skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most SimCity games indirectly went against mass transit, or at least the idea of building it up in phases, based on its traffic model.

A Sim's route was defined as a path from point A to point B, and a maximum time. If the maximum time was reached, the route was a failure and would reflect as increased congestion. If a Sim encountered mass transit along its route, it would attempt to take it using the same pathing algorithm as car travel. However, if the route failed while using mass transit, it would never try it again, even as mass transit service expanded and new bus and subway lines/stations were added.

The most recent SimCity was supposed to be more realistic in its route planning and simulation by giving each Sim a home, a workplace, etc., and repeating routes on a daily basis instead of a random sampling of routes, but this didn't make it into the final game.
Seems pretty creative to me.
> You don't build a business by setting out to be Facebook.
> You build a business by setting out to create thefacebook for universities.

Paul Graham is the only person in the world who can get away with spreading this, please don't repeat after him.

In practice, the difference between building a billion dollar company and building a 10 million dollar company is marginal. You still need to constantly raise money, you will ruin your culture and so on; everything that OP describes as awful downsides of SV mentality is just as present. The author seems to hint towards bootsrapping ("figure out how to earn your first dollar", etc), but examples that he gives, with the exception of 37Signals are just smaller and less successful versions of Facebook with all downsides included.
Ok, but what's the probability that a 20 year old who believes they're as good as Mark Zuckerberg is correct?
Whatever the hit they take on cases like this, the returns also have to cover all the cases they take where they don't make any money.
For gaming purposes, a standard pseudo-random number generator is faster, more reliable and has better statistical properties (!) than this hardware random number generator. It is also cheaper (cheap as in free software).
Regardless of whether or not I want to build such a business...

Don't tell me what to do. Really.
I didn't know this! When was this added?
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10152465

[1] http://bugmuncher.com
To understand the replication crisis, imagine everything gets published
Pair programming on Git: git-pair
+1

Edit: This. One of the things I see a lot of people running into is this mis-conception of "prototype" -> "production". The prototype is your proof of concept, you take this application and you refactor it and optimize it as you move into your production life cycle. You take the bits out and put new bits in that are either un-optimized or don't work for the entire scope of that specific problem.

Working code is better than nice code that doesn't work. Refactor small bits as you progress.
What missed here is that if you're operating in a market which you can build a billion dollar business, you can miss badly and still have a hugely successful company.

If you're operating in a market where your turnover is going to max out at a few million then you have a much smaller margin for error, you have to execute close to perfectly to win that market.

Building a large business doesn't have to involve raising huge amounts of money, taking undue risks, etc.
I think you should read this article again. It is talking about the acceptance rate. It means a country which would only take one refuge and accept his asylum request would be on the top of this list. But yeah, details and facts are not the most important thing for our friends from the SVP.
You could stay in your field, a field that you obliviously love, but try at another company where you would have better ressources / coworkers at your disposition.

Take days off too.
Is 1000fps the next big thing, though? Probably not. (Never heard of the above pocket camera, for example)
Lazy JSON parsing for large documents
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That's not what he said though.

He said that being hostile to users is the quickest way to kill a language. Now I don't know much about the Clojure language or community, but that post from Yegge was over 4 years old. You say that it's growing and I'll take you at your word, but had it reached critical mass at 2011?

Yegge is a languages guy. He knows some of what it takes to make a language successful, and one of the main things is advertising. Being hostile to users is the worst possible form of advertisement. That was his critique 4 years ago.

Maybe things have changed. Maybe the hostility wasn't as bad as what he thought, I don't know. But the comments in that thread aren't hyperbolic if you're associating them with the state of things today.
...and of course the only question that actually matters has been downvoted (I'll add pubmed to the question).
I've used react-rails as a way to use React components with low friction in rails views. However, its been a few years now since a significant percentage of rails developers have come to look at Rails as an API layer and use SPAs as the UI, regardless of what client-side framework you use.

Marketwise, Rails is on a long, slow decline. You should definitely broaden your horizons, even if Rails is going to be around for several years yet. You're probably going to see fewer "interesting" Rails projects come up, and a lot more legacy and "mature" applications. Elixir and Phoenix is where I'm putting my attention these days, but there's a lot of interesting work going on server-side these days as well.
"You can tether with CM without worrying about telco tethering blocks, something that doesn't work on stock android"

Doesn't that depend on your carrier? IIRC some carriers detect tethering by looking for packets with different TTL values (which would represent different devices' defaults, or indicate an extra decrement as the packet went through the phone), or inspecting HTTP User-Agent.
why no support for firefox ??
A bit of a latency but could be a network problem. Kudos to the developers.
the remake was done by Double Fine, and is essentially a port of the original game with a few touch ups. They did a great job!
and how is that different than what man has gone through all his existence? We still find ruins today underwater that obviously at one time were quite a bit above the surface. I am quite sure that Venice wasn't built with the idea it would have the water problems today. There are even areas of the world previous underwater that are not.

In summary, people like to exaggerate the issue by ignoring the past. Climate change became the focus after their previous terms all bit the dust. It became the cause celebrity when big business found a way to exploit it for money and politicians found it gave them more control over people; in turn how to coerce donations from groups not previously bending the knee.

It is all so very easy to make it sound dire but the exaggerations border on religious fanaticism and the name calling/branding of anyone who doesn't agree one hundred percent is similar in nature
What you're describing to me is you've built a very solid structure for reasoning about programs, but it is too rigid, and too focused.

I would heartily recommend learning a new language. You need to shake things up a bit.

Two reasons:

1. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Linguistic_relativity - Our language shapes our thought. This is true for spoken and programming languages.

2. You cannot properly understand a language unless you learn another. This is partially based on point 1, but it needs to be said otherwise.

Since you're in web, I would recommend learning Elm for the front-end, and Haskell in the back-end. Why? They will force you to design your systems differently? Is it better or worse? That's subjective. The important thing is that it is different.

For data design, have a look at things like datalog. Datomic is a good playground for that.
It goes to show that for all the lofty dreams of Silicon Valley, technology, in the end, does not make the world kinder or fairer - just more convenient.
>The SNB experienced a massive capital loss when abandoned their peg from 2011 in early 2015

First of all, I wouldn't call a 10% loss "massive". The market generally suffers one of those events annually. Second, it was short lived. The USD/CHF went from 1.01 to 0.86 after it was unpegged. It now sits at 0.97, 8 months later (1.2, 0.98, 1.08 for the EUR/CHF, respectively). It was a non-event.

I mean, I'm still trying to figure out what point you're making. Are capital market distortions new? Sure, the scale of intervention might be larger. But the scale of everything is larger today. And why do you assume that these distortions are always bad? I don't. They have to be examined on their individual merits. I like the government building roads and subsidizing certain industries. Sometimes it's good business. Maybe buying stock in certain domestic industries is as well.

Are shills new?

Is an asymetric reward structure new?

The basis of the argument against TBTF is moral hazard. Is that unique to the banking system? I've seen it suggested on these very boards to incorporate your company ASAP, in order to prevent personal financial liability. Well, that just might promote higher risk-taking by the entrepreneur. Or what about the house-flippers? Heads I cash in, tails I mail the keys to the bank. Are these people too small to fail?

This is our system. I choose to study it as it is rather than compare it to some non-existent ideal.
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The author apparently had a hand in this: https://twitter.com/matthewlein/status/576068468526579712
10 easy to learn habits that could transform your life
Good point. In NYC companies like IKEA in Red Hook had local impact following Sandy.

I was told in the late 90s, anecdotally, that in South Korea which has a festering humanitarian disaster 50 miles from its capital, the large conglomerates each have a role in the emergency planning.

For example: LG provides potable water; Samsung, Quonset huts; Hyundai..., etc
I don't know about this cartel specifically. I'm making an economic point about cartels generally.
What are you on about, China is way behind the US in emissions per per capita:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
politics, environmentalism, and sexual orientation, are highly clique oriented here to the point you might as well be on reddit.
Me too. See Emotely/BrassMonkey products that came out of it:
http://francoislaberge.com/blog/my-time-at-brass-monkey/
Why pay for review though? If you're working on open-source stuff you can try http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ for help, or reach out to some trustworthy people in your network as a fresh pair of eyes.
Ha, this actually happened to me just yesterday believe it or not. :D I looked up something and turns out it's 21 years old me who asked it in Stackoverflow four years ago.
It depends how much of an upgrade you're looking for. If you want a flagship-esque phone without the price the new $220 Moto G is an excellent pick. I absolutely love mine—it's fast, has a good battery and is much more stylish than other phones in the category.

The only thing keeping it back from being a flagship is the camera. Also possibly the 5.1 screen-size. But hey, I prefer the 5" screen over the 5.5" to 6" ones, so it works for me.

EDIT: Also, Motorola has almost no bloatware on the phones. The few apps they pre-install are actually quite good.
Yup! And you can uninstall a good chunk of the Motorola-specific apps too. Motorola pretty much do the right thing as far as Android enhancements go.
Sorry not sure what you mean? Did he say that?

There are plenty of other bootstrapped companies out there; I know a few of them and they are doing very well.

Not sure what you mean with downsides. These bootstrapped companies have freedom to do whatever they want and they are mostly built on actual problems that others have not kept artificially alive by the funding game.. That in itself is worth quite a lot, at least to some.
I wonder if there are interesting applications of being able to capture images at this kind of speed at high resolution. For example, using image analysis between frames to get some kind of depth map, based on subtle differences between each frame due to slight hand movements.
that means Apple will be in trouble?
Time to take a break. Decrease the amount of time you spend programming, and increase the amount of time you spend with friends, family, being outside, etc. You need to remove yourself; I recommend balance.
Urlang!
Certain recordings seem to have too much stereo separation on headphones and they sound unnatural (this effect is discussed in the article). There are a variety of analog and digital methods for adding in a small amount of "crossfeed"[1] to reduce this effect and make headphone listening more comfortable.

[1]
After 5 years, Etsy's CTO steps down
Me too. I learned english "by force" by playing basically Monkey Island and Indiana Jones series. Funny thing is that I played them a lot in pair. I would go to a friend's house and we would play together, even if is essentially a one player game.

One that infuriated me was King's Quest, the one that you could type anything you want the character to do. Such a powerful potential, but I took days just to discover the term "pick up", to pick up a book, for example. My basic english didn't know that verb, I tried every variation of get, hold, put in pocket and stuff.
From IPCC report "Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis" chapter 2:

"In summary, there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale." (2.6.2.2)

"In summary, the current assessment concludes that there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought since the middle of the 20th century, owing to geographical inconsistencies in the trends." (2.6.2.3)

It's not as simple as more energy -> more chaotic weather -> more severe floods and droughts. Unlike other parts of global warming, many changes in extereme events are hypothetical and unsettled. (For floods, we are not sure of sign!)
Under which browsers/engine should it be used? I'm asking because I'm using Firefox 42 and I'm getting a lot of glitchs with the gutters' sizes.
You say it's an exaggeration -- a believable claim -- but that's something you've got to actually demonstrate, not just speculate assertively.
Quite nice city. I was there last year.
Firefox has offered the same in the Aurora / Developer Edition channel since July 2014: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/07/event-listeners-popup-medi...

More docs on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspecto...
Whatever it is, it is only so different from your past work. It may help if you sit down and try to put together an argument either that you can or you cannot do the work. I would be skeptical and rigorous about it and try to force it into defining exactly what it is that you cannot do. Chances are it is a matter of framing up the work, and in trying to prove the work is impossible, you will probably frame it up and make it be possible.
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But at least you get a clue there might be a gravel bed.
Some Uber ride data is publicly accessible through Google
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It wouldn't even let me open the page on my WP8.1 phone.
I got a $60 ZTE firefox phone then switched to Android. Compared to my kid's Moto G it's smaller, feels thicker, has a lower-res screen, no selfie-cam, crappy forward-cam, and that's about it. It's pretty great for texting but if I used it for email (which I don't) I think I'd want a phone with a bigger, higher-res screen and the extra $100 for the G would be worth it.
Remix OS – Android, reimagined
There is nothing specific.

I owned a ZTE device (a sub-$50 one at that) and aside from being a touch slower (relative to flagships) and having a terrible camera it was darn good.

To talk in particular about the Maven (per the article): 4.5" screen ("small"), 2100mAh battery (other similarly sized phones have 2500mAh), 1 GB of RAM (2 GM is typical in flagships), quad core 1.2GHz (flagships at that size have 2.5GHz quads), no wireless charging, no NFC, and the cameras are utterly terrible.

So there are some trade offs with the Maven and many ZTE phones in general. But the real question is: are they "good enough?" And to be frank, yes, they are. If someone cannot afford a $600 flagship, get a $60 ZTE and get 80% of the value for 10% of the price.

Between ZTE, Moto, and Nokia you can get a really nice phone for under $100 now.
If at all possible, take a vacation where you do anything but code. Pull the plug, if only for a week.
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Just to disclaim, Ur-Scheme, which I wrote in February 2008, is not related to Ur or Ur/Web, which are from later that year. Ur is far more interesting than Ur-Scheme, and Adam Chlipala is a programming demigod.
He has written about it at length: http://grumpygamer.com/if_i_made_another_monkeyisland

There's no way to force Disney to sell. There's no reason for Ron to do a MI game that he didn't have creative control of, since it still wouldn't be his vision.

There's just no good way to solve the problem at this point.
By all means, please deliver; this sounds really nice! If there's one area in software development, it's more approachable and extensive testing rigs that work end-to-end (i.e. that don't rely on mocks, but work with actual data input and output).
IM has ruined me, so I think of it as "yur" (as in ur being a shortened "your")
Please don't turn this place into a pun-fest.
"A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours."

If you talk about downvotes, chances are you'll get downvoted...
The article mentioned locals claiming to have pushed down a car one night ... No idea what volume of synthetic DNA would be sensible here, but I can imagine it'd mass less than a car.
Neat, gonna check this out later
Sentiment analysis and visualization on all things election
DPDK: Data Plane Development Kit
Gif of the feature in action: https://twitter.com/umaar/status/570595687924166656
Many great scientists (Einstein amongst them) get into trouble when they veer into Economics. Einstein predicted social unrest from massive unemployment due to productivity improvements. Productivity improvements help people in aggregate.

The question here is will a small subset of the world accrue all the benefit from the AI productivity improvement? One answer is basic income, presumably based on taxation of the rich. Is another answer some kind of universal ownership scheme of the companies creating the AI? I'm not advocating government ownership of business (this rarely ends well) but perhaps some way for the government to give shares in index funds in lieu of basic cash payments? Essentially equity based social security or welfare payments in lieu of some portion of the cash payments. I haven't thought this fully through yet, but it does allow some aspect of shared upside. (My sense is there will be a lot of shared upside anyway, similar to how we all benefit from free maps and search)
It's not entirely random, but most of the forces involved are out of your control. So, thinking in terms of chance is helpful.

The 20 year old Mark Zuckerberg could likely beat both of us combined in say, business. And would probably be successful no matter what. But would probably not be a billion dollar business, were circumstances even slightly different.

Lots of companies and individuals fail all the time, despite their skills.

You are unlikely to be a special snowflake. Even in the case that you are, it might be summer.
Hadn't come across them. Will take a look. Thanks.
I've also had issues replicating ODE models from papers in the past. I assume you've tried contacting the authors to ask for clarification and haven't had a reply? If so, I think you should submit all 3, because without any original code available, your effort is likely to be representative of anyone else's. (And it's easily vettable as it'll be on GitHub). The onus is then on the original author to point out how (if at all) your implementation differs from theirs.
Why are these lists always missing import/export/modules?
ZTE phones have really good build quality for the price.
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The newer web view (WKWebView) will support content blocking extensions across all apps. The older web view (UIWebView) will not support content blocking at all
Will there still be a Community Edition? (Free, with reduced capabilities.)
> In practice, the difference between building a billion dollar company and building a 10 million dollar company is marginal.

As someone who works at a company that was acquired in the 8 figures range...

You don't know what you are talking about.
I hope you're right. However, I think Broken Age that even in the best possible conditions, there's just no real market for classic adventure games beyond the fanatics willing to kickstart it out of nostalgia (like me). At least, there's no market large enough that would make Disney reconsider its position.
The thing is, building a billion dollar business doesn't require 1000x the work or entail 1000x the stress of building a million dollar one...even if it is more than 1000x less likely. It's also the case that only getting 5% of the way to a billion dollar business after six years is probably going to feel better than 20% of a million dollar business after two years...one comes with a reasonable paycheck, the other doesn't. Finally, the investors in your million dollar idea aren't going to be any less assholes, and probably moreso; your credit card and local bank are less ok with failure than angels and VC.

To put it another way, building a lifestyle business already requires a huge amount of luck and time on top of the hard work and stress. There are only so many trips to the plate and swinging for the fence may be the rationale option.
BlackBerry acquires mobile security company Good Technology for $425M
Somebody save me a click. What question?
What happens when an ElasticSearch container is hacked
Not to mention very dangerous, cave diving is a notoriously deadly enterprise.
The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn
Selling phones with plans for a subsidized (when someone can't count the total cost) is one of the biggest multi-billion dolar "scams" I've seen for a while. Here (Europe) buying a pre-paid card and a phone separatly is the most cost effective option, isn't it the same in the States?
Master politician... He made it somebody else's problem.

Funny story is that he forgot to pay the phone bill for one of the call centers, and when they went to walk him out, they found him in a "compromising position" with his secretary in the office.

That company was an unlimited source of material! Good times!
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Understanding How Dilution Affects You as a Startup (2011)
Except of course for Apple with 44% of the market in the US, which is increasing, and somewhere around 90% of the profit. Winning in Android is a race to the bottom where only the cheap survive, exactly what happened to Dell and its competitors in the PC market. And someday Google will decide it needs to actually make money from Android and that world will fork into Google Android Phone and the seven dwarf versions.
I don't see why they shouldn't.
Seems to me you missed the point.

If you try to make a billion dollar business, you're more likely to fail completely and end up with nothing. If you go in with more reasonable expectations and a more sustainable approach, you're more likely to be successful, whether the end result is a million dollar business or a billion dollar one.

Starting off with the attitude of "a billion or nothing" makes you more likely to fail to accomplish anything.