skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's fewer no-doubt classics among fully 3D games (Doom is 3D graphics build with 2D sprites, so I am actually walking back my amazement on that -- it's a tweener, not like Quake which was rendered polygons), but that's just because they've had less time to establish themselves as classics. Final Fantasy VII, Bioshock, Resident Evil 4... I think all of those are going to be talked about as long after their release as those games you mentioned.
> First: remember that TheFacebook launched at a school with a total undergraduate enrollment of 6,700, of which its first user cohort was a subset. Of course, that school happened to be Harvard University....

You can't compare user activity/behavior in 2015 with user activity/behavior in 2004.
While i agree that this is unusually activist of wikileaks, i have a hard time arguing this move as worse than the status quo. I would rather see governments be actively transparent than actively secretive.

Thought experiment: if governments knew that any decision made had a chance of becoming public, would their behavior shift for the better?
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As a musician, I'm curious about the potential for using the VR/AR envrionment as a production tool. DAWs are pretty static, but giving depth to composition by way of more granular interaction seems possible. With so much digital progress in emulation and networking, it would be very cool to finally have a VR/AR "jam room" that could unite musicians across the country/globe in one room to collaborate. A distant future, sure, but a reasonable application.

As a capitalist, my biggest question is...I'm half joking here, but tongue in cheek serious...How is this eventually going to be used for porn?
They can't not collect data.

They've got your iMessage/Facetime chat logs, they've got your stored unencrypted data in iCloud, they've got the apps that you're using and probably their settings or saved meta-data as well. Speaking of iCloud, they've got your contacts as well. Your iPhone is collecting your location and the Wifi networks around it and sending it to Apple's servers. At some point the iPhone was saving your location history in a local file as well, ready to be inspected by whomever got a hold of it. The operating system is completely closed / proprietary, so if it has back-doors in it, nobody will ever know.

I'm glad that Tim Cook is raising these issues and I realize that behind every piece of data they have there's a justification for it. But in our country we have a saying which applies here: he ate no onions and his mouth stinks not.
Yeah. I've been really impressed with Microsoft recently. However, reading about the Secure Boot rules for Windows 10 (the Windows 8 rules were fine IMO) left a negative reaction. On the whole I still think they're doing much better than they were.
I assumed the OP was sarcastic, but here I can't tell. The Fallout site, last I checked, had 17,000 lines of javascript code. It might be the worst written site I've ever seen.
I thought this was obvious... I've played plenty of great-looking but terrible games in my life, it's not that hard to put it together.

On another note, it's nice that indie games are starting to break down barriers by NOT pushing their games to extreme technical limits and focusing on gameplay. AAA games could learn from them.
closed my user account after 10+ years.

Feels good.
Yeah, you're probably right. I won't quit my day job. I saw farting as the collection of user data described in the article and thought the analogy was kind of funny.
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They could've done an either/or thing; P2P for desktops, client-server for mobile devices (including laptops). However, they'd have to maintain two separate systems, and nowadays there's far more laptops and mobile devices than PC's, so with that in mind it makes sense.
When reloading, nginx starts up a new set of workers and duplicates the sockets across to them with SCM_RIGHTS. None of the sockets is closed - only duplicate file descriptors.
Not counting imports and maybe not counting the production from the Lake City, MO military plant that is sold to civilians (a convenient arrangement for all parties when e.g. the sealant in a lot isn't up to snuff, or the DoD wants to cancel an order), the US produces upwards of 15 billion rounds a year.

Imagine trying to make all of that traceable in one way or another, from the factory to the range. Just not practical, and one reason the 1968? restriction on buying ammo by mail order was lifted quite some time ago. Not to mention that actually legislatively succeeding in such a thing would spark a hot civil war the anti-gun side would lose very badly, seeing as how my side actually owns the vast bulk of guns and ammo in the country.
"those who do not understand UNIX are doomed to reimplement it, poorly"

That described Windows for a long time, but seems like things are changing.
The related post, "Server utilization: Joel on queuing" (2009), includes a useful visualisation: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/01/30/server-utilization-...
These kind of posts sound like "sat on a deckchair on a beach with laptop in one head and a rum coconut in the other"

But I imagine they are more like "sat in a room in a house near the beach"

Same as a normal office, just a better view.

Well that is how it is for me living by the beach in the tropics. I can see the surfing point, I can see the parachutes pulled by speedboats, just a distraction and increases the desire to be "there" and not staring at a screen trying to fix bugs. Sometimes, I just move the table to face the wall.

And don't get me started about trying to work in a bar / cafe / restaurant near the beach. Mosquitos, noise, disturbance, tuts from staff that you are sitting there too long not buying enough.

Each to their own though. I suppose I am jealous of the posts that imply you can work 4 hours on tropical island, earn a western wage and live like a King. Which is far from the case in my experience. Even if I know these posts are trying to sell something based on this dream, or convince themselves they are doing the right thing (despite what they may hear from friends and family)

I dear say some contractor with fantastic contacts and get a great paying contract with a couple of phone calls. Most people don't have this.
I have not been paying attention, would you care to enlighten me?
Yes. Coupled with cmder for a nice terminal interface, msysgit's ssh is what I've been using for about the past year and a half. Works great.
Bullets are easily cast from lead (many reloaders do this). Gun powder is easily obtained and has a shelf life of years (if not decades) when stored properly. Empty cartridges (to reload) are very plentiful and easy to come by. Primers can be purchased by the thousands for very little money.

If gunpowder and primers become overly restricted, some would likely switch to blackpowder (which reloaders can make themselves).

It's very difficult, if not impossible, to put the genie back in the bottle.

There's also the 2nd Amendment to deal with.
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I learned that Texas Code 30.06 [1] allows a business to place a prominently displayed sign not allowing even CHL holders from bringing guns onto the premise.

Whereas, without that sign, CHL holders would be allowed to carry weapons, but non-CHL holders would not. (Of course, there are exceptions to places of worship, fairs, etc.)

[1]: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/txstatutes/PE/7/30/30.06
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Please stop spamming submissions. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

> Please don't submit so many links at once that the new page is dominated by your submissions.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Calling the company kind of ruins the symmetry of the experiment. If he'd been willing to call a makerbot expert - or someone who passed high-school shop class - who's to say his other two efforts couldn't've been made into something usable?
Well, isn't the bounty is crowdfunded? So it's the public asking for this, via WikiLeaks. The press value of this move puts the issue in the media spotlight which also good for the issue in public favour, WikiLeaks using it's name makes more sense from a media perspective as opposed to "some random assortment of people".

Really, the TPP should be public, shouldn't we be questioning the trust of the Governments?
"try not having access to your company's most important collaborative documents"

How? I did volunteer work for a charity and if a collaborative doc was important, on every mobile device we had "keep offline" so even in an area without internet coverage (in a warehouse or got a call while out in the wilderness or something) we had our data.

We had budgets, inventories, checklists, all that kind of stuff.

I guess its a design issue if a tool makes it possible to self sabotage, however much effort it requires, but its not much of a practical issue.

There are parts of it that do suck like other people assuming we had fully featured excel and they do really weird things with the strangest darkest never before seen corners of excel, but overall on average it simply wasn't an issue.
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You probably mean that you like the good design from 2000 (and well I share your opinion on that). But there was also the bad ones and there was a lot of them.

The majority of banking sites required you to use ActiveX, very frequently the shopping websites would use weirdo content plugins or have their content in PDF.

Those were the times of multi-frame abuse, webpage with sound and no control, site trying to be clever and disabling right-click. Pop-ups everywhere, site hijacking your browser window and resizing, moving it around. Stupid cursor that make your computer grind to a halt. Site designed for 640x480 and nothing else.

Remember the "blog"-like personal website on geocities and the like ?
Remember the portals ?

What I remember most from the time is how much superior I thought the newsgroups were to find anything.
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It's question begging because 'any sensible measure' is meant to exclude the subjective measure by which suicide bombers are valuing their own lives. The whole point is that their worldview -- what is important, what is to be valued during our brief time on earth, etc. -- is radically different than yours or mine.

And yet the only argument I seem to get in favor of the worldview that (I believe) you and I largely share is "C'mon. Don't be silly.", which might be rhetorically effective, but is not evidence based.

The important difference is that I am willing to accept that I believe it without proof. You see and the parent seem to need to claim it's 'scientific' and 'rational' to embrace a worldview which values life, freedom, knowledge, etc.
Depends on how much you need the file
won't you agree a story line or a rich description of game play won't make the same or perhaps a better impact on the potential buyer?

Does it matter if you or I agree?

http://www.vgchartz.com/yearly/2015/Global/
http://www.vgchartz.com/yearly/2014/Global/
and
http://www.vgchartz.com/yearly/2013/Global/

all seem to to indicate that, unless you happen to be Nintendo, pretty 3D graphics are very much necessary (but far from sufficient) if you want to sell a lot of games.

edit: Mobile and social games like Clash of Clans, Candy Crush etc. are of course and exception. If you want make a lot of money in games and don't want to deal with high end 3D graphics, then that is the market you have to get into.
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Ghostery caused the same problem for me. Pausing it fixed the problem.

Others have said ad blockers do the same for them.
Yes, of course. I'm not trying to prove anything, just to not that non-termination leads to suspicious looking logics.
Agreed that data is in and of itself neutral. Similar to a gun it is not its use but how it is used that can be detrimental. In fact, this is true of most anything from a pencil to a car.

I think at the core however the issue is not how the data is used but one of ownership and privacy. It is "my" business where I drive. It is "my" business whom I call. It is data about me and my behavior. So to have that information about me used, even if it could be assessed publicly, without any need for consent from me becomes the issue.

License plate readers are tantamount to placing a tail on me. The same with tracking my movements via several CCTV cameras, etc.

Retention just makes the situation worse. Yes, you could approach it with laws of appropriate use of this data but the problem is what about when the laws change. And the data is still there. Similar to how people gave data to Radio Shack years ago to find it now being sold to 3rd parties. Privacy policies are constantly shifting for the companies' best interests. Who can keep track?

The problem is that once the data is collected it is out of your hands. And why the regulations need be at the collection level with strict opt-in requirements as well as the usage and retention level.
Wait, so the quote actually means "information wants to be gratis", rather than "information wants to be libre"? I've been parsing it wrong this whole time.
The integration is the hard part. Do you just throw out the whole existing OK Google engine?
suspicion of possibly maybe having put a trojan in someone else's files

Isn't it a hard fact at this point?
>> "They've got your iMessage/Facetime chat logs"

Both of those services are encrypted so what useful data would they have on it?

I think Tim Cook's point is that they collect data solely to improve your user experience. If they stopped tomorrow they would continue making money. Other companies collect data they need for user experience plus data advertisers will find valuable so they can sell it/exploit it. If they stopped collecting data tomorrow they would die unless they radically changed their business model.
Actually, while it might not work for a gun that's already been made, obviously one can make and sell guns after jumping through the various hoops the BATFE et. al. require (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Firearms_License), adding a serial number to it, etc.

I wonder what the law is for making them part of your estate.
My opinion about offering unsolicited treatment advice has nothing to do with whether the suggested treatment is effective or not. My suggestion to not offer treatment advice to people with chronic conditions comes from a recognition that most people with chronic conditions receive exhausting amounts of advice from folks every day, and it is often not what they want to talk about, but politeness dictates they not simply say, "stop talking, you're not helping".

Certainly there may be gems of valuable input that may come from strangers on the internet, but with no other signals indicating quality, it is just more noise in an already complicated topic.

Again: In conversations with someone who has a chronic condition, unless the person has asked for advice (in some way) about their treatment, it is generally rude to offer your thoughts on the matter. Just as I wouldn't suggest you go on a diet if I think you're a little overweight or that I think you should be on antipsychotic drugs because I saw you get angry one time, your knowledge of a strangers situation is too low to be helpful. And, they hear it all the time, and most of the time the advice they get is bullshit.
It's a clever pivot by Tim Cook. He figured out that Apple is awful at selling advertising and has turned this into a marketing feature.

Steve Jobs was very excited about advertising, remember him describing iAds as a life changing experience that users would love? It completely failed, but hey.

https://youtu.be/KwVaILbTqS8?t=45m55s
http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/04/news/johnson-and-johnson-whi...

This type of whistleblowing should not just be for pharmaceuticals. It should apply to all government and commercial activities too. Publicity is the best disinfectant.
As a WordPress dev, I'm well versed in the ecosystem of WordPress, and the only thing I would trust is a personal recommendation. If you don't know folks who have WordPress sites, then shoot an email to all your favorite bloggers and asm them if they have a dev they'd recommend.
But this is kind of like your phone company having complete access to all of your phone records. It's necessary for their business, but they gain nothing from investigating them, just like Apple gains nothing from monitoring who you are speaking with via email when you use an account from them. Or, how a traditional email service provider or ISP from the 90s wouldn't have cared about who you were talking to or what hosts you were communicating with, or what the content of that was.

Google is different, very different than these situations. Everything is read, torn apart, analyzed, and sold. They are organizing the world's information, but they consider your private information some of the most immediately monetizable information.

There really is a huge difference here, and though we all love Google and everything that it has done for us, we must also realize the great amount of power that we have given it over us. Yes, they are benevolent now, but they have much much much more reason than Apple to become less benevolent, and far far more power than Apple does in many respects.
How do you know they're not leaking it for the cash?
Good on them. I just pledged a small amount towards the $100k. I think the purpose of this is more a PR stunt to make more people aware that the governments that are supposed to serve us are trying to sign us up to a bunch of dubious stuff behind our backs than bribery. Indeed "Putting the public back into the public interest." as they put it on their site.

https://wikileaks.org/pledge/
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Having written a non-trivial amount of Swift and Go, and a trivial amount of Rust, I'd say that Go doesn't offer as much opportunity for abstraction as Swift (which has generics, for starters). Rust feels lower-level and there's a lot of syntax baggage re: memory management, which Swift doesn't have.

Personally, I quite like Swift. I came into it from a primarily dynamic lang background, and found it very expressive - not at all the static lang shackles I was dreading.
Hmm I don't know if this is a coincidence but today we had the exact same situation as you but I was on the other side. I was with the company profiting from the code of this guy who did exactly the same as you. he wrote an connector between their internal app and a saas solution and we are about to take over.

It would be a real funny coincidence if this was you. Does your name start with "Vo"?
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One of the sadder things I read today:

"What I was blindly ignoring back in my teen years was games like Elite, Ultima IV, Zork, MUD - games that fit just fine on the tiny possibility space my original PC enabled."

I had a (slap back of hand) cracked copy of Ultima IV. No User Manual. No Map. No Potions Guide. I had to create my own maps of the world, and permute ingredients to figure out all the potions. I spent three of the most glorious weeks of my life completing that game, and, to this day (close to 30 years later) I recall the level, (you couldn't restore health in the midst of a dungeon) in which I ran into the mirror image of my party and had to battle myself. And riding the balloon over pirate bay. Oh my, ...
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Actually, DOOM isn't pure 3D at all. The graphics are 2D sprites and your field of view is strictly limited to a 2D plane, but the use of isomorphic projection and billboarding techniques are used to create depth.

That's why it's timeless.
You could sell every part except the lower receiver.
You can't modify it because it's implementing a treaty only works as an argument if you accept that the treaty needs to be ratified before we talk about the implementing legislation.

Is anyone making this argument? Has the Constitutional treaty process ever been used for modern trade agreements?

The actual argument is that no agreement can be reached unless Congress concedes their authority to amend enabling legislation. It makes perfect sense: Why would our trade partners want to do N rounds with Congress or other nations' legislative bodies after they've already completed difficult negotiations to get to an agreement with the Executive in the first place? This is why we have a President and a USTR confirmed by Congress.
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This would have sounded credible if Apple didn't have an iAds business that mines user clicks and offers retargetting ads to paying customers.

Instead, now, this sounds like Microsoft's Scroogle campaign, where it accused Google of doing all the things that Bing also did, but wasn't successful at doing.
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If I go to GIMP.org and click Downloads, I see this:

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

> GIMP for Windows

> Via HTTP (.exe)

> Download GIMP 2.8.14

If I go to SourceForge.org (clicking first SF link on Google for "GIMP download"), I see this:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/

> Download

> gimp-2.8.6-setup.exe

> Browse All Files

SourceForge has 2.8.6, GIMP.org has 2.8.14.

SourceForge has an older version. Where the hell did you go to?

(In fairness, SourceForge also has 2.8.14, but you have to go look at the file list rather than clicking the big green button. OTOH, GIMP.org's big button goes straight to the latest version.)
Well at this point, with OSX and their shitty graphics drivers (and I mean so shitty you install Windows and perf goes up), if you want to do any GPU intensive application, Windows still dominants. DirectX >>> OpenGL (although I'm looking forward to vulkan).
Yeah, I could do that but I do want to help support the site. We have an open discussion about charging a subscription as an alternative.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/keybr/PsYcvOkJyWE
I spend zero time considering college or collegiate history. Instead I delve into "what have you done lately?', "what are you passionate about?", along with "what do former coworkers say about your time there?"

I find these last three questions several orders of magnitude more important than whether you made a B or C at Alabama Tech back in 2012. Nobody cares about that stuff. We can rent out deep-dive knowledge if we need it. What we can't find is hard-working people who can make machines solve problems for other people in a group format -- while being fun to work with.
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Bullets are much, much easier to make than guns, even if you have a ghost gunner machine. Gunpowder is also pretty simple to make from scratch if you have a few completely unregulated and mostly innocuous ingredients on hand.

When I went to summer camp as a kid and went skeet-shooting with the other 12 year olds, we had to make our own shotgun shells to keep costs down. It took maybe 30 seconds to learn how to use the shell maker.