skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand now. Your definition of pay2win is different from the nature of Minecraft.

It's okay. I'm new here and I won't argue with you.

But you can't disregard my intention, because of it I constantly improve what I do.

If it is action you want. My actions were that I built something that I thought was cool for myself, donated it to the public, and continued to contribute with the vision that the right people will benefit from it. Simple as that.

While I hustle everyday to share the vision with people, provide children with a gaming platform, and parents with something they don't need to setup for their kids, get feedback and improve upon it, YOU are using children to attack me and the value of what I created passionately for people. That's a disgrace.

I heard your opinion but that's it. You can continue to protest all you like. I will continue doing what I think is best for the Minecraft community.
That's right.Google and Yahoo won't be able to scan users' mail and deliver targeted ads anymore.

Encrypted email will also prevent Google and Yahoo from extracting insights about users and it's safe to assume the management at these companies are not particularly excited about the prospect of encrypted email.
> But you cannot write a non-blocking Go function in the same way.

The caller can make function "non-blocking" by wrapping the call in a goroutine themselves. (There's some subtle differences, but they are mostly irrelevant here). For this reason, I'd say there is (almost) no reason to introduce asynchrony in your API in the way you suggest. The rest of your post built on this example seems shaky to me, since it seems built on an example API that doesn't need to exist.

I'd say that "you don't have to care whether your code is async or not" is a overstating the case. I would append the qualifier "unless you're introducing concurrency". Considering that almost no low-level APIs are asynchronous, this usually happens rarely (or happens in low-level code like the HTTP server). Examples that have come up for me: making N parallel RPCs, writing a TCP server. In those situations, you care about async vs not.

In event-loop based systems, it seems like async is in my face all the time, even when doing things that are entirely sequential.
Recently I've been building a site using Ionic 2 (which sits on top of Angular 2). The way it is structured encourages a single scss file per page/component. It feels much clearer to create and apply the css to individual components. So if you apply an enclosing class to the component with the name of the component you avoid any clashing styles. You do end up writing duplicate css but you don't have to keep track of it across a huge file.
Whenever I have something to do where someone else is relying on me to be some place at a certain (early) time or if I had a competition (long ago) etc I wake up well before my alarm totally awake and ready to go. Otherwise I can sleep forever. I guess adrenaline is a significant factor. When I was competing in individual sports I could barely sleep two hours before a big event.
I'm running my own mailserver since the late 90s. I haven't had that issue. You do need to use an IP address from a non-dialup pool, i.e. rent a VPS or a dedicated server at an ISP.
When you start with a new IP address, check if it's on one of the spam blacklists. If it is, complain to your ISP (and to the blacklist). Get your IP off the list.

Next, add all the usual anti-spam things such as SPF records, DKIM, SSL certificate and a reverse DNS record.
I didn't downvote you, but I would if I could. I both disagree with your view and think that you haven't really argued your point very well.

Blind people aren't born on a level playing field.

I believe that a society should take care of people who are unfortunate, and this method seems like a reasonable way to allow market mechanisms to improve their life.

I'm assuming that you disagree that this is a role society should take. However, the consensus of of most societies in history is that blind people should be taken care of in some way.

I think it's reasonable that you should be expected to make a better argument to overturn that view than you have.
I think I switched to opera somewhere around the end of Opera3, before the advertising window, then 5.12 being a version number that I seem to remember vividly. Even bought a few Opera7/FreeBSD keys back then for all my boxes (even the headless ones) to show support.

The initial Chrome-based Opera was a culture shock after the 12.x series. But, the more recent releases are actually quite usable I found and Opera is once again my main choice on Windows. I would be honestly sad to see it go.
You're right! I just fired it up and was able to install Advanced REST Client (the only thing I regularly use Chromium for) without logging in.

When I first installed it - less than a year ago - that wasn't possible.
This sounds like it might be worth a shot. Are you aware of the "coffee nap"?
Make sure you get to the last slide, it is stunning. This one: http://i.imgur.com/QWx4lVX.png (but a screenshot is nothing).
Writing Women Back into the History of Science
Patents are supposed to do two things (as far as I'm concerned): Encourage invention and reward the inventors.

I think your uncle is the kind of guy who would be working on this stuff regardless of what reward is on the other side, and my experience is that most inventors are like that. Open source software has shown that all inventors really need to work hours and hours on developing new things, is their own drive and maybe some recognition. So I don't think patents are at all necessary for encouragement.

But we all agree he deserves reward. What you're assuming is that patents is the only way that could happen. I don't believe that's the case. I believe patents is locking us into thinking about patents as the only method of reward. If we abolish it then other, more productive methods will become prevalent. I'm talking about research grants, competitions, award prizes, investments, or employment. People will demand it when patents are absent, and politics will shift to encourage it.

I think the only way patents can be redeemed, is if they're non-transferrable and the inventor is forced to license it for a fair price within a year of registering. There also needs to be more legal aid to help small scale inventors enforce their patents. There are so many things that need to be fixed about patents.. but the thing is they're just fundamentally flawed because they're based on the idea of a monopoly on ideas. Monopolies are always a bad idea unless they're controlled by a democratic entity.
What happens when AIPAC slams Trump's racism only to find out it was Netanyahu
Romania – Spania – Campionatul European de Fotbal 2016
It is something to take into account if you're utilizing PV based virtualization in Xen, however - system calls will require a context switch.
I, too, want more details. What evidence does Microsoft have that the 'attack' was coordinated? What evidence do they have that it was an 'attack' at all? Is the 'vulnerability' they refer to merely the part of the algorithm that parrots input? That's not a vulnerability, that's a core function of the software.

More interestingly, at what point does repeating my opinion (however heartfelt, misguided, or unpopular) become a 'coordinated attack'?
I agree that most buses are too loud. I've recently seen some buses with hybrid drives, they have additional electric engines for acceleration which makes them a lot quieter.
IBM’s SoftLayer Is Blocking Cuba and Iran
> Pascal will definitely use HBM in it's initial release, the cut down mid range versions later might come with GDDR5/GDDR5X.

The newest rumors I'm aware of (from around GDC) suggest Nvidia will realease the samller GP104 with GDDR5/GDDR5X to consumers before the bigger GP100 with HBM2. This sounds reasonable since Sk Hynx (which developed HBM together with AMD) will only start mass production in Q2/Q3 of 2016 - but maybe Nvidia has more luck with Samsung. Do you know of newer rumors? Maybe we know more after GTCs opening keynote from Nvidias CEO. [1]

> Anyhow atm HBM doesn't seem to offer much other than increase the cost and thermal envelope of the package.

Yeah, and HBM allows for much smaller high end gpus (like AMD Nano) and is much more power efficient, which means AMD and Nvidia could use the energy savings to clock the cards higher (but I have my doubts, AMDs Fury had not the best clocks, and overclocking was bad compared to cards with gddr).

> Nvidia for 3 generations now have been continuously shipping cards with lower memory bandwidth (with heavy focus on compression) than AMD even without HBM and continuously not only remaining competitive but managing in most cases to be the top performer.

That's why I'm looking forward to DirectX12 and Vulkan. AMDs drivers couldn't bring out the full power of their cards but that seems to change thanks to the new APIs if newest benchmarks are an indicator. Nvidia on the other hand doesn't gain much because their Dx11 drivers were already really good.

[1] https://mygtc.gputechconf.com/form/session-listing&do-search...
> morning has lost its meaning

This is a bad idea for most people. Inconsistent sleep times will lead to poorer quality of sleep in most (but not absolutely all) people.
It's a backwards-compatibility problem. I say, make the breaking changes. The Java philosophy is diametrically opposed to this.
Well... a lot of our experience of literature/fiction/life is not universal. Literary criticism is widely varied for a reason, even on works from the same country and language.

It's hard to get a handle on what you don't know, but you can approximate based on others. Think about depictions of Western culture that you've read in manga/manhua. Or times you've said out loud "that's totally cool but Christianity does ''not'' work that way" (at least that's what I do.) Then assume you are roughly as ignorant as they are. Ultimately, you're missing some of the culture not because of nihonjinron nonsense, but just because you aren't immersed in the culture constantly.

Another way to judge Japanese mythological reference knowledge is to read Urusei Yatsura and see how long you can go without asking why something happens or who an alien species represents in mythology. (The UY setting is basically Japanese mythology with a sci-fi shim.)
What we've done with our founders scholarship
calls abort(), not panic!(). This is important since unwinding does not happen with the former.
Some of the things he found would allow a malicious person to do some real damage, that part is terrifying. But it's also really funny, so I'll go with that.
I used Opera from ~2000, way back when it was still ad-supported. It always amazed me that they managed to provide a top-notch web browser, a passable BitTorrent client, newsgroup client, FTP client, IRC client, and email client... all inside one 4 MiB installer package. I stopped using it the moment they switched to Chromium and blew away all the features that made it unique.

Vivaldi aside, hopefully any remaining talent that still works at Opera will now finally be free to go create more kickass software.
I remember falling asleep on the floor (caribbean island climate though). Hard surface will massage your back in a weird way.. I expected to feel like a prisoner but I woke surprisingly delighted.
Even poorer quality of everything. Some density in your sense of time seems like a very important trait in one's life.
I think the parent was referring to "lightweight task"-based concurrency like C#'s PLinq:

// C#
int sum;
Parallel.ForEach(myCollection, item => sum += item);

Which operates using a reasonably sized thread pool rather than a thread per item. Something similar in Rust (Excuse my rusty rust) would look like.

let someList = ...
parallel::for(someList.iter(), |item| {
// Do thing with each item
};

I think there is ongoing work on this topic, but it will likely only be library-level and not language-level (Just like Linq is a language level feature in C# but PLinq is a library). There are some third party crates that do this like simple_parallel.

Edit: Low-level simd exist as intrinsics and of course through llvm vectorizations.
Yes, but here in the US childbirth doesn't happen without sex. Maybe Europe is different.
The Bible mentions punishments continued to the children, and in some cases up to 10 generations from the person who committed it.

A typical passage might say, "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me".

I think King David was only allowed to be king because he was the first generation in 10 after such an incident.

I don't know if Israel today still has any crimes that punish the family. It also wouldn't matter for a civil agreement like this.

However, in ancient Israel everyone's debts and land were forfeited every 7 and 49 years, so real estate would be priced according to how far the country was from a reset. That would certainly affect a similar agreement.
Poland approves logging Europe's last primeval forest
True, but as a feature that recruiters actually use, and that would change the entire mindset of recruiters to seach for people who want to do X, rather than people who already did X) I think it would be a valuable feature.
Xans, Addy, Oxy, Roxy, H Black and White, Meph
text 2312246072 or email: vendor420peps@gmail.com for Xans, Addy, Oxy, Roxy, H black and white, codeine,percs, dilaudid, 420 and more.
Also before the final decision: http://www.nature.com/news/polish-scientists-protest-over-pl... and http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/19/ancient-bial...

And after: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-environment-forest-...
One thing comes to mind: physical exhaustion. Much very often after a day of physical activity, I know the next morning I'll wake up sore, but not wishing to stay in bed.
What are these glasses called? Do you also know flux [0] / redshift [1] / twilight?

[0] https://justgetflux.com/

[1] http://jonls.dk/redshift/

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid...
Don't forget mature and standardized tools like build, dependency management and distribution
Opera should have open sourced their old Presto code (browser and email client). The Opera 15 browser is based on Chromium. Now the sold to a Chinese company known for adware/malware, that chance is gone. The old Opera was pretty good for its time, and a community could have formed around it.

Some former Opera devs are working on Vivaldi, a promising Chromium based browser that has an HTML5 based UI. Though, it's not open source.
That was also my thought all along while reading the article. They are pushing big on these personal assistants which will go completely blind with pgp. So it's like trusting an ad company to develop an ad blocker.
An active discussion about concurrency in rust with first developers commenting is a very appropriate place to ask that question, and ultimately much more likely to yield valid and current information than Google.
It seems Japanese to me. Nice..
Originally, the web server was intended to be a very simple program with most of the complications in the browser. Most web app backbends are similar to this where all they do is query a database, cache or other web servers. This type of thing is perfect for node. If you are doing more complex stuff in your backend then go may be more appropriate.
The article seems to be specifically about a PGP derivative.
For people looking at alternatives check Vivaldi.
https://vivaldi.com/

It's made by some of the original team.

I will probably miss Opera Mini the most though, Vivaldi does not have a similar product.
I tried it. The UI is HTML5 based and good by the way. But it's closed source. With so many shit hitting the fan these days, I don't want to invest my time in closed products if there are alternatives.
Its Chinese.
Yes, it's a shame that Minecraft's mobile version isn't aligned with Minecraft PC version, while Minecraft PC is better and more popular for online gaming.

If you are to setup an online platform for your family, it's best to setup a PC version. It's just more enjoyable for now.

P/S: I do hope that MCPE is one day aligned and compatible with PC. For sure it won't be the other way around.
As far as I remember they had too many dependencies that weren't open source friendly for that move. At least I think that was the reason given back then.
Your mobile should be one of the safest places to store a key. Think of the work it takes the FBI to open an iphone. You have a closed, encrypted device which runs app whitelisting. Nothing is perfect but compared to a desktop computer it is a safe vs a shoe box.

You just need to keep a copy offline in case the device is stolen.
An Autobiography of a Blind Programmer
I used to be pretty bad at getting up, and fixed it (for me) by keeping the same (morning) schedule on weekdays and weekends. The rationale is that your body has a rhythm, and if you laze around on weekend mornings but get up at a different time on weekdays, it gets out of sync, and you have all sorts of sleep issues. So, pick a time, and get up at that time every day whether or not you feel rested; soon enough your schedule will adjust so that you feel tired enough to sleep 7 or 8 hours before that.

For anybody who needs some help with sleep, take a look at cognitive behavioral therapy (e.g. http://shuti.me/), which is reportedly much more effective than ambien et al.
> people did not even lock their cars and their houses

when you have nothing worth stealing, it is not worth investing in security
Pretty alarming. Thanks.
Reading this on Sunday morning/afternoon after a good night, I'm like: "yeah whatever, I'll just get my laptop and work from here!" ;)
Meanwhile in Jyvaskyla on the JAMK student facebook page :

"Hi everyone, my bike is stolen last week. If you see it anywhere please text me! Thanks !"
I'm with the Chinese on this one; the penalty for fucking with the food supply is... well, death does seem a little extreme, so maybe I'm not completely with the Chinese on it, but I can certainly see where they're coming from.

If you can't trust what you're putting in your mouth, the game of modern civilisation is over.
Licencing is OK.

But the patent shouldn't be "exclusively transferable".

The owner should be always able to do it himself or sell another licence.

Also if nobody is doing anythin with the patent - it should be void after a few months.
I noticed that there "traffic-saving" proxy started to redirect direct links to images on https://i.imgur.com to the full-ad-crap pages https://www.imgur.com. Has anyone noticed the same? It does not always happen, might be referrer based.
I was just running a win98 box with 64MB of ram. Office would run nicely. Also that disk had (the maddeningly fast) Turbo Pascal IDE clocking around 600KB. I like v8 prowess and everything but I miss those days.
Often find it troubling that people find it so easy to cast an opinion on a topic they so poorly understand. Yes, this topic is important, no, I don't understand it. What is the best way to understand the current situation?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment_in_...

> According to the Department of Education, over 166,000 students in public schools were physically punished during the 2011–12 school year.
IMO:
R&D is all about specialization, so choose an area you'd like to work in. You don't need to choose immediately, you can play with various stuff to find the right kind of work for you (the factors that matter for me are: the amount of low-level/high-level coding, the heaviness of math, the size of projects).

As for PhD, I think that, as long as you're exceptional in your area of expertise, you can get R&D jobs without it. On the other hand, getting to that level can easily take as long or longer than doing a PhD. Also, I think you can probably gradually advance into more researchy positions through smart career progression, starting with more development-oriented jobs in R&D areas combined with doing plenty of research on your own.
Define large...
Marketing Dissertation Impact of Online and Offline Advertising
For some values of "invent". They took an existing industrial dust separation technique, used it in a vacuum cleaner, and patented it - and their newer inventions have been even more questionable. For example, they're claiming to have "pioneered digital motors", which are apparently what the rest of us know as brushless DC motors - which, needless to say, they didn't invent and which have been replacing other motors in many applications due to the availability of cheaper high-power MOSFETs, something they also had nothing to do with.
I wasn't suggesting no one should have access to other people's data. If there's a good reason, such as informing the basis of a contract in the case of a medical to get health insurance, then both parties benefit - one gets to understand the risk they're undertaking and the other gets insurance. So long as the person having the medical understands what they're handing over that's fine.

What I take issue with is the assumption that any data that could be analysed for some marginal good should be openly available. Data is hugely powerful and incredibly valuable, so we need to take individual privacy in to great consideration. In the case of this old lady the tangible benefits of her data being analysed is so tiny (it's not a controlled study, there's no rigour to 'using a fitbit', and it's a such a small sample size of literally 1 person that any hope of anonymity is impossible) that her privacy is far more important than any possible insight in to ageing that the data might give us.
It's not open-source, so you're essentially trusting a binary install with auto-updates. I was fine with it until now, not sure I will be if the sale goes through.
Most of the robots in the manufacturing industry are following a pre-set sequence. Why do we call them a robot whereas most people would not call a dishwasher a robot?

I think what we (as a society) call a robot is a machine that has some degree of versatility:
- an industrial robot can be programmed to achieve a different task (even if the sequence is pre-set, it is easy to set a different sequence for a different need), and the same kind of robots can be used to achieve many different tasks
- a food processor can make many different recipes
- a Roomba can adapt its behavior to the room (it has some degree of versatility because it can adapt to the conditions)

... but a dishwasher has a single purpose, which is why we usually do not call it a robot (even if it has sensors, actuators, some algorithms, etc.). If the dishwasher was also capable of cooking dishes, it would be more versatile and we would call this a robot (think of a humanoid torso that could do the dishes but also cook your eggs).

And the most versatile robots like a fully-featured humanoid is probably what we all have in mind when talk about robots.

Overall, we could say that we have degrees of versatility and therefore degrees of 'roboticity'. The lower level is the dishwasher, the highest level is the humanoid.
This story somehow made its way into a sermon prep book for pastors - I've heard this about 20 times in sermons by now...
I'm referring to their mutual fund, not purchases you make on their trading platform.
I read this jawn and wanted to suggest some other Philly-related jawns that you might want to check out if you come to this jawn:

* TastyKakes. Not quite as delicious since the Flower Foods acquisition a few years back, but still tasty. I especially like the peanut butter cake jawns.

* Soft pretzels. Get those jawns when they're still hot.

* Cheese steak. Don't go to one of those tourist jawns. Instead, get it from a mom-and-pop corner store kind of jawn.

* Wawa. Heaven's convenience store. Once you've been to this jawn, you'll never go back to 7-Eleven.

* SEPTA. Just kidding.

* Comcast. Also just kidding.