skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a question of looking through heaps of shite to find a gem. There are decently designed mobile games out there, they're just rare when compared to the amount optimised for ad revenue.

Hoplite springs to mind, and some of the ones pushed in the Humble Mobile bundles (some anyway).
It was a tired cliche for describing games even before smartphones existed, but the model for typical mobile game design truly is the Skinner Box. You press a button to get some shiny reward designed to make your brain feel like it accomplished something.

It's a remarkably elaborate ruse to disguise the fact that there really is no "game" underneath all the chrome.
I am curious if you are doing anything to optimize featured image using css media queries? This is something that I would want.

I have a few a wordpress sites, and I use wp super cache which helps with speed, but I still think its a waist of bandwidth to have to download the same featured image size on mobile as on desktop.
> GWT is less compelling.

Last try :-)

Why?

> Last update was when, 2014?

https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/commits/master
I just posted a reply elsewhere in this tree that expounds my thinking on oil.

In short, I think uncertainty and credit risk will cause the oil market to collapse rather sooner than most anticipate. Read up on the current contango oil market - it's unnerving stuff.
Contrast that with the license considerations running Docker on Ubuntu:

1.) Containers are available on both desktops and servers because they're fundamentally the same OS (but with different sets of packages installed by default).

2.) As always, the server and desktop versions of Ubuntu available for unlimited use with zero licensing costs. Completely free.

I'd also like to add that the "base" Windows Server container image is 9.3 gigabytes while the base Ubuntu container image is 120 megabytes. Put it all together and you wind up with vastly greater costs to run Docker containers on Windows.

Having said that, if your application only runs on Windows then putting inside a container might not be a bad idea.
Test Driven Development with Node, Postgres, and Knex (Red/Green/Refactor)
There you go: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:K9bT6I1...
That shows IMO that the values embodied by today's corporations (well at least by their HR departments) are out of whack. I'm hoping the companies will abandon their current bullshit "passion" view of employment, and will start valuing honest hard work. I'm affraid that's in conflict with the whole current American mythos though.
#ICE16: How I Learned That It’s Not About the Technology
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To an extent it depends on the local council, I straddle the border between Hull City Council (Hilariously bad) and East Riding of Yorkshire (pretty good).

I report potholes to both councils because I cycle a lot in and around Hull.

Quick example of how bad Hull City Council are, when I signed up online for dealing with council tax, it took them 7 weeks to post me my password..
Yes, but those parameters are also past their rapid growth phase in the industrialized countries. Diminishing returns are still returns, but they don't increase overall growth rate.

Post industrial economies get less growth from investments in human capital than developing economies because they are already almost there.

Globally there is still lots of room for grwith but the rate of growth will be not the same as before. If Africa and Middle east follow the path of Asia (I very much dobut that) we might have decade or two.
I'm not sure what your complaint is. You will have a better time passing interviews if you are comfortable talking about yourself - strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, etc.

Enthusiasm is good. Faking enthusiasm is still better than crossing your arms and demanding you be judged on your GitHub profile alone and not have to answer questions about yourself.
Java Optional was inspired by Scala Option was it not? And I haven't seen anyone complain about Scala Option having exactly the same get() method for ages.
I would suggest hiking, maybe taking some nature photos. Its one of the ways I decompress, but I do it on the East Coast.
Of course it does, you actively choose to throw something! That is, in some cases, perfectly acceptable. All three methods tell you there is something else in case you don't have a value in the optional. get() doesn't.
Somehow it seems you are offended. Why?

You may even use Visa, still doesn't mean that you are dealing with US dollars. Why do you think is it completely normal to have Visa as being a global country dealing with the cross-country transactions, but not Bitpay?

If you have access to the international banking system, great. It is not a bad thing. Just like it is not a bad thing to have bitcoin as an alternative.

The one thing that I don't get, anytime that Bitcoin comes here, is that people seem to think that it is an either/or proposition. That for Bitcoin to be usable it needs to completely replace the Almighty US Dollar or any other sovereign currency.

Cryptocurrencies and the blockchain are just tools that are being explored and developed as a way to bring trust to transactions and accounting without a central authority. What is bad about that?

We don't need to have Central Banks. "Us non-Americans" don't need to use American Institutions to participate in a global economy.

This idea of "I can pay with Visa, therefore Bitcoin is useless" is short-sighted.
>Would I survive a crash? They're very tiny...

IIRC The smart car beats the Hummer in crash test ratings....
The wikipedia article has citations and external links, which are far more trustworthy than your hand waving and bullshit which you just made up on the spot.

> There really isn't enough detail there, but what detail there is suggests those numbers are completely made up.

Read the report, it has plenty of details, I don't really feel like spoonfeeding an ignorant and dishonest bullshitter.

> A multi-decade accounting isn't useful when we are discussing the current state of subsidies across industries.

Of course it's useful, just because it doesn't agree with your opinion doesn't make it irrelevant.

> The tax-based "subsidies" appear to just be referring to the ability to write off expenses, an aspect of the tax code that is nearly universal to every industry in all nations.

No, there are specific tax subsidies, which is why it is mentioned explicitly. Not sure why you are handwaving and trying to imagine a reality which agrees with your retarded opinion.

> There are very, very few examples of income taxes that do not allow the write-off of expenses.

Blah blah. Not even worth arguing.

> The second part of that summary, referring to "exemptions" from economic regulations, is bizarre. We don't generally have price controls or limits on the rate of return in the United States.

There are many price controls in the US, once again you are showing your extreme ignorance.

> It seems like that report probably just chose arbitrary numbers for what it felt the profit rate should have been, and added the difference between that and the real numbers into the subsidy number.

No, it's just that you are very stupid and dishonest.

> That is more an argument for communism than anything related to a discussion about subsidy policy.

Hahahaha.
Although I haven't personally read it, everything Andreas Antonopoulos does is great and this seems to have received very favorable feedback from the bitcoin community. http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Unlocking-Digital-Cr...
This is the biggest problem for sure. So many of these games just get buried in either app store by the worst type of games and apps.

I've mostly discovered them over time by recommendations from people, or from discussion boards or sites that cover games, or even when they get featured by Apple in the app store.

It's amazing that app discovery is so difficult to solve for the big app stores.
Honestly, the lack of dedicated controls will never allow for mobile gaming to be anything more than a time diversion for most people. A touchscreen just isn't something that's comfortable to use for extended lengths of time, in my opinion at least.
Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely stupid code”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842713
The deep security issues are that transactions are, by design, untraceable and irreversible.

That means that any security breach is catastrophic. Whereas the routine security breaches of credit and debit cards, and online banking systems, are not catastrophic.

Physical cash is of course not subject to instant theft from anywhere in the world - the theif has to be in the same place as the cash. Whereas it's basically not safe to use bitcoin on any computer connected to the internet - to do so is equivalent to leaving it in the street - rendering it hilariously unsuited to ecommerce.

Not to mention that the most convenient ways of actually getting money in and out of the bitcoin system, the exchanges, tend to have frequent security breaches and exit scams of their own.

(I should just point out that in this discussion generally the anti-bitcoin side uses 'bitcoin' to refer to 'the totality of systems needed to do normal useful things with bitcoin', while the pro-bitcoin side limits it to only the protocol and possibly the reference client implementation.)
Interesting, I was loaned enough money to buy a house from a family member, and I was required to pay them back with market interest... Thus my comment was from experience - even though I may be wrong?
You should never have concrete expectations or make assertions on an unknown, that's the entire point of any implementation of Option.

Option.get leads to false confidence. I've had many arguments over use .get (in Scala) where another developers argument is "we check that it's defined higher up in the code". At that point a harmless looking refactor by someone else can introduce NPEs.
As were some Palm OS devices before them - those with 480x320 screens, at least. (They weren't good for much else!)
As I posted further down - most of the issues here seem to stem from people having this idea that in the extreme long term Bitcoin takes over the world and 'their' (as if this is some sort of holy war?) green bits of paper become firewood or something.

That isn't a realistic model for how the world works and is really just an odd way of thinking.

I can play Quake 3 and have fun with it, and post blogs about it, without thinking it's going to destroy every other video game out there ever, without debating whether it even is a video game, etc. Hey, it has fast inverse square root, that's cool, but it's not going to result in the actual world being deleted and exchanged for CGI VR land.

Fundamentally it seems to be that there's some element of 'faith in the concept', that is turned off when it comes to money, perhaps as a protection mechanism. I don't know.

... Just chill out, you know? I might go out for a run soon. You can still walk, don't worry, it's not banned (I also walk, it's useful, maybe we can be friends?).
Have you worked an office job for years on end? They aren't exactly easy on your body, or soul, either. And trades have "executive" levels as well.

I'd rather be the Plumber for a skyscraper development than the accountant for it...
Oh wonderful, now the world's two most popular all-digital currencies can be used in the same place -- Bitcoin and TF2 hats. Russian criminals and Chinese investors looking to get money out of the country can work together in a new age of unity and togetherness.
What I wonder about most is why they didn't just use a piece of cloth instead.
Next up on the roadmap, Typescript is working to add opt-in strict null and undefined checking which is probably the last area where Flow's type system is particularly better than Typescript's.

(It will be opt-in as Typescript follows a rule of increasing strictness via compile options to support the spectrum of JS needs, but also as it will not be entirely backward compatible with existing type definition files and will need some effort among typings authors.)
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
Just out of curiosity, does it matter what the questions are actually about? Even in the US if you ask a woman if she plans on getting pregnant you're going to have issues. But I would imagine if a woman was answering a general "tell me about yourself" type question and mentioned her kids, the interviewer might ask a follow up, particularly if they have a similar interest or something (obviously staying away from "so are you going to have more?" or whatever).

I'm a guy so I've never been asked about kids until after being hired, and even then just conversationally at lunch.
The debate about Linux desktop or bitcoin need not be political. But I'd like to offer an indicator for when things inevitably become 'political'; when there's no provably correct answer and the use of force is involved.
I think it has to do with the mindset of people working with Java vs Scala. Specifically, Scala folks are taught to reach for functional concepts(map, flatMap, etc) first whereas these concepts are still new to Java land.
i'm sure the criticism has him crying all the way to the bank.
https://www.ovh.ie/cloud/storage/object-storage.xml
When the whole mobile/app thing began with Java ME, I thought their prices would be within $10-$25 because programmers would not have to sell physical copies anymore and along came Apple selling mobile software more at $0.99-$5 and even at $5 people think software is too expensive compared to the $40+ they were paying for console games or other programs.

This aggressive dilution of the monetary value of software is what I think contributed the most to the loss of gameplay quality and the near-criminal, constantly-nagging-for-payments-and-ad-views behavior of app publishers today.

Mobile software should have been sold more like shareware used to be sold - free demos with limited functionality -$5 onwards for complete versions.

But now it is too late, the dilution of value of mobile software has only benefited app store owners.
How Louis XV got infected is unknown. There are several theories but not that one. The Parc-aux-Cerfs (place whet he was meeting girls brought there by Mme de Pompadour) was not in use for many years already (since Mme de Berry become his mistress).
Obamacare premiums reported today to be going up 9%-30% next year. A breaking point is coming soon.
It does, but the scala community is very familiar with the functional ("lambda") approach of leaving values in an optional context while transforming it.

The issue here stems from the existing community's culture, one especially full of trivially safe getters.
Poor Communication from Justworks
You seem to have a low bar for what constitutes a great game. (EX: Tiny Wings) Which is not a bad thing. I would suggest you look into free flash games, there are some real gems out there.

However, IMO many people are simply have different expectations. Mobile has plenty of processing power, but poor controls which is a real limitation preventing a wide swath of what people think of as video games.
I'm not really sure what they expected by appealing to Zuck, he can't back down otherwise he'll have 100's of "foo'stagram" products appearing.
That is entirely the point of the article.
For sure. Most of these have been in the Mobile Humble Bundle. I don't really buy mobile games outside of it.
I think there's certain games/tasks for which touch screens are miles ahead of the old mouse and keyboard. Card games, for example, lend themselves very well to touch screens.

That's only one example, but I think the issue is that so many games try to adapt touchscreen to old control methods, rather than create new control methods for touchscreens.
PGHoard has quite high unit test coverage (85%) and it's pretty easy to add a new object storage configuration to tests to verify that all the APIs used by PGHoard work properly.
That actually makes the Earth seem small to me. I wouldn't have blinked if someone had told me the blueberries would fill up a sphere the size of the Solar System. Just shows how hard it is to visualize these numbers.
It makes a certain kind of sense. Given one guy who wants a steady paycheck and another guy who's wild about spreadsheets and would do corporate accounting for free (let's assume this guy exists) the latter is probably more likely to stick around longer. Anyway, having to give disingenuous answers in interviews isn't really the problem, IMO.
It's very common to find mixed tabs and spaces where people use tabs. The first sign of this is inconsistent indentation. Maybe they're just sloppy? Oh, hm, here's some more code where it's wildly inconsistent. Time to play guess-the-tab-width until it settles down. Now should I add a comment at the top to tell Emacs about this setting next time I open the file? Probably not, sigh.

Semantic tabs would be good with consistent culture and tooling behind them.
Show HN: Concepting an app to teach vector math in VR
Yes, I'm intrigued how one is going to bring "old-school arcade sensibilities" to a system where the inputs really need to be interpreted as "a user pressed sort of hereish, sort of nowish" and when the user does that, they also have to cover some percentage of the screen to do it. Precision is not available. Not all games require precision, so it's not a fatal problem, merely just another design issue to deal with, but it does sound fatal to a lot of "old school arcade" ideas.
Have you ever visited /newest?
How to Party Like It’s 1999: Emulation for Everyone
In all fairness to Bushnell, the clickbait headline is drawn from the considerably more measured "I have been so pissed off with some mobile games I’ve wanted to throw my phone".
I never bothered to write down details of bugs... I rarely learn a lesson from any one specific bug - Lessons are learned by being exposed to a wide range of different bugs over many years. Eventually it becomes gut instincts.

For example today I was debugging an issue with Kubernetes (it was a really cryptic error about client-server not being able to negotiate a protocol or similar). I had never used Kubernetes before and I couldn't find anything on Stack Overflow.

The first thing I did was check the client and server versions (to see if they matched) - They did so that wasn't the issue. So then I had a strong 'gut feeling' that it was related to the client configs.

In this case, my second hypothesis turned out to be correct. 5 years ago I would probably tested my way through 20 different hypotheses before finding the problem.

To summarize my debugging strategy, it's simple; just pick all the low-hanging fruits first. The hard part is knowing what a low-hanging fruit looks like.
Martin Fowler's First Law of Distributed Object Design: Don’t distribute your objects!

http://www.drdobbs.com/errant-architectures/184414966

Just skimmed through the article and found myself nodding all the way through.
From someone who grew up using a Commodore 64: he's right. We've forgotten how to design great games. I don't claim to understand why, but we did.

This is more visible on consoles, where the overall gaming experience is simply terrible, but mobile isn't that much better.
I'm sorry, but you're looking at Bitcoin from a narrow viewpoint. There are in fact people who actually need Bitcoin in their day-to-day.

The question was why Bitcoin gets negative responses on places like HackerNews, and that question was answered.
Agree, it's absolutely my go-to whenever building anything one-page-ish that doesn't need a full framework.
It Goes Both Ways: Capturing Candidate and Employer Videos
> Bitcoin may or may not succeed

Thats what people were saying in 2012, 2013

The network is working fine. This is success. What is your metric of success in this statement? I find it counterintuitive.
By doing as we always did, reading game reviews by people that work doing only that.
Debt doesn't exist in a vacuum. There's a reason that double-entry accounting exists. The other side of the ledger is wealth and it's held by someone. In some cases, it's foreign countries, but a lot of it is held by Americans. To say the boomers are only leaving behind debt is only looking at half the story. It's more apt to say they're leaving behind inequality.

Some gen x and millennials are being left considerable wealth. Some even multi-generational wealth.
Anyone else ever run into these? I've noticed PHP's git history is infested with them. Hard to avoid without a pre-receive hook, since "git pull" without "--rebase" creates this type of merge out of the box.
Standard advice to engineers:

Don't read patents, you are exposing yourself to triple damages for knowing infringement.

If you need a patent search done, get someone else to do it
Real story of “Yelp Girl” who called out CEO for low pay
"Bring me his head!" - Joffery
Comcast buys DreamWorks Animation in $3.8B deal
Beyond passing fraud detection, someone with a large, strong social network could get a lot of votes. Is that a good signal for a startup? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't.
Aptitude over skill set. Interview for that.
it isn't a good way to launder bitcoins.

there are good ways, this isn't one of them. Stick with Shapeshift.io
328 Apply HN's currently [https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22Apply%20HN%22&sort=byPopula...].

Personally, cadwolf (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441930) was the most interesting to me. I think they're biting off too much... but it's an opportunity rich environment.
Actually the Earth is nearly perfect, far more perfect than most any sphere with interact with in day to day life. The equatorial bulge is 20 miles or so, which is approximately .33% Technically an oblate spheroid, but barely.
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You are not missing anything.
No. Typical C function looks something like this:

push %rbp
mov %rsp, %rbp
sub $something, %rsp
... actual code ...
mov %rbp, %rsp
ret

The sub $something, %rsp instruction is everything that user-space does to allocate stack memory. Actual allocation of stack pages happens in kernel in a way that is completely transparent as long as the $something does not get unreasonably large.
Clash of Clans had a revenue of 1 BILLION dollars in 2015 alone. That's insane. I'm sure they measure every single metric that can be measured in that game and make sure it's as engaging as possible by optimizing their interfaces and looking at the psychology of players.
I can only imagine some of the folks reaction to the old storytellers who constantly interjected their personal experience (and sometime the audiences) into the old stories. It honestly shows how the teller relates to the subject. If I had a mathematical tool or language, I would use it to show the work in a story about a mathematician.
The best part for me is the money, benefits, the flexible hours, the free food, the mental stimulation, and the occasional expression of creativity.

I don't believe that we change the world, or that we contribute to society any more than the person working behind the counter at a fast food join, the janitor, or other jobs that are so frequently devalued compared to ours. I believe that my job is far less valuable than someone doing social work or a nurse, for instance.
Blizzard responds to the Nostalrius takedown
If you own a car, the marginal cost of an additional trip is low (basically just gas). If you don't have a car, the cost of each trip will reflect its true cost. Basic economics will tell you this will lead to less trips, trip consolidation, other modes of transportation (walking/bike) chosen as primary transportation because ride sharing is there if you really need it. The really big cost that most people consider is parking. If large wasteful parking lots are eliminated, cities can become more compact which in turn will cause even more people to give up cars and so on.

As to your point about sharing, at some point if you want to be in the car by yourself it will cost extra. Again, economics...
Never knew this existed. This could possibly replace qbittorrent for me on windows 10. Thanks for great work.