skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NOX fumes kill tens to hundreds of thousands of people every year, there isn't many "bigger problems in life" than things like that.

Pollution has very diffuse, but very real human and ecological consequences. One of the reasons this fight is so hard is because they are so hard to reason about or even witness. It took systematic study of events like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_1952 to realize how many people stuff like NOX emissions kill and disable.

What if doing something took a day off of the life of every single person in the world. In terms of "days of life destroyed" you would have an event unparalleled by any genocide in history, but yet how many people would even care?
A lot of people were short the stock (e.g. borrowed shares to sell them) and are now on the hook to buy them back for very close to $18 where it will open tomorrow. Shorting is a way to make money when the share price falls. There are always shorts, but King had a ton.

If you shorted KING at something greater than $18 you lucked out and have made money, but if you shorted at say $17 you will end up losing $1 per share. It has been under $13 in the past three months so some shorts are going to be losing a fair amount of cash.
This is a total ploy. There is a link to "cool products".

This is the ULTIMATE in viral marketing. By removing herself from Instagram, she has done a humble-brag to get attention. By highlighting the issues she has with her quite attractive photos, she actually gets more attention, and can become a thought-leader and thus product pusher for marketing firms.

The difference is that the marketing firms will now be new-age companies. From her info page [1]:

"I wish to create a platform that acts to spread new age messages of conscious living, addition to technology, minimise the celebrity culture, promote veganism, plant based nutrition, environmental awareness, social issues, gender equality, controversial art etc."

Look, I'm probably just cynical, but this seems to be a self-promotion vehicle by an attractive teenage girl.

1. http://www.letsbegamechangers.com/info/
That can't be correct given the price, and the fact that King had over $2B revenue and $500MM net income last year. These games make millions of dollars a day. They don't get bought just for data. The simplest explanation is that Activision Blizzard wants to go bigger into mobile gaming and sees King as a good acquisition for this.
> The EPA made standards that are impossible to meet using any available technology without causing some or all of the problems I mentioned.

I think you're being hyperbolic here in saying that the standards are impossible to meet. What about urea injection? That works pretty well, right?

But even ignoring that, it's not like there's some god-given right to run diesel engines. Either the emissions standards are reasonable or they aren't. That's the only consideration here. If they are reasonable, and most diesels can't meet them, well then too bad, diesel is just an inferior technology. There's alternatives that don't find it impossible to meet environmental/health standards.
"T" as in "teambuilding"?
Inefficient compared to what? The choice is not between "publicize the info" and "let insiders trade", its between insider trading and no insider trading, and the information stays private.

You are implying that I don't realize that insider trading reveals extra information. But I have clearly stated in almost every post that insider trading would reveal additional information. There's no point continuing this discussion if I am responding to what you say but you're ignoring what I say. I'd ask you to keep an open mind and not assume that other people just need to be enlightened via terse replies.
I liked the article, but I was bothered throughout by the word "bullshittery". Why add the "ery"? "Bullshit" is already a mass noun, and the standard slang use of it fits fine everywhere he uses his unnecessarily longer term.
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This sounds appealing but it reminds me of cocktail bars on airplanes or "too cheap to meter" commodities. Similar ideas rarely seems to work out. If this delivery model became popular I expect companies would want to optimize their investment in bots, and that tendency would work against the customer-friendly aspects of the service.
wow, it's awesome!
I'm not sure I understand how WeWork is anything like Airbnb. They seem like basically a value-added reseller of commercial leases. (We're in a WeWork space in Chicago right now).
There's no substitute for a healthy lifestyle. That said, even with one, you may find that you need a tool like this. I know I do.

I added the ability to turn it off as a feature after needing it! =). But yeah - there are heavier alternatives for heavier needs.
Yeah it's similar to modeling, but social media completely changes the dynamics. Models usually work in controlled environments with professional photographers and have their pictures airbrushed to perfection. The final result is published in some magazine and any enquiries are handled by some middleman. As you can see there are many layers insulating a model from her fans. Social media completely tears that down and you get metrics like "likes" and you read comments from people from all over, and suddenly there's a pressure on you from all these people. They also don't really have the support network like other models or photographers or editors or managers. They're usually doing it all on their own on their phones with light editing to get that "natural" look. Lastly at her age she's a high-school senior, old, but hardly what I'd consider responsible enough to handle her personal life professionally, especially when her whole image was embedded in social media.

I recommend you check out this article about why the creator of Flappy Bird took his game down. [0] Some might say he was just doing game development too.

[0]: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-flight-of-the-b...
I don't like the idea of basing too much of the price on hours of playtime: if you've got something really inventive and different with a short enough playtime to not overstay its welcome, that's undervalued. Many games with long playtimes are boring and full of grind.

As a player with a dayjob and many interests besides games, I don't value million hour playtimes: I value novelty and innovation. So I'm glad to see and pay for something like The Beginner's Guide for $10.

Although that's probably a minority opinion: look at the Steam discussion forum for any indie game priced at or higher than $10 and you'll see at least one thread complaining that it's too expensive for such a short game(/not being written on a custom engine in C++).
Bcrypt and scrypt don't suck.

Only use PBKDF2 if you are comfortable with a function that a GPU-using attacker can evaluate many hundreds of times more efficiently (in terms of energy cost) using hardware that hundreds of times cheaper (in terms of $/guess/s).

Expressed in terms of log base 2, by using PBKDF2 you're leaving several bits of security on the table. And most folks agree that passwords need all the effective entropy they can keep.
right, but it needs to be done again by the single person maintaining the automation tools, who presumably is more of the "programmer" than "user" inclination. everyone else in the lab benefits.
"It's simply an obstacle to overcome before one can get real work done."

Since we're expressing our personal opinions, that's exactly how I would describe a GUI.

There's nothing exciting to me about the command line EXCEPT that it allows one to avoid the "bullshittery" that finds its way into almost every GUI.

Same is true for UNIX in general. Not exciting EXCEPT to the extent it lets me escape the layers upon layers of abstraction, the complexity, the hassles, the unreliability and the general unrobustness of graphical operating systems.

Those are big exceptions. So yeah, I do like the command line and barebones UNIX-like operating systems.

I simply cannot get "real work" done without a UNIX-like OS and a command line.

The work I perform makes those graphical operating systems and programs hang or crash or is nearly impossible to accomplish without acquiring a repetitive stress injury.

I did not create this state of affairs. I have simply adapted to it.
1. http://www.strategic-options.com/trade/

2. I had no choice, traditional financial evaluation failed after the great recession (08). Federal Reserve interference in the market, prevented traditional stock analysis. I couldn't get a job in 09-10, even with an MBA. Taught myself how to code and write stock algorithms. Very dark days, I had to teach myself coding, or otherwise I was going to have to go back to the Marine Corps. (I loved Marines, going to back to the Marine Corps, would have been fun and paid the bills, but not a good career move, long term.)

It paid off in the end, I'm a programmer now and I don't seem to have a problem getting work now. However the bad news is that people keep playing me program there lame ideas and my bank account keeps getting bigger. But at the end of the day I want my side project to be only project.

Ugh..... Money doesn't solve everything.

3. I want my side project to become my employment.

(P.S. Looking for some kind of marketing help.)
Wow, this project just sounds fun. I'm already pursuing my own projects, but otherwise this sounds like an intriguing idea. Best of luck!
I urge all the people who haven't to actually read the mailing list post (link [0] from lobster_johnson), and note that (from the register article):

""" The rant is entirely impersonal: it rails against code, not people. Those who contributed the offending code will have no doubt of Torvalds' feelings towards it and the open nature of kernel development means it would not be hard to identify those responsible. Torvalds names no names, however. """

Linus is passionate about what he does, and as he has explained several times before, the reach and the medium make him easily misunderstood if he is all polite and politically correct, so he makes sure there is no way he is misunderstood.

Let me ask you this - after this issue, does anyone here think Linus will be willing to accept the usub()/uadd() calls into the kernel any time soon? Had Linus answered politely and politically correct, he would have had to do that about ten times as much, because (a) other people wouldn't notice or think that this response doesn't apply to their special snowflake code, and (b) those who know it applies to would feel that there is room for discussion.

Linus is herding cats without paying them, and has been doing this amazingly well for over 20 years now. Whether or not you subscribe to it, his management style works, produces amazing results. At the scale that linus manages, you (probably) have to be dictator, and (likely) cannot be a polite one.

[0] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1510.3/02866.html
Yes, and black is the absence of or complete absorption of light. Not sure that is very helpful, given once you retire you aren't working any more.
Sure looks like a lot of non-Apple uses of this term to me:

https://www.google.com/search?q=10-bit%20color%20-apple
Nice pitch, and I'm impressed with what I've skimmed so far (the reddit community for your game is obviously quite active).

I think I may have found a replacement for my long-unquenched Subspace cravings!
Sounds like a good reason to keep using IRC amirite?
I was listening the 'matched' podcast where they were talking about The Beginner's Guide. It's meant to play as a an emotional ride to help people understand what the life of an artist can be. Definitely not for everyone, but it is supposed to be on the level of "this 'game', made me feel something about myself... Maybe even empathy for the maker too". Can definitely see how it feels like a waste, but maybe give it another play through and kinda ponder on things. It might make the purchase feel less wasteful :D
That was my first reaction. I played Draw Something for a week or so, 3 years ago. I know many people still play Candy Crush Daily. The purchase to get Draw Something was probably premature, whereas this is a more established market.
Yeah I think you're right, my analogy is bunk. I'll leave it up for context.

For the benefit of others, here's the founder of WeWork himself explaining WeWork:

WeWork takes out a cut-rate lease on a floor or two of
an office building, chops it up into smaller parcels and
then charges monthly memberships to startups and small
companies that want to work cheek-by-jowl with each other.

Also, wow, you work in a WeWork office? I'm surprised. Surprised because you seem like a smart guy who'd have made a really great company that could afford to get the swankiest office available. Or maybe, you have a company that's doing well but you just choose not to spend big money on office space?

Sorry for being intrusive, I'm really just surprised is all! I was visiting some startups in Chicago not too long ago and I saw many spending a lot of money on office space -- some that I felt probably should not have been.
>The people who make the most (founding CEOs) often have the wimpiest coding skills of all. What makes for a status hierarchy where the closer to the machine you are, the higher the status?

Continuing your analogy a bit further, we can say that many politicians (dictators) make much much more than most founding CEOs and they have the wimpiest of wimpiest coding skills of all! I mean, we must not confuse between the ability to make more with ability to tackle technical problems.
Regarding the status hierarchy, we can see that Nicola Tesla was certainly very closer to machine as compared many people, surely he has a very high position in the status hierarchy than most of the run of the mill founding CEOs with wimpiest coding skills.
On the other hand, if you've ridden a bike with a diesel vehicle in traffic nearby, you'd swear that the EPA was being far too lenient about emissions.
I personally also do not like bullying and if something like this were to come from someone_I_did_not_respect , then I too would not have much tolerance for the behaviour. On the lkml however, people respect linus, and that's the reason why he gets away with it. Not because of some 'slack in the way one behaves' as you put it. Take a look at the response:

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1510.3/02919.html

I would imagine that if you're is being flamed by linus on lkml, it is most likely because you messed up big-time. Don't expect to be reprimanded with sugar coating. More so if you are an adult/mature/experienced (in terms of contributions) person who should've known better.
"Nobody's free until everybody's free."
Activision Blizzard to Acquire King Digital Entertainment [pdf]
> The government can guarantee equal speech instead of allowing some speech to dominate everyone else.

How? What do you mean "the government can guarantee equal speech"? Do you mean they should disallow some speech from dominating other speech? Who decides what to censor, and how is that done, for example, on the internet? Is that not a form of censorship itself?

> How can the 1st Amendment be protecting the voice of the poor if they have no avenue of expression?

How can you say they have zero avenue? They can rally within their community with no money at all. MLK and other civil rights activists made some of the biggest changes in this country through their speech alone, and they never even held office. He may have even received donations or media support from companies employing large numbers of black people. Would you say that is unfair too?

I also want us to find a better way to end corruption in politics. I just don't think it is so simple, and free speech and the ability to spend your hard earned money on what you want, regardless of whether you're poor or wealthy, is the core of the first amendment. I'm not sure about Joe Shmoe CEO + board deciding to donate company earnings, which are not all their own, to a super PAC or secretive non-profit of their choosing. That's ~20 people deciding where the money of 100s of hard working people goes.

Is it easy to fix that? Are laws themselves enough, or do we also need to be able to enforce them? What happens when some business claims their money was not spent in support of a political campaign, but it supports a foreign company who is advertising online?
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Is this a case of Simpson's paradox?
It's rare that I purchase games on a whim, but based off your comment, I went ahead and ponied up the ten bucks for Undertale. Looks interesting!

On that same note: I'm not a fan - generally speaking - of survival games or early access, but I purchased The Flame in the Flood, and it's already given me back the entertainment for the cost, and can only get better.

I think the author of the article gets it right on pricing per hour of gameplay for indie games, in a general sense. I'm not sure this works for AAA games, though, where RPGs have - and are expected to have - tens of hours of gameplay if one simply burns through it, and multiplayer games have an almost unknown fun-per-price-hour factor (Rocket League comes to mind), due to the seemingly variable nature of how much time people invest in multiplayer games.

If that makes no sense, I apologize - alcohol and dumbly meatsticks.
It's much more complicated than that--how shitty a situation is for someone is highly contextual, and you can't make absolute statements about who has it worse, since so much depends on particular circumstances.

It is fair to ask why in recent years movements and media have focused more on race- and gender- based solidarities over class-based solidarity, compared to a century ago. And a strong argument can be made that Capital is the primary nexus of power in the world, and in the end it really doesn't care that much about safeguarding patriarchy or white supremacy. Hell, breaking down those barriers often just generates new grit to be thrown to the mill, so it's commonly profitable to break them down. It's much lower hanging fruit (though still fruit that's worthy of harvesting), so people focus on them more.

Along the same lines, our educational and media systems have given us the imagination to envision a world where racism and sexism don't exist. Not that they're easily achievable, but it seems almost natural that a century or two from now they'll be gone. But social and economic class? They seem as immobile as Mt Everest.

ETA: Also, I think you're doing a disservice by writing off black activists and feminists. Obviously every person has limited perspectives, but you're just trying to pick a fight that doesn't need to be picked. Never pre-emptively write off a potential ally.
These are two companies that deserve each other.

(But yeah, it's been a long time since Activision has been relevant, and they haven't done mobile right, obviously, this might be a good first step for them.)
From next year's Call of Duty:

You were killed by L33TGUY37. You are out of lives for today, would you like to:

- Purchase 5 more lives for $2.99?

- Spam your social media for life requests?
the current algorithm's obsession with "freshness."

That explains why I've noticed some older sites which are still around, and have plenty of detailed technical information, seem to have disappeared from the search results. Somewhat sad that the "newer is better" mentality appears to have taken over completely... if I really wanted the newest things I'd look at Google News.
Time & patience. That's for sure.

Maybe Neil Stephenson is right, that Linux tells the Gilgamesh story of hacker culture

http://www.iheavy.com/2015/10/28/linux-command-line-stephens...
I'm not buying this upgrade either but this seems to be the unpopular opinion here.
Do you work for Jetbrains?
> No idea what Activision gets out of this.

Two things:

One, King has more sustainable revenues than OMGPOP. Two, they get to tell their shareholders they are competing in an established area of high growth (i.e. mobile apps).
polystyrene foam on the other hand might do the trick
That's a great step, but isn't it still not ideal because at 5k resolution, you could still get banding on a continuous gradient covering the screen without dithering?
Lou Reed and the End Times
William Binney Explains Snowden Docs (2014)
You've been able to handle "10 bit" files on Macintosh or Windows since forever. What's new here is native video card driver support for allowing 10 bits per channel (30 bpp) content to be viewed real time through the main display.

Let's be very clear here — being able to view 30 bpp is a very, very marginal benefit for most people most of the time, even if they're working on high bit depth material. Far more important has been the substantial improvements in display gamut and accuracy.

For content creators the important thing is for this additional bit depth to be captured in the first instance and preserved during manipulation.
Could give yammer a chance. Not open but their freemium model is much better than slacks
Absolutely. Gasoline gells.
I firmly believe in punishing companies that are unethical by personally boycotting them. VW doesn't even sell the best gasoline-powered cars for the price, so there's no way I'd be tempted.