skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could it have something to do with the online games being better, in a sense, games?

When I think back to when I was a little kid playing Sega Genesis for 5 hours straight, the way I always remember those occasional binges ending was this: I would hit a particular point in the game I was obsessing about at that moment, and just plain get stuck. I might batter against it for half an hour, but finally my exhausted patience would snap and I would give up, and that would be the end of that binge.

From a game design perspective, that represents a failure; it did not design that challenge right, or it was too unclear about something, or it should have provided an alternative route a player could take - a player should struggle, certainly, and play at the edge of their ability, but they should never reach a point where they're just completely stuck and cannot advance.

The online games are generally better designed in that respect; bottlenecks are observed and quickly patched, there are usually many alternatives or built-in difficulty mechanisms (in a MMORPG, grind some more; in Counterstrike, find less skilled players to play against) and if nothing else, you can search the community for other people who got stuck on it and see what they did or just commiserate.

In the old offline gaming world, all of that is either less likely or impossible. So as frustrating as those instances might be, they served as safety valves.
It's almost like mutually-beneficial exchange is the backbone of our economy or something!
I think it would be quite difficult to build a meaningful app with React and not use something Flux-like. My own experience went like this:

I started off by putting all state in Elements, because that is what the React docs encourage. Eventually, I needed to persist the state and/or access it outside the element (because it is actual fucking state used for business logic). At that point in time, I tried passing callbacks into the Elements per the docs. Of course, this is ridiculously cumbersome when the element is nested 5 or 6 levels below the entry point. Then, I tried hooking up Backbone models and sucking data out of those but two way data binding turned my code into spaghetti. Enter flux! This was perhaps a week or two of pain we can spare others.
lsof | awk '/libc/{print $1 | "sort -u" }' you're welcome
'estimated $1.4bn worth of card transactions that Americans make annually.'

That's it?
The new Opera is far more than a buggy hack of Chrome. It has a new user interface which isn't actually buggy.
Techdirt really has some of the most one sided and consistently terrible articles of any "news" site I've seen.

Here is some actual relevant information related to the Google Fiber concessions, mainly in that they don't have to build out infrastructure to the entire city (unlike Comcast etc), and other breaks not given to previous providers:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/how-kansas-city-t...

> Google received stunning regulatory concessions and incentives from local governments, including free access to virtually everything the city owns or controls: rights of way, central office space, power, interconnections with anchor institutions, marketing and direct mail, and office space for Google employees. City officials also expedited the permitting process and assigned staff specifically to help Google. One county even offered to allow Google to hang its wires on parts of utility poles—for free—that are usually off-limits to communications companies.
The only regular issue I have with html5 player is buffering with seeking, some times things get stuck. I often resort to youtube-dl `xsel` | dmenu | mpv to help both cpu usage and streaming quality.
After having read all the "positive" stuff about gaming in "Reality Is Broken" by Jane McGonigal I remember thinking:

To some children/adolescents games are the perfect (psychological) parents: providing all the endless, almost limitless attention and appreciation, perfectly dosed challenge and rewards, a sense of accomplishment and unconditional ... fun.

I think this could be unique gateways for games to tip some effected ppl. into addiction, gateways not used by other potentially addictive stuff.
Experiencing everything that Troy mentioned firsthand, it's a powerful read.
"SQLite is not designed to compete with Oracle. SQLite is designed to compete with fopen()."

http://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html

How about something towards the Cloud direction, like AWS RDS? MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL or Aurora might work better.
I honestly had no idea US banks took the piss quite so much, but I did have a vague idea that many still use cheques over there, EMV/chip-and-pin was barely known and you often get charges levied on debit cards.

That really isn't the case in the UK, certainly, and I don't think it's normal practice most other places - or am I wrong?

Is this actually normal over there? Would it be practical to bank with a bank based in another country?

I know everyone's going to roll their eyes, but how does this financially compare to transfers via Bitcoin?
that's a scummy thing to do. would've taken my hat and left.
Oh, I'm sure if you can make IRC work, it might be enough. But aside from the fact that this can be a significant hurdle in many situations, Slack's integration with various tools is a significant advantage that IRC can't quite replace (easily).

For example, we've linked our various trello boards to their relevant channels, and as a result when I get into work (part-time) I can simply scroll through the 'front-end' channel and not only see the discussions between co-front-enders, but also see the updates on trello tickets in the same place, in the exact context of the conversations around it. That's become quite valuable to me.
Gotta make the nut for the next quarterly earnings report.
First of all will agree with whatever has been said so far, that this is a sort of validation that the idea is not totally bonkers. However the validation at the moment is from investors, not customers - which is much more important.

Also, you benefit from the second mover advantage in the sense that you get to learn from them and also benefit from the market they create and improve upon it.

However, one thing to note.. you said you're working on it "on the side", while the other company just got some funding which not only implies that now they have money but also that they were most likely already doing this fulltime.
So, if anything, you need to make a serious decision right now - whether you want to drop it or pick it up fulltime. Most likely keeping on doing it on the side is not going to cut it anymore since the race is now on..
Probably. But I'll live without full unfettered access to Youtube's back catalog, which access I don't pay a dime for.
I use Travis CI to maintain my Ruby gems, and one thing that I do is turn on a build that allows failure, where it uses the HEAD version of my upstream dependencies. That way I know within a day when upstream has done something broken, which is especially nice if it's by accident.
Because it's very difficult to under-cut them as a competitor.
You probably got a "SoftHeat" (made by Perfect Fit maybe?), I love them, they are really good quality.
One of the problems they have is that they are not aware of the temperature and after a few hours usually get too hot and really uncomfortable.
When using them I usually wake up feeling too hot and have to turn them off.
> unless they're in one of the major browsers

Servo is a research project for a future version of Firefox. That's the definition of a major browser. No web developers want a new browser with incompatible features to test or build against, but Mozilla/Google/Microsoft experimenting for future versions is expected.

The original point is that independent browsers using established libraries and adding new UI concepts is great for users and doesn't make extra work for web developers. I'm looking forward to what they make of it!
"Because they can" is the best explanation.

These fees do fund all the CC infrastructure (terminals, technology, cards, servers, chargebacks, fraud compensations) and the benefits that card issuers give to cardholders, but there's still a lot of space for profit. There's a strong lock-in as most merchants really, really want to accept cards instead of leaving the system, and little competition (the interchange is unified for all banks), so it's almost like a cartel where the prices go down only when/if forced by regulation.
You'll pardon me if I reject any argument premised on a notion of someone being an "overly sensitive SJW twat".

Comments like that say more about the person uttering them than their arguments.
The cable industry has been working on ramping up speeds for the last decade starting with DOCSIS 3 to compete with Verizon FIOS. The development of DOCSIS 3.1 for gigabit speeds over cable actually started before Google Fiber existed. It seems like people don't want to give Verizon credit for this because perhaps Google offers a more compelling story or maybe because it would suggest that competition in the telecom duopoly actually worked out pretty well. Even after Verizon scaled back / halted their build-out of FIOS they had dumped so much money into it that we suddenly had a competitive market for FTTH/G-PON equipment and trained contractors to build it. Google Fiber and muni FTTH projects couldn't have existed without Verizon basically seeding the market for it in the US.
What I especially like about the HTML5 player is the ability to change the playback speed. It is extremely useful for watching lectures & talks.
& that's what happens. In my home country Belgium, a company needs to spend 2.5 EUR for each 1 EUR an employee makes net, making hiring effectively a last resort solution.
Here's a concrete instance. Last week I made the decision to buy the new Dragon Age game. I have 100mbit, and it downloaded in about 30-45 minutes. This was frustrating because my time is valuable, and of the 3 hours I had to play a game, I only got to play for 2 hours. If I had had the foresight to upgrade to gigabit, it would have downloaded in under 5 minutes. My excellent provider, CondoInternet.net provides 100mbit for $60, and gigabit for $80, but unfortunately I cheaped out. (Well, rather, I decided to first try 100mbit since it was such a huge upgrade over my previous Internet before spending more cash because I'm cheap like that).

Gigabit means you can make decisions on a whim, and not have to schedule down time days in advance. I mean I play video games when I'm physically and mentally exhausted (the couple hours post-gym, for instance).
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It's a really cool idea and great job on getting this far; I think I might order one.

Does that mean both the device and your cloud have apis, or does it mean that an app which communicates only with the device can do the same things as your app which talks to both?
Sign up for a rewards checking account and get some money back off the interchange fees: https://www.depositaccounts.com/checking/reward-checking-acc...
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Read it twice. It didn't change my answer.

I'm sorry you base your hiring decisions on "failing companies", and imply that I have "have money to blow on it"... Well, we do have money to spend on the right hires, but we definitely do not have the money to spend on the wrong ones. To you sir, I wish you a good day too.
This is pretty awesome!

Is there a way to change the SQLite backend?
I definitely lost many months playing my SNES.

MMOs have the social aspect, which for people like me, is the main draw, any skinner box effect rapidly wears off, but many people spent months hanging about in Orgrimmar chatting with guildies not doing anything.

MMOs tend to (in my experience only) be more of a distraction too. Single players never got me through an anxiety or depression episode, whilst MMOs saved me there more than once or twice.

Dont forget, in the old days of single player, the media was not as it is now, and there is a focus generally on "Are people behaving differently because of online things", and MMOs are an easy target for this.
So, when you hired the substitutes, you were essentially paying a double salary (new mother's salary + temp employee salary) for probably less production (temp employee probably not as effective as FTE)?

I'm not arguing one way or the other. My heart says we should codify parental leave of some sort. But, my brain has trouble figuring out a system that is fair to small employers (short of only mandating large employers provide leave, which doesn't seem right either).
It's a real challenge if you live somewhere warm. Even using only a sheet and with a fan blowing directly on me I still want/need colder. Here in NC it'll often be 85-90F and humid, even at night.
How attacking a colonial settlement is "invading" Australia?.

In fact the British actually used to attack Spanish settlements at the time, and supported piracy against the Spanish Armada.

It has very little to do with actual Australia. It were the British who invaded Australia, killing most of the native population.

Go around Australia and see how many non whites there are. See who has all the wealth on the country.
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Definitely keep going, even if they seem better than you. Sometimes a VC track startup implodes fast while the turtle gets the prize. Things change quite a bit over time, in my experience.

What you have gained is free market research. Since they have funding, they are going to be fairly public about how they progress. Look at what they do, consider why they did it and weigh the responses. DON'T shy away from things that they are doing - if they had a great idea you didn't think of, TAKE IT. If they have the same idea, don't change it, look at their results and see if it can be improved. Otherwise, keep it the same.

You have the advantage of being reactive. Let them spend money and effort validating, you can focus more on executing.
.... but now they have brought out "Warlords of Draenor" which apparently is excellent so you aren't safe anymore...

That aside and in all seriousness, good on you. I went through a very similar experience with WoW when I realized I had well over 100 days of my time invested in pixel characters. That is 2400 hours, or around a quarter of the 10,000 hours required to become an expert in something worthwhile. And that was just 1 character in WoW, I played other games like DAOC with similar time investments. It is and was just crazy and well over the point where I could justify it as entertainment/me time.
4 and 7, and all I had to do is set it up and turn it on - they took over from there .. ;)
The Opera forums weren't shut down. They were moved to a new location. The chat still exists as well.

The My Opera site was what made people love Opera? Uh... No. Opera 12 had tens of millions of users, and hardly a fraction of those visited that site.
"Since there's no way to roll back server upgrades"

It is if you run a modern filesystem like ZFS or btrfs. You just do a cheap snapshot before upgrading(can be automated) and roll back if there are problems. Even works with lvm.
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Unrelated to this, but do you guys like board games or really almost anything else? I made the mistake of living in Oak Ridge and I've had a hell of a time meeting people ( I mean, clearly, I'm propositioning a random person in an unrelated HN thread). When my mentor isn't around I can go days without talking to people, and it's starting to drive me a bit mad. I keep buying board games and local multiplayer PC games, but they all languish unplayed.

Back onto the topic, I seriously feel Comcast is "trialing" their data caps her because the southeast is perceived as less tech-savvy, and they're probably aware they can get away with it more.

EDIT: Thanks y'all, I'll be sending out some emails when I get home.
That seems like a weak argument. It's still going to do the wrong thing when the local machine has a 10.x.x.x address and the local server has a 172.16.x.x address. The right solution is for the local admin to have the local DNS server return only the local address for local clients.

getaddrinfo() is also a much more complicated function than gethostbyname(). If you need the extra features, fine. If you're writing new code, fine. But going back and trying to update existing code is just going to introduce new bugs.
It should be fine, we managed to fit it to a lot of mattresses.
If you post the full height I can check.
> Encrypted Media Extensions and Common Encryption - In the past, the choice of delivery platform (Flash, Silverlight, etc) and content protection technology (Access, PlayReady) were tightly linked, as content protection was deeply integrated into the delivery platform and even the file format. Encrypted Media Extensions separate the work of content protection from delivery, enabling content providers like YouTube to use a single HTML5 video player across a wide range of platforms. Combined with Common Encryption, we can support multiple content protection technologies on different platforms with a single set of assets, making YouTube play faster and smoother.

Has any streaming platform actually rolled out an implementation of this? And has anyone found a way to break it?
No mention of the word 'spam' anywhere on the site, apart from rate limiting. To me, spam handling is pretty much the primary feature of a comments system.
Yeah, the regular camera on the iPhone is perfect.
This explores how to trigger it differently in apps though (like Instagram or whatsapp). I wanted to find out if it's easier to learn a gesture than to learn tap sequences.
What to you think?
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Would love to see this as an option to mongodb on meteor
Care to point out all the RCEs that exist in the millions of lines of C# and Java out there? Apart from exec/eval I don't recall seeing a single one (I'm sure there's a few where they interop or use unsafe code.)
I assume you mean electronic locks? Simple mechanical code locks are still pretty common.
For those without the time (or grit) for Richard D. Wolff the idea is to replace the top-down autocratic organization of the corporate structure with a bottom-up democratic one of worker self-directed cooperatives. The idea being that risk and liability are spread across a large base of people - not unlike insurance. At the same time it fails to concentrate wealth in a few 'top dogs' and decisions made democratically are less likely to screw over workers 'for the good of stakeholders'. Wolff hopes that, as the decision makers of such a body are likely to live in the area their business affects, decisions made are less likely to pollute or otherwise externalize costs to the local area. For instances where individual decision making must be had (due to expertise or importance of swiftness) or where management of workers is needed - he refers to the successes of the Mondragon Corporation (where they, as laborers, hire and fire the managers that manage themselves based on how good they are).
sudo netstat -lnp | awk -F/ '/LISTEN /{print $2}'
Unless I'm missing some feature you're alluding to, Slack is a superset of IRC. It is objectively a mistake to use IRC instead of Slack (cost & "where is my data" aisde - only speaking of features)
I'm not as worked up about this as you are ("serfs" c'mon). The "machines" are mostly doing mind numbing clerical work which they are relatively better at performing after considering costs. And they are doing it at the direction of non-driver company employees.

These drivers will likely eventually be replaced by driverless cars when their cost declines below the cost of employing drivers. Will that that be better or worse?

Unlike real serfs Uber drivers can set themselves free at anytime (i.e. quit). Instead 40,000 more signed up last month alone[1].

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/22/inside-ubers-staggering-u-...
All global card systems generally are funded by interchange fees (paid by the merchant to the card issuing bank), which varies depending on location and card type.

In UK the interchange for most EMV debit cards seems to be 0.08 pounds - 12 US cents, about half of the US level.
Does it really result in an objectively worse product, though? Subjectively, I can't but agree. But objectively?

Especially in an industry where we are constantly amazed by what people accomplished years ago. I question whether long term planning and acting is truly objectively worse.
Just eat a little bit of everything, lots of colors, each thing in moderation. It's what really old active people tend to do, and it usually gives you complete nutrition.

Diets that omit or focus on one group of edible foods usually turn out to be bad for you in other subtle ways, it's because humans are strongly evolved to be omnivores.
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These are for debit, not credit transactions, so I don't think charge backs or fraud apply.
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Now if they only defaulted to theatre mode. I don't care about the related videos as much as they think I do, and there's still room for a few once they get shifted underneath the larger player.
rape (n) - an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation:

Kindly take your ludicrous brand of social justice somewhere else.
A hint from how the Lisp Machine did quick auto-indent etc: it used doubly linked lines (each line had a link to the one above and below), and each included in its metadata a number for how much it changed the indentation.

Maybe not necessary as fast as machines are today, but I found it pretty neat when I used the idea to make Goldhill Common Lisp's Emacs (an interpreter that ran on original formula IBM-PCs at the time) flash the opening paren that matched the one at the cursor (I think auto-indent was already there, but slow).
> A few community members have been working on a RethinkDB integration with Meteor and Volt, and we expect robust integrations to become available in the coming months.

If I'm understanding correctly, RethinkDB could be a drop in replacement for mongodb? What are the benefits to this replacement in the context of Meteor?
I hope this can also be available in Euro bed sizes. We can't get King & Queen here in Nordics but rather 160x200, 180x200 or 180x210 (as people are tall)
Your twitter link is ad blocked. Might be nice to just put a normal link?
Regulatory capture is definitely involved, yes. Except it's not the originator of the woes, it's merely an instrument.

It's not the bullet that kills the victim, it's the assassin that pulls the trigger.
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Over the last 5 years the cable industry has mostly completed their own analog-to-digital transition and now have a decent amount of spectrum to throw at faster data speeds.
I use this constantly when I'm watching tutorials and how-tos. It makes picking up the info you need so much faster.

I also recently discovered that the Crocodile Hunter at 1/2 speed is freaking hilarious. e.g.,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLIMgXv89VU&feature=youtu.be...
Of course! We are already integrated with some smart lights (Philips Hue and emberlight), we plan to integrate with more.
We are also integrated with IFTTT for the devices we are missing.
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You've just treated the entire world economy as if every individual is fungible, all tasks are identical, and transaction costs are completely negligible.

The only thing that's failed here is your perspective. The world is a very complex place and the last thing it needs more of are people pondering half-thought "solutions" to problems they haven't given an iota of thought to.
Turns out, open source code is written by humans, same as at Microsoft. I remember, back in the day, it was absolutely pathetic that Microsoft Outlook had a buffer overflow in the subject line that could be tripped simply by receiving an email. Well, oops.