skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like the download page is getting hammered.

FWIW, the download buttons on the big white panels didn't work for me. If you scroll further down the page to the list of all downloads, that worked.
(Cockroach Labs co-founder here) The source files contain tab characters (gofmt enforces this for all go projects). We configure our editors to render tabs as two spaces. There's no deep reason for this; we've just gotten used to two-space indents from our time at Google and other projects that used this convention.

Since Go code is formatted with tabs, you can mostly get away with setting the indentation to whatever you want. The one practical problem with letting people choose their own values for the width of a tab is that it becomes tricky to enforce a uniform line length, so we've standardized on two-space indents (and 100-char line lengths) across the project.
The problem wasn't with the "fake news", whatever that even means. The problem was that the so-called "real news" sites were lying through their teeth non-stop all election.
As long as we've got a lot of GPU cycles to burn, I'd love to see a live video user interface with beautiful simulated vidicon camera tube blooming and overdriving effects.

Overblooming picture effects from my Sony AVC-3250CE B&W camera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKnTNHyPNrs

More target overdrive visual effects from Concord NEI-17 vidicon camera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srga4173uaY

The Tubes - White Punks On Dope (1977 R0X M1X):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rpXIuTcOiI

Vidicon Camera Tube:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_camera_tube#Vidicon

"An image orthicon camera can take television pictures by candlelight because of the more ordered light-sensitive area and the presence of an electron multiplier at the base of the tube, which operated as a high-efficiency amplifier. It also has a logarithmic light sensitivity curve similar to the human eye. However, it tends to flare in bright light, causing a dark halo to be seen around the object; this anomaly is referred to as "blooming" in the broadcast industry when image orthicon tubes were in operation. Image orthicons were used extensively in the early color television cameras, where the increased sensitivity of the tube was essential to overcome their very inefficient optical system of the other parts of the camera."

Bloom Shader Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_(shader_effect)

"Practical implementation: Current generation gaming systems are able to render 3D graphics using floating point frame buffers, in order to produce HDR images. To produce the bloom effect, the HDRR images in the frame buffer are convolved with a convolution kernel in a post-processing step, before converting to RGB space. The convolution step usually requires the use of a large gaussian kernel that is not practical for realtime graphics, causing programmers to use approximation methods.

Use in Games: Some of the earliest games to use the bloom effect include Outcast and Ico. Bloom was later popularized within the game development community in 2004, when an article on the technique was published by the authors of Tron 2.0. Bloom lighting has been used in many games, modifications and game engines such as Quake Live, Cube 2: Sauerbraten and the Spring game engine. The effect is popular in current generation games, and is used heavily in PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games as well as Nintendo GameCube and Wii. Popular browser-based games such as the MMORPG RuneScape make use of the bloom effect as well."

Afterimage Shader Effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage_(shader_effect)

"Afterimage is a computer graphics effect used by video games. The effect takes the bright parts of a rendered image of the scene, and then fades in a motion blur style fashion as the scene progresses. The result is that bright areas leave a fading trail when the camera is moving. Afterimage can be used to enhance blooming. In some games, the process is named light trail."
Now we're cooking.

The technical steering groups is currently formed out of: Microsoft, Red Hat (so input from the main Linux distro), JetBrains (input from the makers of great tools for developers), Unity (one of the leading game engine makers), Samsung (one of the leading mobile device makers) and now Google.

.NET should have a bright future. And hopefully this should push a few buttons over at Oracle HQ so that Java catches up faster to C#.
Mark-merge is specifically for standalone scalar values. We used it for tree structure (file name, and patent directory), for file attributes, and as a first pass on file content to see if we needed to bother doing a 3-way message.

Tree structure is overrated. The way git handles it works better in practice. Files are an implementation detail, rather than something fundamental about code structure.

Using it as a first pass at content merging was mostly a performance optimization, and also only works if you track individual files as objects.

It might be a useful building block for a system that tracks refactorings as fundamental operations and knows how to do merges on your AST instead of on the serialized text form of your choice. But as far as I know no such system exists yet, and merging complex data structures is far more complex than simply merging their individual building blocks.
I'd say that misses both my criteria: it looks just like lots of cat drawings any three-year-old has been exposed to, and it also seems like an image Google would have no trouble recognizing as a cat.
I doubt it is either, but how is Snopes remotely in a position to make this call? Snopes is a site for researching urban myths not for making complicated sociopolitical analysis.
How can I get one of those Fujifilm jumpsuits??
here's a youtube live link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUUd4S3FBrQ
Wow. A pair of glasses that not even Karl Lagerfeld can make look cool.

Also- did Snapchat really think those tiny ballons were enough to lift that snapbot vending machine off the ground? Don't make me laugh, Snapchat!
The discussion thread here strikes me as confused because people are looking at an era several centuries back and using current norms (both economic and cultural) to analyze it.

Beds used to be luxuries and having just 1 person per bed was very rare.

As late as Colonial America inns would put multiple people per bed. Heck, this persisted into the 19th century! Lincoln, as I recall, shared a bed. Much hay is made of this buy revisionists who want to use this fact to argue that Lincoln may have been gay. (FWIW, I don't know and don't care). But the mistake they're making is obvious.

Imagine if in 2150 people look at old pictures of people driving in the same car and whisper to each other "ooh, kinky! ...and there's a dog in there too!"
You're right that the text doesn't call it out but I was assuming PGSD[1] which would have the same practical effects and would be less controversial.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_fertilisation#Preimpl...
It honestly sounds like something Krautchan or /r/de would write (Zangendeutsch)
Nice. Is there a way to see list of the keywords for which a video makes, say, the top 100 results?
> Colored and extra-large iPhones, <...> being a marketing offer.

I do not understand how they are stepping on the same thing like 20+ years ago - they have too many versions for the same type of device.

They have different names for it: Pro, SE, S, Plus, Air, mini. And it's inconsistent, e.g. ipad Air is not the smallest ipad, where does SE stack in current Apple naming?

They add colors to mix all this (not to mention gazillion bands for watches).

They do not transition their mobile tech to usb-c which creates miserable dongle-gate within their own hardware ecosystem. Maybe can someone give a reason why they are still sticking with lightning? Even using it for their pencil, new mouse, new trackpad and new keyboard.

Apple has much better name and consistency than most hardware manufacturers, but it's getting so confusing than it used to be[0]. I understand there are more products today, but I guess all of them can be delivered in Pro and consumer versions with consistent peripherals so when people spend couple of thousand bucks on your products they do not need to go back to the store and spend another hundred to dongle up.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iTNWZF2m3o
Apparently is not really Visual Studios(as in its not a port of the Windows IDE known by the same name).
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/micros...
98% of all statistics are made up.

Its ok, Facebook.

--

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12561302
How is this comment anything more than sarcasm and condescension?

You haven't offered any counterpoints here.
> check out the #hnwatch hashtag on Twitter

I didn't know that hashtag and was not surprised to see that one of its regular users is someone who likes to use autism as a metaphor for men working in tech.
This new Samsung SSD is waaaaay faster than yours
Right, hence my statement that a properly fortified base (from the GP) can't protect shit from missiles.
Care to provide some specifics?
But the difference is the context of history, right? While I definitely don't advocate for any "killallmen" stuff, I can recognize the difference between Jews, who were the actual target of a real genocide in which millions died and whose people are located in a country in a region embroiled in actual physical wars, vs men who are the target of.... internet campaigns? A key aspect is how these sentiments manifest (or have manifested) in a tangible sense.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12967847
They've never lied before to protect their own interests before so why start doubting them now right?
Tizen has other traits that might be more appealing, like the fact that it's open source. (And arguably, more open source than Android by far.) And if Samsung chose to start pushing Tizen phones over Android phones... bear in mind, Samsung is pretty much THE Android manufacturer, everyone else rides their coattails. Samsung is maybe the only company that can upset the apple cart as far as Google's concerned.
Apparently, being a platinum member entails donating $500k [1], so it's not that big a deal for Microsoft ($85B revenue[2]). And as the article states, there has been negativity in the linux community regarding the old arch-enemy joining their ranks. Looking at the new Microsoft however, I think it's fair to assume that the days of "embrace, extend and extinguish"[3] are over and they are genuinely interested in cooperation.

It's an important political gesture that Nadella goes in this direction. Since they also added a linux subsystem into the latest Windows release[4], I get the impression that he wants to leave the cloud to linux and try to position Windows as a user-facing client. This is a difficult decision to make, but it makes sense. Microsoft without Ballmer is seeing its position in the Corporate world as it is and I hope we will continue to see more openness as a result.

[1] http://www.slashgear.com/hp-pays-500000-for-linux-foundation...

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2016-Q4...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12234735
> Is the pursuit of art for art's sake valuable?

That's a subjective question. When it comes to public policy the vast majority of what should be questions (and are often turned into bullet points instead because we don't want to discuss things) are able to be answered, even if we don't like the answers we get. Things like, "Does better education lower jail populations?", or "Do lower taxes stimulate the economy?" and things like that have an answer, somewhere. The real problem is getting people to A: Understand the answer, and B: Be willing to discard previously held notions and move forward with what the data tells them.
I don't think you know what a straw man is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12966673
At the Build conference they had a demo where they "forgot" to install VS before the presentation, and then installed it from an USB stick in about one minute.

I'm installing now, but not from USB...
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Google Earth VR
What's the reason for stopping you drawing as soon as it guesses it? I mean, it's great you guessed "swing set" from me making a basic a-frame, but wouldn't it give you more data if you let me actually draw the swings?
Do extremely reddened quasars extinguish star formation?
I use WhatsApp. I know it says end to end encryption, but I do not know how good that aspect of it really is. How is FB making any money from it if everything is encrypted?
Why did this website want to have notifications enabled for it?
Wrong. Alt-right is a burgeoning group, AND what we are seeing is democrats are trying to strike early to get the "racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe" label associated with them. Basically alt-right is the same as "anonymous" people don't really know who identifies with x,y,z parts of it and it's just frightened democrats who are scared to death to have another group against them that they can't use their standard buzzwords to demean them. E.G. Obama with his "oke-dokes"

Wake me up when Twitter actually suspends demonstrably more toxic groups on the left. Those who have infiltrated and are even holding conferences on evils of "whiteness" and white-hating. So far, Twitter are showing they are biased censoring scared little puritans.
> 'I wasnt even manager level but I lost it and yelled at the CTO.'

Bold strategy.
If anything they are creating a whole lot of media buzz, likely to be perfectly timed ahead of their IPO. The message isn't "we have head mounted cameras, head mounted cameras will dominate the world", the message is "we are more than just another entry in the endless stream of icq successors, continue to expect the unexpected".

This might turn out to be more valuable to founders and VCs than the total hardware cost of the first few batches of camera sunglasses. For that function, the final spectacles price could be purely a balancing act between looking financially responsible to future investors and not deterring consumers to much, with no relation to hardware cost at all.
No, they mentioned there's a free edition of Visual Studio for Mac they're publishing as well.
We don't even have a vague outline of a guiding principle of a theory for what general purpose 'strong' intelligence actually is, let alone a road map to achieving anything like it. So no, probably not.

I have a theory that on a long-term universal scale of general intelligence, humans are unbelievably stupid. What is the absolute minimum, basement level of general intelligence necessary to develop a material technology? That's what we have, because we've only just managed it. Seems obvious, doesn't it? Yet why doesn't everybody intuitively realize this? Why did it take me 50 years to work it out? ...Exactly.
Thanks for this post - I've contacted them and intend to get my old account back too! 48xxxx level.
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I really don't see how that strategy would work with open source projects. Wouldn't most contributions for the "extend" phase be open source?

Once open source, it's much harder to extinguish.
Piss-poor caching mechanism that can't spit out static frontpages with relative ease. Still getting 504's.
The article rightly points at readers having embraced their cognitive dissonance in the face of unrelenting media bias but unfairly singles out the alt-right movement -- one can't say that they are wrong in their dogmatic mistrust of the media. We saw non-stop coverage of the election where they talked up Clinton at every fifteen-minute segment, parroting statistics like her 98% guaranteed victory.

Through Wikileaks, we can plainly see that they were very much in bed with the Clinton campaign and frankly anyone with an ounce of sensibility should see that as plain as day.

That said, I would posit that the MSM orgs need to do a lot of soul-searching to restore their credibility lest they continue to drift into irrelevance. The Fourth Estate has fallen into disrepair due to their close adherence to progressive extremist ideology and their objectivity is rightly attacked.

It's not that people are looking for somebody to pick on, but instead the media are agitators rather than reporters of fact. There is a clear desire to steer society rather than simply disseminate information, much like how cable companies have zero interest in operating as communications conduits and instead strive to provide content experiences.

IMO there must be structural reform for the Fourth Estate to be restored to its previous stature -- to wit, mainstream media must be made great again.
Well ... assuming traffic doesn't die post Hacker News fame ;)
FWIW, this is actually a rebranding of Xamarin Studio, so it only handles C# and F#. It's a bit puzzling, as VSCode seemed to be the tool that was going to take over all the Xamarin Studio features.
The suggestion from the paper (and indeed the body of the article) is that Celecoxib is safer than was being assumed, and very much not that Ibuprofen is more dangerous than was being assumed. In that sense it's a good news article with a bad-news headline needlessly attached.
MS employee here - the new Microsoft is:
Enable (make sure open source runs well on MS platforms)
Integrate (make sure MS platforms work well with open source)
Release (release key MS technology into open source)
Participate (commit MS engineers to participate in communities)
Improving the user experience of IoT firmware updates
What do American kids think about their new President?
Or have both. What's in Java 8 that isn't in C#?

And last I checked you couldn't use Java 8 fully on Android (please correct me if I'm wrong).
One of the install options is "Linux development with C++"
I don't get why people downvote this post. It's like everyone completely forgot about Halloween documents[1].

We should be very careful with Microsoft.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
This may actually be against the CAN SPAM Act of 2003, which requires that non-transactional unsolicited commercial mail provide a means of being removed from the mailing database through the same means that the mail is sent.

IANAL, so I don't know if logging into an account would count or not. Personally, I see it as a hindrance to unsubscribing and by my reading of the CAN SPAM Act, it is illegal, but.. not a lawyer.

EDIT:

From https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can... (which isn't the Act itself, but an FTC compliance guide):

Honor opt-out requests promptly. Any opt-out mechanism you offer must be able to process opt-out requests for at least 30 days after you send your message. You must honor a recipient’s opt-out request within 10 business days. You can’t charge a fee, require the recipient to give you any personally identifying information beyond an email address, or make the recipient take any step other than sending a reply email or visiting a single page on an Internet website as a condition for honoring an opt-out request. Once people have told you they don’t want to receive more messages from you, you can’t sell or transfer their email addresses, even in the form of a mailing list. The only exception is that you may transfer the addresses to a company you’ve hired to help you comply with the CAN-SPAM Act.
Is the new xamarin going to be any less buggy?
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Every decade brings a technology movement that steers the path of humanity in a certain direction. Nobody would've predicted the rise of social media (yes, including Snapchat, Instagram, Pokemon Go)and how much of the humanity gets consumed by it, thereby derailing us from the track we were on the decade prior to it.
You are painfully correct...
Maybe the democratics shouldn't have cheated, stolen the nomination from bernie, or coordinated illegally with their super pacs.
IIRC RA didn't actually use exactly the same engine as the original TD. I think the TD "Gold" (or GOTY?) edition ported TD to the engine of RA, which was slightly higher resolution and slightly prettier, so that's what most people think of when they think of TD.

Whether TD and TD Gold were actually different engines I don't know but it must have been at least an improved version of the same engine.

I think you're right that SC doomed TS to fail. SC was lauded for having three factions that are actually fundamentally different to a much greater degree than had been done before (e.g. Dune 2000) and had great storytelling compared to the well-done but low-budget and often cheesy narration in TD and RA.

TS tried to one-up the genre with its cinematic cutscenes but they ended up creating an actual protagonist so the result felt much more like watching a movie than something you're actually involved in (especially when the protagonist does more than reacting and following orders -- which was the sole reason having a protagonist became necessary at all).

Also, the engine was different and they tried to cash in on technological superiority with big talk of "voxels" but the end result just looked fuzzy and often sterile. They also tried to do the "multi-faction" thing by introducing the mutants (though not as a playable race) which confused the setting even more. TD was about futuristic modern warfare, TS was 100% sci-fi. In that sense I guess Generals was a bit of a return to the roots.
In my experience, C# can be coded almost exactly like Java 8; just ignore the extra features C# has. (I don't know why you would, but it's certainly possible.) Do you have more specific complaints?
Good catch, forgot about that one!
Some of these are science predictions, and some are economics predictions.

Here's my take:

- Replicator is unlikely. The machine that makes everything is like the drug that cures everything and the man who knows everything. We already have specialist replicators, specialist drugs, and specialist professors. For the same reason, we won't get a generalist AI, just a bunch of very good specialists.

- James Webb will tell us within a few years whether there's lots of life or none. Some realisation about just how likely life is will happen as we use the JWT to scan various planets.

- Similarly with superconductivity, we'll either find a way to do it, or a reason why it can't be done.

- Economics: the revolution here is how society changes when there's a bunch of old people around, mostly healthy and mostly skilled. I suspect people will want to be able to retrain, and so the old model where there was only time (opportunity cost) to go to school when you were young will change. It probably already has for some people.

- Tech/Econ: society will have thought hard about giving everyone a decent living while the tech people build just about everything.
But, do you think that black people really still suffer from such "post-racist-society" effects nowadays, like in your hypothetical country? I doubt.
this.
or atleast acquire jetbrains and make kotlin the standard.
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I would love to do this if only I had enough money to support myself for a year :-) Though not that easy when you have family to care of..
In addition to that it might be a good idea to make Swift a first-class citizen too. This would give developers a good chance to use similar concepts on both iOS and Android.
No more problems with Oracle, C# features that Java is missing, such as type inference, proper generics, built in concurrency, operator overloading, first class optionals, ...
The unpleasant truth is that this dystopia isn't coming out of nowhere, it is being built with our own hands. Our everyday desires, decisions, actions and inaction decide what will be built (more apps) and what won't (nextgen cures).
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