skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
citation needed.

Origin works pretty well (i've seen this echo'd in various internet outlets... reddit, gaming communities, etc), Sim City was launched by maxis a studio that has little (apparent) online knowledge, battlefield launches suffer from buggy gameplay, but their servers are generally solid. Also, most of the BF stuff you interact with is Frostbite, not online (apart from battelog and online connectivity)

Now, how about FIFA and Madden which have userbases that absolutely dwarf those games? All of the news feeds, user statistics, video/image sharing, etc? It works well and consistently. the people who do online at EA studios proper are very knowledgable. I can't speak for Bioware, but you must realize that studios inside EA have a fair degree of autonomy wrt technical decisions.

this is a huge step for EA. I applaud them and am rooting for the active movers inside EA to keep pushing for more OSS.
By the way, claps for Tim for the amazing job. He contacted various people and gave them heads up weeks ago. I think the wat this was handled was awesome.

<3 OSS
How's Python on Wheels doing?
Is anyone using it? How's development going along? I want to hear your opinion. To me it seems that after the announcement a while ago, it all went silent and everyone's completely content using pip.
Those aren't projects developed by EA. They are just source releases of the LGPL components used in EA games.
Go-2
r/technology has been taken over by Comcast
Google updated its algorithm, but still s*cks. I'm also using https://swisscows.com. It provides great results, it's more secure, doesn’t store tracking cookies or user queries.
“I got a little confused where I was,” Coury said upon returning to camp, explaining that he took an eight-hour nap on a mountaintop after getting lost.

Man, I take one of those naps every day and I'm not even running 100 miles. What's wrong with me.
Sunrise joining Microsoft, they just added Clippy to their calendar
That sounds sensible. I'd love to see any of the scripts you use (if they are suitable for public consumption). Also running WP on nginx/php-fpm.
> That puts "com" first as you read it, despite the fact that it conveys no useful information. They are little more than flavor-text that is annoyingly required for uniqueness purposes.

Except that's not true at all.

The reason they became "flavor-text" was because they appeared to be tacked on to the end for no reason other than uniqueness. Previously existing organizational schema worked for decades with proper categorization: Usenet is a wonderful example of just how powerful it is.

Had URLs been defined correctly, "com" would have immediately told the user "a commercial entity", "org" would have immediately meant "an organization", "net" probably wouldn't exist, and these newer TLDs like "google", "audio", "apps" would have made a hell of a lot more sense.
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> however people forget to mention that gravity is a zero-sum game. every area that is being rendered unusable upstream results in creation of new area downstream.

What? The area taken up by artificial bodies of water is not a zero-sum game. If you build a reservoir which is as large or larger in area as the whole river downstream - conceivably possible in some cases - the river downstream does not vanish or become negative area.

Flood control brought by dams may make the waterways downstream behave differently and lose area, but those impacts aren't all positive either (ecologically or economically).

It may be true that damage caused by hydro-electrical plants is very often blown out of proportion, but I don't follow your logic regarding the areas at all.
"Submit a link" is now called "Submit a Comcast link" and "Submit a text post" is now called "Submit a Comcast text post". What is going on? April 1st?
Partech Ventures Announces the Biggest European Seed Fund. Ever
Precisely. Everybody here is talking about the button, but for Amazon this is about selling zillions of these buttons to product manufactures and achieving lock-in.

Its about the API and what new purchasing flows will be created by eager startups, resulting in new MRR for Amazon.
Ms-DOS on Lumia?
Beef isn't all the same. You took the stock "1 lb beef calories" google result, which is reasonable, until you check say 70/30 instead of 85/15.

It shoots up to 1500 calories.

The almonds and any measure of beef probably results in a huge waste compared to some other methods of "growing" calories. I don't see them going away, though.
I do look forward to the RFCs that are published on April 1, though. So there's that.

My all time favorite: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514

And a list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_Co...

I suppose you'd like for me to leave your lawn now :)
And then imports it again when autumn is "unsusually" dry...
That's not an official repo, it's what someone pulled out of the GPL code that EA has posted. the EASTL is much larger and some parts have been changed. Perhaps someday the EASTL will see the light of day in a full, supported form :-)
Most of the renewables was built before the oil.
Show HN: How Zalando Used Bayesian Statistics to Save Loads of Money
He literally said "it's delicious" in the post they're referencing.

You can agree to agree, I guess.
I see, thanks. The translator probably tried to replace this with the differences in male/female vocabulary.

In the original it is all through the book as, without knowing the gender, Glebsky is pretty limited in the ways he can speak to or about Brune and he reflects on this quite a lot.
France has around 94%, largely form nuclear, but with around 15% hydro and up to 10% wind at times. Coal and gas are a few percent.
Chrome Experiments – The WebGL Globe
I wonder how many crazy entrepreneurs use april days for validating ideas they had without loosing they're credibility :)
I'm not sure which point you're responding to.

Regarding accounting re. renewables share in energy production, yes, I think their oil exports should be taken into account, and we should say that Saudis aren't model citizens of renewable energy production.

Regarding political responsibility, I think we should definitely hold producers responsible as well. We can't burn all the oil that's still in the ground without devastating climate effects, and it's in every nation's interest to reduce oil production and consumption in an orderly but swift fashion.

EDIT: responding here as I can't reply below anymore.
This discussion was about energy PRODUCTION, you are below talking about energy CONSUMPTION. US oil imports should indeed count as energy production in the exporting country. Re electricty production - this subthread was about general energy production, not electricity!
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Indeed I am waiting on Nginx HTTP/2 support too. Already testing OpenLiteSpeed and h2o HTTP/2 support at https://h2ohttp2.centminmod.com/webpagetests1.html.
Nature News: Dragons resurgence due to global warming (1 April 2015)
The most expensive Chromebook doesn't cater to Thinkpad users. The Lenovo Chromebook might.
I stand corrected, it's not a requirement per se, it's just a part-time H1B still has to meet the prevailing wage requirement, which is established for the full-time job.
A major ebook announcement – Charlie's Diary
Like other serious business flaws (e.g. the GM key ignition bug), companies weigh the risks and can conclude that it is cheaper to respond the problem than to fix it proactively. As a result, should the government require businesses with sensitive data to implement bug bounties?
Super Mario World credits warp explained
WatchKit is "refreshingly" limiting. I'm building a new iPhone + Watch app from scratch & I have found that the limitations of Watch tend to spill over into the design of the companion IOS app. You start to think in terms of "Notifications" / "Actions" instead of trying to be a "Destination" app. Good times.
Here's one we did targeted to our (customer support) audience:

"Please type your reply above this line" (http://blog.reamaze.com/2015/04/01/please-type-your-reply-ab...)
google japan's new keyboard

https://www.google.co.jp/ime/___o/
Changed my HN title bar from gray to blue
Google purchases Dubai's world of islands to reconfigure into Google-shaped floating cities.

http://inhabitat.com/google-purchases-dubais-world-of-island...
Code for India initiative LearnToCode.social
This looks good with the videos. I'm contemplating building an app that requires SQL. I've built a few apps with meteor but mongo's lock keeps crashing my website down.

The current third party packages with SQL support are very experimental and don't support nearly as much as the native mongo driver.

I assume when Meteor does this or if Arunoda does it would be pretty awesome. Especially with PostgreSQL since it supports native live queries.
These are just the GPL releases, but they contain bits of code from EA if you start digging. IIRC the EAWebKit release contains a big chunk of EASTL. EASTL is EA's implementation of the C++ STL that was for a long time considered so great as to be a competitive advantage.
MS-DOS for Lumia smartphones: http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/ms-dos/
MSDOS is the new mobile OS from Microsoft

Announcement: http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2015/04/01/microsoft...

Product page: http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/ms-dos/

Edit: Even an app http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/ms-dos-mobile/85...

Wow, the app is really well done. SPOILERS: Can cd into a programs folder, and launch programs like sms.exe, where I get a blue DOS-style window asking for input. Can use "phone <nr>" to call someone, send e-mails. If i launch "internet" it plays an old modem sound before launching the stock OS browser.

CDing into C:\GAMES\RPS and launching RPS.exe first gives you a question about using "PC Speaker" or "Sound Blaster", and then how many colors you would like. Then the game crashes with "Error! Not enough memory, RPS needs 641KB conventional memory (...)" and then a quote "---Cortana: That's odd, 640 K ought to be enough for anyone", haha. After that, it guides you through using mem and loadhigh to get the game to run. And of course, RPS is Rock-Paper-Scissors in 8-bit glory.

The camera is an ASCII-camera, using letters with only a few colors, or CGA mode. Here are two selfies I took http://imgur.com/a/deajM

The command help gives all useable command: CD, CLS, COLOR, DATE, DIR, ECHO, EDIT (edit autoxec.bat for instance), EXIT, FORMAT, HELP, LOADHIGH, MEM, PATH, TIME, TYPE, VER.
Does this game also require you to pointlessly repeat large chunks of levels after death on bosses like the Dark Souls games did?
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/01/jeremy-clarkson...

Jeremy Clarkson joins campaign for fossil fuel divestment
A major ebook announcement.
Science Fiction writer Charlie Stross releases an reader app to counter Clean App.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/04/a-major-...
>But Miyazaki had a problem: at 29, he was too old to apply for graduate positions and too inexperienced for anything else. “Not a lot of places would take me,” he says. “From Software was one of the few.”

Career switchers who are slow to find their knack in life deserve a fresh start. I say that from the position of being one. Talent does exist among the people who are trapped in mediocre, unfulfilled lives, and all they look for is their chance to shine.

I bloody love Dark Souls and Bloodborne.
You are not a lottery ticket or how to start a startup in Iceland
A new Startup Vitamins product

http://www.startupvitamins.com/products/startup-condoms-trip...
Outsource code tasks directly from Trello
> citation needed

Okay.

http://kotaku.com/5990165/my-simcity-city-thrived-offline-fo...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2013/03/09/ea-simc...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/11/simcity-launch-dumb...

http://techland.time.com/2013/03/12/were-ready-for-always-on...

http://www.polygon.com/2013/3/8/4079894/ea-suspends-simcity-...

http://www.pcgamer.com/simcity-refund-ea-origin/

In fact, look up 'Battlefield', 'Origin EA' or 'Sim City' on Google News between 2010 and 2014.

Not too many happy people.

I only included Sim City stuff because it was mentioned by your comments' parent.
Terrifying? Really?

PHP is (admittedly slowly) moving in a positive direction because of community effort, Rasmus' opinion shouldn't terrify anyone since he's just one vote of many.
Market forces have a long track record of ensuring that scarce goods are economized on when property rights in their factors are well-defined and transferable.

Magic doesn't.
Whaattt? Sure enough, I just hit `CTRL + Shift + I` a few times and ended up with an inspector of an inspector of an inspector. Inspectorception?
Coldfusion is making a huge comeback in the London Tech-Scene
Uber-like on demand cab service in India launches an on demand helicopter service
https://www.olacabs.com/air
I try doing this with code I wrote, reviewing all files with `git diff --staged | less` before commiting; although reading it aloud would be strange.
This is a very persistent meme that is ultimately incorrect. You can't judge the value of a vulnerability by how large its host company is, or even by its severity.

In the security industry we use the term "vulnerability half-life" for this purpose. Basically, a bug in Google will be discovered between a day and a week after it is first exploited instead of reported. If you try to commercialize it, it will quickly be discovered because the top tech companies have the best incident response teams in the world.

Once the flaw is patched once in Google, it's effectively patched. Game over for the attacker. Compare this to a vulnerability like Heartbleed that is actually worth money - critical flaw that can compromise over a third of all the servers on the entire internet. If that vulnerability is patched anywhere, it's not patched everywhere, unlike a single web application instance in Google.

The greater the half life, the greater the value of the vulnerability. A vulnerability in Java is worth money because it will still exist in the wild for years, providing consistent income and ROI for a purchased exploit.

A vulnerability in Facebook is worth money to Facebook for brand integrity, but it isn't worth much to blackhat groups. You could theoretically commercialize it, but not quickly enough or in a meaningfully consistent or lucrative enough way to really make it worth the hassle.
I'm not misinterpreting the intent. I know perfectly well the stated intent to 'help the helpless random immigrant founder.' I'm suggesting an alternative intent that needs to be discussed. And I'm not the one reversing it. In this case Mr. Feld is showing a clear preference for H1B's before having any specific foreign entrepreneur in mind.
Why Shouldn't I Work for the NSA? (Good Will Hunting) - YouTube
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw
Some things are hard to get to: one thing that struck me was how hard it is to find out if a number has changed owner (think SMS subscriptions.)
Let's see, the US imports 30-40% of the oil it consumes. Should that oil be accounted as used by the exporters?

Norway uses no fossil fuels for its electricity production. Norway happens to export a lot of oil. How does the second statement negate the first one?
compare the card with the ordered card in sequence

find the position to be inserted

shift the card to make space

put in the card

This is horribly imprecise and vague. If you understand it, it's only because you can guess a lot from your experience.

If it was talking about versoring introns and translucing gerns to make invo you wouldn't know what's that all about.

Recently I was trying to understand how CRISPR/CAS works and I can't guess much about it.

Btw. there is a vocabulary based programming language, it's called Forth. Not much grammar though.
How to open the Pixel 2015: remove the two glued-on rubber strips on the bottom, remove the 15-or-so screws below them, remove the bottom plate.

Once you're there, you can even turn a screw (or pull a jumper on some devices) to unlock the write protection of the firmware flash chip.

https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download... provides tested replacement firmware that make running 'regular' operating systems more comfortable on many Chromebooks (no more security measures in the form of scary warning screens and 'return to factory' key combos). That may kill warranty - or not.

I find that this is a pretty reasonable trade off between providing an 'unbreakable' secure-by-default (hence the auto updates, which also cover firmware) configuration that is also reasonably safe against drive-by attacks (that's why the jumper is inside the device) while allowing people to use their hardware differently if they want.
This doesn't rely on security problems that are used as 'jail break' elsewhere.

And yes, the SSD is soldered on. There's not a whole lot of space in that box, and soldering makes things so much more compact.

(Disclosure: I work on Chrome OS firmware)
Exactly. Having armed forces ready to stage a coup any time their friends in the State Department or CIA encourage them leads you down the route of Honduras, Chile, and so on.
The Taj Mahal makes a near perfect Pacman grid: https://www.google.com/maps/@27.173227,78.0411062,18z/data=!...

It's not a great grid overall, but the zig-zag crookedness of Lombard Street is pretty fun to go through: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8020373,-122.4196734,18z/dat...

Actually, in terms of snaking streets, while Snake Alley in Iowa is not as long, it makes for a much more playable grid: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8118721,-91.1064303,18z/data...
Retro amazon,
http://www.amazon.com/
Can someone please explain to me the appeal of tokens like the following please?

payload = '{"loggedInAs":"admin","iat":1422779638}'

I've always worked under the assumption that everything the client sends is wrong; which means the only fields I issue are a user hash and session key. If either of those don't match the session table record then the token is rejected. Having group permissions issued from the client side seems like a bad design from the offset - however this seems a really obvious point to make, which makes me wonder if I'm missing the point of JWT's.

Is anyone able to expand on this for me please?
A better URL is https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/emacs_and_elisp_on_th...

It links to the current URL (the slide deck PDF), as well as a video recording of the presentation, and metadata about the presentation.
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Flickr Now Supports Public Domain and CC0 License
This quote reminded me of an anime/manga called Attack on Titan, where it's said that its creator draws inspiration for Titan looks from bullies that had in his school years.
Not on the Highstreet. Happy Hatchery - hatch at home eggs ordered online.

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/happyhatchery
Support for negative number of CPUs is implemented in the Linux kernel.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/31/994
Such a token doesn't require you to have a database to lookup and maintain the user session/permissions in, which can lead to more reliable and lower latency designs.
http://blog.sunrise.am/post/115135988899/introducing-clippy-...

Sunrise joining Microsoft, they just added Clippy to their calendar
Michael Bay will be doing a reboot of Casa Blanca.
Amazon India

LucID : Lucid dream analyser wrist band http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187322727_2/278-8747141-...

Silicon Styler : Electronic Moustache Styler http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187323127_2?ie=UTF8&node...

Biovap Mark III : Bio-waste disintegrator. Processes kitchen waste to scented vapour as air-freshner http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187322547_2?ie=UTF8&node...

QuickClean : Electronic dry cleaner for 'dry-clean only' fabric http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187322867_2?ie=UTF8&node...

Exotic Amazon : Exotic pets from Madagascar/wildlife. Pair of two species wit heach purchase. http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link_187322987_2?ie=UTF8&node...
Google inverted
(wearing my coreboot developer hat): We care about BSD. And Windows. And Solaris, Haiku, and whatever else comes our way that runs after coreboot. The amount of care varies with developers, and Linux is indeed the OS that sees the most interest.

If BSD fails with coreboot + SeaBIOS, that's a bug, and I'd love to hear about it. And I think so would the SeaBIOS developer and the QEmu people who use the same PCBIOS implementation.
Coldfusion is making a huge comeback in the London Tech-Scene.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9302185
>A very naïve person would expect that changing where the keycaps are would change which switch corresponds to which keycode.

I don't agree with this. Nobody would expect that rearranging the buttons on their car dashboard would change the original functionality. Same for buttons in a lift, coffee machine, anything you care to name. People are very familiar with the idea that the switch is just a sticker on an underlying mechanism. They don't think the letters inscribed on the plastic magically embody some functionality. So I think your whole premise is wrong.
Not sure where the "killing people" exemption is in the full-faith and credit clause. Must've missed that one.
Is it an April Fool if you can actualy do it? More like an early Easter Egg?
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Recent ARM Chromebooks also come with coreboot.
Code golf: Detect the newest file and pass it to a process
Electricity here is so cheap we use it to heat our porches. Other means of heating are very very unusual.
Bashing Haskell: Reimplementing Haskell's Parsec library within the unix shell

SIGBOVIK2015 paper:
https://github.com/mikeizbicki/parsed/raw/master/sigbovik201...

github repo:
https://github.com/mikeizbicki/parsed
Pay attention to the URL as you scroll down the page. ;)
We've recently been looking at adding JWT, and one of the things I looked out for was that we were protected against downgrade attacks. This was done both as a check of the current library code, and an explicit check on our side that the alg is what we expect to protect against future library changes.
Show HN: I Wrote a Simple Charged Particle Toy While I Waited for SDKs to Update
I don't understand why you need the alg property at all. I mean, you are the one issuing the token so you definitely know what algorithm is used in the back-end. Why is this necessary?
In what way would you regard nuclear as renewable? It is fuelled by finite stocks, the extraction and refining of which are completely dependent on fossil fuels as a base.
This is the worst comment I have ever read on HN. There are already plenty of opportunities for Americans to get support for their startups. The US visa system makes it extremely difficult for foreign entrepreneurs to start businesses in the US, and Mr Feld's attempts to improve the situation should be applauded.
Things like this does make me wonder if the dotcom bubble is back.