jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, the average age of gamers is over 30 at this point in time. I'm 31, and a game developer, but honestly, I'm finding games less and less satisfying as they continue to cater to the teenage boy in me, who is less and less as each year passes. This year I have played almost nothing, to be honest.

I suspect there would be a large market for some truly mature games (and now I'm not talking about AO so much as games that have mature content, not tits and blood), but it's hard to say for certain because the big companies have decided that all the money is in the 13-16 year old range, and that's where games stay firmly entrenched.

It's true that there's a lot of money there, but I think a lot of it is simply that that is where all the games are being directed. It's a feedback loop, where more money is put in to 13-16, and so more money is made there.

Once developers start leaving childish stories and content behind, and moving on to meaningful and emotional content, or more serious and complex content, we should see a shift towards selling significantly more at higher age brackets.

I was personally disappointed in Heavy Rain because it was the potential for a mature game sullied by horrible controls and interface. Had they simply stuck to more traditional control schemes I have no doubt that the game would have done much better. Of course, that wouldn't have made the writing any better, but at least it would have been a step in that direction.

Honestly, I'm looking forward to indie game development becoming more and more prevalent, where developers not beholden to marketing can influence bigger development by branching out and exploring new territory.

I guess maybe it's not the specific answer you were hoping for, and somewhat meandering, but I do believe it's simply a case of money-in-money-out. If people looked for it, it would be there.
Am I wrong in thinking that most technical founders are full stack developers?
The author achieved a big speed increase with a faster disk, more RAM, adding indexes, and rewriting slow queries. The relevant skillset is "knowing a thing or two about databases", not "full-stack programmer".
It is not about hyper-violent or graphically sexual games. It is about games which can conceivably address that content, or use that content for effect, without fear of being marginalized or censored.
Obviously .ch which is Switzerland and Switch.ch as the register. They are the original neutral nation.
The amygdala is generally linked to fear
By far the best:
Agile Web Development with Rails—Second Edition
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails2/

DHH wrote it.
What would happen if everybody added random "free tibet human rights xinjiang" triggers to their web pages? Or even better, randomly embed real snippets from organizations that fight for human rights in China.
It's actually an often repeated myth that running is bad for your joints/knees etc[1].

General medical consensus is that moderate running is an indicator for better joint health.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2011/03/28/134861448/put-those-shoes-on-r...
Open source software doesn't need protection from piracy.
One of our city-based HPC facilities has had a recurring fault where the aircon goes off for no obvious reason overnight. Eventually we figured out that a homeless guy had realised he could sleep above a vent from the aircon and be relatively warm - and had also realised he could turn off the system (it's not very secure) to cut the noise down but still be warm from the heat coming out.

At the moment we're just ignoring it as it's -3C just now in the daytime. Better to loose a few HPC jobs than freeze the poor guy.
At the time, one could not. Nor could one buy the quads at REI in Vegas, nor in any of the stores I called in Flagstaff. I was surprised by this, believe me.
Yes, during a global pandemic crisis like this, undocumented immigrants are the problem.

I bet every single one of those people in Disney World last week, partygoers in New Orleans, and spring break beach students were overwhelmingly not undocumented immigrants.

Fear mongering a disenfranchised population will get you nowhere.
Their about page and update articles give a good high-level overview of the project https://foldingathome.org/about/
Oh yeah, I loved that FTP site! It was one of the only internet addresses I had memorized by heart.
The latest release of my fork of the Clojure port should work:

https://github.com/michaelsbradleyjr/shen.clj/releases/lates...

At this point, it's just a tidied up release of the original author's work, which stopped at Shen 8 (version 16 is the most recent). I should also note that it doesn't seem to deal with tail calls properly in some situations, so you could run into a stack overflow here and there.

Once Shen 17 is released and I've finished reading The Book of Shen, I plan to bring the Clojure port up to date.
> Dish executives said the new service would not cannibalize the company’s current business because its current offerings do not appeal to Sling TV’s target audience of 18- to 35-year-olds.

> “We are not hitting the 18- to 35-year-old market today; we just aren’t,” Mr. Clayton said, adding that he knows from experience with five children between the ages of 18 and 28.

This is so refreshing to hear -- I feel that, too often, decision-makers at big media companies resist the realization he's had.

I hope this new product is not tied to an archaic time-based schedule as well, but rather allows viewers to watch shows on their schedule. The DVR is a stop-gap technology between time-based broadcasting and on demand viewing of all published content. Why should it matter if I wasn't home at 8pm on Sunday -- let me watch the program shown on the channel I paid for!
The blog post has a mistake, there were only 292 not 2923 respondents (he copied a superscript 3 from the PDF). The mailing list had 1939 members[1], so only 15% responded. All the data quoted in the paper discussed in the blog is survey data... so it seems that a large proportion of academics that respond to surveys about their political ideology are liberal. This could also be explained by a large number of non-liberal academics who don't care for answering surveys about political ideology. Not sure what counts for rigorous exposition in the social sciences, but I had to laugh when the authors actually said that these ideology surveys overestimate the proportion of liberals because conservatives don't want to self-identify, and that this supports their point!

[1] http://yoelinbar.net/papers/political_diversity.pdf
Just FYI, this post was partly inspired by the fact Angular 2.0 seems to be a mess of JS and Dart support via AtScript...

Good reasons or not, the added barrier to contributions, and choosing yet another language that isn't JS still ultimately leads me to the conclusion many at Google don't believe in JS in the long haul, not as a language to write in.

http://eisenbergeffect.bluespire.com/all-about-angular-2-0/
"A Thousand Plateaus" by Deleuze and Guattari is a great example of success in the field of organisational metaphors, or an egregious bit of unscientific storytelling, depending on how you look at it. In particular their ideas of smooth and striated space map onto bazaar and cathedral to some degree.
Only if you assume that physical proximity is the most significant attribute two people can have in common!

Aside from my housemates, I don't know so much as the first name of any other person on my block; but I live here because dozens of my friends live within a mile of my house.
Yep, that's exactly what I mean.

It looks good, but behind the curtain...

Thanks for your feedback.
> I always feel overwhelmed, and basically, I don't have the energy and excitement to do the things I should do in life.

Who says you should do them?
Chicken meat in the West also tastes a lot more blander than Asian "boiler" chicken. Try McDonald's nuggets in Brazil or the Middle east or India. Doesn't need as much frying or saucing - much of which is needed for having any decent flavor and leads to obesity
awesome to see SBCL so active.

newcomers to Lisp, check out:

- https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl (there might be more libraries than you think)

- https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/

- how to create a project (with my project generator): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFc513MJjos
Super interesting! Definitely feels like a lot of fairly low-level tech to have to deal with for a one-person company, but I guess that doesn't surprise me any more :)
take all

put all in thing
I wonder where you live, do you mind sharing the region?

(I have the privilege to live in central Europe, where OSM is actually chock-full of information.)
In my particular case, it's a 45-60 minute bus ride + a 20-30 minute subway ride. Odds are that I'm much more likely to be standing than sitting, so it is definitely not an enjoyable or relaxing experience.

The only way I can avoid it is to leave home much earlier (see my earlier comment about losing sleep because of the commute as it is) and/or leave work much later.

Or move closer to work at the cost of much higher housing expenses for a place that is smaller and older.

Or - something which I'm trying to do - leave for an entirely different metropolitan area. I've had ex-coworkers and friends who've left the Manhattan commuting hellhole for the SFBA and tell me their commutes are a heavenly 15-30 minute relaxing drive now.
Understandable that this is a dealbreaker but I do not think we have ever directly interacted before, so you might have misremembered whatever discussion you had in mind.
There's also the classic x86info: https://github.com/kernelslacker/x86info / https://linux.die.net/man/1/x86info .
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There is information about Babelfish, including reInvent keynote, website and other sources. Here you have a 30min session about Babelfish for PostgreSQL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcGMoxPCNcQ

I'd also love to have more, architectural/design documents, the code itself, etc, and I'm sure they will be sooner than later released.

But that doesn't prevent us, as I said, to discuss the items I suggested above. They do not depend on the source code, at all.

And independently of this, there is already one thread on the -hackers mailing list that provides some information and proposes to introduce a technical improvement that not only would ease the Babelfish integration, but will also provide significant benefits for PostgreSQL itself, allowing for other protocols to come (including a potential v4 and an HTTP-based protocol): https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAGBW59d5SjLyJLt-jwNv%...
Amazing statistics: 75% of all aluminium ever produced is still in use today.

https://aluminiumtoday.com/news/international-aluminium-inst...
That was Chris Lattner's original dream at least, but I suppose it can remain viable even if it is "only" used on Apple's billion+ devices.
As someone with tinnitus and just got Airpods Pro two days ago this news disturbs me. I don't want it to get worse.

I'm wondering if this is caused by ultrasonics? Someone must have measured these somewhere...
Tow issues I have noticed with Zig: not as good type signatures for functions and not as good error messages. I am not sure if those are fundamental issues with Zig's apporach or if they can be fixed with more work.
So, I've got a highly speculative hypothesis that BIG COFFEE will have a similar tobacco-like health event in the future. These are my semi-conspiratorial circumstantial evidences:

1. It's basically burnt bean water. Roasted is just a marketing term.

2. The constant rate of "New Study Finds Coffee Improves [insert health benefit]" articles

3. The incredibly powerful forces (industrial, corporate, personal) that would hold back such an event

I'm not willing to defend this hypothesis, but I would love some steel-manning
Like somehow you're the judge the jury and the executioner of said conpanies. Don't use their product.
Yes, white supremacists love openly Jewish bloggers.
I like the idea. The inability to do something is an often underrated feature.
So what, you want to intentionally exclude people from the benefits of biking? Why? How is that better than making biking accessible to a wide range of people, like some countries already do?
Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware. I thought it was all 'scancodes'
So, in your view, every government in the world is totalitarian and genocidal? How can you compare the Chinese government, a dictatorship, with most democratic governments from western countries? Of course some governments do bad things, but tell me something genocidal the US government or Canadian government or any EU country is currently doing.

There is no logical way to compare the Chinese government with any other government from the west. People in China aren’t free and can’t do anything unless the CCP dictators let them.

Imagine insulting the CCP leaders the way everybody does in television in the US to their own government. You’d had the military involved and everybody would disappear and get ‘re-educated’ or murdered.

And, btw, I don’t think the Chinese steal, I think they mostly copy.
Hmm... I'm looking for a backend developer. Don't care where you are in the world. The job is really vague at the moment and since it's new the pay would be on the low end. Sounds almost like a good fit. What's the best way to get in contact with you?
Just a reminder that biological networks do not do backpropagation.

There's a lot yet to learn about neural networks and the state of the art is still biological evolution.
Text-based interface with fuzzy contextual autocomplete is the best of both worlds. Think of an IDE's autocomplete popups, but for terminal commands. Or how the Command Palette in means I almost never have to memorise where some obscure setting because I can just type the first few letters and find it as a top match.
No such UI exists for terminal emulators because they don't work that way, but I'm convinced if someone made a program entirely around text with autocomplete it would be just as accessible to non-technical people.
It does, but you can produce self-contained applications that don't need the runtime to be installed (it's included in a native binary shipped with the application). Full AOT compilation is also being worked on.
I'm probably being stupid here but the majority of updates only involve a limited number of columns. How would you translate a statement like 'UPDATE customers SET surname='Smith' WHERE customer_id = 1234' into an UPSERT?
Yes, that's a strawman. Subways, roads and no sidewalk at all.

And your answer is 0... How? Bridges and tunnels between buildings? People evolving to fly?

Every person would require door to door taxi — tremendous increase in traffic. Same with bike lanes, take them away from Amsterdam and city would choke. Every Amsterdam driver benefits from less cars on the road.
Even if they anonymized the subjects you'd be able to reverse engineer the outliers.
Is there some reason in principle why you can't constructively MITM yourself without using piles of Javascript in the browser?
Just trying to figure out the circumstances where a bear could "take a child" that don't involve some serious negligence on whoever is supposed to be responsible for the kid. I grew up in a part of the US that is rife with bears and spent my childhood running around in wild areas with coyotes and rattlesnakes and never had any sorts of issues.
Stealth is not about not being seen. Once upon a time stealth was meant to evade detection to avoid being shot down. Today, stealth is about not being seen in order to provide deniability.

You only need to hide completely if you expect to be shot at, if you are flying in airspace where unknowns will be immediately engaged. Such airspace is very rare these days. Stealth today is about hiding just well enough that they cannot prove who or what you are (the Osama raid over Pakistan). In non-war airspace, with civilians floating around, they aren't going to shoot at an unknown. You don't need a zero-profile, just enough of a cloak that they cannot readily identify you. Unknown is far easier a profile than unseen.
Thank you for the phrase "smooth-ape buffet", and the term "smooth-ape" in particular.
"how can you get the most SEO results out of a one page website"

"Is there any way to dynamic generate content without affecting search engine indexing and ranking"

"Is there anything I can do to make google crawl my website"

"Is it safe to pre-load 4 website into one page without search engines interpreting it as misleading"

If you are a programmer who do not work at google, it is impossible to answer. If a co-worker gave me any of those questions, I would answer it by giving them the link to google's recommendation page about SEO, while warning that google is a private company that do not disclose their methods in indexing website. I can guess and speculate how they think or what their intention are, but any advice would only reflect how I think it works today, and google may at any time change how they index websites.
What other altenratives are there that host video in HTML5 webm? Vimeo dropped the whole effort. This is really sick that Google forces thins G+ junk on Youtube users.
> It would be really great if they sold these such that one purchase could cover the cost of one for charity.

No, absolutely not. This is the same mistake the one laptop per child people made.

Just sell the shit out of them to everyone who can use one. Economies of scale will bring the price down. The "buy two, get one!" approach deters people from buying them and shoots economies of scale in the head.
I do get the joke, but to balance it a bit, the writer is a freelancer, and does appear to have pretty good chops around labor issues. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimmkelly
CPAN was Perl's claim to fame. It's what gave it the "edge" over Python and Ruby a decade ago. I think people have finally realized that edge is rapidly fading. I still occasionally use Perl but I'm trying to make my goto language Python or Go, unless I find a better functional language. After all, in 2015, shouldn't we be using OCaml or F# for our quick jobs?

I guess I'd rather invest in the future rather than try to save the past.
I live in a college town and worked at the college for a time. My commuting bike is an ugly assemblage of recycled parts, but carefully maintained, a it rides like a dream.
No? Scrooge McDuck isn't Scottish for nothing.
Sure.

Improve the existing key-recovery attacks (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/cryptanalysis/a...) on AES from 2^126 to 2^80 (through unknown methods, potentially exploiting the trivial relation of CTR plaintexts), which is a scale at which a state level party could perform computation, especially on specialized hardware. Observe a CTR block on known plaintext and recover the key.

Practical key recovery attacks have existed against many block ciphers. AES is pedantically weaker than it should be (since an attack exists at 2^126).

Do I think this is likely? I don't have enough information to answer, and in the absence of information I'd default to "probably not". It wouldn't be inconceivable, however.
I think this is part of it, but there are also issues of infrastructure as well. Many aging eastern cities, with their challenging (read: hilly) topography, make it prohibitively expensive to radically redesign roads.[0] Additionally, I think it would be "federalize" such efforts, as it would be easier gradually redesign roads in a city, or even a part of a city, rather than attempt to broadly dictate policy for the entire country.

[0] That said, it is possible to make the streets safer, even when geography and economics are obstacles. My own town has been doing this, though often it is piecemeal.
That might be true, can't seem to quickly find a source for that so I'll just eat crow and look like a muppet on that one.
Let's hope that it makes its way through human trials. Even better, let's hope that their development platform generalizes. Lots of known nasties out there which we can dramatically reduce with vaccines.
Really? My understanding of religious fasting was it was a form of devotion. To show how dedicated you were to that cause. Or to show that you could overcome your biological instincts.

In other words to demonstrate fortitude, strength of will, and discipline, and thus become closer to an ideal that is mostly considered non-biological or rather transcend the biological (God/Nirvana/etc). Or to empathize with suffering/deprivation of others.

So, while I guess those could be considered benefits, I don't really see it.
I have to disagree. The most painful APIs I have had to work with are ones that try to abstract things away, and fail. They usually create bad abstractions (don't full understand what they are trying to expose) or they don't expose enough and I waste time trying to extend them.

There is no way to know what information clients will need in the future, so it is better to not try and guess. I have no problems with a chatty client.

A good example of this is the Google APIs. Sure when you open up the godoc for the google-api-clients it seems needlessly verbose, but I have found the patterns sane and much better than making another layer of pointless abstraction.
They are Christians in the same sense as Moslems are.
> In short, we need an "Employment EPA."

http://www.dol.gov/
I listen to a comedy podcast called "The Dollop" that's hosted by Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds. I'd recommend it to anyone who appreciates a bit of light-hearted reflection on some American History. In any case, they did a pretty great episode about Jack Parsons, but more from a "Who put this guy in charge of anything?" perspective;

http://thedollop.libsyn.com/jack-parson
I had to dig up one of my old comments about YC China, because I specifically recall this one. I think the issue isn't one elephant in the room, it is elephants.

My comment from August 15, 2018:

"I would like to see a statement that YC China will not discriminate based on ethnicity, gender, religion, or sexual orientation and more importantly will not support startups which create technology which make doing so easier."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17765394

* and this is not meant to exonerate US startups or hold them to another standard
Not a word about the most effective, cheapest strategy: reduce emissions?

Most Americans could reduce their emissions by 75% while improving their standard of living by buying less junk, wearing a sweater in the winter, eating more healthy, and other low hanging fruit that will make them more active, healthy, connected to their communities, etc.

Reduce consumption by half. There, I just saved us $300 million.

How is reduction not our top priority and activity??
And from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=419895
"Essential Excerpts"
I'm sorry that I seem to have offended you. Lighten up.
To those who don't want to submit their email: https://pytorch.org/assets/deep-learning/Deep-Learning-with-...
Genuinely worried, can you explain more? How does it work? HTTP headers i don't think as i check them for work often. I'm all ears, thanks.
I don't disagree with other parts of your post, but I still think protecting against the scenario where an attacker has physical access to your computer is basically pointless. Especially if it comes with a very significant loss of freedom.

If a malicious person has entered your home or workplace, access to your computer should be low on the list of worries.
Only if you include stuff like auth and migrations.

https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld

It's pretty easy to tell which frameworks are mature and which are not simply by looking at how many wheels that need to be reinvented.
Pay-as-you-go can mean not committed term: stop going, stop paying. If it’s “month to month”, that counts.

Pay-as-you-go doesn’t necessarily mean usage-based pricing.