skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks interesting, but I'm not sure how much traction this will get outside of King.

Compared to the competition, such as Corona SDK, King will have to work real hard to build a community and ecosystem around Defold.

In 2016, having a great technology alone is not enough to get traction in game dev, all other parts of the ecosystem matter a lot: language, plugins (own and third party), art assets, tutorials (written and video), books, mind share retaining efforts (podcasts, events and etc).

Unity got this quite right, others are working hard to catch up (Unreal, Corona in 2D space).

Being open source is a huge boost as well, in terms of flexibility of development as well as peace of mind for the third party devs that the owner of the engine won't switch to the dark side with the next leadership change or simply let the technology get obsolete by not releasing new versions any more.

Still, I welcome this, Defold is a cool engine - hope that King open sources this eventually.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit

First for not rendering advertising tags. There is nothing inherent about advertising, a unique tag for it feels a bit arrogant.
What is the business plan? Ads?
> In Brazil, to dial numbers internally but across a certain geographical boundary, a carrier code must be explicitly dialed to say which carrier you will use to pay for the call.

Any Brazilians here who can confirm whether this is true?

I know that in Brazil you can select a preferred carrier for a long-distance phone call by dialing a prefix. For example, you'd dial 014 ahead of your phone number to choose Brasil Telecom or 021 to choose Claro. But this is optional as far as I know. If you don't dial any prefix, you get a default carrier.
What's the quality of that book in terms of instruction and examples for a modern audience? If it's good, I might try to get a copy even for a teaching or demonstration language in safe languages. Easier for people to learn than Ada or Rust.
What is Lucid's relation to Cyc Corp.?
I had the opportunity to mess around with Toonz a few years ago. It's actually fairly easy to use, you could be productive in a few days with it. However, the problem is that frame-by-frame animation is incredibly time consuming. I'm not saying that to dissuade you from pursuing it, but just don't go in thinking you'll be able to animate an episode of Futurama in a month.
How much of github do you index? I was just raging this morning about how annoying it is that github ignores symbols when searching.
It would make me a millenial as well and I'm 35.

Seems like a strange unit when you have a range from 16 to 35, I don't have a lot in common with the average 18 year old any more.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/03/19/curl-is-18-years-old-... is a much more appropriate link
Nitpick: s/1m^2/1m^3

> I think it'd float to the top though. It'll need some kind of weight...

A simple way of thinking about it is that boats float because they contain air (rather than water). The fact that they are upside down or the right way up changes little.

Since the rowboat can support two people, it should definitely float to the surface, dragging them along with it.
amazing reunion..!
GitHub is a pain to log in to on mobile, especially with 2FA. It's absurd that they would do something straight out of the Facebook playbook.
end users are not stuck in this analysis at all
The screen is nice. Initially, I thought the only part of it I wouldn't like is the size of it, but I've come to not mind that either.

Make sure you get an IPS display and not a TN one when you buy a ThinkPad. Matte's are better than glossy (IMO) and my screen is matte. The color range is not top-of-the-line, but it is certainly good. And the brightness, OMG! Only time I've ever had to go above 25% brightness was in direct sunlight.
Thank you. I've e-mailed support/Jeff asking for a way to disable Vine Voice reviews from showing up, but no dice yet.

Most of the Amazon reviews already game the system trying to get as many upvotes as possible (the latest trend is posting some 10 page meaningless "comparison" of X product and Y,Z,T competitors), but Vine Voice is even worse. Have yet to see anything under 4 stars.
TOR still uses cookies so a session ID can be set for the user agent and rate limited.

DDOS scripts create new sessions on every attack request. It's a very hard problem to solve without blocking legitimate traffic too.
Not in the US. From Alaska? Maybe rough around the edges but citizen not migrant.
Not sure if it's just the article's bias, but these people sound intolerable, regardless of their age.
Original Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]
> Imagine waking up every morning with 50 new arxiv papers uploaded that night.

Others in this thread propose RSS and aggregation of abstracts as a solution. My proposal is to have reviews of literature, and then just read the reviews instead. This should save a bunch of time.
The 2008 Knight Rider pilot had a similar UI. When considering a risky maneuver, the car displayed the intended route, and asked the driver if it was okay.

A key difference, of course, is that KITT considered its driver a partner to assist, whereas companies like Google consider the driver a flaw to be corrected.
The "Say what you want" experiment is going to die a fiery death. It will, ultimately, make an office culture toxic. Unfiltered talk only works when everyone has thick skin, which is dubious to believe many millennials do. Compound that with the blending of work and personal life, and it's a recipe for disaster.

When everyone says what they want, you will eventually be proven wrong. Being wrong isn't bad, but being proven wrong with a blunt object like social media, hurts. It usually draws recourse.
You can grab M0 data from the Federal Reserve website each week which contains physical currency stats. https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MBCURRCIR
The controversial part isn't the adblocking per se, but the viewing of pages that have ads while using an adblocker.

It's fine to decide that ad networks don't have a "right" to run code on your machine, but the moral response (assuming you don't have an answer to the "consume content question") is to configure your adblocker to close any tab that would otherwise load an ad. If instead, you decide to view the page without the ad, then you need some answer beyond "I don't give ad networks the right to run code on my machine".

(I'm not saying ad blocking is morally wrong, just that your justification for it isn't sufficient. I block ads myself.)
Nah. From the Midwest and we had a super warm winter. Mostly no snow. First day of 4 inches of snow? Schools closed and 100 car accidents. People forget how to drive in snow.
Actually there's nothing dumb about the scene, except that there would be an upward pressure on the boat (buoyancy).

If that was overcome (e.g. with some weights or strings holding it down), it would be perfectly fine to breath in there for a while.

So, aside from the buoyancy issue, not only it's not "dumb", but that's exactly how old "diving bells" worked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_bell
Because unlike these other examples, this one requires you to install something
No it's not. I work on a team that tests drives for a living. Typical infant mortalitity rates are .05 to 1 percent.
Or that people format numbers the same way in the same city. In Oslo I see some people writing numbers as XXXX XXXX and others writing them as XXX XX XXX.
The first diving bells didn't have a system to refresh the air supply, they were still used for meaningful work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_bell
In North America, I've always used "<valid area code>-555-1212", which is one of the numbers for directory assistance. The area code may be varied based on whatever location seems plausible. Unless the service insists on sending a text or verifying the number with your credit card company (the latter seems less common now than it used to be) there are no problems. I wouldn't worry about "012345678"; if they didn't want that number they'd probably have changed it by now. Maybe they want "867-5309"?
Not enough info here to really render an opinion. Since Amazon won't discuss it, you're hearing only one side of the issue.

What if those 37 returns were mostly in a row? Or mixed in with questionable chargebacks? Or ?

There is one thing Amazon says that seems like a clue here "In a tiny fraction of cases we are forced to close accounts where we identify extreme account abuse."
May I see the math?
Yes, and many who do often write up the story of how they "ascended". (This is where the story is in Nethack, @johnchristopher). Here is one of the best of those stories.

http://garote.bdmonkeys.net/nethack/
What if you hold your breath to help?
There's two things to getting people into programming - giving them tools they can learn with and making them care about it. You do the second by letting them accomplish things they actually want to do. Until you can script webpages or make Minecraft mods in Pascal, it's not very good at the second half of the equation.
Hosting NYTimes articles critical of China.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/github-battles-large...
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My usual solution here for the most stubborn web forms that won't take no for an answer is to find the contact number of the organisation that is demanding a phone number and I write their own number on the form. If you want to phone someone, try phoning yourself!
Yeah, "Winds of Change" is the actual page title, and that wasn't gonna fly, so elected to go with the Python angle.

Seems the Python project is what he's most interested in based on post and comments section. Flying cars, we're not quite there yet, let's get the self driving thing down first ;-)
You feel safe (as in comfortable?) in whose home? Some people find it unacceptable to live with their parents/siblings/benefactors indefinitely.
Ah, finally someone who shares my suspicion that ad targeting is overrated. Yes, it is valuable for sellers of babystuff to advertise to expecting mothers, but pre-targeting brand awareness style campaigns still have their place/value. Those have absolutely nothing to gain from creepy targeting tactics, no matter how old-fashioned that may seem to those responsible.

I guess that at the buying end of the advertising business, just like in software development, many people just want to use the latest tools (ad targeting in this case) to personally stay on top of the game even if their use case would benefit more from a boring old blanket campaign. Think of a campaign for an insurance company: even if it highlights a product aimed at twentysomethings, it will still be nearly as effective when hitting eyeballs from other age brackets. So how much of a premium per eyeballs should they be willing for targeted over blanket? Very little. Yet I see quite a lot of that kind of advertisement in fully targetable channels and I suspect that is due to the same driving force that makes software people always want to play with the latest toys. One that has settled, the laws of supply and demand dictate that the premium for targeted vs untargeted will shrink.
I don't think the use of a single port is really at the heart of the problem. Even if SMTP with TLS ran over port 26 (say), you wouldn't know if a timeout on port 26 meant the server wasn't listening on port 26 or a MITM had just chosen to drop your packets.

Discovering if someone supports Protocol++ if the fallback to Protocol is insecure is a hard problem.
As people get older, their brand loyalties are more set.
Younger, working folk often don't have the house/family/healthcare/retirement worries of older workers. Marketers
often target young folks because they'll spend on new things.

The Millennials are the largest adult demographic: http://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/age_structure.html . Their children will be bigger than them (hopefully!).

People of all ages don't always fit into the "generational" niche the media and marketers try to put them in to.
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It's so easy, even a computer can do it [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/comments/2tluxv/yaap_fullau...
Are we together or are we alone? Avegant Glyph projects images directly to eye
Well, they'll be cheap as long as energy is cheap. And solar cells are not yet made without fossil fuels.
> postal (aka zip) codes

Post codes aren't quite the same thing as Zone Improvement Plan codes. ZIP codes are just the peculiar implementation in the US of the general post code concept.

An important difference between ZIP codes and Canadian post codes is that, since there are many more possible post codes than ZIP codes, post codes tend to cover much smaller regions than ZIP codes. In many cases, only a handful of individuals up to a single individual may have a Canadian post code. Thus, publishing Canadian users' post codes can severely harm Canadians' privacy, as you may as well be publishing their exact address.
> From the demo program it looks like a function with two int arguments returning an int, but why the -> signs?

This is standard syntax in functional languages. A->B is a function from A to B. A->B->C is a function from A that returns a function B->C. This is the standard curried function application, like used in OCaml, and it enables you to easily partially apply and compose functions.

addCandidate's type is indeed Int->Int->Int, it's simply not declared that way. In OCaml, the following two syntaxes are equivalent:

let addCandidate = fun A:Int B:Int -> ...body...
let addCandidate A:Int B:Int = ...body...

I imagine this language is similar.
This plus 2FA is a perfect combination for headaches. I'm already often not logged in while browsing GitHub because 2FA on every login is a pain, and now they're taking away features?
Psychedelic courtship display
The answer is the same as why you are morally justified in skipping commercials on your DVR, or ripping ads out of a magazine. Content creators do not get to decide how you view their content.
Well, at some point you have to block legitimate traffic. My thought was it doesn't have to be black and white. Maybe require the user to solve a captcha after the nth search from the same IP address? How big are the biggest of botnets? A few hundred thousand computers? Or maybe even require captcha for every unauthenticated search.
Or four centidays.
This was not an invalid use of PUT in RFC2616, then httpbis decided it always had been and changed it.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna

Microsoft provides an API which identifies child expoilting images.
As others are saying - the CO2 poisoning will make you unconscious way before O2 runs out. You can train for it tho, much like freedivers do if you plan on surviving in airtight containers for longer periods of time.
Yes, I didn’t quite understand this statement:

> IBAN country codes are the same as ISO3166-1 alpha-2 country codes. Quite dangerously this is mostly, but not always the case. Take for example the United Kingdom (UK vs. GB)

ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 assigns GB for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and banks in that jurisdiction also use GB for IBANs. Maybe this example should have been moved to the next point about IANA codes.
Parallel Scripting in Swift
I'm not seeing anything surprising here. At many small companies, the employees will feel comfortable being frank with their CEO, especially if that CEO is around their age. It's definitely not surprising that a startup with an open office environment and a CEO who addresses the hundred 20-something-year-old employees directly in Q&A meetings would generate a culture where someone would directly tell the CEO that they believed he had been rude. (It's also poor journalism to present that entire anecdote solely from the CEO's POV--leaving the impression that the CEO was entirely in the right with how he answered the original question.)

My biggest takeaway is that Mic needs to rethink their policies and culture around paid time off, since that seems to be the main source of conflict described in this article.

And please, can we stop with the Millennials-are-terrible meme? 40-somethings always think 20-somethings are lazy, rude, and will never amount to anything. Dig into the NYT archives from the 1800s and you'll find articles with similar complaints about The Kids These Days. I'd like to see an article about that.
Just having a dedicated port for TLS-wrapped version of the protocol wouldn't help here. HTTPS has 443, yet we still need HSTS to enforce it.

That said, dedicated SMTPS port would still be beneficial by cutting down at least 2 RTTs (HELO/EHLO + STARTTLS) from overall transaction time.
Yeah, that part of the story is really odd. Was the pizza order necessary as a pretext for the house search, maybe? Or did it just serve as a catchy journalistic hook for the story...
I have a confession.

I rode the bus last week and the entire time I was reading my book. I never read any of the overhead ads before getting off the bus.
I wonder whether deep learning techniques have been applied to cartoon drawing.

Unfortunately, when I search for "deep learning" and "cartoons", I only find cartoons about deep learning :/
Knuth's up-arrow notation's requires an arrow symbol. Unlike exponentials, it cannot be written with only digits.

I think you mean Goodstein's tetration notation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetration . ⁹9 is 9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^(9^9))))))), if I counted it correctly.

In the LinkedIn comments, one of the ones to mention this is Jeffry Nimeroff:

> "I'm sorry but your daughter was wrong as well. And you were smarmy about it. If we allow exponentiation then we might as well allow tetration or further notions of super exponentiation. While I understand the point you are trying to make, at some point the common man principal takes over. Otherwise I can literally answer any question with any answer, just by changing my reference frame."

I also concur with the comment by Alexander Doak:

> No one is going to like me for this, but I call bull hockey on this story. It's FAKE. ...

> 3.) Given the fact that everyone mentioned in the story was "wrong", and the alleged anguish, duration, effort, and expense that was put forth on the alleged correction, I would highly expect someone to bring up other operators which would produce larger numbers. But that was never mentioned. It certainly would have been if this story were real. Are we honestly to believe that multiple teams of math experts, teachers, writers, and lawyers just missed this critical, immediately evident fact?

> 4.) I would like some additional sources for this apparent nation wide, sweeping event which caused everyone to get a 99 instead of 100 on some math tests. Give me some national coverage of this event, when it happened, who it affected, etc. Otherwise, the most important parts of this story (if not the whole story) is just fakity fake, fake.
Arguably, that was THE critical issue for crew survival after the Apollo 13 incident leading to the famous 'jury-rigged' CO2 scrubbing device improvised by the engineers on the ground

'Availability of lithium hydroxide (LiOH) for removing carbon dioxide presented a serious problem.'[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13#Crew_survival_and_re...
That's also my experience. Horrible quality from some major publishers they sell.
Am I the only one reminded of a certain energy drink?
How to Write a Roguelike in 15 Steps
Not really...

Do you have any suggestions?
The 4 Stages from a Startup to a Sustainable Business
Which is why DragonflyBSD was forked during the disagreement on FreeBSD's SMPng. Matt implemented more of a message passing system instead and Sepherosa Ziehau made all kinds of improvements to share as little as possible between cores and thus enable higher scalability in particular for networking.
> People are here from morning to night, and we don’t want to leave

This article should have started and ended here. Millennials are doing whatever they can to make their jobs look like their homes with all of the drinking, partying and drama. Then they advertise it as something cool that every company ought to be doing. I don't know how anybody sees this as a good thing.
The guy's a VM performance giant, reminds me a bit of John Carmack in the "brain dump" presentation department. Check out this video[1] from this year's JVMLS and you'll see what I mean.

Not that $1M/year isn't a ton of money, but maybe the ROI for a company is well worth the price tag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdjcPgIUbnA
I hate articles with no details. It would instructive to know what type of malware, what OS versions, what server infrastructure, etc so that others might be forewarned. Of course I realize it's probably Windows XP without patches but it would still be nice to know.
> Another thing you might miss is if somebody does a similar or the same experiment and comes to a negative result, reading that might save you a few days or months of unnecessary work.

Given how low the reproduction rate in science is, I'm not sure that time would be wasted.
Is it significantly less than you? In other words does it really justify shipping someone from across the world and going through the admin cost? I wonder if H1B worker is indeed cheaper, when is the break even point to justify the extra admin? Is it 12 months, 18 months? Is he still there after that period? If not, then obviously there's no point.
While his solution worked for him, it also revealed a flaw that could've been a deal breaker if sales were demoing the system. Of course what constitutes a significant problem is often up to a nontechnical department.
Sure, but might as well reach for it. Especially in light of

* being playable entirely on a terminal
* no "AAA" budget.. all text, all ASCII instead of fancy 3D graphics

It's a bit mocking of the AAA industry to call it "the greatest game".

Also, this site was not made by the devteam, but a fan. So the Hubris isn't coming from the developers :)
Snowden: Privacy can't depend on corporations standing up to the government
Chinese tourists spotted snatching tons of food but left much untouched
It might be ok for compute-only tasks that spread calculations over threads or processes in userland, but anything involving input/outpout (e.g. networking) will block.
You could always just pipe it through ssh or some other thing. Setting up openvpn or similar is nontrivial - even if you're lucky enough to have a static IP and enough spare time to make it work.
If you found this interesting and want a fascinating book on the subject I recommend We, the Navigators.

http://www.amazon.com/We-Navigators-Ancient-Landfinding-Paci...
It documents a study done of other Pacific Islanders who use waves to navigate. Hawaii was discovered because islanders observed swells from storms in the North Pacific being attenuated as the storm passed 'behind' the island chain.

Islanders also used a completely different form of celestial navigation that involved following series of stars as they rose and set on the horizon. I.e., follow Antares while it is < 10° over the horizon, then follow Pollox, etc until you reach Papeete.
Both, if it works. I don't know the science behind it I just know that it's worked for me.
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Here's a bit more info: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tech/toonz-software-used-studio-g...
PGP: Backdoors and Key Escrow (2003)
Many people fleeing Syria are not economic migrants, I'd say.