skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ABUSE: A curious 1995 platformer with a homegrown (& hackable) Lisp game engine
I was a heavy Vim user for about 4 years, and also did not understand Emacs though I tried it from time to time. The thing that changed my mind was using Org mode, and sticking with it for about two weeks. Once I felt comfortable in elisp and writing my own config, Emacs began to feel like a development environment that I had total control over. Everything that I bring from my life into Emacs -- task management, email, programming -- I now feel free to do them how I would like to do them. (Also, Org mode is great.)

edit: And there's nothing wrong with key bindings being 30 years old, Vim for instance has an incredibly efficient interface. Also, I find knowing basic emacs bindings quite useful around the OS X interface (many of them work).
It can be tried out here: http://playdosgamesonline.com/abuse.html

This game was one of those "oldies but goodies" that I didn't want to disappear, so I'm posting it here hoping it gets some love. My tech-nerd friends and I were huge fans of this game when I was young and being able to hack around with the levels (and Lisp code) was a fun and educational formative experience
VC analyst: '2016 will be the year of the rabbits'
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Filmmaker trolling British film board with a long movie of paint drying
Will this be the first High issue since 0.9.8 and 1.0.0 stopped getting fixes? It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
I don't know about that. Thus far, those "entrepreneurial opportunities" have lead toward more incarceration, not less. For-profit prisons have contracts that guarantee a certain level of incarceration, resulting in occupancy of the prisons they run. This is definitely one of those things that I'd much rather not be in the hands of entrepreneurial entities.
On one version of retributive thinking, retribution isn't really about restoring fairness, about balancing out cosmic scales of justice. It's about giving a person what's due to him or her. We call it reward when what's due to her is a result of good she's done, and we call it (retributive) punishment when it's as a result of evil she's done.

On that view, it's generally just right to reward people for good and punish them for evil. Consequences -- even grand ones like balancing the cosmic scales of justice -- don't enter it.
I suspected that this was the case with Proximity, but the delay still served its purpose for me. I haven't played it in a while, so maybe I'll give it a whirl again.
Thanks for putting together such a fun little game!
Sorry, reposted the link on a new post. Thanks for letting me know
Keeping persistent history in bash
A repository of learning and R resources related to topic models
Sorry, reposted with new link
Thanks for letting me know
I mostly just know of the usual comedy sync-tracks like MST3K and its successors in Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic.

Also, if you're at all a fan (or not) of the Harry Potter movies, there's a great alt audio track called "Wizard People, Dear Reader". For that one, you either turn off the audio in the movie (or at least turn it way down so you can still sorta hear the music) and play the alternate narration. The premise is kind of the story as told by someone who's never heard the actual narrative, but I think the humor shows that he was at least a bit familiar with it.
This. It might seem odd to some to combine BASIC and assembler but a programmer friend of mine used that ability to start playing with assembler (which he'd never done before) and experimented with replacing some BASIC routines in his games with assembler. As a relative newbie his socks were blown off at the speed-up he could achieve, I feel sure that it spurred him on in his programming career. (Ironically he is now a contract programmer writing corporate software in Java, but there you go...!)
I'm not that versed in the subject, but my (dilettante) guess is that our own behavior may affect the fauna of our digestive microbes by consuming spicy food, alcohol, having nicotine in blood, or through other unhealthy habits.
It is most implausible to suggest that giving birth and caring for young children is the predominant reason why female executive managers, who average 50 years old in our sample, quit. Other unobserved factors leading managers to attrit could include more un-pleasantness, indignities, and tougher unrewarding assignments at work, examples of factors that reduce the attraction of work without necessarily affecting productivity or human capital acquisition.

Although this does not support the "more qualified" argument, the study was specifically tailored to control for attrition from pregnancy, and the authors conclude that they are not entirely sure why older female executives quit at a higher rate than comparable male executives. It's not unreasonable to assume that it could be due to "discrimination" in the form of indignities and unfair assignment of tough/menial work, as the authors suggest.
Americans hate the U.S. government more than ever
Wouldn't that involve changing the references in the mid-level to the leafs? Now you have to maintain changes to all the mid-level packages, sounds like not fun.
Almost nearly every single successful Google products were either developed out of research or out of 20%, or via acquisition. Most in-house business projects don't end up successful (Google Plus?) A big company has to invest heavily in R&D to push the limit. You just need one big idea that works and become a game changer.
Admittedly my doubts are solely based on the fact that I see the 5-HTP next to the fish oil pills and other non-FDA approved supplements at the pharmacy. It fits into the profiled of what I consider "alternative medicine," and generally I agree with the idea that if alternative medicine actually worked, it would be called medicine.

You've done more research than me though. I'll defer to your judgment here.
Good to see this back up on here - am just about to start porting a Python codebase to OCaml myself (www.stackhut.com) and have been reading this to help. Am thoroughly looking forward to all the typed, functional goodness :)
3D-Printed Engine Part Passes Hypersonic Flight Test
Show HN: A database index optimized for custom scoring functions
It's a neanderthal idea that women get pregnant? Funny... Did you get your biology education in the bible belt?

Neanderthals are deemed to have been gentle and intelligent, btw, their reputation as brutes was misguided.

Men did not invent pregnancy. If you want businesses to hire women, it seems fair that you should compensate them for the added risk.

Suppose you have two equally qualified candidates, one male, one female. If an employee quits, it costs you months of productivity and thousands of dollars to recruit a new candidate. Obviously the male candidate is economically more viable because he is less likely to drop out because of children.

If you don't acknowledge that issue, you will never be able to help women (if they need help, which is not a given). I think the state should pay businesses for the loss, or perhaps even reward businesses if their employees become pregnant, if society wants more women to be hired.

Feminist stance is of course that men should be equally like to drop out and take on the "burden" of raising kids (that is what feminists think of family life - the only explanation why women put up with children is because the patriarchy forces them to do it). The reality is that being allowed to spend time with their kids is actually a privilege, not a burden. Women drop out to enjoy the time with their kids. They also tend to choose professions that don't allow them to provide for a family long before they even have kids.

Otherwise, why wouldn't they just continue to work and use their salary to pay a nanny?
Blockchain to Be Used in yet Another Ukrainian E-Gov Project
I failed math all through elementary school but somehow got into this industry despite that. The reality is I'm terrible at arithmetic, but fine at what most of CS is: logic in the form of boolean logic, symbolic stuff. As a kid I was much better with the symbolic than the arithmetic -- which I almost always got _wrong_. My brain stumbles over numbers. I'm terrible at it. I feel like my childhood education did a horrible disservice to me telling me I'm terrible at math, when I'm really just terrible (to the point of what I think might be a physical disability) with numbers.
And to add to your point, you also can absolutely change the number of calories you're burning. Exercise (especially at high intensity) can make a huge difference.
One Year of Open Prometheus Development
Micro optimized by John Carmack himself who volunteered (he was like a free consultant for while) for the task because he believed that's the best that could be done to help VR. He first had to personally persuade both hierarchy at FB & MS. So bold.

From : http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/24/how-john-carmack-pestered-... :

“I was willing to do just about anything,” he said. “On the phone I said that if this doesn’t happen, I’m going to cry. This will just be so terrible. This will be the best thing that we can do for the platform. But there are some problems that compilers can’t solve.”

It turns out that the solution was to get the top executives from Facebook and Microsoft together.

“Mark [Zuckerberg] and Satya [Nadella] were able to sit down and make sure that the deal happened,” said Carmack.
One of the things mentioned in this article was magit (https://github.com/magit/magit). It's a tool I also use a crazy amount when developing with emacs.

Just wanted to remind everyone not to forget to donate when you find a tool that really saves you time/brings you joy while you dev.

Magit takes donations @ http://magit.vc/donations.html

I'm not at all affiliated with magit -- just donated and thought other people might feel the same if reminded.
Basically "underground" forums and websites. Usually they're invite-only. Google "private tracker".
Cool! I'll try tweaking my config tonight to see if i can have more success.
> So which should I use Rubymine or Webstorm?

IntelliJ Ultimate and install the plugins for both of those.
Ah, crap, I just posted this as a reply farther up before seeing your post. Wizard People is indeed hilarious. Oddly, one friend who is a huge Potter fan tried to watch it and said he hated it whereas in my opinion, a good portion of the humor comes from familiarity with the "real" story.

Actually I may watch this again tonight as it's been a while. When I wanted to get this friend to check it out, I made a DVD of the movie with the Wizard People audio synced up and the original audio track turned low enough that you can hear the music but the spoken lines don't interfere with the alternate audio.

I guess if I was more ambitious I could've gone through and tweaked levels during dialogue and added a filter in those parts to cut out more of the speech frequencies while leaving the music and other ambient sound. Seemed like it would take a lot of time though.
Walmart open sources its cloud ops software
I came to Emacs after learning my 5th IDE, and deciding I'd had enough of learning yet another set of cryptic keystrokes - if I was going to learn any more cryptic keystrokes, they'd be ones that would last for more than a few years. A minor benefit of learning the keystrokes is finding out they can apply elsewhere, like the shell readline, or in OSX.
Ridiculous, as in, a case where we actually need it is rare enough that by the time the need arises, everyone's forgotten how it works.

We're not in a shop where one-off merge commits are a thing anyone really cares about, so rebases usually mean things like "Somebody used the wrong committer name" or "Somebody did a branch merge incorrectly and now the history makes no sense".

The git manpages suffer from the same problem as the sudo manpage(1). I want to know how to do "X" and why it works that way, and perhaps see examples explained.

(1): The, IMO, canonical example for awful documentation design - why does a user credential switching program open with a primer to EBNF when it's hardly necessary?
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LOL.

Not sure it's 100% applicable, but certainly my proposal would indeed by illegal black-hattery, unless done by a legit pen-tester.

I'd never do such a thing, but I might now be more aware that the little plastic block attached to the socket over there could easily be a cheap, full linux system running some sort of metasploit/neopwn variant...
The Pinterest layout really is for the lowest common denominator, and that's why it works for its target audience. However it just doesn't work for anything else at this point.
4 Types of Memory Leaks in JavaScript and How to Get Rid of Them
IntelliJ seems to be their 'master' IDE with plugins providing the functionality of PyCharm, Webstorm etc. It's reflected in the license cost, but I'm using it on a mixed Python, JS, PHP without too many issues except SDK-switching for each context.
Doing a Fourier transform is simply applying a set of inner products from the function, f, onto a set of orthonormal basis functions. Put a post in the ground, measure the length of the shadow cast by the sun. That's how to do an inner product. So you can at least describe the process using few dimensions. Then you can scale it up to higher dimensions from there.
There is so much wrong with this comment that I don't even know where to start.

First, most of the benefits you describe (e.g., ample vegetarian food in NYC, very little in Singapore) are not paid for with taxes or provided by the government. The fact that the US govt happens to be the strongest bandit in a region where hookups are easy is not a justification for giving them profits earned by manufacturing goods in Bangladesh and selling them in Malaysia.

Second, if growing up/being born under the US/German social order were actually important, then there is a very easy way to measure it. Take people born outside this order but give them permission to work in global markets and compare their income to natives. Indian and Chinese immigrants tend to outperform Americans, which pretty much solidly refutes this claim.

Third, you seem to be conflating the purchase of services with equity investments. All your critiques of freeloading should apply equally if I build V1 of my software on AWS but switch to Softlayer for V2.
This is £4.99 for me, but I'm a Prime subscriber: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00Y1Z9S8A
Goad was our entry in this year's Gopher Gala and was built in under 48 hours by a team of 4.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/gophergala2016/goad
Boost.Geometry takes on the globe – Menelaos Karavelas – Meeting C++ 2015
That's how I write Ruby in Emacs. I have pry running in one pane, where I can write code with full context, then pull it across into the implementation.
I really like the educational policy recommendation in Where Mathematics Comes From [0]. Even the most abstract mathematics is an analogy with our intuitive embodied experience.

One striking example: Training children to individually articulate their fingers makes them better at processing arabic numerals. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Mathematics_Comes_From
[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marie-Pascale_Noel/publ...
Most people don't understand calories as it relates to their food intake. However lack of education has very little to do with it. Just look at all the comments in this thread. The things that can be said to be true are:
Thermodynamics is correct..
People consuming same amount of food may end up absorbing different calories from it.
They also may burn calories at slightly different rates.

This is all very helpful but not a plan to control weight.

Poor people (anecdotal) have less time to cook healthy meals and hence end up eating calorie dense fast food.
PS: edit . typo. Grammer. Phone..
In this case, the black bar is in memory of Marvin Minsky, the AI pioneer, who died on Sunday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10970867
Put together your own side project!
I agree; this article is a little misleading. Any substance that rapidly releases serotonin will definitely make you feel happy, if you're not already tolerant.

It's obviously more complex than just being "the happy neurotransmitter", but it is tied to general mood.
From their Google IO presentations and their atitude towards NDK users vs how other mobile tems deal with their devs, I would say Java runs strong within who calls the shots at the Android's team.

Even if some of the code looks like written by devs recovering from years of exposition to hungarian notation.
You'd think they could bring in experts from other countries that have implemented this already.
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I have zero use for it also but playing with and learning this chipset for $9 is something I cannot passup.

I am sure I'll use it as a repeater or remote storage device at some point.

Now if I could justify the two dozen smartphones I have...
Came here to say this but you beat me to it. VS Code is great. It's come a long way very quickly and now that it has extension / add-on support, it's top tier.
But there's no wifi on that device right?

Also only 4mb for rom.

edit: okay they mention wireless range so it is wifi device
I see your point - many of these are side effects of encryption - but the reason I (the author) wanted to focus on some of these things, particularly 2, 3 and 4, is that people don't realise there may be problems they encounter from not using HTTPS, even if privacy wasn't their main concern.

E.g, you run an online video company, and (for some silly reason) you don't care about privacy. You still don't want T-Mobile turning your great HD content into a low resolution blocky mess.

Edit: actually, thinking about it, you're right. I've updated the article to use the word 'privacy' to better separate it from the other aspects on encryption. Thanks datalist!
Last time I tested WebStorm it was exceptionally slow, so I used Sublime.
Without it being entirely their fault.

I know I am at least partially at fault for being fat. I sit on ass all day and rarely exercise. That certainly doesn't help.

But I also know that several of the reasons for obesity do not originate in the frontal lobe of the brain, and are therefore not the result of conscious decision-making. And that absolves me from some fraction of the burden of culpability.

But not the whole thing. I could make conscious choices to make my body healthier. But I don't, and therefore I can accept at least a little bit of the blame.

It's more important to me that I don't care one little bit about how strangers feel about my obesity. The only one I am answerable to for the condition of my body is myself. So if you choose to view me as a slothful glutton, you may. If you choose to view me as the unlucky product of genes, microbiome, and advertising, you may. I only care to the extent that you can help me achieve my own health goals.

Continually reiterating the thermodynamic dietary hypothesis to me (energy eaten minus energy expended) does not help. I doubt it helps anyone except possibly those who do not already know what a kilocalorie is.

That's why I like that research in this vein is being pursued. Even if no one loses even a single gram of white adipose tissue as a result, it could at least help kill off the multitude of fad diets that do not work for anyone, regardless of their individual physiology. And it might instill a bit of humility and understanding in those who never quite grasped that their fit bodies are the result of hard work and good fortune, not just the former.
To deny that women experience discrimination in the workplace would be pretty ignorant. This might not be true of every company, but it is a feature of many.

It seems logical that a woman who reaches the highest levels of a corporate structure are going to be, on average, more resilient, driven, and/or intelligent, then their average male competitors when it comes time to make a promotion decision. Many others will be lost to attrition.
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Also keep in mind that depression isn't always caused by serotonin issues or remediated by increasing serotonin (which is somewhat redundant with this article, though I think the article paints serotonin too negatively).

For example, if someone has bipolar disorder (or similar issues), they may have fairly standard serotonin concentration and receptor activation, but an SSRI may not help much with their depression.
I have often wondered at linearity problems. E.g., why is the BMI formula based on weight divided by a square of height when geometry says that weight is proportional to the cube of (similarly proportioned) height? Probably, in the region of interest, the one curve approximates the other, but why fight locally Euclidean fidelity? Feedback mechanisms are common; unless you look for the correct function (whether polynomial, exponential, factorial, etc.), as implied by the underlying mechanism, throwing regression at the problem is going to obfuscate.
The Facebook link you provided is not publicly viewable - I get a "Sorry, this content isn't available right now" error.
Apple Can Still Read Your End-To-End Encrypted iMessages
Ask HN: Tool to find good developers from GitHub/StackOverflow/Quora?
I am looking for good developers for a new project.

I had some luck looking on GitHub and StackOverflow. I look for people around me using the sites search tools, then I google them to find their personal sites, Quora posts or similar.

It works quite well but this process is tedious.

I was wondering if someone already made an integrated solution for this?

I'd want to select an area, my tech stack, and get a complete summary of developers around me.

If it doesn't exist yet I would consider building it.
Yep. That is absolutely the case. I tried rift gearVR on my trainer. It was fogging up within 5 minutes.
Have they published the source? On github?
See X-Plane, which uses OSM data and extrapolates from that.
Summary of the article:

https://www.cluelet.com/user/cluelet/emacs-vs-webstorm-for-n...

Disclaimer : Wrote the above app for comparisons like these.
That is equally inconsistent...
Did anyone else notice the parts about 2 years for stealing a backpack or violence at the hands of the guards?

Maybe solitary isn't the problem?
As a fan of the genre described by that term - I agree that it is a lame name. Really don't get it where that comes from tbh...
Republicans in general want to pay as little tax as possible. Thats the basic stance I am with them on that.

Where they then want to spend is where the agreement stops and I end up being more democratic when it comes to values.
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But the primary purpose of justice is to punish criminal behaviors. We may want as a secondary goal to reduce recidivism but it cannot be at the expense of the primary goal. I strongly disagree with the idea that criminality is a form of mental disease and that prisons are just a sort of hospital to cure criminals.

For the same reason the severity of the sentence should be driven by the aversion of the society to the crime committed more than considerations on what will happen to the criminal after the sentence has been executed.
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Review: 'The Road to Character' by David Brooks
No, as an outsider, the source is only accessible if your name is literally JC
This .tern-project config works for me:

{
"libs": [
"browser"
],
"plugins": {
"node": {},
"es_modules": {}
}
}

Your project files must have "correct" format, e.g. require('relative_path') for imports and module.exports/exports for exports (or es6 import and export). Example for AMD format (requireJS) can be found here - http://ternjs.net/doc/manual.html#configuration
The geolocation demo works on Chrome for Android though.
Forgive my ignorance, but what is TFAA? All my web searches yield irrelevant results, such as "Triveni Faridabad Allottees Association" or "Trifluoroacetic anhydride".
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