skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I'd try to reason with you, but it seems we're not in the same world anyway.

> Claiming that I'm too unreasonable to debate with won't win you any points.

It did with me... Seriously, I think you misconstrued this statement as a personal attack, whereas IMHO its simply used to highlight the flaw in your logic: If we have a complex system where A implies B and B implies C and C implies D and so on which possibly goes back to A in subtle ways, but you're just saying "A implies B, B implies no A, hence this won't work, QED" you are assuming a very simplistic view of reality.

You cannot just stop at one step and draw a definite conclusion from that. As pointed out, the wage increase can be rolled over to a price increase for instance, instead of now having to fire everyone. I'm not saying that no loss of labor could occur, but definitely it's only one of many possibilities and the economy is a highly complex system with all kind of direct and indirect effects that are at play here.

All that said, I would actually argue for basic income than a minimum wage as it will completely eliminate the possibility of the labor loss resulting in a wage loss, but in absence of this, minimum wage seems still better than having an increasing amount of working poor.
ugg, how did this make it onto the front page of HN. It's been floating around the internet for a few days.

I worked at Irrational Games / 2K Australia from Freedom Force right up until shipping Bioshock 2. I was a team lead, producer, and even ran the Australian office for about year before I left to make Neptune's Pride.

To me there is nothing really controversial in this article. Running big studios full of people with big personalities is really hard. People didn't get along. Things fell apart.
Got it, thanks! FWIW my motivations are: 1) I work with many CTOs, so I have a good perspective across a lot of companies. 2) I'm always looking to learn more about what sorts of company-agnostic issues CTOs struggle with. If you ever change your mind, I'd love to join the group.
yeah I see it like a band. The best bands in the world usually have 5. But Green Day had 3. Interesting note: after Green Day was super successful they added 2 more "sub" members.
Evolution predicted many discoveries in the fossil record. Even though they happened in the past, the discovery came after the theory. Evolution has predicted innumerable other discoveries, too, like the tree of hemoglobin molecules matches the tree formed by morphological comparisons.

To my knowledge creationism has never made a prediction, nor has any new discovery confirmed anything about it.
Before the flood, free to watch
Unfair? Who misinterpreted it? What went viral wasn't a translation, it was the Chinese original. I'm having trouble understanding your point, this may be why you are being downvoted.
> The question in my mind is related, but slightly different: what percentage of Apples revenues and profits came from these segments? Were there other markets out there that perhaps Apple wasn't dominant in but still contributed significantly to Apple's overall revenues? That said, I wouldn't be surprised if these two segments were the majority.

Unfortunately Apple's financial reports don't break things down in detail necessary to answer your question, but because of the power hindsight, we know that Steve gave this keynote when Apple was months away from folding (http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/19/steve-jobs-apple-almost-...).

If Apple had other significant sources of revenue, he likely would have touted them as prominently as he did educators and creative professionals. Since he didn't, we can conclude with some level confidence that these were the only sources of ongoing significant revenue.
Yeah, the worst part is that people aggregate these into statistics to try to "prove" which one is the biggest liar.

The articles themselves are often good, but in aggregate they reflect a lot of bias.
From the comments:

"...Now to correct one thing, what keeps 2k and Take 2 afloat is Rockstar Games. They produce multimillion dollar games that go on to produce over 700 million dollars from their online mode alone. Their games are the top sellers in their years and even decades. Firaxis Games as of now is a failure of a studio. Years back yes they did develop the wildly successful Civilization 5 which went on to sell over 9 million units and Xcom Enemy Unknown that went on to sell over 3.4 million units. [1] Then they developed Beyond Earth which tanked at 1.4 million and Xcom 2 at .8 million, a game so bad by even it’s supporters admission it needs mods to be playable. Civlization VI is off to a rough start and will probably match Beyond Earth. It hasn’t even broken its first million yet.

Given how poorly they are doing, my money on the next studio closure is going to be them if they are not overhauled instead. I have no clue how their capacity to develop has declined so fiercely but sadly it has.
On to your question as to how a game can sell 1.7 million units and not be profitable. I’m going to break this down for you, on console sales the publisher only gets on average $27 for every $60 sold. Digital is more profitable at 70% of total sales. For that 1.7 it turned out $45.9 million, give or take a few million. After development and marketing the fact it sold significantly less than Borderlands 2 is why it is considered a failure. You sold 14% of what Borderlands 2 did.

Worse and I am going to give you the consumers perspective on this, the game is god awful. For starters it story is loaded with virtue signaling, but that’s only a minor annoyance. What truly cans it is the fact it is either the Pre Sequel is canon or 2 and the books are canon. That’s how atrociously written the presequel was. Even the voice actor of Handsome jack sounded miserable spewing out those out of character lines. The game was received so poorly that within months it was being bundled with Borderlands 2 to desperately sell units.

While I understand that development on The bureau wasn’t your fault it also was atrocious. I must say I loved their original version of the game that was first shown off. The final red flag for the games low quality should have been the YOLO trailer, but sadly I still purchased it, much to my regret.

Autralias other projects aren’t exactly well recieved. At best they are controversial, Bioshock 2 is hated by half the community at least, CodShock was an embarassment that alienated the entire original audience for the game and came with a story only the greatest of idiots thought was intelligent that ultimately damage the continuity of any future Bioshock games going forward in the manner of public perception. It sold well on the hype of Bioshock in the Sky, instead it was Call of Duty with color.
I understand that people put a lot of passion and work into those games, but that doesn’t make them by default good or profitable.

Thanks for giving us insights into what transpired though. Even if they are through tinted lenses it is always great to see insights into what transpires behind closed doors inside the industry."
Parsing Heuristic and Forward Search in First-Graders’ Game-Play Behavior [pdf]
No if there was I'd still be using it.
I just saw it tonight on Twitter and thought it was interesting. I know nothing in it is terribly unique compared to what other studios have gone through, but I still thought it painted an interesting picture of the inside of the industry and what happens to the individual parts that make up the mega-studios we're all used to.

This person is obviously unhappy, but I'm not suggesting there is a major scandal here.
Gosh, frankly speaking, I haven't had to do any of that stuff (except for the Bluetooth headset, I never had one of those, no idea how it works) in 7 years.

In 2009 I installed Mandriva on a laptop--everything just worked. In 2011, I jumped ship to Mageia, the community-driven offshoot of Mandriva. Everything still just worked. Fast forward several laptops later, including mine and friends' and relations' laptops, and it all just works. Compiling a kernel? Wouldn't know how anymore. Fiddling with X11? No idea. I don't even have problems with Pulseaudio.

Compare that to dual booting this one with Windows 10. For several months, Windows 10 had a bug where it wouldn't save the touchpad settings. Every time, I'd have to disable tap-to-click. UGH. They finally fixed it, but what a pain.

(And when I had an OS X machine, received as part of payment for a job... between the beach ball and the not-infrequent crashes, where the screen dims and displays that fatal error message, it was a pain to get any work done.)
I've seen the opposite in recent respectable economics textbooks.

In any case, a thought experiment: the 99% should get a $99/hour minimum, don't you think?
If that's the case, I doubt they'll remember they said anything about it at all, much less feel pretty dumb about it. It's just human nature.

It's too early to tell. While I trust the Touch Bar will be good (or at least good enough) for most people, it's likely there will be some people who aren't happy with it.
So almost 5% of global production of Helium? Add to that the fact that helium tends to leak at a much higher rate than any gas, and that sounds prohibitively expensive.

Especially since the current price of Helium is artificially low, and it's not a renewable resource at current extraction rates, so the price is not going to remain so low in the future.
Scored well yes, so did tribe vengeance (was 80-85%) and SWAT 4 doesn't mean they were a success.

P.S.

The link is for the original game, FF vs the 3rd Reich was released in 2005.
I tried writing one in pure Elisp some time ago, but it was too slow. Maybe I'll give it another shot in C this time, on top of the new dynamic module support.

The built-in terminal emulator is atrocious, both code-quality and feature-wise.
The author made a mistake by interchangeably using "sea ice" and "ice sheet ice".

However, your correction itself isn't strictly correct. Melting sea ic can change sea levels by changing the density of the water in the ocean. Also, by melting it changes the amount of sunlight that is reflected. The increase in sunlight reaching the oceans will cause thermal expansion of the water.
It's like how something breaks after changing the wallpaper? ;) Cherry blacks swear by o rings because of the no-bump typing.
Why is it so hard to run a tech company in Australia? Some days it feels like I either need to start my own company to find out or just leave this country to find job with a career.
Yes, here is my system right now.

http://imgur.com/a/Zj2wK
I Think You're Fat (2007)
Oh yes the "chumbox" https://theawl.com/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum-de0b...
But what's the battery life like on the Dell?

Edit: Googled for "Dell XPS 15 9550 battery life". Results do not look good.

Seems clear the 16GB limit is an Intel limitation. In order to achieve 32GB (like in the Dell XPS 15) they had to use DDR4, which is not as energy efficient as LPDDR3. Skylake only supports LPDDR3 at a max of 16GB. Kaby Lake only supports LPDDR4 in their ultra-low power chips. Comparable products (Surface Book, Dell XPS 13) also max out at 16GB.

In order to get 32GB of ram in the ultrabook category we're going to have to wait until Intel adds LPDDR4 support to their mobile-class processors (Cannonlake? Icelake?).
I found Focus did a poor job. I switched to Adguard[1] and have found it quite a bit better.

[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy-prot...
http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/28/apple-out-of-display-bus...
Looks like your friend is serving a herokuapp.com certificate for his meetspaceapp.com domain. Should really get that fixed.
Exactly. Those people pushed Altavista early on, then Google. They got people off IE and into Firefox, then Chrome. It'd be risky to ignore them.
Mine is Heraclitus, "the weeping philosopher". All we have of his writings are fragments, my favorite being:

He who hears not me but the Logos will say: All is one.

I have hope that with new archaeological discoveries, and with new technology being used to recover old, formerly unreadable documents like burnt paper which can now be read, that there will be more writings of the Pre-Socratics available for us to read in the future.
In terms of their mission statement which is convince people that electric cars can be 'cool', practical and inexpensive he has succeeded much more than you are giving him and the people at Tesla credit for.
The logo is a nontrivial part of why I don't buy Razer gear. I would feel dumb bringing that into a client's office.
The Winkel Board: Powerful Arduino Compatible Development and Prototyping Board
Hello Everyone
I am Rishi Hegde and i have teamed up with a buddy of mine and have built a unique Open Source Hardware development platform for makers and hardware hackers who can build stuffs quickly without worrying about the complexities that comes around with starting one. We named it the Winkel Board.
I have written a small intro post on Arduino Forum where you can read everything about this arduino compatible board here

https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=429389.0

The purpose of this post is to get feedback about this board and to make improvements before our crowdfunding campaign launch, so that the we can fine tune the board to be more impactful.

Let me know what you guys think :)

We will be starting a crowdfunding campaign soon on CrowdSupply https://www.crowdsupply.com/mintbox-technologies/the-winkel-board where you can sign up for early access. Even if you do not wish to support us, as the campaign progresses we will be uploading all the blue prints and sketches on GitHub for public access :)

Details the Winkel Board: txti.es/winkel
Spotify does not care and will not fix this unless there is a major outcry. They've been ignoring user complaints since "1.0" dropped quite a while ago. They don't even post changelogs anymore. Features are added one day and disappear the next. It took months for them to reintroduce CTRL-F. They don't care.

If another platform had the cross-device operability and catalog, I'd switch immediately.
If I build 2 cars last year and sell 3 this year then I bet you'd be really impressed huh?
> Apple doesn't seem to know or care.

Oh nonsense! They showed like a dozen ways that the new touch pad alone makes using professional apps easier, faster, and generally better in their keynote. They are clearly thinking specifically of the professional market. Whether they hit their mark or not is up to the market to decide. The new computers are already back-ordered by 4-5 weeks, so clearly someone's ordering them.
Aeroplanes are probably a more accurate approximation of what you'd feel. You get hardly any G force from banked highways, your speed is just too low. Now I don't really get plane sick, I will quite happily sit through a few barrel rolls (which is far more extreme than the hyperloop (although that would be fun)), but there's plenty of people who would get sick from a few 1.5 G banked turns.

Elevators are different because you don't spend more than about 1 minute in an elevator.
I think that's unlikely. There are far more economical ways of pushing boundaries of technology than racing. And the technology for racing really only has a very small overlap for the sorts of R&D needed for a market competitive car or motorcycle.
You have this pretty much right.

You want to avoid overlapping jQuery and Vue for areas both cover such as event binding and DOM manipulation. This should be left to Vue.

jQuery provides a number of other functions but AJAX is the major part of this.

See https://api.jquery.com/category/utilities/

If you already have a solution for AJAX, you might be interested in looking into a more generic library to complement Vue, such as Lodash https://lodash.com/

A quick example: http://colintoh.com/blog/lodash-10-javascript-utility-functi...
"virtue signalling" is the politically correct way to say "political correctness" these days, right?
I don't see a 32GB XPS on their site.
I saw later in the thread that you're Daniel. I enjoy your emacs-devel posts and your back&forths with Eli/Stefan. I liked (and was in full agreement with) your commentary during Emacs dynamic modules dev, and I also enjoyed your recent demand paging post.

It's just too bad that you seldom get things to go your way.
> Why is it so hard to run a tech company in Australia

A number of reasons, I think. Our terrible internet, the lack of support from the state governments (and the lack of _understanding_ of our industry for those governments that are trying; see: QLD), an investor base that (after spending the last 7 years navigating it) appear to be desperately afraid of B2C start-ups, and don't quite get B2B start-ups either... the list goes on, really.

Not going to stop me trying, though!
The author clearly confused the land ice/ice sheet with sea ice. Do you have evidence supporting your claim that "Melting sea ice can change sea levels by changing the density of the water in the ocean"? I'd be curious to know.
I don't know if it's my PC or what but all of those VR videos were SUPER choppy.
> The simpler argument would be to simply take the job that pays the most. I think there are very few exceptions to that rule

An exception would be where the toll on your physical or mental health is greater than is warranted by the extra pay.

In my book anything that burns you out is not worth any amount of money < $enough_to_retire.
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2016/03/first-mac-r...
You should set your keymap to Emacs then, its pretty close, and very cool.
Honestly, I feel like the market works. If you want to sell your home, you sell it to the highest bidder. If I want a spacious home, I have to compete with everyone else who wants one. If I had the money for it, I might buy a 2000 square foot home in SF, but I don't and that's ok with me. It doesn't feel unfair. Because I would like something like that, I'll end up moving somewhere cheaper in a few years. I'm 100% ok with that dynamic. I feel like changing the landscape for the people who are already there just because I can't afford it is the wrong solution. They settled down there because they like it, and I'd rather move than ruin it just so I can stay. There tons of second order effects, and I'm not arguing for a complete "let the market decide all things" libertarian stance or a "don't ever change things" stance either, but I don't like the other extreme either, where we are willing to discard the character of a place because jobs are dense there.

I don't really know what I'm rambling about now, I just don't agree with the extreme of "make housing as accessible as it could be for the largest number of people." I'm happy to be priced out of places were I would love to live, and prefer that to the alternative of making them places I wouldn't want to live, I guess?
I tried one of these at COMDEX, and it was kind of underwhelming. All of the smells were vaguely floral and fruity, but I still smiled and nodded as the attendant described what I was supposed to be smelling.
I've got your email from your blogs header. Will keep you in mind.
What makes you think it's any harder than anywhere else?

Part of 2K Australia's problem was that we grew very big when the Aussie dollar was low, then when it came back up we were a very expensive studio. We had very little turnover and a lot of well paid, senior developers made us look even more expensive per head.

We were working closely with 2K China who were a lot cheaper per head.
VMware boss Pat Gelsinger tackles life after Dell buyout
haha, yeah, I guess in my mind there were major scandals, but none of them are in the article. ;)
Surely you still have to compare the two to make that decision?
Show HN: Simple visitation planning, tracking, and reporting
Everyone knows the real escape hatch is unsafePerformIO!
There is also desktops and servers, both of which may be much better for rendering, running VMs, etc.
IMO the main issue is the very strong resources sector driving up salaries (there are a lot of tech companies servicing the mining industry), coupled with the comparatively low population meaning that the overall market is pretty small.
If you're doing video editing with FCPX and/or Motion, those dual GPUs in the MacPro help a lot!
Epitaph: A game about the Fermi Paradox
For the folks outside the USA, that is 14-17cm
Wow.

So, behind all your marketing buzzwords, you're trying to portray GNU/Linux software as buggy in contrast to superior Mac/Windows, which has, interestingly, long been a FUD and a lie propagated by Microsoft. This suddenly takes me back to halloween documents and "real cost of 'free'" because you're saying exactly the same thing, only in 2016 (on halloween eve!).

Like many others, I've been using GNU/Linux since ~1997, and been totally happy overall, and I can vouch it's nothing like you're trying to portray.

You may, of course, value your freedoms less than the conveniences you find in Apple or SaaSS programs. You prefer trading your privacy and freedoms for bits of conveniences, and that's the way you chose to live. I did hear you the first time. No need to reiterate, as this is not about your personal feelings or the "values" you found here and there (and no offense, but frankly I don't care about your personal feelings or anecdotes).

I'm trying to make a point that goes beyond your "productivity": this line of though shouldn't be advertised as a good thing due to the fact that it eventually hurts us as a society at large (see the references in my previous posts).
Hello All, i am the OP of:
https://petersphilo.org/#post-71

Just wanted to add a couple of things: Pro hardware can exist and has existed at Apple for most of its existence, please look back at the post and comments for evidence..

My point was not that Apple should choose between 'pro' hardware and consumer/boutique hardware, in fact, Apple has a long tradition of keeping both happy..

Maybe Apple really isn't interested in the Mac any more, or even in developers. But who makes the apps, the games, etc..

Why not keep power users, keep their 'street cred' as the 'creative platform' and make a little (a lot, actually) scratch on the side...

Old geezer cries out:
Can't we all just get along?
NOTE: Don't make the company you work for your life. It will end in sadness.
Not a bad idea. :)
Your link compares DDR4 against DDR3, but you should be comparing DDR4 against LPDDR3.
The link just shows me a login form. Mirror:

https://archive.fo/zu1Wp
-bash: apt-get: command not found
This is from 2013.
PCjr and Tandy 1000 graphics and sound made Sierra games better than the PC CGA and speaker. That was until VGA and Soundblasters came out.
The mongols destroyed the grand library of Baghdad after the siege of Baghdad led by Halagu Khan, then looted all libraries and killed a large number of scholars, and important infrastructure such as canals used for irrigation.

Is not that they destroyed themselves.

Then, they did have scientific and cultural achievements of their own and this is reflected in their buildings that you can now visit in Spain.
I've had a lot of keyboards over my 35 years of computing. I stuck with Thinkpads for years because they had scissor keys that compared with a desktop, had decent travel and a distinct click. Desktop's included Microsoft Natural, standard OEM, through midrange to Roccat with cherry browns, and a Razer with blues.

None of them have lasted, or had the build quality, or felt as nice. More than a few have been actively irritating. The silly price Roccat was the least reliable of the lot.

I keep coming back to my M. If it's placebo it's a convincing one.
One of my least-favourite parts of video game news outlet Rock Paper Shotgun is the box of Taboola links at the end of the article. They never have anything to do with video games.

The sad part it, I'm sure RPS gets a lot of money from that box of links, meaning if they ditched it, I'd get less content from them. I would greenlight their site in my adblocker but it's just not worth the crap fiesta of ads.