skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't help but feel you didn't read past the headline. You've just about entirely missed eevee's point as elaborated in that essay: that earlier generations of games with a lot less graphical and detail oomph achieved your stated goal better:

Good entertainment immerses you in the environment [...]

Most of the article is spent in trying to explain this observation and get underneath it in a nuanced way. There's a lot of good observations in there.

It's worth noting that major figures in the gaming world are making big stakes on this very premise[1]:

"The biggest reason why we haven’t done a remake until now is because it’s a massive undertaking to reconstruct Final Fantasy 7 from the ground up with the current technology," Kitase wrote. "Producing a proper HD remake of Final Fantasy 7 that maintains the same feeling of density of the original would result in a volume of content that couldn’t possibly fit into one installment."

That's exactly what Square Enix is doing with the forthcoming FF7 remake, installments.

A big part of eevee's criticism might be summed as "graphical density is a poor substitute for environmental, interactive density". I've played too many recent-era games whose gameplay felt straightjacketed and linear, their gorgeous eye-candy environments managing to be disappointingly boring. In the worst cases, the gameplay worked hard against ever looking at and appreciating the highly detailed environment. What an enormous waste!

[1] http://www.gamesradar.com/final-fantasy-7-remake-too-big-one...
This!

It's really a great program you can do at your own pace, and very affordable (<$7000-$8000)
Why are all the popular ecommerce frameworks written in PHP?
Magento, prestashop, woocommerce etc
Thanks for the info, I'll have to read up on that. As a side note, Radio Free Asia seems like an unusual organization to be funding security audits.
In some European countries, there are special laws for insulting the monarch. In others, there are laws for insulting foreign heads of state. These laws are sometimes enforced.

For example, two Spanish cartoonists were fined for depicting the Spanish king having sex with his wife captioned with the "unpopular opinion" that getting his wife pregnant was "the closest thing [the king has] done to work in [his] whole life": http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7092866.stm
But the problem is Airbnb is blurring the line between personal and business use of the home. You shouldn't able to claim all the the legal benefits of a non-commercial/personal property if you are using it for a business. I'd think it would be reasonable if some anti-discrimination laws for businesses were changed or viewed as applying to Airbnb hosts. You don't need to advertise your personal home on Airbnb.
Deform. How to choose a messaging service
" Because if we knew of the existence of a patent then it could be shown that we were knowingly infringing on the patent."

This legal advice was been valid at one point.
However, nowadays, willful infringement requires more than just knowledge.

It has for a few years, but the most recent supreme court decision also strongly supports this.

See Halo Electronics v. Pulse electronics (http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/14-1513_db8e.pdf)
in the concurrence:

First, the Court’s references to “willful misconduct” do
not mean that a court may award enhanced damages
simply because the evidence shows that the infringer
knew about the patent and nothing more.

Second, also note:

“failure of an infringer to obtain the
advice of counsel . . . may not be used to prove that the
accused infringer wilfully infringed.”
Actually, its been easier for me in a large org. Maybe we should ask mongo if it was an issue?
What really surprised me were the run times of that laptop. Man that is crappy battery life for both instances. My thinkpad T220 with extended battery and 13" Macbook pro both decimate that battery life.
But it is an analog port on the iPhone/iPad devices, which this is about. They don't have optical/digital audio like the MacBook's TRS-TOSLINK port.
>>It's like the entire economy is about paying rent.

To be more precise, paying for real estate. You can't buy a decent home anywhere for less $1 million and property taxes are crazy.
FWIW my company uses both Splunk and Sentry, I've found myself using them to combo together quite nicely
Fake accounts and votes are a bannable offense on Hacker News.
This one of the sanest descriptions of the divide on Gun Control that I've seen. (And it's sanity from the "other side" which is even better!)
Not strange at all. When Ferrari had their IPO I had to use Yahoo finance because of the same issue.
> Uuid makes a great token.

When they're actually unique, sure. If you're UUIDs are the byte representation of something that isn't random (i.e. something not from /dev/urandom) then no they'll suck as much as the source. Generally speaking, what you put in is what you get out.
I have found that safari gives best battery time on OSX (like 9 hours of use vs 6-7 when on firefox).

But i generally dont use safari as battery time is not the most important factor in my common use cases.
That's an argument you can make (except for the part about calling your publicly advertised commercial hotel a "private residence"), but I hope you don't also say "racism is past in America, everyone had equal opportunity now", because that would be logically inconsistent.
Open source template for building static web sites with Prismic.io and AWS S3
So does google actually.
The obligatory mention: If you haven't yet, go ahead and read Masters of Doom. It's the story of id Software, really well written and worth your time.
Ooh. One reason that's nice is because it adds one of the Smalltalk-72 symbols ( http://www.esug.org/data/HistoricalDocuments/Smalltalk72/Sma... , see p. 16) that was missing from Unicode.
Scott Adams is a completely baffling human being to me. He sets up an acknowledged straw man about who is responsible for gun violence. Then uses that straw man to illustrate the mechanism behind a psychological divide between democrats and republicans that he presumes to be real, all of which is done in service of constructing an argument that boils down to saying "neither side is going to budge on this issue because they have different perspectives". Extra points for the martyr complex in his footnotes.
Miami's most in demand skill for developers
Because this doesn't guarantee a uniform background.

Let's say we have two teams, the Ayyys and the Bees; each has two defenders, Schlub and Superman play for the Ayys, and Scrub and Slacker play for the Bees. Let's assume that they all suck equally, except for Superman, who is great.

Now we run your statistic: we compare how the Ayyys do with Schlub on/off against how Scrub does on/off.

The problem is, when Schlub is off, Superman is playing, whereas when Scrub is off, Slacker is playing. This means the Ayyys do quite well when Schlub is off, but the Bees do about as well when Scrub is on compared to when Scrub is off. By this comparison, Schlub is a much worse player than Scrub, even though in actual fact they might be equivalent.
I hope that by the time I'm succumbing to the effects of aging, we'll have techniques with tools like CRISPR to make it easier.
I don't think getting GMOs labeled is a plot to get all consumers to boycott them... It's so the subsection of the population that cares about ingesting GMOs can make an informed choice when buying food.

That's like saying getting kosher food labeled was really a plot to get everyone to boycott all non-kosher food.
Why not send them an short and direct email?
Boring but possibly interesting audio for going to sleep
> government should not be able to shove people into my home

It's your hotel, not your home. No one is shoving people into you home; they are saying you can't invite the public and then keep certain protected classes out.

Don't like it? Don't run a public hotel from your residence.

> he has Facebook postings criticizing the US and cheering on ISIS then I don't want him in my home

Neither of these are a legally protected class under US discrimination law.
If Apple does this (to be clear, I'm speculating), I think they would be betting that those are problems which can be solved or improved by spending enough time and money on engineering. They have made similar bets before.

The Internet was pretty bad at moving data around, and USB drives were big and expensive, when they killed the floppy drive. But once the floppy was gone, it was a race among vendors to sell the most USB stuff and improved bandwidth. It created a market opportunity, which drove innovation.

The iPhone attacked a bunch of these restrictions. RIM thought the fact that the Blackberry sipped data and lasted a week on battery was a competitive advantage. Turns out users will charge daily, and cell companies will invest heavily, if given enough incentive.

The Macbook Air shipped without an Ethernet port. It hasn't slowed it down--WiFi just got good enough.

Of course, my thinking about the headphones is all speculation, but to me at least it seems in line with how Apple tries to shift things around.

I mean look at it this way--if all those problems you list could go away, wouldn't it be nice to not deal with a cord? Phones and computers exploded in popularity once the cord was gone. Why not headphones?
It certainly could, as it has full knowledge of what's connected. That's quite a ways down the road though; for now we're focusing on Razpi <-> computer. Mobile deployment is much more complicated (also a much larger market though).
Thank you very much. I have a lot of "typo-creep" although I should know better.
This poorly designed shifter has/will cause deaths and injuries.
Digging for Glory: the discovery of Australopithecus sediba
I looked at some pay ranges on Payscale and a few other sites and I really do not see that happening. Perhaps I could swing a 30% increase, but (after taxes) the difference in rent alone would consume most of that.
The Steam Summer Sale Starts Now
The GPL is not and has never been magic pixie dust. Ensuring companies and people comply with it costs money thanks to the legal system. The folks at gpl-violations.org and Software Freedom Conservancy do a lot of good work bringing companies into compliance, including helping Linux developers to sue VMware for their infringing use of the Linux kernel.

https://sfconservancy.org/
http://gpl-violations.org/
Please share with us your legal analysis that the Congress and SCOTUS are violating the 4th Amendment by passing and upholding anti-discrimination laws.
i donated toooooo
jff is referring to the exportation of left leaning voters.
Modern control theory is rather close to machine learning. Adaptive model-based feedforward control is machine learning. The machine learning part builds a model of the dynamics of the system. Then that model is inverted (solved for control inputs) to make it a control system.

They're doing this right. They have a very good basic body control system. Now someone can build higher level strategies to get work done on top of that. That's how biological brains work, after all. Google/Alphabet could, for example, reuse much of their automatic driving software as high level control for this robot.

Google should have BD manufacture a few hundred of those machines, and try to get the cost down to $25K or less per unit for that production run.
It's supported if you're running a Windows Insider build. Since the Opera test was using a dev channel build, I don't think it's a stretch to say they could have used the insider build of Edge with Adblock or Adblock Plus (uBlock isn't ported yet, but it shouldn't be too hard).

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensi...
How to return to iOS 9 from iOS 10 Beta
How do you think we could improve the Slack room? We currently have 2253 people there, so it's usually quite busy. It's free to join here: http://slack-invite.nylas.com/

(The mark-as-read issue has been fixed and we're working on shipping support for sending with inline images. Gmail didn't have this for about the first 6 years.)
Visualizing good behavior
This looks really interesting. Is there a NodeJS ORM comparable to Mongoose for using Arango?
Yes.

Also, tax rates are higher today than they were in the 1970s.

One data point: California statewide sales tax base rate was in the 3.75% to 5.0% range in the 1970s. Today it's 6.25%.

https://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/taxrateshist.htm
Stolperstein
Steam Summer Sale 2016
Phaser and Crafty are code oriented 2D game engines.

I think entity component system of Crafty scales a bit better than Phaser, but on the other hand Phaser has a bigger community.
i'm still surprised that not a single link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_database is present anywhere either here or in your post. on that page there's a link to a very in-depth treatment of the problem: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/rts/tdbbook.pdf.
Longtime Google engineer Matt Cutts is joining the Pentagon's digital team
> The net profit numbers by themselves don't tell you much about the health and prospects of the company.

I am not saying they do but they help to discuss the IPO.
Can I send someone my wallet and cards NOW? My backlog is enough for the rest of my life but OH I want that new shiny game.
Solar thermal is just as clean and just almost as reliable. That said, im not totally against nuclear.
Oh wow only 900 a month? finally something I can afford to live in!
Show HN: A twice-weekly deep dive into virtual and augmented reality
States of the artboard Sketch Plugin
Which side to you think Adams is on? He is really team-Trump.
Sweden becomes first nation to open electric highway for trucks
The Benefits of Serverless Applications in a Data-Rich World
Boston Dynamics' SpotMini Is All Electric, Agile, and Has a Capable Face-Arm
Yeah, totally. It works for avoiding too much attention from authority figures. I will never forget one time I was having a BBQ in an unauthorized area with my mom and ex-wife when this fat Air Force dude rolls by on his Segway. I turned to them and said "Just look like we're supposed to be here" but both of them, not being very good liars, continued with the deer-in-headlights look that guaranteed the guy started asking questions and eventually got us kicked off that part of the beach.
I just made one today. Took me about two hours to make a simple app for reviewing ~GB sized slides from digital microscope. I haven't written any in the past 5 years, though. I'm still blown away by how much more efficient I'm with Windows Forms compared to anything on the web.
Very true, but what I particularly like is the raw speed- having a JSON API with an average response time in microseconds(ie, sub-millisecond) is super cool and goes a long way in transforming a web app into that native-app feel.

To be able to get that without sacrificing productivity is huge.
I'll see you at my 1000th birthday party! high fives
It doesn't need to be. If all the tech companies are experimenting with ways to up-end different industries and ways of doing things. The municipality should also invest in experimenting with how to maintain affordability and accessibility and therefore diversity. Currently, the municipality, is geared to just make sure real-estate investor values are maintained. Therefore, the bill mentioned above.
My issue with Lightning as the new audio connector is that it's not going to be a "Standard."

Yes, headphone makers are making lightning cable headphones, but I doubt any device company outside of Apple will use it as audio out. Not only phone and computer makers but makers of AV receivers, amps, mixing boards, etc.

If the 3.5mm jack is the new floppy drive and ADB port, USB will be the standard that kills it, like it killed the others.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10273/intel-proposes-to-use-us...
Considering what goes for tv shows these days, i can anticipate problems.

However, for a "common sense" grade library that might be adequate with some careful picking.
Craigslist shows about a half dozen jobs, just like it always does when I look. Other sources have similar results. Where might one find these companies that "need tech people"? Because I'm seriously looking to get out of the Seattle area, and Boise would be a first choice, but for the lack of available jobs.
Hi Pilif, I led the Seed round in Sentry and am on the Board representing Accel.

The single most important part of investing in Sentry for me was the fact that it's Open Source and people love using it. The funding is intended to continue that tradition while also allowing Sentry to more aggressively invest in better mobile support, better support for other languages/environments like C# and SpringBoot, a deeper feature set (Breadcrumbs is a good example http://blog.getsentry.com/2016/05/04/breadcrumbs.html), better support, etc.

Once upon a time I wrote software and I was always annoyed that I couldn't only use Open Source tools so I could audit their code and fork/patch them more easily as needed. Part of the reason for that was that investors have often shied away from products that cater to developers dismissing them as bad business. I think that's bullshit. If everything is going to become software, then the people building software are the most important folks in the world. People like you willing to pay a fair price mean it's quite possible to build a huge business.

It's important for us to continue to build a great, Open Source product and offer a SaaS option that's cheaper than doing it yourself. We plan to continue doing that.

For now, the thing I don't understand is all the people using proprietary crash reporting tools. Our goal is to make Sentry (Open Source or Saas) the strictly dominant solution for crash reporting. If we can accomplish that and offer a fair service, I think we'll have a good enough business for me :)
if you want to play online
http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/
server list
https://www.quakeservers.net/quakeworld/servers/so=8/
I'm migrating to Magento 2 from a custom built solution in Laravel. It is very complex, but there are some improvements from Magento 1, and it's been good for the most part.

There are other alternatives we looked at, such as Spree (ruby) and other php based carts, but Magento 2 has so many extensions available from third party and the developers are actively listening to the community. The Chief Architect, Alan Kent is available to communicate with and has pushed changes that the community really wanted (i.e. moving to SASS from LESS).

It's been a steep learning curve, but there is also a lot of flexibility in modifying the code to suite your needs (without needing to edit the core).
​Apache Libcloud: The open-source cloud library to link all clouds together
conversely, what's the argument against assigning copyright? I'm pretty sure the EFF can be trusted to keep nano open source.
Oh, I see... the dollar sign that you put in front of it confused me. $9.35 is different from 9.35 cents.
TorchNet: An Open Source Model for (Deep) Learning Research [pdf]
Also bonus points for remarking on his own wealth.

Scott Adams seems like the perfect running mate for Trump. Precisely as arrogant, self-involved, and completely unperturbed by a lack of facts to back up his wild conclusions. Not to mention he's perfectly comfortable playing his own fan just like Trump does:
http://comicsalliance.com/scott-adams-plannedchaos-sockpuppe...

What a damn idiot. I wonder how many of the upvoters and positive commenters on this thread will be Scott Adams himself since he's well known for perpetrating that kind of shit.
This is a link by the article's author that is intended to make it easier for us to add useful symbols: https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode
I recommend you use it to add any glyphs that you feel are being neglected.
How are you accomplishing that? Most databases take at least that long to get data back to your application.
Maybe the biggest reason they tell us that skyrocketing real estate prices are such a good thing is simply that, as long they keep skyrocketing, we won't see huge quantities of failed home mortgages.
Could be that he has a font that provides code page 437-like outlines for those codepoints.
Can Google or Facebook ever have a true competitor?
I'm not talking about competition like DuckDuckGo or Bing. They might be good search engines, they might even write better search algorithms. Lets also assume that they achieved the monumental task of attaining the massive amounts of computational capabilities and data storage as that of Google, but they will never get the prime mover advantage that Google has, and you know why? Because you and me have already decided that whenever we want to search something, we will just visit Google.com. It has been this way since last two decades, but is it going to be the same always? If not, then what will cause us to move to a different search engine?

The same could be said about Facebook in the field of social networking. It is the major giant network commanding about 70% of all visitors. Most people will never leave FB because their friends are already on FB. Lets assume that a company XYZ creates a site which has lots more features than FB, but people will still say, "hey, my friends are already on FB, so I have to be on FB". Isn't this sort of unfair for that new entrant XYZ? What can XYZ make to cause people to leave FB and come to its network?
Sigh. I wish that was literal.
> It's remarkably difficult to pay for large transactions with cash without using Paypal.

When I've done that in the past, I called the bank to have my debit payment limit raised for a short time. It took about 10 minutes, but I don't make >$1000 purchases in cash often enough for it to really matter. Given the rarity, I'd rather make the call than use Paypal.
I suspect the influence of Smalltalk and Perl on Ruby kept it from being more SOV-ish. Too bad, since I actually have an odd preference for SOV and OSV grammars. They're easier on my brain.

I think "backwards of" gets the point across alright for an English version of "."/no.
Don’t Just Boost Social Media Engagement, Scale It
MS implemented IOCP in Windows NT in 1994, then BSD implemented kqueue in 2000, then Linux implemented epoll in 2002 (they all functionally very similar).

That means outside Windows, asynchronous event-based IO was only possible after 2002 (that’s when the first version of libevent was released).

And yet you’re telling me the ML threads in 2000 were capable of high-performance async IO? You sure about that? In 2000, which kernel API you think that runtime used for IO?
Mutant Core ZMA Plus 90 Caps – Melhor Zma
Amazon Video's traffic is spiking
I agree with you re: the 2nd ammendment, but let's say we repeal it; what's next? How are you going to collect all of the guns that are already out there? I suppose you could outlaw bullets, but people can make them at home (and they will, en masse) . You've just created a huge black market for guns and ammo.

I don't know what the answer is, but I don't think it's as simple as repealing the 2nd (which isn't going to happen any time soon regardless) . We need a practical solution.
I think the point is that increases in production wouldake fuel cheaper fpr everybody, not that germany is an emerging population.
I was tired of reading all the "how to boost social media engagement" articles saying the same thing and getting linear results. So I put together a list of tactics that I've used to exponentially grow the reach of my social media effort. Some of it is very technical, which I think would be appreciated here on HN.
That's the first link under the link to the SQL:2011 section about this, so it's not too difficult to get to there.
The readme doesn't even feature Elixir.
When Will AI Replace NBA Coaches?
Hydrothermal vent models and the origins of life
Sure, but can we also stop counting suicides in the "gun violence" numbers.