skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hehe, you're already far above the average joe level. As a teen I'd never have been able to really follow schematics, so just Lego playing with PCI cards and such was fun. That said, pre-built configs are never really what you want, I could keep using my old p2 350 because I had opportunity to pick nice enough video, sound cards and drives to improve dataflow in the system. Most on the shelf configs were 'HIGH SPEED CPU + crippled bottleneck coprocessors'.

ps: in the wintel world, I wouldn't call software a good part, unless you enjoy removing windows and drivers crapware, but you probably had clean distributable ghost images of some kind.
Bringing WebRTC to WebKit
Like everyone else it seems, I also wrote a 3D flocking simulation a while back: http://edkelleyv.com/Flocking/

Source:
https://github.com/ekelleyv/Flocking
Why the editorialized "lol" in the title?
Clang (r233767) can catch MSVC-compatible C++ exceptions in some simple cases
So, reclaimed by the city and turned into safe drinking water?
It's funny because it's plausible.
Lewinsky: Our Responsibility to Freedom of Speech
I think you've got the parallels for "early game" right, but the parallels for "endgame" wrong. The endgame is the phase directly before the end of the game, where two players who have each managed to avoid screwing themselves over in the early game, and who have each managed to match their opponent's multiple-front challenges and feints in the middlegame, finally are forced (usually by the game's increasing resource constraint) to "put all their cards on the table" and do the interesting and tricky things that make their playstyle unique.
Who are you currently using? It seems odd that the current connection status is something that is shared.
Pregnant, and No Civil Rights (2014)
If you go to the site it has an April copyright. He's a Google engineer advertising auto seo. It's very probably a joke.

I hope HN doesn't devolve into uselessness on April 1. Please let there be at least one site that is not completely and totally worthless on April 1.
I was kept occupied throughout the game and I didn't go out of my way to collect things (in fact it's rare for me to find a game in which I do that).

Also, quicktime events "replacing skill" is a little unfair. What skill did they replace, and how did it differ mechanically from a quicktime event?
Wow all the downvotes.
50 cents is real.
That wasn't the vision that I recall. Maybe part of some of it, but I'm talking about the Internet Terminal idea.

A lot of cool things came out of Sun. I don't think this was one. Have you tried Web IDEs? They're probably decades behind their desktop counterparts.
You're completely right — I stand corrected. The OP covers practical usages at the end of the piece, as well as in a follow-up piece for that sole purpose. Thanks.
> I could totally go without the type cover if I wanted to because I just don't travel much.

But also because you have another keyboard and don't mind forking over money for a docking station or plugging in. You're replacing the type cover with another keyboard, but that's still something you had to buy.

> when the Surface Pro 4 comes out, I will not buy the type cover and take the savings instead

Microsoft has announced that the SP3 type cover will be compatible with the next Pro model, so you wouldn't have to at any rate :D

> In any case, I really, really disagree that Microsoft is being sleazy by offering a choice.

I agree with you, but I don't think they're offering the choice you think they are[1]. They bill it as "The Tablet That Can Replace Your Laptop," right above a picture of the products with the type cover on them. The intended use-case clearly involves the type cover.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/26m9cu/we_are_panos_pa...

In case you don't want to follow the link: the choice is the color of the cover, not whether or not to have a cover.
Sure, there's benefits of learning a second language. But you generally get those benefits if someone else speaks that language.

Learning Chinese, Spanish, or German as a child can help a lot during live, socially, and in other aspects.

Learning a language like this just for the sake of saving it won't have those same benefits.
A higher than 100% click thru rate!
It's fun to be challenged in skill, in interesting fights or puzzles. But getting lost or not knowing where to go all the time, that's just a time-waster. Like the whole category of "fetch" quests.

Especially when you quit a game for a week, and come back having forgotten the map and your latest goal.

If you make a dungeon crawler for the express purpose of making a dungeon crawler (Grimrock?) it can be fun to lack directions, have no minimap, take notes, draw maps by hand... but not every game means to be like that, and it isn't the only valid way to make a game.

Sometimes the "on-rails" approach is actually the most fitting. Mirror's Edge, anyone? The best part of that game was getting into a groove and feeling the flow as you dash through levels. "The grind" is antithetical to the point of the game.

Remember, it's just bits- games are for enjoyment. Suffering isn't the point (unless that's what you enjoy)
Porting Emacs to Chromebooks and the Web [pdf]
One of Jason Calacanis' latest projects is of use here: https://www.inside.com/
I find myself using the iOS app fairly frequently.
I would rather be part of the solution.
So, reversion to the mean.
Been working with Meteor for over a year and loved every minute. Meteor solves the biggest problems facing modern app development: one-language/code base/API for web and mobile, syncing data between client and server, free simple hosting. My intro to Meteor slides have links, etc http://fsto.meteor.com/#/4/5 and I fast-forwarded to GIF that perfectly captures how stoked I was after building a few apps.
I find it a bit disturbing that giving an operating system 32GB would be considered too small. I've not played with win8, but my win7 install started out at 20GB, and damned if I can figure out what consumes all that space out of the box.
It seems it does not work well on other languages than English, e.g. Chinese. I checked this url "http://qinmishu.org/article.php?id=articles-num-phoneticmnem..., and it give me messy result.
This type of training game is more often used to practice a certain structure that arises from a specific opening, and thus is a type of practice used more towards the higher levels of play (International Master+).

The thing is, if two amateurs are playing, neither of whom deeply know openings, then the starting position (or 4-5 moves in) is essentially new territory, like what might arise for a Grandmaster 15-30 moves into the game. Does this make sense?
Residential isn't 20%, it's 14%. 6% is commercial/industrial.

And glasses of water in restaurants are probably counted in the 6%, not the 14%.

And even of the commercial/industrial usage, how much can glasses of water possibly be? Surely not even 5% of that usage. So if we reduce consumption of glasses of water at restaurants, by, say, 80%, we've done what? Lowered total usage of water by 0.24%? My sense is that that's a hugely optimistic amount.
No more risk than penny stocks, options or other derivatives. Or existing "get rich quick" schemes.
Two people did not try to attack the NSA yesterday. Three people met in a hotel room overnight, two of them stole the third's car in the morning, and as they were escaping they took a wrong turn into the NSA. The driver's decision or panic to ram the police car was one more bad decision; I doubt they even knew they were taking the NSA exit, and I seriously doubt that attacking the NSA was their premeditated plan. But it's early days.
I apologize, but I don't understand what you just wrote. I don't recognize how I am "framing injustice as ultimately a mental health issue".

I am a firm supporter of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and followup legislation. You can see through some of my earlier messages on HN. I have written may times about cases of injustice where there is no inkling of there being mental health issue. I mentioned Onacle v. Sundowner elsewhere in this thread, as a case where workplace "humor", isn't.

Even looking back only on what I wrote here, I see no way to draw the inference you just did. I wrote:

> It sounds like you're suggesting that it's due to my inability to handle name-calling, and I should seek mental health treatment to accept being called names all the time.

> If so, you have an odd view on life.

I meant it as a rejection of what you say I embrace. Telling targets of harassment that they need mental treatment is outright victim blaming. Could you explain how you drew your conclusion?

Unlike you, I do not believe that stress is always a mental health issue. I agree with the EEOC guidelines at http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/psych.html :

> > 2. Are traits or behaviors in themselves mental impairments?

> No. Traits or behaviors are not, in themselves, mental impairments. For
example, stress, in itself, is not automatically a mental impairment.
Stress, however, may be shown to be related to a mental or physical
impairment. Similarly, traits like irritability, chronic lateness, and
poor judgment are not, in themselves, mental impairments, although they
may be linked to mental impairments.13

In any case, I did not use the word "stress". I said only that I protest. Under EEOC guidelines for discrimination in the office, a clear statement made to supervisors, or made in such a way that supervisors should be aware of the complaint, is sufficient for EEOC law to apply. I wrote it that way because EEOC law doesn't require people to be offended, hurt, traumatized, or even the target or beneficiary of discrimination. (Judges hate to have to figure out how someone "really" feels.) I believe similar principles should apply to a broader range of situations, including the harassment scenario I proposed, even though it doesn't fall under EEOC law.
There are some guys that created a Meteor code generator: http://www.meteorkitchen.com and yes there's the NPM iron-cli.
It's pretty strange to see a "Lisp" with so much syntax. Lots of infix notation, and even semicolons! Usually Lisps have a very simple reader that reads S-expression and a few other things, but here we have this:

(define map
{ (A --> B) --> (list A) --> (list B) }
F [] -> []
F [ X | XS ] -> [(F X) | (map F XS)])

And this is one of the cases without any semicolons.

Shen also uses the atrocious "curried form" of function types, where the function that adds two numbers has type number->number->number, and the reader must do the mental gymnastics to convert it to (number,number)->number (and good luck when it's more complicated than that).

I wonder if you took a language like Haskell and changed some of the syntax to look Lispy if it could masquerade as a Lisp? I'm not saying that's what's happening, it's just hard to wrap my head around a syntax like this that claims to be Lispy.
Is there a point for which you don't collect info? For instance is it possible to see records from my birth?
Two spaces in front of each line should work.

One space is not enough,
Yet two suffice.
56, actually. It's a major shortcoming of bcrypt, and an argument in favour of algorithms like scrypt and PBKDF2.

If you're committed to bcrypt, you could make an argument in favour of digesting the password with something like SHA384 first. That reduces entropy, but (a) it's strictly better than straight SHA, which is what a concerning number of people use already, and (b) it means that you're not messing up the user's pattern/mnemonic if they've got one going.
To all the 50-cent trash downvoters here: you guys suck.

EDIT: funny how this get downvoted in a minute.
Ask HN: How do browser feel less sluggish in China
I have this observation sometime back when I was in China, although website does load slower but the browser seems less sluggish when you load up 200 tabs in chrome.
My guess is the great firewall of china blocks off a lots of IP/Sites that may at the same time block those social widget and etc junk that was loading with the website thus reducing load on chrome. Or could it be when the internet is "too fast", chrome could not keep up parsing and processing it thus making it sluggish/laggy.
I did an experiment by faking the second scenario through slowing down the connection via the router, the observation seems to be negative.
Any thought on this?
To be fair, an EC2 box alone is all you really need for a simple site...
Many netbooks were under spec'd machines (typically 500mb to 1gb ram) running Windows on a small 10 inch screen and a low power single core CPU. They failed in my opinion due to running Windows which killed performance. Runing Linux on those machines generally improved the experience.
I play chess "seriously" (expert level) and am about a gold/platinum league Starcraft II player, and the games do show a surprising amount of similarity. Both show the most variance in the midgame, begin in identical formations (where memorizing openings is common), and converge to endgames that have somewhat less variance than midgames.
If you're just learning about Meteor or haven't really checked it out yet, I recommend reading the mission page: https://www.meteor.com/about - not only is it inspiring, but it helps frame what they're shooting for. The first paragraph:

"Writing software is too hard and it takes too long. It's time for a new way to write software — especially application software, the user-facing software we use every day to talk to people and keep track of things."
Continuous Web Security Testing Service “VAddy” Releases Open Beta
I feel like most of us are in this situation, maybe not with 12-14 personal apps, but at least a couple.
Absolutely critical. And he got $5k? Glad his ethics are sound.
I never really understood the value, nor need of using a second browser for porn.

I've also failed to find any useful information on this either.
I'd like to add that registering to vote is the first step.

Researching the propositions (and candidates for that matter) that get put on the ballot yourself (LAO[1], SOS[2], Ballotpedia[3] and Google) and ignoring media coverage/ads can make a huge difference.

The Legislative Analyst Office (LAO) is particularly useful. Their analysis of prop 1[4] combined with Ballotpedia's[5] summary was very informative.

[1]: http://www.lao.ca.gov/

[2]: http://www.sos.ca.gov/

[3]: http://ballotpedia.org/

[4]: http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2014/prop-1-110414.aspx

[5]: http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Water_Bond_...
Most of it evaporates. Either before it is absorbed into the tree or afterwards through transpiration.
There's especially no good excuse for CC or phone numbers, because they're all numbers. All you have to do is strip out anything that isn't a "significant" character (i.e. a digit or a letter), throw an error if any aren't digits, and throw an error if it isn't the right length. This algorithm is basically guaranteed* to behave exactly the way that everyone expects it to.

*I am not a UX engineer, YMMV
Structuring your whole afternoon as make-work so you can continue to mail pages to a typist is, yes, privileged.

This fact works counter to the studied "just a dude out observing the fullness of humanity" vibe of the paragraph.

So for me the piece is very unstable, tilting back and forth between these two poles. Perhaps that's why I remembered it across 20 years.
QED means you've proven something. It's pretentious to use it when you're not discussing a proof, and embarrassing to use it you're just ranting and not even remotely proving anything.
Fail? I would say that they succeeded simply by getting most of the way.
I would occasionally copy my college papers into a text file and use my Mac's say command

say -f paper.txt
I am also an expert player, and agree with most of what was said, but I do think I should point out that this player's style is not the only strategy ("My strategy is usually to throw lots of pieces at their king and hope they die or I can win some material"). Personally, I prefer more closed/quite games, so most of my thinking (even in the middle game) is about how to achieve a favorable endgame, and win from there.

EDIT: I dislike studying openings too, (I started playing 1. g3 to avoid theory while still getting into some fun positions)
> There have been endless mockeries towards Hu and Jiang in the Internet. You won't find many towards Xi. People may disagree with Xi and voice their opposition. But they won't mock him.

Of course you won't see people mocking him on the surface. The regime has cracked down on pretty much all criticism on him.

> Xi get more accepted and supported largely because he is open to new ideas

This is where the hypocrisy lies. On the surface he poses to be "open" while below the surface his regime cracks down on media and tightens up control on videos/animation/publication. Also, propaganda on his "merits" are way over the top -- just short of Mao's.

> it is very easy to bypass GFW in China. There are many tools available in the Internet. It requires only basic knowledge on Internet. The young generations have no problem in browsing websites in western countries if they really want to

Lie. GFW just attacked GitHub. And AFAIK GFW is getting harder and harder to bypass every single day. The regime cuts off Google services (and throttles/cuts VPN connections) for no reason every now and then even when all you do is checking your inbox.

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And to you, presumably a 50-cent, [citation needed].
>There's a sad irony in the image of first world citizen who can't waste time cooking so they consume large amounts highly processed ready-made food from places like trader joe's and sits down to watch Game of Thrones for three hours and browse pinterest.

Alternatively, I don't waste time cooking and instead spend that time eating with friends at a restaurant and not having anyone burdened by the cleanup afterwards (well except for the staff paid to do so).

strictly speaking, the only thing that's necessary is for me to have food in my stomach. A lot of people enjoy cooking (and I have the luxury of being able to do so with close friends sometimes), but there's little point in romanticizing me heating some water and pouring in pasta in a bowl when I'm by myself. As others have said, a lot of people don't have the luxury of being able to make i.e. cooking and cleaning a social activity.

Beyond the whole socio-economic "guy/gal working 2 jobs" thing (Why do we think working 2 full-time jobs solely to survive is OK?!) , there's even the "person who doesn't really have many friends at the moment". I know some people who find themselves in such situations after moving to a different country for example.

As for things like cleaning, I think the meta-solution to that is to live in a small place and not own many things. Gives me more time to watch game of thrones (or browse HN ;))
It's interesting to note that in every year that someone finishes, they add additional parts to the course making it more difficult for the competitors in the following year.

In 2013, Nick Hollon finished in 57:41 and Travis Wildeboer in 58:41. A new hill was added, "foolish stu", increasing the total climb to over 60,000 feet.

In 2014, Jared Campbell got his second finish in 57:50. Another new hill, Hiram's Vertical Smile, brings the total climb to 62,680 ft.[1]

1- http://www.mattmahoney.net/barkley/
The Chinese government won't stop hacking US companies
offspring problem http://waltherpragerandphilosophy1.blogspot.ro/2013/09/offsp...
See above reply to OP
Yeah, but who shares URLs with their friends by speech these days? In fact, who really speaks?
We also centralize our agriculture & ship the product all over the world. The consequences are greater energy usage to transport the product, more fragile food economies, income inequality, water hoarding, biodiversity loss, pollution, desertification, decreased rainfall, soil erosion & degregulation, increased wear on roads, a consumerist mindset that is abstracted away from the environment.

Humanity is crazy. Simple as that.

We need to start thinking systemically; not react with myopic & reductionistic policies. Systemic solutions will solve our issues. Reductionistic policies will perpetuate this game.

Capital tends to pool together. These farms that are using up all of the water are capital intensive. In the mean time, large companies like Nestle are buying reservoirs in an effort to privatize the remaining water. The water supply is being diminished while the remaining water is being bought. One can infer that there are efforts to manipulate water supply to turn water into a commodity market that large corporations control. Intentional or not, that is what is going on right now.
But it's not symbolic, it's distracting. It focuses limited public attention on doing something that's mildly personally inconvenient instead of actually effective.
Presentation is utterly broken on an iPad. The back button is useless as it's impossible to navigate anywhere.
Nobody needs colored keyboards.

You can make this argument all the way down to basic sustenance, healthcare, and shelter. No-one needs more than those things.
That would be a true pity, because NSA serves a great and legitimate purpose. They do a wonderful job for our nation. Sure, some of that work is not what some folks would like—frankly, there's one allegation which, while neither illegal nor unconstitutional, I don't like[1]—but that doesn't really matter: to the extent that the courts have deliberated, NSA has the national security of the United States of America at heart.

What really makes me sad, though, is not its putative recruitment challenge, but the unpatriotic attitude of so many folks. The NSA do good and important work; it is good and important to labour in the service of one's nation. You can't blame them for acting within the outer limits (but still within the limits) of the law, because that's how nation-states work. That's not even a bad thing: if you wish to reduce the power of the NSA, reduce the power of the State, period.

There's a very good chance that I'll be hell-banned for this post; if so, I've really enjoyed conversing with all of you, and hopefully I'll be able to converse with you again.

[1] I have neither seen nor heard any allegations of activity which is actually illegal or unconstitutional; everything I've seen has been stuff someone wishes were such. Well, I wish some things illegal were legal, and some things legal were illegal. You can wish in one hand and spit in the other, and see which fills up first.
Cash you spend on buying bonds is actually being put to use by someone. Cash you stuff under your proverbial mattress isn't.
Twitter, brevity, innovation
Coursera's authoring tools built on React/Flux
At first I came here thinking the same thing. Then after looking at the benchmarks in README I decided it's a worthy attempt at refining the craft and eliminating the cruft of what else has come before.

It's no 100 mile mountain race, but it is more interesting than just some random HelloWorld router.
The best part of predicting the end of the world is that if you do it long enough and shamelessly enough, one day you'll get to be right.
Okay now attach this code to drones
Public Domain, ist's just not possible to let go off Rhodes rights earlier.
Inside a browser.
I am a terrible player, but I absolutely love playing. One of my biggest problems is making a move and them immediately seeing the err of my ways. It's beyond bizarre how quickly I'll realize what a shitty move I have just made right after I take my hand off the piece.

I'd say I have a few decent tactics that I sort of lean on, but, like you pointed to, if my opponent does something to break me from that memory, my game is shot and I'm flailing around trying to recover (which rarely works).

Not sure if I'll ever dedicate enough time to reach "decent" status but I definitely enjoy the game.
I think they make it so you always get alert when something is ordered, so that you can cancel it.
Because Ivy -> high social status

engineering -> relatively low social status
This bug is probably worth about that much. It was a good find, however.