skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of the other comments in this thread are low-effort "mobile games aren't real games, lol."

After playing just one level, you can tell that Super Mario Run the real deal and not a cash-in (and it gets hard, especially if you want to get Black Coins). If you have an aversion to mobile gaming, give this a try.

You can play 3 levels without having to pay anything and it doesn't nag you until then, which means that Nintendo only gets your money if they can convince you if it's worth it. And they do.
1. One of scheme / common lisp / clojure

2. One of C++ / Java

3. Javascript

4. One of Python / Perl

5. Bash
And for the record, I got this email this morning, 15 days after I got the email where they charged me $129 again for my Pro account...

I don't mind them charging money - it stings when they charge me money then take away one of the features I use and consider important... (I coulda hosted a _lot_ of forum-post-sized images on S3 for $129...)
But that is already how it works for quite a few white male engineers.

How many of us have had to work with "that guy" who interviews really well, but sucks at his job and coast for 6 months before people finally realise how rubbish at his job he is and he finally gets the boot. In more extreme cases they even get promoted over you and become your manager in spite of their incompetence.
Not the GP but I generally assume that a patient's actual doctors know more about that patient's physical body and how it will impact a procedure than some academics who are classifying/"coding" thousands of case files.
I tried to connect my Facebook account and while it searches for "Friends" it crashes every time.
And yet, watch this game generate $1B.
That website was frustrating.

- splash page that has to load the background video before you can do anything.

- you have to start watching the video on the splash page to skip it.

- horizontal navigation in the about page.

- clicking the obscure "here we go!" back link in the about page has to reload the video before you can do anything.

It looks really nice, but the interaction is incredibly slow and cumbersome.
Anchoring is a different effect than you might have thought. In breakthrough research, it was shown that when people were asked to write down completely random numbers (such as the last four digits of their social security number), before taking a guess at the value of a home (say; might have been something else), it had an absurdly strong effect on the value of their guesses. (People with coincidentally high last-four-digits wrote much, much higher ones than people with coincidentally low last-four-digits, even though it's obvious they wouldn't have even thought twice about it. If I asked you to think about the last four digits of your social security number, what that happened to be would impact any other valuation you were making immediately after.

The mere mention of a number - any number - "anchors" psychologically in an absurdly strong way.

So in that sense, the statement: "I offered a fixed-price 'no win, no fee' rate" includes the literal mention (like the social security ending digits 0000) of "no fee" -- so it doesn't matter what the sentence is. The sentence could read "Obviously I wouldn't be able to do it for no fee" and it would anchor to $0, whereas, if you said, "I obviously wouldn't charge a hundred billion dollars" it will anchor it to a hundred billion dollars.

These effects are incredibly bizarre. I'm not an expert salesperson but I do know about them.

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I guess I should give a reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/thinking-fast...

Is a good introductory article. Daniel Kahneman is the name most associated with this research, or at least reporting it, and he won a Nobel prize* in Economics in 2002 for his work.

* (the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences by the Swedish National Bank)
It depends upon your chosen medium.

For most terminals, you could print ansi escape codes to color sections of the text output. As with any software, there are disjoint sets of coverage. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/287871/print-in-terminal-...

On the other hand, I've seen a number of node.js based terminals, that could be used similarly. https://hyper.is/

While the other suggestion for unicode text viewer is fine, I've used font forge to see the rest of some fonts.
You just got to look at that photo and you can tell there wasn't a single person except Trumps kids that wanted to be there.

Even Peter Thiel looked like he wanted to jump out the window.
It looked to me like he described his hyper-focus and context switching as the advantage. ADHD causes both of those things. It looks to me like you imply that ADHD, as an impairment, can't cause an advantage in some situation. I disagree. People on the autistic spectrum, while undoubtedly also having abnormal brains, can process information in a way that others can't, sometimes giving them an advantage in 'cerebral' professions, while also possibly causing functional deficits in other contexts.

This feels to me like a one-size-fits-all reply, and dismissive of what looks like a valid and realistic self-assessment. "Significant cogantive impairment diminishes your ability to realise your own goals" doesn't hold true without context. A person may have a goal of not depending on medication, or choosing to view their state as a strength and building on their differences. Consider Stephen Hawking. I don't think he would have wished for his condition, but a friend of his once noted that when he got a book, he would remember what he saw, because he could not easily pull the book down again. If he didn't have physical impairments, he might have gone in other directions. He had to focus on a mental career. He took his position for one of strength and made the most of it.

I find your reply dismissive of this person's experience, reality, and values.
What makes you think that someone who "can't find the time" to do anything interesting in an 80 year lifespan would accomplish anything with another 100+ years? The majority of the population would still be stuck slaving away for minimum wage for their entire life, regardless of the length of that life. If the key to immortality were to be found as part of a universal enlightenment that completely abolishes the concept of money and power, then maybe something could change. If it's business as usual, with individuals having an incentive to claw their way "above" others, then the concept of immortality is entirely depressing to me.

I'm also not interested in the eventuality of the "treatment" being cheap and available to all. What, are we going to label people as suicidal and mentally ill if they refuse to take the treatment? The "pro-life" agenda would spiral out of control.
That trick of procedurally gavelling open a session and immediately closing it to avoid the recess disgusts me beyond words. The GOP basically opted to treat the Constitution as a dead letter through tricks such as these and refusing to even dignify Garland's nomination with a hearing. Besides the political ramifications I think it's sad that a guy who's widely regarded as a decent hardworking jurist will have his legal career remembered only as a political football.
"Imagine if your electricity company could decide that you pay more for some appliances than others."
News to me - would love to know more if you can supply a link.
Is it ever in a company's interest to admit wrong-doing? I feel it should almost be parsed as "company X settled, but was not forced to admit wrong-doing".
I mean, the real problem is that we have a private utility.

I think things like net neutrality can have market solutions if we divorce the last mile operators (to become a utility) from customer ISPs, who merely operate a contract with various backbone networks to connect their clients to servers they want.

With last mile paid by taxes, ISPs are only dealing with the cost of backbone transit rates, where there is vibrant competition (and the market seems healthy). This competition to make a good transit deal (to get a cut from clients) is healthy as well, and is how much of the world operates. I think that switching off the US rent-seeking model to something like that would be a long-term solution to issues like net neutrality.

Change the incentives to change the behavior.

The real explanation is we should use the free market to solve our problems, and government for the portion where a market cant properly operate (ie, the last-mile netwotk).
> In your mind if Amazon was optimising for their convenience alone they'd just pocket your money and not bother to ever deliver anything?

That's called fraud and isn't generally considered a business model so much as a criminal enterprise
Stunt Show
It's opportunistic investment from investors who predict continued growth.

The hook for the founders? Who knows. My guesses:

- assumption that eventually the enterprise play will win the majority of the $ in the market

- that there is possibly a winner-takes-all dynamic in the market, given the strong ecosystem benefits

Also, it's very expensive to sell top-down to enterprises. In SaaS your cost of sale is up-front (sales salaries, commissions, acquiring the customer etc) whereas the payout is typically over time. Even if the contracts are mostly paid up front, you still have to build the enterprise sales team and ramp the reps, which can take around 6 months. So it's possible that the logical premise "pumping all this money into firms that clearly don't need such vast amounts of it" may be incorrect if enterprise sales success is required for long term success and they don't have the cash to 'go enterprise'.

Will be fascinating to see how this market plays out. My money is on Sid.
On a tangential note:

> Meanwhile, the ICIG’s handling of what began as a whistleblower complaint against Ellard sends an encouraging signal to those who may report wrongdoing at 17 US intelligence agencies

We have 17 intelligence agencies?!??
Why sell to 80% of the market when you can can take 20%. Dr. Evil must have a job on the marketing team.
And pray that worst case scenarios don't happen.
Looks interesting! From the website, it is difficult to say how this software is different to existing solutions like for example rocketcake. I guess it is more useful for creating HTML ads?

Also, what if google decides to shut this down suddenly someday? Will it be easy to switch a project to a different software then?
If you have Alfred, you can set up a custom web search since issue numbers are in the URL. I have tons of these set up to get to different repos, my global list of PRs, etc. It's that much faster because you don't even need to open a browser or navigate to the page to type in a search field.
Nintendo has always been terrible when it comes to non game software - whether account management, digital store, the user facing portion of their OSs, etc.

It's an organizational problem, and one that's not going away anytime soon.
Heh, the tarball contains a full copy of the version 1.0 tarball.
Evernote Backs Out Privacy Policy Change
So basically people who grab a company's data can extort the execs instead of trying to sell the data to third partied
What about using old shipping containers just filled with rock and dirt found on site?

If someone started with a hill or mountain at an almost suitable grade, then what they dug out to grade the slope properly could be put in second hand shipping containers at the top of a hill. Bring the containers up or down one at a time to get the power in or out.

Maybe have some one site solar or wind generation to try to bring and extra container up every once in a while.

People generally don't want steep slopes for much anyway so even the property ought to be cheap, it could even be municipal property for maximum cheapness.

The hardest part of any of this is the all electric trains with efficient regenerative brakes.
Canabalt was a great game but this is nothing like Canabalt.

There is quite a bit of ingenuity and thought that went into making a game with a single user interaction (tap on the screen) but with also a fair degree of sophistication and strategy/decision making.

I've only played through about 6 levels and am impressed by the game play mechanics they have introduced with a limited interaction model.

My only wish is that it were a little faster.
When it comes to actually making money from your software, iOS is where the 80% is at.
Could any expert shed any information on why we lack a professional front-end WYSIWYG kind of editor for the web ? I remember tools like dreamweaver/frontpage existed a long time ago, but don't hear about them anymore. Is it something that's too hard to make or is it just that the market doesn't exist ?
I'm on mobile so I can't use the app but I'm hoping for a spiritual successor to HyperCard. Looks like there's a lot of hand holding being done however.
If they admit wrongdoing it's a guaranteed class-action lawsuit. So...
If you would, could you explain how Wheeler didn't care how technology works and what of the policies his FCC enacted were around people "bending to his will"? Please provide cites. Thanks in advance!
Same here. Antlr is great, finally the wait for reintroduction of C++ support is over. Never nice to see features removed in newer releases of software you want to use.
When I was freelance I noticed that some consultants got the big checks without question whereas others got nickled and dimed for the same work. I think the key is to be able to "talk business" with the business people. It's a skill to have. I didn't :-(
I'd also love an informed answer about this.
The term is EROI (energy returned on energy invested), for renewables its currently roughly equivalent to fossil fuels and getting higher as the technology improves. As oil and natural gas get more expensive and energy intensive to extract, their EROI is going down.
Yes, but would be tough, since how could you guarantee you deleted the data you stole
Yup. I'm an Android user by habit, but were I to release a game for a mobile device, most of my effort would be around making sure the iOS version was as pin-perfect as I could make it.

Why do you rob a bank? 'Cause that's where the money is.
The volumetric energy density of hydrogen is very low, so either you need enormous tanks or very strong tanks plus extreme compression. One way of making enormous "tanks" that can tolerate fairly high pressures is by solution-mining caverns out of natural underground salt formations. But this is geographically limited to where such salt formations occur, like parts of Texas and Louisiana.

The other problem is that the round-trip energy efficiency isn't great. You might expect 75% efficiency for electricity-to-hydrogen from electrolysis and then 60% hydrogen-to-electricity if you burn it in an efficient combined cycle gas turbine for 45% efficiency overall. Oh, and you irreversibly lose energy as heat when you compress the hydrogen, for further losses. And it's pretty expensive to buy big industrial-scale electrolysis units but run them only during the few hours each day when there's excess renewable energy you want to store (though it becomes a more attractive idea as the penetration rate of renewables, and corresponding excess generation times, increase.)
Trivago's IPO falls below expectation
Keep in mind that also have a superior product to just about every image host that came before them (other than Flickr), they are the de-facto favored image host for Reddit, and to top it off have their own social networking features with non-trivial market adoption.

With that many eyeballs on your site it's no surprise that even their subtle advertising style [1] is profitable. I'd personally much rather see sponsored posts everywhere than pandering direct marketing and spying/tracking.

[1]: http://www.imgurads.com/
That was my first thought. If so, maybe this will make those ads suck less?
This might be a good starting place, "Software Patents: A One-Year Review of Alice v. CLS Bank" (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2619388)
Namo Webeditor was popular along with many tools, only backend services need lot of effort to maintain. Thee is one professional web design editor who patented it.
Except at the rate GitHub is losing money there's no guarantee they'll be around forever either.
Indeed, I am not happy about this.
Ask HN: What should I name my newsletter?
I'm starting a newsletter to give career advice to developers. Any ideas for what I should call it?
Agreed! I hope full (not half-hearted and late) C++ support becomes the 'new normal' for ANTLR.
I got really turned off when it was listed as "Free (with in-app purchases)". Turns out it's basically a 10 minute demo, after which you have to pay $9.99.

Maybe it's good, but deceptive enough I uninstalled it.
My thinking is that they were replaced by dynamic sites based on PHP like WordPress, which initially people were doing template conversions for but eventually they switched to using themes... then we have had a bit of a redux with static site generators, but those are all hobbyist efforts. Dreamweaver still exists, it's just that no one makes those sorts of sites on Dreamweaver any more. There is no market for it.

All the developers that might do static frontends code by hand or use a library like Bootstrap or a theme like a WordPress theme. So there is not really much room for a tool like Dreamweaver in the landscape of web design. It's all about modifying existing things to make them fit the problem.
Yeah the onboarding is terrible.

But that's not surprising after seeing the Wii interface.
> the increasing use of real variables in software

This betrays the complete lack of mathematical qualification evident in the rest of your comment. IEEE numbers don't even pretend to be the reals. The most that can be said for them is that they're two copies (positive and negative) of a very small subset of the nonnegative rationals, adjoined to a couple extra symbols (+inf, -inf, NaN), with really wonky operations to work around the obvious non-closure of the rational subsets under standard mathematical operations (let alone the approximations to transcendental functions). I think it's important to be extremely clear: this is not at all like the mathematical reals, not even a tiny little bit. The use of IEEE numbers in serious applications (Bitcoin, iiuc) is truly frightening. They should be considered "useful for computer graphics" (although I can't say whether modern gpus are using IEEE numbers; they're at least useful for software rendering) and nothing more.
When I think of how much of my life sales people have wasted on meetings and calls and blah blah it makes me want to cry. Just tell me the goddamn price. I'll tell you if it's too much.
How Taleo Landed a Fortune 20 Company as an Early Adopter
It's a sidescrolling one-handed Super Mario game for iOS.

The ad is very confusing without context. It's not super clear, but you can close the video using the exit in the top right corner and then click "About":

https://supermariorun.com/en/about.html
Developing Your Future (or FutureDev if you want something shorter).
>One part of ‘American life’ is the intense Puritan/Calvinist streak that holds that suffering is necessary for redemption: using mere science to make people feel better is evil.

I've been living in the US for five decades, and I've never, ever run into someone who articulated that belief.
It's a game. You play it for fun and entertainment.
Does this mean that you can only share files with people who have Dropbox accounts? Typically, I would just give out a link to something in my public folder. If so, this changes a lot.
What about those of us who like F# and want to use that? Are you supporting that as well?
Yeah that's one terrible video. Literally tells me nothing about the product. First thing that popped into my mind was Pokemon Go, but for Mario. Is this a Mario branded game which gamifies running in real-life encouraging kids to run to various locations to find coins or something?

Now I have to do a Google search.
I could have used a * placed after "Google search" in post body.
Did not intend to imply DDG,et al. get better results, was an aside stating they are not. I ended main body of post implying Amazon's results are significantly weighted by advertising revenues paid to Google.
There is https://pinegrow.com/ & to some extent Adobe Muse .... but I agree with the sentiment of there not being more options of WYSIWYG editors to choose from.
Much less. Not just localized salaries (GH didn't used to do this, they may do now) which are always cheaper than SF, but for employees outside of the US no benefits cost, health insurance etc.
That was Metaspy, part of Metacrawler.

Source: I wrote Metaspy. That was almost 20 years ago!
You can tell what it is from the title. Super Mario is a popular video game character and has been for over 30 years. This is clearly a video game. Good job on being facetious though.
> It's a game. You play it for fun and entertainment.

That's like me saying "food" when asked "What do you wanna eat?"

I'm guessing you aren't a gamer. Most gamers are not interested in the binary question of whether something is a game or not -- they are a step ahead of that.
Video of the merger team hard at work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX4e81L-J7s
Utilities are a natural monopoly because everyone uses them so they end up commoditized (the more marginal the product, the more volume is required, until you end up with a handful of the largest players).

We seem to have no problem letting the other natural monopolies like electricity, water, sanitation, education, mail, roads, bridges etc etc etc be run by the government as part of the commons. But we freak out when the government runs the internet because big brother.

I might suggest that the real issue is not the bits whizzing around but who is watching. Which would mean that net neutrality is a smokescreen. Fix privacy with free https everywhere (among other things) and people might just realize that they don't need to pay 30% more for advertising and dividends on what could otherwise be a commoditized utility like everything else.
They do exist in different forms. If you're on the level that's just above making a Facebook page then you might go with Squarespace or Wix which have WYSIWYG editors. Surprisingly, Dreamweaver is still a product that is updated(?) and used by many.

When it comes to the high-end, there are Mac apps such as Hype and Sparkle which are used especially for developers who want to create animated websites.

It's also the case that creating a webpage isn't the most important thing anymore. Many businesses only exist on Etsy and Facebook. The time when knowing what html is and knowing how Dreamweaver works meant you could make a living off of anyone who wanted to be "on the Internet" is kinda over.
In my limited experience the market asking for and building sites on dreamweaver has completely shifted to squarespace, wix, etc.
I think this problem is not only newg TLDs.
And I should not distinguish between wifi.us, wifi.com and wifi.shop and so on.
Does it still have the always-online requirement?
Kids aren't too productive till they age. Perhaps we discover that 40 is the new 18. Or maybe there's more value to life than productivity. There must be polarity for movement. Some must have more than others. Excellence comes only from competition. You're inborn desire to find equality is beaten by natures desire for fitness. You may be less depressed when you see that a game where some win and some lose is better than a game where all lose, or no game at all. You will never be able to complain your way out of the game. If reality starts selecting for equality instead of fitness, we will live in a gray goo of equal. That's no game at all.

Taking a look at all the lives that could be affordably saved saved in Africa right now at low cost. Yet no "pro-life" agenda is currently spiraling out of control biting at that low cost. It is unlikely this more expensive and farther down the road longevity research would cause the hysteria you describe.