skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Black people getting the short-end of the stick while Asians (allegedly) getting preferential isn't "cutting it both ways".

In both of the cases mentioned, my wife's race was really just acting as a proxy for "immigrant", and the people on the other side weren't fellow asians showing solidarity. In these cases, it was landlords who were themselves (non-Asian) immigrants, feeling empathy for someone else going through the difficulties of being an outsider.
Pretty cool. It'd be nice if you could add games somehow.
Where did you migrate from? And what was the news like there?
Airtel is known for doing notorious things in the past. From injecting iframes to serving compressed images via their own cdn.
> it facilitates remote pair programming in a really nice way

Ok. Do they allow two people to edit the same file simultaneously?
Yes, it it does, if you use:

--partial keep partially transferred files

--append append data onto shorter files
Possibly a play on the name of the website.
TLS transmits the host in cleartext.
In cases like this, where the upstream of some of Cloudflare's servers is known to be non-transparent (dropping or modifying data going through it), couldn't they tunnel everything to Cloudflare servers with a working upstream, and connect to the origin servers from there? They would still benefit from caching near the users, while avoiding the broken upstream.
I agree. Apple preinstalls their apps on the iPhone because they make iPhones.
Don't you recall how unreliable that media/interface was? I don't think most carts aged well.
It wasn't a misquote. It was intentionally exposing the absurdity of the your argument.

The idea that anyone working on technology that could be used for surveillance is morally culpable is flat wrong.

People have died because of fertilizer and particle physics. It does not make chemical engineers or physicists evil.
> what would the outcome be?

Machine-learning sounding gibberish. Here is an example of sci-fi screenplay sounding gibberish (amusingly, directed, produced and acted by real people):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11875829
A lot of extrapolation here.
Haha, Västerås is my hometown, I'm home for the summer and has just binge watched through all six seasons of the HBO series ^_^
Yeah, I was hoping this tiny emulator would play SNES and N64 carts as well as GameCube discs. I mean seriously how much extra effort would it have been?
You're right - in an ideal world. Somehow the drive for adoption and market share seems to counter such common sense, resulting in the "get started quick" camp running production systems.
It isn't a wireless camera? How is this news?
I did the same thing when a bunch of emulators were coming out in the late 90's and early 00's and my big takeaway was that the majority of games from my childhood were not very good, but a few games such as Galaga and Ms Pacman and a handful of other arcade games have stood the test of time very well.
That's interesting, I never thought about what news might be like elsewhere. It's better in other countries? I guess I just kind of assume it's like this everywhere. (this may make me sound like an ignorant American, but honestly I've no idea what the news is like everywhere else, I barely follow it here for dudul's exact reasons)
The demo link doesn't work
Genie, the feral child who left a mark on researchers
Personally I think Bomberman is missing, we had tons of fun with it (although we used to play super bomberman 5 on SNES)
All of my past transgressions are meant as counterexamples.
In my experience that what's will happen in practice, especially when there is a specific metric attached. Doubly so once there is a mechanically enforced required amount of assertions.

Wouldn't it be better if we could create programs that were correct by construction (and thus needed no assertions)?
As you say, this happens with many videogames and other kind of stuff: I remember the case of a child that started to interact with other children after watching Jurassic Park. He totally wanted to play and talk about dinosaurs.

The article just tries to go aboard the Pokémon GO hype, in a particularly wrong way, IMO.
Well, may the (Google) force be with you in your future.
That's the crux I believe. A beginner player would not appreciate the difference between a $200 guitar and a $2000 guitar. Someone struggling to find the finger positions for a simple chord isn't going to notice the action, fret shape, fingerboard radius, tonewoods etc. Only a player who is trying to get that last 2% of tone out of the instrument will appreciate the subtleties.

I am guessing they didn't compare cheap student violins against the Stradivarius, otherwise I am sure any reasonably competent violinist could tell immediately.

Modern construction method, including CNC machines can certainly make instruments a lot better than they did 'back in the day'. Check out Youtube for videos of the first guitars made at the Fender factory - those workers were freehand cutting the body shapes on a jig saw. No consistency at all. As much as a '56 Strat or a '59 Les Paul is in demand today, I bet there were a lot of dogs among the ones made back then.

I am sure there are thousands of violin makers today who can make a violin as good as a Strad. However, I've heard rumours that Stradivarius made his from wood that was thousands of years old that was extracted from a glacier - perhaps that is the special 'magic' that no one else can replicate?!?
I was just cheesing out, getting excited about playing Final Fantasy again, and then I remembered the process of buying 99 health potions, and how exceedingly tedious it was. I'm not sure that I'd have the patience to do that again as an adult.
> but if the idea is to promote a free alternative to Photoshop

For the GIMP team it isn't.
I mostly agree with you, but I wonder if it feels worse because of the emulation and controller/keyboard. If I can get my hands on one I definitely will though if it's less than $100 (AU tax).
Except most people say "Google" when they mean "search engine", and many aren't even using google. The default search engine in IE is still Bing, which is still a substantial percentage in the browser market, Firefox defaults to Yahoo, Siri uses Bing.

Google isn't IE in 2000, it's Kleenex or Jello-o.
For me there has been huge leap between the NES and the SNES in terms of graphics and game complexity.

Most of SNES games have aged much better than their NES counterparts, Super Metroid, Zelda, Chrono Trigger are still terrific games that I could play even today, while I agree that most NES games feel too old.
I've noticed this too with a lot of games - nostalgia filters are a real thing. The original Deus Ex is a good example. The story is amazing, but pretty much everything else has aged like milk.
What a horrifically awful article that quite possibly is not even a true story.

Awful awful stuff.
Pretty interesting that I can enroll for free on a Microsoft-sponsored introduction to R for data science, on edX.

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-r-data-science-micro...
Reading these game names just tickled a part of my brain that hadn't been activated in quite some time. Can't wait to play these again.
In addition to that, demand is asynchronous: the consumer can request for more events, at any amount, any time it wants to.

The default implementation requests more when half of the current demand is processed. So if you set :max_demand to 100, when the consumer has processed 50 events, we request 50 more.
one way to think about these results is, despite knowing a lot more about theory of sound and music and having access to much more sophisticated manufacturing, modern violin makers are unable to create violins that are better than a 300 old violin. That's a pretty good reason to stick to what you know
Mobile Gaming Trends, Which Is Readily Like Pokemon
Gaming has been a popular pastime for many young people since the Atari first made its debut. Mobile gaming apps are the up and coming rising star of the gaming world with many mobile game developers hoping to cash in on the sudden popularity of gaming on mobile devices.
I remember reading about this study. They conducted the study at the oenology school that was right next to my engineering school. I vaguely remember that they used the student from the same oenology school for one of the study.
I read similar studies conducted with wine experts, the conclusions were similar, it's about expectation. Maybe few people with extraordinary taste buds could tell the difference, but the general population won't.

You can find a link to the study there https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/23/wine-ta...
It's a pretty good deal for $60 but I hope there will be some way to add more games through emulation or download or whatever.

Also I want to see a Nintendo Classic Gameboy once. Please!
And it worked well enough for this guy. He did as much as he could in the timeframe that he had.

Note that he's not core team member. It was a personal fundraiser.
I'm amazed at the ridiculous pricing for these games. On Wii U, all of these classic games would cost $5 each. $60 for a physical device and 30 games is extremely generous by Nintendo standards.

Edit: if only it had River City Ransom...
I really wish there was an open alternative to Photoshop. Unfortunately, Gimp isn't.

I fell like printing will be irrelevant/obsolete before Gimp offers proper CMYK support
I took this in the UK two years ago: https://4z2.de/atm_windows.jpg - I don't know enough about how the various versions of Windows look but maybe this helps.

It also doesn't look very trust-inspiring.
He's for medical Marijuana but against recreational use. But anyone growing, selling or using marijuana fall into the same category as any drug and is subject to his death squads. There have already been marijuana "pushers" murdered by the deathsquads and police. The man is a monster.
How Instana Safely Instruments Applications for Monitoring
One word: Bionic Commando
They probably have an emulator already built, given that they sell NES Virtual Console games & have quite a history having ported their games to various platforms (goes as far back as the Game Boy Color I believe with having ported Super Mario Bros. - that is over 16 years ago).
Robots Replacing Developers?
I understand the aesthetic value but to be really useful/fun a wireless controller would be better.
That's exactly why I thought that they bought the esports team.
KobiHart Inc Opportunity
Awesome, very commendable.
Man, I mean I'm normally skeptical about anything I can find.. but what's the use in being skeptical about something like this? It's just a feel good anecdote from an excited mother. Even if the kid wasn't autistic and just had problems socializing, it's still an encouraging story..
well, i just tried it. amazon aws is a hassle to setup. especially figuring out how to qualify for the free tier. its not just a "gimme free access already".

cloud9 on the other hand took me about 3 minutes to create an account, django workspace and to start developing with it.

that is a massive difference.
Koa-grace, a Nodejs SFB(Separation of Front and Back Ends) framework
We have a few junior team members [0]. If you think you would make a great fit in one of the roles, but at a more junior level, I urge you to still apply. The respective hiring manager can let you know whether it's possible to fulfill the same role as a junior.

[0]: https://about.gitlab.com/team/
That's my point, you do it because you expect everyone else is doing it - but why would you sacrifice for a society that isn't sacrificing for you? I don't expect people to follow laws they don't like because not even the elite class that makes those laws obeys the ones they don't like.
They don't know and probably won't even bother finding out.
Congrats to the Elixir team.

As I understand it GenServer is kind of a wrapper over erlang's underlying OTP genserver abstraction. (Is that correct?)

What's GenStage's relationship to erlang? Does erlang have an equivalent?
Verify the configuration of your OS X machine
No, it's not a charity. But he's giving away all his money to charity..? How is that not philanthropic? How are gates or zuckerberg not philanthropists?
I flip this on it's head. I only follow regulations if there is a very good reason to. Often there is. Sometimes it's because the law is just and violating it would violate someone elses rights. More often it's because the enforcement is strict and the likelihood of being caught is high so someone will do violence to me if I violate it. But that's just being practical, I don't respect the law anymore than an armed thief, but I'll obey if it I may be kidnapped or killed for refusing.

Even if government worked exactly as it's supposed to, the law would be at best a reflection of the will of the majority of people. But I don't give the majority of people any benefit of the doubt for creating just rules, and why should I?
Especially if this thing is going to sit under your TV - I think most TVs these days have a few spare USB ports you can steal some power from.
They're releasing with 30 games, and although they don't say it explicitly reading between the lines there's no mention of being able to install more, so they don't need a generic emulation for the 700-ish NES games that were released.
[Vimeo] Speed Watching Apache Kafka in Simulated Playback
Could someone offer a good explanation as to why it matters in this specific case? I can't think of any way in which a lack of knowledge of the "correct" term could lead to something being done incorrectly.
Most definitely the original.
Firefox defaults to Yahoo

Only in the US. It's Google in most of the world.
Create a certificate authority for local development
I migrated from Western Europe. The main difference I see is that there is no breaks to show TV-ads in the middle of the news. Traditionally the news is from 8pm to 8.40pm, uninterrupted, followed by 5 to 10 minutes dedicated to the weather, and then a 90 to 120min movie with one break in the middle.

Nowadays, there are more options: some news program air earlier (7pm for example), some are shorter (20minutes), etc. But the key is that there is no ads either in the middle or around the program. From my point of view, this is the difference that is driving this race to the sensational.
The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists
nice video, definitely much better than the bloated article
I disagree that RMS is necessarily better than ESL in some meaningful way. The two are complementary. It's like saying a gravel truck is better than a motorcycle: it all depends on what you want to do with it.

Re: "do I really need it?": hell if I know, I'm not you. But my assertion was specifically that if you want to design your own methods (i.e. do research) you need to understand what they are doing. This doesn't seem like a controversial position; an expert is simply a master of the fundamentals.
pal never had them
Can I thrown an idea in? I personally hate when a small icon that is placed near a feature in the pricing table sends me to a different page. The way I see it, the icon is supposed to help me with a small popup telling me in a few words what that feature is, optionally with a link such as "learn more".

I find it quite distracting that clicking on a question mark icon to get help actually sends me to another page, forcing me to take a tour of the product.

Of course I might be wrong, that's just how those thingies work for me.
I don't think the supermarket analogy is a fair one since having to drive or catch a bus to the next town would be many degrees more difficult than just using another search engine.

Even if it were not, finding the alternative supermarket is doing exactly the same thing, but not quite as well, may be disappointing?
He's killing marijuana "pushers" and users too. The man is monster.
If you want non-destructive editing of images, you'd use Nuke (or Natron if you want something OSS).

Darktable is now also an option for many tasks since they have a powerful mask manager and module duplication.
Which makes the app sit somewhere in the middle between something like Lightroom and PS. While still being completely non-destructive.

Photoshop non-destructive? That's a good one.
PS is less destructive than Gimp.
But far, far away from a non-destructive app like the ones mentioned above.

Caveat: I am pro PS user. Since the time before it was called PS (Barneyscan) – aka ~25 years.
And I have a BG in blockbuster VFX. An industry where image editing truly is non-destructive.
I have an NES and SNES emulator on my PC, and a wireless XBox controller. My kids have been mainlining Mega Man 2 (my 5 year old beat it last week), SMB, and they are strangely hooked on Pac Man and Galaga, which my 3 year old loves now!

The 3 and 5 year old also love newer games like Minecraft (the 5 Y/O is finally starting to enjoy building, instead of just flying around with a diamond sword and a bucket of lava f'in shit up), and my 7 year old plays a lot of NBA 2k16, but they are in love with the classics right now.
In the original, so the one included!
Anyone who has cartridges that they would care to play has a console already. What possible business benefit is there to adding that in?
Google is very dominant in Europe, 90% is not unrealistic for search.
I suspect that if people weren't willing to break the law we'd probably still have alcohol prohibition. Making a law unenforceable is a very effective way of changing it.
This completely. The idea that people want to explicitly opt out of updates (muh spyware) and yet expect things to magically remain feature current on an outdated platform is ludicrous. There are other options to Windows (and cloud storage for that matter) I really wish people would support them more than just figuring they're entitled to get a business's support even as the deviate from the upgrade path and try to thread water half a decade in the past.
It does not have it, this is new in Elixir.
I used to work at a musical instruments startup and we tried blind tests of prototypes to assess which combination of materials recipes/sensor design/firmware algorithms etc were 'the best'.

Ultimately these tests only reveal the biases of the players. They will prefer – and actually perform better with – that which they believe to be configured in a certain way, regardless of whether it is in reality or not. We had one prototype that us engineers hated to death because the only difference between it and the rest was that it was a different colour, but ALL the players hailed it as the golden standard.

The same goes for the famous 'Does Fuck All' button on recording mixing desks, which you can use to tell players that you've made the change that they wanted to satisfy them. And also when you're buying speakers it's very common to be shown the same set of speakers three times and have three opinions.

I just recently tour managed a friend and would set up her mic sound every night, and each time I would need to play some sort of subtle trick with her so that she felt things were just right. No amount of 'rational tweaking' could achieve the same.
Augmented Reality is the answer to Virtual Reality’s fatal flaw
Good point, but a well conducted study should be anonymous and shouldn't include the professor inside the room. I doubt that the professor conducted the study (his phd students more likely did)
The second study had random students (not trained ones)
Triggered. That damn hook.
Sizing the US B2B market in 7 charts
You'd be wrong. Source: diagnostic imaging design engineer (CT, not MR, but the hazards are similar).
http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=nmona&article=71967573

story without the adwall.

"do no evil" yeah whatever..
I'm really interested in the architecture of this thing. I'm guessing ARM running a NES emulator (rather than ports of the games), since they've got such great experience doing that on the 3DS.

If it's hackable, this would be a fantastic gadget. As a project box alone, it looks really pretty. HDMI out, USB power, and controller inputs make it really appealing. Depending on headers and connectivity inside, hacking a USB port or SD slot for expansion would be a fun project.

There are already Wii controller accessory to USB adapters available. And at $9.99 for the controllers, those could be fun too (to be used separately on other platforms, like the RPi).

That's not to say I won't be getting one purely to play as intended, but I would be interested in picking one up to hack.
let lowerCased = (s : string[] | undefined) => s!.map((str : string) => str.toLowerCase());

console.log(lowerCased(['A','B']));
console.log(lowerCased(undefined)); //boom!

It doesn't coerce anything. All it does is let the code pass without error. "s!.map" and "s.map" compile to the exact same Javascript code, which means there is no type coercion going on. Are you sure you know what type coercion is? The first log prints out fine and the second blows up, which proves that undefined isn't being coerced to a string[]. If that was the case, the resulting JS would be checking for undefined and probably creating an empty array.
How extensible is your framework?
California rejects Volkswagen’s plan to fix polluting diesel cars
I'm a doctor working 100 hrs/wk while running a tech startup
that's two words :-P
> Would it really have been that much extra effort to make the console backwards compatible?

Depends if it's a NES on a chip type system like most clones, or if it's something like an ARM SoC device running an emulator[1]. If it's the former it would be possible with just space issues for the slot, the latter would be quite hard, certainly more trouble than worth for a cheap novelty device.

[1] It uses Wii controllers and has save states so it seems a bit more than the average clone at least.
you want: !hn google skews
Thank you so much for this awesome, lengthy, detailed reply.
What? I live and grew up in the US and go shopping multiple times a week. Every store I go to has generic and branded products next to each other on the shelves.

The only exceptions are Aldi, Trader Joe's and Costco. The first two mostly only sell private label products and the last will often only have one offering of a given type of product (which may be a brand or may be private label.)

But most supermarkets in the US (the big chains like Wal-Mart, Meijer, Kroger, etc.) will have generics and brand products for everything from cough syrup to bread right next to each other on the shelves. This is a silly argument and I really have no idea why you left the reply you did. Yeah shelves are precious but that has nothing to do with what I said.

EDIT:

Some companies will pay to be on the shelves but these are usually brands that are not established yet. Regardless that really has nothing to do with what I was talking about. I wasn't talking about how products get to the shelves, it was about whether stores put their generic products in favorable positions compared to branded products. And at least in the US generally they don't.

If your point is that store shelves are a bad analogy for Google results, I would agree. I'm not the one who came up with it.
>I think the ethical question is greatly overblown.

I agree, especially since when I sit on my porch I see every other person on my street texting and driving, yet no one cares about this much greater hazard.
Does anyone have links to resources that speak to converting a stack machine (Forth, in my case) into SSA form (LLVM, in my case)? My first approach was to just subroutine thread everything and see how well the inliner and optimizer handles that.
The “overlearning the game” problem
You know, if the controller or lack of some game really bothers you just get a raspberry pi.
Of course there are some, but very few.
I doubt that the professor conducted the study (his phd students more likely did)

Still looking like an idiot in front of your professor's PhD students (and suspecting they'll be laughing about you over drinks later that evening) probably isn't much better.