skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's cool.

I think the games that developed by Zachtronics are mainly puzzle game. I have never played TIS-100 before. It's interesting game, though.

I have played other game from Zachtronics. It's called SpaceChem [1]. SpaceChem is a puzzle game which you play as a reactor engineer. The main task is transform materials into chemical products. At first glance, it's very hard to construct chemistry reactions. You know there is a pattern.

I really would recommend the games from Zachtronics.

[1]: http://www.zachtronics.com/spacechem/
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> The trouble with @Wikileaks obsessively and indiscriminately tweeting anti-Hillary leaks

It also reduces peoples' trust in Wikileaks and the veracity of the information they release.

Wikileaks' reputation as a (mostly) "impartial" actor was one of their greatest assets, and they seem to be throwing that away simply to sate Assange's desire for revenge...
I knew about these languages but I've never understood how they were made. This is a fun, fantastic article! These articles make me excited about technology. Even bad ones.
The problem with a layman like myself trying to read the law is this kind of thing "except as authorized under regulations made pursuant to law" [1]. What does that mean? It makes the law entirely unreadable. Does this actually prohibit me from making a scan of my passport as a backup while travelling? Presumably not, given that doing so is actually the official suggestion of the state department [2]. So how the hell do I know if something is illegal or not?

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/701
[2] https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/go/checklist.h...
It is clear she took money from many people because they hired her to give a speech. This isn't really in debate. The core question is whether the money will influence her policies. Giving a speech doesn't mean you're bribed or influenced by default. The content of the speech is very important, so it's good we are seeing what was said.
All good points. Do we have measured values for metabolic rate per unit volume as a function of age? This does seem plausible -- building a new body should take more stuff than maintaining an old body.

But I wonder if this translates into different adults saying that they have fast or slow metabolism as an explanation for their weight.
WoSign owns Israel-based CA StartCom (from the shady event where WoSign bought Startcom, didn't disclose it, and started issuing invalid certificates through StartCom). Both operate in multiple English language markets.
If the majority of tweets on an entity's Twitter feed is dedicated to attacking Clinton for months on end whilst refraining from attacking the other candidate with a non-zero probability of becoming the next President, it's probably reasonable to assume they're indirectly supporting that other candidate, even if it's only because they consider the other candidate a lesser evil. It's not exactly as if many other sources for commentary and information on the US election that aren't explicitly supporting Trump have struggled to find archives of unfortunate things he's said or others have said about him either.
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I can't imagine that they all are of one mind on which candidate is better for them, assuming such a group exists and meets in secret.
Sort of. Spider silk is made from both a chemical process and physical manipulation by spinnerets. We can make the chemicals but they are not nearly as strong without the spinnerets thus clothing not body armor.
I don't disagree with your assessment, but I do think 'open source project' is way too vague a concept to really draw conclusions from.

In the case of Wordpress, I think a big part of its success is that it is built on the most well-supported technologies on the web: PHP and MySQL.

I'm by no means a great programmer but it was relatively straightforward to migrate a Drupal site with a completely different DB structure to a Wordpress redesign. Both use PHP and MySQL.

In contrast, my built-from-scratch journalling tool that runs on RethinkDB will take a bit more work - all over the place - to work with some other database (probably Postgres, SQLite or MySQL). It's still relatively simple, but less so than the Drupal->Wordpress conversion.

My Horizon app, on the other hand, will basically have to be rewritten if support and development were to stop.
Verizon wants $1B discount after Yahoo privacy concerns
Which all means changes have to be made at a slower rate than the parliamentary cycle; which politicians won't heed.

But then Gove hadn't a clue and seemingly doesn't care either. Each parliament IMO should get chance to make one change - presented to parliament with optional amendment suggested by third parties (unions, parent groups, students). Let them go the Lords to win the right to make a further proposal to parliament.

That should at least slow them down enough to allow teachers to weave something useful out of the crap that they can enhance over a couple of years before the next half-wit comes along and arses it all up.
But that's why browsers are increasingly requiring CAs to implement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency
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Is it?

Mine was worded as a polite request and his was worded as a command.
StackExchange? Btw. same here, I used it before it reached it's first million users, even went to few Quora meetups but I blocked the site on notebook two years ago. I feel it became a place for chronic procrastinators and self-promoters + there's very little unique knowledge... as a content researcher, 99 out of 100 I find better information elsewhere.
>What would you say if a guard let a foreign spy walk into the pentagon? Blame the spy?

Yes, you don't get immunity from espionage if the job was easy.
I don't know; I'm more concerned with the johns hiding behind their hypothetical skirts.
Combined SAT core changes since 2006
Well, that's one way of knowing when uprisings will happen. Deming wrote that if you have a policy of rewarding people for fighting fires, you also need to watch who is setting those fires.
Yes, that's correct. Its criminals statement not view of the news editor.
What I've seen of the Trump soundbites is pretty tame, if people are going to be honest and cut the hypocritical faux outrage. Moreover, it seems like an idiotic angle to play if it was orchestrated by Clinton's camp, given old Billy's escapades over the years.
What are some of your favorite reference materials for a compiler or interpreter writer interested in targeting the CLR?
This is an interesting point but it's a little like saying we don't need to care about painters because we have had color photography for about a century.

And there is in fact a point to be made that non-figurative painting was a response to the increasing realism of photography. But still, Rembrandt can still be enjoyed today, Salgado notwithstanding.
I have been a software professional for almost 30 years. I have worked in shared offices, open plans, cubes, but have never in that time had a private office of my own. Often my immediate managers/leads did not have offices either. The execs always have offices, yet in many cases are rarely in them.
It just depends on the amount of user flags and whether there is a relative lot of comments (when points < comments "flame war" detector is usually triggered).

P.S. I recommend https://news.ycombinator.com/active for the biggest discussions.
Here you go!

http://imgur.com/a/LOBge

The design is a bit crude, but the goal was to get the structure's dimensions right. And it worked!

http://imgur.com/a/rCZfk
> Giving a speech doesn't mean you're ... influenced by default.

No, but taking a large amount of money does. Even if you believe you aren't taking money for a "bribe" and maintain some level of independence in the actual content of your speech, there is a significant unconscious bias. If you want to get that kind of job again, you might not be as critical of the people paying you.

> The core question is whether the money will influence her policies.

Approach the question from the other side. No for-profit business is going to give large sums of money out without some expectation of a return on that investment. Someone is betting that they will be able to get more money having the ear of a politician than their other investment opportunities.
As for C, I have to contradict you. Implicit (numeric) type conversions do actual conversions (like char to int, or int to double; even pathological cases like pointer to what-counts-as-Boolean-in-C). The casts you are talking about must be explicit, and thereby are squarely the programmer's responsibility.

Of course, a language that forces all conversions to be explicit is preferable.
Yeah. I've done some work for other people and businesses in their Facebook accounts but never signed up myself. Recently I tried to sign up just so I could add Facebook Login to one of my apps. Used my real name, verified my email and mobile number, and account was immediately blocked, requiring me to send in a scan of my id. Nope.
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The anti-globalism revolt, for better or worse, has definitely been noticed by great many people here in the UK in the wake of the unfortunate referendum result in June!

Regarding corporate influence in politics, I'm a combination of too cynical, too ill-informed and too jaded to offer you any worthwhile thoughts on the matter, and therefore fear I will be wasting your time! It seems to me that entities who generate immense wealth have and will always wield influence in society and the mechanism by which it is brought into order (i.e. politics).
I think you'll find a lot of false positives, as unfortunately that alert will be sent more than once a week: http://www.killedbypolice.net/
(M/B means Male/Black)
> Indeed, according to Sade, sex can never be too orderly or too public. It is this valence of his thought that seems overwhelmingly applicable to the contemporary office, if not to contemporary social life overall.

An interesting feature of the modern world is that transparency isn't about freedom but about control; we need to see the actions of others at all times not because we are genuinely interested in them or their actions, but because we need to make sure they conform to established models of morality.
Not on Earth certainly. But I'm pretty sure you could build a space elevator down to the Moon with this stuff.
When we moved our dev team to a new area, I chose this style of layout. Each developer has their own small office, which forms an outer perimeter. Each office also has a 4x4 window next to the door to keep the atmosphere open. In the middle is an open kitchen and a standup area, separated by the bathrooms. We have a conference room in the corner. All of this is behind key-access doors, giving the team a sense of sanctuary.

Each office, as well as the standup area and the conference room, have a whiteboard wall.

I would say that the general idea is that developers come together at standups, and typically plan out the day. If two or more developers determine a discussion is needed, they normally schedule right after the standup. Then the developers depart to their offices, and generally put their heads down and work in quiet. Most leave their doors open throughout the day, and close their doors when they have phone calls or small meetings.

The arrangement works well. Adhoc conversations are not discouraged, and occur throughout the day as needed, but the separate offices keep the trivial conversations and disturbances to a minimum.

From a cost perspective, this layout requires considerably more space than an open layout. And separate offices require separate HVAC ducts, and walls and doors are (obviously) additional expenses, too. I'm grateful that our team's contributions were recognized by the company (a non-tech company), such that the expense was considered worth it. it's certainly a cornerstone of my sales pitch for recruiting developers.
I am wondering how this works out for Yahoo given the other things happening with the company like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12658040
Maybe you can start purifying your soul (because clearly there's some sort of puritanical religious thing going on here) by abstaining from the use of electronic devices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltan_mining_and_ethics
Quora has blocked me too. For Tamils there is no last name but the idiots running quora insist that everyone should have a lastname. http://psankar.blogspot.in/2015/01/naming-policy-deactivated...
Oh I fully agree. For Example, I can still remember having an argument with someone who just couldn't understand that it wasn't some banking conspiracy that you paid mostly interest at the beginning of a loan. I also tutored for an economics class and the lack of understanding of really basic mathematical concepts was frightening.
I think I dislike shared offices most of all. You hear every fart and belch from the other person, you can't ignore their annoying fidgity habits like rocking in their chair, tapping their foot constantly, etc. I'd rather do open plan than that, especially if it's one where desks are not assigned and you can easily change where you sit.
Dr Meister: Using Lisp, LLVM, and C++ for molecular programming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X69_42Mj-g
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I suppose the value of Rails could be the 1) the ease building a backend and API that React can then consume, and 2) delivering the initial payload and taking care (to an extent) of the various assets that are needed for this.

I've built React apps with Express as a backend, but mostly because I enjoyed doing everything myself (routing, authentication, db). For anything serious and CRUD-like, there's a decent change that I'd still pick Rails for the backend as it significantly decreases development time to create something solid.

That's not to say there aren't any alternatives. I could also pick, say, Django (Python) or Symphony (PHP). But the point is that they all bring stuff to the table that React doesn't.
Uprisings are nothing but a reaction to an unhealthy situation. Terrorism boils down to that same problem.

Yet, we never seem to be too interested in understanding and resolving the issues we have created which led to these reactions.
I was pretty sure that char to int/int to char in addition was implicit...
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Silicon Valley started out being about hardware with HP, Intel, etc.
Ask HN: How to become better at problem solving?
Hello Hacker News,

Could you suggest methods, ways or books that can improve my problem solving skills?
Szl, a Tcl-inspired embeddable language
Can you point to any evidence? AFAIK, low-carb diets mainly work by increasing satiety (i.e. indirectly limiting calories consumed).
Good answer. Of course, supplementing static typing after the fact only goes to show that it should have been built into the language to begin with.
Yes and where only the elite get the upvotes even if they write a factually incorrect and laughable answer. Too much for being a "community"
> Hell, if people understood those issues, they might even have something to say about Gerrymandering and the electoral college!

It's not obvious whether this is good or bad (too many cooks spoil the broth).
While I was in grad school, it was possible for married students to purchase two sets of football tickets. Concerned about scalping, the university one year decided to require a marriage license at the ticket window. It was chaos.
That reads like a close cousin of brainfuck...
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If Hillary had gotten knocked off in the primaries, there could be someone that is actually appealing running against him, rather than someone with near record unfavorability ratings. All the projections I've seen showed Bernie or even other darkhorse candidates like Biden polling much better in a head-to-head matchup against Trump.
They are trying to help you get a correct intuition. If you have never approached things this way, there are almost certainly very large holes in your understanding. Not to say that everyone needs to be formal all the time, but you need to sometimes.
Pretty much any development metric that drives some kind of reward will be gamed (maybe even unconsciously) by the developers. It's just basic psychology.
this is nice! playing with robots :)
AI fail.
https://keegan.regaind.io/p/ij0_ZDpFR92ryOwW5O_xGA
Yes, but the char still has to be extended to int. Or the int truncated to char. Except on systems where they happen to be the same size.

EDIT: Supplement:
The notion of “type” in C is best translated as “memory layout plan”. Languages of the ML family (including Haskell), e.g., have a notion of “type” closer to mathematical concepts.
http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/
Thanks for the response. I'll keep an eye on your progress, dig deeper into what you already do, and have a play with your tools.
It will be a similar enlightenment experience with Haskell?
Which do you think guarantees an intelligence agency more funding?

My feeling is that there is some conflict of interest here when it comes to fixing societies' woes and people who manufacture tear gas and drones. A lot of money to be made in keeping the status quo, what do you get from fixing the world?
One more reason for the world to hate JavaScript ? :(
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Unikernels: Rise of the Library Hypervisor
It's pretty clear to me that Trump is the ideal Putin-like character. He just took out an entire political party like it was nothing. When he destroyed Jeb Bush with almost no effort, I was convinced that he would win the presidency, easily. My liberal friends thought I was crazy. But, at this point, there's nothing that can be done but enjoy the ride.

The US is an economic and military superpower that has been ripe for the taking for decades. It has a weak, fractured, and anemic culture and political environment. And, while internally its citizens bicker about the edge cases of wedge issues, it has been easy to inject Trojan horses and more political instability.
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But... they don't have to lower the price back to what it was?

So... how is this anything more than the government getting a taste of the spoils fleeced from gouging people who need medical care?

I fail to see what good this does, seems to just incentivize the company to make back another $465M by raising the price again soon as the media hype is over.
Probably not a month before the election, there isn't dogmatic devotion, I'm not an American (I would be terribly concerned if I was).
But not now, it's too late to expand her platform to earn her votes, especially considering that if we face it everything that any politician will promise a month before the election is bollox, even Bernie would resort at the final mile to promising the world to win as anything else is irresponsible especially in this election.
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This reminded me of great advice I heard from Naval Ravikant regarding reading. Previously, when he got bored reading a book, he wouldn't start a new one until he finished the current one. The result was that he would stall out and stop reading books. Now he gives himself permission to stop reading a book at any time and start a new one. Result -- way more books read.
Refusal to recognize the rise of independent contractors is hurting the economy
Looking at the stories link for stories on your user profile page, I only saw one javascript project as a 'Show HN' from several months ago. The link to it is dead. If you're posting under a different account, it probably doing so probably doesn't add any value.

Good luck.
There are a few differences: TIS explicitly aims away from bit-twiddling, and in fact has no real bits to speak of (the integer range is -99 to 99, IIRC, but it's definitely something along those lines.
Yeah, and guess who are the people behind these falling corporations and these new startups? Yes it is them. The bankers. Wall Street. The Rothschilds. TPTB. Call them as you like, but they money are in the hands of few and without money you cannot build a startup.
They are, but I think non-math people will look at just about all of them and think "I have no idea where to start."

Worse, I think they don't teach generalisable skills.

That's probably the core problem with all school-level math and science teaching. You learn a vocabulary of basic symbols and some rules for manipulating them, but you don't learn math skills - in the sense of understanding the real world well enough to make the leap from symbols and abstractions to useful life skills.

The point of math teaching shouldn't be to know how to solve problems like these, but to learn how/when you can use math to answer your own questions for yourself.

There's also a deeper level where you can teach the process of abstraction as an end in itself. I suspect that may be too far for most people - although I haven't completely convinced myself that's true yet.
What an incredibly myopic view. Trump plays conflict every bit, if not more, than Clinton; the one area Trump is less conflict-focused is Russia, whose semi-totalitarian leader Trump admires and would like to emulate.

[1][2] Trump is the only candidate who has openly floated the idea of using nuclear weapons.
[3] Trump is ready to start a political pissing war with Mexico over a wall.
[4][5] Trump wants to ban all Muslim travel to the US, and profile all US Muslims.
[6] Trump, the "Law and Order" candidate, would prefer to convict minority men based on police testimony alone, never mind the courts
[7] Trump is more militaristic, by his own admission, then George W. Bush
[8] Trump called for direct intervention in Libya just like other leaders
[9] Trump basically wants to steal oil from Iraq using our troops as the muscle
[10] Trump is doing more sabre-rattling with China than Clinton, by a mile
[11] Trump wants China to invade North Korea, or just have its leader assassinated

Trump, the anti-conflict vote? He makes everyone an enemy, including and especially our own citizens. His followers like him because he's a strongman, a bully. But sure, he's the anti-conflict vote because he admires Putin. Never mind the fallout for everyone else, especially poor, non-white citizens.

I suppose if you think an actual war is likely or possible with Russia then your fears are founded. That seems more than outlandish to me, and far from justification for putting a racist, misogynist bully in charge or the country and nominating Supreme Court justices.

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1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCHQPCXbt1w
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVTAaJ1fzfc
3. Do you need a citation for this?
4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07...
5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06...
6. http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-s...
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PakHtuTrvV8&feature=youtu.be...
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnZFQiDR4hQ
9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZxD_RFvXpA&feature=youtu.be...
10. Watch the debates
11. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/27...
Claiming everything is morally ambiguous and thus we need the CIA, which has real examples of unambiguous harm, seems more like sticking one's head in the sand to me.
It became much more interesting once I realized the graphics were clickable 'slide shows'.
Yeah, I actually dug two layers further in, and tried to see if there was any info on the conf site itself (there isn't) on the talk / system. Overally, pretty content free.

Oh well.

Jaron Lanier coined the term. He's not entirely dismissable, but also not exactly tightly tuned to the heartbeat of the intel community AFAIU.
I plan on organising my future business by weight. With daily weigh-ins.