skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Many articles and lawsuits have documented the region’s lack of diversity and history of sexism and sexual harassment."

Glass houses time! Michigan has the 10th highest female / male pay gap in the nation, it's been rated with an F by NARAL, and 47% of Michigan residents have no access to paid sick leave. I know it was a slick ding to break out, but if you're interested in making a distinction with California on inclusion of women and issues of sexism, michigan is lagging in this area by some key metrics. Maybe work to be done at home before worrying about other states.
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That's happened to me, but unfortunately I've mostly found my old questions, not my old answers!
People should think more about Moravec's paradox when they decide to rag on janitorial jobs.
> My personal favourite (in an face-palmy kind of way): http://i.imgur.com/WKYF1o9.jpg

The problem here is an overblown claim rather a comparison, which is fundamentally a different issue.
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Lack of alternative++. Python is too dynamic and slow, gradual typing will help but it's still slooooow. For web work, PHP and Hack are popular but often very amateur, node.js works best with microservices and can quickly become difficult to manage. Clojure, Scala, and Java suffer from idiosyncrasies around the JVM. Clojure's lispy syntax can be a drag, Scala gets very complex very quickly, and Java is oh-so-verbose.

C# is about as close as it gets to the sweet spot in the middle, IMO. But .net not being a first class citizen on all platforms kills that option. Yikes.
The summary was certainly shorter than the article!
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"The region is plagued with astronomical rent and real estate prices, heavy traffic, and a hyper-competitiveness that leaves depression and anxiety in its wake"

The rent, real estate, and heavy traffic issues can be avoided with a little urban planning.

Build a village with lots of green space:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/08/12/views-from-hoboken/
I'll add two that have yet to be mentioned: moreutils and youtube-dl.
> Well they don't solve "technical" problems

I'm fairly sure the staff of Uber would strongly disagree with you there. The logistics they manage must be vast. Dealing with the real-world is messy and hard.
I don't know many people who want to try Communism again however Capitalism also has it's inherent flaws. While Communism suffers from lack of incentive Capitalism suffers from an incentive to plunder the environment for short term personal gain. Even as a huge fan of Universal Basic Income, a scheme that aims to provide the lowest common denominator with a passable quality of life, I can acknowledge that the environmental problem will not be magically solved. In order to succeed as a civilization we need to give up the idea that a single ideology holds all the answers. Good ideas are everywhere and to stick to one ideology exclusively is akin to religious madness. We have more scientific understanding now than every before yet when it comes to political ideology a large portion of society choses to ignore science and go with whatever narrative they have made up in their head that confirms their own biases.
Although Milan has a circular layout that gravitates around the Cathedral, and the streets - especially in the center of the city - sometimes start to curve randomly or a square pops out of nowhere, just like you described :)

Maybe you where referring to Turin? (that has this exact square layout that makes me mad and lost sometimes - because nearby streets all seem the same)
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reminds me of the experiments from chrome a few years ago.

https://chrome.com/supersyncsports/

https://chrome.com/racer
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Maybe the guy who found the bug won't get $1000, according to your rules, but he definitely deserves a cookie.
Moto E, G, etc.. Almost as cheap as chinese brands, but with much better update / software support.
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Floating point hardware storing integers is useful indeed. Look up JavaScript.

A language storing big numbers in non-native formats, like your Rakudo example, is irrelevant to the parent's point.

0.1 isn't past any "point" (whatever that means). It just isn't representable without recurrence in base 2 much like 1/3 isn't in base 10.

Your post could do without 'duh' and the like as well.
There was a paper a couple years ago out of Microsoft research (if I recall correctly), that looked at a number of vulnerabilities in OAuth as used by Facebook, Twitter, and a few others. The ah-hah moment for me, though, was that they identified these vulnerabilities by turning the usual view of a web app inside-out: instead of viewing the client/browser as one endpoint on a communications channel, they treated the browser as a de facto man-in-the-middle. For OAuth, it is responsible for passing along messages between the OAuth provider and the authentication requesting website. In the case described in this article, the browser is just a MITM for a server sending messages to itself.
Moto E or G - wide base, good support, replacement parts easily available and installable. My kids keep breaking my screen, and I can replace the screen assembly for 30 bucks (takes about 20 minutes).
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When a Gopro 4 (that's been on the market for a year now) can do 240 fps at 720p resolution, I think it's a bit misleading to say the current state of the art is 60 fps. And it's fair to assume next year's Gopro 5 will have a significant increase on that again.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10032299
"How much of a financial hit do they really take? Apart from their salaries and associated office costs (covered by past cases presumably) what other costs do they have?"

Well then, why don't you come work for me for a few years, and if the software you develop works well enough and I make a lot of money on it, I'll give you 25%. Deal? (PS you'll have to front your own computer, admin staff etc. too)
IMO the updated graphics are an unmitigated disaster that ignore what made the original great.
Since there is a classic mode, it is still a great way to play these games.
I'm still pissed at Google for falling into this. From a company that prides itself on not being evil, it was clearly an evil practice. I'm not too pissed though. I understand Steve had his distortion bubble and Larry had stars in his eyes. It's sad to see the integrity break down. It makes me not trust Google to always do the right thing because I don't trust Larry to.
This is just a cumbersome way to enter a numbers-only password, not a pattern.
I can go from 9 to 1 without making an edge between the nodes and it will be translated as "91".
Sony's experience (at least the Xperia Z3) is far from vanilla and not in a good way. They replace pretty much every app and UI component with an inferior in-house version, and add a bunch of unremovable apps to try to sell you Sony stuff.

I hear the Z5 is better though so hopefully they're getting the message.
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Given the amounts involved likely as a single McDonalds meal voucher per recipient.
Uber is the archetypical example of a Silicon Valley company projecting it's narrow US-centric-view onto the rest of the world.

From what I gather, taxi businesses in the US seem to be in the hand of Mafia-like criminal organizations. That's not the case in most Western-European cities with good and cheap public transport and well-regulated taxi systems.

If I can get from anywhere to anywhere at any time for little money already for the last 30 years, what's the point of a service like Uber, especially Uber with their shady business practices and aggressive stance towards established labour laws.
I thought these were all DOS-based (Intel CPU) games...

How are you running these on a PowerPC/G3?
This is possible in Chrome's inspector now too https://twitter.com/FarPixel/status/610801266030170112
AirConsole game developer here - A colleague and I made a game called Hit Parade which you'll find in the store. We work with Unity 3D, using it's webGL export. One challenge for me personally was optimising the game enough so it would run smoothly even on older computers.
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While having organized crime run lotteries is certainly bad, some of the examples of predatory advertising mentioned in the article are absolutely despicable and unworthy of a government.

If the government runs lotteries, it should only if they have ascertained that a total ban would send lottery players into the arms of organized crime, and government should only run those lotteries with the health of these addicts in mind, and not with any kind of profit motive.

Advertising should be of the form: "If you absolutely have to play a lottery, here's how to do it, but be aware that you will lose money and very likely not win anything", and certainly not of the form: "This could be your ticket out of this mess!"
Pros and cons? CO2 is of course the primary carbon source for plants. Not the merest hint here of the enormous degree of planet-greening with record crop yields equivalent to millions of dollars that's taken place as a result of the increase in atmospheric CO2.

When discussing the results of this increase, typically, articles like this and hundreds more
http://www.planetseed.com/relatedarticle/co2-production-inte...
take pains not to mention it.

According to CSIRO" “CO2 fertilisation correlated with an 11 per cent increase in foliage cover from 1982-2010 across parts of the arid areas studied in Australia, North America, the Middle East and Africa.” This means that arid regions across the world would have not greened if CO2 levels had not increased.".

Hardly worth mentioning I guess.
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Is Sony really so vanilla? I'm going to buy a new phone soon, and Sony looked good, I'm mostly worried about it not being vanilla enough :)
The same way computers do: you can reprogram them instead of buying a new thingamajig.
I wrote something similar to this for playing NES games, just start the server and navigate to it with a desktop and mobile and it should work out the box.

https://github.com/olahol/greasyphone
Based on other things named Ur, I'd guess "oor".
>From a company that prides itself on not being evil

Does it, though?
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> Rust is overly complex and slow to compile

The compilation speed will be improved, and Rust does more checks during compilation than Go.
Regarding Rust's complexity. Go is must easier to start with, but I heard (anecdotally) that when your honeymoon with Go is over you may find yourself bored with repeating, copy-paste and the lack of abstractions in Go. That's the price you pay for simplicity.

> Elixir doesn't have the performance

it depends what kind of application you write.
I'm pretty sure that creating a fleet of self driving cars operating on dynamic dispatch would have worldwide ramifications. But I see your point re public transport.
glances is nice if you want to get an overview of your system resources:

https://github.com/nicolargo/glances

bmon and iftop can be used to see network usage:

https://github.com/tgraf/bmon/

http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/iftop/

Similar to iftop there is also iotop, but instead of showing network usage, it shows disk usage:

http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/

Side note: There was a blog a couple years ago, which isn't being updated now, that would post reviews of CLI tools. Anyone that is interested in this topic should take a look at it:

https://kmandla.wordpress.com/software/

https://inconsolation.wordpress.com/ (new blog from the same person that did http://kmandla.wordpress.com)
Glances: http://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
This worked pretty well, and good to see an API is available. I work for a company called Kahoot!, and we have a very similar approach for our learning games (https://getkahoot.com/).

I've noticed the company behind this is called n-dream - it looks like there's no relation to the games company nDreams, though a very similar name.
that

''"${1}"'d'

is needlessly complicated. this would do the same:

"${1}d"
They are mostly pre-intel based games, as Apple switched to Intel in 2002. They are free for download through sites like macintoshgarden.org. Otherwise I use an emulator (Basilisk/SheepShaver) on my own PC/Mac.
Alcatel has a few very nicely designed and study phones. Cameras are pretty bad though. ZTE also has a few beautifully designed and polished models, especially the Nubia line, but the new Axon that launched in the US is pretty good too - it's sort of a OnePlus 2 competitor.
Are you on Firefox by chance? I discovered this week that Firefox doesn't do ES6 on included <script> files unless you specify an explicit content type enabling it (which in turn breaks things on all other browsers).
I'm not sure "duh" is the right response here.
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Some people have the job where their main goal is design and visual branding at Google. This is their achievement. It's a small step, but it's a part of their identity. I agree that the excitement is a bit high, but nowhere are they claiming helping the poor in the world (which is the reason I responded in the first place) - just making Google more accessible and useful. That's it.
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>The world’s poorest farmers show up for work each day for the most part empty-handed. That’s why of all the people who will suffer from climate change, they are likely to suffer the most.

So, these poor farmers will demand low-cost solutions to manage these problems. Entrepreneurs would sense this(Bill already did) and start building these tools. It's just how capitalism works.

Unless, there's a crony global economy where corporations buy up government and hold illegitimate monopolies.

As consequence, they are unproductive and unable to keep up with innovation. The world doesn't get what it needs. Bill would also be a good example.
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Only 8MP main camera, old Snapdragon 801, old KitKat... The specs leave something to be desired, especially at that price. Too bad, cause the eink screen is a great feature.
We need to define the term "good programmer". Then we need to find a way to measure it and only then we can try to answer your question.
I agree with that.
Not sure if the basic income is THE solution, I didn't think about it too much, but I agree with everything else.

People don't need jobs, they need money. Jobs are the only legal way to get money but money is the issue, not jobs.
Lisp is a great dynamic programming language.

One particular feature that makes it really great for emacs (and a lot of other applications), is that you can define and COMPILE new functions, or even REDEFINE old functions.

Nowadays a lot of dynamic languages have followed the lisp model. They didn't exist when GNU emacs development started.

In the context of emacs, it allows you to edit a new command, and have the lisp in emacs evaluate it (define it) and compile it, hence integrating into emacs code, and making it available for further use. Or indeed, since most of emacs is also implemented in lisp, you can redefine any emacs function the same way, and have it taken into account immediately.

So basically, you are not "extending" emacs so much as you are just modifying it.

Also, lisp has alot of nice and fun features, like lisp macros, first class functions (and now closures), allowing for high order functions, which let you create abstractions easily when programming. Contrarily to most other custom application specific scripting language, lisp is a real algorithmic programming language without artificial limitations.
There is also a remake of Grim Fandango I saw on there. I haven't played it but I loved the original. Amazing game.
I had a similar experience here in a shallow cave in Texas. When you reach the 'end' you really just reach the point at which the cave is flooded. The cave has been well known for over a hundred years and likely goes on quite a ways. No one really has an interest in exploring it. It'd be an expensive and likely just discover a bunch of rock and water.

With respect to cave systems, it seems like that the key is finding a previously unknown species. Or find a species in the cave that was thought to have a very limited distribution.
Impressively smooth. I'll spend more time messing around with it. One more reason to plug a Raspberry Pi to your TV!
The lawsuit is 8 companies, (Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay) but dozens of others were discussed in emails and memos.
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Look into Detroit, but the Triangle area of NC (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill) is one of the best for startups, currently. Google just setup shop in Chapel Hill, there are plenty of startups in Durham and Raleigh, a number of major tech corps in the area, three large universities nearby, etc.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thimbleweedpark/thimble...

http://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/
The normal course of action used to be: You build a game for console & Windoze, then wait 10 years, then maybe port it to Mac.

The current course is: You build a game for console & Windoze, then wait 4 years, then maybe port it to iDevice, and probably never to Mac.

That's at least a relative improvement over before, even if it's still not really satisfying for folks that don't have a console or a PC.
> Climate change over +2C will hit the U.S. hard, and the fact that other places are worse off won't be consolation.

Care to elaborate? I don't see how that would be a problem. Agricultural areas would shift, and maybe we'd have to move some stuff further inland/build dikes/turn cities into Venice. Anything I'm missing?

I don't see how that stuff is worse than energy controls (people have no idea how important energy is for the economy), plus even if we change, other countries won't.
Ground penetrating radar?
I was pretty disappointed after seeing that this is not billiards being played with a few second time limit for each shot.
I don't know how the parent is actually doing it, but many of these classic adventure games date back to a time when there were multiple competing architectures; the games were often written in some kind of bytecode, and getting them running on modern hardware just needs a new implementation of the VM, like ScummVM.
Canon released an ISO 4000000 camera recently

http://petapixel.com/2015/07/30/canon-just-unleashed-an-iso-...
AFAIK the problem with the old sensors was that they were manufactured at 100s of nm which was really bad for low light. As Sony is now pushing sensor manufacturing down to CPU-level, the sensitivity increases significantly. Once they hit the current cutting edge 14nm process, we can expect significant low-light gains as well.
tl;dr has also become a general shorthand for a summary.
Don't forget the Indiana Jones games. Fate of Atlantis was a great game.

There is also Beneath a Steel Sky which is fantastic and now free. http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Beneath_a_Steel_Sky
It should work in Firefox, there is a workaround specifically for that.
Thank you. I remember playing some of these on a 486DX-33MHz in the early 90s.

I wasn't aware there was a Motorola CPU based version.

As others have said, there goes my weekend. Time to dig out my old G4 laptop, or the PowerBook 520c I seem to have kept for some reason...

Did I say thank you?
tig

htop

ipython

vim

little bash and python tools that I write myself, to automate my specific workflows.
I wouldn't blame this on governments/corporations. I would blame it on people choosing to have children they can't necessarily support.

I think people should have the right to do that, but they should have to face the consequences.
Except then dynamic dispatch won't be fast enough, so they or a competitor will have a fleet of self driving cars driving around 24/7 most of the time empty so that there is always a nearby car ready.

The kind of market "efficiency" seen in the housing market where huge amount of property is left empty.
> To the extent we are seeing the beginning of a battle between artificial intelligence (AI) and humanity, I am 100% loyal to people.

Perhaps I'm just jaded or cynical, but fuck people.

We, as a species, are the greatest threat to ourselves, and we are our greatest asset. An individual may be brilliant, and and large groups congregating together into governments that empower hundreds of millions of individuals may be the greatest feat our species has accomplished, but there is just so much instability across a wide spectrum of life.

We, as a species, are approaching the limit of what 7B people on this planet are capable of. Globalization is piquing and revolutionary growth will pique with it, and maintaining the rate at which we grow will be accomplished by broad-sweeping reforms with the end-goal being tearing down inefficiencies -- starting with economic.

We, as a species, absolutely can bring a first-world quality of life to everybody, so why shouldn't we?

We, as a species, absolutely can cooperate and govern on a global scale, where such cooperation is codified into law, so why shouldn't we?

The answer is that we don't want to because we can't handle giving up control to those other people because they don't have our best interests in mind.

How do we face the future? By letting go of our ill-conceived notion that we are fit to govern ourselves in the current manner, and accept that operational control of various aspects of humanity (eg: supply chain management, namely natural resource allocation and food distribution) will be automated, and as such outside of the purview of human judgement.
The thing is that whatever Gilbert thinks about it, the ending of MI2 sucked. MI2 was genuinely scary in places (http://monkeyisland.wikia.com/wiki/Screaming_Chair), and the revelation that it was all a daydream just made everything you've done up to that point feel completely pointless. This put the writers of Curse in a difficult position, and although their solution was a bit awkward, I can't really see that they could have gone forward any other way.
Don't forget research staff and your accountability to some very mis-temperamental validators that your 'work' is worthy of consideration.
It does work for me on FF, although it prints an error to console before the workaround kicks in.
This goes to show how useful it is to share your knowledge. You never know when you might need it back. :)
You still want stage level to be consistent between instruments. Open-back guitar cabinets are less beamy than closed-back cabinets, and have less acoustic suspension fake bass to boot.

Live sound does not have to be particularly artificial at all so long as the venue has decent acoustics. You probably don't need the reverb or compression, and EQ is really only any good as a mixing tool.
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Another example - Sweden's National Bank: http://www.riksbank.se/en/ (See the Repo rate).
Did you ever play "Martian Memorandum", one of the Tex Murphy series?
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