is ignoring regulations and the users of the service having to repeat history (high fares, questionable people driving) to figure out why we had the regulations there in the first place.

I could start plenty of businesses right now that ignore regulations (and make tons of money).
The rent prices in SF (and around) have baffled me ever since I moved here in 2011. Can anyone explain who is supposed to be able to afford $3k+ for a studio?

Me and my gf both work in tech (making well north over 100k each) and between the two of us we barely can afford a 2bedroom apartment for about 3k/mo. I can't imagine living by myself and paying such insane amounts on rent alone. After adding in things like student loan payment, car payment and groceries/living expenses there isn't much left to save or do anything extra? (Don't even get me started on trying to "buy" a place and coming up with a downpayment, which is very different dynamic on by itself)

So, I can only assume that everyone who is able to drop 3-5k on rent alone must be making 200k at least? There can only be that many "Directors of engineering", "Heads of dev"? Clearly I am doing something very wrong here.