skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> for being a "white guy"

I am 100% certain that you have not only been rejected for being a white guy. White people are the most sought-after race in the United States[1], partially because most people seek partners of the same race.

Furthermore, the language you're using is deeply concerning. Women aren't a "reward" for your efforts. Failing to find a sexual partner is not a "punishment". No one owes you sex, and there isn't a grand design that's keeping you from finding someone to have sex with.

I think it's very important for you to seek counseling or the support of a therapist. They'll be able to help you learn how to start and maintain a romantic relationship. There's always hope.

1. http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/race-attraction-2009-2014/
Fun harsh environment: I reviewed software a few weeks ago that ran on one of our boards while it was irradiated by a neutron source (I work in aerospace). Radiation has interesting effects on electronics :).
For me, it's not about being good in conversation (neither for me nor for the company's representative). It's about having the chance to ask questions about the true nature of the job, exactly what you will work on, to see if the job really is interesting and a possibly good fit. It's impossible to tell that from job descriptions which often don't give much clue about what your actual job would be like.

If, after talking through it with someone, I still feel like there is a good chance of a mutual fit, then I'm happy to be evaluated quantitatively by my skills. But if a simple conversation reveals that it's not a good fit, then it saves everyone a lot of time since I can avoid the code test for a position I don't want, and the company doesn't waste time evaluating a code test for a candidate who will end up feeling that the role isn't the right fit.

This is just my personal feeling, but for me the idea of doing a code test before ever talking to someone at the company about the nature of the job is like putting your shoes on before you put your socks on.
You might want to read up on Tesla ;)
Why would they, black people face a life time of unparalleled discrimination that white people won't ever experience.

The difference between a poor white guy and a poor black guy is that the poor black guy lives in a system where they've suffered generations of sustained oppression and subjugation.

I'm baffled at how you made this a race issue.
Use Docker Swarm with a data persistence layer
Agreed, but pricing is a real bear. Doing the analysis, along with all of one's assumptions and guesstimates and strategic choices, is a PITA that is hard to do well and prone to being blown away by Week 1 results anyhow. So I took his advice as "advice to the indie developer who wants to focus on his game and recognizes that he has little business acumen or inclination." Which is sort of a lazy person in theory, but in practice, is sort of like the "self-publishing fantasy fiction writer who wants to focus on his book and recognizes that he has little business acumen or inclination." Etc, etc, etc. The author is basically saying, "Do all the analysis you want; in the end, for you, your most efficient strategy is likely to be pricing at the industry standard."

Pricing well above the going rate can be a signal of quality, prestige, etc., but generally speaking, people have to know you to accept your implicit claims to those things. You have to have an audience. Your game is what economists call an 'experience good,' meaning that people won't be able to judge its quality until they've tried it. A high price is a barrier to trial. (This is why high-priced games often feature free, playable demos or other low-barrier trial mechanisms.)

The other challenge with pricing high at the outset, then discounting later on is that it may breed market resentmemt. Pretty much everyone expects that a game will cost more if purchased in its first week of release than if purchased two years later. But a lot of people might feel burned if your game costs $X in its first week, and .5X a few months later. It might also encourage fans, even the hardcore, to simply wait out the clock until the expected discount period occurs.

On the whole, however, I agree with you. But pricing is hard.
The current title is misleading. NASA did not confirm this; a NASA engineer posted it on some forum.
In other words, they haven't yet found out the mistake in their testing procedures (or the real reason for the force).
Yes. That was a common point when Microsoft bought Minecraft for 2 billion.
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You'd do it because the million dollars in parts is peanuts compared to the combined salaries of the engineers who are paid to have the specialized knowledge to do this, and the time it to bring up a new application/car. I know that a million dollars is lowball, but this same principle can be applied to other components and scaled up (to a point).

Potting electronics in epoxy isn't terrifically difficult, and would greatly increase the durability. I'm willing to bet that a potted Beaglebone Black (for its real-time subsystem) would do just fine in my engine bay for a very long time. The hard part would be getting a single large-pin-count plug coming out of it to handle all the inputs.

This point is actually kind of moot because for a long time the ECUs of cars were located in the passenger cabin with wires fed in through a grommet in the firewall.

I'd wager that the cost of replacing this system with some standard real-time platform is so monumental, it won't ever be done. Good luck getting the automotive equivalent of BSPs (board-support packages) running on any system other than this.

Where this gets interesting is when the people who actually know this system die start retiring/exiting the market. There will be a pretty strong incentive to 1) keep reusing the same system with no new development, 2) accept the lead time in training students/etc, or 3) start paying crazy salaries for people to go out of their way to learn it.
Naked capitalism has found a way to thin the herd more efficiently than the Jonathan Swift ever imagined. A modest proposal indeed.

Unrelated: the top NYT comments are better than HN. Sad day.
Admittedly I didn't cut my teeth with C64 or DOS, but I have to imagine that it was only simpler because the barrier to entry was so much higher for those machines than it is today. And I would argue that expectations were higher in the past. Looking through some older 'entry level' computer science textbooks recently, I've been amazed at how complicated the material is and how quickly it covers things that we've only begun discussing as I'm about to graduate.
What is dark about this?
Perhaps then they should have made the threshold for qualifying higher? That argument sounds like the "Mike Goldman" side of the argument from the $5000 compression challenge.
Meanwhile you, who argues that arguments are useless, are arguing.

On the internet, no less!
And who is that exactly?

For long established, regularly used tools, there is a case for funding this activity somehow.

For the many specialized tools? I'm not sure how this would actually happen, unless the person who creates it decides to maintain it. When their career focus doesn't value that tool, we can't really expect anything.

Worse, let's say some established systems exist. They have a barrier to entry in that new software needs to be compliant and potentially integrated on some level. People already are focused away from this stuff. Raising that bar means fewer overall contributions.

Now, it's often: I wrote this. It's open. You can use it.

And they move on.

If, suddenly, I wrote this, and it's open gets followed up by, "you need to make sure this works with all this other stuff..." what happens?
"Activision acquires Candy Crush maker King Digital Entertainment for $5.9B in the largest accidental in-app purchase in history." - https://twitter.com/sean_a_rose/status/661398624421605376
I think if that were the case they would not have pushed out the "Panda" updates which penalized content farms so heavily. If their past behavior (with content farms and other "low value" content sites) is a guide they will not do anything until enough people complain about it.

In the mean time it isn't even Google's content so its not a hosting issue, they are just the "neutral" third party providing their 10 blue links (oh and supplying the advertising engine those sites are using)
I'm surprised this isn't discussed more. Going publicly is often a red flag to me. Certainly there is a time and place for it, but often the big cash influx is used to buy into loosely related markets (often at a hefty premium), rather than make significant gains in the company's core competency.
A sad day for Javascript. Why were only frameworks considered? Some of us still prefer vanilla JS. Also, more options are better than fewer. This is like saying, "Hammers have become quite popular lately, so we've cancelled plans to make a screwdriver."
I find that most significant banding comes from a large gradient that spans between two very similar shades. (E.g., a full screen gradient that goes from grey to slightly-darker-grey).

I fear that 10 bpp would hide the banding from you, so that when your users see it on their 8 bpp displays they notice the banding that you didn't see or get a chance to dither out with noise.
That's totally fair. I'm interested in hearing the proposed solutions of the most viable candidates because I feel they've probably given it the most real thought.

I also think we do should not leave the entire decision to them without further discussion simply because we trust they have a solid plan. We should seek to understand that plan.

I think we as a people need to revisit and discuss the topic of freedom of speech and campaign finance reform given today's climate of large corporate spending. Either a) businesses have figured out how to take advantage of the system in new ways, or b) the public is now waking up to the fact that this is happening and has always happened.

Regardless of whether a) or b) is true, we need to understand this topic and contribute towards an informed decision about it. The first amendment is too important to allow the solution to only come from selected politicians and academics. We need more open discussion, in my opinion, and since Lessig is pushing the issue, let's take advantage of that and support him.
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he's likely be infected by now - What kind of infections would these be viruses/malware? Other day there was security expert who mentioned how Android security was bad, but did not mention any specific cases. My dad uses a 4.x device. Many other as well( India where low end has 4.x devices). But i don't see these user complaining about viruses or malware. Considering that they would usually complain about virus affecting their windows os. Is there anyway to know if the devices are infected?
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Haha - I tried it. It's shocking at first and annoying soon after. I figured that soft power is the way to go.
Stop spamming HN with your site, and making separate accounts to do so: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=fundinghunt.co
See, for example here:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/06/03/el-nino-strengthens-th...

Also note the graph showing the increasing mismatch between models and observations.

Of course many will object to my choice of source, just as I objected to RealClimate as a source. But the data set used is an "official" one (the RSS satellite data), though not one you hear as much about.
EM drive has a closed cone, there's no nozzle. They tested identical machine with open nozzle, and it didn't generate the same force.
What do people think about the ethics of buying (non-diesel) Volkswagen cars at this point?

Hey, if you want to buy a shit car, I don't think ethics really factor into it.

All kidding aside, despite being in absolutely no danger of ever buying another VW, I would think of it like I think of buying from (to pick a recent popular whipping boy) Amazon: does giving money to the company vote for the world you want to live in? I like workers to be treated fairly and with respect, so no more Amazon for me. I like clean air and products that win because they're great products that don't rely on cheating to make them great, so no more VWs for me.

As for used ones (assuming non-diesel), I'll use another metaphor. I'm a vegetarian. What if my veggie pizza shows up with pepperoni (and assume I otherwise like pepperoni)? I eat it. Cow's already dead, I didn't request that it be killed for my meal, and they're just going to throw it away if I send it back. Might as well eat it. Used VWs? Money's already in the pocket of a crooked company, might as well buy one if it suits your needs. Just take it somewhere other than the dealer when it needs work. :-)
Leechblock works very well for this: http://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/

It counts how long you are on an "illegal" website and only blocks when you exceed the limit.

It's fully customizable for timelimits and method of blocking.
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That was a great read!
Re: [openpgp] [Cfrg] streamable AEAD construct for stored data?
like the complex update process leading to unsatisfied users - unsatisfied tech users? Don't thin the normal public care or knows about the version of Android they are running.
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Don't write things like that, people might believe you. That is not at all what it does.

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstring/strcspn/
Because we are nudged to cover costs of artificial habits.
Thanks. The business model is rather simple. I'll be charging a monthly fee for the service. Not sure exactly how much though.
I leave it playing overnight (plugged in, or course). The combination works much better than either alone, plus I can play the white noise much louder without it bothering me for extra power.
Even after dealing with command line commands for many years, I don't remember most of the gory detail of them. That's why I keep a note file saving all the common and interesting command line commands I encountered. This has enabled me to "forget" (offload) most of these bullshittery and concentrate on the real problem at hand.

The note file is just a Emacs org file with different sections for different topics.
I had absolutely no idea this was happening, I caught it on page 8 of the index long after everything that happened had gone down.

This does to me look like something problematic might be going on health-wise. I can relate to a tiny extent: I sometimes have a harder time processing life than average due to high-functioning autism, and I reckon there are certainly circumstances and situations that might well overload my system and provoke Undefined Behavior due to the stress, but not nearly like this.

I have showdead turned on, and DrMJG_HN's posts show a truly impressive level of paranoia that I don't think I've ever seen before. My reaction is an unobjective sort of pity (for want of a better way to say it; maybe I'm referring to empathy): there's a person behind those posts, and they deserve a better frame of mind than they seem to have right now.

I reckon HN's reaction to this - and your explanation, for those who needed it - has been really great.

Besides enabling showdead in Arc's settings (for objective purposes only, I should reiterate!), I thought the most informative post in this thread was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10489225, which mentioned https://www.reddit.com/r/timferriss/comments/3g2mjg/tim_ferr... written by livecoding.tv's cofounder.
>if I really wanted to have discussion secret enough to warrant e2e I probably wouldn't be using company/project chat for that no matter what sort of promises it gives.

Why not, though? Assuming logging is disabled by both parties and the E2E is working as intended, you have something that's almost as secure as in-person conversation. The only weakness is if someone has malware actively on their machine recording the conversation as it's occurring... but then you also have many other issues.
I'm significantly more excited about your beta now that you've explained it. I think that's a unique and a potentially great way to do popularity ranking.

Fingers crossed that you're also going to have an eye for security
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Kiwi birds too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs

(Caution: On topic, but saddest short animation ever made)
It's possible if you also translate all of the code that uses the polyfilled object by converting every MemberExpression to a function call, but that's probably a nightmare for performance.
Performance and fuel economy are both top notch.

Considering it's doing the automotive equivalent of leaving a turd on the sidewalk everywhere it goes, I'd be really disappointed if its perf and mileage were merely average.
By what measure do you say that it's been a long time since Activision has been relevant? They have decades long franchises that print money and they've tripled in price in the last 5 years, up 5x over the last decade and 33x in the last 12 years.
What comparably priced cars would you consider competitive with the Golf on interior quality? I want to love the Mazda 3, but until the 2014 model year it looks like garbage to me. I'd be much happier with a 3-series, but that's 3x as much money as a 2012-2014 Golf.
"Emergence" is such a useless word. Everything is emergent. Temperature is the emergent consequence of small-scale particle motions. Orbits are the emergent consequence of particles moving in potential wells. Intelligence is the emergent consequence of neuron chemistry. Traffic is the emergent consequence of driver's goals.

It's especially irritating because people like to say things like this:

"Emergent structures have the property of being possible to generalize about and simulate to some extent by simpler means than the modeling of their most fundamental components. When this is not the case, it means the large scale result of the fundamental components is chaotic."

Our brains require abstractions to function because our brains are subsets of reality. You simply cannot pack all of existence into your brain to conceive the whole thing at once. So everything -- every perceivable phenomenon or relation that exists in any possible experience -- is going to be modeled. This means that there does not exist anything that "when broken into its components" is made of fewer abstract components than the whole. That's contradictory nonsense.

Which means you can't assume that "when it happens," you'll get a chaotic universe (or whatever you meant by that.) It's got nothing to do with scale, since choosing to call one thing 'fundamental' and another an 'emergent whole' is no less of an abstraction that swapping them around. You could just as easily say the motion of particles is an emergent property of the temperature of the whole, and you'd be no less wrong about it. It's a dualistic relation.

Which makes "emergence" a pointless concept. There is no "absolute simple" for you to take as a fundamental abstraction from which other things emerge. And I'm pretty sure the concept has never actually been used to solve a single problem. Not even hypothetically.
Solaris+portability+-+cfmakeraw()
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10493049 and marked it off-topic.
>What is wrong with you?

Do you want the list or the summary?
> You are very wrong. For many years, nearly 100% of Google's revenue was from AdSense.

That's incredibly untrue. A substantial portion of Google's revenue has always been and continues to be from first-party AdWords ads.

The fact that you're using BuzzFeed as an example, a firm which emphatically does not use display ads, shows how little you know about this.
Yup. Wake me up when they publish something peer reviewed. Every time one of the team members discusses results on random web forums instead of in a peer-reviewed paper, it moves the needle further toward crackpot.
Happiness is reality minus expectations. Guess who had the highest expectations? White guys.
I agree, but when there's a cap it's just a loan. And a pretty cheap one to, in that the terms of the loan give you unlimited time to repay.
It's indeed very similar to the description of the contemporary rural Russia (excluding the suburbs of Moscow, and few other large cities). There's one important difference: there's no free public health care in the US. Not that it's great in Russia, but the US has none. :(
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492273 and marked it off-topic.
The SGI font has a bit more personality: http://i.imgur.com/P5GN4uZ.png

The old NeXT font is actually very close to dear old Monaco: http://i.imgur.com/Cf1xED2.png
I wish I could be more excited about this but the most probable use for this technology is making it easier for drones to spy on people or for cruise missiles to be able to better fly into someone's window. :-(
> JavaScript does not require an event loop.

It actually does now that Promise got added to the language. For extra fun the interaction of the JavaScript event loop and the HTML/DOM event loop is not actually specified and getting it specified will be rather exciting: both sides want to "own" the event loop...
This is a bit of shameless plug but i think quite aligned with Sam's post but makes a slightly different argument. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-have-been-bigger-tech-bubb...

Would love to get critiqued by this uber smart and opinionated crowd here.