skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been to Revel a few times, it always struck me how just insane the place was built. Giant, 3-4 story escalators, lots of cramped rooms with towering slots, maze like unlike any other casino.
I see what you did there
Google self-driving car pioneer wants to teach people how to face the future
Rencontres: l’application Weezchat est le nouveau cupidon des célibataires
Anything around scaling across multiple cores I suppose. It wasn't as nuanced back then.

In 2004 single core computers were still quite prevalent, and the idea of steady significant performance improvements coming from increasing clock speeds was in its death throes. From memory it was about then that Intel had given up on the P4 Netburst architecture and stepped back to improving the P3 to release the new Core and Core Duo architectures.

Nowadays multicore has been reality for a long time and the number of cores in a CPU has increased a lot, and we're thinking much more about different competing ways of achieving better concurrency. Back then it was just about getting better multicore concurrency at all using bog standard threads.
thank you @iitmayur
AFAIK, Romans built their cities with streets following the N-S and E-W axes (Cardus and Decumanus) but, after, no medieval city continued with this style. Specially, in walled cities, the streets were appearing in a chaotic way.

My home city is Barcelona where, actually, a big part is designed as an orthogonal grid.... but it's still not the same. I think I would have enjoyed the game more if I knew how my cities were supposed to look like.
> On average we can get a Windows server back in production with full validation in under two hours

I don't think an organisation with two hours downtime will refer to it as a "joke" unfortunately.
Officer Shot Own Cruiser in Fabricated Story About Attack
See also: original Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap label
Beginning to learn C: What resources should I be using?
Title may be misleading; I've already started.

First I was 10 years old (or so) and my father tried (with some success) to teach me to program in C. ~5 years later, and after learning Python, I've decided to give it another try. So I joined ##c on Freenode and was given the direction to go study K&R and avoid a specific set of other books (Learn C The Hard Way, Learn C in 21 Days).

So... I followed that advice. I've spent most of the last 2 days trying to absorb as much as I can about C, and what I've found is that while it feels like coming home in a way, there are some significant differences in the C I first learned to write and the C in K&R.

Examples:

I write 'int main()', K&R writes 'main()'

I write 'return 0;' at the end of the main loop, K&R does not.

I encapsulate everything (if, while, for, etc) with brackets, K&R often does not use brackets at all. I'm not sure why.

After noting this, I decided to find out why these differences were there. And apparently, K&R, the resource everyone told me to use to the exclusion of all others, is almost universally considered outdated. Though I know that C is an old language, I want to learn it as it's used in the present day.

What should I actually be learning from? And who should I trust? Honestly, I feel slightly betrayed.
The alternative to v5 is Inline::Perl5[1], which instead of defining a mode that understands Perl 5 syntax and maps it to the underlying Perl 6 runtime, actually embeds a Perl 5 interpreter and handles all the back and forth automatically. The benefit of this approach is that XS modules still work (you can use Per 5's DBI in Perl 6 using Perl 6 syntax).

1: https://github.com/niner/Inline-Perl5
I love how dense some older games were. I still like the original Victoria by Paradox Studios, though that might be because I never quite have the video card to play Victoria II.

Anyone remember SimEarth? Loved that stuff.
I might be too sensitive, but this seems to be offensive on too many levels. And no, I'm not Indian
Yes, classes are stable in V8 4.5 so Node.js 4.0 will have classes without runtime flags.
> People who are crazy don't bother to ask if they're crazy.

Is that commonly true or ~always true?
Probably this way they could reuse most of the instruction decoder between 32bit and 64bit mode, giving equal performance while saving transistors.
I doubt it's related to compiling tools - instruction encoding dealt with by the assembler and those are easy to write. The actual changes that would have to be done to the compiler because of switching to 64bit are independent of the instruction encoding.
Latest JavaScript that can be transpiled to ES5 anyway.
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Anybody with actual experience and skills doesn't give a rats ass about your company's mission. And are you seriously asking devs about where they want to be in 5 years? I hope you're not any older than 30.
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And thankfully Microsoft is helping mitigate this issue.
Would like to know how so? There seem to be pretty good people on the team.
I'd like feature parity w/ Firefox for desktops or Firefox for Android, but I have no idea how realistic that is. How realistic is it?

Also, can you implement the WebExtensions API? That would be a big boost, enabling all the features in FF add-ons.
They should add Myth #5: "Angel Investments have high returns" to their list of myths.

Most Angel Investors break even or lose money. Some research does show that with a very large number of high quality angel investment opportunities, one could possibly create some alpha, but constructing such a 50+ company portfolio is difficult for almost everyone.

There's a reason why Angel Investments are traditionally in the domain of semi-retired bored people with too much money.
Hi. It seems to me you are doing pretty well. Some people in the world are dying of hunger or spend their life in wars. You are living the dream of many people.

Use your talent and make something great of your life. 29 is pretty young. Some people begin to be successful only at the age of 40.

About the women: I am no expert, but women don't care so much about your hair or muscle. Most women also don't care about how much money you make. In fact, having a lot of money might become an obstacle when trying to meet women. I think that women care about who you are. So make sure to become a great person.

Some additional specific advice:
1. Go learn a martial art. I suggest Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Maybe when they try to choke you you will be reminded of death, which in turn will remind you how great your life is. In addition, after you survive a fight with the tough guys, you will never fear of approaching a woman :-)

2. Watch Tyler Durden's (Of Real Social Dynamics) "The blueprint decoded". It's really long, but watch all of it. It talks about how to live a great life. It made a big difference to my life, and I hope it will help you too.

Take care mate. Life is beautiful, make the most of it.
If you're somewhat technical I believe you can achieve this with hubot
(VESA BIOS extensions.)

Was your video card not supported by univbe.exe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniVBE
While defaulting to floats for rational numbers may be the default for many languages, it is by no means the only way to store them, which is why we're talking about them. In Perl 6 they are often stored as a numerator and denominator within the Rat type, and converted for display.
@hosh, /|\
I have nothing else to say except that I deeply appreciate your time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controve...
> For many, an angel investment costs less than your last vacation or professional development course.

That sounds like a terrible way to look at investments.
Shave your head. It's a small thing and won't solve the underlying issues but its totally in your control and it projects confidence. If you're going to lose your hair then why not on your terms?
Works on Windows :-)

Ping 5 ms
Download 140.7 Mbps
Upload 123.1 Mbps
Identical to previously posted article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10094140
SimTower sort of did this, within the context of a single skyscraper. I'm not sure if it is on GOG or anywhere else legitimate these days - odds are it might not be a simple matter to run on modern Windows, unless you want to spin up an XP VM.

I spent way too many hours playing SimTower as a kid. It was pretty fun, especially if you took advantage of the infinite money cheat involving building a specific type of room in one certain place on the bottom of the level... Not bad for a game that was built around an elevator simulator http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130563/the_designers_n...
Random does not mean uniform and unbiased. A coin that lands heads up 99.99% of the time is still random, but not terribly useful without some postprocessing.
More optimal only in the context of the game's engine and ruleset, which is what danharaj was saying deserved the quotes around "right".
you should feel betrayed!

people are often biased and unempathetic. you need to follow your gut. when lots of people are saying something illogical then you need to keep looking for more people before you decide on a course of action. this is an important life skill.

best of luck. i learned a lot from learn c the hard way and other internet resources. i have no interest in k&r other than the curious hold the royalty holders have on aging baby boomers.
Please, Do It for the Interns
Be careful what you wish for.

Asking universities to teach "hands-on learning" isn't productive; you'll get plenty of that, that's more recent and marketable, from practical work experience. I'd rather the universities go even further in the theoretical direction.

What I got from engineering school wasn't just another 2-3 years of work experience, it was much deeper things like numeracy, learning to write well, lifelong relationships, appreciation for rigor, and a hell of a work ethic. It was a fantastic value for the time and money I put in and it was absolutely worth it.

(UIUC alumnus living/working in SF)
Which is one of the reasons why we should not make it deterministic in the way you seem to want. We need a variety of decisions so that we can explore to find the least bad one.
Cities: Skylines has pedestrian paths which affect whether they drive or walk to their destination, and the public transport options (Bus, Metro-train, Rail-train) will get used if they're more efficient than driving (although it compares against optimistic road travel times, without regard for traffic)
Be that as it may, they forgot Max Levchin and the entire Paypal Mafia. That's a pretty large omission IMO
This is one of the first things they mention

http://cl.ly/image/1r1R0R0L3P3m/Image%202015-09-03%20at%2022...
The interesting thing is the original source of the octal format. The 8008 had octal-structured instructions because that's what the Datapoint 2200 had, and the 8008 took its instruction set. The Datapoint 2200 used octal because it was built out of TTL chips and used 7442 decimal decoder chips for instruction decoding (which could fully decode 3 bits).
I was going to argue with you; but look at facebook. They started with PHP... instead of re-writing it in something sane, they wrote a better php runtime. So perhaps you are right.

It still seems wrong to me, though; it seems like if you've got several orders of magnitude more resources to build version 2 than you had to build version 1, you could re-do it from the ground up in something... better.
Editing skills is a little buggy.

Tried adding 1, OK. Added another...both added skills are now "NEW SKILL".
This is a good question and one that is hard to know. In theory you need to have some mechanism of action, but drugs do get approved without one, or more commonly with a wrong one. Quite a few of the drugs in the psychiatric field are little more than placebos-with-bad-side-effects that got lucky.

As far as I know nobody has ever been sued over a drug that didn’t work. From a purely legal perspective you would better selling a sugar pill than a real drug that worked and caused 1 in 100,000 people to drop dead.
This is informative, and looks like a fun project! But if you're simply looking for random bits on the Raspberry Pi, don't overlook that it already comes with a HW RNG built in.
I go back and forth on this; the issue is the lack of a better option. I for one would love to see a viable tech community emerge in Chicago -- we could all be near family, afford houses, hell maybe even inject some much-needed tax revenue in the state of IL -- but the reality is SV is where all the ambitious tech people are, the money is here, and the entrepreneurial management talent is here.

Don't take my word for it: the west coast absolutely dwarfs Chicago in VC (20x as much capital is raised in the Bay Area than Chicago), which is made even worse considering the relative population skew in Chicago's favor: http://www.citylab.com/work/2013/06/americas-top-metros-vent...
KPCB Edge, a team focused on seed stage investments at KPCB, is looking to hire for two roles: (1) a short-term contractor to work on an iOS project and (2) our next Developer in Residence.

These are both temporary roles (3-4 months for residency, ~3-4 weeks contracting work).

More info here: https://www.kpcbedge.com/roles

Please contact rrumburg@kpcbedge.com if you're interested in learning more!
I'm reading this and wondering why you couldn't build a waterproof beacon? At least by tracking it you could prove that it didn't exit into Lake Superior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_locator_beacon

http://www.rjeint.com/aviation-underwater-locator-beacons
Daniela Perdomo, founder of goTenna
You have no clue about Advaita or Bhakti.

Advaita is translated as nondual, ie. not-two, that is, the manifested is not separate from that which is the cause of the manifested (ie. that which gives rise to all is all, and everything is a modification of it).

Bhakti is a method towards the experiential realization of what I just stated, one wherein the subject-object (which in your case is the 'Bhakti folks' and their 'beloved Supreme') dichotomy collapses (or to put it in Buddhist terms, extinguishes, which is the proper translation of nirvana/nibbana) from the intensification (one can even say exaltation) of the human yearning for union.
Not to mention LLVM which Apple's entire compiler stack uses these days
During the Presidential Election of Sri Lanka (2015, January), there was a huge Volunteer supporter base on social media for Maithreepala Sirisena (The candidate who won the election defeating the previous president). This was mainly due to the fact there was no media freedom and the traditional media was hugely biased towards one side.

It was quite interesting since the official tech teams of the candidates are there as nominal roles. They were just using online advertising and maintaining FB pages, etc - nothing more.

This blog explains in more detail : http://groundviews.org/2015/01/13/was-prespollsl-2015-sri-la...
I'm glad we're starting to recognize safety applies to the non-digital aspects of life as well
you get it.
try this: http://www.thekitchensafe.com/
Damn, the one really cheap used copy on Amazon Marketplace is gone now… I was thinking about buying it two hours ago.

But then again, I already have more books on my "to read" stack than I could possibly read 2015/2016. And it's not exactly a necessary book.
Simple Ways to Save on a Small Budget
Exactly, something with intermittent GPS pinging so that should it ever resurface we get a signal.
Yes, but the attitude just rubs me the wrong way. If they suggested the voltage divider, it would have been a good opportunity to instill careful engineering and testing practices. They could have said something like "this will fry your GPIO if you accidentally send 18v, so make sure to test the circuit with a multimeter or scope!" Instead, they suggest throwing an expensive part at the problem, supporting the attitude that you can't trust your own engineering. At least they mention that there are other ways to do it.

I dunno, maybe it's two different, equally valid attitudes. I guess I dislike it for the same reason I prefer C++ over Java.
The absurdity of Silicon Valley
That's another good example, although it only had a WAP browser until 2004 as far as I can tell.
"Regardless of your political leanings, I've found CodersForSanders to be a fascinating experiment at the intersection of grassroots political organization and remote development/tech work."

The reason I read this article; to find out how this kind of bottom-up organisation works.

"features like the donation app, which incorporates the Square credit card processing software,"

You mention the front-end applications, how about the back-end?

"one built an Internet “bot” to help match newcomers to tasks appropriate to their skills."

Any more details on this? Sounds like an interesting idea for a spin-off.

ps: sorry for crashing the thread with a re-submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10168708) . For all the time I've used HN, there has never an attempt to avoid re-submission of a url multiple times.
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Everybody writes the basic gradient descent example and then walks away. There are tons of such tutorials around.

Want to impress the gallery? Do it for RNNs and LSTMs. Watch, as people will handwave and claim it's left as an exercise for the reader. That's not enough; give these topics the same level of introductory treatment you gave BP.
Honestly, I spent most of my life in Chicago and only recently moved out to the Bay. I can't say in a major metro like that there is any more inherent loyalty. In many industries the only way to get ahead is to change jobs every couple years to make sure you stay at market rate for compensation.
Modular web browser written in JS
(reposting my comment as well)

Best thing I've ever put my tech startup skillz to use for!
If you haven't already checked out http://feelthebern.org, please do so and share widely. We built it to make clear where Bernie Sanders stands on every issue... TL;DR for 50+ years he's been consistent and on the right side of history no matter the political cost.

Before this I'd never found (or even tried to find) common ground with, say, Republicans, libertarians or even mainline Democrats. I'd also never really known people in active military service, or who were formerly homeless — but these are some of the amazing humans who I've been working with for 7 weeks now.

Most Americans care about the same things, and if we can move past the broken two-party system and the theatrics that play out in the media, we can actually start solving problems together. Feel grateful that thanks to this candidate and his issues-based campaign, my world's a little bigger.

Join us, we have mobile apps and social apps and so much more coming out. We need great devs, designers, writers & more. :-)
How Google's new logo is just 305 bytes while older was 14,000 bytes
Pioneer announces MEMS-based LIDAR for self driving cars [pdf]
A basic question comes up: Do you know what you want? Your goal is described in terms of acting the way you thought you were supposed to - finding some woman and starting a nuclear family with her. You're unhappy about not having that but you also say you're unmotivated.

What you may need is to shake everything up. If you aren't happy performing in this way(and following a traditional career and marriage script is a performance) start questioning who/what you are instead. There are a lot of different lifestyles out there. Some folks are libertine, others celebate. Gender and gender roles aren't static. You may desire a subset of sex, romance, or children, but not all three. If you go through the process of exploring and questioning and come out the other side basically still aligned with the norms, you'll be more prepared for a relationship - you'll understand just how different people can be. Goes the same for your career choices too - you may do better with a small tweak. Imagine interviewing for different positions and conpanies.
How Managed Remote Teams Compare to Freelance Developers
As others have said, objectively speaking you're in the top 0.25% or so of the world's population by income; the global median income is only around $1,300 a year. So objectively speaking you're doing well.

Relatively speaking, though, you seem to feel you're not. In terms of dating, it's a matter of supply and demand. There is a glut of men (114:100 ratio) between 20 and 44 years old relative to women in San Jose: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/10/04/man-jose-san-jos...

So women can be more selective. You can change this by improving your own desirability, as others in this thread have suggested, or by moving to a place with a less lopsided gender ratio. Neither is trivial but it sounds like it's worth doing given how unhappy you say you are.
There's a good chance a beacon would get stuck or lodged somewhere, even though the water itself would continue to pass through (think sand or very narrow fractures). Hydrogeologists use a variety of dyes or other water additives that are better suited for this, and it doesn't seem to have worked yet.
Ekipa’s Software Development Market Network: The AirBnB of IT
Ah yes, nothing says "I'm a team player" quite like a pile of opaque hacks abusing the wrong technology...
How did iPads "disrupt" the laptop model?

That's just the bubble you're living in talking, as in most of the world, iPad sales have been declining, with the Mac revenue surpassing them again. And besides the iPad, the industry for tablets is basically non-existent. Really, our world is weirder and weirder.
Start listening to Les Brown. You will feel like a rockstar and life's gonna change my friend.

* From an Indian to an Indian
> Myth #4: Most angel investors are millionaires.

Calling this a myth is absolutely false and misleading. In the US (and in most other countries), there are laws requiring all investments in non-registered securities to be made by accredited investors. An accredited investor is someone with a net worth of at least 1M, or an income of over 200k for two consecutive years. Most people who invest qualify through net worth.
The earth is really good at blocking radio waves; the beacon is only going to be good when it shows up again in water open to the sky.

Similarly, it may be that the water is getting to Lake Superior just fine, but that the path it takes has plenty of opportunity to get debris caught up or lost in a side-channel.
Can you list a couple interesting apps or services that are being worked on at the moment?
I love how there is no pretense given to the idea of perimeter security, for example there are no claims that "they'll never get in there in the first place". This isn't a criticism. I admire their honesty. It's refreshing in a [security] market that's usually filled with fake claims and red blooded chest thumping that has no basis in reality.
Presumably the searchable text is just metadata overlay on the full unredacted HD video stream with high fidelity audio using microphone arrays which allow post-process beamforming and noise reduction.

Even if it's "only" 10-20 years out, we're still all fucked.
Yes, indeed. I was just focused on ZFS itself. There was a great talk about all that by Bryan Cantrill: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

He says what he thinks about Oracle there ;)
We use a simple md2pdf script internally that takes a markdown, throws on the company logo & font, and produces a pdf document.

Process is md (vim/mou) -> cmark -> wkhtml2pdf -> pdf

This works well for us, but would be nice if we could sort of merge this with an online wiki of some sorts.
Picture Yourself as a Stereotypical Male
A script for Silicon Valley season 3 by Blake Ross [pdf]