skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how that makes the argument of the grandgrandparent post. If some thought had been put into the denominations then what you'd assume to be normalized is purchasing power (since the smallest denominations should correspond to "a fraction of the cheapest thing I could buy" [if we include change] and the biggest should correspond to "more money than is reasonable to carry around for buying stuff"). Following that logic and combining it with yours the conclusion is "100$ in the US has similar purchase power to 15$ in India" or "things are cheaper in India", which really doesn't say much to me.
C++ is one of the most powerful and ubiquitous languages in software engineering but keep in mind that you wont find much C++ in webdev because Python,Ruby,PHP, etc are at a higher level of abstraction and their interpreter was likely written in C.
This has downstream implications on:

1) Voting and democracy. No one can easily buy off votes for Rs.500 or Rs.1000.
2) Real estate transactions.
3) Gold transactions. Now I bet you cannot sell off gold that easily as you would not be given cash in return.
I would agree that on land makes a lot of sense in terms of living space, but in terms of trade and all of the other factors which have traditionally driven humans to the coasts, not so much. By contrast Mars offers nothing that isn't more readily obtained from asteroids, and still offers a gravity well to be stuck in. If you want zero G, vacuum industries, that kind of thing... moons or large asteroids make much more sense than Mars.

A terraformed Mars makes sense, but it's not exactly impending. If you just think about it terms of colonies on Earth, colonies existed because they had something to offer the "mainland". Sugar, rum, slaves, spices... something. Colonies without that benefit didn't stay colonies for long, and what's the point of creating... I don't know... SpaceHaiti2000?
The release of this actually prompted me to finally build a hardware emulator using Raspberry Pi and RetroPie. For about the same price, you can get a box and controller that will run Everything from N64 and PS1 down to the old school Ataris and NES games. Not a bad project and all the necessary kit is available on Amazon...
Definitely. The use of object pools for performance is common in game development regardless of language.

It's something that I tend to add in as needed or when I have decided that a game I'm working on warrants this level of engineering. (i.e. I wouldn't care about it as much if I'm just programming pong or Tetris.)
On 3, there is https://github.com/firebase/backbonefire, which is our official library for the Firebase Realtime Database + Backbone. We'd be happy to work with you to add additional web features (Auth, Storage, etc.)
No idea why you're getting downvotes. You're completely right.

I was there when GNOME started. Was working heavily with GTK+ and GIMP at the time. Most of GNOME was tossed together haphazardly in a mad dash to catch up with KDE. There were astroturfing campaigns against KDE/Qt, organized on the GIMP IRC servers. The hate on Slashdot towards KDE was crazy, and much of it coming directly from GNOME camp. GNOME 1.x was a total shitshow. The code was horrid, and nothing was stable at all. Luckily their poor standards of code quality never hurt GTK+ much, as the GIMP guys still knew what the hell they were doing.
I can't tell if the part under "The Legend of Zelda" is sarcasm or I'm really that old:

"Never heard of this one. Doesn’t look very good IMHO."

Really? When I think of Nintendo I think of "The Legend of Zelda".
If that puppy blows, any colony on Mars would almost certainly die off, unless they had become totally self-sufficient. I can't imagine that an Earth struggling with that level of natural disaster would bother with such a far-flung enterprise.
Or perhaps they were men who liked the adrenaline rush of the 'scary bridge' and were pleased to find a female that appeared to also like that rush. As an experimental setup I too was unconvinced it adequately accounted for other effects.
This would be to find those multi-registered voters. Considering the current system is merely first + lastname, I think either approach above would be superior and without leaking SSN's to yet another government database.
Plus you get added bonus of not giving the money to the people who made the games.

I do use emulation, but they are making an effort to sell the games.
I believe I get less lag in xterm within an Ubuntu VM than with iTerm2.
How do you distinguish between legitimate Hillary supporters, and CTR shills?
As much as I want to support Nintendo, I have to admit I've been playing NES and SNES with roms on the computer since early 2000s. My parents wouldn't buy me any game consoles or handheld devices so the computer was the only way to go.

RetroPie and other hw apps would be fun to set up, but it's just so easy with emulator and roms that anyone can do it within a few mins.

If you want the nostalgia, just download the emulator and roms and plug in a $5 usb controller. It'll be over soon and it's back to the PS4 or XBOX...
> The current method is a way to fight black money. For corruption there are other ways, and maybe some will be taken.

"Black money" term is so misplaced, it should be untaxed ruppes. It wont affect untaxed assets (overeseas and here).

And guess who has most untaxed ruppes and who cant afford to lose any more ? Low/Middle Class. Good job Modi. You just alienated they very people who voted you in the office.
The problem with this idea is that, if you're relying on undefined behavior and don't know it, your compiler's behavior might change depending (at a minimum) on the code you use in production but not in your test case and depending on the compiler version.

It's much better to avoid undefined behavior entirely. The problem with this idea is that it's hard to learn and remember all the different kinds of undefined behavior.
An Ode to Async-Await
Ah come on, this is a dick comment.

It's totally fair for you to criticize the content of the post, and even correlate that to the author's failed startup. But don't be so fucking smug about it.

This is a community that celebrates making things people want, and I'll be damned if RethinkDB didn't succeed on that front. I think Slava & co deserve respect for that, even as we learn from whatever business mistakes occurred.
Yeah, I'm the same. It's a shame since I hear it's a great game, but the graphics turn me off. I still play earlier 2d RPGs (chrono trigger, earthbound, etc.) and PS2 era 3d RPGs (shin megami tensei, suikoden), but I never play PS1 era games.
There's no point in making people just to think more. They have to think very carefully and along a very specific line of though: they have to ask, "Is it really the way you say it is?", every single time something, anything, meaningful is at stake, for the rest of their lives.

People talk endlessly about their values. They talk about self-reliance, decency, honor. But we betray our values if we don't know what really is true. We work against our best interest and our dearest of things when we are mislead the moment we stop asking what really is. No matter what the values.

How about some self-reliance of thought for a change.

Make no mistake, it is a 30-year project to fix peoples. You need to educate a single generation before things start to get better. But then they will. Happens every time and in every country and in every culture. Skip that and no matter what you try, everything falls apart eventually if the people don't want to ask what really is true. Everything else is built on top of that. Nothing else is sufficient anymore, not in this age we now find ourselves in.

PS. I agree - I am greatly in favor of shortening any feedback loops in any system, societal, political, business, software development - it is what makes systems robust against changing environments.
Profit fell to $400k, there are many people that actually make this kind of money as employees.
It's not specific to "Linux Mint" but several Linux distributions (affected as well, running Ubuntu).

What really happens is that the LinuxFoundation uses a third-party "event.on24.com" for streaming presentations.

The issue is with Linux Foundation not vetting and testing their streaming partner so that their service works well with Linux distributions. The error message is not useful and does not help you to solve the issue.
The parent post was edited.
It'd be neat to see emulators of this quality on the Switch, which looks like it's going to be a fantastic console. OTOH, quite a bit more expensive for the consumer!
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You can have the insights without the insults. They add literally nothing, except to degrade the conversation until HN is indistinguishable from 4chan.
Sterile seeds are not really made/sold. Patented genes are nothing specific to GMO: varieties developed in "traditional" ways are also patented.

The reasons you cite for avoiding GMOs are really completely non-issues.

("Traditional" ways, non-GMO, mean things like induced mutagenesis: expose seeds to radiation, poisons and other carcinogens; then wait for mutations, pick a few, and cross-breed. You don't know what happened, but somehow that's supposed to be good, better than an engineered change.)
That's why I cite Reuters below which reports identical data. Profit fell by 95,7% down to about $400k.
This action can boost-up bitcoins in Indian market now.
Ah yes, the spirit of oil money and slave labor, truly inspiring stuff.
I'd like to see one where you can buy packs of games. Shooter pack, square RPG pack, Nintendo classics pack, etc...

Probably makes things a lot more difficult though.
No.

Using an arbitrary piece of paper for a transaction isn't illegal, is it? If two individuals in India agree to an exchange of goods, but with USD instead of INR, that isn't illegal, is it? It's just that whoever received that amount in USD can't deposit it in an Indian bank; not without converting it into INR in the first place, at which point they're effectively depositing INR.

Replace USD above with any paper currency, or non-currency paper for that matter. If you have someone willing to take a piece of paper from you in return for something, there, you have a transaction. It's just that, the other person would be unwise to accept a piece of paper they can't put to use.

A ₹1000 note being "not legal tender" simply means that no Indian bank will accept it being worth one thousand INR. If someone wants to accept such notes in return for anything, they can; they just can't deposit it in an Indian bank (after December 30).

A ₹1000 note being "illegal" would mean that it would be a crime to possess, offer, exchange, display, disperse, aerosolize, or apply some other action or combination of actions to it that isn't otherwise illegal already.

And that, is not the case.
"Atos Quantum" Program Launches in Europe
> they don't have the same nostalgia feel with a wider audience that the first 2 Nintendo consoles do.

Oh, yes they do.

Sincerely,
Born in the late 80's
This is a great release. I know a lot of people have been waiting for async/await downlevel support (transpiling async/await to ES3/ES5 for use in contemporary and older browsers), including some of my own projects.

Better type inferencing of course makes writing code better for everyone.

Also, somewhat buried in this announcement is showing off support for more modular lib.d.ts support, which is also something that has been patiently needed. (Up to now the basic types and expectations of the target ES version you were transpiling to were in big monolithic definition files making it harder to "pick and choose" as needed for your project: the most common case being one shown here that most browsers support native promises from ES2015 and/or are easily polyfilled, but you still want to mostly stick everything else to ES5 output code for the time being.)
I think there is a misunderstanding here about the "lose their job" part. This is not about a factory floor worker getting fired for buying the wrong brand of car (they might even take public transport to work), it's about a general fear that if the car industry breaks down, everything breaks down. Imagine how people in silicon valley would feels if there was a risk of all forms of electronic communications getting phased out. They might be quite reluctant to adopt that newfangled form of messaging by avian carriers that some Hogwarts company is bringing to market.
Yes, but it would be even more interesting as a closed loop from Abu Dhabi to Dubai to Al Ain to Abu Dhabi. That would be the ultimate transit system for the country.
It became a struggle to increase my value as an employee. So I moved on.
You missed a Bomberman game in your list. We used to play Super Bomberman 5 (?) on an emulator and we had tons of fun.
there goes my winter.
Best review of The Legend of Zelda in the last 30 years:

"Never heard of this one. Doesn’t look very good IMHO."

HAH! Definitely laughed out loud. Great collection of games.
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To be fair, as a Mac user I've only ever encountered that when using some rich text editors, but primarily word processors where your literal text isn't what you want (WYSIWYG editors). When dealing with plain text, even in browser comment blocks, it's always left my ' and " characters alone.
Gravity might have a lot to do with the electro-magnetism force. I've written "electro" separately on purpose because gravity and electromagnetic force might fundamentally be the same forces caused by the same electrons. Remember both magnetic and gravity forces act vertically. The gravity might be just an EM force on the pull mode.
I mainly like it because scrollback works in the GUI.
At the top of this thread, one could see the goalposts. At that point a "live and let live" attitude toward speculative investing was advocated, appropriately for a site like HN.

Here the argument seems to be that a transportation project in Dubai is somehow the same as Goldman purchasing CDSs from AIG.
> NGC proposed ( Nano GPS Chips)

Such a thing is neither possible nor wise, and thus, doesn't exist. Where did you get something like this from? Check your sources.
Ask HN: How much do you lie/exaggerate in your CV?
I'm currently applying for jobs and I'm wondering how much people on HN lie or exaggerate on their CV.

I'll admit I've exaggerated how much experience I have using some technologies, but only because I believe I should be able to learn quickly enough for it to not be obvious if I got the position.

Is this a bad strategy? Some roles seem to ask for experience in technologies that would take a few hours to learn at best. I feel like in these situations it can't hurt too much, but could help a lot with pre-selection of my application.
Is serverless cron something you´d pay money for?
There is a large market for maintaining legacy COBOL, SNOBOL, and various esoteric assembly codebases. Additionally APL and its derivatives are not entirely dead.
Maybe something like this would be an easy start: http://githubbadges.com/
I fully concur. This is an excellent summary and suggestion for future progress.

The barriers to moving beyond Excel can be overcome, but it will take some serious effort on many fronts. Both Excel and SQL embody genius concepts, but are such poor implementations that it is easy to conflate the cruft with the advantages.
Sharing data structures in RAM between 64 bit and 32 bit and 16 bit architectures brings this home painfully. Data communications is equivalently plainful, possibly moreso becaude one has no knowledge of the receiver's architecture. Sending multi-byte values between big- and little-endian machines, for example.

The test could also have included questions on things like packing bools and enums into structures. Again critical to get righht when sharing or transmitting structs, or anything bigger than a char.
Keep in mind that the C++ standard has been rapidly evolving over the last couple years. If you look at QT for example, it shows a snapshot of where the future of the language is headed and its becoming more and more powerful each day. Don't think C++ is on the way out for a second.
As non English native, I gladly accept corrections to improve it....
I have started thinking that those who now work at Microsoft are blind to its flaws by default.

The classic example being Windows 10 - anyone who is actually not blind to the fiasco of the automatic upgrades/issues around further updates [1] notices that there is a certain brutality in the way the whole thing was carried out. After installing the unwanted Windows 10 OS on probably hundreds of millions of perfectly fine Windows 7 machines, they claimed that some 300+ million computers were now running on Windows 10. [2] My guess is, less than half of those were actually desired by the end users. And a few more iterations of these botched auto-updates, and "happy Windows 10 user" is going to become an oxymoron.

This episode went so much against the spirit of open source that these claims seem a little comical. It is probably true that MS had to make these choices to maximize shareholder profit, but lets just take it down a notch on the supposed openness.

To those who wish to still make this 'open by default' claim, I welcome MS to open source Windows 7 and Windows XP and see if they can sustain the same kind of growth after that point [3]

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=windows%2010%20update&sort=byP...

[2] http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-300-million-active-d...

[3] http://www.computerworld.com/article/3054528/microsoft-windo...
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I agree. Lots of startups are created with this goal in mind. I have a tough time believing a lot of the popular ones are because of some inner calling, vision, or passion, despite the CEO press tidbits and about pages.

My view is you should always start with a problem that is significant to you, and solve it. I know that making a living is important, but if the problem applies to more than just you and you can charge actual money for it, I feel it is worth trying. The next question is if you can afford to take on such a risk, as it is a great one. This is substantially more risk than thinking of something to think of something because you want to run a company and/or make money. In the end, if you solve your own problem, you at least have that if you lose completely or go nowhere with it.

This of course is a rosy view and things like debt and moral responsibility to employees increase the cost of such a strategy. From an optimistic point of view, this is how I would hope people try to start their companies - with good, utilitarian intentions.

I for one am so tired of all the companies that are in search of a problem that does not need solving. I am also tired of all the cash given to companies that solve some problem, but don't meet the 2nd part of what I said - make money. If you can't tell me how your company will make money in 1 sentence, you have at best a hobby, not a real company. Unfortunately, we have a billion dollar industry of glorified hobbies.

I also feel the same about advertising-based funding, but that's another minefield and to some degree one could argue at least is necessary in some spaces - ex: TV, newspapers. Too many people use ads as a hand-waiving excuse to explain how they will make money.

Unfortunately, the cold-hard capitalistic view of things and use whatever advantages you can get. Sometimes this means screw the morals, passion, soul, ethics, etc. But you know it does work and some people convince themselves they are happy. Maybe they are, but for many of us like me, I seek more intellectual purity than financial glory (as much as I want the latter).
Fwiw, if you buy a Wii for $50 at GameStop, you can connect to the internet over wifi and buy many NES, SNES, GameCube, and N64 games for it and play them natively on the Wii. Here are some games we downloaded for our kids and all play together:

Super Metroid
Super Mario 1
Super Mario 2
Super Mario 3
Super Mario RPG
Super Mario World
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Sonic 3
Kirby's Dreamland 3
So we agree anti-GMOers not eating GMO food does not hurt you or anybody else.

There may be people who would benefit from GMO food, but there aren't any food products that are available only as GMO versions. This makes it a political problem, not a "you can't have it if there is no GMO".

And equating anti-GMOers with anti-vaxxers isn't a solution to any problem nor reasonable.
If it takes a few hours to learn it, learn it. If I interview you and you say you're an expert in X, and you have a blank look when I ask you about X, you've lost the job, even if you're otherwise brilliant.
0 to 60 in 9.2 seconds. That is a deal killer for $50,000+ cars usually.
Microsoft Office has this "feature", too.

LaTeX (and probably TeX alone, but I never use it without LaTeX) supports something similar, but AFAICT only in appropriate contexts (matching pairs of `` and '' are converted to the appropriate quote, as are ` and ', but they don't seem to affect "typewriter text", so the smart quotes stay out of my code snippets). Or maybe I just haven't noticed LaTeX munging all over my document.
Yeah, I only included the link as a proof that we're actually using Kotlin in production :)

1. Kotlin issues:

- Libraries that use reflection (such as Gson) can break some assumptions that Kotlin makes (for example, a read-only field may actually change). There's maybe 2 or 3 little things like that that may catch you by surprise, but once you figure them out it's easy to work around them.

- Stack traces in lambdas are obscure sometimes. Sometimes you won't get the line number.

- Proguard integration has proven challenging.

2. We started from Kotlin.

3. Learning Clojure and Haskell has made me yearn for more functional languages and better type systems. Kotlin has that, in a neat syntax that's very beginners friendly.

I'm firmly convinced that a good programming language needs:

- Strong library ecosystem

- Static type system + type inference. (I won't get into the static/dynamic argument here. Suffice to say that there's a whole class of bugs that you can avoid with static typing, and type inference makes the "but I hate these types cluttering my code" argument irrelevant)

- Killer IDE support (essential for productivity. If you're writing a large application without using an IDE that gives you code inspection and navigation, you're wasting your time)

Kotlin has these 3 things.

4. Top improvement: can't wait for Kotlin 1.1 to be released, and start using coroutines. Other than that, I'm happy with it.