skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They didn't lose any money or anything else of value. The wisdom-of-the-crowds appraisal of the value of their company changed. That's it. Nintendo didn't "lose" anything.
The predicted future value was based on nothing but hype.
Perhaps its a good thing to go through the newbie guidelines once in a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
But they didn't lose any money. The stock valuation did. Valuation that had recently been inflated due Pokemon Go.

Until Pokemon, Nintendo had been hovering at 15k since the beginning of the year. As of this writing it's at 23220.

All we can take away from this is that Nintendo is still in trouble, just like they have been since before the release of Pokemon Go.
Energy cost from wind may go negative for very short periods of time, fluctuating, but if you include the capital cost of building huge wind turbines and connecting them to the grid, the average yearly cost of electricity from huge wind farms (unsubsidized) is not lower than 6.5 to 8.5 euro-cents per kWh. It's a lot better than hydrocarbons but it is NOT competitive for huge constant base loads with rare specific geographic hydropower bargains (2.5 US cents/kWh for "all you can eat") power if you can locate a facility very close to the Grand Coulee or Rocky Reach dams on the Columbia river.
As a weaker form of going around and proving stuff: people do care a lot about properties. We just check them via QuickCheck, instead of formally proving them.

And we organize our programs such as to get nice properties.
I thought that was the point of the article—give people only genuine feedback that helps, not hassle them with minutia. Giving unsolicited advice to people you manage can undermine the "suitable level of trust" that you would otherwise have, if you're not careful.

There is a big difference, after all, between requesting feedback from someone you respect and getting approval from a superior in a hierarchical power structure.

What the article is touching on is the tendency for some managers to give feedback on everything just because they can. Other people in the organization won't have that privilege, and giving feedback on everything reinforces the fact that the other people in the organization are subordinates and don't have that privilege.
Obviously by incorporating many pieces from various dialects without proper, careful unification in naming, ordering of arguments, eliminating redundancy, etc.

The examples of good care taken are library/base of Haskell (they really do rewrite core libraries when they have implemented a better idiom) and stdlib of Erlang and Racket.
Even if you are genuinely curious, such inquiries from a boss/"authority figure" can easily come off as threatening, so tread very carefully with advice like that.
A huge number of European apartment buildings have NO on site parking spaces whatsoever. Look at most of the apartments in Berlin for example. It's all street parking, or you have to rent a space in a parking garage somewhere.
YouTube through the years
My employer feels more like 9 different companies. I feel bad for our customers who try to package multiple products, because they have to coordinate our multiple teams to work together.
Most emulation is based on approximation, and while getting super accurate emulation is important from a preservationist standpoint, the reality of the situation is that these less accurate emulators work fine for the purpose of playing old games for entertainment
> And drones are still not yet commercially viable

I don't really understand here, are you talking about a specific area that they're not commercially viable? Because people make and sell them for a profit.
Put it on the list with "lowest common denominator" and "begs the question". That battle is lost.
XMonad comes with quite a few QuickCheck properties. See https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/roll-your-own-windo... and https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/roll-your-own-windo... for some readable introduction.

One might consider proving the properties instead of just checking them with a few thousand random examples.
GMail and Google Maps were also both ruthlessly incremental. They seemed like big improvements over what had come before because they had incubated inside the Googleplex for a couple years before they were released, and because the competition hadn't improved in nearly a decade.

It's more that Search was a non-incremental leap forwards, and that Google was basically the only company of the dot-com era that had attempted an ambitious technological goal and succeeded. Google Search really was fundamentally different from previous technologies; its main rival Alta Vista, for example, ran on a single box and used very standard text-ranking techniques, while Google thought very much out-of-the-box in terms of ranking, scale, and architecture.

Google X is very much a Larry & Sergey project, and Larry (while Eric was CEO) was often very critical of how incremental employee projects were and how they weren't taking enough risks on fundamentally different approaches.
"suicide solely due to weed consumption" is not a useful metric.
Yes, I think just trying to use an FP style where possible is a great approach.
"I honestly don't see any innovation here, the tech is dirt simple."

Innovation isn't just about technology. There are also innovation in the business model, service delivery, user experience, and many more. It's usually the innovation that are outside of tech that has significant impact.

See:

https://www.doblin.com/ten-types

http://www.slideshare.net/openinnovation/10-types-of-innovat...
Yes, it has gotten radically better in the last year or two, combination of Pi 3 hardware being quad core and much faster, and the RetroPie project iterating and improving rapidly.
My experience with work is that everything can be slightly improved all the time. You have to stop at a certain point and I think the author has found the nicest place to stop, at least for employee happiness.

On the other side, if you have been working on something alone, I think it is a clever idea to accept the feedback of your boss just to have another perspective.
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that is a great read, thanks!
It has good intentions, but it might make someone ask themselves if the boss thinks that their use of colors needs to be changed. If it was a good choice, then why bring it up, they might ask themselves.
Look at my comment below.
I think one of the biggest problems with Google X is that they give their employees a false sense of what I consider "full freedom" which is a big component in making moonshots possible. All of the biggest tech companies in the last 20 years were not conceived within a larger corporation - they evolved out of a garage or a university. What makes Alphabet think that by fueling employees under a new division of their company is going to spin off more cash cows for them?

Also, what happens if an employee manages to produce something that does become a huge success? Will they be able to enjoy the same success as if they had spun up that idea on their own?
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I don't know if it's irrational. If you, or anyone else can be more rational, and predict the market's errors, you could make huge amounts of money.

Predicting errors is hard though. You could have shorted Nintendo's stock after Pokemon go came out. But what if they started announcing more Pokemon games for mobile, and they were also huge successes?
Becuase it's illegal it causes people to be isolated and hide their behaviour for fear of persecution. This I imagine increases depression and anxiety.

I only smoke it to stop me from wanting to kill everybody else :)
If your team cannot take your feedback just like taking feedback from their colleagues, cannot argue with you or veto your idea easily with a legitimate response, take everything you said as a "command" then you have failed as a manager anyway.

I assume Derek's advice makes sense for Korean culture where manager and team dynamics are different.
It took people quite a while to figure out how to compile functional code (especially lazy functional code) to commodity hardware. The research only caught up in the 80s.
While I don't disagree with you, I think the real credit goes to Dr. Tony Tether who was the director of DARPA for the duration of the self-driving car competitions. He set aside money for the races and helped design them. After the last race in 2007 Google acquired most of their talent from various teams.
I've got one as well, 15 posts over the last year. But I don't think I ever shared it with anyone so far. It is more of a "official" dump of things I've done that I found cool.
That's incorrect. For example, the scene where HH climaxes with Dolly on his lap.

(I don't think Lolita should be banned anywhere. It's not a pro-pedophilia artwork.)
Yeah, this analogy isn't perfect. The idea is that they are trying to collect and unify the best idioms and utilities from the Scheme world while continuing to develop their own packages.
In the case of Nintendo and Sega, a large number of their games can be purchased through the Nintendo eShop on the Wii U and 3DS.
I don't know that arcade monitors from the 80s had zero ghosting or phosphor persistence. And a TN display is going to sacrifice so much on angle of visibility that I don't know if 120hz updates are worth it.

That said it is an interesting aside and there are a few more details here http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=305...
Problem is that on some phones, for instance my S4, if you don't root first, you can't install an alternative recovery ROM. Without an alternative recovery rom, you can't install a new OS that is not signed, so you can't install CM.
It is possible in some cases but super fragmented, you can buy old Sega games on Steam for example. Probably best thing to do is pick the games you play the most and try to buy something from the parent company, if it still exists.
This should be the most upvoted comment.
I think the suggested comment It’s perfect. Great work! Let’s ship it. has its own set of issues.

Firstly, while the conversation started with "I'm looking for input", the manager has suddenly moved it into a push for delivery.

If the design was ready to ship, then that won't be an issue, but if all you're looking at is a mockup, or a slapped together stylesheet, etc, then what was an attempt an encouragement has just lumped more pressure on.

Also, the comment assumes that the designer thinks it's "done". The request for input could mean "this is the direction I'm going in, does that look right". Telling them that you think it's "ready to ship" still takes ownership from them. You've just moved from being the boss who provides 2 cents on everything to the boss that wants everything to be done right now without taking the time to do it right.

Much better to say "I think it's fantastic. Great work! Is it ready to ship, or do you have more to do on it?"
Whenever you're not sure whether something is a cause or an effect, look up Taleb on "Narrative Fallacy."
There were attempts at Memex-like systems in the 1950s and 1960s. Microfilm readers with bar codes for automatic searching were built. There was even a system which used two rolls of microfilm, one of which had updates to the other, and synchronized them.[1] Change control, the early years.

Differential analyzer technology moved into aiming devices for weapons. Analog gunnery computers for ships used many of the same components as the differential analyzer.[2] WWII radar-controlled anti-aircraft guns and the Nike missile all used analog integrators, but electronic or at least electromechanical ones. Aircraft through the F-16 used flight control systems with analog computers.

So, while Bush's work didn't lead to Memex, it led to a long line of effective military control systems.

[1] http://www.google.dj/patents/US3751152
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdZZuteFZfo
Nassim Taleb, is this you? ;-)
you might enjoy this then: https://drboolean.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/
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Google search used a couple of clever innovations -- the PageRank algorithm, and scaling via lots of small computers. But apart from that, isn't it almost the definition of incremental? You don't need a massive investment to make it work, just a couple of grad students with 10 PCs to make a proof of concept, then 100 PCs to make it better, then 500...

Thinking about it, Google's key business trick has never been moonshots, it's been "throwing things against the wall to see what sticks". It's a wide approach (invest speculatively in lots of different ideas) rather than a deep one (bet heavily on a really long shot).
>A lot of these older classics that you'd probably want to emulate are actually available in some form or other.

And emulation is the reason those titles are available. Those titles are being emulated on other systems. Without the games having been pirated to begin with, the people sitting on the IP would have left them to rot. Piracy is a demonstration of demand. Do you think the iTunes Music Store would have come about without Napster?

>Additionally, just because a title isn't easily available for purchase, or available through your desired channels, that doesn't magically invalidate copyright.

"Information wants to be free." It doesn't invalidate the copyright, but it certainly lowers the 'perceived harm' in the mind of the end-user.

And the copyright holders, thankfully, don't seem to be very attentive. Coolroms and EmuParadise are still around, I was grabbing ROMs from there over 10 years ago.
Hey, ingve. stop trolling us. you wasted 5 minutes of my life by posting this.
There are a lot of CRT emulation modes available, I am not sure if the fancy "enhanced detail" pixel up scaling modes are supported but I would be surprised if they are not at least for the more popular Nintendo emulators.

It says here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hqx used in nestopia which is included in RetroPie, so I am thinking yes.
>Mr. Teller appears to be always on Rollerblades.

The article seems to confirm the rollerblades anecdote from the New Yorker Silicon Valley story [0]

>Teller ended the meeting by standing up in a huff, but his attempt at a dramatic exit was marred by the fact that he was wearing Rollerblades. He wobbled to the door in silence. “Then there was this awkward moment of him fumbling with his I.D. badge, trying to get the door to open,” Kemper said. “It felt like it lasted an hour. We were all trying not to laugh. Even while it was happening, I knew we were all thinking the same thing: Can we use this?” In the end, the joke was deemed “too hacky to use on the show.”

[0] http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-va...
> I honestly don't see how you could implement it without object oriented design. Surely it makes sense to have a Diagram class that encapsulates a list of strokes and pictures? Isn't it easier if the Diagram class exposes addStroke() and removeStroke() but does not reveal how it's implemented? And shouldn't I have a separate view class which encapsulates how much zoom and pan the user has applied to the diagram?

Data structures and operations on them are indeed a useful concept. Not limited to oop, though.

> Could you implement Undo and Redo actions so neatly without a command pattern?

Persistent data structures make it even easier. You just keep a list of references to the old states around.

> I actually get a little thrill when I think about how cleanly this design addresses the requirements. Could I get that feeling if this were implemented in a functional programming style?

I can't predict your feelings, but what you described could very well be done in eg Haskell. (You just wouldn't use oop classes, but you can abstract over similar concepts.)

Have a look at http://shaffner.us/cs/papers/tarpit.pdf for some thoughts on software design. (The paper advocates using relations. I have seen them work very, very well in functional settings. Just the opposite of ORMs.)
Also an option in famous N64 games, they have fan produced higher res texture sets.
Cobol is certainly considered bad.
Indeed - it only takes two or three easy questions like that to become a pattern, at which point every question is code for "guess what you did wrong", which is toxic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjF4eMrYfG0
Tread carefully between being fake and being sincere. People will stop asking you if you give a fake answer like the article.
You can count your reduction steps in lambda calculus just fine. Can't you?
Pi 3 can play most N64 titles, definitely the famous well emulated ones, and some PSX and Dreamcast as well. The perf jump from Pi 1 to Pi 2 to Pi 3 was large!
Excellently dramatized by Nate DiMeo in The Memory Palace earlier this year:

http://thememorypalace.us/2016/02/the-wheel/

If you want a hundred other brilliant moments from history, beautifully told, that's the podcast.
Selling higher-margin luxury goods to rich people is always a good reason! It really is a fantastic business model.
People sort themselves into competency buckets by company as well.
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I don't believe this is true. I know someone was initially picked to interview for YouTube but then got interviewed for X after declining YouTube.
> Why is it then that programs written in OO outnumber FP software by 100000:1 or more.

You are forgetting about all the spreadsheets.
Tolerance builds so quickly that it literally won't work taken too close together. There aren't physical cravings either.

I feel that it could certainly be done too frequently, but it's very resistant to being addictive. I suspect it would be easier to get addicted to tylonal. I can't comment on other research chemicals, which are often sold under the label of LSD.

Alcohol is well-known to be addictive and has organizations such as alcoholics anonymous to get help.
Love the suggestion. So many times have minor suggestions from managers killed the enthusiasm for a project because it feels like the manager can't think about or appreciate the bigger picture. In fact, it looks like he is only trying to own the success of the project by picking on non-important stuff.
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This conversation is a great example of bad communication, if you want a reference.

Communication is not just about how you communicate, but when. Good communicators know how and when to listen, and they keep their mouth shut when it's appropriate. That's the lesson of this article. If that's not a problem for you—if you know when to speak and when to listen—then maybe this article won't help you, personally.

And if my manager was always trying to elicit critical thought about trivial and mundane matters like font choice and colors on internal tools, then I'd want them to just shut up for a moment. I'd be glad to hear what your effective mitigation strategies are for giving unnecessary advice.
> it's at least curious that when the Sony hack happened...

Not only the attribution is dubious. The whole thing stank down to the timing. My theory is that the Sony hack brouhaha was raised for the specific purpose of obscuring and deflecting attention from the Senate report on torture released on 9/12/2014.
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I agree. Think about the Manhattan Project: six years from concrete idea to working prototype. For three of those years, they had a significant chunk of Earth's smartest people living and working together with few distractions or outside responsibilities, an almost unlimited budget, supported by satellite sites all over the U.S. (plus Canada and Britain), logistic support supplied by the military with high priority, and, oh yeah, the motivation that if they didn't win the race Germany could rule the world.

For today's most important "moonshots," like fusion and large scale water purification and pulling lots and lots of carbon out of the atmosphere and colonizing the solar system, we might not even have the kind of clear starting point they had, where the fundamental science had been done and the rest was mostly engineering. It doesn't seem like solving these problems is compatible with any kind of near-term profit motive.

It feels like the corporate version of a lottery: if enough people buy lottery tickets, someone will win. It just probably won't be you. If enough organizations with gigantic piles of cash spend them on long-term research, life on this planet could get way better for all of us. But each organization would have to individually decide to do something whose most likely effect is just throwing money away.

So how do you convince a corporation to start buying lottery tickets?
Presumably they charge the fee because it would be inconvenient and time-consuming for at least some to take a train a stop, exit, re-enter and take the train back for a few bucks.
Yes. I can find another analogy if you like, but the message is the same.
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People who can't sincerely ignore trivial matters probably should stay out of management.
Or just don't eat meat and get the same effects as calorie restriction:

* http://nutritionfacts.org/video/caloric-restriction-vs-anima...

* http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-benefits-of-caloric-rest...
So they made a box that uploads a recording of your voice to the internet, and then someone sends you what is basically a txt msg of something you can buy at sears?

That is really stupid and sad.
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I did use RetroPie. That is true, PS3 controller is pretty easy to connect via the USB cable. I tried it to connect it wirelessly. That's where it gets tricky and unreliable.