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Flappy Bird Clone in 87 Lines of Python
After reading this, A part of me wishes / wonders what it would be like reading any docs/readmes/code you write for your day job.
I don't think that's correct. The Inuit surely knew of the Cree. Eg, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/film-reviews/inuit-... . Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit#Prehistory :

> Inuit had trade relations with more southern cultures; boundary disputes were common and gave rise to aggressive actions.

That page also addresses your question, saying "The culture and technology of Inuit society that served so well in the Arctic were not suited to subarctic regions, so they did not displace their southern neighbors."
The correlations seen in the the genome-wide-association study are impressive, but I don't see how they would help in this case. If you'd use that data for a model, you'd end up with a model that has thousands of parameters, and each of them has a huge margin of error. Using this data, how precise would your model be? Ie. given a genome, how precisely could you estimate height?

Concerning your comparison with breeding: you seem to misunderstand me. I don't think that breeding per se doesn't work. Breeding by looking at phenotypes works wonderful.

But what you suggest is to just iterate to optimise [according to my spellchecker that is how you spell it] according to a model. You are missing the step where those embryos grow (or fail to grow) into adults. Without this step, your optimisation procedure will drift randomly on every axis that your model doesn't measure.
Thanks - yes it's fun and very powerful. An integral part of Clasp is "clasp-analyzer" - a static analyzer that uses the ASTMatcher library to analyze all of the Clasp C++ source code (>170 source files). It builds an interface to the Memory Pool System garbage collector (coming soon) and builds a fast replacement for dynamic_cast. We are planning to use it to write a "super-swig" that could automatically build foreign function interfaces for C++ code.
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Not to mention people buying the x86 chip were buying performance and x86 compatibility. Proper comparisons for cheap or energy-efficient x86 would be best made against VIA's CPU's. Maybe also the Loongson with x86 emulation since they can give you speed in MIPS mode and x86 compatibility where needed. Don't know their price, though.
It's more likely that they require blue ink so they can distinguish the original from a photocopy.
I believe they were capable of generating an increase in customers but I think the incremental customer base rarely converted into repeat business or very loyal customers, since the sorts of people who are looking to take advantage of "too-good-to-be-true" customers are not the sort of people who necessarily express consumer loyalty.

They're looking to take advantage of whatever deals (consumer advantage) are available and so the value-proposition offered by a Groupon campaign was way-overvalued by both Groupon and the businesses who bought into it.
I’d prefer to have a simple JSON configuration file... followed by a pile of unnecessary complexity in the form of new semantics on how to declare and tie things together.

I highly doubt that this is making author's developers life easier.

More likely, it's just an over-engineering indulgence, that happens to make one's job more secure.
> Please, have your way with my anecdata, but I'd be much more interested in the argument that a $30K debt load for someone earning $45K is crippling.

I was not offering a solution or even saying there are no problems.

I was addressing a bold claim that Americans could once afford college by working part time, with the strong implication that this cannot be done anymore.

I am not refusing to consider anything, and my scope was clearly defined by the claim that I quoted and to which I offered a refutation.

Moving the conversation broader, you raise several issues. These are not relevant to the claim made and addressed.

You have inferred that my post is smug criticism of real issues that exist (some of which you have touched on). That was not my intention, and I promise I did not feel smug in responding.

The only point you've raised that addresses my post around student debt is that the average $27K of debt that students graduate with could have gone to a down payment on a house. Ignoring the fact that real estate for residence is historically a terrible investment, how would $27K of debt somehow convert to a down payment? A down payment comes out of savings. The fact that a graduating student has debt implies they didn't have the cash to put toward a down payment. With the return to college still being large and positive, I would argue that this debt is typically well worth it.
One of them should just rip off and modernize the SGI Onyx or Octane approaches. They did amazing stuff with 150-200Mhz CPU's by great, HW architecture. :)
Any art or writing instrument store will have gobs or pens and pencils (or lead inserts for mechanical pencils) in this shade of blue if you're interested. As the article states, it's good for sketches that you'll ink or pencil over later, since they will disappear if you scan or photocopy them in high-contrast B&W.

It sort of reminds me of the old graphics method of using RGB(255,0,255) for sections of a sprite that should be transparent, since an alpha channel wasn't an option, because it's such a hot pink and such a precise color it would never naturally appear in artwork.
Staying Busy
This won't solve getting folks to your site, but will definitely help in getting them to actually download your app - make sure the first thing your site does is spell out the benefit to the customer.

Coming to your site, it was pretty clear how I could interact with the site, but not why I should bother. It might be obvious to you, since you've worked on it, but it's not to a casual browser. Compare to https://www.gotinder.com/ which works hard to clearly sell the benefit of the service.
A non-profit doesn't necessarily mean that they give stuff away for free. A non-profit can (and there are many that do, for example, ours - https://www.engageSPARK.com ) sell stuff to customers to generate revenue and have profits. The difference is that instead of shareholders extracting the profits, all profits are used to have more impact.

Hospitals, universities, credit unions, financial companies (e.g,. Vanguard), and insurance companies (e.g,. Blue Cross and Blue Shield) are often revenue-generating non-profits or mutual companies (where all profits are shared by the customers).

As @oneJob points out in another comment here - All that "non-profit" means is, from Wikipedia, : "A non-profit organization is an organization that uses its surplus revenues to further achieve its purpose or mission, rather than distributing its surplus income to the organization's shareholders (or equivalents) as profit or dividends."
DNA has been proposed as a long term digital storage medium. Magnetic and optical digital storage generally last less than a decade. You need to copy annually to be sure.

As others pointed out, writing DNA efficienty is the bottleneck. Reading is getting cheap.
It must be fascinating to work on an app where the target demographic is slightly less than half of the world's population. The CEO's Twitter feed is very interesting too.

https://twitter.com/idatin/status/659853258496851968

What may seem as a simple tracker app on the surface is actually a very complicated product tackling many problems all over the world.
Ironically enough, sysvinit and sysv-rc weren't particularly good on the whole "small and separated" aspect [1]. This has been known for a while, and a lot of work has been done to address the problem domain, much of it understudied and not well known [2].

I don't think Red Hat had all that much of a stake initially. Kay Sievers was actually a SUSE employee at the time systemd was conceived for public release, IIRC.

Red Hat's interests seem far more directed at cloud and containers (see: Project Atomic) than workstations, and indeed the direction systemd has been heading reflects that.

[1] http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/sy...

[2] http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/
https://github.com/feross/webtorrent/issues/168 needs to happen first.
Airbnb raises $100M at the same valuation as their previous round ($25.5B)
Sadly, that weaponises the browser into a tool for portscanning and exploiting the user's local network.
So borrowing is up since rates are at a 5-year low. Colour me shocked...
Despite what you said, you in no way addressed or contradicted his point. Clockrate and nm don't tell you performance. Intel's internal architecture has tons of tricks to get more bang for buck out of their cycles. Plus lots of accelerators with extra instructions. Plus modifiable with microcode update. So, a proper comparison would be a number of workloads on each that people use for desktops.

Note: I still haven't seen a mobile that outperforms my old Core Duo 2 laptop. Always slower in both delay and throughput.
Yes, because it requires a BEP (http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0001.html) to be added as an "official" extension to BitTorrent. Eventually it will happen. I'd hope that by posting it again to HN, someone might add it to their list of things to do in their Infinite Free Time.
What is a $50 investor?
Move fast and crash things!
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This can be generalised. It is also one of my favorite ways of doing developer interviews. Do they have a working/in-depth knowledge of what keeps the inter webs running? So many people have never ventured out of their main competence bubble, and that bubble can be quite small (but focused, I suppose).

For all I know, they believe everything is kept together with the help of magic. I guess I don't trust people who don't have a natural urge to understand at least the most basic things of our foundations.
Not much, I guess. The original 8086 had only around 30000 transistors. The die of a modern quad-core Intel chip accommodates more than a billion transistors, about half of which are dedicated to the GPU and maybe around 10% are taken by a single core. That would roughly translate to 100 million transistors per core (including their L1 and L2 caches), so the footprint of the legacy cruft should be negligible.
How is it even legal ?
That's probably a good question to ask about any piece of software or standard: "Be honest, Is there a way that your software or software written to the specification could render the computer unusable for someone not trying to render the computer unusable?"
You've arrived at my original point: we see so many studies that focus on height because height is unambiguous and so easy to measure. This "scientific proof," in turn, makes it seem like a bigger factor than it is.

Handsomeness (or physical beauty) is difficult to quantify and therefore much harder to study. Yet that doesn't make it any less of a critical factor to attraction as it plays out in the real world.
Hire a PR person and/or a SEO/Online Marketer. You have heard the phrase you must spend money to make money I'm sure. The trick is to do the part you are really good at, and pay someone else to do the part you are not really good at.
That's very cool idea! But is it still working? It's processing my request for more than hour.
An intel 8088 processor had a 22mm^2 die size at a 3000nm process node size. A modern x86 processor has a ~200mm^2 die size at a 14nm node size, a die size that is 10x larger with features 200x smaller.

Even if a modern x86 chip had to put an entire 8088 on die for legacy compatability (which it definitely would not need to) we are talking less than 0.1% of the die space being taken up by legacy features.

The idea that x86 is somehow doomed to be inefficent because of legacy baggage is quite simply massively overblown.
Please email hn@ycombinator.com if you would like us to send you a repost invite for this.
Getting lots of HTTP 415 (Unsupported Media Type) errors... is the code available somewhere that one could self host this? it looks really cool
I already have many choices of client. All of which can correctly interact with each other. A new client come along and can't do that. Suddenly every other client is broken. Please, this client is broken and needs fixing.
Indeed, one can reimplement those things on other systems. And other systems have already done this!

But forcing the use of epoll instead of an existing abstraction like libevent means that now epoll is added to the list of things that must be implemented.

I could go through my code and change all the open(O_CREAT) calls to open(0x200) because that's the same thing. And then none of that code would work on linux, where O_CREAT is 0x40. Would that be an improvement?
Article on the secret STS-38 mission patch, and others: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1197/1
Mobile Browser Benchmark: Edge vs. Chrome vs. Firefox
Buzzfeed, on MY Hacker News?!
>> Computer scientists often don't understand and appreciate the complexities of a signalling pathway

Do they have to? If I understood OP right, he just wants to crunch some numbers and find out whether there is a correlation between specific bacteria types and diseases. It's a stochastic approach to the problem.

I don't like rants like yours that basically say "don't talk about this subject, you don't have the necessary background". Problems sometimes _are_ solved by people foreign to a field.
Just familiarity. Mostly I just can't recommend something I don't know much about. The SIMD variant of MT is architecture specific, I thought? Other newer variants of MT/WELL generators and PCG are probably all good options. Also xorshift*.

But I know that MT is a very good algorithm and using it has a certain pragmatic appeal - you make a lot of people's lives easier because when they Google to learn more about your generator they'll find good information quickly.
Downvoted as Patently False because anyone who spends 30 seconds to look up the FAQ for /r/tulpas and read the rules can find the part where they explicitly disallow the creepypasta and the part where they say "the bulk of the community sees this is an entirely psychological technique".

(However, factual matters aside, you may feel free to Reddit-bash all day long and I won't mind, or promote David-Neel if that's what you're into.)
If Intel wants to lose a few billion dollars while gaining almost no market share, why shouldn't it be legal? It was a massive failure all around, with basically only low-end tablets and some Asus phones using Intel's fire-sale chips.

Had it succeeded I'm sure we could have seen some lawsuits but it didn't so we don't.
libuv seems to handle such things pretty well. Ported to AIX, *BSD, Darwin, Solaris, and Windows.
At least the 1970s, based on a friend's experience.
Apparently this is Blue Man Group blue too.
This seems like something that could be the først major step towards making Bitcoins usable for the public.

So far, it's been very hard to use Bitcoin for everyday stuff, so if this turns out to be fairly simple and cheap to use, it might become a global phenomenon. For now, it seems like the limitations in use based on locality is the biggest problem with the card.
And you can't gate it behind a permissions dialog like Geolocation or something? Please.
Summary: If you know learn a little, you realize that each packet might be separately acknowledged before the next one is sent. In particular, note this quote: Net::HTTP doesn’t set TCP_NODELAY on the TCP socket it opens, so it waits for acknowledgement of the first packet before sending the second.

By setting TCP_NODELAY, they removed a series of 40ms delays, vastly improving performance of their web app.
In the video he says "look at the facts" then proceeds to add context to the first half of the data, "these are rough numbers I didn't have the exact numbers", but the graphs are attributed to Huachuang Securites and he is from Bloomberg.
Interesting, do you have a picture? Most engineering paper has a grid printed only the back so it doesn't show when scanned, but I haven't seen it in blue.
TLDR: return on investment in China has gone down a lot lately, and (according to the article) many Chinese companies which borrowed heavily to invest aren't now able to repay the interests with their cash flow, and thus need to borrow even more to do that. This kind of situation was defined "Ponzi borrowing" by economist Hyman Minski [1], hence the sensationalist title.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Minsky
Absolutely serious that elements of the refugee population belong to groups that engage in torture/beheading/rape/enslavement. We have no idea how to tell the good from the bad. Just takes a small number of radicals to cause huge damage and disruption. Not worth the risk.
> But you haven't actually discovered anything new.

The fact that sugar pills work may not be new, but it's still pretty remarkable.
Even if you win you lose, because those top firm jobs tend to be brutal quality of life wise.

There are legal jobs that have good work-life balance, involve interesting work, pay decently (if not great), don't require you to hustle for clients, and are fairly well thought of by society at large: federal court judge and tenured law professor. For both it would behoove you to go to Yale or failing that Harvard.

(Keep in mind when looking at these links, Yale's class size is about 1/3 Harvard's.)

http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2004/04/where_federal_...
http://lsolum.blogspot.com/archives/2004_07_01_lsolum_archiv...
My friend Dr. Elaine Hsiao of Caltech and UCLA was the lead author of the paper mentioned in the article regarding the effects of B. fragilis in mouse models of autism. It was her doctoral work. If you find it interesting here are some talks and papers by her to check out:

A short talk covering the paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWT_BLVOASI

A longer talk about the field of microbes and behavior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY_fRFjteAw

The actual paper "Microbiota Modulate Behavioral and Physiological Abnormalities Associated with Neurodevelopmental Disorders": http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(13)01473-6
And their homepage has a link to a Dongle issues FAQ. Which contains this line: "Sending another dongle means sending a new free license. We have no way of differentiating unlucky people from dishonest ones."

... Except they can. Dishonest ones would just type "tvpaint" into a search engine and download it, not go through the hassle of buying a license in the first place and pretending to lose a dongle.

They even list this as their second selling feature on the freelance artists page. I don't get it :\.

The software looks really cool though.
Its totally cool. Learning from Qualcomm experience (milking Chinese companies for IP resulted in $1B penalty hehe) Intel "partnered" with Rockchip and Spreadtrum (read: was forced by Chinese regulators to give away its Atom IP to Rockchip) and "invested" in a bunch of companies, not to mention will spend almost $6B building a fab there.
I can see how this affords some nice properties for robustness. I'm less convinced about security.

I can imagine essentially a grid with a moat of computationally very difficult structures to send commands through without help from inside the moat. I can see how you'd, like, send a password hash through and something would come out and "get you" for lack of a better explanation.

But that seems like it would be about as secure as a real moat.... Which is to say, it's still only as safe as your expectations about your opponent's capabilities are accurate. So, you might have some ideas about how malware must do computation, and you can have your little computation immune system working to make that stochastically impossible. But then the malware writers will figure out weirder ways to do computation. Like maybe they give up on penetrating the moat and have the immune system do the nefarious computation. Or whatever. My point is that you still end up in an arms race, except it's an arms race within a complex system so it's even more difficult to have an understanding of your opponent's capabilities than it is inside a von neumann machine.
To increase the efficiency of many people working in diverse domains, probably a '1-size-fits-all' solution would be hard to find.
So something generic - one idea is, generally getting mentored by someone more experienced than you increases your efficiency/helps your career. (Mostly) everybody could use a guide/mentor, either for careers or personal lives. It could be a sort of referral program - to get access to a mentor older than you, you have to mentor someone younger than you.
I was actually listening to the song and then searched for the name. :)
DRM seems to have a long history of targeting their paying customers with abuse.
I used to thing this way before I realized it's just an arbitrary hoop you make people jump through. To you, people understanding TCP might be what you claim is a basic foundation. However, it's just about as arbitrary as asking people to explain 802.11 RTS/CTS or clos switch fabrics, which are both equally as important to delivering day-to-day network traffic. Additionally, they both can come up as things you need to understand when trying to optimize jitter/latency in sensitive local network traffic applications.

Don't judge people based on which components of networks they happened to take an interest in and dive into.
Can you point me to some resources about fermentation? I make my own milk kefir, and it turned my life around, but I'm considering adding in more diverse stuff.
Good point. Especially on the hospitals. That's as far from free as one can get. :)
>Please, this client is broken and needs fixing

Good thing it's open source then.

They interact with each other because of BEPs. This client is a prototype and if it's successful you'll have a whole new source of peers.

And before PeX was a BEP, before Vuze had a Mainline DHT plugin, it didn't interact with some clients either. Hell, even DHT [1] had to go through the same BEP process. Do you expect all software to start out complete?

1: http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0005.html
The point is that China is a major force in the global economies and, as the video explains, an healthy economy should not have such issues.
The $1,000,000 quote: ﻿ “The Americans came,” he said. “They took away Saddam, but they also took away our security. I didn’t like Saddam, we were starving then, but at least we didn’t have war. When you came here, the civil war started.”
Microsoft's Visual Studio Code vs. Atom: Comparison, Review and Voting
I'm lead to believe that the AI misspelled "price" as "prince"?

I guess it's in the cracks that we see the human shine through.
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Law school exams are about recognizing and discussing ambiguity, not about memorizing rules. The people who think it's about memorizing get Bs, the ones who realize it's about ambiguity (while also decently memorizing the important details) get As.
Except that one requires login.
Not to mention an article that isn't total crap!? It is pleasantly surprising to read an article from buzzfeed and have it not be dredged up sludge of the internet.
Looking forward to a WebTorrent-based Popcorn-Time app, itself hosted over WebTorrent...