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I played competitive Starcraft and then Warcraft III with several friends. One still works as a cashier in a grocery store. One works in IT support. One works for the gov't as a bureaucrat.

I also played WoW with a lot of people. Out of ten people who I still keep in touch with, none did exceptionally well at making money.

All of these games were major addictions for me, and I'm kind of glad I'm out of that phase. If some of the people I played with spent as much time doing anything else as they played video games, they would have moved mountains.

But perhaps that is not the point. We had a lot of fun, and it was a very enjoyable time for everyone involved. And maybe that is the most important thing.
I can't remember who said it, but a customer buying a shovel is actually buying a hole. The customer doesn't care about the shovel he / she cares about solving a problem.
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Seconded. Although I still think Turbo C and Borland Pascal 7 win out, but it's not like I'm using those anymore.

I miss the demo days.
Surely there's a place for technical criticism? If you think I've over-stepped that and made comments which reflect personally on the NLTK maintainers I'll apologise and revise. That wasn't my intention.

For a long time we've been in a situation where everyone experienced in NLP knows, but nobody says, that you should not use NLTK. That's not a healthy situation.

Having a book as baggage explains but does not excuse how out-of-date and low-quality NLTK's software is. The bottom-line is that in 2015 you can't go to NLTK and:

a) Learn how modern NLP is done;

b) Access a convenient toolkit of reliable, basic NLP components.

That's the mission statement, right? Well I think they don't achieve that, and that they do a disservice by pretending they do.
I've thought that if you're going to go the route of compiling to JS, you might as well go to a higher level of abstraction and use something like PureScript, Haxe, or any of the 100 other languages that compile to JS. Of course, interop then becomes a problem.
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I use cache style metrics for killing code too.

E.g. I might start a rewrite with:

#if BLEEDING_EDGE ...new code... #else ...old code... #endif

Eventually moving the old code into a further removed #if 0 as the remaining bugs taper off (i.e. I'll just fix them instead of reverting back to the old code for a milestone) before deleting the old code outright.

Much like evicting data from L1, L2, L3, and finally main memory.

Sometimes I'll even write explicit comments to delete code by a certain date.
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This has come at a good time. I've been using git, composer and Laravel's artisan thinking that this sort of thing would improve my productivity massively.

File name completions are great but option/sub-command completions could really speed up my workflow.
Having played lots of strategic and competitive games in the course of my life, I definitely spent a lot of time on it, and also experienced everything you said and more.

Nowadays, in order to keep my focus on more productive tasks, I tend to force myself not to play, and also not to start playing any new game, because once I get started, it is hard to stop.

Although the compulsiveness level might vary largely between individuals, I believe that this kind of compulsive behavior is specially true among MMO players. The social factor that MMOs bring is just too addictive, even for the least competitive and compulsive person.

I have to say that games brought a lot of good things to my life, such as starting me in programming, friends, a lot of brain activity, great moments and raw fun, but there is a dark side, yes there is, and sometimes I wonder if it is worth it. It might depend on the situation of the individual.
That was a great talk. If there isn't anyone doing this right now, somethings wrong with the world. Its a huge opportunity.
> you crazies

Personal attacks are not allowed on HN, regardless of how wrong you think someone is.
NLTK in research is probably mostly used as glue, its corpus interface, and its standard wrappers to common libraries. Everyone using it for research will do something like "I used data from NLTK, pushed it through my custom parser, and here's how it compares to the wrapped parsers that NLTK also interfaces with".

That's why the maintainer said, basically, "nope, we only implement the standard algorithms". Most of the researchers want to get standard data, and compare their new algorithm to the standard algorithms that every other researcher uses.
Oh my! And I thought our backup software took a long time to restore the server... (This whole thing happened on a Friday, so 30 hours would not have been that much of a problem for the rest of the company, but I would have had to work over the weekend and spend the night on-site...)

The sad thing about such events is that afterwards, you could go "Told you so", but usually, people will not only not listen, but sometimes will still find a way to blame you for what went down. (In our case, it was our mistake, but we were lucky our CEO took it very well - he has no problem with people making mistakes as long as they are open about it and try to learn from their mistakes. What he cannot stand, though, is people trying to cover their butt and/or shift the blame onto others...)
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I'd personally be a lot more comfortable using the site if you guys were a not-for-profit -- it's hard to know what percentage of the fees charged for surveys actually translate through to what the users donate. Without that transparency I think you'll find it hard convincing people to use the site regularly.
wouldn't hope for it to happen any time soon... google owns so much stuff that rebranding everything takes a looooot of time! they might also never rebrand it if they think it's not any more a core service
It's also usable as a dynamic load library. It's still not a JIT, but a program can use it to run code directly without having to fork/exec/spawn anything.
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Some features :
- Large collection of GIFs and Videos.
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- Challenge a friend to dub a video
- Fast and very easy to use.
- Share your Dubs with friends on various platforms.
- Capture or add videos from gallery.
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copyright 2014 on their website doesn't inspire confidence.
I rarely downvote. However I did this time. Last I checked, Hacker News comment guidelines specifically request you NOT post comments in the vein of "this site is becoming Reddit."
Also and IANAL but as someone who lives in Victoria part of me really thinks you should have an actual lawyer go over your business model and just make sure you're kosher. I'd worry that there could be an interpretation that you're de-facto contracting employees, since you're effectively paying people to fulfil a service you're on-selling (the surveys) by allowing them to 'spend' the money on 'gifts' (to a charity, true, but I'm not sure it matters.)

It may all be cool, but you really do want to be 100% certain about that.
Exactly this. My poison in my teenage years was a small MMO with it's own development platform. Developing content for it became part of the game. I learned the basics of pixel art, good level design, story development and, of course, scripting from this game. It became an easel.

It's interesting that I too have shifted to strategy game as I've got older. HL2 is just a nostalgia thing, I'm not partial to shooters. My biggest problem games are Europa Universalis IV and Crusader Kings 2 (now that I use Linux) and used to be Civ5 and Vic2 on OS X. With EU4, I got so into it I probably spent half the time watching DDRJake (who us totally insane at EU4 - took vassalised OPM Athens and recreated Alexander the Great's empire).

Classics like AOE2 and Caesar 3 are a good past-time too.

With treatment for ADHD, I can certainly resist a lot easier. I'm now getting more urges to program and build things, which I seemed to have lost from my youth after work grinding me down.
I don't understand the point of supplementing CoQ10 alone. CoQ10 is one of about twenty or thirty things that should be supplemented if, indeed, this is the correct route to improving life.
> main victims of this law in the future

they've got access to the market and they need to pay for it this way or another.

still better than the Chinese way of banning them altogether.
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Every last one of us can kill. Second by second our minds overrule our instincts and our emotions because we're smart and we can think and we're very social animals that care about shame and what others think of us and what we've been told and the consequences of our actions, but every last one of us has a stone cold killer threaded inseparably.

I am an enormous believer in good manners [1].

[1] Which I am much better at in meatspace. Damn you, anonymous internet.
I must say, I find Russia's principle of reciprocity quite clever.

Not that I liked it when I got my visa three years ago, but my Russian friend (who regularly travels to Germany and the UK) told me that she has indeed to fulfil the exact same requirements when applying for a Visa to the Schengen area.
There are also tax benefits, http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/the-top-10-private-eq...

"Right at the core of the private equity business model is taking a company private, loading it up with debt that was used to finance the acquisition and using the interest deductions to shield the portfolio company from tax liability."
The Programmer's Guide pages do a good job of describing how the pieces fit together within this project: http://www.dpdk.org/doc/guides/prog_guide/index.html
>Solving Tomorrow's Challenges, Today

That is a comically bad motto. It's like something you'd hear from a villainous corporation in an 80's cyberpunk film.
Bathroom scales that log your weight to your health app automatically.

Lights that dim when the movie starts.

A front door that unlocks when you approach.

None of these are necessary, obviously, but they offer little conveniences. An iKettle is pushing it a little, but honestly, I'd quite like to receive a tap on my wrist when the kettle has finished or my toast has popped up.

There's plenty of utility to be had from IoT devices (although you're right about security being a concern) however, like remote controls and robotic vacuums, initially they are being dismissed as tools for the lazy. Soon I suspect they'll be part of everyone's lives.
Dann, tried to play it but my homemade multi system joystick to USB adapter went bust. Any recommendations on a ready made adapter easily procurable on Europe/Germany?
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All of these things sound like solutions that will take me a lot longer to set up than they will save me in time. A few years ago I messed about with "smart" lighting, and it turns out that all of it just unimaginably annoying. All of these "easy" devices are going to have horrific security, some day there's going to be articles about a doorknob botnet or exploits running on shovels.
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Agree Vale is fast, also fast are 6windgate DPDK.

DPDK has Openstack support, does Vale have Openstack support?
Vale looks brilliant in that it takes away complexity yet is fast!

Link on Vale performance
http://cnp.neclab.eu/vale#scalability
Nice! dispatch is a lovely API. Concurrent queues are nice to have, but the real magic is in serial queues.

For example, we can wrap a hash table in a dispatch queue: get() uses dispatch_sync, set() uses dispatch_async, and boom: our hash table rehashes in the background, instead of forcing set() to wait.

What are some other APIs that enable you to build a hash table like that?
Well, if it had collided full speed with the iceberg it probably wouldn't have sank

But yeah, the unsinkable was a good dose of press sensationalization
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> Google, Facebook, and countless other companies large and small are now required to store their Russian clients’ data within the country’s borders, according to a law that took effect Sept. 1.

How are they going to get the guarantee that the data never leaves the country?
Hence, we should call it "Information Technology" instead.
Yep. The smallest I've seen IIRC was a 386 with 4MB running X11 back around 1998. Took a good time to boot and start X11, but it did work.
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It is, you just have to be familiar with details. He called her "the Enchantress of Numbers"
With this comment, that multi-functional Chinese army shovel becomes so much more sinister.
Btw, author confused the order in which participants joined the repka-collaboration: first grandpa, then grandma, granddaughter, dog, cat and finally mouse.
I think it is the consumer IoT space which struggles for usefulness. In industry, IoT allows agriculture to use less water and get more yield, as well as monitoring civil infrastructure (roads, watermains, bridges, etc).
"Vulcan" as a name, really? It's a common word, it's already used by one up and coming technology, please be a little more creative (even VulcanJS or VulcanProof, while not very good, would be heaps better)
Both. Judging from their site there is another one in Kazan.
Thanks. We've changed the URL to that from http://www.top5techs.com/2015/09/how-googles-new-logo-is-jus... and banned that site. I wish we had seen this sooner.
Oddly enough, I thought the same as you, but it actually says that rule is for accounts less than a year old, so I guess he's technically okay.
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Yes, that was my first impression guessing from the title. All I'm saying is that the title should be a rough approximation of the article so that the reader can have some vague idea of the contents.
What it really says is we have a product waiting for a market.

Perhaps the market is so limited (police forensic teams) that it does not matter to them they cannot say something in their markets own words. Or perhaps they have not sold enough or listened to the sales to hear the words their customers use.

Either way, yeah, anything is better than that.

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> Fuck off.

We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the HN guidelines.
So this is a basic prolog engine in JS. Still a far shot from what I though it would be from the title, i.e., something like Coq.
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to be fair, I think commenting code in a sense "works better" then "git revert" because you don't need to solve conflicts, you just keep writing code around the commented one.

I rationally know that I can remove and re-add it later and that commit/revert is better, but the pain associated with solving conflicts is strong enough that I subconsciously want to avoid it.
> refuting your BS would take far longer than you vomiting this utter, utter nonsense into HN

This comment violates the HN guidelines badly. We ban accounts that do this repeatedly. Please post civilly and substantively from now on, or not at all.
I would never dare to remotely activate my kettle, as I would never be sure enough that there was water in it.
Nice nostalgia for the Teasmade though - the simpler more tea-obsessed Britain of my youth, before the invasion of US coffee chains, harking back to the war, when British troops would even brew tea under fire to get their 'fix'
Doesn't Prolog support only Horn clauses? This proof system supports arbitrary propositions in conjunctive normal form. There are also no quantifiers or predicates here: the logic is purely propositional.
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Consumer IoT in its current form is mostly a product of the O'Reilly Hype Machine - the machine that gave the world Web 2.0.

I get some use out of remote heating control. My hours are variable, so a dumb timer isn't ideal.

Lighting and the rest I have no interest in.

Useful consumer IoT is going to have to wait for useful consumer robotics, and that's 10-20 years away.
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So pay yearly and make sure at the annual accounting meeting to renew your Jetbrain subscriptions because they are the ultimate infrastructure for your company?
"server" language? You may have heard that Javascript is doing rather well these days ;)
Dan Norman, in The Design of Everyday Things, quotes Harvard Business School professor Theodore Levitt as saying "People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!". Googling now, the quotation seems rather famous on its own.
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OP did not "go to <established project> and attemt to educate them". He wrote spaCy after looking at NLTK and noticed a difference in philosophy that could not be overcome by talking it over.

The NLTK project has grown a community that values choice and, well, history I guess? The author knows that and does not want to be part of it and that is totally fine. He seems to understand the project goals, he just doesn't agree with them, so started from scratch and wrote a post about it, presenting a different way to do things.

All of this is to say, I agree with some points you made but IMO this post is not part of the genre you mentioned.
The trouble with your posts in this thread is that they make the problem worse by poisoning the well further.

We all know that HN has a problem with negative and uncharitable comments. We each need to see it in our own case in order for this to get better.
> Will SpaCy's fate be different, 10 years down the road?

Yes --- because I consolidate my algorithms and delete dead code. I've probably written five or six times as much code as currently lives in spaCy.

I hope by then spaCy will be smaller, not bigger, as we reach a more concise understanding of how to actually solve the problem. For instance, it's reasonable to expect the boundary between the POS tagger, parser and entity recogniser to disappear, in the same way that spaCy doesn't feature a separate chunker or sentence boundary detector. I read these annotations off the parse tree.
Well if the energy is cheap enough then that certainly sounds attractive for high powered chillers. Maybe they can move their more energy hungry GPU gear there as well.
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It's a bit of a struggle to find useful info on the site.
According to the site WILL (Wacom Ink Layer Language) is a new standard for digital ink (they mention 'open' without defining it) which is better than InkML or other competing formats. This link [1] has some decent info.

[1]: http://will.wacom.com/get-started.html#c109
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I would argue that a car with fewer than one hundred thousand moving parts is less complex than many pieces if software out there. I can't say whether they are more or less prone to failure, but they can be fixable.
Like the article says, get a Quooker - by far my most used kitchen appliance. Also good for your health to have an instant cup of tea always available.
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Please tell me this is not true. How someone can so ruthless? I just can't believe this
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I think this tidbit comes from advice given to salesmen, and I think its useful in that context but not true.

Bad salesmen get caught up in the product. Good ones usually focus on the person buying. Also, focusing on "the hole" gives a salesman more latitude to influence the buyer's reference products, prices and general buying psychology. This last point is only really important because people do not often buy holes, they buy shovels. In a buyer's mind, a shovel has price, some features, a lot of reference and comparison points. Holes don't. The involve labour and blisters and shovels and no point of reference. This is useful to a salesman.

Basically, people will have completely divergent prices they would be willing to pay to get a hole, depending on the instrument used to dig one for which they will be paying. This is the principle at work when a user won't pay a 99c for online content unless it meets some incredible standard, but will walk out of a newsagent with a stack of magazines without much of a fuss.

That's why there is a fundamental difference between selling an "online course" and an ebook, even if the content is similar. Books have a price. $200 is a very very expensive book (ripoff!), online courses don't have a defined price.

So... uhmmm I disagree sir! (glove slap, pistols at dawn, onlooking maidens) People do buy shovels.
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Same here. I can't understand how people get guts to kill someone. Weren't their hand shaking when thinking of killing someone intentionally
Second that, usually I see worthless snippets commented out. Those are good as reference for a couple of hours when you work on the code but when you are done the commented code is lie and new code is truth. Also I cannot imagine working on a piece of code without looking at git history to get context (commit messages linked issues in tracker) in this way commented code from past has no value for me at all.
Also nuclear facilities include a multilevel cooling system, some external circuits of which can be shared with a climate control in the datacenter (with near-zero running costs).
Uber is a taxi company... So it can die in a fire?