skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Red 1.0 won't feature many optimizations. So at that time the performance will be comparable to python. After that, their plan is to rewrite the codegenerator in a modular way so that more targets, as well as more optimizations can be added. Also, a JIT compiler will be added. The plans for Red 2.0, as much as I know, is to achieve performance as close to C as possible.
The thing I like so much about it are the different civilizations, which come with their own unique language and music.
It's a minor detail and helps a bit with the immersion, compared to just a simple paint job to differentiate between them.
That's why I explicitly mentioned the bit depth, color, and palette reduction. That's stuff that's not related to the specific DEFLATE-compatible encoder used.
Recognizing Probabilities in Budgeting and Forecasting
Go inside and pay with cash. Problem solved.
> But why is it bad that a commercial party wants to respect local laws?

Let's say for sake of argument that it is not bad. But what are those laws? What does the law say and how do you interpret it? The way China does censorship is very vague: "don't allow anything indecent (by any standard) or that disturbs social harmony (in any way)." Oh, and there is no such thing as safe harbor, you must pro-actively check that user content abides by these vague standards. It is also quite arbitrary, here is an example of a picture that is banned in China as indecent:

http://imgur.com/e6HCmXq

Why? Because of people were comparing that image to this:

https://thenanfang.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/parade-06....

Now how the heck are you supposed to follow that law?

USA censorship is more like "child porn is bad, report it at once if you find it." It is an incredibly different form of very clear content restriction. It is not a vague threat hanging over your head all the time.
There's also stuff like rewire [0], which lets you change required values inside modules. Although every time I've tried it, I found it created more problems than it was solving.

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/rewire
I appreciate the fact the study used human volunteers rather than force this experiment on animals. It's more humane, and the results are likely much more accurate.
I was introduced to HansoftX on an open source project I was contributing to and 10/10 would use it again.

It was deceptively simple to get started but really powerful once I was able to dig in a bit more. Super responsive drag-drop UI and apparently it uses Meteor as the back-end so change updates are instantaneous.

It uses both lists (that can be nested multiple layers deep) and cards. You can drag tasks from lists to cards, or from cards to lists with links between the two being maintained. We were using the cards to track ToDo/Working/Done and lists to plan releases and track suggestions.

The project seems really young but they're doing all the 'right things'. One of the project contributors set it up to trigger notification updates in Slack when the boards changed and apparently it even has GitHub integration now.

I'm in no way affiliated with HansoftX. I just think it's a pretty amazing tool.
There's a tutorial here: http://aok.heavengames.com/university/other/world-of-ai-scri...

After that, just read the documentation. It's included as an old .doc file called CPSB. Google's cache lets me convert this to HTML if you find that better: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OxOa-k...

There are a bunch of player made AI's here: http://aok.heavengames.com/blacksmith/lister.php?category=ai

There is also an active community of AI scripters. They hold AI competitions and stuff. There is a forum at http://forums.aiscripters.com/ and an IRC channel at #federationofkings on irc.gamesurge.net . I'm sure they'd be happy to help if you have questions.
Red 0.6 featuring support for creating GUI's on Windows is going to be released soon. So, you can wait for that. Or else just download the automated build from http://www.red-lang.org/p/download.html and try the GUI. For any help, just join the Gitter room https://gitter.im/red/red .
The good of society comes as a side benefit of the individual's right to enjoy one's own property... Not the other way around.

That we are debating the goodness of property rights in this day is a mystery to me.
According to Piketty, rich people invest secretly into large mysterious companies. This pretty much precludes public markets, so they probably own lots of smaller businesses (e.g. hotels).

Why do you believe lending to farmers is a bad use for resources?

Investing in oil futures is transmitting information to the markets. It encourages current users to avoid unnecessary use of oil and produces to produce more. That's a valuable service.

What exactly do you think a hedge fund does?
Ask HN: I find all every single idea I come up with is already tried by someone
I have background in software development. At job I mostly do ETL and work with Hadoop ecosystem.
I am trying to learn web development starting with a simple framework to become full stack developer.

My intent is also to finish a side project and start a side income. However, every single idea I am coming up is already tried by someone else.

How do I differentiate my development work if -

1. Someone is already offering same product and has paid customers ?

2. If market is thinly spread is it worth developing another product in same niche ?

3. Most of the product that I see now-a-days are selling data. Many SaaS companies I see have grabbed data and selling it one form or another with monthly / yearly plans and give access to API.

What you think of this model of selling data ? Is it worth pursuing given that there are already N players competing for customers.

Thanks !
Email WIP.
Only people I know to do that are motorcycle customizers.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Selects the Eight Books Every Intelligent Person
Yes, Julia is amazing! In the same time, if you want to write a package for Julia you _may_ need to use C/C++. D is going to have integration with Julia in 2016 ;)

D already have good integration with Python. You may want to read this article http://d.readthedocs.org/en/latest/examples.html#plotting-wi... (it may be a little bit outdated).
How do you know the race and sex distribution of hacker news users? Or are you just assuming they are like you? (or unlike you? I have no way of knowing what group you might identify with)
I like PA Storage Monitor on Windows - lets you find large files, files of a type, disk hogs, and (what I like most) lets you compare folder sizes over time.
Err, what? Maybe you mean that an arbitrary distinction between statements and expressions makes the language trickier to learn than it otherwise might be. But once you have that distinction, print being a function vs a statement isn't trickier one way or the other.
I've been using fish as my default shell for awhile now and really like it. I've not looked for any other tools in the fish ecosystem tho -- hadn't even realized there were fish "package managers". Does anyone know a list of some compelling "packages" or have some favorites to share?
Meh. Your feelings are hurt boohoo. If you are poor and low status why don't you do something about it instead of whining about it and saying how we are all hurting your feelings. Sure, there are cases where you need outside help to get out of your current situation. Yes people should help if they can. But if I provide you help and you waste it like it is tipically the case than it is on you. It is not my responsibility to make you not poor if you do not take advantage of opportunities when they are given to you.

Many people cause their children to be poor by simply not giving a fuck. By spending all their money on vices and not taking care of themselves or family. Or by simply wasting their youths doing basically nothing productive even when given the opportunity. So you will not make me feel bad with your sob story when a lot of the fault is on poor people themselves, with lots of exceptions of course. Go and cry me a river.
If a bug has been in the software for years, and tons of people aren't complaining about it, does it really need to be gotten to eventually? Those should be resolved as "won't fix".
You've got it backwards. He is right and you are the one who is wrong. Sorry.

You really thing IBM thought, "wow, we are making so much money with these PC things ... better turn them into a commodity so our profit margins will go away!"

I forget how much the original XT cost, something like $2K or so? The margins on that must have been incredible.
> some people just lose a little less.

..that's how the world works already. Nobody needs a second house or car or whatever as much as some other people need food, clothes, medicine and/or shelter. Does this make the world a shitty place? IMHO yes, and the people who "win" don't really win, not in my books, because they are damaged in wholly other ways I'm not jealous of at all. But here we are, and I think you're imputing pure rationality where there is a lot of narcissism, greed and other defects mixed in. And nuclear war already nearly happened by accident, right? Also, having full control of a small pie which then grows bigger is preferable than being a part of a big pie that's growing where there are competing actors, if you're serious about power. For organizations and their zealots, that can be enough.

Scenario A:
you have 10000 points, the others have 5000 points

Scenario B:
You have one point, the others have 0 points

One way to look at it, is to say you have 10000 times less points, or 9999 points less, in scenario B over scenario A. (I submit the more intelligent way to look at it is that there are 15000 times less points in the world, or 14999 less, but that is besides the point).

But the other way to look at it is to say you have infinitely more points than anyone else, and are now God for eternity, for all practical purposes. That this seems silly or sick to you, that you would rather be a normal person in a decent world, than a ruler with an iron fist in a hellish world, doesn't make it less appealing for those who are already chin deep into things we would also find abhorrent. Never say "nobody" easily, unless it's about something that doesn't really matter.
How can you pay your tax bill with capital? Do I give the government shares in my corporation? Or, am I forced to sell shares every year to pay the bill? What happens if the corporation is private, and there is no liquid market for my shares? In that case, how can you even determine how much capital I have? What happens if the company I own shares in goes bankrupt at the start of the year? Do I still owe taxes on the capital from the year prior?
Close.

By making customers aware of the downtime they will have more customers ask for credit. If you suffer 1-2days of downtime and your customer doesn't notice to ask for credit; you win.

It's terrible; but unfortunately cost savings is drilled in from every darned angle.
Based on the link in his HN profile, I think he's referring to himself: $110/hr, 5,337 hours worked. Those are impressive numbers.
"Capability is substantially more genetic than environmental anyway"
I am confused how the Chinese can have such a surging middle class if it is genetic. Certainly they have not changed their genetics too much in the last 50 years.
75% of poor Americans own at least 1 car, and 45% own their own home. Most poor people have copious amounts of free time; only a fraction work.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/h150-07.pdf

Of course, this is tangential to curun1r's claim, which is that somehow an inability for consumers to purchase new technologies would hinder innovation.
They become complicit, and accomplices of, the local authorities. Cowardly hiding behind the local legal veil is really just avoiding any moral standard.
Age discrimination is not only wrong, it's illegal.

The woman in the article said she was told 'they want someone younger'. Anyone who can prove they did not get a job cause of their age may want to check with the EEOC and potentially a lawyer.
You can still finish a project and earn income with an idea that has been "done before." That describes a super-majority of the entire economy. "Being a dentist" has been done before. Most of my friends have SaaS products for which there exist other options; that is in no way a total impediment to getting to, say, $10k a month in sales. (In fact, if you ran down a list of the fairly lucrative small software businesses I know, the ones with the highest numbers are the ones with the most competition -- probably because they're competing in big markets. Email marketing is a lot bigger than e.g. bingo card generation -- my buddies doing email marketing do pretty well for themselves with market shares which are probably not tenths-of-a-percentage-point.)
What Will America Stand for in 2016?
Cracking BurgerTime, a 1982 game on a floppy disk
Pulsar is a bit different. It doesn't present as a filesystem. IIRC it presents an HTTP stream to XBMC.

Re: swarm health, Pulsar's predecessor project's README says this:

"Doesn't sequential download on bittorrent is bad?

Generally, yes. However, XBMCtorrent respects the same requirements "defined" by uTorrent 3. Also, XBMCtorrent tries to make it up to the swarm by seeding while you watch the movie."
As someone who plays AoE2 from time to time on Voobly, I consider this and the HD versions to be complete separate games, simply for the fact that said expansions are for the HD release but not the original one (original mod aside). So people like me are by these releases completely unaffected.
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> Thought experiment: Let's make the minimum wage $1000 per hour. I'd like you to think through the ramifications. What would happen?

I'm assuming prices through the roof, companies forced to sack their workers, unemployment rate through the roof, companies go bankrupt, economy collapses.

I believe Sanders is suggesting $10/hour (and that it's around $7 now). That's just a number, but I'm assuming it's the threshold between "needing welfare" and not. So my argument is that if you're paying an adult less than that then that's less than the cost of that person to "reasonably survive", thus artificially low. (In other words, companies are paying less for labor than the actual cost of labor.)

So now instead they're getting $7 from their employer, and in practice $3 in welfare. That's the difference with your example: People are already earning $10/hour, they're just not getting it from their employer. So raising the minimum wage is not raising the cost of labor, it's simply placing the entire burden on the employer instead of subsidizing it. There might even be room for a tax break there once people start number crunching. (Although in Sanders case I'm guessing he has other things to spend that money on, but I digress.)

If raising the minimum wage to the real cost of labor is a problem, then I just don't understand why. The money is there, it's just "stuck" at the top, and minimum wage is one way to help distribute some of the wealth (which really should benefit the economy as a whole, since the incredibly rich can't possibly spend all their money like millions of middle class families would).

> What do we do now? We continue to work, even though we're far past satisfying all of our material needs. Why didn't everyone just stop working more hours than it takes to eat and stay warm?

I guess it's partly because we live in a material world (where having a nice house, car, pretty clothes etc. is rewarding in its own right), and partly because money brings possibilities, and thus freedom: Freedom to travel, to not work, to do whatever one pleases. So money ultimately brings pleasure, and what else is life than seeking pleasure? ;-)
Cars specifically excluded by the poster to whom I replied. But the sibling comment to yours made exactly the same point about housing. Should I have highlighted the quote from the grandparent post better?
Does O(n) even matter when you only store a small number of elmeents in the tuple anyway?
They have a high average IQ with a low standard deviation..

http://lagriffedulion.f2s.com/sftfi1%7Bimage3%7D.gif

A large middle class is pretty much exactly what you'd expect based on the testing.

Why would anything need to have changed in the last 50 years?
Phase velocity
How is this clickbait? Did I in any way misrepresent the content of the article?

If you don't like D and don't want to use it move on to the next item on the front page.
Credit to the D developers for providing a concise, carefully-designed library for N-D array processing. The chained method invocations demonstrate D's UFCS (Uniform Function Call Syntax) nicely. And it's a definite bonus that you can use underscore like a comma separator in long integer literals (eg, `100_000`).

But if you use Python + Numpy/Scipy/Matplotlib and you're looking for a modern, compiled language for execution speedups or greater flexibility than what Numpy broadcasting operations provide by default, I would recommend Nim. It's as fast as C++ or D, it has Pythonic syntax, and it already includes many of D's best features (including type inference, UFCS, and underscores in integer literals).

And best of all, you don't need to rewrite all your existing Python+Numpy code into a new language to start using Nim.

The Pymod library we've created allows you to write Nim functions, compile them as standard CPython extension modules, and simply drop them into your existing Python code: https://github.com/jboy/nim-pymod

The Pymod library even includes a type `ptr PyArrayObject` that provides native Nim access to Numpy ndarrays via the Numpy C-API [ https://github.com/jboy/nim-pymod#pyarrayobject-type ]. So you can bounce back and forth between your Python code and your Nim code for the cost of a Python extension module function call. All of Numpy, Scipy & Matplotlib are still available to you in Python, in addition to statically-typed C++-like iterators in Nim+Pymod [ https://github.com/jboy/nim-pymod#pyarrayiter-types , https://github.com/jboy/nim-pymod#pyarrayiter-loop-idioms ]. The Nim for-loops will be compiled to C code that the C compiler can then auto-vectorize.
> You could now argue semantics wether WOFF2 still is WOFF

No arguing needed. It's a different format. It uses a different extension ("woff2" instead of "woff"), a different magic number, a different Universal Type Identifier string, and a different @font-face format.

> it's a relatively easy change

But it's not. Even WOFF2 isn't supported everywhere (according to http://caniuse.com/#feat=woff2). And that's a format that's fairly recent (the W3C Recommendation doc for WOFF 1.0 is dated December 2012) and only has a handful of implementations to begin with.

PNG is a format that's a lot older and is decodable by practically everyone. Even if there's only a handful of distinct implementations (and I don't actually know how many implementations there are), and even if every single implementation updated immediately, it would still take an incredibly long time for it to get deployed widely-enough to actually use as a general-purpose format.

It's also worth pointing out that web fonts have built-in fallback behavior (e.g. if a browser can't handle a WOFF2 font, you can provide a WOFF font as a backup), and they're also things that are typically set up once (so generating multiple font formats is reasonable). Images don't really have fallback behavior. On the web, the WHATWG HTML Living Standard defines a <picture> element that provides fallback but it's not supported everywhere. Outside of the web there's typically no way to do fallback either (if your browser can render an image but nothing else can, saving that image to disk isn't very useful, and sending it to someone else isn't very useful either). Also, while font files are created very rarely, images are created very frequently, and most people aren't going to want to create "PNG2" images if they also have to create PNGs and deal with fallback (just look at WebP, which was released 5 years ago and still AFAIK is not used by very many people outside of Google).
Possibly. I don't really want to play against people who have been playing competitively for 16 years. And I like messing around in single player, building cool bases or trying different strategies. Not trying to be as efficient as possible and micromanaging every single unit. Competitive multiplayer games in general have never really been that enjoyable to me.
Gas/Petrol stations were, along with restaurants, also the rare places where the CC was physically separated from the customer. By mandating chips+pin, customers no longer handed their cards over to people who might scan/copy them while out of sight.
The standard left wing complaint is that billionaires don't have enough lavish parties, but instead reinvest their wealth in new productive capacity. See, e.g., Picketty, Krugman, or anyone favoring stimulus directed at the bottom of the income distribution. Do you dispute this?

As for erasing class distinctions, consider the possibility that we already have. Imagine telling a person in 1915 about the world today; the children of rich struggling hard in school with the goal of getting a job where they can work hard in order to provide consumption for the poor (who mostly don't work). These rich people will wear the same hoodies and turtlenecks as anyone else, live in moderately larger houses than the poor (or at least in moderately nicer locations), and have virtually no goods and services that are unavailable to the poor.

Would this modern world not count as wildly imaginative?
Geez, this isn't Reddit.
Wouldn't the cost for the metal be more than the cost of an equivalent commercial plastic tank?
Religion has killed a lot of people as well. In fact, for that matter so has capitalism. But I don't necessarily blame the ideas of religion or capitalism for the deaths.

In truth, the point is a bit worn out and overused and doesn't say much about the underlying ideology.
Hi Patrick !
Thanks for the reply. As someone who is starting first time in SaaS field what is your advice for making product salable. Should I try to differentiate myself by adding more features or should I go with standard offering and compete on price ?

Thank you !