skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what his comments will be on the fact that "gay conversion therapy" is slated to be an official part of the GOP platform adopted at the same convention.

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.
Perhaps less, but I would argue that WebAssembly should aim to be no less readable than that.
I think something is required to drive home the point to people who don't know better what a waste of time all this stuff is.

Even sites like hacker news (where you would think things can be different) seem to send a signal that if you don't check us out everyday you are missing stuff.

Nobody really needs to be checking hackernews everyday. Seriously. But for some reason we have this need too. And there is no reason to feed that need. Especially when it wastes everyones time. Even when there is something interesting on here, I feel my time being wasted wading through ever increasing unnecessary commentary. I'd like to see a system that deletes 80% of commentary just like StackOverflow works. If you don't know what you are talking about there should be a separate space for that. Probably IRC or a chat room.

I also don't like these karma and upvote/downvote systems that every news related site seems obligated to implement. The kind of people who fixate on these numbers also turn into the biggest contributors on these sites. And that's artificial and doesn't reflect society at all.
It is currently not a problem at all. But just imagine something like Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/Tinder/TripAdvisor/Yelp explodes into AR space and it becomes an essential part of daily life. If this somehow becomes reality then localized AR-ads will be very very valuable.
It's a cliche because it's accurate.
Man, if Pokemon Go has half the depth of Ingress it'll do awesome. The problem with Ingress isn't lack of depth, it's that a new player can't see where the depth is due to bad game design. Pokemon Go has a much better newbie experience (still could be better).

On the other hand, the strategic games that are at the heart of Ingress depth don't exist in Pokemon Go, so we'll see.
Thanks for answering Greg.

This isn't a throw-away account. I've lurked for years without needing to become involved. The larger public needs to know that:

> We founded the company.

Obviously you're the CTO but not all of the other 'employees' paid by your company founded it with you.

> You know that Bitcoin is a decentralized system that no one controls; right?

Actually you've locked down the codebase. Any one developer can make a common sense change contentious and prevent it from being merged. That's kinda centralized don't you think? Getting a few people to disagree is a pretty low barrier if a government was bent on destroying Bitcoin. We need decentralized development to match Bitcoin's decentralized nature.

> Bitcoin, and it's working pretty darn well at the moment.

Does that include transactions that don't go through even with correct fees? What do you say to the new user that did nothing wrong and has to wait 3 days for his coins to reappear in his wallet because he tried to send a transaction during a high-volume time? Does that also include overly expensive fees approaching 50cents and could reach several dollars within the year?

Limiting transaction velocity and making transactions artificially expensive is a bad idea at this point in Bitcoin's existence.

You need to stop ignoring that network operations are failing.

> Via our magical mind control rays, I suppose..

No, by calling alternate code bases altcoins - even though they operate on the same blockchain - you have setup an environment where they are not allowed to be honestly discussed at length on /r/bitcoin. Further, even though positive posts are banned, negative posts about other Bitcoin wallet/mining software are allowed. Any outside person can clearly see that is censorship. Moderators point to CoreDevelopers as the reason for that censorship. I also know you know Theymos so you can't say you're not buddies with him. I'm sure if you wanted you could ask for it and have posts removed/deleted.
> The Pop revolution that started in the 1950s pretty much destroyed the argument

How so?

> Good music is that which moves you. No more, no less. If it doesn't move you, it doesn't make it bad, it just means you need to find something different to listen to.

Still, there are some things that almost everybody agrees are better than some other things. For example, someone singing out of tune, or a beginner playing the violin. Musicians and non-musicians alike would say that those things sound bad. Doesn't that mean that there is something more to it than individual taste, or, rather, that all our individual tastes agree on some things, which might be thought of as decidedly good or bad, in some sense?
This is absolutely ridiculous and I am happy with this judges decision.
Some of the textbook cases in the US (which, as I understand, actually has weaker consumer protection than a lot of developed nations) on general product liability concern automobile manufacturers liability for harms resulting from defects; its not like if Volvo kept quiet, attorneys who might otherwise recognize the opportunity for a lawsuit (class action or otherwise) wouldn't notice the opportunity if there were harms resulting from Volvo's self-driving system.

It really seems to me that the sales benefit of reassuring customers about Volvo's confidence in their platform is likely to far outweigh any marginal increase in lawsuit risk to Volvo in this kind of statement.
It's offline now, but I mounted a 8918 to the bottom of a deerfeeder in our backyard.

http://deercam.tumblr.com/about/

The cam lasted about a year out there until it quit working after an electrical storm. It lived through a lot of rain, wind, and Alabama humidity.
Yes. A virtual lawsuit, inside THAT instance of AR. Any number of AR can exist.

That is, until the meatspace law catches up. Until then, nobody but the AR creator can enforce anything.
Look, I was told that I wouldn't be automated out of my job for at least the next five years. Can't they start with Java?
StarCraft 2's popularity is diminishing?
I think The Oatmeal better exemplified this particular meme here: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
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Regarding Rule 4 - No Large Function - I think John Carmack had a pretty good explanation on why that's not really a good thing:

http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...
One died detainee died in their cell in a foreign country over the course of 15 years. Sorry, but this is not a big deal.

You guys are all pathetic and your lack of backbone and spine is the reason we are getting shot and bombed in our own country.

When sh*t really goes down, real men like me are going to protect women and children first. You little boys are going to be on your own and it's going to hurt.
I really enjoyed "EOM (end of morning)". I think I used to have this guy as a client!
No. For starters he brings out the standard examples of dystopias that were supposedly "based on science" -- Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The Nazis were obsessed with mysticism and were only interested in science in terms of weapons. The Soviets liked to throw around the word "scientific" a lot, but as with their promotion of Lysenkoism over real biology, they clearly valued ideology over science.
While I'm sure that's probably the motivation behind these lawsuits, they won't be able to do anything if Google is not at fault.
I wanted an easy way to find all the movie reviews on YouTube, and couldn't find anything, so I built it.

Building up the database now and with the help of others, we'll get all the reviews in there, and easy to find.
If you google Casino A, it's possible the adword at the top will be for Casino B. Just because I happen to physically be somewhere doesn't change things, it's still a virtual space that google owns and can give advertising space based on who pays the most.
When I moved to the US I was shocked that the news cycle is so editorialized. Only a few main stories surface in the media, usually things that have some commercial interest. Brazil has one of the worst national media anywhere, but at least they allow more variety of views and you can make your mind about what matters or not.
The original title stated said "Citi lost $7m after legit transactions mistaken for test data". That was what the Register used too, but it's very misleading.
I looked for a reference.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/156767/whats-the-differen...

"Summary"

"The general consensus seems to be that it's OK to use these terms interchangeably in a team environment. Except perhaps when you're defining the precise terminology; then you can also use 'formal argument/parameter' and 'actual argument/parameter' to disambiguate."
Am surprised there isn't a whole lot of SDKs in there. Some of the ones are surprising at least to me... haven't heard of Upsight before. Maybe the take-away is, use fewer SDKs, make it more lightweight and less crash-prone? Who's going to get that ad SDK slot? Everyone is probably fighting over that.
This is nice. But then again, how do you know when the other person is finished editing so you can run your program? On second thought, ssh and git seem more practical.
Part of me wants to say cool, thanks for paying tribute and making accessible.

Part of me wants me to say ugh, for being unoriginal and milking old products, while using incompatible controllers. I'm also disgusted by the fact that Nintendo users to sue people in the emulator/ROM/clone community, who are the real heroes for keeping the magic alive.

Id rather people just spend $30 for a raspberry pi and a USB NES controller.
One of the biggest reason my startup failed was I included friends who didn't bring value. We kept in the group because he was a good friend, when it came to delivery, he was bad.

Once the business started to fail, we started to fight between each other. We lost our friendship and the business. If I could go back in time, I would have had this chat with him.

On the other side, I talked to a friend of mine who is running a successful business in Toronto. He started his business when I was his room mate in university. I was very bitter that he didn't include me as his business partner. His answers were that I didn't bring value to his business. I am glad he did that, because we are still friends and he is willing to help me with whatever business I start in the future.
I'm leaning towards ARM just because Nintendo already has a huge supply chain and manufacturing complex geared towards this architecture.

They're extensively bought into the ARM ecosystem. They already have a NES emulator on ARM (3DS NES Virtual Console). ARM SoCs are so incredibly cheap (look at the low volume RasPI with its HDMI output and now WiFI). The Nintendo hardware engineering teams have extensive ARM experience. There will undoubtedly be a business requirement for platform security (wrt the bundled games). This is, from Nintendo's perspective, a solved problem on their portable console platform.

Over a long period and at high volumes, sure - a NES hardware clone might make for a cheaper BoM. But that's not where the cost is here. It's in the engineering, initial supply chain and manufacturing startup. Sticking with ARM keeps all of those costs down.

Build a lightweight OS (based on the 3DS/2DS OS), able to run the same the same binaries, with the same libraries and you've cut out a massive amount of software engineering work and expense.

Ship some stripped down 2DS/3DS hardware, and you've saved a lot of hardware engineering work and expense.

I'd actually be surprised if it wasn't extremely close to the 3DS/2DS in terms of architecture, minus the IO, battery and secondary ARM CPU.
Glad I checked in here. Took a look at Lakka and the UI looks outstanding. I will have to give this a spin on my Pi2.
Oh this is great I'll be sure to update my UX and Design team on the status. I'm sure they've been on the edge of their seats!
Some kind of unicode copy/paste hijinx, probably coming from a PDF somewhere.
Since people are irrational, playing, or listening to music on a Stradivarius might create a more pleasurable experience, despite sounding qualitatively equivalent.

Likewise owning one.

It wont make you sound better but it will almost certainly make peope enjoy listening to you more... You know unless they percieve you as a pretentious snot at least.
Wait, but if there are games included does this mean I won't have to blow into the box to get them to work!?! I call shenanigans!
You're absolutely right. OP picked an arbitrary feature though without telling how it affects the world around him and resorted to hyperbole. You actually have a point.
People still aren't going to be interacting with slot machines through the Facebook app. Or if they are, it will be because the home casino has arranged for it (so competitor ads wouldn't be in the interests of Facebook).

When I'm standing at the counter at McDonald's, an ad for Burger King is going to have to be really compelling to matter.
Only because the fine is based on your income doesn't mean it has to be draconic. Quite the opposite. They can actually be less draconic than fixed amount fines. If you earn minimum wage a speeding ticket can be a complete disaster. If you are a tech worker you will barely notice the ticket.
A pretty big benefit of the cloud is that intruders can't just destroy your recordings.

That said, the subscription prices are rather insane.
So, what is it, then?
You're telling me rsync already does everything that I want to do, when I'm trying to describe Dropbox.
I see a lot of security system stickers on windows and doors, but I don't know anyone who actually has the subscription. Mostly the stickers are just marketing, I think.
Those parameters hold information about the arguments that were passed in. They don't hold information about what parameters were declared. To programmatically get information about the parameters you would use reflection or something like that.
Yup, it's I2C with a 1394-ish connector (which makers have taken advantage of before), so it is very easy to implement... with the added side benefit of selling a few of the standalone controllers for Wii[U] virtual console use.

The console itself is probably a simple ARM chip - the BCM2835 in the first-gen Raspberry Pi would work perfectly, among tons of other possible SoC's. It will probably be under a plastic blob, but someone will find out sooner or later ;)
Yes, exactly, I am not talking about some random virtual world but specifically about AR and its connection to the real world.

I wonder what the military thinks about the Ingress portals and PokemonStops on their bases. In worst case that will results in some virtual ban zones around military compounds where AR is forbidden.
> The profit margins on these consoles is going to be great.

That would be true if it was an emulator or "bare metal". The beauty of IP!
Reminds me of Clients From Hell. Stuff like this is a dime a dozen, along with clients who won't pay.

http://clientsfromhell.net/ (newsletter popup alert)

Edit: the good ones are where the client asks for a slight change, acknowledges it but doesn't want it to be quite so much, then is happy, but the designer didn't do a thing for any of it, aside from maybe changing a filename.
Save yourself $50 and the monthly subscription fee. Recording software runs on any networked machine, and there's no cloud dependency.

https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-video/unifi-video-camera-g3/

(Not affiliated)
> Didn't you used to be able to use typedef scalars for that?

Oh, I was so disappointed when I realised that those aren't considered distinct types. That ruins half the use of typedef.
Man, if this guy had Slack imagine how much more that Design Team would have been pestered.
So was there an Nintendo in PAL format?

(PAL tvs had 100 more lines and refreshed a little lower 25, vs NTSC's 30 frames per second)

Seems like it would be a pain to make that work. Knowing the pain of PAL <-> NTSC tv conversion.
SNES was the golden age of video games. I wish people would make more games in that style. Super Metroid will never be topped at this rate, and that's pretty sad. You don't have to make games look realistic to make them addictive and fun. Give me a world I can explore, with secrets I can discover, where my character can grow and gain new abilities and combine them for unique new experiences. Stuff like that.
Big fan of DRF. Great documentation and awesome support on the usual channels. I use it for all my greenfield projects.

I can't find a way to make a one time donation. Anyone know how?
Most younger persons might not care about this, but some are buying dedicated video hardware like the XRGB Framemeister to emulate the picture that you had back then on old CRT TV sets. (scanlines etc)

I don't like the sharp and blocky video you see today on modern LCDs when using old consoles. I also don't like the video filters that some emulators use to make the games not look too pixelated.

I just want it to look approximately (emulating it perfectly is probably out of scope for this price) as it did back in the 80ties. Hope Nintendo provides an option for scanlines.
We use VirtualBox in our courses since it's a single platform that runs on all 3 major operating systems. Chromebooks are still an issue, but few enough people have those that we can basically just classify them as unsupported. There's still some setup effort, especially on Windows machines that ship with hardware virtualization disabled at the BIOS level, but it's a much simpler way to get 1000+ students up and running quickly than trying to have everyone setup local dev environments.

We've written about our setup in https://www.andysayler.com/output/pdf/csvm-sigcse14-paper.pd....

The website for our current VM is at http://foundation.cs.colorado.edu/vm/.
Is Peter Thiel still involved with ycombinator?
> [...] but also had plenty of cassettes of Louis Armstrong.

Sorry for the stupid association: http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Alex_Louis_Armstrong

I just happen to like anime more than music.
> I've pinged some folks who know the scene better than I do to answer the detailed questions.

I just sent you an email.
Peter Thiel is a weird guy. For many years he said there is going to be a major economic crisis.

- He wrote a paper on the fall of the Roman Empire [1] and thinks something similar could happen to the US.

- His fund 'Clarium Capital' bet on the fall of US dollar and lost a lot of money [2]

- He also stated that Hillary Clinton is going to win and be a one-term president, probably because the economic collapse is going to happen in few years [3]. He said "You kinda don't want to win 2016".

What do you think is behind his support for Trump? Does he want the economic armageddon to happen or not? Does he think that collapse is going to happen and that Trump is better at dealing with consequences than Hillary?

[1] http://bit.ly/2acARwG
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarium_Capital#Recent_performance_2008-2010
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxtXMlPSQAY
I've been coding for 20 years and never bothered to learn the difference. I assure you I can use methods and functions quite effectively.
This sounds like my life right now. On the receiving end.
clientsfromhell is filled with stories like this http://clientsfromhell.net/
But it's a more open platform than the alternatives, with live posting there are practically no gatekeepers, and it's hard take things back - cell phone videos that aren't published are much more likely to be suppressed, or have their release delayed reducing the sense of public urgency. A few ads on the screen don't change the impact.
It's almost as if no one could purchase a VPS in China from which to launch an attack.
Yeah, but try to go inside casino A and put stickers with ads for casino B on the walls. You will be thrown out within minutes for trespassing, property damage and other things.
I think so. Mathematicians talk about “arguments”, but I've never seen “parameter” used. There are more differences in that specific area: Mathematicians apply functions to their arguments. Only a programmer would attempt to “call” a function. That's actually a remnant from “calling a subroutine”, what we did in assembler, even before functions were a thing in programming.
Ooops, I see you beat me to it.
In my university we have been using remote VMs with a GUI (e.g. Windows) for more than 10 years. We need to this with several softwares due to license restrictions.
If you do like a google search on your phone in side casino a for local casinons you could reasonably getan ad for casino b now.
I'd recommend Vagrant or Docker, both multi platform.
> Do you truly and honestly sense software quality as a hallmark of Linux?

Yes, but that reflects my experience. I use emacs, st, zsh, SBCL, Python, Go, Debian: the flakiest software I run is Firefox.

Others have a different experience. They use gedit, gnome-terminal, bash, Ubuntu: the most stable software they run is Firefox.

Windows, OTOH, is so bad that it tries to download OS updates as monolithic, multi-GB blobs instead of small package updates. This can be bad when one has insufficient hard drive space for the monolithic blob but plenty of space to install a few packages and update them.

Windows advertises to one. Debian doesn't. Windows tracks one's input. Debian doesn't. Windows is slow on old hardware. Debian isn't. Windows has a fairly crappy interface. Debian doesn't (whether default, or using one of the available replacement DEs/WMs).
Maybe he'll be there because he believes gay conversion therapy works the other direction too, since the Grindr scene is always so hot during the Republican National Convention. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_gWaABMBIU
Seriously? i was not aware of that.
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> Yes, but doing it in augmented reality means that casino A could put ads _inside_ of casino B.

While the general point you are trying to make still stands, as regards the specific example, I expect that the possibility of hostile ads is fairly far down the list of reasons that casinos, of all places, are going to crack down hard on any use of AR technology on the premises before long.
Is it weird that there's no Sarah Palin speech scheduled?
I wonder, is that really something that should go into a character set?
Like apple pie, its good. Also the app totally doesn't follow certain conventions of virality. No social graph imported. Love that fact that it's blowing up.
Obviously the Peter Principle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
applies to VCs as well
App creating a wallpaper from any website from on internet
Yeah, I didn't realize that. Thought it would be super simple to make a product designed to do one thing do something completely different.
I think that the future is having not one but many workspaces. If you review a MR? Start that workspace. Help someone with a question? Login to their workspace. In GitLab we want every issue and every commit to have an IDE button https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/12759

BTW congrats to the Cloud9 team. They made a great product and selling to Amazon will ensure it lives on.