skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Put this line on your website:

"OpenLoopz puts communication first. Imagine a chat app like Google Hangouts or Facebook Messenger where — as you are chatting away - you can create a new todo item directly in the conversation simply by adding a #todo hashtag to your existing chat message. Or maybe it’s something that you want to be reminded about later? Just add a deadline directly to the message. The user interface updates in real time so you can watch as new Loops arrive and users make changes to existing Loops."

Or something similar. it actually tells people what the product does
In another thread, you had mentioned that "I don't think we'd use this design again". Curious to hear how you would design such a system differently, without using a LSM tree approach that's popular these days?
Sorry to be dense - I'm curious about the implementation. Can you give more detail? Is this in the extended attributes or file comments? Because I understand if the file moves to a non-HFS+ file system, you can lose those.
Icon is the correct term.

SimCity had one of the earliest form of DRM I remember. The almost-impossible to Xerox manual (highly reflective paper so photocopies would come black) was used to answer a question the game asked you, about the population of a specific city on a certain page of the manual.

Loosing the manual was not an option.

Farewell Maxis.
I personally agree. But consider none of this is on the radar of the stereotypical MBA/middle manager/C-level execs/...
It used to be common to loan the employee the money to purchase the stock. This avoids both the tax and early termination problems.
>it's also a site I haven't spent much time at in recent years.

This sums up all I can really muster as a response. I used to visit Metafilter long ago, but I've completely abandoned it for at least a few years. The submissions just lost their way at some point, and the archaic comment system was completely surpassed by reddit/HN.
EA has been around for 30 years though, so whatever they are doing, it works - what I don't understand is why does it work.
Would you include getting behind the wheel if you are tired, sick, stressed, taking antihistamines, or impaired in any other non-illegal-drug related way as well? Because I'm pretty sure those can impair drivers to the same degree. It's just that driving while impaired due to drugs is seen as being a moral failure, while it's perfectly socially acceptable to drive in other circumstances.
It's almost as if something that sucks for you doesn't suck for many other people.
I also worked with Mike at IMVU. Mike was a wonderful person all around, and a great technologist to boot. I'm proud to have worked with him.
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> MCT should be flying its first trips in about 15 years (Elon says 10-12, so we add some).

Judging from Dragon, Elon says 10-12, so it'll be 10-12 years off in 10 years.
I'd gladly host 3tb of data, I hope this becomes a thing.
Hold on ... is that $195.5M in revenue their actual revenue from listing fees? Or is that the total sales revenue from all the sellers?
Twin Studies are often more feasible (and sometimes more ethical) than a random control study. A Twin Studies can have results that qualify as "interesting" even with just a dozen or two groups of twins; a random control study on the same sample size would be discounted for its small p value. And with a Twin Study, you can sometimes do post-hoc analysis on years of effect, without waiting the years for those to occur.

This study may even be one of the ones that's unethical to do in a random fashion. We know that lack of exercise is bad for your health; telling people not to exercise for a year could be seen as doing active harm to study participants.

Of course, Twin Studies suffer from some issues on their own. I would prefer random-control tests where they're possible. But sometimes Twin Studies are all that you're going to get. And sometimes the Twin Study of an effect is the economic small-scale pilot that generates interest and funding for the "real" study, and there's nothing wrong with that.
You missed my point. This will prevent humble people from even applying.
I agree with what you wrote: "I would think that good handwritten assembly would more or less be the upper performance bound for C." I doubt a good C (or assembly) programmer has bothered to play this particular benchmark game, so the results look strange.
Actually, self-driving cars are the only proposed solution to automobile accidents and related deaths that seems like it might work. Laws don't work, education doesn't work, and even the safest, most careful drivers can and do have accidents. Let's be clear. In the US, at least, cars are not going anywhere unless costs become as prohibitive everywhere as they are in NYC. Even then, they're still not going anywhere (NYC still has a ton of cars obviously). I have no idea what making communities smarter means. What exactly are you proposing?
Why sad? Everything I remember reading pointed to him not being a good CEO.
You know, Amazon alone could provide this. The retail cost of 20PB of Glacier storage is $222,100.96/mo. Assuming they have a margin of 50%, that's $110K a month in actual cost to them, so basically their "donation" would be $1.2MM/year, which is 0.01% of their revenue ($90B). Even if their margin is 0, that's still only 0.02% of their revenue.
4 out of the top 50 are all gay dating apps: Grindr, Jack'd, GROWLr and SCRUFF, just to show that social apps targeted at specific demographics work.
That sounds wildly impractical manpower-wise.
This seems to have a lot of overlap with people coming up with distributed storage systems, perhaps Maidsafe [1] has solved some of those problems? (I'm not very familiar with it)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaidSafe
Jaw bone discovered in Ethiopia is oldest known human lineage remains
> The whole reason we have the ADA and anti-discrimination laws is that plenty of people would rather just work with people that look and talk and think like them, and in fact believe they are more productive that way, and we as a society have decided that's NOT OK.

Yeah, but I have no trouble in advocating what I believe is right, whether or not society agrees☺

I tend to think that our current society places too much faith in diversity qua diversity, and cares insufficiently about similarity. I really do need to get around to reading Bowling Alone…
You make a great point about services like Uber, etc. For this reason alone, I now think cities need to stop with the bans and such. Cabs are not a substitute as no one likes to wait hours or walk miles or both in hope of catching one, a situation that's quite common in places like San Francisco (especially at night) and I imagine, many other cities.
The title (and of the article) is inaccurate. The title talks about Maxis as a whole closing, but the article and third party sources list just one (admittedly BIG) location closure.

The Maxis brand may very well continue and appears to be operating at other physical locations.
like she thought she was an alien, or that Jesus was inside her, or that she was a reincarnated dolphin, etc

Not sure about the aliens, but the other two are promoted by (different) major world religions.
I think that is the point - it isn't making them money!

When you think of the brand "Maxis", what do you think? Either the Sims or Sim City.

But the brand EA is a far more recognisable (and valuable).

Like it or not, EA buys a company, milks it for what its worth, then kill it off.
It is very difficult to get financing for a AAA game company since the industry is so hit-driven. Moreover, it'd be rather difficult to find investors just after the studio you worked for just shut down due to poor performance.
NYC has a pilot program

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/city-pilot-comp...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/31/nyregion/composting-in-new...

etc
It's been expanding gradually.

As for not knowing a single place, seriously, you aren't looking very hard, since "compost pile brooklyn" shows about 50 easy places
No, they're different.

A publicly traded company detains private information. That allows it to make a better estimate of its real value compared to the public. It that value is larger than its market cap, it ultimately creates more value for the shareholders to see the company do share repurchases than issue a dividend. Yahoo made the smart decision by repurchasing shares because they knew they would spin off the Alibaba stake - before that was made public - and that would lead to an appreciation of their market cap. They managed to buy shares at an average price inferior to the market price post release of that information.

Other factors can influence the choice between share buybacks and dividends; that was just one example.
It was interesting to read how deliberately Jessica worked on the vibe and the culture. Many companies would be better places to work if their founders had done the same.
It's very hard. Bugs in lock-free algorithms are the only class of bugs that have defeated me. I once worked for three months of evenings trying to fix one, before throwing in the towel. I learned from that experience to use only very simple algorithms. Adhering to the single-writer principle[1] helps a lot. When changes and deletes can't interact because they're all on the same thread, life is a _LOT_ easier.

[1] http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/09/single-write...
Financing AAA games through a studio is similar to dealing with a record label, the cards are stacked agains you unless you really make it big.
No, you aren't getting the point.

The question what "how is this hipster and not environmentalist"
I am explaining how this is more hipster than environmentalist

What does that have to do with whether you like it?
>You're travelling at speed to get past a dangerous driver -- so for that short time you're at risk

Certainly. For that short time, rather than the extended time if I'm driving behind them.

>then when you're in front of them you risk their poor brake control amd distance judgement until you get far enough away from them.

Thus why I get away from them quickly.

>When you're behind them you iust need to leave a suitable braking gap. They're unlikely to come backwards.

Until they run into something. Even if they manage to not completely wreck, they very well might leave behind debris.

If I stay near them I am going to constantly be having to react to their actions, which are extremely unpredictable by nature. Even with a suitable breaking gap, I can't account for every possible outcome, and any lapse in my concentration is many times more dangerous than it would be otherwise. The longer I am behind them, the more fatiguing it is to be on a hyper state of alert, increasing the chances that my focus will slip.
I don't hate LinkedIn. It's a terrific resource.

For what you're talking about, you could also try Meetup.com
As a strategy, it's better than being profitable: it's predictable. The forecasts for the upcoming financial quarters are much more likely to be accurate when you only work with known IP.

The CEO is more beholden to analysts and stockholders than to customers. He has more to lose by failing expectations than he has to gain by exceeding expectations. Therefore, EA adopts a strategy that minimizes variance rather than maximizing profit.

But yes, it's profitable enough. Games and studios generally have more name-recognition than publishers. EA can take existing name-recognition on a series and generate large revenue from the first bad game they turn out. They launch a large marketing campaign, and by pushing pre-orders they can get more people to spend money on a game before they have an opportunity to find out what the product is that they're actually buying. At this point it's practically a science, and the market is only starting to push back (the latest Assassin's Creed may be doing a number on pre-orders).
Because the land is cheap, it is generally easier to expand and drive, and also because the US auto industry is 3 million jobs directly, 13 million indirectly, 2nd biggest auto industry on the planet, and so politically I guess it would cause problems to push for biking cities.
You can't objectively measure your speed as a developer. Attempts to try and measure developers' speeds will cause perverse behaviors - like rushing code to get it checked in quickly and making things less generic, splitting up bugs (so more bugs are fixed per month) etc. And this would cause those developers to actually slow down in terms of business value delivered.

Don't worry about speed, focus on effectiveness.

The trial and error thing - next time see if people can help you either in your team or getting answers online etc. That may reduce the time spent in trial and error but sometimes it is unavoidable.
> - not really they are archived objects

This is a deal-breaker for me. I don't want to risk putting years of effort into this and then have the app break when Apple decides to deprecate APIs in their next OS release.

Having said that, you should be charging much more.
People are what make game companies great, not names or logos. There's something to say for maintaining the direct line of employee descendants to the original Sim City.
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Thoughts, words, concepts mostly worked for me.

Depends who they are and how and what they forget.
Oh. It wasn't very clear. Also I think you're mixing up humility and low self-esteem. Humble, in the positive sense of the word, just means modest. And modest people can be confident about themselves.
PSA: If haven't watched the YC startup class videos, you should
I love driving, but man, it sucks to build a city around it. I'm living in SF right now, carless, and skate a lot. It's fun, but holy shit does it suck constantly having to dodge oblivious drivers, asshole taxis, and homicidal MUNI drivers.

I have a fantasy where the whole city is grass and bikepaths. All normal deliveries are by bike, & if you really need to move something big, you get a special permit to rent a truck that goes 10 MPH and beeps.
Original title, shortened due to 80 char limit

PSA: If you're starting a company and you haven't watched the YC startup class videos, you should.
Take Uber/bus/cab to the bar and back home. If you can't afford any of that, you shouldn't be getting drunk in a place you can't sleep and if you do, you deserve to go to jail if you drive. Logistics problem solved. It's not a lot of foresight and it's certainly not too much to ask of anyone who's going to get drunk.
We need a model to use Monte Carlo Tree Search... which is missing in this approach since it uses model-free reinforcement learning. Unless the deep convolution net can extract some latent features as state, it would be impossible to do planning on top of it.
Chuckles - Gödel's Inanity Theorem sounds suspiciously like the game of "Cheat the Prophet" from G. K. Chesterton's The Napoleon of Notting Hill [1]:

> The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning ... The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. They then go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.

[1]: http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/Napoleon_of_Nottin...
EA survive off of Madden and FIFA licenses. They don't have to spend that much money on improving the game year after year, but millions of people purchase them almost religiously.
Let's do both. My dissociative loves would all consider it a win.
The PlayStation 4 is already leading the virtual reality arms race, here's why
How 7 years of lab research prepared me to work at a tech startup
I had a contextual note idea a while back that turned into a Chrome Extension. It had a lot of quirks and never really worked how I wanted it to, so I eventually stopped working on it.

Ghostnote takes that idea and puts it on steroids. I really like the concept and am going to check out the app. Kudos on shipping!
2 examples of multiparty games of choosing random numbers:
1)
You and I each write either "1" or "0" onto a piece of paper, and simultaneously reveal to each other.

If the sum is even, I win. If the sum is odd, you win.

This simple 2-person game randomly generates 1 bit. It can be extended to arbitrary numbers of people by replacing addition with XOR.

2)
N people each vote either "0" or "1". They reveal votes simultaneous. The minority participants are rewarded. The median of the votes is the next random bit.

I prefer (1) over (2).
Introduce some Yellow Crazy Ants.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/exo...
I can update you on a few of these points:

For 2), there is no electric assist (as in no electrical motor). Any reference to electronics refers to the main-board in the handlebar that contains a bunch of sensors and things.

4) The lights are totally rechargable. There is a dynamo in the center of the front wheel hub that generates far more power than the system uses. Its expected that the dynamo will be sufficient as the sole power source. There is one high-capacity battery in the handlebar that powers all electronics.

6) At the moment the bike only notifies you if something moves into the blindspot, however it wouldn't be difficult to make it flash the rear lights at the same time to notify the driver.
With these criteria, how does anyone make any statement about their own abilities? If you went to a job interview and they asked "What is your biggest strength?" would you say "Well, humans are prone to overestimate their abilities. I couldn't answer that question without doing a double blind research study"?

Think about it: The only way that you could change your view of your own abilities is by comparing your predictions about people's character to their actual behavior over time. Jessica did the same thing, but she found that her predictions were accurate.

JL has the opportunity to make judgements about people, and then spend months or more with them as a part of YCombinator. She can say "I don't think the members of this startup will work well together" or "I don't like the looks of this guy", and then see if she was right or not. She has the opportunity to do this dozens of times per year, every year. That's how she knows.
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A real shame. I loved Spore (and Galactic Adventurea).
Maybe it wouldn't help so much to get the person back into the 'normal' state. But if I read the article correctly, part of the problem is also that she gets scared and she needs some reassurance that she can trust someone - otherwise both her and her SO could get into significant danger. That's what I mean with the polaroid strategy - at least it should help her to reestablish some trust, so they can get into a more relaxed situation where it's possible to heal? In the article he actually also used the photos hanged up in the apartment to start bringing her back a bit, so at least in their case I think it might help a bit.
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Here's a similar, comically pathological, example:

"Haskell compiles to C therefore good, handwritten C ought to upper bound performance for Haskell"

main :: IO ()
main = do
x <- return ([1..100000001] !! 100000000)
putStrLn "done"

As Haskell is lazy and pure it "automatically" eliminates the `x` and returns nearly immediately avoiding all work. The correspondingly written C code would do much more work despite its waste.

Of course, the human writing the C version might automatically perform this optimization, but similar things can arise in far less obvious locations in a more genuine compilation.
They should send it by uber-rickshaw
This is beautiful. Add keyboard controls and it'll become my favorite way to read HN.

My only other suggestion is to remove the title bar above the article preview, since it pushes the content below the fold and doesn't contain new information
But wanting to be the next Uber or whatever is a worthwhile aim. Saying "i want to be like broadcast.com" is saying "i want an insane bubble deal." Saying "I want to be like Uber" is saying "I want to work tirelessly for years and build a truly global business from scratch."

I respect your point, but I don't think I left anything meaningful from my quote.
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I see. Thanks! Rats, I misread that somehow. In that case, I agree that this is fairly useless garbage. The principal value in data from identical twins from identical environments is the assumption of all the shared history.

In this case, though, we can use a single individual with "before and after" analysis to show that exercise improves those parameters. No identical twin is needed as a "control group of 1"; your former self, say, six months ago, is far better than an identical twin in most respects except for one: you, six months ago, is half a year younger. That is insignificant, and even a good thing for the experiment if the experiment confirms improvements in parameters that otherwise decline with age. The results can also be shown in corrected form, using estimates of age-related decline from a good body of data, fit to the duration of the experiment.

It is a bit of a shortcut of the researchers to just find such identical twins with a recent divergence in exercise habits. I mean, you find the twins, run some tests, and there is your data! You don't have actually conduct a experiment that takes months or years, where you face the risk that subjects will drop out.

You can also cherry-pick the twins whose data agrees with your results. Signs of fitness, like lower body fat, are obvious and an obvious bias. If the researchers found twins who didn't show such signs (yet claimed to have had different exercise habits for a few years), I suspect the researchers would be inclined to drop those twins from the data, rationalizing that choice by a justified disbelief.
It's also a choice, or even an excuse. Nearly everyone has work and family pressures. Some find relief in exercise.
I like that Wired takes the AP claim that the server was literally in her home (in a closet? the attic?) at face value.
Another answer as to "why" is to unask the question.

You don't "construct" monoids intentionally, you instead realize that types you already have are monoids under the covers.

Realizing this structure and accentuating it is a good way to discover and enforce good program structure.
The Square app has easy email invoicing and you get the money in 48hrs. Freshbooks-Paypal combo is good too. Or just send the invoice as an email (no need for a spreadsheet) and ask for a check in the email--doesn't have to be complicated.
Magic in 10 minutes
PubSub is conceptually simple. There aren't a ton of moving parts on the consumer side or the producer side.

It'd be pretty easy to swap in different techs if all we're talking about is PubSub.
I remember hand-copying the numbers from a black on dark dark grey crinkled photocopy acquired from a friend of a friend in my spare time during classes in high school. Boy was I glad to finish that... Then I discovered that the PC version didn't look anywhere near as good as the B&W Mac version :(

Definitely iconic. Fond memories!
> The submissions just lost their way at some point,

The Trigger Warning crowd clearly rules the site these days, has for some time, and act as though it has always been thus.
Cities get much more revenue from sales tax than from property tax. That means that your notion of parasitic exurbs is backwards.
Just depends if the money could have been used for further growth, or not.