skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our comms lead, Orli did issue a statement but we can't comment further on the Apple rumours.

https://sonderdesign.com/press-release-20161017/
Yeah, something has been up with HN recently. I posted the original article 2 days ago [0]. It got many upvotes but it didn't show up on the front page and there were no comments.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12818109
You have direct access to a much smaller market, there are only just over 20 million people here.
Some open source art games:

http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/
Cool. I really want to try one.
"Google ads takes the long term view and doesn't tolerate shit like that. They are very strict and would rather not take that money and destroy their brand. Result? People still use Google to search for stuff."

Are you sure? I've seen loads and loads of some of the trashiest ads through Google's ad network.
Ask HN: What kata do you use when learning a new language?
Hi HN,

What are some programming katas you use when learning a new programming language?

I'd like to find a good small size kata that exercises a good number of the language features that one normally uses (IO, common data structures)? So something more extensive than simpler katas like the Bowling kata or Project Euler.
That is very cheap per month for good advice... just sayin.
Terrible advice.

The highs and lows are what make life intresting.
Be passionate about what you do and give it your all.
Make it personal.
Give a damn.
It's the only way to live.
As someone very interested in helping solve homelessness, this is relevant to my interests!
I'm a little late to this post, but found a talk about this projection by the creator (good English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsQtLASlDKE
I lived abroad English teaching and its a known strategy.

Generally the goal was to stay ten years with no payments so the loan would be dropped and removed from your credit score
A bit late to thread but;

1) I'm wondering why the tiles weren't larger? Wouldn't this make laying them much cheaper in a world where labor is such a significant cost for building. Aside from the shingle look I'm surprised these dont come in 1mx1m type sizes plus some smaller sizes for edges. I cant imaging this want discussed so curious if I'm missing some obvious logic here.

2) If you didn't have a ceiling would these let light through and further reduce electricity usage?

3) The cells seems to be a small proportion of the tile. Is this something they expect to increase so they will increase power generation ability significantly over future releases?
Time of check to time of use
Some ad networks pay per click, some pay per thousand impressions. The numbers I've seen tend to be several dollars per thousand impressions, or a significant fraction of a dollar to several dollars per click.

Random blog post I just found talking about rates: https://www.hochmanconsultants.com/cost-of-ppc-advertising/
I believe there is a VR build of the Dolphin emulator. You might be able to hack something up emulating the Wii game in VR with an actual Wii Fit balance board. We're getting into the "probably won't be that good" territory though with that.

A Vive or Rift is probably the best bet, but I'm unaware of any skateboarding games built for them.
It's better for you not to pay, because it means that you're the sort of person who isn't worth trying to extort.
That doesn't make them dominant in any way. That's only a good thing for apple shareholders and bad for their customers.
I think developers aren't as upset about it as they may seem, it's more of a vocal minority within developers as a whole. There have already been threads on github+youtrack for adding touch bar support and features to Atom and IntelliJ, which should alleviate many issues you'd see from the lack of function keys imo.
True. Apple makes most if it's money from mobile devices and the app store.
Salt water is more dense than fresh water. Add fresh water and you decrease the density of seawater.
All new artforms are derided as not being "true" art by the establishment, who are invested in the status quo. Even contemporary art, intended to expand our ideas about art, is often only accepted under certain existing categories; performance art, mixed media, others.

Once could hypothesise that when non-gamers think of games, they think of the most popular games, which means the most commercially viable. I would equate it to thinking of advertising illustration or graphic design when talking about "visual art".

Of course, people often think games should be fun in some way, so the kookier games that are artistic expressions might not become popular, because people don't want to experience those works.

Some examples of games I consider arty:

- Moirai [0]

- Sisters of the Amniotic Lens [1]

- Gone home [2]

- The Stanley Parable [3]

[0] http://store.steampowered.com/app/496920/

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/287140/

[2] http://store.steampowered.com/app/232430/

[3] http://store.steampowered.com/app/221910/
Specifically a game development company, you mean? Well, I think video game income is quite a speculative proposition, capital city cost of living is high (and that's where the talent wants to live, you'll have trouble attracting people to Dubbo), and therefore it's hard to pay people a living wage or keep a company alive.

Very similar to the Australian film industry, really.
Of those management books, which have been the most impactful ones if I'm looking to just grab 2-4 now?
People don't buy iPhones for the number of _new_ apps anymore. I have a feeling Apple knows this. They already have a share of the market that they're not easily going to drop as long as they keep updating iPhones and marketing them accordingly. I'd say that Apple's focus has shifted, and therefore their long term strategy.

I don't see Apple being the place where the next generation general purpose operating systems will be built.
Terrible advice!

Unless you have equity (and even then it must be a large amount), you are a cog that can be replaced at will, trading X hours per week of your life that you won't ever get back for your currency of choice.

Give a damn and make it personal: about your growth, your compensation, and your career path. If you want passion, work towards financial security and then work on something fulfilling, where you control your destiny.

No one is looking out for you but you.

Source: 15 years in tech, also watching a friend lose everything (EDIT: friends from 80+ hour weeks, job and house when let go) when High Voltage Studios (a game studio in Illinois) started its decent into failure
And at least Google iAds give you the tiny little logo in the corner for you to click so you can report the ad that tries very hard to look like a download button :(
Regression in Python
We basically redesigned the mechanism from the ground up; I can't comment on it specifically since it's all IP sensitive but a different approach whilst preserving the same tactile feel.
No, I am not going back, in fact I never went back.

I switched from Jquery to Angular 1, never went back.
I switched from Angular 1 to React, never went back.
I switched from React to Angular 2, never went back.
I am considering Vue.js, and yes, I will never go back.
> I also still don't fully understand why there's both Futures and Tasks - I probably didn't spend enough time understanding the difference, but that just means the author of this blog post is right.

Because they are essentially the same.

Task is just extending Future and adds extra functionality (like for example keeping track of tasks schedule in given event loop).

It is created when you call ensure_future() or loop.create_task(). You are not supposed to create it directly, so if you're wondering whether you should use Future or Task you should use Future.
I've always enjoyed some of the juxtapositions, like some article about sexism with one of those things suggesting readers might also like "Top 10 smoking hot celebrities who got UGLY!"

And they I have to wonder, do those things even pay enough to be worth it?
Interesting idea. I can think of a couple of uses I'd put that to.

If it wasn't cloud config I'd back it enough to get one.
> video shops

Presumably you mean video editing shops and not blockbusters? Our video shops were green screen terminals on DOS until... well until they ceased existence.
> Running big studios full of people with big personalities is really hard. People didn't get along. Things fell apart.

That statement is very generic. Could you please elaborate on this?
The new touch pad looks ridiculous. It looks like novelty they're throwing out to placate the masses they get a real touch screen together behind the scenes.

I have absolutely 0 desire to use a tiny strip of touch above a perfectly good keyboard.
You're right, effect segregation is not a paradigm per se.

The fact still stands that it's closely aligned with the functional programming paradigm, and not OOP. Programing paradigms and language features are closely related: certain features make certain paradigms easier, and paradigms spur the development of particular features.
Tesla and SolarCity just made your roof obsolete
Evolution does give us a tool to make predictions, and yes, some of those predictions come true.
Unfortunately, humans don't always heed those predictions:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702430/
You're probably better off with alienware for processing power and hardcore specs, unless you're doing CAD and need the certified drivers/hardware. Workstation model laptops have a huge markup, and gaming models often meet or beat their specs for less.
Which is exactly what I meant by the term "wagonways", which date back to ancient Greece.
I get the some of the same feeling. And related is emergent behaviors where entities with simple rules/behaviors exhibit amazing, complex and seemlingly unpredictable behaviors when interacting in large numbers.
I switched from emacs to vim a few years ago. I'm happy I did it. I think you need a concrete reason to switch. I also switched to the emacs key bindings. I figure if you are going to use an editor you should use it as intended, but that's personal preference. Plenty of people are happy with evil.

My specific reason was I wanted to be able to run commands asynchronously in a separate buffer, rather than switching back and forth between the editor and a terminal. The other reason is I think vimscript is terrible, and I didn't want to learn it to customize the editor. Elisp is much nicer, and the documentation is fantastic.

I've heard VIM has since gained async buffers, but not lisp.

As for knock on benefits, there is really a fantastic ecosystem of applications built for emacs that I can't imagine are possible for most other editors. This is because emacs is a lisp runtime that happens to include an editor. So it has a built in terminal, email client, irc client, Tramp mode, Org mode, etc.
That sounds even more fun. :D

Although as the poster mentioned below, a passenger service would gradually rotate the passenger compartment to keep the G-forces vertical, a la a banking aircraft, so all you'd likely notice would be feeling heavier for a few seconds.
One thing that is certain is that the pool of people who opine they can be unbiased in areas where they have favorites is not the same as the set of people who can actually do it.
Absolutely.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/graphics/gasline2.jpg
Yep, I really like this about Mac OS X. The fact that I can c-w to kill a word anywhere or c-u to kill a line is pretty nice. And OS-level copy/paste has the same shortcut everywhere, like you say. I think it was a mistake for Windows and linux to use control as the default meta-character for gui operations. I always switch it to super if I can.
Oh I see that. Even then I see cases I'd find it useful - software I don't use daily, learning something like vi, games etc. Enough that I'd buy a mechanical if they ever made one.

I see it as a vastly better add for a Macbook Pro than the touch sensitive bar.
There's still a possibility that a lock might be needed if you use await/yield from inside critical section (another co-routine could make changes at that point). If you don't yield then indeed locks are not needed.
Scored well, but of the few people I know who owned it no one finished more than a few levels. It lacked a compelling goo, for me.
Why no UV? Seems like it couldn't hurt.
> a hack around it.

Nice choice of words here. The whole reason why it isn't supported is to prevent being hacked in the first place. X11 has no security whatsoever. Every window can read/spy/mess with any other.

I guess only window managers / compositors will have enough permission to do this level of automation.
I hope that they will continue to keep Torre Girona in as close to its original condition as possible. It's not abnormal for the church to stop using buildings as churches if it makes sense, but it is a beautiful building.
the new type R is probably the closest they'll make
Loss of Land Ice (Not Sea Ice) = More Sea Level Rise

SCHWEIGER: “Melting sea ice has no impact on sea level rise because it’s already floating in the ocean.”

Like a glass of ice water. As it warms, the ice in the glass melts, but the total volume of water does not change. However, melting sea ice does contribute to climate change. That’s because white sea ice reflects the sun. So when it melts, the dark open ocean now absorbs sunlight and heats up, raising global temperatures, which in turn cause glaciers and ice sheets on land to melt further. Globally, sea levels have risen four to eight inches since the last century and will continue to rise as the ice melts, putting coastal communities worldwide at risk.

http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2014/11/loss-of-land-i...
> What's the target demographic this new MBP is serving, though?

I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

I think the new MBPs are, well... not good, considering the price. I really like my 2012 MacBook Air. It's still going strong, although I wish I had went for the 8GB of RAM instead of just 4.

But when I was talking about the new models with my friends and coworkers, a lot of us shared one thought: We don't think it's worth the money, but we can't spend $2000 on a laptop anyway, so whatever.

So we're not the target market.

It seems that people here don't really want one either, so 'Developers who frequent Hacker News' also doesn't seem to be the target...

It seems like maybe it's just 'wealthy people who want a sleek-looking, well made piece of hardware', which it is. Maybe it includes businesses that will provide one to their employees, and will buy the extra dongles and whatnot. There's probably a lot of them in each group. If I had the money, and didn't care that it didn't have the fastest processor, the ability to have a crazy amount of RAM, and would need an extra damn cable just to connect my iPhone, I would love to buy one too.

One thing seems pretty certain, and it's that there is room for a competitor to jump in and make a great laptop for the people who are looking for something different. I really hope someone can make it work.
If you're using it that much, perhaps you should re-think how good it is for your productivity :)
I never knew about the "Add to Homescreen" feature, that's really interesting
> You're only safe if you have offsite backups with drives that didn't mount to your computer recently.

Or if your backup solution is—from the perspective of the computer being backed up—an append-only store. Like a box of tapes, or Tarsnap using restricted keys, or Arq pointed at a versioned S3 bucket, or a NAS exposing an iSCSI target backed by an LVM thin pool LV with automatic daily snapshots.

Sadly, as far as I know, no turn-key hardware "home backup" or "home NAS" product is in that category, though.
I never liked the tile system from Civ 5. Unpopular opinion, but this is what I think.
That reminds me, where's my $750 Mr Abbott/Turnbull?
Another example I am familiar with is NoblePeak Vision's shortwave infrared sensor technology which was prohibited from export.
Ted Nelson's favorite Greek philosopher.
> That doesn't make them dominant in any way. That's only a good thing for apple shareholders and bad for their customers.

Yes it does. They are the envy of every other device manufacturer, and not just because they make the most money.

The reason why Apple gets more profit than its competitors despite lower market share is because customers are willing to pay high prices for a better computer. How do we know this? When surveyed, users have consistently give Apple top marks in customer satisfaction. They've done it 13 years in a row.

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/09/27/apple-tops-pc-customer-s...
A Weiner is going to ruin it for Hillary again. She should have never ran in the first place given their corrupt past.
A couple:

- eOS is built on top of Ubuntu rather than Debian

- The team doesn't officially support Pantheon outside of eOS, so you've probably got it from an unofficial PPA that could break with the next version.

- I don't think the Pantheon DE would get you eOS's included apps like Geary.
> A person can be a creationist without being a fool and can be a believer in evolution by nothing more enlightened than a lack of independent thinking in an environment where atheism is in fashion among the cool kids.

Lots of people are ready to make definitive statements about creationism without ever having studied the subject. Unless I am mistaken, creationism is not taught in universities, so one could only make EDUCATED statements about it if one had put the personal effort into studying creationism independently. And if a person had done that, they are unlikely to be making glib statements about how foolish creationists are, instead they would be blogging on the subject where there is enough space to make reasoned arguments.

People who say that creationists are fools, are just like people who are politically correct, or like right-wing extremist ideologues (Christian or Muslim). They are true-believers who have received wisdom from their chosen prophet (who may be a biology professor) but they are not thinking and reasoning.

Thinking is hard. Reasoning is even harder. But I would hope that on HN, there is a larger population of thinkers and reasoners than in the general public.

I'm not even going to state my beliefs on the subject because I am happy to let all of you believe what you want to. Evolution is a useful tool for biological life, but as the article states, it is not the be-all and end-all. It certainly does not negate creationism in all its forms because if it did, I would have heard of the paper which demonstrated this proof. Since I have heard of no such paper, and I know of no biology department in which creationism is studied, I feel confident in saying that evolution has not trumped creationism. I'm even willing to allow that some well-described theory of creationism in the future, could include evolutionary theory and the current neutral genomic mutation theory as part of a larger whole.
The goal is to not sit on or arses while we wait for people who already produce less CO2 than us to reduce their usage.
No, I use a rain sensor. Also not connected to the internet.
You missed the biggest improvement: Increased contrast.

The 1st gen Kindle's display was a light grey resembling cheap newspaper stock. Definitely readable in decent lighting, and you could increase the font size to improve legibility if it was an issue, but not what I would call "pretty". Kind of dingy, really, and illustrations & photos all looked blah.

Current eInk Kindles' displays are much brighter looking in ambient light. Not yet as bright as the paper in a hardcover book, but about as good as a several-year-old paperback. And it is definitely bright enough to make looking at illustrations & photos worthwhile.

On top of that, the front-lighting on a very low or lowest setting will increase the contrast just enough to create the illusion of whiter paper (and if that isn't enough for you, by all means crank it up).
Companies don't just "abandon" $20B/year businesses, and it will sure take a lot more than a "few years" for that to decline to make a comparison to iPhone's inevitable cannibalization of the iPod. Additionally, they see iOS devices and Macs as completely distinct, thus not merging them into one like the Surface attempts. Your theories… are pretty much ludicrous.
> and whenever I get a chance, I tell people about all the great things about Linux and why it's better than Windows and the MacOS.

People like this bore me to death. Let's be frank - you're just biased and you're probably wrong, despite all your good intentions. What OS you prefer is a matter of taste and of choice, and there's no "better" or "worse" unless you're so narrow minded as to only measure an operating system's worth by the features that happen to put your chosen OS ahead. These days if I was a dedicated gamer I'd probably say Windows. In fact, after the Surface Studio presentation, it's tempting as a creative platform.

I used one form or another of Linux on my main desktops and laptops since 2002, until 2009. In 2009 I bought a Macbook and since then I've switched to OS X (or macOS) as my main OS of choice. I still install GNU coreutils on macOS, and still keep a separate desktop at home with Linux on it - appropriately named `lab` in my home network.

So, in 2016 my main laptop is a Macbook Air with macOS on which I do most of my work, my desktop is running various flavours of linux (arch which i keep the most updated, but also alpine, ubuntu, fedora... etc easily accessible in grub). Don't lecture us on what OS is better, we've made a decision and it doesn't have to be the same as yours.
Sure they can, but do they though? Possibly on rare occasions but no noteworthy cases spring to mind.
I can't speak for anybody else, but I was super passionate about my job and the team at 2K Australia, but I didn't enjoy working with my bosses. I found myself arguing with them all the time and felt that I wasn't able to do my job properly. I was burnt out. We argued about what should be in the games, and who should do what and when. There were tussles for creative control and lots and lots of political maneuvering. I wasn't making games anymore.

Rather than stay and do a bad job, I decided to leave and let others step up and have a go.

Glad I did becuase I rediscovered my passion for games and had some success in Neptune's Pride.
I always make my self look smarter and more legitimate by quoting the source that wikipedia quoted

You can do it too
Meanwhile, the right can't even recognize it's a real issue.

What do you think the bigger barrier is?
Given this direct experience, in this instance do you personally think that the well paid senior developers provided value compared to the cheaper her head talent?
> I always come to these hyperloop criticisms expecting to find some sort of fatal flaw in the physics of energy efficient supersonic travel. But to my surprise, they instead

Except, as the article points out, it's not actually faster, cheaper, or efficient than competing technologies. Those seem like really fatal flaws.

> Countries without common law legal systems get around these unnecessary costs much easier.

That same logic also applies to the competing technologies. The same magic wand that lets you build a hyperloop for 1/10th what it would cost in the US also lets you build the tracks for HSR for 1/10th what it would cost in the US. You can't compare the cost of building a hyperloop in China to the cost of building HSR in California and get a meaningful answer.

Nobody is saying that the hyperloop is impossible; they're saying that it's a plan to build something objectively worse than high speed rail at prices that seem broadly comparable.
Did you do anything to fix your sleep recovery issues on Linux, or did it get resolved by chance?
Still waiting for Bioshock Infinite to come out on GOG (or any Bioshock games for that matter). But 2K aren't interested in more sales it seems.
CPU limited; drop the res and the choppiness goes away (and check your browser's CPU usage, mine was eating several cores).