skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I keep reading mixed reviews on the game.

I think a lot of it depends on how much of the contributing genres someone has played before.

If you've played minecraft/terraria/etc. you'll find the gathering and crafting systems to be very simple and the creative component to be missing almost entirely.

If you've played a lot of shooters, you'll be circle-strafing the brain dead creatures/robots to death no sweat.

If you've played any space flight games, the ship-to-ship combat is about as easy as it gets.

If someone isn't familiar with one or more of those genres coming in, it would probably feel extremely fresh and interesting. If someone is very familiar with them, they'd probably be frustrated with how under-developed each piece is.
Depends. If I was going to be home anyway, and bored, wondering what to do with myself? Having to cook can be positive. If I'm in a rush? Fast food can be worth paying for.

But if I'm poor, the difference between a ten-pound bag of potatoes and one fast-food meal can really matter.
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The image background looks grainy on my mbp (it's stretched and the quality is a bit low anyways).
It looks very interesting. Does it work under Microsoft Windows?

>Steady funding at the 25% level for a year or more would allow us to address some of the issues that often come up, such as the numerous remaining defects, the lack of modern visual appearance, and more.

I wish you guys the best. Fleshing out in a little more detail on what you hope to accomplish with this funding effort might be a good idea.

It might just be me, but Common Lisp seems more interesting all the time, with the high quality implementations (SBCL and Clozure), with quicklisp on the library front, and stackoverflow.com for newbie questions.

Good luck!
I have a W530 that allows you to set it the same way. In my experience, you are ALWAYS better off to pick one or the other and leave it there. Some folks have had success with Bumblebee [0], however.

It's my understanding that newer Thinkpads don't have the BIOS option to switch and that this is much more of a PITA to get working.

[0]: http://bumblebee-project.org
The old is new again. Lyft invents the commute carpool.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/12/wonder-is-a-bot-that-will-...
A confounder can remain a confounder even when you think you have controlled for all variables. Clearly social scientists are not properly analyzing their data, why should I trust them to be properly controlling for counfounding variables? I'd rather just see studies with enough data to measure the strength of a correlation than studies which are completely unreliable because of bad statistics or not enough data, as explained in the article.

For example, you could do a large study where you measured the correlation of wine drinking with obesity. This study would at least tell me interesting information, even though I wouldn't know exactly if there is a causative relationship. But if the correlation was high and I wanted to lose weight I would stop drinking wine and see what happens. Maybe there is a confounding variable, maybe there isn't, I'd take that chance if I wanted to lose weight. This is much better than the current state of food and exercise studies where none of the information is reliable because of cherry picking stats and low sample sizes. As detailed in the article, we don't know anything about food and exercise from studies besides the basic physics that to lose weight you need to use more calories than you take in.
My knowledge of current timings are admittedly a little out of date since my microkernel days are behind me. Even the 150 cycles another poster suggested is still a significant cost over a userland context switch.
It's not just about that, but also about catching when people are doing type fuckery (that's really the best term I can come up with), i.e., doing silly things with the type system. I have one particular co-worker who's particularly bad when it comes to this.

Also, while it works almost miraculously well as-is, type annotations would make the likes of Jedi much better. It might not seem like a big thing, but autocompletion is really useful with larger codebases and libraries you don't necessarily use every day.

There's very little extra cost with this over and above what's currently there. All it's doing is formalising something people have been doing in docstrings for decades already.
It's interesting that you have mentioned Black & White. You have a creature that you can pet and train. Frankly, that creature is way more interesting than the rest of the game put together.

I still have fond memories of my brother trying to teach the creature to pick up rocks, and then throw them. The intention was to bombard the other villages.

Training it to pick up was easy. Leash it, pick up the rock in front of it, repeat. Put the rock next to it. Did it pick it up? If so, pet it. Repeat.

Getting it to throw the rock was more involved. Even after watching my brother doing it, the creature would pick up the rock, then put it down again. He must have spent at least half an hour trying.

Then, all of a sudden, the creature starts throwing rocks! Success! Well, except that it was also picking up feces. And throwing them. And picking up friendly villagers, and throwing them. Repeatedly.

That was the funniest thing I've seen in a game, by far. That, and watching my brother scolding the creature for the behavior.

The underlying creature model appears to have been somewhat simplistic. Creature needs were manually coded with first order logic. Not sure how training was actually done, but it was unlikely to be too complicated.

Now, more than a decade later, one should expect one "creature" that's even more advanced, specially considering the renewed interest in AI. Or that the creatures that one encounters in an RPG to be at least as advanced as the B&W one. Instead, they are not actually much more advanced than Pacman ghosts, no matter how pretty they look.
Introducing Quil: A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture
Nitpick: Position of "mal" in the German sentence is wrong. "Leih mir mal ein Dollar" is the right one.
I don't know. I quite love starbound. This game feels less somehow.
High, which is why I cook: To get the same quality as I can make myself costs a minimum of 5 times at much in a restaurant. I'm not the best cook in the world by any means, it is just that most "restaurants" serve flavorless garbage for cheap and I won't eat that. Once you decide that quality actually is a factor the economics change.

A also believe that healthy meals can potentially increase my lifespan and quality of life within that lifespan. (I don't know if science backs this up). When I cook for myself I'm assured that cheap by unhealthy foods are not hidden in my meals - even the most expensive restaurants won't do that. (Trans fats and excess salt are two examples)
I'm not sure why the game has so much hype. We already seen games like this, just in 2D. In some regards one cannot even hope to get the depths of a Dwarf Fortress or Nethack out of this, since these games were - although ugly - developed with an inherent desire for complexity. This one here is a product. A product needs to be efficient. You need to spend limited ressources to create a limited experience, and also spend some of your resources on marketing.

It probably is not a bad game. But it's simply impossible to have the depth that people imagine into it. Maybe if the developers find other ways to refinance the next ten years and continue working on adding more details, objects, animal attributes, ship parts, crafting trees, etc.

PS: I'm really really disappointed that this game has taken so much from Out There and Out There is not even mentioned anywhere in the website, the marketing or the media coverage. Out There is an incredible indie game and should get the praise it has earned if it is so good to even motivate other creators to copy parts from it. (I'm not related to the Out There team. Just love playing the game)
i've noticed in myself how easy it is to turn any quality of mine into the thing that basically makes me better than everyone else. it's funny when i catch myself saying, "yeah, i got ingrown toenails because i cut them too low, but it's just an expression of the dogged, obsessive aspect of my personality that makes me such an amazing human specimen."
Thanks. I should probably contact Yelp if this app gets any traction.

Also, I think these are just the terms for using the API. I'm not sure if they can do anything if I don't use the API.

Even If Yelp and Foursquare are a no-go, that still leaves 6 other solid review platforms to use.

Yelp and foursquare are useful but not the best. The granularity of rating for Yelp is too big. Over 50% of restaurants are 4.0 stars. (That's why the app is useful) Foursquare is the least used platform with the oldest reviews.
Of course you can pay more.

-- Oracle
Why Education Does Not Fix Poverty

http://www.demos.org/blog/12/2/15/why-education-does-not-fix...
Zipkin is great. It's pretty simple to set up, and you can instrument pretty much anything to send data to it. We made it a part of our internal httpclient and Kafka client so most teams get the tracing for free.
You can even visualize the internals of Cassandra with zipkin. :)

There's support for a Spark-job that generates a visual map of all your services' dependencies[0] where the strength of their relationship is represented by the thickness of the lines.

[0]: http://thelastpickle.com/images/using-zipkin-graph.png
Hyper – Hypercard for the modern age
I'm still confused. What is Google doing that blocks something?
This is an opinion piece, not a review.
That awkward moment when you make procedural generation a selling point

Oops
Every time someone new buys them, i gain some renewed hope that one day, somebody will update the address SGI used for contact info in the source code they've released, since all of those questions end up going to me.

(see, for example:
https://github.com/Lingcc/open64/blob/master/osprey/libm/ata...)
> I argue that keeping the socket in CLOSE-WAIT for more than, say, 60 seconds is stupid, since the other party _will_ give up.

Although it's rare[1], it's legal and possible for peer A to send a FIN, and peer B to continue to send data on the half closed connection and for peer A to expect the data and continue to receive it. How is the kernel expected to understand the difference between that behavior and a socket leak? In this case, peer A fully closed the application socket, so if peer B sends data on the half-closed socket, it would get a RST from peer A, if peer A was still mildly cooperating or the data would simply not be acked if peer A left the network.

[1] It's probably rare because people don't understand it well, and additionally some of the people who don't understand it create middle-boxes that break these types of connections in exciting ways.
This is a great idea. If it got popular, Lyft line could cut the cost of it, while still being efficient.

And, the best thing, if it does really well then the data can be used to plan new high quality bus routes or even light rail to replace it.

This isn't ever likely to work for suburb to suburb transit (and I don't think there is a model that would) but could definitely work for suburb to downtown style transit.
Netscape was always free for personal non-commercial use. They charged businesses, but it was pretty common for ISPs to give away Netscape free on the welcome CDs they sent out when you started subscribing. And you could always download it off their website (or technically FTP server, IIRC) - I remember downloading it when I first got on the WWW, June 1995 (before IE 1.0 came out), and thinking how cool it was that all this software was free.
We adopted it in the SpeedTracer chrome plugin a while back. We were very happy with the results then. Though, for the stuff I've been working with lately most JSON APIs are defined by protos, and we just bridge with JsonFormat/ProtoTypeAdapter
My favorite model for editing markdown is the one that usecanvas.com and FoldingText (an OSX app) use.

They present the document as WYSIWYG with markdown hidden, but unhide any markdown surrounding or directly adjacent to the cursor. (So the markup from an italic or link span are only visible if you are adjacent to or within the span.)

It's a nice balance between looking pretty and letting me edit markdown directly. I'd love to have an open source editor library that acts like this.
I'm not sure what it is to which you're responding, but I do not think it's the argument Lind makes in the article theoretically under discussion here.
Update on this: looking through metrics at the end of the day yesterday, we realized that the WebSocket-induced errors discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12271043 were having a much bigger operational impact than we initially thought. That's been dealt with and had a clear and immediate impact on the service health.

It would be nice to have another day of similarly high traffic to verify it, but I think most of our scaling up yesterday was to handle the WebSocket issue.
I feel like this is a really good point. These "synthetic imagination" engines with thin plot are exactly backward. The human capacity for imagination is better than the machine's, but we seek novel narratives, something this could have provided but fell short.
a shortage that's not reflected in the wages for skilled jobs (outside of powerful unions)
Top 15 Benefits of Automated Testing Tools
If I read this correctly, you're interested in formatting your resume in a way that (hopefully) gets the right data into the right place in the target systems. Many of the systems you reference use third-party software such as http://www.sovren.com/ that attempt to fill the void. You will end up optimizing your resume to fit certain categories. Implicit in all this is that the end user may only utilize a subset of all the possible categories of resume information. You might consider playing around with the Sovren api, or use a fairly well known format, such as the LinkedIn profile pdf.
Do you know if using info for aggregation violates copyright?
Yeah, people stopped asking me how I lost so much weight when they found out my only answer was to count calories and lift weights.
>How do I read more about this "not being in the rainbow" aspect of this color ?

By a color "not being in the rainbow" we mean that if you take light and spatially separate its different frequencies (like what happens in a prism or droplet of water), none of those individual frequencies will produce that given color response. And no, it's not that interesting. Almost all color perception experiences involve stimulating a patch of retina with multiple frequencies; we've given names to many of those experiences.
>I'm wondering how the game will pan out once you have people who know how to exploit it, which will change the landscape for newcomers.

I think this actually hits the issue, though in a different way than you meant. I'm not sure that there are ways to "exploit" it. To start with, there isn't a whole lot of depth and very little complexity. Additionally, there aren't really any hard goals or any flexible, open ended activities to do (like building stuff). It's also not multiplayer, so other people's activities don't really directly impact your own.
witness the hysteria about brexit among academics and london based commentators who have no idea about the reality of life in britain
Silicon Valley’s Most Self-Destructive Founder
Spiritual emergency
You're right, but I've only looked at it and run the design through my head.

If I were sitting in a car, I would would know that 4-D is basically shifting between fourth and overdrive. And if someone accidentally did shift from overdrive down to fourth, it won't kill the car in most circumstances. It's better than the old O/D button that asks your thumb to press it.

Ultimately, my proposal that this shift pattern groups gears by use-cases still holds true. D-4, 4-3, 2-L. If a person can't understand that, it's perfectly fine to leave it in D.
I see nothing wrong with it. I am very sure I don't understand the situation of poor working people. It has nothing to do with my IQ but with the fact that I don't live there live, never have.

What makes you think you know about other people's lives if you don't live among and with and as them? Just reading a few essays now and then? You would not accept that view if a committed layperson tried to give advice to physicists (referring to yesterdays thread that pointed to https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-f...) but instead insist they'd have to study physics and not just read a few papers. Thinking the issues of the "working class" are different because "how difficult can it be" doesn't seem consistent or right to me.
I have a lot of mixed emotions about RedHat and to what degree they are a net positive or negative, but I'm glad someone is taking this on.

It was so frustrating for me that the 'Linux on the Desktop' effort started right after the numbers showed that everyone was trading in their desktops for laptops.

I wanted to program ON my laptop, not program my laptop.

After spending almost 18 months trying to get all of the hardware on my laptop to work with linux (this included swapping out the wifi card and learning ACPI scripting so I could cobble together partial fixes from four other sources, and learning Crusoe CPU registers to contribute a power saving fix back to Transmeta, both things I have absolutely no interest in whatsoever), I said screw it and bought a Macbook. I'm on my fourth now, and aside for some difficulty installing command line tools, it's entirely removed hardware as a source of stress and procrastination.
Lyft (not Lyft line) is for all practical terms single occupancy driving. There might be two people in the car, but only one of them has a purpose to the trip.
I typed 'virus' and link was to a page in Amazon's store for a book in Spanish. Curious about how pages are selected, ranked and matched.
What's Danger Mouse?

Is it a translated version of Donnie Murdo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-5hII715_s
Well, I am not sure how much change was expected in 1 year. Was it that all other projects start posting Google level revenues or profits?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11889575

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222006
Ethical questions raised in search for Sardinian centenarians' secrets
I can't speak for sverige, but in my experience and in observations of others, some types of non-reproducible evidence used to justify belief include:

- Coincidences where the person decided at "random" to take a different route, and ended up avoiding a disaster or helping someone as a result. Counterarguments: confirmation bias, ignoring unconscious intuition.

- Other people saying or doing the right thing at exactly the right time to alleviate a personal suffering the other person "couldn't" have known about. Counterarguments: confirmation bias, underestimating others' intuition/perceptiveness.

- Feeling a funny happy/peaceful/warm/shivery/tingly feeling at the same time as something religious happens or while reading a religious book. Counterargument: fMRI+TcDCS/TcMS experiments (though tentative), other situations in which similar feelings occur like relationships, deeply artistic movies, music, nature, etc.

- Children saying things about subjects they haven't been taught about directly, like a long dead relative. Counterargument: confirmation bias (think of all the misbehavior children commit), and underestimating children's perceptiveness.

- Personal epiphanies, like having unexpected words or an internal dialog instead of monologue popping into mind especially in religious scenarios, for example when praying over someone else, or when reading, etc. Counterarguments: right temporal gyrus (bicameral mind theory), evidence that thoughts occur before we are aware of them, subjective variations in nature of internal monologues and imagery.
Summary: google is still google. It still have tons of heads and all the profit remained there (android, youtube, etc). Alphabet is just a place for the litigation-prone products, such as Nest and self driving cars.
Its tough to prepare a universal format for all ATS to parse and if there is one, they would have been promoting that format all along.

Some ATS keep first name, last name, email as the only mandatory fields and in that case a basic resume where you keep the name as the first thing on top would work. But most of the others ask for your visa status, ethnicity and various other things, so that has to be manual work again.

As far as i know most of the resumes made in simple LaTeX have had more chances of getting parsed.

PS : ATS refers to Applicant tracking systems which many companies use to post jobs and track applicants and manage the hiring process.
Over 17 million views on...this. Wow. Good on her. Thanks for clueing me in to the genre.
I use it for Jet Brains applications all the time
Friendly advice from a married guy: be careful about overdoing it with the financial discipline stuff.

Trying too hard to change someone's behavior is an easy recipe for resentment, especially in the turf war that naturally ensues when you start living together. Just as you see her as undisciplined, she could also be afraid that you'll be overly rigid and not allow her to enjoy life in the way she's used to. Once you've made your point about something like this, I think it's usually better to back off and leave making the change up to the person themselves, unless they specifically ask for your help. Being too pushy can also cause the other person to dig in, a counterproductive result.
How Bonnaroo Decides the Last Band Listed on the Poster
if it ever got started in a Cal city, an early attack on the arrangement would be a lawsuit claiming the service was unsafe
Beyond the Free Lunch: Attracting High Tech’s Top Talent
In the same way that blogging invented the zine, I guess. The difference between an analog carpool and one with always-connected GPS devices seems pretty significant.
Why do you think they have different ranges of first-hand experiences? It is undeniable that by any objective measure professors are smarter (in the sense of being better able to tackle intellectual problems) than the average population. Do you honestly think someone working at Burger King has a better understanding of the world than a professor? I urge you to actually have a conversation with such a person.
Anecdote: "This is a recorded "interactive" message."

"O.K. The others are gone übermorgen and, I told it before, that we have our own problems. We have fooled ourself the whole time - to... Alas! I think ye understand.

But at least i want to give you one pointer:

Mass as a description can be "trained"

around information-points of a reality.

(2nd "Art"-Law) ^^
Massive Backtrack seems quite a hyperbole. I would just say adjusting to the new reality, where still millions of users are using W7 and this hardware, and let them without, at least, security updates, seems like a horrible plan.
I'm currently running Gentoo on a T30, T60p, and X1 Carbon (1st gen). For the X1 Carbon I actually switched because Windows 7 was causing periodic freezes. Power managment and drivers are always what is missing, and getting drivers written in a timely fashion is hard. That said, if they focus on a subset of laptops then they could show some major improvements. I do wonder about the old M$ ACPI manoeuvring though, if vendors still aren't documenting features then there will be problems.
That particular sentence is just a rhetorical bridge from the quote. I am really suggesting that it is quite possible to forgo one or two hours of Facebook and Netflix a day and invest that time into asking questions about self. Exercising. Studying biological responses to nutrition strategies and various stressors. One can learn useful stuff armed with sufficient time, gadgets from Amazon, software, and the Internet. And one can demand even more useful tools with his or her wallet.