skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some dynamically typed languages use hybrid approaches - e.g. Ruby has Fixnum and Bignum for integers - but you're correct that additional precision isn't free.

I don't know how much slower, but in theory such hybrid approaches can allow the common case to be just as fast or fast enough (tm) while still returning the correct results for the uncommon case (depending on how much the runtime or compiler can prove about the range of your numbers to enable the fast path.)

EDIT: Poor phrasing...
Wrong subculture. Health foods are marketed for hippies and athletes and dieters. Soylent is for nerds!

/s
On a side note, Webchimera [1] works great from Electron/nw.js applications. I use it for some media applications.

[1] http://www.webchimera.org/
The comment thread that was moved was not off topic though.
It also has an open-source re-implementation of the engine in the works which is currently playable, and a graphical enhancement program which adds distant land to the game along with some nice optional shader effects like sunrays, depth of field, better water, etc. Also, there's a mod similar to Skywind for the Oblivion version of the engine.

Plus there are some enormous mods such as Tamriel Rebuilt, which aims to add the entire province of Vvardenfell, and Skyrim: Home of the Nords, which aims to depict Skyrim during the game's time period.

The amount of content that has been made for that game, even beyond normal mods, is kind of staggering.
Thank you!
Choosing an optimal layout based on actual data is a very interesting idea. I'm not sure how you would assign a cost to a finger move, but even with some rough estimated cost might produce something better than my intuitively designed layout

2)I can still use the trackpad while holding the device, but no, is not confortable. Integrating a trackball would be great.
I have also learned a fair amount of shortcuts and used stuff like https://vimium.github.io/ to decrease my dependency to a mouse.
So what makes this display tech any different (more special) from that in Hololens? Because it sounds very similar, if not identical..?
Last I checked there are all electric vehicles on the road and space rockets that can land. Wait no further.
That's really cool. Could you describe what work in equities is? What's a day-to-day like?
>>I know plenty of mature people with great families and careers who appreciate games like Fallout 4 and many others.

Yeah, but compared to younger people who appreciate video games, they are few and far between.
>the last thing I'd like to see in Hacker News.

I can't imagine how HN is ever going to beat back the flood of Trump cranks that Thiel's donation opened up.

Sanity had be nicely increasing for a good year there. But as I post this, there is exactly one technically interesting article out of the top 30. I'd been nice if the smart people who used to come here aren't permanently chased away or drowned out but if it happens, it happens.
Is it strange that I don't trust any electronic voting systems at all? I feel like without a paper trail, federal elections can be easily manipulated secretly.
Linux is under GPLv2 explicitly, not the "GPLv2 or later" that a number of projects adopt.

Linux also doesn't require copyright assignment, so there's no one entity that could change the license - it would be an enormous PITA, and a number of people would refuse for various reasons (people doing work for companies that chafe under the TiVo clauses or the patent clauses...)

Plus, Linus himself likely wouldn't relicense his contributions, so that's a nonstarter. [1]

[1] - http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0601.3/0559.html
You hit the nail on the head for me too, exact same thing happened to me at age 18. I used to be such a gamer as a kid, and now I can hardly stand to even pick them up. I've continued to some play multiplayer games (mostly shooters and FIFA), but even that has trailed off and my Xbox One is mainly used for netflix. Unless there is an aspect of socialization to it I just don't find it a rewarding use of time. Even something like this, browsing HN and writing a comment, is more interesting to me at this point.
That's very little of what their models have on you to power each product.
Sure, but I have a graduate CS degree, a wife, and a kid on the way :)
Drastically reduce beef consumption, and save resources, save wildlife habitat like the Amazon (I have been there. Most clearing is for beef production). Beef production creates a lot of methane which is even more damaging than CO2, per molecule produced.

It takes between 4000 to 5000 gallons of water per pound of beef produced. Chicken production uses about 5% the resources of beef. Vegan is better still.

I think we are in agreement on protecting the environment, but we have different strategies for doing that. Fair enough.
I've been staring at the MySQL connection settings deciding if I want to actually want to connect this with or not for about five minutes.
Historically, it works quite well. Even in modern times it's not that uncommon to see wars that end only with the destruction of the entire ruling class in the defeated nation.
I did this just recently. Before I went to a middle east country for an SEO job, I am a PHP dev for 7 yrs and my last work made me realize that I'm not growing or something and this new environment would make me do this change. Unfortunately, after working for only a few months, I was sent home due to health reasons and dev jobs are hunting me again which I think because of my qualifications in the past.
To be fair, this statement is something that needs to be followed up with hard evidence. Inconsistent flavour between batches does not necessarily mean you're getting different percentages of ingredients. You can't simply blame them for variation in taste; just look at orange juice companies for the amount of chemical manipulation that goes into making a single brand of orange juice taste exactly the same in every batch even though oranges naturally have varying flavors. That is not the kind of science I want behind my food.

There are thousands of individuals and organizations out there with the equipment to analyze batches to determine whether the mix is consistent. Why haven't we heard from them? I can't imagine risk of lawsuit for defamation is the only reason. The whole appeal of Soylent is that the formula is public; surely they can't be hiding behind "publishing analysis of our product is exposing our corporate secrets".
I'm the same way, although my thinking is more along the lines of "man, instead of playing this game I should go meet girls so that I don't die single." :P
First time I quit programming, burned out, went working on a friend's farm. After some times, I felt much more valuable helping them with computers/website/payment processing problems. Didn't took long, I was back in programming.

Second time, I took some time to execute on a non profit to help our local community. Being good with data really help organizing event people really liked so I tried to spin that into a startup and failed. Like other commenters said, I was doing stuff I didn't really like.

I'm back to programming but I'm really glad I tried different things. Not everything was a failure, I eat fresh organic food from my friend's farm and I have an impact on my local community.
Huh, interlacing is a neat idea to reduce latency, but I'm guessing you'd want a form of intra-frame temporal anti-aliasing, otherwise it might look pretty fugly. Whether or not this would neutralise any latency advantage due to the computational overhead of doing this, I'm not sure...
I'm slowly working my way toward park ranger, though I've considered paramedic. Wood working also sounds interesting, and I'm great with my hands. Certainly, programming is my passion; having to do it under someone else's terms can spoil the deal though.
Then don't click on NYT links, or others that require you to subscribe. HN conveniently marks the source.
For 10 years programming has been my thing, but for a while now I have been getting the feeling that programming won't be big in 30 years. If all my eggs are in the programming basket and I can't keep a programming job in the future, I would be out of luck. (presumably because it's a blue collar profession by that point).

With that fear in mind, becoming a M.D. actually seems like it would be a good decision. Even this late in the process, doctors have been well paid and relatively rare for thousands of years; a tried and true profession. Plus it will sate my curiosity about the function of the human body.
Is anyone else annoyed by NPR's ads for itself? Do all NPR stations run these things, claiming, "We're the only news source you need," and "We'll tell you everything you need to know."?
My main complaint with the 1.5 powder was extreme inconsistency between batches. One batch, which many people were complaining about in the Soylent forums, had a rancid/sour/burnt taste and smell to it. The problem with the formula is that because it has a very bland taste, inconsistency stands out like a sore thumb and your mind works wonders to create an aversion to the whole product. Once I started having the weird tasting Soylent, even the "normal" batches were no longer palatable to me.

Soylent staff dismissed these concerns as "normal variation in a plant based product".
Nassim Taleb has been very vocal against GMOs. Here's a summary of his beliefs.

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/FictionAndFacts3.pdf
Have you tried No Man's Sky? Once you get the initial couple of hours of "game" out of the way, there is pretty much absolutely nothing to do except hop from star to star, land on planets, and wander around them looking at the prettiness. I sunk hours into it. I wish the PS4 version had a cheat I could enter to completely turn off the "survival" mechanism and the HUD so I could just put it up on my projector, find a nice view, and have a living painting on my wall.
I've got a dozen wildly different ideas of what you mean...
Word Document Programming with Aspose Document Object Model (DOM)
He might be referring to the thought of sharing the home of a person while they're in it.
Never seen this before. A vote "for the ordinance" would "allow" Uber, Lyft, et al back into Austin, no?
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Yes and did to some degree when I left a captive software dev position and started my own business. Still involves lots of programming but mixed with a ton of other things.

I sometimes day dream though about doing something outside of software such as landscaping or remodeling houses. Something I can do away from the screen & keyboard. Something that still involves creating and being able to see the end results of your creation.
Kind confused what the point is. Is this a complaint that most languages use IEEE 754 for non-integer numbers and he thinks they shouldn't, or a veiled dig about how many programmers don't know this, or...?

The color coding of results suggests the author thinks that 2 is wrong and 1 is right, but he's going out of his way to specify floating point numbers, and when subtracting those two floating point numbers the correct answer is 1 and NOT 2.

Eg, Ruby thinks 9999999999999999.0 - 9999999999999998.0 = 2, but 9999999999999999 - 9999999999999998 = 1. Which is...correct. Right? Unless you don't think IEE 754 should be the default?

I feel like the author is trying to make a clever point, but if so, I'm not getting it.
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I can't be sure without looking up the lists of older software that was removed, but while almost all of the remaining packages he's listed are now GPLv3 upstream, I don't think the majority of software decided to do the GPLv3 conversion - Samba, or anything that's actually under the GNU project, certainly, but I'd be surprised if all the packages (or even 99% of them) happened to have all relicensed under GPLv3.
Watch us live code an Instagram Clone from scratch
I used to sync Google analytics and other external data source to Google Spreadsheet with addons(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-analytics/f...) and visualize the data

Just played around datastudio, customization seems easier.
How to Land the Space Shuttle… from Space
And if you're going to cherry pick tiny slices, I'd rather pick the slice:

"SSH lets me communicate with a server securely, more simply than via Telnet."

By the same vein, HTTPS is "simpler" than HTTP in this regard.

Ditto for many possible BGP replacements.
Like https://www.google.com/settings/ads ?
Alternatives for the whole collection of Firebase services? Not sure, but for the realtime messaging/sync part I found the following four that I'll take the time to investigate as replacements for my Channel API usage.

* https://pusher.com/

* https://www.pubnub.com/

* https://www.ably.io/

* https://framework.realtime.co/
We use this for a client with Google adwords data. User can go to a url and see data and plots we selected for him. Decent tool, easy to use but a bit slow when I used it last month.
SpaceX produces rockets capable of carrying heavier payloads than the competition, and for a fraction of the cost.

EV's would not be a thing right now if it weren't for Tesla, and the other co-founders would've failed if it weren't for Elon.

The hype is real.
Another Roomba 650 owner here! Mine was $280 purchased from eBay, in March.

I also have a Roomba 555 bought for $200 in 2012. I spent about $100 to upgrade the older one to the newer sweeper/dustbin and to buy a new battery.

Love them both! Could not imagine life without them. To press a button, leave, and come back to a parked Roomba with a full dustbin is glorious!

The amazing thing is that they actually do a better job then using a broom and dustpan.
Ok, how the heck do I view how much credit I have. Why is this so difficult.
Many people are alienated and feel unable to make connections to others; I have yet to see any convincing evidence that the high IQ are especially prone to this or have any special characteristics (besides the tendency to congregate in self-pity clubs). Towers might have done such a thing but I doubt any such result.
But how many people even understand how email works (and by that I don't mean the nitty gritty of IMAP), but for example not understanding not to "reply all" telling everyone to stop "replying all" and instead simply setting up an email filter?
Oh I didn't mean it was a scandal, just that tracked web queries feel one way, tracked location history feel very different. It's an automatic blog of another side of your life and day by day it amounts to a fair bit of data that is easy not to see if not shown.
I feel like any company large enough to have a significant HR department won't count as a "rational human being". They'll probably fall into the "psychopath" category by virtue of dispassionately and emotionlessly assessing how much of a liability you are to them if you're willing to demand they make counter-offers.
fish 2.4.0 is out
Replacement batteries are $20-ish on eBay. 5 minutes to swap.
Can you please add a tab that says billing or something.
PWDR
Question: how good are Roombas at actually cleaning? With an actual vacuum, I can turn it high or low, or press it harder or easier, or stick it at weird angles to make it clean. How good are Roombas in comparison?
Videogames (and most art and literature) are at there best when they can expose you things you couldn't imagine without them. When you are a ~teenage, old enough to understand things, but still inexperienced enough to not understand so much, they are a font of mental stimulation.

Videogames taught me (some) history, geology, geography, chemistry, phsyics, math, psychology, anthropology, etc, etc.

But as I got older (and as Internet got better), there were more and more real things to learn about, and life skills to work at (earning real money, doing real exercise, meeting real people), and a lot of videogame tropes stopped being novel. So they hold less appeal.
Lol, cron jobbed scripts. Instead of changing the code they would just write a new script and cron it 1 second after the original script.

Problem solved!
Thanks for sharing. I'll pass this on.
You had to be able to orient the normals correctly. For a hull this might be easy enough but for many objects it was a challenge.
Ok so you do have a billing page https://console.hyper.sh/billing/credit
But no link to it on the overview page, or anywhere.
They used to have another interface for this which was way more powerful, and let you delete all your history for a service at once (ie. delete all of your YouTube search history). This seems like a downgrade designed to make you work harder to erase your history, since you have to do it item by item.
The arbitrary mechanics of chess and poker (to name just two) haven't changed in over two months.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12897169
As a developer, if it weren't for Homebrew, I'd ditch OS X.
Why waste any time using it if a few years down the line they will discontinue it?
I have a very old-gen roomba, but I just press the button for it to run as I walk out the door for work every day and my apartment floor is constantly spotless.

It may not have amazing suction or intelligence (though I hear newer ones are smarter...), but it will randomly cross over the same spot a few dozen times during its run, and that seems to make up for it.
I think we need to distinguish between video games as "multimedia entertainment experiences" and video games as play.

Minecraft is essentially computerised Lego. There are few higher accolades I could pay to any game, because Lego is a phenomenally deep plaything. The more semantic meaning that the designer of a Lego set provides, the worse the play experience becomes. A bag of plain bricks can become anything, but a dragon molded as a single piece can only ever be a dragon. Likewise with Minecraft - Story Mode is a brief, dreary and hollow experience compared to Survival or Creative.

Each football match or chess game tells a unique story. The players create a spontaneous drama using the particular interplay of their skills and ideas. Infinite variety emerges from a leather ball and two sets of goalposts. A box of crayons and a piece of paper are in themselves meaningless, but create boundless meaning in the hands of an imaginative person.

My gripe with most modern games is that they try too hard to tell a story. Designers in the AAA and indie space are often preoccupied with emulating the attributes of other media, rather than exploring the unique possibilities of video games. Any modern gamer is familiar with the "movie with quick-time events" trope, games that shoehorn meaningless interaction into linear storytelling. A game can (and perhaps should) be a blank canvas rather than a work of art.

If you can't find meaning in a boxing match, if you can't grow and learn through playing Catan, if you take no joy from a lump of modelling clay, then the problem lies with you. We have many media that are infinitely better suited to depicting relatable characters and portraying the real world. The unique strength of games is play; games are at their best when they emphasise this core strength.
Ask HN: Advice for a new grad starting at Google
I'm an undergrad computer science major who has had 2 internships at Google and I'll be starting full time in 2017.

Although I learned a lot during my internships, I'm concerned about being put on a project that I'm not particularly interested in. Similarly, given the size of Google, I'm worried about my skills stagnating because everything is proprietary and the job soon becoming just a routine.

I've heard both great and bad experiences from engineers at Google and have had mixed experiences myself (the Google offer was holistically the best I had, so I went with it). So I was hoping any current or former engineers at Google (or another large company) could share any advice they have for getting placed on a project you're interested in, making an impact in a large company, growing your skills, upward mobility, etc.

Thanks!
The culture of video games, particular the working environment, is largely influenced by the people who created the industry: white and Asian men. This isn't a problem because there is no discrimination against ideas coming from other demographics.

Anyone who likes video games and wants to make it their career is free to do so, but shouldn't expect to be able to strong-arm others into their way of thinking.
Next, you should plug this into a text-to-speech program and play it with a simple beat generator.