skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
of course you don't. romney's probably the single most experienced, best qualified candidate for president the nation's ever seen. that you believe a woman who's ridden the coattails of her husband to office is somehow more "experienced" is telling.
There should be a 1-year plus ban on principals as well.
Dear Hacker Newsers,

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We have read many classics--Aurelius, Shakespeare, Emerson, Carlyle, Macaulay, etc.--and love to highlight our favorite parts; however, it's always been difficult to go back and review our highlights because they've been strewn across various print and Kindle versions. Now, with Jupiter, we love having all of highlights in one place, we love being able to search them easily.

We also make it possible to highlight in the browser. And when you create a highlight, you can get a magic link to it to share with your friends. Here is an example from a P.T. Barnum book, which was posted on HN at one point:

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Of, if you are in a political debate, why not throw down a link to the Bill of Rights?

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

https://jupiter.ai/books/1X/?hl=z4Y

Clearly, a full book is a unwieldy in a desktop browser; however, we handle searching, place-saving, jumping to highlights, and more well in the app.

It is our hope, perhaps naive, that if we make the classics much more accessible, many more people will read them, or at least parts of them.

We would love to hear any feedback y'all have!
I agree with you. I loved the look of the Dreamcast: clean, modern, friendly.

But much of the gaming public in the USA wants dark, aggressive-looking devices.

Another unfortunate strike against Dreamcast? The "supports Windows CE" thing. There were only like two Windows CE games on Dreamcast. But a lot of people thought that the Dreamcast "ran on Windows" -- at a time when everybody was dealing with Windows 98 and Windows ME computers that uh, well, didn't exactly thrill anybody.
Thanks for sharing your perspective, I'll probably come back some day and I will try to think of what you wrote here then :)

Regarding the "murder concern" it was more like being seriously disturbed by it.

The downtown area seemed safe enough for me to stroll around also during night time but waking up to a news reporter somewhat happily announcing that the doctors saved the baby whose pregnant mother just became victim to a drive-by shooting in south Chicago the evening before is just.. I don't know, fucked-up shit like that doesn't happen (often? ever?) where I'm coming from. All in all there where 5 dead and 43 injured over that weekend alone. So that clearly played a role in my remarks regarding Chicago and my feelings towards staying there.
> In hindsight, perhaps it's more accurate to look at Sega as a company that had one good breakthrough with the Genesis that they could never replicate, rather than a once great company who failed. It was a long series of bad decisions after that, not just a single failure.

From a startup frame of mind, I have to wonder if this is the case of a company that did not understand why they succeeded, thus making it very hard to replicate the success.
I'd love to see the SO community's answers to "How do you write a game?".
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No. The context of the post is the one I replied to, which is often the case in a forum with threads, if that helps you out.
Well fortunately, you don't have to live in them! If you don't like micro-apartments, why not just let other people live in them, and allow developers to build them>
Depends on your definition of "deserve". With domain names, the system is pretty clearly first-come, first-served. If Park.io didn't get domain name X, then the next fastest person would get it, and so forth. Many other systems are similar: renting apartments, claiming land, patents, trademarks, etc.

Obviously, first-come, first-served doesn't ensure that a resource goes to the people who would use it "best". But what system does?

Park.io gives the average person an actual chance to win the race for a .io domain -- a chance they otherwise probably wouldn't have -- so I'd rather live in a world with Park.io than without it.
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3379

http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=vie...
Many people see it as the start of the 6th gen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_generation_of_video_ga...
Shoot, I just renewed two of my domains with the free StartCom certs on Friday... Even though I'll likely have minimal-to-no impact, I'm still very disappointed with this.
I'm a little surprised that the Googles and Apples of the valley aren't trying to build company housing on their campuses.

It's not without its own problems, as the history of "company towns" shows, but something has got to give.
The AUS minimum wage is higher, but not the per-capita mean. Stuff is cheaper in the US primarily because the market is larger, so fixed costs can be spread over more units sold. And larger markets also mean more competitition, which means companies can't as easily price discriminate. Government regulation, and the relative isolation of Australia probably contribute as well.
> First they tried incremental updates to the Genesis with the CD and 32X and failed to bring anything worthwhile. Then they had the disaster of the Saturn, which was so complex that few developers were able to release any appealing games.

It's worse than that. Each of Sega's divisions didn't know or care what the others were doing. The 32X was developed behind the backs of the Saturn developers. There was no grand plan here to first release an incremental update to the Genesis and then follow up with a new console. Sega's divisions were flat-out competing with each other to follow up on the Genesis.

> Sega themselves didn't even manage to release a flagship Sonic game.

More terrible decision making here: STI did significant work on a Sonic game for the Saturn, Sonic X-Treme, but the CEO was absolutely insistent on launching a Sonic game before Christmas. When Sonic X-Treme ran into delays and wouldn't make the Christmas launch window, the CEO cancelled it and replaced it with a port of Sonic 3D Blast, a Genesis game that wasn't particularly well-received the first time around.

Oh, and half of the reason for the delays was because STI's staff were fighting among themselves (Yuji Naka threatening to quit if they used an engine he wrote for another game took the cake: the team had to throw out two weeks of work because of that), and the other half of the reason was that the the lead developer and designer were both deathly ill (not exaggerating with the "deathly": one of them was actually told by his doctor that he had six months to live, though he wound up pulling a miracle and making it through).
I'm fairly ignorant of the housing market in general, but from what I understand the problem in SF has more than one layer: the local government won't allow new housing to be built, the NIMBY crowd wants a one-story skyline across the entire bay, etc.

what is to be done to introduce new supply? the whole thing seems like a hell of a headache, I feel for folks trying to live in that area.
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I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Is it not relevant that there is a simple algorithm to enumerate the primes, or, even more so, determine whether a given value is prime?
Mostly #5, with some of #4. We have known bad certs in the wild (including for Google) so the "security" PKI offers us is just theater. I think the theater should end, which might actually get people off their asses to fix the real problem and stop outsourcing it to shady rent-seeking companies.
why is that clear? the post to which you responded notes that piracy didn't hurt PS2. why should it hurt dreamcast?

but more importantly, suppose it did hurt dreamcast. wmil already said that. if you're convinced that this is the correct position, why not point to interviews or news articles of the time to prove your point, instead of just endorsing someone (as if that proves anything)?
Except that the fisherman weren't the ones lobbying for regulations that allow/encourage the finance industry to do that.
SVG is amazing, my main concern about it. it is because it creates a huge burden to browser developers. The spec is huge [1]. And some parts are outdated[2].

[1] https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/tree/master/Source/WebCore/...
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/SVG_animati...
> This assumes it's not a zero sum market

Economics in general is not a zero sum market. People trade because they see benefits to doing so. I buy something because the value I derive is more than the cost -- that's why economies and markets create value. We call that value 'surplus' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_surplus)

> just because it's more profitable does not mean it's a net economic gain

In the specific example you made, yes, the producer is just capturing more of the surplus, more hasn't been created. In general, price discrimination shifts surplus from consumers to producers.

However, it also shifts surplus from richer buyers to poorer ones. So coupons are a benefit to the poor, and airline price discrimination benefits you if you buy 3rd class tickets. Unless you are very rich, price discrimination is generally a monetary benefit to you.

Note that 3rd-degree price discrimination can increase or decrease total welfare depending on the specifics:

http://www.econ.ucla.edu/hopen/econ171/monopoly2.ppt (see slide 4)
Is this a joke? You are completely dismissing the accomplishments of a senator and a secretary of state because she is a woman?

Lots of governors run for president. Very few senator/sec of state/first ladies do.

Edit: Mitt Romney wasn't even a two term Governor. Gary Johnson is objectively a better qualified candidate
Aside from the Net Yaroze and a couple of other special editions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze

http://www.consolecolors.com/sony.html
I find it so strange that experts center their goals around how to fit as many people as possible into these cities, rather than figuring out how to scale what makes places like the Bay Area desirable out to other regions...
Do you mind saying where?

I live in North Oakland and commute by bus every day to downtown SF. There are 24 transbay bus lines, 4 Bart Lines, and a ferry into san francisco from various parts of the east bay every day. Most of them (all of them?) with multiple departures per hour. Hell, now Chariot has routes into the east bay as well if you want cheap private transport.

I admit I have no idea what the bus system is on the peninsula, but San Francisco is littered with transportation options. They aren't always perfect, but if you work in SF you'll pay $30 a day for parking which makes commuting by car the worst possible option.
See also "A BeagleBone on a Chip" for discussion about the Octavo Systems OSD3358 system-in-package used on this board: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11697719
Lots of zoning problems over there. They'd probably do anything they could (e.g., finance a builder) to get stuff constructed out there.
Yes, the problem is an entirely artificial, political lack of supply.

I mean, at a certain point, you get so dense that only building way, way up (skyscrapers) works to add new housing, and those are expensive. But SF is a long ways from there.
You're not even on Page 1 of Google for the search "Nice Digitals". Why should someone hire you for SEO?
Sweet! The Teensy might be the most accessible ARM dev board right now, so this is great news for embedded rust.

Ever since Rust was announced, I've been eagerly awaiting it's practicability as a replacement for C/C++. The only place you really have to use either of those these days is embedded systems, so this is kind of the final step towards getting modern languages in every subfield of software development.
I don't see anything for WebRequest in the referenced repository, but thanks for responding. I'm more hopeful than I've been since we found out .NET Core was async/await only.

Migrating to async/await is very close to a complete rewrite for our codebase. We're not interested in it because it's such a big undertaking, and if we're forced to we might as well consider options other than .NET. My preference would of course be to leave things that work as-is and get on with the more important aspects of running our business.
I think the real tl:dr of this article is: making affordable living spaces is easy if the laws and NIMBYs allow it. But they don't. So it's not.
> Newcomers are always confused by the distinction, this doesn't help at all to put them in the same big bag. This classification is not wrong, but mostly useless when you see how the different "dialects" evolved (they are grown-up languages, nowadays).

Sadly, language is determined by usage, which only incidentally correlates to usefulness. And critically, there's a feedback loop here: a word is only useful as it's used, because otherwise people don't know what it means, and you've failed to communicate your intent. "Lisp" might hypothetically be more useful if it meant "Common Lisp", but it's not useful for meaning "Common Lisp" (at least not on Hacker News) because when you say "Lisp" people assume you're talking about all the languages with the parentheses, and you've failed to communicate.

> But Rust and Go are constantly compared to C. We always talk about C-like languages. Maybe I should have said "Algol" instead, but there is a family of languages rooted at "C", and we don't call it the C family.

Right, the terminology commonly used for that is "C-family languages", not "C".

> Go is "a compiled, statically typed language in the tradition of Algol and C".

Note how they don't say "Go is a C".

> Likewise, Scheme is semantically very different from Common Lisp. And Racket is not considered as a Scheme, even though it is related to it. You can't copy-paste any Typed-Racket expression and run it with ChezScheme.

Yes, but in a context not centered around Common Lisp, people use "Lisp" to refer to all these languages. You can argue whether that's good or bad, but you're not able to change it.

> Take Clojure for example: the wikipedia page says that it is inspired by C++, C#, Common Lisp, Erlang, Haskell, Mathematica, ML, Prolog, Scheme, Java, Racket and Ruby. There are plenty of influences that goes into a language, why not talk about the other ones? parentheses?

Parentheses, macros, some functional programming constructs.

Look, I'm not saying the terminology is ideal. I'm saying that, in this context, "Lisp" doesn't mean what you and I want it to mean, and trying to change that will a) fail to communicate and b) fail to change the meaning of the word in this context.
Great stuff, happy to see this, especially the part that concerns the setup of the cluster, but still too much in early stages. Currently I'm learning a lot on how to get started on AWS and it is still a bit too painful... after using GKE you just don't want to deal with the manual setup.
I agree...if you can build enough of these. I can't remember off hand, but I think that you need to build something like 40,000 more units to even start making a dent. Call me skeptical that you can build 40k of these.
> "Job destruction caused by technology is not a futuristic concern. It is something we have been living with for two generations"

If American thought leaders such as Larry Summers think that technology destroys jobs and that it's a relatively recent phenomenon, then America is truly screwed.
Sony still have offices there after the merger of their and Ericsson's mobile handset divisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Mobile
I like this, although one thing that I've recently learned is that Silicon Valley has a number of large trailer parks, and you can often purchase a home in one of them for about $70-90K. Many of the trailers are actually quite retro cool. I believe Tony Hsieh still lives in a trailer, in Vegas.

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/191-E-El-Camino-Real-SPC-2...

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2150-Almaden-Rd-SPC-125-Sa...
Stackoverflow is a waste dump of crap questions that need to be put on old (and permanently deleted).

This is not the case with some other SE sites, which run a "tigher ship". For instance, the moderation review queues on the Electronics SE site are kept small; everything gets processed.

The moderation queue on SO is huge. Currently, 8.8K questions with close votes need review. Hundreds of low-quality posts. In Electronics SE: 6 close votes need review at the moment, 3 First Posts and 1 re-open. That's it.

I clicked on Review in SO just now to start reviewing close votes. The very first question that comes up is from 6 years ago.
The person who advised developers to turn on the television in order to distract them all day obviously isn't a developer.
It's usually not fair to judge a place from a tourist perspective - regularly drinking with the locals might be a better way to learn about them ;) Next time I'll go to a local bar in order to properly get into the "Illinois Blues" Skip James style.
It's possible to do both. It's a lot easier to figure out how to allow people to live in cities though, because the technology has existed for 100's of years. Figuring out how to "replicate Silicon Valley" is something everyone would love to do, but very few places have come close.
I ran into some of the folks behind this at RustConf; they're doing some really interesting work. They're running Rust on bare-metal with a minimalist embedded OS, and providing easy ways to get access to twiddle hardware, without having a dozen intermediate layers between your code and that hardware.
It's obviously sarcasm.
There can be zero quota cap and trade, where everyone starts from zero and all the emissions rights are auctioned. (I'm not an economist or lawyer so might misuse the exact terms, but I hope you get the point.)
depending on who you send an email to and the contents of the email, it could cost you your life...
I'm unsure about the grammar. All I know from my own experience living in the bay for 10 years, is that if your home and workplace are within walking distance of BART, public transit is an viable option. Else, unless you're in the city, cars are the only way to get about.

Also, living is getting denser due to obvious reasons, while the roads aren't getting wider - and I'm not even talking about the highways.
Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930) [pdf]
I've got a lot of side projects like this one. The programming I do at work has a solid purpose. It's relaxing to work on something that isn't strictly necessary, as long as it satisfies my curiosity.

I like reading through disassemblies of DOS games and figuring out how things work. It's fun recognizing C programming patterns in the assembly. There's something a little charming about looking up what writing to some VGA control register is supposed to do...and I haven't found anyone else who actually thought any of that sounded like fun.

Someday, I'll put together a series of blog posts about it, and maybe I'll have some code that I actually want to show off, but right now I'm just having fun.
You're 100% right - I didn't know if the actual site was up yet.
The game development industry. Low pay, high pressure, trying to achieve better graphics and gameplay and whatnot all the time. Ratings and reviews as Michelin awards.
in Singapore they tax cars such that few want to use them. Then they add excellent public transit. If I could have a 30 minute public transit to my key daily destinations I think I'd give up on owning a car. Maybe just renting one quarterly for vacation trips.
And for all those highlighting the short comings of other areas of India compared to its space program, do you recall what other aspects of life in the US were like at the initiation and heights of its space program?

Just as in the US, benefits of India's space efforts will soon begin to show up in the life of the average Joe/Jane, if it hasn't already.
Decades ago I played around with neural nets but was frustrated because I either had to preprocess and normalize my inputs to the point where I didn't need a network anymore or I had to train a large network with so much data that it was not practical.

Having a cookbook approach with a catchy name and orders of magnitude more processing power have revived neural nets and now they are finally doing something useful.

Now everyone is jumping on the bandwagon so the field is progressing very quickly. Just because it's hyped doesn't mean it's not worth giving it a second look (although I'm still on the sidelines myself.)
The article has a picture of a "typical" san francisco street that doesn't represent most of the city. Maybe weighted by population the photo from chinatown is typical, but weighted by land use this photo is more typical:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7432808,-122.4896485,3a,75y,...
I wouldn't be so sure. The reverse migration of blacks may be a harbinger. I get why young, single programmers still think it's worth it to pursue a life in San Francisco, but the pressure on regular families has to break at some point.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/02/census-...
Is there actually an open source implementation of this though?

I've looked, but never found one, though that was quite some time ago. Perhaps things have changed.

This approach is beyond the ability of most to implement for themselves if they don't have support from their webserver for it.
Making a Case for React Native (with case studies)
Eye Health (not unlike other areas of health) has a lot of FUD around it.

A lot of the recent "awareness" of CVS is based off people who want to sell you blue light blocking glasses.

This infographic is one of my favorite examples: http://vspblog.com/blue-light-infographic/

There's lots of numbers and statistics there, but none of it is actually scientific. The closest you get is that "VSP Optometrists report a 50% increase in digital eye strain and the effects of blue light exposure."

But I can promise you as someone on the receiving end of VSP's marketing to eye care professionals, that they're marketing the bejeezus out of their blue light blocking technology to their eye care professionals.

So, if you're an optometrist and you have a financial incentive to sell blue-light blocking coatings, and you're getting tons of marketing about the epidemic of digital eye strain in your inbox and mailbox and the publications you read, of course you're going to notice an increase of its incidents in your patients.

If you're experiencing discomfort from using your computer for hours every day, you should absolutely do things to alleviate that discomfort. But the thing that all this marketing and FUD leaves out, is that there's no evidence that blue light exposure (from digital devices) or CVS or digital eye strain or whatever they'll be calling it in a week causes any long-term damage to your eyes.

From the American Academy of Ophthalmology[1]: "Staring at your computer screen, smartphone or other digital devices for long periods won’t cause permanent eye damage, but your eyes may feel dry and tired."

[1]: http://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/computer-usage
Nope. It's true of every Fortune 1000 who are poor at IT and in the hands of vendors. It's not true where I work, and I am pretty sure it's not true at Microsoft, Google, Facebook...