skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He didn't say it would be hard, just more fair.

Taken to the limit, an AI with an API to the game can take micro-control of every character. His high-level strategy might not even matter, if every character can fight optimally. At the very least, an AI would have an advantage when starting multiple battles, since he doesn't have the "switching" overhead of panning around the screen, clicking on items to issue orders, etc. But that "god mode" option is not available to a human. (Even if we slowed down the game, the human would get likely get bored before playing optimally.)

But if the AI were limited in the same way a human was, the AI couldn't monitor an infinite number of battles at the same time, couldn't issue control instructions infinitely fast, etc.

Maybe the AI can click around "fast enough" that it wouldn't matter (we don't know). But at least it would be a fair fight.
Also, it's not even clear that one of them has won or lost yet. Lyft is still going strong, and uber is now having to make major changes to how it deals with tips. It's too early to write narratives for this.
Should people be striving to remove friction in discourse in the first place? I mean, if something hurts to hear, surely that should sound the alarm that it's worth confronting, rather than running away from, right?

Reddit already moderates discussions quite often, and the conversations there don't often reach the level of those here at HN, but still I wonder if maybe too much is too much when it comes to moderation.

I could say something totally offensive and uncalled for on HN, so long as I back it up with why it needs to be said. In other words, I'd argue that the narrative isn't all that matters when it comes to discourse.

Somewhat offtopic, when I look at their material and theming, I think about whether or not I think I'd find people there worth talking to, and that answer is no. ycombinator's landing page, or hell, even Reddit's front page, looks leagues more professional than the weird children's book graphics of Imzy.

I just don't understand what's to be gained in the utilitarian sense by telling people what they can and cannot contribute to a discussion. I really like the idea of just throwing it all out there and then gathering up and working on whatever sticks. Maybe that's why Reddit is semi-appealing.
The Basics of Pipes on Linux
Everybody makes their account for something, often a trivial comment they had on their mind.
Well you kind of do contribute to Uber's value for others by using it and not other service, but not as significantly as with social networks. You use an app, drivers see there is a demand for it, more drivers, better service, you ever so slightly increased Uber's value against its rivals.

This is true for every service, only the value of individual contribution differs: huge for facebook, pretty big for "real life" businesses (uber, airbnb), quite minor for "online only" (non-multiplayer videogames).
You may just be hung up on the examples of Sidney and San Francisco, which are not essential to the point. Suppose I bring you a 5 pound weight a 1 pound weight, and say "this is heavier than that". Then we can substitute those for Sydney and San Francisco in the example.

Put another way, the metaphysical status of cities is not a direct consequence or assumption of the metaphysics of mathematical entities.
This looks really promising. I've often wanted to be able to do exactly this: run a bunch of async code in the middle of an otherwise synchronous block (classic example: writing a Django view which fires off a bunch of parallel HTTP API requests and continues once all of them have either returned or timed out).
I drink socially. It seems to have pretty typical effects -- less social inhibition and so forth. Why do you ask?
CryptoCat rewritten from scratch, now a desktop app using the Signal protocol
In my world press attention isn't something you (should) get delivered on demand.

Also, your front page says very prominently:

"Find where you belong and join in healthy, positive communities." ("warmer")

Along with a massive overload of overly cute imagery. ("fuzzier")

So really, I don't understand where you are coming from.
I think default subreddit moderators should be reddit employees (at least the highest ones), the current model doesn't quite work in my opinion. But that probably costs too much.
9/40

All my "images" are descriptions, but for some of the questions I think those descriptions are vivid enough to count as images. (For example, gradient was a helpful term for the sun and the sky.)

I'm an INTJ engineer, in case that's a helpful thing to note. Audio and "feelings" are even harder for me to imagine, because I have less descriptive language

It's actually hard for me to imagine what people mean by pictures in the mind. Surely nobody imagines things the way they see things?
Benford's Timescape always freaked me out a bit. Scientists in a dystopian future sending messages into the past in order to prevent their future from occurring.
> looks leagues more professional than the weird children's book graphics of Imzy.

Wait... isn't Imzy actually for children? Cutsy name, cutsy graphics, tight moderation. I thought this is basically the second coming of Gaia online.
I can't fully agree here. I do agree a working ai will crush human players. But the challenge lies in that the entire state is not known. The opponent is hidden by fog, and unlike chess and go, things happen around around the map while you are not watching, i.e. You have to remember things like putting workers into the gases you built earlier, and pull them out if an all in is coming. The challenge lies in making the computer comprehend such decisions. Otherwise i think it will be hard to play a game of imperfect information at super human levels.

Or it might find a new strategy that is totally imbalanced and unbeatable
Probably, but I expect it would account for less than 0.5% of the increase. The costs of everything is passed on to the students (minus the relatively constant government subsidy, if any).
I buy VOO and just sit on it because I don't want to spend my time and attention trying to beat the market.
"Positive, healthy, diverse"

Looks like fun. And by fun I mean more toxic than tumblr in echoing the same "positive" thoughts and certainly criticism against those who don't share the same opinions
Has uber won? When? Did the rest of the market get told?
Given the fact they are still embroiled in legal wrangles worldwide, still throwing a billion dollars a year into a hole in China, had to recently settle a large case with their drivers, face competition from Lyft as their friendlier rival, from lady only driver firms to deal with rapey and gropey uber drivers, overall, sounds like a winner. Or does it?
Open access is being increasingly thought of as inevitable and the only ethical option for publishing academic research. What I believe we will end up with eventually is a situation where nearly all new publications are open access, and a good deal of older twentieth century (and earlier) research is publicly available as well due to ongoing digitalisation and expired copyrights. In between, there will be a significant body of research kept locked away behind paywalls by publishers trying to hold on to those cash cows and the inertia copyright on a work has once granted.

At the same time, 'piracy' on a massive scale (like Sci-Hub) will only get easier due to technological advances and increasing amounts of bandwidth available to consumers worldwide. Combine that with an utter lack of sympathy for (academic) paywalls and publishers, and a widespread believe that sharing these works is ethically just, and you have a situation that simply cannot be contained.

I expect that in twenty years time you will be able to download almost the complete library of published academic works from the twentieth and twenty first centuries in the time it takes to make a pot of coffee — legally or illegally.

So publishers will have to learn to deal with this new reality and reinvent themselves in an open access world, or perish.
At that point you are getting the benefit of cheating in two different ways, which makes it a super cheat!
In SF the quality of Uber's service has dropped so dramatically in the past 3-4 months that I no longer use it anymore. It's completely commoditized and I have no qualms about switching to Lyft when they have a better product.
It also makes it much easier for them to keep trolls out, at least at first while the community is defining itself.
The author states that there will not be a mobile client[1]. This seems crazy to me.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/4fyzyc/cryptocat_re...
So how exactly is Toosheh getting this satellite to beam their content?
I'm surprised there are no comments on this, but I'll contribute...

I'm a smartwatch fanatic. I believe the people that deny smartwatches are the same kinds of people that initially denied the utility of mobile phones / smart phones / etc. I had the OG Pebble, the first Moto 360, the Pebble Time Steel and then the Apple Watch. (I am by no means an expert) I also owned a fitbit charge HR and a Basis HR watch (the original model...)

I currently only own the Apple Watch (sold the others to friends). I think the Pebble products are king in the smart watch space at the moment due to their price, ease of use, and cross-platform compatibility

I love my apple watch, but it's not as easy to (for example) change songs without looking at the watch (on the pebble, this would be pushing the up/down buttons)... on the apple watch the display needs to be turned on and you have to hit a "soft" button.

I also love the apple watch for its heart rate sensor and other capabilities (that a lot of android watches have)... google fit and apple health are similar and underutilized though. (Pebble is now trying to get in this space, but lacks the heart rate).

As an aside I'm surprised at the lack of health/fitness apps... I imagine that other devs (like me) are interested in these kinds of apps and have great ideas... but are busy with other projects (also my problem). (If anyone wants to casually collaborate on something like that... let me know)

(that was kind of rambly, but I'm at brunch, and I realize this isn't reddit... so my apologies)
This is a hilarious piece. You yankees are good 20 years behind the real pirate libraries trend, started with lib.ru and well continued with the genesis lib and uneraseable flibista.is. Ah, I forgot to mention nehudlit.ru, which is specialized on textbooks.
Actually Altera the company who is selling NIOS II is a Intel company. So maybe they should just share some engeneering details between them..
Intel's client computing chips plateaued, but server platforms have kept improving. The volumes might be lower, but the high margins more than make up for it.
This is the demo that got me really excited about HTTP/2: https://http2.golang.org/gophertiles
> Should people be striving to remove friction in discourse in the first place? I mean, if something hurts to hear, surely that should sound the alarm that it's worth confronting, rather than running away from, right?

Not necessarily. I personally prefer Scott Alexander's criteria for commentary at SlateStarCodex (http://slatestarcodex.com/). A comment should be two of: True, kind, necessary.

Plenty of things cause near-visible sparks when you put them in discourse, and most of them are mean, pedantic, or just not true. You're interested in the set of comments which are true and necessary, this is a tiny subset of the comments which cause friction.
37/40, I struggle a little with visualizing faces but not much else. I've worked as a software developer for 10+ years, I would have thought programmers skewed towards high visualization.

Do y'all visualize objects as amorphous blobs floating in space with little fish hook methods covering the exterior? When writing SQL, do you not visualize the ERD in your head? Might explain why I've always been strong in data modelling, but like everything, probably a downside somewhere else.
I said we didn't say warm and fuzzy. You don't understand that?
But is it an unfair characterization? I mean "healthy", "positive", "safe space" - and then images of childlike cartoons frolicking around the water? If "warm and fuzzy" wasnt what you were going for, I think you need to rethink the presentation.
Assumption two seems dubious, because universities in the rest of the world pay for the same subscriptions, but don't pass these costs on to their students. It may be true for the US though.
Lots of discussion last year about one of the sources:

Aphantasia: A life without mental images (bbc.com)
91 points by adamcarson 235 days ago | 75 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10148792
Then again, a bot that could play SoS would be truly marvelous
It doesn't matter which army is battling me, whether it is Russian, Chinese or American. They will have no problem killing me, because that's their job, and there is war. Dancing on my grave would be difficult, because that would require retrieving my body.

I'm not saying that war is not necessary, but pretending that you're fighting zombies thirsting for nothing but your blood is idiotic. The soldiers you're fighting joined their army to protect their people. The people itself most likely just want to passively continue with their life, not understanding what the war is about, knowing nothing but the date of the first bomb. The people that started the war is sitting somewhere cozy, out of reach.
I had what I would describe as a 90% version of this for the longest time. My mental imagery was mostly ephemeral to the point that it may as well have not existed—attempting to picture something would give me a mental 'flash' of it, that would then instantly be replaced with darkness. Nothing would stick around long enough to permit examination.

I discovered one 'trick' to get around this: certain music would cause strong, evocative "music video" imagery to be conjured in my mind's eye for as long as I listened to it, with this being mostly directible (i.e. the emotional cues of the song were fixed, but I could constrain the imagery to anything that matched those emotional beats.) I considered myself a writer in my teenage years because I took advantage of those "synesthetic fantasias" to build up scenes and characters in a sci-fi setting of my own creation. Sadly, this ability faded with age.

More recently, I was diagnosed with Inattentive-type ADHD (and, to be clear, it was always there, rather than adult-onset; my parents just disregarded the advice of my family doctor and pretended I was neurotypical.) I began taking medication for it. My visual imagery is not ephemeral any more! I mean, it still kind of is, insofar as mental images will be lost the moment I temporarily lose focus on them—but I can now hold the images for as long as I concentrate on them.

I think I might now actually have access to the full "thought toolset" other people do, but since I developed and rely on this alternate way to go about thinking without it, I don't reach for visually-imagining as a way to do things, so it doesn't get used often.

On the other hand, I notice that, on ADHD medication, I have far fewer fleeting "unrequested" visual images. I can now imagine consciously, but it seems like the visualization capabilities of my subconscious have been switched entirely off.

Though, I do notice, if I go a day without taking my ADHD meds, the second night—when it's all washed out of my system, but my brain hasn't bounced back to producing any dopamine, so the amount in there is even lower than my baseline—I'll have really intense dreams, where the details of every scene are full of "grotesquely real" imagery, as if DeepDream were trained on Zdzisław Beksiński paintings.

This almost makes me wonder whether there's a sort of "cross-fade" potential between conscious and subconscious visualizing, controlled by dopamine. Really low dopamine: vivid dreams, no conscious visualizing. Average dopamine: meh dreams, meh visualizing. High dopamine: no dreams, vivid visualizing. (This would also fit with the observation that visual hallucinations are a symptom of mania.)
We are talking about millions of dishes. This is where law ridicules itself and impossible to enforce. There are some police raids once a while, but not effective.

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27920659
Well then you must have been in another China than me. In the China I went to you won't even get a taxi in a busy time if you don't start the taxi search with a tip.
I agree, but that is just handful of them, isnt it?
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11556763
You didn't say warm and fuzzy.. you just put this invite-only site out there that screams those two keywords "silently". I think I understand perfectly.
In Haskell, since it is a pure language, every type is a value type in the sense that you can pass around values without worrying that callees might overwrite your data.

However, these types (excepting unboxed types) can also be considered reference types since values are technically passed by reference. Boxed values are stored in thunks, and only accessed through these (at least conceptually). Thunks in turn have GC overhead.

Boxed values have even associated internal state, but there is not much control over it: the state of their evaluation.

So another viewpoint is that boxed Haskell types are just like Java reference types, but from the outside they seem immutable.
Could you clarify who "Captain Obvious" is?
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Thank you. If more people thought along the same lines as you then our industry would be a much better place.
For me the fact that Go is a descent of Oberon-2 and Limbo is quite interesting, but there are several features that a modern language should have that aren't present in Go and never will be.

Hence why I rather see the appeal of Go as a way to attract developers that would otherwise use C, to make use of a more safer programming language.

As many turn to C, just because they don't know other AOT compiled languages well, not because they really need any C special feature.

Regardless of the discussion regarding if it is a systems programming language or not, I think it can be, given its lineage. It only needs someone to get the bootstraped version (1.6) write a bare metal runtime and then it would be proven. Maybe a nice idea for someone looking for a PhD thesis in OS area.

Me, I would rather make use of a .NET, JVM or ML influenced language as those have type systems more of my liking.
Have you tried the "Famous Faces" test?

http://www.faceblind.org/facetests/ff/ff_intro.php

There's lots more information about Face Blindness (prosopagnosia) on the http://faceblind.org site.
I wanted to know if I'm the only one who doesn't find these apps convenient. I'm in NYC and have been trying to use Uber and Lyft, but I keep finding that whenever I request a ride, the driver usually takes too long to get to me (e.g. gets lost and goes the wrong way), and in that time I see like 20+ taxis drive past.

Why would I wait 5-10 minutes for an Uber/Lyft when I could, in the same amount of time, be closer to my destination by just hailing a regular taxi?

Surely I'm not the only person experiencing this. I want to love Uber/Lyft, but so far my experience has just been one of hassle and inconvenience. I was motivated to try them out because of free credits, and I'm trying to use up my free rides before they expire, but it's just been too painful so far!
WHo cares about the US? The collective knowledge of humanity is at stake. The keepers are restless, believe me. And most of them do not even speak English.
"Healthy, positive communities" is an oxymoron.

A healthy community has healthy and sometimes necessarily intense disagreement in its discourse (just as a healthy mind questions itself).

A "positive" community has no disagreement at all - or at least none that go deep enough to resolve really serious differences.

The only way to maintain a "positive" community the way they mean is to simply ban everyone with views outside a narrow opinion corridor. But whose opinions will define that allowed opinion corridor? From the euphemistically fuzzy language and focus on good emotions, I think I know.
Well you won't be confused for warm and fuzzy at least.

Start as you mean to go on, they say
It's in the article - the satellite is run by a company in the UAE, which by comparison to Iran is free and open.
Proper tail calls are still behind a flag in V8 (including in the 5.2 version in current chrome canary). Is there any indication they'll be turned on by default in node 6?
Blood, sweat and tear vs. press, paper and ink
Why not just assume so? Aren't there valid reasons to keep all in memory?
The impact of Prince’s death on Wikipedia
This is similar to Outernet/Lantern (https://outernet.is/), though Toosheh has the neat feature of being able to reuse existing satellite receivers, which is obviously very useful here. They also seem to have a much larger bandwidth budget (1GB per hour with Toosheh vs 1GB per day with Outernet).
The Web isn’t uniform
I suggest reading the excerpt I pointed to. It's worthwhile. As I mentioned, Henwood addresses obvious points like the one you raised.
I didn't see any marching bands. Great link though, thanks.
Apply HN: Internet in children´s language
More then 3.5 Bn. people are going online within the next 5 years. Unlike early adopter communities, these are demographics who have never been online before and now have to learn each and every online service. This people struggle remembering apps - users know today less then 4,7 services on average. Their problem: To abstract between service concepts and digital brands. We help this users by age-friendly technologies: By explaining the internet in children´s language, we give these demographics a better comprehension about concepts they can apply to access Share Economy and Internet of Things.

Our approach: We make the physical world browsable similar how children speak. This way we are able to create tools useable as good by a 3 years old, as by a 80 years old person.

The MVP of betterinternet.xyz has been built as a meta search engine. Next versions should include e.g. a matchmaking component, as well as experimental VR/AR interfaces.

Our goal: We want to become the company you recommend to a first-time internet user. Trusted for simplicity and usability, and safe to use even by children.
I think the question we all should really be asking is how long will it take to get to the point where WASM is practically useful for anything that noticeable chunk of web users cares about.
NYC is arguably one of the only places in the world where you can conveniently hail a taxi. And that isn't the case if you happen to not be white. And while you might be able to hail a taxi in NYC that doesn't say anything about the quality of that taxi which has notoriously been poor.
To be precise, Node.js 6.x will include V8 5.0. There has been a little discussion on being able to include V8 5.1 down the road, maybe, but there is nothing concrete on it at this point.

Also, the fate for tail-call-elimination is pretty uncertain at the moment; see: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-ptc-syntax
"If you can't understand why your toxic contribution to the community isn't wanted then you deserved to be silenced."
Great comment for a terrible post. When I saw the title I knew it was click bait.
Any suggested reading material on writing two implementations side by side like that?