skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone who is thinking about giving it a spin for the first time, do yourself a favor and don't get this .01 version. Either wait for a few patches or download the far more stable and mature 0.40.24 (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/older_versions.html)

Dwarf Fortress is basically a perpetual beta with lots of major bugs as it is, but especially brand new major versions like this one usually have multiple game-breaking bugs, including crashes, corrupted saves, etc. It would be a shame if people willing to give it a try would give it up due to the poor quality of the initial release of a new major version.

Dwarf Fortress is a truly unique game and really worth putting in the effort to learn simply due to the stories it generates as you play.

Here's an example of a story that happened to me. https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/1mb0cw/the_s... Note this story is in no way embellished by me. Everything described there was actually simulated within the game.
was this done with machine learning or manual submission?
A fine piece of legal manoeuvring.
Why sort them in space? That work can be done on Earth.
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Ugh, your arguments are insufferable and reek of someone who only has surface understanding. Please go back to submissions and stay out of comments.

> First of all, LuaJIT is not statically typed. Terra is.

Wow, phenomenal analysis there genius.

> Second, it's not meant to be used instead of Lua/LuaJIT but instead of C.

Oh really, because anyone knowledgeable enough in C wouldn't use this, so your argument comes from a perspective of a naive tinkerer who likes shiny tech.

> You seem hellbent of comparing it to using Lua. I don't care for Lua.

Why the fuck are you commenting on this anyway then.

> The fact that it's written in Lua is an irrelevant implementation detail.

I bet you make more submissions to HN then you actually write software. This is so disconnected from reality.

> That just reflects badly on you though.

Your whole counterargument reflects on your naivety. You don't care about technical discussion, you just don't like that I don't like the software. Why waste your energy? Why do you bother talking about software you have literally no background in?
Get your ass to work.

What other "entry point" do you truly expect for emerging worlds?

#kidstoday
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Cell Phone Built in Minecraft Can Actually Make Video Calls
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Or Jesus Christ, Silicon Valley, which unfortunately hasn't written anything new for a year or two.

http://jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com/
PHP 7 Return Types
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Right, yes, some of these features were added to various MUDs with some amount of success.

The big difference I'm arguing for is scope, and engineering.

If you have NPC chat bots that can learn, and an adjectives and typologies system for object, combine them so that chat bots can talk about objects adjectives and typologies. That sort of thing, really engineer the hell out of it.

In the end it would all be a massive NLP problem. As major advances in NLP happen the possibilities for MUDs is massive.
Or you might die. If you happen to pester the wrong person you might die. If you happen to pester your parents at the wrong time you might be injured. People under stress are dangerous.
Very insightful comment, thank you for posting it.
Let me put a positive spin on it. While the unconditional variance is so large that the statement is meaningless, if you condition on your 3 factors, I think you can obtain a pretty good predictor.

For example, for the combination 1. activity = running, 2. person = world champion in cycling, 3. competence = sub-3-hour marathon, then you would expect the time to be around 100 hours. Lance Armstrong fits this combination. How long he trained, we can't know for sure, but the first google hit for (a free) marathon training program at the elite level [1] shows 85h total running time.

[1] http://www.yourmarathontrainingplan.com/free-training-progra...
I just hope more people start running with NoScript and then all this nonsense is meaningless anyway:)
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Yeah, this is where we're at. We have a ton of old servers running hundreds of sites, some of them up to 10 years old. It's just not feasible for us to upgrade those servers unless there is a massive security issue. So we have a lot of servers running 5.3 and 5.4.

We currently run on Debian stable and don't upgrade any packages beyond what Debian is supporting. In all likelihood, we won't be using PHP 7 until the next major Debian release, which I believe is scheduled for April 2017.

Regardless, we still have to support clients that are running older instances of PHP on their GoDaddy shared hosting. If it's not EOL, we can't justify not allowing them to use it so we're stuck with 5.5+ for the time being.
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If possible, stick it out for a year. Many hiring managers view that as fulfilling your initial obligations after being hired (hiring expense etc.).

Try to find a way to make lemonade with the lemons you work with. Maybe you'll teach them a thing or two. Also, possibly some of their criticism is valid, regardless of how poorly delivered...
Until you hit something the framework wasn't design to do (which happens 100% of the time in my experience). Now you're working for the framework instead of it working for you.

This guy said it better: “Frameworks invert control. They control the lifecycle of the app, and give you entry points where your code runs. You’re still responsible for the final code, but you’re not in control.” https://aerotwist.com/blog/the-cost-of-frameworks/
This is great. I have a huge problem with starting projects and just dropping them. I haven't been able to figure out why I simply stop working on them and jump to the next thing but maybe this will help me get back on track.
Laravel is an excellent Rails clone, but the entire problem with Laravel is that it's a PHP framework.

I've been a PHP dev for 15 years and the biggest issue with frameworks in PHP is PHP itself. A request comes in, the PHP process loads up everything, executes the request and tears down...on every single request.

In just about every other language, the application boots up, loads everything into RAM and each individual request doesn't have to reload things.

There are definitely trade offs here. You can have a 1 TB hard drive filled up with PHP code on a 256mb of RAM server and everything is still going to run fine. There's a lot of value in that and most people who are PHP averse seem to be turning to Lamba from AWS to fill that gap. PHP scales down better than just about anything else out there.

When the other commenter mentioned doing lightweight scripts with PDO that's essentially what he meant though. Lightweight avoids reloading libraries and PHP is lightning fast when you do that.

A lot of progress has been made over the years to help PHP handle frameworks better, but there's a big reason why PHP grinds to a halt with heavy frameworks and that's it. Check out the techempower framework benchmarks.

Using PHP like Go, however, and just pulling in what you need can be extremely powerful.

Here's an entire presentation on it that I gave to a local PHP group. http://www.slideshare.net/barrywjones3/whats-the-right-php

FWIW, I do really like Laravel and even recommend it if you HAVE to use a big framework.
Making it a text game instead of minecraft-like would limit the audience and save next to nothing in development time IMHO.
There are a lot of quotes in there from a ton of people. I'm actually in there, and I'm neither famous nor do I know who put the book out.
The gear seer: analyze your bicycle drivetrain
My experience is fairly similar. How often does SQLMap (or another SQLi automated tool) fail to recognize a hole that is later uncovered through a manual investigation?
I seem to recall that the gunner on one of the more successful German tank crews during WW2 basically had the sights set for a specific distance and then eyeballed it from there.
Sounds like the owner or the bank are just trying to generate some PR buzz and rip off someone not from the area with more money than sense.

It's a few acres of prairie with some buildings that need to be torn down. I'm not up to date on land prices in western SD, but I can't imagine good pasture land is worth more than $2k/acre, even with the surge in beef prices recently.

It's also worth noting that the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian Reservations are located in the poorest counties in America. I've visited a couple times and it really is striking that such poverty exists in America. The one stat I can remember from a volunteer trip several years ago was that an 18 yr old boy had a <50% chance of living to 25. When I was in high school we would play football and basketball games there on occasion - our bus always had police escorts in and out of town.
If this is the goal, why not just have a script export the shell's history to a chat channel?

To me, a wiki would be even better, because you could retroactively include expository comments along with the command history.
If I had the spare change I would take it.
There indeed is a lot of variance and we really cannot generalize. Especially with the 'abilities of the person' which has the highest of the variances.

If you take the article with a bit of salt and step up the generalization ladder, the point is that skill expertise vs time grows exponentially... With the greatest productivity achieved in the initial time spent. Mastering skills on the other hand takes comparatively more time.
After about an hour of studying, I coached my daughter to a dominant performance in a spaghetti bridge building competition.

(The key is gusset plates.)
Reminds me of this: http://pbfcomics.com/253/
What if CMB is not random? Time to break out the idea pad for planning my next science fiction story.
What are the UK's highest paid jobs of 2015? – Money – The Guardian
Same here - I go to bed at 8, when my kids do. Probably asleep by 9-9:30 depending on how long I read/whatever before actually sleeping. I am up before 5 AM to have some time to myself and by the time most people get rolling for the day, I've already accomplished quite a bit.

Sure, I don't do much in the evenings, but I am awake as much as anyone else, and feel better with this timing.
I interpret the above blog post as Google basically saying that the playing field is now leveled.
If they can fully render client-side applications, why would there be any downsides to using a SPA?

It seems like the days of

>"Detect and redirect one of the major search engines to a text alternative"

are over
A very beginner Java programmer here. It's a nicely organized notebook, great demo, but: seems like a lot of effort was put into optimizing the python efforts, and none for Java. Isn't that an unfair comparison?

My real question is, is it so much easier to do this excercise in Python than Java, assuming equal proficiency in either case?
Show HN: Nations Graph – a visualization of world history in Haskell and JS
We can be who we want to be, it's only up to us to chose doing so
The rest of the page is ads. I presume you have adblocker turned on.
> I usually easily wake up with first/second alarm at 6:00/6:01 and feel fresh.

I thought the signal for good sleep was that you didn't need an alarm to wake up? Can you point to those academic articles you've mentioned?
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is technically not a charity
The intersection of the sets 'Ikea furniture owners', 'People that think Ikea furniture is low quality' and 'PHP programmers' isn't empty.
One Click Manufacturing: Could It Really Be That Easy?
Exactly. That, plus the fact(?) that most people put less than 100 hours into most things.
Dude, you replied to my comment. I am not "changing the subject". I was agreeing with CodeCube and extending his point. To the extent there is a subject here, it is covert and overt racists chafing that they can no longer be quite as racist as they are used to.

It's not my job to address whatever hobbyhorse you've ridden in on, one I still only find half comprehensible. HN discussion is a recreation for me, one I do on my terms. If you would like to make dealing with you my job, feel free to book me at my consulting rate, $300/hr, cash in advance. I have open slots starting in mid-January. Otherwise, please march back on out of my mentions. Thanks.
I think it's following the spirit of the treaty. The idea is, that celestial bodies are "to the benefit of all mankind". So whoever can go and mine it! Now, obviously, if you prevent the miners from keeping the profits by distributing them, then obviously noone will even try...
Interesting and I like how accessible it is. Any thoughts on why more tablets than phones currently block ads? Found that kind of surprising.
For someone interested in the future of the...err...space, what type of technical background is required to be hired today to work at a company with plans to attempt this type of mining?
Thanks for the link, but $5 a month for adding a simple delay to my e-mail? I find that a bit too expensive.

Instead, I just answer my e-mails in the morning and ignore any new incoming e-mails the rest of the day.
from the text: "Crooks never tweeted. He never retweeted. But he had developed his own, impassioned way of favoriting."

This is great.
Are you the author? Loved the article on the Kano model
All I can think of when reading this is to ask myself whether or not the work that I do is good for my mental stability.
Not to be cynical, but isn't this also just a method to ensure your company will remain for a longer duration? As a decline in facebook stock will indirectly hurt the philanthropic projects which are linked to it through his foundation. I would take his "pledge" more serious if he would invest actual capital (money, resources, ...) in such projects.
If cookieless, how do you accurately aggregate/assign pageviews per visitor?
You could buy a whole military Soviet town for $330,000 sans the destroyed mega-radar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skrunda

The problem is upkeep and finding something useful to do with the place.

I know in Germany some of the NATO military towns have been repurposed.
Good tip. Also, there are options that can be built from source (e.g., BSD) so that all that cruft is not installed by default. IME, 8 GB SD cards are not needed; 1 GB and smaller can suffice.
Problems with Node.js Event Loop
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I thought Modern PHP by Josh Lockhart, also the author of PHP the Right Way, was a helpful overview.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033868.do
This does rather drive home how important location is in real estate. Similar things have happened in the UK on a smaller scale in collapsed pottery town Stoke-on-Trent: http://www.stoke.gov.uk/ccm/content/housing/private-housing/...
In the US in general, strikes are NOT the problem. I do not recall a single strike in the past 20 years or so (In the Boston area).
There are tons of other problems (like outdated cars, frequent equipment issues, etc) - but I doubt a private enterprise would improve things much by itself.

Introducing competitive environment, on the other hand, would.
“Mad” is a relative term. Is it sane to obsess over constantly staying productive? Is it normal to feel guilt when doing some silly, pointless things that bring you joy? In my vocabulary, “mad” are people who take life too seriously.
From the site: "No Cookies or Visitor Tracking"

I'm wondering how you can differentiate visitors from page views without it.
Use e-surveillance to fight insurgency, Buhari urged
The "79 fighter planes" claim doesn't pass the sniff test to me either. Remember that two months after this, the Japanese didn't even bother sending fighters to even try to intercept the planes that bombed Hiroshima (for example).

The first proposition is a reasonable explanation for the second. If you're not willing to lose 79 fighters, then don't engage a B-29.
There's also a huge amount of variance with underlying knowledge too. When you know something at a lower level and you want to work at a higher one, it's easier to pick up.

Say you want to teach someone who only knows x86 assembly C vs someone who only knows Python. Both will have their struggles, but the person who knows how a CPU works already will have an easier go at grasping lower level features needed for most software development quickly.
Like Firebase, but for free (thanks to Heroku)
Pillow Talk: Feel the presence of your loved one
Not as engaging as the story of Boatmurdered, but amusing nonetheless.
Depends on the framework. Dropwizard, for example, is built upon Jersey, which is designed to be modular and to allow components, even in core, to be extended or replaced (because they're nothing-special Java objects, all the way down). You have to understand the framework, but it's generally safe to assume that the intentions of the framework are good and that by adhering to the contracts between objects you'll get the result you want.
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I am coming in March for pleasure but I also want to find a way to promote my startup that I hope will be live by then. Of course I will apply to all accelerators but can I do something more? Any ideas? Go to what kind of meetings ? Can I pitch some early stage VC's while I am there?

Any help appreciated
What I wish I had known about learning
It's not perfect, but I find most news sites to be more readable after turning off CSS. The text will properly fill your window, and there are no annoying typefaces.
Pretty sure newer versions of php have an opcode cache built in, so they don't need to load everything on every request now?
Cool idea, but that the chords and note durations were chosen deliberately by a human makes me significantly less impressed. Can a random number sequence (or e.g. whatever other real number with a long decimal expansion) not be made to sound passable by similarly changing durations to emphasise certain notes? What's musically special about pi and e?
NumPy/SciPy's install page tells you to use Anaconda (or equivalent) for Windows, and build from repositories for Linux.

http://www.scipy.org/install.html

Granted, it does not say "and by the way, when you do that you get tons of other great things like pandas, matplotlib, etc". But they are very clear about not trying to do this yourself.
Yeah, I am :)

Thanks for letting me know you liked that one too. Have you had the chance to use the model recently?
Harnessing the Chaos of the Cosmic Microwave Background for Better Encryption
You also don't need to pay corporate tax when booking a capital gain on your shares, so the tax advantage is actually a lot more.

£1m in corporate income is taxed at 20%, so you're left with £800k after tax. Then you declare a dividend, and pay a dividend tax. That'll be 25-30%, so you'd be left with £800k - 30% = £560k in pocket.

To earn £3m (in pocket), you would have to generate approx. £5.25m in pretax corporate profit.

Whereas with a share sale, you will be taxed at 10%, meaning you're left with £2.7m (if you sell for £3m). A significant difference.

I live in Belgium, where the difference is even larger. Capital gains on share sales are tax free, corporate income + dividends are taxed at about 45%.
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"The precise reasons that people see profundity in vague buzzwords or syntactic but completely random sentences are unknown." Here is my guess: people probably find that understanding profound sayings does tend to involve more thinking than other sentences... so people probably come to associate having to think about a sentence more with profundity.
"We're on a mission from God"
I seem to recall a profile of the game and it's creators that said it's mostly by choice.

Found it: they were offered 300K just to license the name.

He has refused a programming job at a major developer
(he asked that I keep its name off the record) and
turned down a $300,000 offer from another company to
license the Dwarf Fortress name, fearing that the
proposed sum wouldn’t sufficiently offset the long-term
donations drop that would likely result.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brilliance-of...