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>A personal anecdote - I loved single-player video games until I was 18, but I stopped cold at that age. 5 years later, I tried to get back into it. I played some games that I used to like. I don't feel the things I used to feel while playing. Leveling up in Diablo just feels like accomplishing a chore - it feels meaningless.

"Growing up", that's what you are describing; I purchased Fallout 4 the day it came out, and after few minutes of playing and all I could see was bad hit-boxes and every NPC feels like a sound-recorder with a few different pre-recorded phrases. That game got pretty good reviews so its probably not about the game, its my perception of it. Old hobbies feeling meaningless happens to almost everyone, some people spent their youth reading but at their forties they barely read the news.

>This author seems to think that video games, in general, are definitely for everyone. I don't agree. Just like there are people who don't like reading or listening to music who manage to live whole, well-rounded lives, there are people who don't like playing video games.

Couldn't agree more; some people like extreme sports, some people don't, doesn't mean there is something wrong with every extreme sports, its just that we are different from each other, that's all.
How is that generous when it is very convenient and opportunistic for NYTimes propaganda efforts for their candidate?
Please fix it and get these products back on the market so I can get my order in.
Do you have citations for that?
I want to move to Atlanta. Any good startups that pay well, and don't suck to work at?
I appreciate that Google allows me to turn their data collection off, though I still avoid Google services where possible. I hope that this page tells the truth.
I would wade through a mile-wide swamp of pronouns on my hands and knees if I were promised named function arguments upon reaching the other side.
I wonder how many of us went the opposite direction. Loved games when I was a teen. Then college took up so much time that games fell to the wayside. And then almost the entirety of my 20s and much of my 30s was spent either working on projects I was passionate about, or with my friends and band, or on various adventures. Games took a far back seat to all of that. Something to do on one of those rare nights when nothing was planned.

And now, with the demands of family and sick loved ones, and with the added money which can build the sort of system I could have only dreamed about in my poor teens and college years, I'm home much more and games are suddenly appealing again.
That's a good call for pointing out the logical flaw. But basically from the people I know who owned a cleaning robot, generally it last no more than 2 years because of the new technology and the battery life.
One of their patents mentions using stacked diffraction optical elements. Details unclear:

>[0216] Such may be used to cancel light from the planar waveguides with respect to light from the background or real world, in some respects similar to noise canceling headphones.

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
For example, most (all?) browsers do not support the vastly upgraded H.265 yet. If we had ffmpeg, H.265 could've been supported in the browser over a year ago.
EBay currently suffering a massive outage
Also, the LA Times is offering a free week (requiring registration).
I love Zed but I couldn't recommend Learn C the Hard Way to a beginner. The book starts out good, but then greatly ramps up complexity around chapter 17 (heap and stack memory allocation) without a good introduction to many new concepts, explanations are just completely missing. Most people I know who've all tried to go through the book ultimately start to lose interest and give up there unfortunately.
Check out the "Deepmath" paper linked above. (The paper is from a few months ago, the source code is new IIUC.)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04442
Not sure what I think of a tablet "coloring book" but the tech is intriguing...

According to

https://cococolor.com/pages/instruction#best-results

it seems the apps just listen in on the mic and the stylus emits some sort of (ultra?) sound/sequence of audio pulses for each of the 4 buttons.

Anyone know if that's correct? If so, I wonder what the frequency is... are all Android devices responsive to these sub/ultra sonics?
How would something like this differ from something like Sandia National Lab's Qthreads (http://www.cs.sandia.gov/qthreads/)? Seems it's a tried and true solution in C that also works with C++11 (committed a test case for C++11 myself)...It is also an optional underpinning for some relatively big-name frameworks like Kokkos, Chapel, RaftLib, etc.
Tesla to end unlimited free use of supercharging stations
I have a cheap robot vaccum from Aldi. It cleans 90% as well as a hand held vaccuum cleaner and requires less than 10% of the time (total of time to switch on, occasional monitoring and emptying).

For me, this means that my environment can be cleaned daily while I exercise or brush my teeth. Manual, time consuming, but admittedly more effective cleaning can now be done far less frequently.
Diamonds could be building blocks for quantum computers
If it's really about workflow parity then I would encourage you to give it a spin. I think the parity gap will be similar to your previous experiences with VMs all things considered.
To help support your position, corn has been modified to produce vitamin C. Vitamin A typically comes from genetically modified soy. Riboflavin mostly comes from genetically modified microorganisms.

These additions are a concern to the gmo free vitamin consumers. Both https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/05/03/vitamins-n... and http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articles/oct08/vitamins_gmo_cha... make this claim - both sides. I'll accept it as true.
> Discovering some new village in Ultima 6 made me feel like a great adventurer.

I find that joy of discovery varies wildly game to game. I could never get into Bethesda RPGs, new or old. There is lots to discover in an Elder Scrolls game, but none of it feels like it has much weight or import. When the Ultima games really hit their stride (V through VII p2), discoveries had weight and import. The Witcher games feel similar, to me, I spent way to much time exploring every damn polygon in the world. I can't really pinpoint why these games feel so different, but hey, I still find new games to trigger that same sense of wonder.
Sharing media: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201105738-Create-a...

Alternative client/UI: check out PleXBMC, you can use any theme you like. That said, plex media player will provide a superior experience as it's using mpv.
Cycles in preview mode isn't bad, you can tune it, and it's also possible to incrementally render in real-time. It looks all dithered, but it works quite well.

Its performance will only increase as GPU acceleration options improve. CPU performance is pretty much at a dead-end now, it's barely improved in the last half decade but to slam more and more cores into the chips, while GPU performance is increasing rapidly even now.
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This is a problem we've managed to solve for dozens of other dietary preferences, from kosher status to gluten-free, without insisting on mandatory labeling. Why is GMO so special?

It's hard to believe the sincerity of your claim, given that you can reasonably infer anything not advertising itself as "non-GMO" contains GMO.
It's kinda cool to be able to look back at this stuff, I almost wish this were more integrated into the rest of Google so that I could rely on this (and for better awareness).
http://ineedaresu.me

I made it March 2015 and updated it December 2015. It's been sitting since, with a few thousand people using it every month.

It hit the #1 spot on Product Hunt, and after that it was posted about on Lifehacker, Inc., Newsweek, and others.

I've recently tried to spend time updating it to monetize it, but I just don't have the time to work on it.

Right now I make $100-200 per month from AdSense, but I really have no idea what I'm doing with it so nothing is optimized with the ads - they were just kind of slapped on there. I know it has potential to make money, I just don't have time.
> Growing up

You might want to edit that to "people change", since that's what it sounds you meant, instead of a phrase that evokes "becoming more mature/adult".
1. Tradition.

2. Tradition.

3. Tradition.

The same could be said for a fractional stock market back before decimalization.
If you support AGW but think GMOs are unsafe you really need to think about why you can support science based conclusions in only certain circumstances
Well, if Abramovic is involved, it ain't gonna be a perfectly normal dinner. It's going to be a very interesting one.
Also seems to me like they are replaced more often than conventional vacuums (more bugs, technical progress, they run more and thus are more likely to fail, ...)
I have hardwood floors, so for me at least it cleans as well as a "real" vacuum; doesn't take much suction to lift dirt off hardwood.
Interesting. Seems the price has changed - I can't find it for any less than ¥35,000 without flets hikari subsidy.
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> The most important thing is that they think video games lack depth. They say things like, "Unlike books/films/podcasts, with video games I don't learn anything or change as a person".

Which is somewhat surprising, since as with any art form, there are games which are masterpieces, and there is mass market junk. Why would people specifically not like games "because they lack depth", but have no problem reading books or watching films, while the vast majority of them are drowning in the sea of mediocrity as well?

I suppose it comes from the general lack of perception about games as an art form. While established art exists for many years, computer games are relatively young art, and I suppose you can compare it to the negative view on cinema by some in its early days.

> Skyrim has the depth, but not the taste.

I wouldn't agree here. While Skyrim draws many with its exploration element, I'd say it lacks depth if you compare it to really good RPGs. It's not on par with Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment, Knights of the Old Republic, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines or the Witcher series. The story in later Bethesda games is pretty generic and outright boring. I'd say the last good game in the series was Morrowind.

Going back to the art point above, it's the result of mass market appeal. Publishers don't want risky things which can become masterpieces. "Safe bet" of mass market mediocrity is more comfortable for them. Luckily, crowdfunding today helps with that to some degree.
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I have read that huge import taxes on Japanese game consoles (in the SNES/Genesis era through Xbox1 and PS2) are the reason why x86/PC gaming is so popular in South Korea these days. Instead of producing a domestic console alternative, Korea went with the industry standard PC and wrote software...
http://first-commit.com/

It helps you find the first commit of a GitHub repo, created this year, it's on the front page of HN for a short while
Devil's advocate: reporting on the polling numbers as they come in can cloud the decisions people make at the polls, and the entire process of trying to determine who's winning serves no useful purpose in daily life other than as pure subjective entertainment.

Normally I would say we should all just use online voting (edit: online registration & mailed voting) the way 3 states (Washington, Oregon, and Nevada) currently do. They provide real-time statistics on their voting results via their website. But at the same time there's those risks of security holes. For example, I took 30 seconds to look at Washington's voter registration website, and found this via Google: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ues5ma... This makes it appear as though some admin functions may have been accessible publicly in the past.

It is nice to get a look at their content management, though (http://weihelp.sos.wa.gov/help/support/_layouts/viewlsts.asp...) as we can see some of the behind the scenes operation like ticketing, bug reports, content, and other features and documentation. So from an "open & transparent government" aspect it's nice, but probably needs to be balanced more against how much information or access is given.
...until you finally collect that last blue flower, and get eaten by a mountain lion :D
A ship can only be moved so close to inland targets.
Hmm... my searches of my activity don't show up in my activity
> it is classic neural nets. It makes no mention of CNNs or GPUs

Is using a GPU "essential" for something to be deep learning? I'd always thought that the important part was some sort of hierarchical representation learning.

GPUs certainly help, in that you don't want to wait all day while your code does that, but they're not necessary.
I don't pretend to be an expert in City politics, but I believe that there would be grounds for a lawsuit if the City could be shown to ignore a Proposition. Certainly, I would assume that the grounds are reasonability - not "fight to the death".

Bear in mind, too, that the City did try to get it struck off on admin grounds as it was being proposed and I believe a court agreed that it was unconstitutional, but that the law didn't allow for a Proposition to be preemptively stuck down on those grounds.
I already spent the hours, so here's a short summary:
* Perl 6 is a specification in the form of a test suite. By metonymy, the language it specifies and any implementation that passes the test suite are also called Perl 6.
* Perl 6.c is the first stable release of the spec. Later versions will advance through the alphabet: 6.d, 6.e, etc. (6.a and 6.b were release candidates.)
* 'Christmas' is the human-friendly name of 6.c. 6.d will be named 'Diwali', and further versions are expected to carry on with names of holidays and celebrations.
* Rakudo is the flagship implementation of Perl 6.c. It has monthly releases. For the next few years, I would not expect a feature to be released in a Perl 6 spec until it has been implemented and tested in Rakudo.
* Rakudo Star is a distribution that bundles Rakudo and a library. It has monthly releases close on the heels of Rakudo.
* MoarVM is one of the runtimes that Rakudo can use. It is custom-built for Rakudo, is developed in the Rakudo project, and is installed whenever you install Rakudo. Rakudo can also run on the Java Virtual Machine. A port to the V8 Javascript engine is underway.
* Not Quite Perl 6, or NQP, is a language you probably don't need to know, but which you might hear about. It is approximately a subset of Perl 6 -- the features that are useful for writing compilers and not too tricky to implement. Where Rakudo is not written in Perl 6, it is written in NQP. This way, most bug fixes, optimizations, and new features can be implemented only once, not once for each runtime, and porting Rakudo to a new runtime mostly consists of porting NQP and then bootstrapping.

But yeah, I'm still a lot more comfortable in Perl 5 too.
Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for something else?
What would you do?
This looks awesome. It's exactly the sort of thing I've been looking for as a means to bridge the gap between web libraries that want to own the mio::poll::poll() loop (providing no access to register listeners of your own) and rolling literally everything myself. It's a BIG gap!

I was just about to start writing the equivalent of rotor as a thin plugin you can tack on to a mio event loop alongside whatever but with this I think I can get away with simply starting an event loop ahead of time and passing events back into my web app. It'll be interesting to play with it.
Do you think that I have the right to have my food correctly labeled?

It seems to me that a lot of food is labeled as kosher, low fat, sugar free, contains peanuts, gluten-free, etc. I am not sure where your comment comes from.
Yeah, K&R assumes at least some familiarity with assembly programming - it uses assembly-level terms like "address" and "register", without ever defining what they mean. The chapter on pointers starts out with:

"A pointer is a variable that contains the address of another variable." [1st edition, 1978]
Yes. And tax advertising (or even all forms of communication, as there is 90% overlap) to pay for that.
Looks like there might be a few already up there undercover:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/space-race-revealed-us-china-test-f...
There should be a Moores Law for cleaning robot since they are upgrading too fast that many people don't want to buy it too early.
Quick note about the section on "Relative paths": `fs` paths _are_ relative to `process.cwd()` but `__dirname` reflects the directory that contains the current file. Those two directories are not necessarily the same thing.
I agree with most of your criticisms, but they don't actually apply to the claim that the algae-derived ingredient, while legal and safe, causes allergic reactions or digestive issues with a very small portion of people.
You are seriously overestimating the utensil requirements of most home cooks. A big knife, a small knife, a ladle, a cutting board, a spatula, a sauce pot and a nonstick frying pan will get lots of people really far.

Aside: I also used to cook for a living, and these days my "roll" is just an 8" chef, a 6" utility (which for me doubles as a boning knife), a 4" paring and a steel.
If Satan was a web designer…
Nobody in this specific comment chain has been blaming the GPL?
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>I know some of their earlier press focused on the founder replacing all of his food with Soylent

I'm pretty sure it was marketed as a 100% meal replacement. It's nice to see they came to their senses.
Nope. Its "growing up", most people who did skateboarding at their teens don't do it after growing up; saying "people change" is too vague, if you say "growing up" you are clearly pointing out that it was something they did as youngsters but not any more; and language exists for the sake of clarity and communications, so "growing up" is a good choice here.
https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-9800_series
Went to school at UCI when he was chancellor, heard some of his talks, and attended some mixers where he was present. He was highly respected by everyone, but the most memorable quality I remember of him was his humility and friendliness to everyone.
There are lots of tutorials on the web. For example,

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/X86_Assembly
Cheapest method:
Assume the government really want this number, they can have all mailman help keep track if there are leftover mail(a letter is created/given if resident has no mail) after x days.

Technology wise, I cannot think of an easy and cheap way. Camera with vision for each residential door will be a robust approach. Accuracy can be precise by more investment in software from detecting opening-of-door-event to facial recognition of the expected household members.
About a decade ago many educators where looking for a language to teach programming to utter noobs because governments where scared by the year 2000 bug and asked them to produce more programmers (the latter part is a lie but it sounds nice :) many of them picked Python. Educators play a big role these days when it comes to a first language. Most folk who commented here likely went to school when teachers didn't have computers and didn't even think about teaching programming -- that was considered a hobby. So far I know only two educators who want to teach programming with Perl 6.

It takes years for a language to become used by a reasonably large group to make a difference. Given you come from Python you probably know that the first release happened in 1991. Do you know anyone who used that language before 2000? So Perl 6 didn't take off yet because less then a year since the initial release has happened.
In this fever dream, do they not expect China, if pressed, to use nuclear weapons?
> a lot of food is labeled as kosher, low fat, sugar free, contains peanuts, gluten-free, etc

His point is that all of these labels are voluntary. There is no need to enforce a law mandating these labels.
There is an apocryphal story about Karl Marx visiting a factory or workshop and being amazed and horrified by the sheer number of different kinds of hammers that the workers had to have. They're just for hitting things, right?

Turns out, a framing hammer is not a substitute for a tack hammer, and the axe blade on a roofing hammer is more useful for roofing than a claw.
Yeah. And Decimal in Python would return the correct value too.
Or just

>>> 9999999999999999 - 9999999999999998
1
The magic ingredient is SV tech culture. You need the placebo effect of a food product with release notes (https://www.soylent.com/notes/).
Yeah, as long as we’re mixing notations, it’s really:

*i :: Integer

From which you can conclude i :: Ptr Integer.

And the dereference operator does have the type you specified, but not in an lvalue—there the operator is really a mixfix one:

(*_ = _) :: Ptr a -> a -> a

This isn’t specified directly by the standard, but follows from the rules about how an assignment operator must examine the structure of its first operand.
thx @gfldex, index needs to be simpler, the topic pages are great, just what I would have expected.
>She hadn’t ever looked into obtaining a permit, Ruelas said, because she only sold or exchanged food items once or twice a month at most, as a hobby on occasional weekends

Well, that's a business. Not a big one but still one. If I did coding for people once or twice a month for a bit of money, I'd be operating a business. Again, low volume, but still a business.

You might say she didn't mean any harm and didn't know - well that's why a plea bargain was offered to everyone involved. When you get stubborn over it, well, then you go to court, single mother of six or not.
Question: How do you deal with authorisation? I've still yet to come up with a solution I'm happy with unfortunately; I'm currently relying on a custom token generated server-side that grants given users particular claims that I then check in the database rules, but it feels... brittle, I guess.
Short, but seems an appropriate response given the lack of explanation in the linked article.

IEEE 754 double-precision (64-bit) can only represent even numbers in the range 2^53 to 2^54.

Haskell lets us look inside them fairly easily:

> exponent 9999999999999999.0
54
> significand 9999999999999999.0
0.5551115123125783
> exponent 9999999999999998.0
54
> significand 9999999999999998.0
0.5551115123125782
> 2^54 * 0.5551115123125783
1.0e16
> 2^54 * 0.5551115123125782
9.999999999999998e15
Plenty. Food is a cut-throat competitive business.
What I learned that viewing Node.js docs is that they're perhaps the most unreadable docs I've seen, due to the bajillion point font making for ~30 characters per line.

http://i.imgur.com/ijgFDDr.png

Maybe they're in need of a web designer.
It depends how you define "racism". The author appears to define it as "difference in outcome": do all races have exactly the same income, if not, then it's a racist system.

But another definition, the dictionary one, is active prejudice and/or discrimination based on race. By definition in the author's example, it is not racist, since it is 100% colorblind.

To me it seems the latter definition is the more relevant one. But of course, there is plenty of room to debate this. The author doesn't even start to get into that, sadly - there is no argument, just the consequences of one definition.
Emerald Tablet, some early programming to me
Google allows you to disassociate the data they collect from you from your account. That neither turns off data collection nor guarantees that it's impossible to associate your name with an activity stream.
The most effectively designed ballot for its purpose was probably the one used to decide the
Anschluss referendum

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