skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets approach this via another tack, since you seem to want to drop more platitudes.

Suppose you have two humans - one who integrated shakespeare, one who didn't. (Or make it two samples of humans to reduce statistical noise, if you prefer.) Beyond quizzing them on lines from plays, what measurement can you make to determine which human/group of humans "integrated" and "generalized" shakespeare and which didn't?

If no such measurement exists, I'd assert that rather than shakespeare, we need invisible dragons to breath the fire of knowledge. http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/Dragon.htm
One this which greatly helped me was understanding that [ is a program, like any other, which takes arguments. It's a small thing, but made the shall less magic.
> When I'm working in Smalltalk, even though it's always a "toy" program, I feel like I'm sort of reaching into the computer's inner world and fiddling with things in a way you can't do with a plain old text editor.

There's always http://dmitrymatveev.co.uk/shampoo/
I kind of hope they do. I'd like a relatively short limit but 140 is a bad number. It's not optimized for any kind of communication, it's optimized for putting ads in sms messages.
What Every Hardware Startup Needs to Know about Accelerator Programs
Development Tools Overview (Monticello, SqueakSource, SqueakMap) http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5878
Seems like it would be perfect for declarative deployments!! So neat!
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10049137
I hate it when people DM me. I never check them, on purpose. Like voicemails on my cell, I've been looking for a way to completely disable that functionality.
Yeah, you're right. Every challenge you face is insurmountable. You're doomed to work your whole life and die penniless and there's nothing you can do about. That's too bad for you.
I'm not certain there is an actual paper yet; I suspect from some of the phrasings that it was merely an announcement that their program succeeded, but a formal paper will take a while.

I did find this reddit post by Dr. Mann [1] where he says:

> We were just in the process of debugging and optimizing the code when our new example was found. Because we are in the early stages of the computational experiments, we were surprised to find this example so quickly. We are hopeful of finding more new examples as we proceed.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/3fe347/15th_pentagon/...
Oh, so you're only going to support WebPack? That's disappointing.
REST isn't what you think it is, and that's OK
Amazing how you can actually see the volcano explosion's blast radius push the clouds away.
If they're "smart" about it, they'll increase the character limit by 10 or so every fiscal quarter. So they can say they're innovating.
A repository for ProjectEuler's problems solutions
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10049137
What have they contributed to git?

The other projects are irrelevant, I'm talking about contributing to the core product they are vampiring off of.
Box office revenue is only 25% of revenue from film entertainment.
I built a tool (https://github.com/apeeyush/coffee) that takes an atom/xml feed and sends contents from it over mail periodically. Using it to complete some feeds (interview prep, startup lectures etc.).

This might work well with "Remind to Read" if it could create an xml feed for each user.

Hoping to receive HN community feedback on it since it is one of the few end-to-end systems I have built completely :)
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Yes tell me how I am brainwashed and how my country does not suffer from the 50years of russian sphere of influence. Fuck off.
"the Teflon website will warn against small birds in the kitchen..."

But Big Bird is okay in the kitchen? ;-)
> You can say 3-4x as much in a single tweet in Japanese or Chinese as you can in English (example: 象 = elephant, yet is only one character instead of eight.)

Can you really? I thought the "140 character" restriction was due to the "160 bytes in an SMS" restriction, and therefore using multibyte unicode characters consumed multiple "characters."
That's because people misrepresent themselves online and offline. Reminds me of the Chris Rock quote:

"When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative."
Will it run seaside?
People are acting like the game wasn't able to be made. The issue is it was made but the sales didn't cover the costs.

"At first we could not believe that our “baby” was not more successful, in our emotions we started looking for explanations not related to the game. Maybe gamers are just spoilt brats, bashing on everything, maybe there is an oversaturation of indie market, maybe all the free-to-play games by big studios are giving players a false sense of value. How could less than $10 be to expensive for a beautiful game like Woolfe? How could this be our fault? "

"Of course none of the emotional excuses above are the reason of our mixed steam rating. We can only blame ourselves… "

It's good to see someone excepting the fact that their game just wasn't good enough. Also nice to hear someone admit what a cop out blaming customers or the market is.
It wasn't "recent", but after Gamecock went bankrupt (good riddance!), their FPS title Legendary was on Steam for like a buck fifty. It's $3 now. I assume that was a creditor trying to squeeze every cent from it.
GitHub employs some people who work either full time or partially on git.
Uzbekistan Airways to weigh passengers before boarding
>Back out 2% inflation (on average)

The average annual inflation rate from 1970 is over 4%.
I'm confused - how is it failed if they launched it on Steam? Is that just a demo?
Highways in America can cost $4M per mile, at that rate $60k gets you 80ft. I assume that in Europe the costs are not two orders of magnitude higher?
The violin in question belonged to NPR presenter Nina Totenberg's Father. You can hear her report on this story here: http://www.npr.org/2015/08/06/427718240/a-rarity-reclaimed-s...
Thanks for Crash Bandicoot! Still one of my favourite games!
There are lots of frameworks for game development, but the problem is exactly in what you've described: rails. You can only get so far within the constraints of those frameworks before you need something it just can't do, and have to develop yourself. Depending on the framework, this may not even be possible (which is what leads to creation of new frameworks).

With that said, a lot of great (albeit typically somewhat simple) games are made with frameworks. When I when to a few game jams back in college, we typically started with something so that we could have a "complete" game by the end.
Same here (on Windows). The files created in scripts directory are actually python files without extension. Tried to do a python jupyter notebook but then it doesn't find the jupyter-notebook script neither.
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The pull requests of github are not compatible with other things, which is why I brought it up.
So, being unable to trace it, you don't really know whether studying Shakespeare, or other literature, affects your decision-making at all -- and if it does, how much. I agree that much of knowledge you pick up is something you can't trace. But do you get any from studying literature?

On the other hand, I can think of plenty of ways reading books (and watching movies, etc) has changed my decision-making abilities. I could name examples. Likewise with playing sports, playing musical instruments, getting really sunburnt, interacting with old people, etc -- some of which I've spent less time doing. Studying literature, on the other hand, and finding out, oh, its themes are X, Y, and Z (because duhhh) making up some completely nonsensical psychoanalysis has not, in any identifiable way.

There are other things you could do with your time. Is it better to study Shakespeare, or to watch reality TV?
They let that speak for itself, too:

http://www.economist.com/node/12076765
Yes you absolutely can. Similarly, with Russian you'd convey a quarter less information than in English tweet, as the words are stupidly long.
The problem with Electron (and other Chromium/WebKit wrappers) is that they produce apps that are a lot heavier than those built with native UI toolkits (Cocoa, Qt, GTK+, etc). That might be ok for some types of apps, but I wouldn’t want a git client that requires resources on the order of a Chrome tab (300MB+ memory and high CPU usage).
You can try it for yourself. Go to twitter.com and put 象 into the box. The number of remaining characters only goes down by one.

I don't know why that is, because I'm pretty sure you're right that the tweet length limit comes from SMS limits. But these days the 140 limit seems to be in terms of Unicode code points, not bytes.
pdf.js was quite slow when it was first released. But have you tried it lately? It's a lot faster and less memory-hungry than it used to be. E.g. see https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/02/07/a-slimmer-an... and https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/06/16/an-even-slim..., and there are plenty of other optimizations have occurred as well. It's PDF conformance has also improved greatly.

It's still not as fast as a native PDF reader, and probably never will be. When I'm dealing with really large PDFs (e.g. the Intel x86 docs, which are 1000+ pages) I still use a native PDF reader. But I find that pdf.js does just fine on documents of up to a few hundred pages. Which is, y'know, most of them.

And having PDFs open in the browser is so convenient -- I get a happy feeling every time I open a PDF and I don't get a dialog asking me to save this file and/or open it in an external application.
Can you be more specific? They actually said they had everything made and printed, can't be that hard... they simply didn't end up having enough money for shipping costs because they went bankrupt for other reasons. Again, they made an accounting mistake, instead of earmarking the funds for shipping, they expected once the game launched they'd sell easily (they were greenlit in days, featured at the E3 etc), they'd easily manage shipping.

I mean let's be clear here, they had a bunch of artwork laying around already (we know this), artwork that ended up in a wallpaper, and they had rewards of $30 - $50 for the game + some digital stuff (e.g. an mp3 of the soundtrack) + getting this artwork mailed to them. Oh and the game was just $10.

So in effect they have a PDF on their computer, and they're charging $20 print and send it to you. (this isn't even the booklet, just the wallpaper, the booklet+wallpaper costs $40 extra ontop of the game).

Now you find me a scrappy indie game dev that doesn't want that, or can't handle it, or can't make that profitable. Don't act like that is rocket science. You telling me if you're running a small shop of 5 people and you're so scrappy you'll risk bankruptcy 6 months later, that printing and shipping a PDF for $20 to 1000 people isn't workable? That generating this $20k revenue (1/3rd of what they pulled in) from a wallpaper, can't be done for less than $10k everything included (printing, labor, shipping).

I mean hell I can print 1.000 A3s for less than $1k without much effort, already found a quote for that, and it'd be printed within a day. Again, they said they had everything printed and ready, that's not the issue here. Then I reward myself $3k for an entire month of effort of shipping pieces of paper (big deal, could do it in a week), and I spend $3 to mail 1 piece of paper each. I still make $13k, enough to pay a developer in Belgium for 3 months. And considering I spent $3k on the labor, I might as well outsource it to some highschool intern who gets a ridiculously royal salary of $3k for barely a week's worth of work. And I'm being pretty generous with the margins here, even if you nitpick here and there, and add some other factors, it's still a good deal. In fact I doubt they regretted their decision, merchandise was half their campaign revenue.

Now I KNOW there are companies that offer ridiculous stuff. 1) offer things they haven't made yet (like a mini comic to go along with the game, which requires a lot of time spent) and 2) things that make no economic sense (a $20 reward for a 3d printed game thingy, which costs $15 to make and $10 to ship, and time spent). And that this makes no economic sense and often fails.

My point is that while merchandise isn't always a good idea, it definitely can be, and that it probably was for this company.

As for a 'book order', it's just a booklet made out of a bit of paper, at a quantity of 1000 of them they cost about $1 each or so. Remember they're part of a $40 reward which has a booklet, wallpaper (combined <$2) and digital rewards like a soundtrack. Hardly unfeasible, this is on top of the $10 of the game's price.
I think you make a good point, and then contradict it. "The limit" itself isn't responsible for the flamewars et al; it just attracted the demographic. The demographic itself is inherently prone to the flamewars. If you took the limit away, but kept the userbase, they'd still skim-judge people and speak mostly in epigram.
The real reason crime is falling so fast
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043152
Be sure to verify the signature. https://www.torproject.org/docs/verifying-signatures.html.en
Indulge me? I've done it plenty of times :-/
> Aside: I consider it a life skill to be able to find the north star. :-)

This http://www.diyreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/how-to-f... :-)
Yea, some of these people seem pretty out of touch with reality outside of the Bay Area.
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It's not an "either the NSA, or the CIA" situation. In this case, the CIA went after the Senate because the Senate was pursuing an investigation into allegations of torture against the CIA.

That said, Sen. Feinstein spoke at Stanford a few months ago, and she aggressively defended the NSA. It was, in my opinion, a very bad speech, with her trust and justification for NSA surveillance was as vague and cartoonish as anything President George W. Bush said during the war on terror. And then at the end of her talk, she went off on a rant about how you can see her house on Google Maps.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/may/feinstein-security-ta...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j57OuqbtD9Q&feature=youtu.be
Original with many more details: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/chip-card-atm-shimmer-fou...