skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NES did have Punch Out cartridges with Mr Dream. Mike Tyson was only part of a 3-year licensing deal Nintendo decided not to renew[1]. So all cartridges sold after 1990 had Mr Dream. Also, it wasn't just a palette swap (but it was similar) [2][3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch-Out!!_(NES)#Punch-Out.21...
[2] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50d0fc0ae4b0c75e54db0...
[3] http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/db528cfd3fffe07...
At http://nugget.one we simply ask 1000's of people if they have a problem that can be fixed by software to tell us about it.

That seems to be a pretty great way to uncover lucrative startup ideas in markets that you never could have imagined.
The funny thing is, FF7 (and other early 3d games) aged far worse than early 2d games. There's a resurgence in indie platformers in the style of 2d games, while most of the 3d games from the N64/Playstation era just look outdated.
Interesting. I knew it would be good enough to do SNES games but I am quite surprised it is actually more powerful than the 3DS and Wii. Then again the Wii is 10 years old so yeah it makes sense. Wow that 10 years went fast.
It's running Linux, btw.: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/11/nintendo-nes-classic-sing...
You can't compare 1978 with 2016. Removing 500 and 1000 rupee notes as legal tender in 2016 accounts to more than 80% of total cash circulation. This is huge. 1000 Rupee note was a very small percentage of cash circulation in 1978.
Threema is a direct competitor to Signal.
Even though I'll happily claim to being all aboard the Elixir train, I've looked at Kotlin due to so many of my Java friends talking about it. I really like everything I've seen from it.

If/when I finally need to get around to learning to make an Android app it's definitely the first place I'll look.
Will Progressive Web Apps Kill Off Native Apps?
There used to be a couple of them for Python, but it seems they've died out.

- Resolver One ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolver_One )

- Project Dirigible ( https://github.com/pythonanywhere/dirigible-spreadsheet )
Could you say a bit more about what you'd like to see in a "reimagined" SQL? Are there any serious efforts to replace it?

There was a comment thread around here a week or two ago where someone pointed out it's kind of insane SQL has stuck around so long, and no one could point to any worthy potential replacements.
>I think a lot of countries in the near future will see the Internet as essential to their national security and thus try to limit foreign influence as much as they can with varying degrees of success

an alternative: weaponize critical thinking and distribute it widely, especially to traditionally backwards groups. a skeptical citizenry is unlikely to fall prey to foreign propaganda.

hey, it's never been tried before. maybe it can win the information wars.

i'm just kidding, of course. governments and their corporate partners are terrified of general enlightenment because it means their death
Or perhaps reminders of personal-mortality increase interest in procreation to sustain the species.
Not true. 25 States and DC currently have medical marijuana laws AND more to come after today.

http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourc...
Internal competition means strictly less competition. Now you could question whether more competition necessarily means higher quality.

I think it generally does, but anything dominated by network effects is an exception to this rule, because quality and market share are mostly synomymous.

An exception to the exception are services that are based on network effects but subject to fast changing fashions.
My admittedly anecdotal evidence is I know very talented people that have left the region to avoid litigation from their former employers and start their own ventures or advance their careers. Perhaps you have a lawyer that can compete with a corporate legal team, most of us do not.

Also, we can't even type "silicon" properly :D

My non-anecdotal evidence:
https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/18/silicon-valley-keeps-winni...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-17/silicon-va...
To add some data to this discussion: the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) was ~17 rupees to 1 dollar as of 2015, as per "The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)".

The PPP is, in simple terms, the amount of money in each currency that can buy similar amounts of goods; so taking this PPP at face value, what 1 dollar can buy in the US, 17 rupees can buy in India. This is of course not entirely true, because it's an averaged value, and there's other complications, but it's at least a better starting point than assuming Rs 66 per dollar.

[1] https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SNA_TABLE4
I don't understand why you were downvoted. Your question is valid and relevant. There are problems with the current election process, that were evident in the primary elections. There are many manufacturers of e-voting machines, but these are opaque, proprietary and possibly hackable (as has been demonstrated in past years by security researchers). With current wave of interst in blockchain technology, there are several new ventures that are exploring blockchain as an immutable, authoritative record or log that cannot be hacked. The problem is that it is too transparent (people may see who you voted for, not just that you voted). But I think this problem can be solved, and will likely be solved. It may take a few years.

Here's an answer from Quora that I found helpful: https://www.quora.com/Can-blockchain-technology-be-used-in-s...
I personally welcome negative opinions on Elm. While that article is mostly complaining that it's not Haskell, the fact that Elm only gets praise somehow puts me off.
Exactly. I immediately thought "implementation specific" on the first question but then didn't see that as an option. By the second question, I had caught on that 'D' was the intended answer throughout.
This thing has better hardware specs than the 3DS and the Wii. It'd be nice if this sold well and they then offered a SNES controller + games, then N64, and so on, so the only games it can't run are on the Wii U or Switch. (Edit: beaten to it.. ah well.)
I used to take lithium and brought up to my doctor that it destroyed my creativity, which affected my job. His answer was, "Then the medication is doing its job."

Psychiatry has been a very unempathetic field in my experience (across 4-5 doctors), so a "deal with it" response would be unsurprising.
So, been sketching on the new design, what do you think about this: http://ivelope.com/img/newdesign.png ?
1. Tesla is pivoting into an energy company that happens to make cars on the side. If it doesn't die because Model 3 flops (not saying that it will or won't, mind you) its future looks quite bright.

2. Teslas driving around right now are doing what they call fleet learning for self-driving purposes.

3. Tesla is absolutely getting ready for post ownership era of motorization, in fact the autopilot effort and announcements regarding for-profit car sharing only being available through Tesla network directly confirm that.
What do you think about this?
http://ivelope.com/img/newdesign.png
Try starting with something simple, like 15 pushups a day.
Messenger Platform v1.3 Features – Messenger Platform
> Don't forget it's a chicken and egg issue as well - without funding you don't get services, which makes you blame the govt and not want to give them more funding.

Tell me how the taxes government already has, doing ?

> We've had the green and white revolutions, the IITs and other edu programs, large medical programs, ISRO (and the sensing tech that comes with it).

Correct me If I am wrong, this does not even account for 1% of tax spending.

> This is from a once impoverished country which later had to deal with the fallout of weaker institutions, brain drain and corruption/dacoity/booth capturing and a whole host of problems that include terrorism and war.

No this is from 60 years governments who still havnt stop exploiting its people.

> taxation is not a choice.

The issue is not taxation. Its where its being spent. If I had more say, I will gladly pay more. But I hope you understand why I would avoid paying (as much as I can, and ofc legally) taxes if its not even being spent on me.

Indian governments (current & previous) has failed its people and its most undeserving of taxes.
Maybe, fear and the sexual impulse is often described as related.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-embodied-mind/20130...

Antony Beevor's book "Berlin: The Downfall 1945" comes to mind.
There is a chapter in that book where the witnesses describes increased sexual activity in the city during and between the bombardments.
> What gets interesting is what games do they put on the SNES? ...building a list of 30 such games would take hours to trim down.

Took me ten minutes. Although if I knew it weren't super unlikely, I would sneak Uniracers and EVO: Search for Eden onto this list. Also, yes I know there are a ton more great games for SNES. It was an awesome system. But these seem like good candidates.

* Chrono Trigger
* Donkey Kong Country
* Donkey Kong Country 2
* Earthbound
* F-Zero
* Final Fight
* Final Fantasy 2
* Final Fantasy 3
* Harvest Moon
* Illusion of Gaia
* Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
* Mega Man X
* Killer Instinct
* NBA Jam
* Pilotwings
* Secret of Mana
* Sim City
* Star Fox
* Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
* Super Castlevania IV
* Super Ghouls n' Ghosts
* Super Mario Kart
* Super Mario World
* Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
* Super Metroid
* Super Punch-Out!!!
* Super R-Type 3
* Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4: Turtles in Time
* Tetris Attack
* Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Python 201 Is the Featured Book on Leanpub Today
iTerm2 has integration with tmux. Much better than the default Terminal shipped with macOS.
i think you could have some fun with this idea

the op author likens voltage to pressure(o)(i) within the water analogy and your osmotic membrane(ii) functions as a sort of pressure responsive valve

i'm sure there are some mental acrobatics to describe a capacitor's relationships: Q=CV; between charge(Q), capacitance(C), and pressure..er, voltage(V) using osmotic principles in place of the capacitance variable addressing the permittivity of the dialectric(iii)

but you'd have to describe osmotic pressure while waving away incongruencies between the two concepts and i think you'd end up so deep into enervated analogies it would just be better to explain in direct language ;P

(o) http://amasci.com/miscon/voltpres.html

(i) http://amasci.com/miscon/voltage.html

(ii) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmotic_pressure

(iii) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance
This is one of most common reasons to leave a job; unfortunately no one will acknowledge or admit it.

I wanted to succeed in my previous company and built rapport with my manager and other team mates. We had a reorg, and another developer from another vertical joined our team. He was not interested in coding and would not code review any code. I called him out once during a pairing session but he went defensive. He took up minor task and passed the buck around. At any rate, to my dismay he was promoted as our manager in a few months. Needless to say he would retort to berating me and other team members.

I left the job without trying to burn bridges. On the last day, he called me out during the standup and "hoped he would get hard working team members in the future"

Almost all of my team mates left the job or have moved to other teams.
Is a Mobile App Right for Your Business?
As a starter I would suggest to you and any others that read this reply to just simply shoot a quick note over at https://www.freesunglasscompany.com/pages/contact-us. It will come direct to me
This whole article uses condescension as a comedic device, it works for some and not others. But he wasn't actually condescending, he was just trying to entertain.
This takes a massive amount of capital and distribution is usually through department stores that both sell and often install the machines. Getting into department stores will be an uphill battle but, that's still less hard and cheaper than trying to make an installer network across a country.

You might initially make an enthusiast market of people willing to pay for quality and install the machines themselves but, it would have to be very specialized marketing. Maybe to people who service and repair appliances initially?

The author mentions mattresses and that market is being disrupted but, other than shipping (which seems a pretty sizable problem to solve) they don't have to worry too much about installation.

Also, the network of people to service the machines after the fact. It's hard, it will take alot of money and the most likely outcome is being purchased by one of the big companies and then they do the same thing sa before and use the brand but, make the same shitty machines underneath the disrupting company's logo.
The one where he talks to the guy at the basketball court asking him how he's walking again - when the guy turns there's a huge (teal or blue or some such color) Adidas logo on his back that looks very out of place in that scene at least for me.
"... the awesome comments that happen here."

Happen here. In context. In the community.
Thanks. That page has so much popup junk that I opened Inspect Element and deleted the popup nodes just to read the thing.
In addition to what the other guy said, think about vulnerability to terrorism.

Blow up a support for a segment of tube in the right spot at the right time, and you turn the train into a kinetic kill weapon. (it's traveling 50% faster than a 747!) I'd hate to see that done when it was going through a city.

Blow up a support at any point at the right time, and you've murdered a tube of passengers, plus completely shut down an entire segment of transportation infrastructure for a significant amount of time. Do you know how much it cost the US to shut down all air traffic on 9/11?

Basically, hyperloop is a lot more feasible in a world without homicidal nutjobs - but, alas...
I experienced some depression, as a teenager, and remember eventually finding a kind of 'logical' (or perhaps 'philosophical') way out of it.

A key part of this was that, for me, depression is linked to lack of purpose. So there was this question hanging over me, 'what is the purpose of it all'. Well the answer to that question was then essentially 'why are you asking?'.

Putting it less glibly, if you are unhappy about your life, and need some purpose, then introspection about your unhappiness (exactly what are you unhappy about?) can be a way to find for yourself a kind of implied purpose.

And then, another part of it was the realisation that depression can actually make you more powerful, in some ways. To explain this a bit more, if you find yourself in a state where you are not so much able to be motivated by simple desires, then you are also not constrained by them. So, you are able to do do/achieve things that you might not normally be able to do, because you would get bored, for example, or be distracted by the need to do things that make you happy.

And I kind of liked the idea, and aesthetic, of 'just getting your head down and moving stolidly forward'. And, 'if you can't find something to do that will make you happy or interested, maybe you are then free to do something that is right'.
Which is also a reason your are seeing more textual front-ends for UML.
This €500m investor is using AI to find the world’s best startups
You clearly don't understand the implication - wait and watch
Rstudio is nice, no doubts there; however, I find myself avoiding language-centric IDEs. If one uses R most of the time, it's fine, but as someone who usually writes in multiple languages in a day, I find myself appreciating emacs' modes more (of which the Julia one is fine). It's also why I like the fact that the semi-official Julia IDE, Juno, isn't a standalone application (it runs in Atom and is nice, if one doesn't mind the performance of Atom...)

edit: spelling
Yup, I deal with the unsigned char issue at work all the time, I've got a pile of code with casts to unsigned all over the place due to decoding some legacy data formats. I'm not sure what the cleanest way to fix it is, but I find myself writing nasty stuff like:

(((short)((unsigned char)a)) << 8)

Which works but goddamn is it ever hard to read. Bracket highlighting makes it just bearable. Fortunately I've abstracted this kind of stuff out as much as possible so I only have it in a few places, but it still bites me in the ass sometimes. Curious if anyone has a cleaner way of expressing this?
I went to the Expo in Milan in 2015. What a waste of time and money.
Yeah I tried doing a whole RetroPie route about a year and a half ago using wireless Xbox 360 controllers. Remapping controls for different consoles was a huge pain in the ass at the time. I'm sure it has improved since then, but I don't have the patience right now in case it doesn't work as smoothly as I would like.

It did however play PS1 games using a RPi 2 almost perfectly using the original 240p resolution of the games.
Do you have references for this claim? I'd love to read more about this.
Goofy in what way? All other known forces are carried by particles, so why not gravity?
Oh, I don't know, in the past 12 months I have read numerous articles floated as trial balloons for the Euro, the USD, and others.

India is creating a specie exchange in order to gain a tax foothold.
Add several hours of delay between phrases.
Pretty good!
Here is the HDR playlist [1].

I had to switch to Chrome Canary from Firefox to see the colors pop up.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO01J-M3g0U&list=PLyqf6gJt7K...
There's lots of good advice here already - let me add one, for the supplement lovers: Find a good probiotic and run with it for a few months. You might feel some benefits for mood after only a couple days. I've tried a lot of supplements in the last few years (any kind of vitamin, and some broadest-band multivitamins, even methylation stuff like Methyl-B12, Folate, active B6) - but the only ones that really made an impact were probiotics. My favorite probiotics are Mutaflor and Prescript Assist, both costing ~€1 per day - but they are so worth it. Call me a lunatic, but they affect my mood in different ways. Mutaflor makes me grateful for things, and P.A. gives me focus and a sense of purpose in life.
Why limit yourself to zero or one? Julia now lets you use any start point you'd like. A fairly recent change, so you might have missed it.

http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/devdocs/offset-arrays/
Not sure about your location, but in Australia there are fairly accessible courses to help people get into personal training. I imagine that falls short of full, accredited athletic training.

However, could you not get some lower-level qualification and set yourself up doing training 1-2 sessions a week? Gives you something different on the side without needing to make a full income or quit what you already know.
I don't even know C and I got 100%.
Is C++ the only language you code in?
Electromagnetics becomes much more elegant when cast in the language of differential forms. See e.g. [1].

[1] http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/fys/FYS4160/v08/under...
The Power of Not Being Stubborn (Podcast)
You're just rephrasing nonsense. What is "the efficiency gain is exponential" supposed to mean, in concrete terms? This is just empty manager-speak.
Ehhhhh. Not really. It is the rate of charge passing through a cross-section. That's how it's defined, and as an EE student, what you're saying made little-to-no sense to me.
There is an interesting paper that recently explored the de-facto C standard:
Into the Depths of C: Elaborating the De Facto Standards, by Memarian et al.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~km569/into_the_depths_of_C.pdf
Sounds reasonable to me. Consider where we were in year 1016 vs now, and the rate of change is increasing. If current trends continue, 1000 years seems long if anything.

Even without terraforming, large enough domes would probably be good enough.
You literally cannot expect the first two. On word-addressable hardware, you could easily get sizeof(long) = sizeof(int) = 1. This happens on DSPs.
After reading some of the comments below the article, I think that takeaway is that C is less portable than you may believe.
Author here. Thanks for all the comments, I'm surprised to see so much interest here on Hacker News. I figured this would be one of my posts that collected dust.

For the record, my way out of this happened to be psychological, but that doesn't mean I'm against medication. It just didn't happen to be my experience, so I can't comment on it. I try to avoid topics I don't know anything about.
Visual query tools like Tableau don't seem to be going away. I'd love to see an effective open-source alternative to Tableau that doesn't require scripting your own D3 website.
They do have a border, it's just too subtle:

.headline {
text-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);
}
Isn't it the dream of the cypherpunks to fix government? I assume its according to their best judgment unless you think they're working for Mr. Putin or Mr. Trump
I greatly prefer Terminal.app on OS X, very standards compliant and predictable; if a bit slow but iTerm2 is slow as well.
I guess you don't spend too much time looking at the typical C code written on most average enterprise shops.

Back when I used to code C professionally on early 2000's, these type of issues were quite common.

Specially since regardless of what one reads on HN, or hears at most conferences, most of those companies, which tend to see IT as a cost center, usually don't employ any processes regarding code reviews, static analysis or unit tests.

Which in languages like C this means an heavy price when things blow up, or the way things are going with IoT.

So given the increase in CVE entries, this still matters a lot.
Do these videos have anything to do with beginners making mistakes, floating points and other type conversions, bus factor of 1, spaghetti code, etc?

All I see is the same old Martin Shkreli video that has been floated around before, and all you see him do is 'Vim' around as he explains his thoughts -- not on Excel, but on company financials.

Also, if you post a lopsided list of pros, it makes sense to the audience to see someone else post a lopsided list of cons. But then you reply with pettiness. Why?
But there can still be Bitcoin <=> Bitcoin transactions as an alternative to Paytm et al. It's very unlikely to pick up though I guess.
Sure, it hurts the anti-vaxxers and their offspring the most, but it becomes a problem if herd immunity is lost.

Plus since we can't just off the anti-vaxxers or let their sprogs die, society bears the cost of dealing with the messes they create.
Don't know C. I got all the answers write...do I know C?
The efficiency gain vs time invested is not exponential. It's linear at best and plateaus after about 5k hours. It is this plateauing of the curve that is the biggest reason power Excel users move to R or Python. That was certainly my experience after eeking everything I could out of Excel in 15 years of trading floor fixed income. A visual 2d paradigm is excellent for quick productivity but is severely limiting as complexity and data size rises. Even with VB.
If those advocates were sellers, then they were all proposing this as a panacea - and no tool is a panacea. Anybody who promises to solve all your problems is selling snake oil.
We have a product that uses ipv6 for inter-server communications. We've since learned that most major corporations routinely disable ipv6 on every computer.

Not helping.
The US is kind of funny, we've (as far as i know) never withdrawn backing for a bill. If you have a silver certificate, you can spend it on a pack of gum. If you have a $1000 bill, you can deposit it in the bank.

You might have some hassle getting the bank to believe you, of course, those bills are probably in pretty poor shape. But you should be able to exchange them for new currency. Although, it might be worth more to sell to a collector. there aren't that many around.