skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author was an idiot for trying to make it a competition, but so are you if you think you have a point here.

The question is always if games even qualify as a medium by which to express art, for which the answer is of course. Once you accept it as a medium for art, there is no question of what is "better." That's just up to you.

Some of the best artistic experiences I've had have come from Portal 2, Ori and the Blind Forest, Papers Please, Okami, among many others. I'm not here to argue if Pynchon is better, to me he's not. There's no competition, because it's subjective, and a waste of an argument.
Off topic: I checked other FizBizOpp listings (which is now famous thanks to the War Dogs film in theaters). There is a listing for a "Big Ass Fan" 16' long for the Air Force: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=8de699e...
The funny thing is that America wants their education to be more like the east, because America is behind in math and science

While the east wants to be more like America, because their students are too rigid and instead needs to focus more on creativity and play!

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/12/03/248329823/...
> A couple of years ago there was still an argument, but these days the argument is over. Digital clearly won.

You are using survivor bias to prove your point. My point is that Digital is inferior in SOME aspects to Film - and it still stands. The fact that Digital won has nothing to do with the facts to be considered when doing a comparison.
Tim Cook's John Sculley moment.
Landmark Detection with the Cloud Vision API
No. Absolutely beginner level blog post. You would use a third party tool like http://www.datavalidation.com/ or mailgun's email validation service or BriteVerify etc etc. There are a ton of validation services now. We are living in a time when trillions of email addresses have been tried, entered and deployed to. So why reinvent the wheel on your website? 3rd party services are based not only on parsing the string but also on literally billions of emails actually deployed through various ESP's to tell you up front whether the email address entered by a user is correct. I could use a trashmail email address and it would validate by the OP's standards. First validate using a third party service and then send the double opt-in email to get a user click.
StartCom operated solely by WoSign in China, analysis of new StartCom website
This setup is becoming more and more similar. My own system is my iPhone just plugged into whatever Lightning cable I want (laptop, bedside left, bedside right), with either Bluetooth or Spotify Connect to the Amazon Echo on my shelf.

This is the wireless future they're talking about. We shouldn't have to have a device to charge and listen through at the same time. We should charge wired and listen "wirelessly" (even if the audio device is wired for power).
Humans Can Taste Glucose Oligomers Independent of the HT1R2/hT1R3 Sweet Receptor
Five Myths about Economic Inequality in America
Measuring Growth in Your 'Return on Lifestyle' Business
A New Scientist write-up of the paper, with some additional sources: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2104244-there-is-now-a-...
Almost every discussion about basic income comes to talking about it as a monetary black hole where you pour trillions in and your society has no reasonable expectation of return, much like military spending.

That is not at all how it works. A basic income within reason would almost always be an economic growth mechanism by transferring money from investment class to consumption class. The market for the guaranteed needs of an adopting nations population would be an incredibly large, incredibly stable business center for competition and innovation, and it would increase market participation by eliminating the barrier to entry that is currently made by gated welfare.

Of course we need long run, wide spread, UBI experiments. If all you are talking about is "what if" any reasonable scientist would balk at the conversation. But if you take historic evidence - that giving the poor money makes them, by overwhelming margins, and on average, spend it on their needs in predictable, immediate ways, you would be getting similar economic motivator returns on UBI taxes as you would on some forms of infrastructure.

And by comparison, infrastructure projects also considered a net positive policy because the money made by businesses using your infrastructure vastly eclipses the costs of building and maintaining it. UBI works the same way, by creating stable demand for the necessities of life, and providing the means for a similar force multiplier in people wanting to contribute optimally to the economy by their own judgment than by the will of money in the hands of others for those individuals profit. Because sometimes, making a major stakeholder in a company richer does not mean the greatest source of economic growth for the society as a whole compared to the entrepreneurial potential of every citizen presently bound to that model.
Great video, it actually reminded me of CTRL+D!

One of my many assignments at my job is to work with excel on a weekly basis exporting data dumps from MYSQL to excel ranging from 50k to 100k rows.

At first it was a daunting task but once I learned how to build some solid templates then all I had to do was to dump the data set into a tab and let the formulas do the work, everything was already formatted so I could just start validating the data then email it to the sales team for further analysis.

If you take the time to analyze your data sets and get to know how to handle each type of data then you can build some really solid template in a fairly short amount of time.

I try to avoid using excel as much as possible but this damn thing is so deeply rooted into the "business analyst" world that you can't really escape it so this is why I told myself that I would be better off mastering it and build solid reporting templates instead of trying to change their mind about using alternative software.

On a side note we started using WebFocus... that's another monster to tame...
Head unit is $20 these days http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bluetooth-Car-In-Dash-FM-Radio-Stere...
Do you have any evidence for this claim? You seem to be making generalisations without any evidence at all.

As a personal anecdote, I have several girl friends of childbearing age, who have stated a preference for C-sections for cosmetic reasons, as well as all the (rightly or wrongly) associated pain/complications with a natural birth. (e.g. tearing down there). So I wouldn't say it's completely unheard of.

In contrast, my wife went with a natural birth. She's a vetinary surgeon though, and has done plenty of deliveries of both types, so I assumed she made that decision with some thought. She said the recovery period is much longer, and it'd be silly to risk surgery if you could possibly avoid it.
Ask HN: Resources for developing multi-platform native code libraries?
Can anyone recommend any course, books or learning materials when it comes to developing low-level and multi-platform native code libraries? Are there standard industry practices when it comes to building, packaging, and deploying native code libraries? It seems like a great skill to have, and I’d like to be better at it.

For context, I work in the mobile game industry developing for iOS and Android phones in a multi-platform (Mac, Window, Linux) development environment. You can do a lot without having to worry about writing low level code, but every once in a while, it becomes necessary. I have a basic working knowledge of these things, and of course, there are many case-by-case considerations when dealing with a device’s specific architecture, but much of my knowledge around this stuff is cobbled together from all sorts of different sources over the years. Anything more formal?

It seems like CMake and its reference guide is actually the closest and most informative thing that I have found in this ballpark. Any other recommendations or go-to sources for this kind software development?
Many well-known CS researchers have left (the then) HP over the past 10 years to other companies (e.g., John Wilkes, Hans Boehm, etc.). So, some people saw early there were problems (though perhaps not due strictly to the recent years).
Yeah, I'm not saying they aren't art. They are, and like I said before, I'm excited about the medium. I just don't think there's anything with the intellectual depth or creative virtuosity as Pynchon-yet. It's a young medium with a high bar of entry.
FreeNAS 10 – State of the Union #4 [video]
I am still waiting for tables in Outlook 2016 to be returned.
I'm curious - would this page see any speed improvement with HTTP2? I ask because the new protocol seems optimized for the exact opposite of this - many asynchronous fetches.
Passing on user-submitted emails to a third-party service without their explicit consent is a huge privacy leak.
For flip's sake, yes please! Close the loop, fer crying out loud.

I got a popular givenname.familyname@gmail.com address and I frequently get mail that's meant for other people who share my name. The vast majority of the time it's the individual themselves who sign up for a service or offering but there's rarely a validation upfront.

The best emails are the ones who extend full trust to the email recipient over some account during that first email. Facebook, shame on you.
Did you play tag as a kid?
/s? I seriously can't tell.
>However, I still like to include some basic form of email validation both on the client and server side

I worry you're more likely to permanently block a set of users with valid email addresses than prevent a user from making a typo.
Japan Workplace Laws
It's already using HTTP/2.
Thanks for sharing the link. I thoroughly enjoyed reading his blog. Thanks again!!
Flash Proxies
The project supports for interaction to smartfox server 2x, 1.1.5 released
Mylan's CEO a Villain? Depends on Your Preferred Brand of Capitalism
Static Typing vs. WebSockets
Several companies that I consult for use Google Apps. All of their iOS users use GMail, Calendar, Drive and Hangouts at the least.
Sort of thought that anything you put in Drive belongs to or can be used by Google according to their TOS. Correct me if I am wrong but that is the main reason no rational business would ever connect anything to Google if they can avoid doing so.
My Aunt worked on systems for explaining early generation networks for medical diagnoses: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01413743
Radios, but I still have two hp48 calcs, and they are as amazing as ever (the reverse polish Lisp even had arrow syntax for lambdas.. How cute is that). I miss this HP.
> Later on in life he grew a moustache, probably to try and cover his teeth

I don't think it was for that reason. The time when he grew a moustache is when he started to frequent the gay scene and most folks in that scene used to have the moustache as well.

And his early days in Queen show him with a perfect shave.
I would be amazed to learn they aren't using it, if only for dogfood. But you're right that it's odd not to see it mentioned.
USB-C is the port on the Macbook as well, for what its worth.
I'm not much of C programmer but I think it's an approximation of an infinite loop.

for(;;){
if(condition) break;
}
> It is a shame I couldn't see him in concert :(

One of my deeper regrets as well. I was born too late for that, but the stage performances were simply amazing, judging on the recordings that remain.
Why do you think Beats are so popular? They're literally a fashion accessory, often not even being used for music.
I don't know about the iPhone Upgrade Program, but T-Mobile's JUMP plan doesn't give a crap about the condition of the body of the phone as it is usually replaced when refurbished for sale as a pre-owned device or use as a Like-New Replacement. As long as it powers on, doesn't have a cracked screen and has no water damage they'll happily take it (replacing the body is cheap in most cases, so why care).
If you watched it live, that keynote actually had the car fail for at least a couple of minutes while the makers tried to fix it. I'm sure the videos they have published now edited that lag.
Desktop office is not real time - it's synced and since office web sucks compared to gDocs - gDocs win new markets.
option-e and then a vowel will create {á é í ó ú}

option-u and then a vowel will create {ä ë ï ö ü ÿ}

option-n and then an 'n' will create ñ

Found this out while learning Spanish since holding down keys to select their alternate was way too slow.
Home Is Where the Parking Lot Is [video]
World and behavior modeling - the AI parts of the craft, are definitely a next level of an Art - the abilities we used attribute to our primitive gods.
Have you checked your vitamin D level lately?
I remember one of the most mind blowing moments for me was the big reveal halfway through Knights of the Old Republic. Dunno if it counts as "changing my worldview" but it was the same feeling I got after watching The Matrix- I didn't know I could be so impacted by art.
Where are you looking? aliexpress is the way to go.
Nope, only FaceTime had the ability to show native call interface.

Previously, WhatsApp showed you a notification when you get an incoming call (if app closed / minimized).

Seems iOS 10 is allowing apps to take over the screen for calls (just like they did on iOS 9 with reply via notification which was only available on iMessage)
I'm not a recluse technically(i do leave the house when i need it), but i can understand the mentality behind it.
Socialization is not a walk in the park, its time-consuming and requires serious commitment/effort(there plenty of "difficult" people) - while having people on the internet as the social group doesn't place a burden on the person at all(he can leave or change the group any time without much investment).
Avoiding unnecessary social interactions reduces stress and allows more time to be dedicated to own pursuits, at some cost of appearing more awkward/maladaptive within social circles. A price many are willing to pay: the problem is that social interactions are unavoidable long-term and lead to low social status as established social circles create a psychological entrance barrier of shared expirience/in-jokes/culture which evolves with them(like e.g. insulated internet communities) where any faux-pas disqualifies one from being a member.
> The article seems to say that they just need to skip grades.

+1 for skipping. Mentally, socially, and physically challenging.
Japan has a cultural problem where women near/over 30 are not wanted. Men needs to be from a top company, otherwise no woman wants them. Cultural norms says it's taboo to nor marry anyone that is not Japanese.

When I was dating my ex, who is from Japan, a major part for not settling down with me was because I am not Japanese. She moved back to Japan, couldn't date anyone due to her age (late 20's). She ultimately dated/married a Japanese American and moved back to the US with him. I would imagine her husband being born and raised in America - could care less that she is 29.
Yup. Beats owes its very existence to this fact. They certainly didn't get popular due to superior audio quality.
And NimbleRx, which seemingly is still around, but not listed in any official or unofficial list. With the recent reviews these guys are getting, are they really around?
I don't see why the author feels the need for something to be either immersive or art – or whatever dichotomy he's trying to draw here. There are plenty of paintings and books and music that transport people. There are plenty of video games that don't. Media is media, no matter what form. The quality of the media will discern whether the media is good or not, the form of the media doesn't matter.
Thank you! I hadn't heard of a PTO before.
Like I said, "let them". The authorities will see nothing wrong with the content on the server, and look somewhere else. What happens "in transport" is absolutely not my responsibility.

It could even serve as a sort of plausible deniability...
This argument always seems like a straw man to me. 'Art' is a broad and loosely (looser and looser) defined term, there is no reason video games can or can't be a part of that for you.

Many people seem to constantly yearn to define some sort of video game literary canon. To earn that sort of platform takes many more years and a society more willing to accept video games as valid emotional experiences and/or effective question posers. They are not ideal for either, they are ideal for producing addictive feedback loops. The author here is keen to put these loops under the same banner as Kubrick or Tolstoy, presumably to justify his investment to himself as much as anyone else.

Loving Doom is nothing to be ashamed of; you can love Tarkovsky films too.
> . If he hadn’t become a rock musician, I think he would have grown up to be a successful artist or fashion designer.

He did actually study design in University. Strange that the interviewer did not pick that up. He dropped then to become a full time musician. This is well known.

Freddie is the one who designed the Queen logo, btw.
I had one of those tiny Sony Vaio's that did the same - great idea and tech but did you ever use it in comparison to the state of the art from Bose etc? It was night and day - the Sony was barely better than normal ear buds on an aeroplane...
I would disagree about so cal. Their water tastes bad. Not Michigan lead-contaminated bad, but SF water blows it away.
iOS 9 seems to have fixed some of it, but my 6+ still lags on occasion - the 6s+ seems to have fixed it and I feel like I should have waited the extra month but my Xperia Z3's screen got smashed and I needed a replacement device and my Android issues saw no end. I will probably upgrade just for the performance improvements alone, sucks that I'm losing a headphone jack but outside of the car I never need to charge + use the headphone port simultaneously so I think I'll survive with the dumb dongle.
The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded as the Charles Koch Foundation in 1974 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries.
Do you write production code?
I think the 'valid but wrong' email is a more common failure. Having just spent a few weeks with my wife trying to convince some poor person that they had mistyped their email address when they created their Amazon account. Reminded me of this xkcd (https://xkcd.com/1279/).

It does seem effective to have someone type the address twice as that can catch a typo fairly easily.
Would keeping everything locally and use the "cloud" only for backups be an option?
I believe if you purchase Google Apps (like most businesses would) the TOS are different.

EDIT: In case any one is curious, this page links to both: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2450387?hl=en
Is worrying about crap like this more or less worthwhile than playing video games? Seems like you say it's less worthwhile (and apparently feel strongly about that), but that's a judgment call too.

Yes, you can use your free time however you like. It's still a decision everyone needs to make, somehow.
I feel this pain. Used to be longer than 2 weeks...
How about a small drone, with a camera, that follows you around at all times? That would be perfect.
> And then there was a revolution in Zanzibar, and Freddie’s family migrated to England.

That's funny to think about an alternate reality where this move would not have occured, and his whole life would have turned completely differently. He would never have met Brian May (one of the most talented guitarists ever) and even if he had tried to become a Musician on his own, he may have failed (his solo albums after Queen were big flops).
My only knowledge here is personal experience having talked to women swearing they will only ever have C-sections.
My philosophy is exactly the opposite. Allow anything as email address and make it as simple as possible for the user to sign up to use my application.

This means, no email validation, no address verification emails, heck, I don't even have a password confirmation field. One field for name, one for email and one for password and you are in.

If 10% of the users don't trust me with their real, or even throwaway email address, so be it. My goal is not to collect email addresses, but to have users use my application and add some value to their life.

If another 10% of them enter a mistyped email, they will figure it out eventually and change it if they care.
My only knowledge here is personal experience having talked to women swearing they will only ever have C-sections due to fear of natural birth.
What's happening at the moment is that Mozilla (and Google) are undertaking fact-finding to figure out how badly WoSign messed up and to explore possible penalties. Removing WoSign, or even actively distrusting the certificate, is certainly on the table. As others have pointed out, there are now more remedies available than merely pulling the CA.

That said, when you read the email thread, it's abundantly clear that WoSign is not saying what they should be saying. The first response document is inadequate (although they're working on a second document in response to the extra incidents): it seems like WoSign is trying to say "we quickly fixed every instance brought up to us!" and they aren't understanding that said answer isn't good enough for such a serious breach of trust. The remedy at this point is likely to be at least as severe as forbidding any certificate with an issuedBefore of soon. Honestly, if you're a sysadmin using a WoSign cert, I would recommend immediately looking into obtaining a cert from another CA as a backup.
On Amazon. But I also wasn't looking very hard, because for music I have proper headphones, and during my commute I prefer not to block both ears in any case. Discovering the existence of wireless stereo earbuds, and whatever sense I have of their price range, was really just a side effect of looking for something I could stick in one ear and play podcasts through.
Can you explain to me, because I've never understood fully, how if we give everyone some lump sum amount (which I agree is the desirable vs. means testing etc.), how it won't result in inflation of prices whereby it will be the equivalent of dropping money out of a helicopter, everyone gets equal cut.... prices rise correspondingly, and real purchasing power does not change at all?
Fortunately, the way normal people do stuff is possible to analyze.
Is that a difficult migration? Admittedly our stack is tens of servers, not tens of thousands, but at first glance it looked like I could achieve migration via a simple update to a cloudformation script.
I'll support this with my experience. A PhD means you can do peer-reviewable original research. This means that you can't be too dumb, yes, but mostly that you have the elbow-grease to see it through. Maintaining motivation and stick-to-it-iveness are the most important qualities for doing a PhD.

Disclaimer: dropped out of a PhD program due to lack of interest and elbow-grease.
This video is a year old; Google sheets has notably improved in that time.
My one regret too... I've got their "Live at Wembley Arena" on DVD, and I would give my right * to have been there and experienced that. Queen at the top of their game.
I'm planning a follow-up post with all sorts of real validation just like what you mention here. Can't take too long to build an array of 'probably typos'. I wish had access to logs of failed emails.
Sure, so make that decision.

But do it based on what you want and what you value, and let others do the same.

Wasting time being concerned if someone else thinks what you're doing or reading or playing is important or valuable is a silly waste of time that could be better spent actually living.
eh, password confirmation at least has a valid reason to exist - kinda sucks when someone's first hit on your site is having to go through a recovery, and if they didn't provide an email address, they're screwed.