skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another thing the old games has that Bethesda forgot about: replay value. I still play FO1 and FO2 every now and then, and still find things and side quests I never knew existed. And they are interesting – not just randomly generated "there are ghouls that are bothering me over there, plx 2 go and kill them kthnxbye" grinding crap. I've just finished Fallout 4 and can't for the life of me be bothered to play it again. I had fun, it's not a bad game, and I don't mind the price of admission, but just like Fallout 3 it'll end up in a box somewhere and I'll never care for it again.

Not so with FO1 and FO2 (my favorite being FO2) – I dread the day I can't play them anymore because they are too old.

Also, pro-tip: http://user.tninet.se/~jyg699a/fallout2.html

That guide has everything, it's awesome.
How Conversion Rates Are Bad for Startups
There's a famous saying about it... But, anyway, it's best to have a bias into believing a well articulated comment saying something is viable or useful, and into doubting a well articulated comment saying something is not viable or useless.
"Optimize your career, not your salary" — and this is how gamedev is never lacking those new fresh naive developers.

Poor souls.
Do they actually test these concoctions to make sure no active ingredient remains, or just assume it?
> blatantly misrepresents the contents of the article

vs.

> ‘not accepted by most modern medical experts’ and that ‘there is no scientific evidence the product works’

In other words, "doesn't work." If there is no evidence of something working, an acceptable shorthand translation for this in the english language is, "it ain't gonna work."
No, I'm sharing why Zapier didn't work for me. Hope they have all the success in the world.
Who will have a desktop in 10 years? (Besides developers)
https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/12/24/rlwe.html might be helpful.
My iPad 3 is still usable and receiving security updates. The idea of the same being true for an android tablet of the same vintage is hilarious.
Microsoft to devs: Whatever you're doing in Linux, Windows will soon do it too
I am happy for them! They are a great team.This White Rabbit Project looks very promising.
>I just can't agree with the recommendation to read the comments before articles you find online.

Your disagreement makes it sound like he made a universal recommendation for all articles in all circumstances. I didn't read it that way.

He specifically constrained his observation to staying on top of new technical developments in /r/programming and HN:

"When browsing Proggit, I recommend reading the comments before committing fifteen minutes to reading a nicely titled (or click-baited) article."

It looks like his advice meant to be a time management tool instead of a shortcut to disable critical thinking. You have several factors that lead to the comments-first-then-read-article strategy:

1) finite time -- can't possibly read every article -- must prioritize the information overload somehow

2) Sturgeon's Law -- 90% of everything is crap (e.g. clickbait titles)

3) you lack the technical background in the new and unfamiliar topic that's a prerequisite for applying critical reasoning.

>Critical thinking is such an important skill for everyone, not just engineers, and this habit all but eliminates it. [...] But it becomes a habit and can be dangerous in other places ...

I think people can be adaptive and use comments-then-article on certain websites but also use the opposite article-then-comments on other websites.

For online articles of New York Times, Washington Post, and Youtube videos... it makes more sense to consume the content and then look at the comments (or skip the comments altogether since they are often a cesspool of nonsense.) For fast-moving technical crowd-sourced article submissions -- it can be rational to read the comments first.
I agree, and EPEL works fine on RHEL, too. But it wouldn't be enterprise without some BS rules. Hence why compatibility "issues" are such a blessing for detecting enterprise BS early on.
and how few resources the rest of us have to combat it

Review my recent threads in the last 24+ and see exactly how many people publicly support vs. oppose me. There seem to be a sufficiency of the latter, which makes sense ... ah, let me introduce another concept: identity > culture > politics.

The Left "owns" most if not all of the existing identity groups, and the gravamen about this election seems to be that whites are finally starting to decide that they too must become an identity group, that they can't afford to not play this game when everyone else is, and to our disadvantage. You may find this deplorable, as I do in many ways, but I hope you don't contend that whites are uniquely not allowed to play the same game every other group is playing.

The Left owns the culture, and therefore the politics that are downstream of it, e.g. they've been allowed to define the Overton Window and otherwise the rules of the game. A large fraction of Trump's appeal is that he refuses to play most of the game by the Left's rules, and one of the things that really launched him was his very direct attacks on political correctness, the single most powerful tool in the American Left's armory aside from lawfare and outright violence, the latter of which which we've learned was explicitly a tool in Hillary's campaign and that we can now see being played out in the streets of America. And we can be sure lawfare will be employed in due course....

And, seriously, that I legitimately trigger you does not mean that I hate you, or even dislike you (too many both of Jewish friends and enemies over the years to do that to the group as a whole), although I can certainly see why you'd come to that conclusion.

On the other hand, perhaps look into yourself. Do you hold those in flyover country in disdain? Do you disprove of "Journalist Marisa Fox-Bevilacqua, writing for Israel’s left-wing Ha’aretz daily, call[ing] Ivanka Trump a 'leggy glamazon, a ‘shiksa goddess’ trophy wife for the shy son of a disgraced macher'" (that's from http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/11/27/ivanka-trump-h... since I don't have a subscription to Ha’aretz, nor would I ever dream of paying for one to that rag). The ADL's incorrect smearing of Steve Bannon and Breitbart.com?

Even if you don't participate, this is most certainly a two-way street....
Fine, but you get this thanks to already being linked with these megagodzillas like kernel32.dll. Try without them.
A little self promotion but mostly because it addresses some of the other commenters concerns about malloc (or the lower-level api around sbrk): a couple years ago I wrote rt0 [0], a small (mostly minimal) C runtime for i386 & amd64 that makes it easier to replace libc & crt0 (as long as you have the kernel headers installed). Also, as part of the examples, I wrote wrappers around the sbrk syscall. Pretty easy to do and all documented in the repo. I expect to eventually port the lib to arm (raspberry pi) and aarm64. There's also lots of references to other small c runtimes. I'll be adding this one as well.

[0] https://github.com/lpsantil/rt0
People like mentoring, it's human nature.

But that will challenging to capture online.
> I just can't agree with the recommendation to read the comments before articles you find online.

I often do this on HN just to make sure the article would even be worth reading.
I went there a few weeks ago. Good food, but it is definitely overpriced. Adding scallions was like $3.

The chili sauce was especially good, and my girlfriend liked the customizable broth - most ramen is too salty for her.
Some do, others are based on other principles (Eastern medicine body energy etc.).

We have homeopathic "cold pills" available at our local (mainstream) drugstore that visibly reduces a runny nose in our toddler when he has a cold.

I've never _not_ seen these specific pills work in this way on small children. Does it defy conventional science? Sure. Do other homeopathic remedies work this well? No. Will I stop recommending them? Not to people with the brains to make a objective judgement about them. (Confirmation bias is the best friend of the placebo effect.)

You just have to try different ones to find what works and what doesn't. Body chemistry is more complicated than big pharma would have us to believe ("ask your doctor if * is right for you").
VW, BMW, Ford to Set Up Charging Network to Spur E-Car Demand
And what if you are not an engineer or don't live in SV and thus don't have those job options?
Be careful with that, you don't exactly come off smelling like roses in this conversation...
The author mentions having to wait in a 20 minute queue in order to get to the door.

The prices are just reflective of basic economics.

They need people like you to hesitate at the cost, otherwise their queue would be even longer, making for a more frustrated customer base, and their business would suffer.
Final Fantasy XV: The Kotaku Review
Very clever way to write the title and the article itself. You get the impression that 1) he is dead and after reading a bit more that 2) he survived a jump from a 12-story building.

From reading other articles, it seems he is alive and jumped from the 4th floor.
No plans for a CECPQ2 at the moment, although I believe that the general structure of running both an EC and PQ key agreement concurrently is likely a good idea in the future until time gives us better confidence in the PQ half.

I'm hoping that we'll have some consensus in a year or two on a good candidate PQ algorithm that we can get deployed across several implementations. It might be very similar to NewHope, or perhaps Shor et al will break lattices in general :)

(C in CECPQ1 was "combined".)
We are not talking about "people", but about "enterprise". Also, don't use iOS app store as advertising channel, just as your payment processor. Might be a bit unusual, but it pays to check.

Not sure what you mean by separate Apple ID?

EDIT: clarity.
How to get desktop notifications for Zendesk's tickets
New directions in kernels and gaussian processes
My advice is to research and identify likely candidate companies: habit of hiring remote programmers with your skill set and experience in your geographic reason. Next identify the people who are involved in hiring remote workers with similar skill sets and tailor your cover letter and resume to meet their needs.

In general, people delete unsolicited email if at all possible...simply because it is possible for someone to send hundreds without much effort.

Good luck.
I'd hope there would be only alpha and betta emitters on the ball. Who would ever transport neutron and gamma radiation out of confinement?

I would also hope it would be dimensioned for radiation cooling when over 100°C.

Still wouldn't want people to have those at home anywhere near me. But it's mostly because of misuse, not because of operational dangers.
Actually this conversation is about "anyone exposed to a Unix system", of which software engineers is a small subset.
And all this time I thought I was _wasting_ time reading comments on hackernews.
I stand by my characterization: it sounds like a con, using the same hyperventilated language. It makes superficially-reasonable-but-quite-wrong claims (diamond will shield from radiation). It avoids important order-of-magnitude problems (the theoretical power generated is insignificant for almost all uses). All its missing is the hook - the link to "How can I invest?"
Towards Practical Attacks on Argon2i and Balloon Hashing
I haven't found an editor, let alone my favourite editor that knows what sections exist in my latex report and can give suggestions for (any of the) ref commands, that knows what citation I have in my bib file and can do autosuggestions for the cite command. Most editors I've tried that can do some auto-completion don't know which libraries I have loaded and will suggest the same commands regardless of whether they are actually available in the given document.

I find the "favourite editor" a moot point, when it is unclear if there even is an editor that works with latex. Setting up a pipeline that can give you a PDF is also difficult beyond reason.

And then we haven't even mentioned the code. Latex is not mark-up, it is code and it is one of the most horrible programming languages I have ever had the displeasure of using.

Writing latex is painful to say the least.
Would these advanced future generations exist without this sort of research?
Is it acceptable to write C in C++?
Youd need to prove you dont need a degree, still dont think theyd take you without highschool
In Austria homeopathic crap is bundled together with real medicine, and if you're not versed in the names of Austrian medicine, the pharmacist might very well be recommending and selling you homeopathic remedies.

It's a disgrace.

They even do shit like:

Patient: "I'd like some paracetamol please."

Pharmacist: "Do you have a cold?"

Patient: "Yes."

Pharmacist: "Here, try this X instead, it's the best."

If you don't happen to know that X is homeopathic they will literally just sell you water.
But that proposition, which is that the world will necessarily become a worse to a hyperbolic degree, is also misinformation. You can't, "predict" a future society 50 years from now with that level of precision.
Trump Campaign Built Identity Database and Used Facebook Ads to Win the Election
Old-timers as myself already saw this coming.

The main idea of killing Flash was because some websites completely ran on it, which is bad. But games never was an issue, and never will be.

Battery life, system resources, downloading assets, ..., it's all the same if you use either Flash or JavaScript.

Newsflash: Apple didn't block Flash because it is "bad", they blocked it because they wanted you to go through their app store

Newsflash: Games written for Flash (in ActionScript3) also run on Android and iOS. It even became "Best Mobile Application Development product" of 2014 and 2015.

They say Flash advertisement banners were annoying, so what do you think about those JavaScript popup banners that pop in the middle of the page you are reading, saying "Please subscribe to our mailing list"?

I you develop a game for Flash, it runs consistently in the Flash plugin. If you develop a game in JavaScript, you need to test it in all browsers you want to support. And yes, they are all different. And still gives troubles so many years later. Surprising? Not for old farts like myself.

But no worries. I looked at my google analytics for the past few years. Most visitors moved to Chrome. Flash plugin installed percentage: remained the same.
AT&T's new streaming TV service is testing the limits of fair competition rules
It reminds of Alien Swarm[0], a free game by Valve, it is well worth it if you can find 3 friends to play with.

[0] http://store.steampowered.com/app/630/
Yes, but where does the energy come from for your perpetual machine?
> Ellipses have their place, but they seem to be abused a lot.

> Ellipses have their place, but I get the impression that they are also abused a lot.

> Ellipses have their place, but aren't they also abused a lot?

> Ellipses have their place, but maybe they are abused a bit too much.

I agree, sometimes a statement needs to be softened to indicate uncertainty or just to be diplomatic, but there are many ways to do that without resorting to ambiguity. Perhaps, maybe, seemingly, ostensibly, surely, evidently; there are so many words that can help soften (or harden!) a statement, and each carries a different connotation. The ellipse on the other hand simple conveys its meaning of omission — but there is no indication of what it was that was omitted (uncertainty? rolling-my-eyes sarcasm? fatigue?).

It can come across as laziness on the writer's part — as if they couldn't be bothered to formulate their thoughts.
Trying to run a UK business without an accountant
Why Your Company Needs to Develop the Project Management Soft?
A program which isn't linked against the Win32 stuff is an invalid program, since syscalls in Windows are not at all stable.
How I Write and Publish a Weekly Newsletter
The Denny's blog reads as overly contrived to more "hip with the youth" audiences because it is constantly trying way too hard to jump on the latest trends in slang, internet grammar, memes, etc. The complete void of brand values or content on Denny's media presence (as all values have been replaced by eddying internet culture) makes for an unpleasant aftertaste once the original novelty leaves. It just leaves the audience feeling exploited or at the very least patronized. Building a brand voice requires a clear story to tell and "authenticity" (blech, I know) in how you deliver that narrative to audiences. The Denny's online brand has no story other than keeping up with disposable internet ephemera (nihilism is in this year for memes, run with it!) and as a result rings hollow.
Many people told me, that teaching and mentoring helped them getting better themself.
Story 2.0 – the power of the crowd
Employees as Customers: Loyalty, Trust, Empathy and Happiness
Maybe start to contribute to React since it's open source
In my experience, we're able to create a lot more engagement using Facebook, but you have to consider that we're a niche startup in Brazil (where CPC seems to be cheaper).

On the other hand, most of the users we got from Facebook were a kind of "freebie hunters". As soon as they saw it would be necessary to pay a monthly fee to use our services (It's an app! Am I really supposed to pay for this?), most of them disappeared.

In the end, as someone has already mentioned here, Facebook seems to be a really good place to advertise free stuff or products that can naturally trigger some emotional response (Look at this lovely products made by this grandma)... and maybe just them.
I'm sure this will make zero difference to most buyers. They already are seeking out alternatives and mistrustful of conventional medicine, a government warning label will just be more evidence of a "pharma/industrial/govt" conspiracy.
"Pay for our OS, we promise you'll be able to do all the stuff you can already do for free real soon now at only a minor performance penalty!" seems like a really peculiar advertising approach. Don't get me wrong - it's a good thing on net, but it still doesn't provide the kind of justification that happens in other computing sectors (for instance: "I want to play games only available on Windows").
I Am Teaching My First Grader to Code and You Should Too
Because you need to get to the interview stage AND seem good during it

Here is how the hiring process works from the end of the people on the committee:

1. Get all the CVs. Let's say this is either an entry level position or a particularly good one and say we have 100 CVs

2. We break it up into groups with each CV looked at by at least two people

3. If there is not an applicable degree, it is almost instantly binned. The only exception is if they have a fair amount of experience (at least 1 year of contiguous work on a related project for an entry level position) or are otherwise exceptional.

4. We continue to filter and iterate until we have it down to about 10 applicants. We have yet to really talk to anyone as part of the hiring process and are solely reading papers and looking at them based on their CV.

5. Then we do phone interviews where it is about seeing if they sound remotely competent and would potentially be a decent fit. And if there was any question about you making it through the filters, expect it to be brought up

6. For the last few (let's say 5) we'll do an actual in-person interview with whiteboard coding exercises and lots of discussion.

You don't have a degree. Bachelor's is bare minimum, but we prefer at least a Master's. You are in the bin. You didn't invent sliced bread, you are really in the bin.

Maybe you are the smartest person in the world, maybe you are a really earnest kid, and maybe you are someone we could never have worked with in the first place. We'll never know because you won't get past the initial filtering.

------

In short: Finish HS and at least get a community college Bachelor's degree. And if you are truly hellbent on not getting an education (a red flag, by the way, since it suggests you'll clash with people), start making the greatest project ever.
More to the point, it's like the "pro" in iPad Pro.
Chai – An open source neural network library
I do primarily numerical work with a little bit of embedded mixed in, it's been closing in on three years since I encountered anything involving non-ascii characters.
Amazon-bashing aside, this is an example of why 'safe spaces' and 'trigger-free zones' may be a bad idea. Colleges should train students in responding to triggers; exercise their self-control regularly in the face of adversity not stunt it. Somebody jumps instead of walking away, they have priorities drastically miswired.
Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards
If he sorts 1 mln items, I guess he runs out of L1 cache and probably out of L2 cache. Therefore memory accesses may pay the biggest role here and that explains why he sees almost no improvement from recursion elimination.
Using the web audio API to create dynamic music loops
Hun, they didn't use the term alt-right back then. I suggest you read up more. Try with the nonsense that Hans Hermann Hoppe has written. Or how about Lew Rockwell trying to court the likes of David Duke to his ideology? So, do you want to keep lying in public and assume that what I meant was they literally called themselves the Alt-Right in 2000?

So, are you going to dispute my points that such individuals have been invading libertarian forums, mailing lists, and the like since 2000? Cause I'm all ears considering I was a moderator at the LvMi web forums for about half that time. Please try to tell me what I did and didn't experience. :)
Verizon, AT&T set to lose 9M customers to cable operators by 2018
Acceptable? The whole point of a programming language is that you can do whatever you want to with it.

Anything "Acceptable" has to be something which follows a pattern everybody has seen before, and is familiar to the point of being accepted.

Do something shocking--(ie. something which nobody accepts), because they've never seen it before.
South Korea’s president offers to resign if demanded by lawmakers
It would be great to have a rework improving usability but keeping the visual style the same like Pillars of Eternity or Tyranny.
> You really should try.

I know, I know! I really have tried, but apparently I have to adult more than I used to these days :( I'm fully expecting it to be worth it when I get there - I missed Planescape at the time for much the same reasons, and ever since I finally played it about 10 years back (was unemployed for a while! :) ) I've been happily calling it the greatest game ever.

Good to know that Nuka-World delivers though - I've been saving it for the christmas break.

As far as "mediocre base - great DLC" goes, I'd guess it's a result of the modern DLC culture - where it used to be that if a game sold well enough there'd be a mission disk later down the line, most studios are already hard at work on the DLCs before the base game is even released, so the DLC teams (in as much as they're separate from the main team) get all the lessons, bug reports and player reaction from the trunk development, and longer deadlines to boot. Oblivion and Skyrim's expansions definitely reaped some benefit that way, imho - Shivering Isles in particular was an absolute masterpiece, for my money.
Knowing which specific plant powers your home has little meaning in a comoditized business.

The important notion here is that a subset of consumers support the economic cost of running renewable energy plants, while the other subset of consumers are led to believe they do because of geographic proximity, when in fact they don't.