skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except there's very little data supporting that claim. Quite the opposite in fact.

- The middle class has continued to get richer for about 40 years, moving up rather than down. That move up has caused the middle class to contract.

- US household assets are up by $27 trillion since the peak in 2006/2007. For comparison sake, that gain alone is equivalent to 2/3 of all the wealth in the EU.

- US household balance sheets have improved dramatically in the last six years. The household debt to income ratio has declined by a lot, home equity has continued to climb. This contrasts with most of the rest of the developed world, in which households have been rapidly accumulating vast amounts of debt (mostly on mortgage debt accumulation).

- Full-time job openings are near record highs.

- Full-time job employment is at a record high.

- Unemployment has plunged dramatically since the peak of the great recession, including on the U6. The U6 is back to a normal level for the last 30 years, and is back to where it was before the great recession.

- The labor force participation rate is finally climbing again. The majority of the losses suffered there were from retirement anyway.

- Wages have been growing modestly well for the last two years, after enough slack was removed from the labor pool.

- Manufacturing is near an all-time record high on output.

- US median net wealth is higher than Germany or Sweden.

- US median disposable incomes are the highest in the world outside of Switzerland.

- US GDP per capita is back to being #5 in the world (soon to be twice that of Japan by comparison, and ~40% higher than Germany), which is rather extraordinary given the issues the nation just went through.

Where's the evidence to support this inbound great collapse? The sole issue that stands out meaningfully is the national debt. That's only going to get easier to manage as rates on debt fall over the next several years. The US has vast spare taxing capacity that very few developed nations have, the US middle and upper-middle class is among the lowest taxed out of that group; the US rich could easily be taxed several points higher without it significantly impacting the economy.
I have a feeling that these cameras are more likely to be stolen by bored teenagers than actually help in preventing any crime.
Thanks! We updated the link from http://www.rankred.com/nasa-coding-rules.
Mind = blown
AT&T Releasing Its Network Playbook into Open Source
Nintendo has probably sold hundreds of times as many home systems as SNK (impossible to know exactly as SNK doesn't seem to have released numbers), which I'd predict is a fair indicator of how comparatively successful Nintendo's system will be.
Be fair. 'Open as Layer' has been around since 2004:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=37912655f207306...

:)
Every time I build something using a different stack than Python/Django I feel a bit sad I can't use DRF :)

Awesome project, we're supporters!
A cliche every guitar-player loves to spout is "tone is in the fingers, not gear". A good guitarist will sound 5x better playing on cheap gear than a mediocre player on expensive gear. That doesn't however mean a cheap guitar will let a great guitarist express all his ideas well. When Jimi went from playing back-up on all those R&B records to playing a new sound, his equipment changed too. So gear did matter.
> What if he doesn't want to spend the next 6yrs learning Emacs?

From rms's ruminations on Lisp & emacs (https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.en.html):

>> Multics Emacs proved to be a great success — programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program.

It's really not hard to use a decent text editor like emacs.

> You can't really compare a terminal based editor

emacs has supported X11 since at least November 1994 — your information is at least two decades out of date.

I've got a nice GUI emacs frame open right now.

> with an extremely high learning curve

Learning emacs is not really hard at all. There's a lot to learn, but that's because it does a lot. If something is quick to learn, by definition there can't be much substance to it.

> to a preconfigured web based IDE

Check out emacs prelude (https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude): it's a great some of mostly-sane emacs defaults in one easy-to-use package.

Heck, emacs out of the box is pretty great, too. It evens displays a nice little message about how to use its built-in tutorial.
Good information. Thanks for posting this.
Eh, it seems like eligibility for a "monopoly" has shifted in the last 2 decades. Otherwise people would be getting way more bent out of shape for the decisions that both Google and Apple have done on their respective platforms
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Django is batteries-included, but the batteries aren't heavy. You can easily turn off 99% of the stuff it does for you.

You also never know when you need a really good admin panel.
> Well that’s nice and dandy, problem is Google has 70% of the market in search.

Do they have pricing power in search? If not, what difference does it make that they have 70% of search volume?
to provide power afaict. data is indeed sent wirelessly.
Interesting insight. Now I have to go check out Upsight for our app.
Why wouldn't one use any of "dynamic dns free" services instead? How is yours better?
Oh, you type www.google.com in your address bar and press enter? I thought you just used the default Google search from the search bar, just like everybody else.
Depends on the meaning of free you use. It would be incompatible with GPL, but compatible with many less restrictive ones like MIT/BSD. Of course you can write your own licence, but whether that's enforceable you'd have to talk to a lawyer. Details would likely matter there - how do the results have to be published, for how long, who to (it could conflict with local laws about not selling tech to country X for example), etc.

Of course there's still the question of who would care to follow the licence. Did you think about doing to in terms of incentives instead? For example a cheaper version which always (or opt-out) uploads the results and a considerably more expensive one which doesn't. If you're thinking about releasing it free with the source, how about official compiled package which publishes the result, but that you can compile yourself with that option turned off?
Biggest hurdle you're likely to run into is that it expects "correct" roms/discs and won't auto-generate game lists with its Scan functionality if the hash doesn't match what it wants. You may find you've got some impure dumps. Also, said scanning isn't working for all systems yet, though for most of the biggies it's fine. You can manually create "playlists" but it's kind of a pain. Likely you'll be OK, but if you scan, say, your N64 directory with 20 roms in it and only 3 show up... well, that's why. Get correct roms or make the list manually.

Getting wireless set up on it is a PITA, unfortunately. You can plug in a USB stick full of games but you won't have access to its online cores (=system emulators) updating functionality. I'd recommend Ethernet if you can manage it.

The best parts are the above-average, very responsive menu and that all the cores speak to a unified I/O API (libretro) which smooths out most of the usual problems with multi-emulator systems.
Who went to see http://dumply.com ? I did ...
I can't find the StarCraft™ name anywhere in their documentation, the project is only referred as SC-js, which does not infringe any trademarks.
I love Python but I've never used Django -- I've always used Ruby on Rails since that's what I'm familiar with. Do you know of any resources I could use to get more comfortable with DRF (i.e. more complex than just the Quickstart tutorial [0])?

[0] http://www.django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/quickstart/
>If something is quick to learn, by definition there can't be much substance to it.

That's as wrong as 2+2=5.
Lol Yup. Too late. I think I'm in probably as good of a position I can be in with respect to your article, though. Tough market, but reputation is real value in the legal field.
They'll be playing a Markov chain of her greatest hits.
In rule 5 (about assertions), why the comparison to true? Why is "if (<boolean expression> == true)" preferable to "if (<boolean expresson>)"?
true, embedded systems (and in theory server s/w) are different in a number of respects to your typical desktop-level s/w.

Embedded systems typically are not 'manned', they have to handle all issues themselves and continue providing service. Note that this does not mean "no resets".

Resets should be designed for because they will happen.

All effort should be made to make errors deterministic as (like you say) they will become a real time-suck.

IMO, servers should also be considered embedded systems and designed like this, but unfortunately the culture around server software is for very dynamic, very resource heavy and very inefficient, non-deterministic s/w.
For kinda the opposite of this - super expensive, plays all NES games as carts - check out the Analogue NT: http://www.analogue.co/products/analogue-nt-information

It's apparently sold out now, but it was a $500 NES built using clones of hardware, and with modern video and audio output. Jeremy Parish has a writeup over at USGamer: http://www.usgamer.net/articles/analogue-nt-review-for-the-r...
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Likely for future features. I'm sure social stuff will make its way in eventually.
That was your original point, but the person replying to you made a counterargument to your assertion that you don't see any reason for them to discontinue the service - that maybe they are after the team and their knowledge, rather than the product. Maybe Amazon want them working on something else.
Minecraft: Story Mode Dominates YouTube Game Videos for June
w/r/t support for Trump (he's a Trump delegate, I think) the best I can come up with -- obviously utter speculation -- is that he's hoping for enough of a collapse of the republican party to create an opening for a new party more in line with is thinking, or alternately, enough of a weakening of the current republican party so as to re-forge it in the same manner.

I have thought about this very topic a little because I'm utterly flabbergasted that a book I like as well as Zero to One was written by a Trump delegate. So -- I may be cobbling together more of an excuse here than an explanation, if that's not obvious.

Also, in other Theil news, he gave a truly fantastic commencement speech this year at Hamilton college (the delivery is a little halting or stilted for sure, but honestly I think it's part of the charm): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id4ywg5oemc
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Unfortunately that hasn't been my experience in recent years.While Google and Bing have evolved enormously the internet is so bloated by clickbait website that I have come to rely on community curated content.
The ZIF connector on the original NES was unreliable. The carts are perfectly reliable. The NES 2 does not have the ZIF connector and doesn't have issues.
I kinda wanna start a Medium blog where I to tell people what it's like to be a white guy programmer, and pointing out the places where I uncomfortably recognize the benefits I gain simply from being 33, white and male... with a beard. I get way too much credit for my ability simply based on how I look, whereas I know far better qualified minority women who get very little in comparison.
So great to see Nintendo do this! I loved the NES. I hope this sells well (I will be buying one no doubt about that) so we see a SNES mini some time. The SNES is, and always will be, the greatest console for me.
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Have you not seen the Cambrian explosion of retro-style indie games on the PC? Quite a bit of it is RPGMaker shovelware, but there are a lot of real gems in there as well.
Because I go to edit my image and the tool dialog has disappeared behind something.

I select windows with alt-tab and I can assure you that multi-window mode in gimp is a nightmare.
> Monopoly = the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.

That's the common-language definition, but that's somewhat tangential in discussing legal action. The legal criteria in US antitrust jurisprudence is actually pricing power, I think the same is true in the EU (both US and EU antitrust regulations do, though to a lesser extent than monopolies with pricing power, regulate some anticompetitive actions of non-monopolies as well -- the EU, as I understand, goes further than the US in this area.)
> paralysis by analysis (of which uber-complicated and rigid typing is a sort).

How "paralysis by analysis" has anything to do with typing? And how is typing uber-complicated to begin with? This is ultra basic logic... And why exactly you you think dynamic langages are exempt of typing?

How does all of that has anything to do with a competitor shipping "buggy RoR-based systems a few months earlier"? You can do all kind of shit even in more statically checked langages if you really don't care about quality, and ship buggy products sooner too.

How is a system that prove that some aspects of your program is free of some class of defect should be considered "training wheels"? Do you also consider that compiler warnings are a bad thing for time to market, and so should be disabled? How can you gain any time from not using an automatic checker? Your brain is faster than a microprocessor to do repetitive tasks? This makes no sense. You do not abstain to put on your seat-belt just because you thing you know how to drive, nor do you disable all safety feature of whatever equipment just because you kind of think, without even the beginning of a reasoning to backup that, that you are going to do things "faster". And while the logic telling that what you are going to do is more dangerous is immediate and irrefutable. And while the studies about costs of discovery of bugs depending on the phase of dev clear.

Arguably there are some meta-programming aspects of Ruby which can let you program faster than with a language without equivalent features. But in no way we can deduce from this that "Advanced typing/static analysis" are "training wheels". This is one the the thing that is just so wrong in our industry that I sometimes just don't really know what to answer. I mean I could as well see a claim that the earth is flat and try to convince the crazy claimer that this is not the case, but I have the feeling that people making such claims are not sensible to logic to begin with.
You're completely wrong on every count. Your argument weirdly proposes a totally anti-democracy, pro-mercantilst point of view where citizens have no right to petition government for zoning laws that clearly disallow, for everyone, operating certain types of business in those zone. Short term rental is widely regarded as operating a hotel or b&b.
Au contraire, the ruins are still there, they surround all the strips and islands of recovery.
I like how this post tries to make it sound as if it's some kind of technical achievement that Microsoft was capable of but the other browser vendors weren't.

This is because of HTML5 DRM, which many here cheered when it came "because it would get rid of plugins". Now that same DRM is going to give Microsoft monopoly power over what kind of apps get to use its Windows DRM for HTML5 video.

DRM is no good at stopping piracy, but it's certainly amazing for creating monopolists in the content industry.
I assume it's a habit to make sure you communicate to the type checker: "I expect this expression to be boolean".
Creating a C9 environment takes just a few seconds and once that's done I can work anywhere. It takes all of that setup away. I can create one at work to screw around with a Node module, go home and play with it more on my desktop, move to the couch and use my Macbook, go on the porch to smoke a cigarette and use my Chromebook... the only overhead is a browser tab.
Every time I install gimp fresh (lately that's happened on ubuntu and windows) it defaults to multi-window mode.
Yeah. You can do pretty well if it's just one boss, but when you have to somehow answer to everyone, and every meeting leads to two meetings with new people recursively until the end of time, there's not a whole lot you can do.
Seems odd to me that he is backing Trump while being a Libertarian, but I guess he probably doesn't feel Gary Johnson has a legitimate shot.
I would think this would be impossible under other, gay-unfriendly candidates.
If the back-pressure is abstracted away by this interface, how do you monitor it?
If you don't monospace footnotes they'll actually be clickable.
I'd believe that. I grew up on The Beatles and The Beach Boys, and now I listen to just about anything that seems "musical" enough to me. All genres, there's a commonality there, as you said. I'm glad my parents exposed me to (what I believe is) top quality songwriting and melodies since I was little.

This topic makes me wonder what sorts of music, if any, people who are less musically inclined were exposed to at a young age. I've met people that say they don't like music, or people who couldn't hum a tune from memory, and it seems so foreign to me. I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted - it seems like basic stuff. Yet there are plenty of people out there who know music about as well as I know sports (not at all). Hopefully that didn't come off as elitist or anything
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Update: i was told that the default bookmark manager of chrome sometime during 2015 rolled out a fsc option.. I gave it a shot and after importing my links from kifi to chrome, unfortunately there is no comparison. Search results are mostly by matching keywords in url titles / no wonder they were acquired
> uncultured

Yeah, so, the problem with the headline is that, these days, "musical taste" is mostly a class signifier. A lot of research has been done relating to this[1] (though a lot is either paywalled or clickbaity news site).

If you remove these class associations, most westerners will agree that consonant music sounds good (regardless of genre and context) and dissonant sounds less good. Whether this is due to nature or nurture is what the OP's article is trying to determine.

1: https://theses.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09072001-1014...
Doom's Vulkan patch is a PC performance game-changer
Yet another ridiculously ahistorical "This is the one / primary reason Rome fell" paper. Ugh.
Because sometimes those products are vital to Google's survival. Back when they released PLAs, they killed all comparison shopping engines. They were even caught doing it with internal emails showing malicious intent. There is a NYT article with the FTC documents attatched, but I can't find it now.
Social Media Abuse of Nursing Home Residents Often Goes Unchecked
Anyone knows if there's actually a repo somewhere that captures what the title says?
>I also wonder why there are still people who want to argue that there was literally no genuine news value in a media outlet outing a powerful billionaire who would personally and financially support a party that would put this on their platform, but I guess that's another story.

I assume you agree with every single thing anyone you vote for or support says, since that's the standard you're applying to him, then?
Recently there was a thread here where many argued against some company owner that has set the objective that the code created by his employees should be as simple as possible.

Often the arguments boiled down to: It looks only clever if the skill level of your employees is too low, you should work on that.

When I look now at the rules that NASA enforces, it seems to me that their objective is to prevent bugs by not allowing code that is overly complex and I doubt it's because their engineers are not clever enough.

In fact I believe that it takes a lot of cleverness to create code that seems so simple that you don't even need to read the documentation.
In this thread a lot of people don't understand the meaning of monopoly and assumes a monopoly is only synonymous with the companies they hate. It has more to do with having a dominant control over a market and abusing that dominant position to own advantage. Google has pulled a lot of stunts in the past that clearly defines this. Remember the only way to have pictures on your search listing was to link your blog/site with Google+? A result with an image next to it had better clicks that the one without. Next was the shopping fiasco: The shopping results that shows up on the top had barely anything to do with ranking, instead it was a set of sponsored listing that was paid for by companies. Hmm the blending out the background of the ads with the rest of the results is another story of its own.

Although my primary search engine is still Google (like the majority here), I still don't agree nor do I encourage the direction Google is taking with their search engine.
Sometimes you just have to "white wall" it in order to move forward. Everyone knows that.
I suspect we will always see billionaires trying to buy political direction (see Sheldon Adelson for example).
It's nice to know this distinction when you're working with other people who expect this distinction to be followed.

Personally, I prefer the softer explanation in Wikipedia that begins, "The terms parameter and argument are sometimes used interchangeably, and the context is used to distinguish the meaning."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameter_(computer_programm...
People vote for Brexit, Donald Trump, etc. Humans are capable of autopilot
Sweet. I was just struggling today with the old Skype on Ubuntu from 2014. Wouldn't receive files properly. This is a god send.
I pay nearly 48% tax to state federal and city, and it does significant damage for my ability to grow in the Bay Area. There is no room to be taxed more, in fact the tax rate here hinders the middle and upper middle class from saving effectively for a down payment, doing actual damage to the region.
social issues are a nice little diversion from what government is really all about: taking your money, borrowing against it, and spending it.
With most ARM processors you can also use the DWT to set hardware watchpoints on data accesses. The advantage of that approach is that it runs at full speed and you don't have to instrument your code so you can set guards around your stack and the debugger/trace unit catches bad accesses.
Which I am not a big fan of.

I rather use the Algol and ML family of languages, when given the option.
Yes, there are other inexpensive options that are not cloud-based? As other users mentioned you could get a cheap ONVIF-compatible camera from Dahua or Hikvision for around $100. This can be paired with an inexpensive VMS. Check out http://www.ipconfigure.com/products/orchid - They provide a Free community edition of Orchid that runs on Raspberry Pi, or $69 per camera if you want to run on your own server/pc (Linux/Windows).