skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really awesome to read this, I've been reading his blog for years now and I still remember him making a few hundred dollars off of a game. Or making $4k in 1 year of sales of a game that he built with 3 people between November and June, while he worked as a barista to pay the bills.

It's absolutely wonderful then to see him generate $600k in two years of sales. He's obviously committed to game development long term and this will allow him to do just that without huge financial worries for a few years.

That having been said, his earlier experiences are the typical ones. (making $2500 in sales after spending 6 months on development and 12 months selling). It's a really though market.
Ah, are you talking about modern-day football hooligans?

When I say "small-scale skirmishes", I'm talking about relatively small border conflicts and the like that last less than a year and kill tens to hundreds of people. As opposed to regional or national conflicts where the casualties get into the thousands or much higher.
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I agree, which is why Barrett made those rifles. My point was that the .50 BMG had been recognized by the Army as an effective long range marksman's round, to the point where they were procuring and issuing scopes for the M2, 30 years before Barrett made their first rifle.
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Perhaps electric rates would be more relevant than natural gas...

http://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/7?geo=g&...
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I completely agree. The only thing holding any of those games back was the lack of desire, funding, or resources to make a truly non-convergent branching narrative.
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I just wish the game didn't make it glaringly obvious whom you can kill without taking a morale hit. Overhearing some folks talk about how happy they are to have killed the drivers of a civilian supply truck was just a glaring "You can kill these people and not feel remorse" flag.

I would have loved it all the more if all the NPCs were shades of grey instead of more obvious blacks and whites.
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It depends. I got caught in crunch time at my current company and needed a vacation bad after 3 months. It ended up coming a little later, but I got copious vacation in order to get back to normal (~3 weeks).
Yes. When you're getting initial data you'll get a document of the form `{ new_val: data }`. When you're getting changes, the document is of the form `{ new_val: data, old_val: data }`. Note that in the former case, the `old_data` field is missing.
Schools, nations, races, religions, you name it, we're just as tribal as apes. At least in sports it's fairly explicit that while I think my tribe is the best, you naturally think your tribe is the best, and that's OK, it doesn't mean either of us are bad people and we can agree to disagree.
I think those effects are good, but I also recognize that because these effects are unmoored from anything real we're dealing with nearly pure social signaling amongst a mass responding to tribal tendencies.

Of course, having something that serves as a community focal point that crosses faith boundaries is invaluable - nearly any time new people meet powerful things happen.

However, I take issue with your point about the economy: A local bump means that there was a withdrawal from somewhere else in the economy. If it came mostly from savings rather than from shifting consumption from other locales, then it generated increased consumption, which depending on the macroeconomic condition, could be good or bad (though during the latest recession, inducing an overall increase in consumption sounds like the right thing to do). It's not clear whether this is a good thing or not. Why should I prefer the shop owners in your town versus some other town to temporarily enjoy increased profits? There might be a good reason, but for a disinterested third party, odds are it's a wash.
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I think it's worthwhile to note that they aren't using CSS, they're using a CSS-like syntax as a constraint solver. This means they're able to define new properties or reinterpret things to suit the native platforms they're building for.
Thanks, I thought it was sent to the exterior, I read "All I can hear is a slight whine from the hybrid electric powerplant ready to be abused" and when I read the above comment I thought they were piping it to the exterior, like in this article:

http://www.psfk.com/2014/04/electric-car-fake-noise-safety.h...

"The European Parliament has just ruled that electric vehicles and hybrid cars have to be fitted with fake engine sounds so that people will hear them coming. The mandate aims to make streets safer for everyone, especially the blind and visually-impaired."
You almost certainly still need a concrete or asphalt road bed under the panels, no?
If you read their press release about CISPA, and then read the Wikipedia page, you'll find a number of direct discrepancies.

For example, the EFF claims that cyber intelligence is user data, when in reality it's IPs, domains, md5s, general behavior of threat actors. The EFF intentionally pretends like companies want to give away user information, when in reality, companies want to enable the US government to protect its citizens.
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> As a person who has played many sports and specifically basketball to a college D1 level I find this article both true and troubling. This is because I also enjoy discussing things at a high level. I enjoy the fact that I can talk to a person about Turing tests (or any CS related topic) and then turn the conversation right into how the Baltimore Ravens need better defensive backs for next season (Baltimore/DC fan here).

I'm glad that you enjoy that, and its great for you. I'm not sure why that should dissuade anyone else from choosing not participate in the ritual of fandom in the particular professional sports that are widely popular, or why the fact that you enjoy it should make it "troubling" that other people choose not to engage with it.

> I just want everyone to be friends. Is that so hard to ask?

No, it is easy to ask anything. It is also unreasonable. Friendship, if it is to be meaningful, is a positive commitment of time and resources. Everyone can't be friends without robbing the term of all meaning, because there are too many people.
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Our local government has leased the rights to build solar panels over their parking lots to a private sector company. They've covered most lots at this time.

The panels have all of the advantages outlined in the article.

The only downside not mentioned was snow and ice falling from the overhead panels. At least one person has been hurt.
Chinese stream. No commercials. It is, by far, the greatest thing that has happened to football.
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Why not JSON?
At my company, using an interactive shell on prod to invoke DB queries, even through the ORM, is basically considered a raw database query, and is strictly forbidden. It's untested code coming straight from your fallible fingers and manipulating the prod database. I don't see why this should be treated as any different than a raw db query. You can do some pretty powerfully destructive stuff with an ORM.
That's interesting. I read a while back that psychopaths are not people who are completely devoid of empathy. Instead, they were defined as people who can control empathy. They can turn it on or off. They can turn it on when it suits them and turn it off when it would get in the way of achieving goals.
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> When I say "small-scale skirmishes", I'm talking about relatively small border conflicts and the like that last less than a year and kill tens to hundreds of people.

Football skirmishes that kill people on that order aren't unheard of, and I know of no evidence even suggesting that the popularity of professional sports even correlates with (much less causes) a reduction the kind of small-scale skirmishes you discuss (even before considering whether the degree of such effect is offset by violence directly associated with sport.)
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Macau was governed by Portugal and was handed back in 1999. It had been rented by the Portuguese since 1557.
My Python NN-based Submission for Kaggle's MNIST OCR Competition
So this public key is like a lock and that public key is not like a lock. Got it.
Just a warning, if you try this while using Safari it might crash and close all of your tabs somehow. And it might make it so that you can't reopen those tabs despite the fact that you have tabs set to be restored each session. And you may in fact experience the acute pain of losing a year's worth of painstakingly accumulated tabs. Not that this has happened to me.
I wonder if the 600 people working from home are doing it all in one four hour block like the original in-person group. It seems like that would be enormously biasing the result - if you give people something to look at for four hours, they're going to want it to be entertaining.
Might be worth checking out NomadList:

https://nomadlist.io/
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I think a far more likely reason is that they grow up in poverty and have no good role models for how to manage their finances. They're very similar to lottery winners in that regard. As a result, they piss it away.
Why in the world would I try to take an interest in a topic I have no interest in in order to fit in with people on a level I have no interest in fitting in?

Life is very simply to short to be excited about these kind of things. As it is, I don't even have time to find out everything I really do want to find out.

If I did have to get interested in something I have absolutely zero interest in, it might as well be fashion shows. I'm thinking the romance potential might be higher than with sports.

If people are interested in professional sports fine... I don't feel elitist or look down on them. I do scratch my head and wonder to myself that they don't have something more interesting to do with their time, but whatever. I don't claim to know what everyone else should like. I sure don't have to be interested though.
as programmer, I would love it if I could auth to github et. al with SSH keys

Um, you can?
Crowdfunding Comes of Age
> An intelligence agency that keeps a list of demographic minorities for the purposes of spying & persecution is Holocaust-precursor-grade stuff

Exactly. And that's how Jacob Appelbaum sees it too:

“There is just a very real historical awareness of how information can be used against people in really dangerous ways here,” Poitras says. “There is a sensitivity to it which just doesn’t exist elsewhere. And not just because of the Stasi, the former East German secret police, but also the Nazi era. There’s a book Jake Appelbaum talks a lot about that’s called IBM and the Holocaust and it details how the Nazis used punch-cards to systemise the death camps. We’re not talking about that happening with the NSA [the US National Security Agency], but it shows how this information can be used against populations and how it poses such a danger.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/09/berlins-digital...
If you use -ffreestanding -nostdlib, libgcc doesn't pull in libc. You'll need to write the syscall(2) function yourself.
True. The ability to sanity check is very important.
Is Snapchat Really Confusing, or Am I Just Old?
You can't make decisions today about what will be the standard in 10 years. Computers will be exponentially faster and used for different things. It's just pointless.

JSON is widely accepted now, and BSON overcomes its only real shortcoming (lack of binary support).

There's nearly 0% chance any of your software (or any of ours) will still be used/maintained in 10 years, so make a decision about what's available now.
Damn. It's a sad day when Gawker of all places is the one that is meeting some grand vision...
No one is against reform in Greece. Literally no one (except maybe the far-left which is less than 5% of the population).

The thing is that all the reforms proposed by the Troika as of today were absolutely against boosting any form of healthy growth. The troika actively supported the governments which are responsible for Greece's troubles and extra-ordinary debt. That says a lot IMHO. I didn't get the feeling that the EU+ECB+IMF was interested in actually helping at any point of this negotiation.

So, I'm sorry but I'd rather for Greece to exit the Euro and let hell broke loose than continue down the road we've been for 6 years. After all the country is already in ruins.
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"Don't complain, you're doing better than the poor!" is transcendentally fucking evil--a word I do not use lightly, but you're happily sucking down the disease of the middle class. The rich guy takes nine cookies. He elbows you and says, "hey, that poor guy's gonna take your cookie!". And you hop to.

I don't want the poor guy's cookie. I want the rich guy to actually spread it frigging around so we can moor compensation to value created--to the poor guy, the civil engineer, and to me. But instead, the rich guy and his rich guy friends collaborate to keep the rest of us in a position to keep working for them and to never, ever, ever get within arm's reach of real success ourselves (unless you want to play the roulette game of startups, where you'll enrich them long before you see a dime).

But clearly I'm just an ingrate.
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Here is what I expect. More people will be assaulted by Uber drivers.
I doubt that. They may turn on and off the appearance of empathy. But real empathy* would not serve a psychopath too well.

I have an ex husband with some less than lovely personal traits. Genes being what they are, he passed a few on to our children. So I have long had a keen interest in understanding constructive uses for less than lovely traits.

My ex was a soldier who served his country for more than 2 decades and was honorably discharged. He is an honorable man. But he's not very warm-fuzzy.

* "Empathy has many different definitions that encompass a broad range of emotional states, including caring for other people and having a desire to help them..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy
I suspect that most kids who become intellectuals have parents who are intellectuals.

Admittedly, my parents openly disdained pro and school sports, and rock music, when I was a kid. They are scientists, and into classical music. Today, I'm a scientist, I love classical and jazz, and am a performing jazz musician. Whatever "signaling" I might have received, I can't escape the fact that I love those art forms today.

But I wouldn't have stood a snowball's chance in hell of getting onto the hockey or football team. Today, I'm probably in better physical health than most of my classmates who actually played on those teams.

Oddly enough, when my musical interests become a topic of conversation, nobody ever feels any qualms about stating how much they hate jazz and classical.
Google Glass Failed Because It Just Wasn’t Cool
Malcolm Wells' Self-written Obituary (2009) [pdf]
From a definition point of view that is not a tithe. A tithe is a legal principle described in OT law. If I go to a church and give someone money, then that doesn't make it a tithe. Before the law was given there was the tithe from Abraham to Melchizadek, but this was a once off tithe on the spoils of war, which is also very different to what churches seem to be teaching.

In the Acts passage, everyone shared everything they had with everyone else - the money was being distributed to people who needed it. This means that some people ended up gaining possessions and some ended up losing possessions. Viewing it as percentages doesn't really make much sense - it is just lots of people sharing what they have with each other. If I choose to combine my bank account with my wife's, then you probably wouldn't say that I gave away 100% of my money.
Ah, sweet delicious sarcasm. Always the last resort.

There is absolutely nothing drawing anyone who doesn't want to use Go into using it. There are zero external forces or dependencies that are making you build solutions in Go.

So when you come telling a tall tale of your peril with Go, it just stinks. Do you understand? You can, from the outside looking in, have criticisms of the language, but when you try to add authority to your claims by manufacturing great experience, it sounds absurd.

The relevance of JavaScript -- and this really doesn't seem that difficult, though I think you're trying to be difficult -- is that, to reiterate, people have to bear it regardless of their feelings about it, so there are a lot of people who despise JavaScript but ply their trade in it daily. There is zero parallel with Go, where there is absolutely no reason for anyone to ever make use of it if it doesn't offer some significant advantage to their project.
Well sort of.
Because after the haircut Greece owed more money than before.
Estonian here.
A cyberstate does little for an economy when the people can't afford it.
> Do you suggest to implement something similar for Greece? I don't think a lot of Greeks will be in favor for it.

Just read Varoufakis articles and you'll see that the current government would've take that proposal any day of the week.
validates, in my opinion, your misplaced concerns

I apologize, but I cannot parse that. Are you saying that the links validate my point of view? Or validates your opinion that I am in error? I just can't make heads nor tails of what that phrasing is supposed to convey.

thx
If there's anything destructive about that interactive session, it's likely to be the 'authorize_ghosting!' call. Somehow, I find it hard to believe sticking it in a one line script would make it less destructive, but let's see.

User.find_by_email(ARGV[0]).authorize_ghosting!(ARGV[1])

Oh, yes, so much better. patio11 should totally switch to using this. And then pay me my $1000 consulting fee.
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Somehow I've always found system calls far more pleasant to use than "section 3" C library interfaces

I agree, and I think it has to do with the fact that parameters are always passed in registers, and error returns are quite straightforward (negative of the error number) as opposed to the C interface convention of returning only -1 and putting the error number in errno.
Competitiveness is a matter not just of value, but also of price, which is largely a matter of how much you pay your employees. Germany achieves its competitiveness by paying employees badly. That is a not a virtue, it's a vice.

That's the key here, and again I encourage you to read and contemplate the post that I linked to, since it clarifies the issue.
Why stop with professional sports? How about auto racing? Square dancing? Championship wrestling? Rooster fighting? Would it be elitist to have a disinterest in those things?

At some point you have to say... this is not something that interests me and I don't really care for the environment surrounding it.
I don't have an updatable car. But I have used Windows. And it's become my practice to hold off for a few days after updates come out, and check for horror stories. And I typically do a manual backup before updating.
No, I hadn't, and am grateful for the link - thank you!
Just because something's popular doesn't mean it's good. I'd bet that those 200 million "users" really only send a pic or two and then never use the app again.
Could one of the factors be the difference between users?

Early adopters who really liked the Uber concept for various reasons and wanted to use Uber

VS.

Now a majority of users who heard about Uber because it's supposedly better than other means of transportation , but when they try to book it and see a longer waiting time than just getting a Taxi, or taking a bus/train , they don't want to wait for a Uber car.
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Here is another quote from Chomsky. It makes a lot of the same points, but it is much less hostile towards sports fans:

"Well, let me give an example. When I'm driving, I sometimes turn on the radio and I find very often that what I'm listening to is a discussion of sports. These are telephone conversations. People call in and have long and intricate discussions, and it's plain that quite a high degree of thought and analysis is going into that. People know a tremendous amount. They know all sorts of complicated details and enter into far-reaching discussion about whether the coach made the right decision yesterday and so on. These are ordinary people, not professionals, who are applying their intelligence and analytic skills in these areas and accumulating quite a lot of knowledge and, for all I know, understanding. On the other hand, when I hear people talk about, say, international affairs or domestic problems, it's at a level of superficiality that's beyond belief.

In part, this reaction may be due to my own areas of interest, but I think it's quite accurate, basically. And I think that this concentration on such topics as sports makes a certain degree of sense. The way the system is set up, there is virtually nothing people can do anyway, without a degree of organization that's far beyond anything that exists now, to influence the real world. They might as well live in a fantasy world, and that's in fact what they do. I'm sure they are using their common sense and intellectual skills, but in an area which has no meaning and probably thrives because it has no meaning, as a displacement from the serious problems which one cannot influence and affect because the power happens to lie elsewhere."

Basically, sports fans aren't stupid, they just don't think they can have any effect on anything more important (ex: politics).

http://www.alternet.org/noam-chomsky-why-americans-know-so-m...
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that it shouldn't just be turned into a one-liner that shoves ARGV elements directly at the database, but should actually do some validation of input. Even your one-liner is safer than raw irb since you can't make a typo and call the wrong method, but if you add validation, then yes, I think it's much, much less destructive.
Yellow press, you said it.
Sad - no more WoW Insider either. I hope some of the niche blogs reemerge as independent sites.

http://wow.joystiq.com/2015/01/30/wow-insider-is-logging-off...
A good start would be for some cities to abandon their minimum parking zoning restrictions, which actually exist.
> dumping quite a lot of work along the way

As if your work were... say... evolving?
That's horrible. When gay people are treated this way I speak out and say it's wrong. When gay people treat people this way I speak out and say it's wrong.

I think it's a little hard to make this comparison. Eich's position was in favor of taking away the rights of others. I'm fine with people having views I don't agree with, until those views affect others negatively.
The same could be said for recreational sex. Long live time wasting!