skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do want to point out that it matches current consoles in the US, but is actually going to be significantly more expensive than anything on the market in many countries. Where I am, for example, if they release at exactly the US price -- which they won't, prices always get inflated -- a Switch will cost more than a PS4 that comes packed with Fallout 4, Skyrim, and Dishonored 2, three hit games.

On top of this, I think they've made a fatal flaw when it comes to handheld pricing. If you remember, the 3DS launched at $250, tanked hard, and received a whopping 33% price cut only 4 months after it launched, followed by the announcement of the new 2DS which would be even cheaper. One of the things Nintendo produced the 2DS is because they found, to their great surprise, that almost 80% of 3DS customers outside Japan never took their 3DS outside the home. They weren't buying it for portability, like Japanese customers usually did; they were buying it because it was the cheapest way to play videogames, only a third the price of a console and with games that were half the price of console games (in many countries even less). Right now I can buy a 2DS for 105 and brand-new games for 40 where an Xbox One is 400 and games are 80 - 100. That's a big reason many of my friends have one.

Then note that they've also priced the Switch above the iPad Mini. Most handhelds are bought by parents for kids. If parents see that they can get an iPad for less than the price of this new console, they're very likely to: iPads are seen as luxury products with a wider variety of uses and many cheap games, and the iPad Mini is even more portable. This is the first handheld Nintendo have announced since iPads hit the market and I worry they haven't taken this into account.

For those customers, who make up a majority of 3DS customers worldwide, the Switch is a non-starter; it's likely to be considerably more expensive than its rivals, and those rivals happen to have either larger libraries, greater popularity, free online, and better graphics (Xbox One/PS4) or a luxury image, greater portability, lower software costs, and a wider variety of uses including educational uses (iPad Mini). I'm really hoping Nintendo succeeds, because I'm a big fan of theirs, but I worry they have totally killed the big draws to handhelds.
Let's not normalize white supremacy by calling it "alt-right".
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Practically every UK household.

I know some people without a TV but that's because they choose not to consume mass media, we've done it in the past.

Where do you live? Presumably your circle still consume mainstream media but do so via laptop/desktop/handhelds?
I understand why someone would blanch at that wording, but let's be charitable here—it's not plausible that the commenter meant it that way.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13386349 and marked it off-topic.
When i download rax.min.js and run it through gzip, i get a 8.776K file. That framework.web.js probably contains some other things besides Rax.
how do they do it. will you please explain about this something.
I do that regularly. And that's why I'm saying that the announced 2.5-6.5 hours doesn't seem like much difference with a cellphone.
And Nintendo Switch online services will be offered at a monthly fee, which they didn't present.
Define "online services". Xbox Live still lets you do quite a few things for free. (Although I gladly admit the free capabilities suck compared to the Gold capabilities.)
The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise
You've posted several comments about how you don't like other people's accents. That's unsubstantive and arguably uncivil. Please stop.
India to Amazon: We're not your doormat
Exactly. OP's misinformation is making my head hurt. If you were alive at the time instead of playing emulators on your PC now, you'd have no doubt the N64 was a huge leap.

And how could it not be? The two systems were released 6 years apart (if you count SNES in Japan 1990), back when Moore's law was in full effect.
Although they look different any breed of dog could do it doggy style and make another dog that could make more dogs.
I had a similar situation back in 2009. I gave my resignation to my boss on a Friday and he said I should hold off until Monday. Monday came around and they laid off most the the dev staff. Instead of having to work for 2 more weeks I got 6 weeks severance and got to leave that day. I already had a job lined up to start 2 weeks later so I booked a week in Cancun in the interim.

They make you sign a paper that says you resigned, so you can't claim unemployment, but the severance sounds better than unemployment since you were leaving anyway. Negotiate that severance, too...they offered me 4 weeks at first but I asked for 2 more and got it.
That's exactly why I like Spotify - it doesn't shove the social nonsense down my throat like everybody else. Don't take it the bad way but I don't care what you, or anybody else with very few exceptions, thinks about this or that album.
>They also talked up Dragon Quest X, which is an MMORPG, launching on Switch

Dragon Quest X launched in 2012 on the Wii, and from the way he announced it, it's not coming to the west.
> The evidence reviewed by the committee suggests that with greater frequency of cannabis use, there is an increased likelihood of developing problem cannabis use.

So they are saying that if you smoke more, then you could possibly smoke more.
Microsoft StaffHub, a new Office 365 app aimed at shift workers
Any chance she'd be kind enough to provide some book recommendations?
When anatomically modern humans migrated from Africa to Europe, their immune systems were not as adapted as neanderthals. So the humans that crossbred had increased chances of surviving, were healthier and more fertile.

Then, most genes not related to the immune system were removed through natural selection creating the modern mix.
Also, Paypal isn't mandatory anymore on Bancamp.
UnblockOz: Helps Australians reclaim their unfiltered Internet access
In the PHP space I know Laravel has an "artisan tinker" command which gives you a similar REPL where you can do at least some of the things demoed on the Buffalo site. This seems to be increasingly common to have for web frameworks from my somewhat limited experience.
BuzzFeed Posts Unverified Claims on Trump, Igniting a Debate – NY Times
It's not as if they forced you to participate and the quality of the discussion was rather worthwhile - it certainly wasn't a Youtube comment section.

In my case, without social features and lack of discussion Spotify is relegated to a simple preview hub for music I discovered elsewhere with an incomplete catalog. I'm considering dropping my subscription since I buy and own my music anyway.

The community and the discovery through it is the feature that made rdio special. Bandcamp comes close since the users are also very passionate. Spotify, however? Discover Weekly can't replace real human curation. The results are either already known to me (which Spotify should know) or just very mediocre. It falls short like most other recommendation engines.
Larger markets afford economy of scale to pretty much any business. Fixed costs remain fixed, variable costs shrink with increased volume. This reflects in hiring too - making twice as many cars does not require twice as many people. If the output grows faster than employment the productivity is increasing.
No, he advocated for making design decisions based on what's best for Linux, not a compromise for other operating systems.
I was losing emails for years without knowing
How to Overcome the Age Difference in Age Gap Dating Sites
If you love your code, set it free
They've never been close to bankruptcy, but at times it's only been because of the gameboy/DS line.
It is possible that schizophrenics and similar disorders naturally gravitate to cannabis to lessen their symptoms.
You know this was not yesterday but in 2010 right?

IIRC it was like 70$ for premium. You know the radio and their competitors were free back then right, and the radio had less ads? I had actually paid previously but they screwed up my account a few times, I forget the details.

Now I get prime music with my prime account and a bunch of other stuff including video for $9 a month.

I thought it was pretty dumb to pay for a service where I couldn't pick what I wanted to hear. I also didn't play for XM at $10 a month when it came out.
App.net shutting down on March 14, open sources code
Something anecdotally we have all known for decades.
At the same time I feel like they could sell their brand more often. They could have 5 smartphone games by now at least. Heck, they could do crazy things like branding an iPhone with Apple or an android manufacturer or you name it. They could make a mario cloud where you get to play VC in a browser. I feel like they're missing out on a ton of money. Sure all of those things would take capital, but they've got the IP people want to buy.
Even for a portable system I think Nintendo might have set the bar too low on graphics this time. Most of these games just don't look very good to the point of being visually distracting. It's almost an uncanny valley sort of thing where the graphics are just sort of good enough that the bad parts stick out like a sore thumb. It's most noticeable in the Mario game. Not sure that real world environments + weak graphics hardware was a good choice.
On the plus side, Switch games won't be region locked.
The PS2 beat the GCN to market by a year and had not only analogue shoulder buttons, but analogue face buttons too. Even the d-pad was analogue -- everything except Start/Select/L3/R3. It wasn't very widely used, and causes some problems in porting games that relied on analogue face buttons (like Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3).
Go is such an easy language as it is, these kinds of frameworks just encourage amateur developers to skirt by with minimal understanding of what they're really doing. An MVC framework sounds like a great personal hacking project for fun, but I would beware of advertising anything like it for professional use.
Israeli mobile phone data extraction company Cellebrite was hacked
There's a ton of love out there for Nintendo.
What do you mean with "compression". You can set it to use high quality streaming where it's 320kbit ogg or something.
So on launch we have the choice of Zelda... or the milking the cow game... really...
Neither do I. I'm very selective about my music, which is why I only followed very specific people on rdio, which led to very valuable social circles. I only saw their recommendations and what was trending within this community.

This doesn't happen at all with Spotify. And maybe it wouldn't work due to the rather mainstream audience / user base the service has. The problem remains however: The music I listen to and buy is very rarely discovered on Spotify. I can't share the rave reviews of Discover Weekly at all. - it's very mediocre to me.
Amid Fears of Trump Cabinet, Congress Revives Email Privacy Bill
As years go by the less I'm convinced that the platform with the fastest hardware is the best. With consoles, on the technical front, I want constant fluid framerates and predictability. For instance, I fail to see how PS4 Witcher 3 could be better than Witcher 3 on XBox one by any standard I care about when gaming (and I'm a professional graphics programmer).

That said, yes, it seems Sony is winning this generation in consoles. But I would claim it's due to other factors than PS4 as a piece of hardware and OS.
Even if they abandon PIII, FDA needs efficacy data. So, these companies would stop running underpowered PII trials. Then companies can't use posthoc analysis from PII to submit NDA. So, they need to run another PII with biomarkers identified in the posthoc analysis. There are lots of nanocap biotechs running scams just to advance to PIII after showing minimal efficacy in PII; these companies' execs just wanna milk huge salaries as long as the trials go on.
I guess. We actually talked on the phone. When the lady said that to me I said, "Are you seriously trying to make that claim." Silence. Then she made some non-apology and ended the call.
They are "in" there, but they are very far from being perfect. Managing bookmarks is a constant pain, and most browsers don't even offer things as simple as watching if bookmark has gone bad, let alone any added-value services.
Tabs are not spectacular either - I regularly keep dozens of tabs open, and no browser I've seen handles this scenario very well, most just show something like "ok, you've got a lot of tabs, guess which is which". Handling them better, separating by importance, supporting grouping etc. - haven't see it anywhere.
I'm sure there are also other places browser experience could be improved.
The study of the belief in astrology can be an valuable anthropological research. Actually thinking you can predict the future through horoscopes is a waste of time.
You are waiting for >9h just to try a new console?
It would be nice if the article mentioned exactly which agencies would have access.
> I love Nintendo and am a huge fan. But part of me can't help but wish Nintendo would just straight up compete with Sony and Microsoft.

Well I don't love Nintendo, I think their consoles are pretty gimmicky and sales are fueled mostly by nostalgia and rehashing the same game titles over and over again (the Switch is getting a Zelda title and a Mario title? What a shocker!)

I honestly don't believe Nintendo is capable of competing with Sony or Microsoft. Maybe they could create hardware on-par with a PS4, but they can't get the publisher relations down, nor have they been able to get their online service to feature-parity with Xbox Live circa 2007 after a decade of trying. They also have this awful customer-hostile attitude that simply will not go away.

(Why should anybody have to buy a game title more than once, just because they bought a new game console? That's pure scam, Nintendo. On Xbox, you buy it once and you own it forever. On Nintendo, people re-buy Super Mario Bros 3 like clockwork every 3 years.)

Which is fine. There's already lots of competition in the "high powered console gaming" arena, and Nintendo would run the risk of becoming another SteamBox. And if their strength is nostalgia, maybe embracing that is a good business decision, even if the constant rehashing of the same titles over and over personally makes me gag.
Google Removes MEGA Frontpage from Search Results
Yeah I'm curious to hear a defense of the 'PSX, architectural successor of the SNES' argument myself.
Netflix works on Firefox. I don't remember about Linux. ~3 years ago yes Netflix wouldn't work on Linux without plugins, but I thought they fixed it or provided a workaround.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/firefox-49-linux-netflix-...
I think this says a lot about spurious correlations in DNA "science".
Funny story behind the line of Chinese React clones: the original goal of development was to make react work with ie6-9 (pirated winxp still is the "Default OS" here), but it came out that most of Chinese React forks are even less ie friendly than the original.
92% of 13,000 math journal editors are men
There seems to be a lot of negativity around Apple's recent products, both justified and unjustified. What I'm fearing is, that Apple's management will disregard them all as unjustified, i.e. see, CR just rushed to report bad battery life but it kinda wasn't our fault and it wasn't the battery.

But battery life aside, there are legitimate concerns that haven't been addressed, such as no updates for a long time. Phil Schiller saying "I have never seen a great new Apple product that didn’t have its share of early criticism and debate — and that’s cool", then missing sales targets for the iPhone 7 - these things may be a sign that they are gradually losing the sense of reality.

Obviously they are hearing, but are they listening?
"It being popular you say, implies it's good?"

^ I never said "popularity of belief" in any way implies the correctness of belief. I could find and list many popular beliefs that I am certain are blatantly false.

I merely pointed out that the essay seems (to me) to imply that "most people" in the world discount the study of theology as "crazy" and "a waste of time". The reference to the popularity of the Bible ( as "the most widely distributed and best-selling book in the world." ) was in support of my assertion that the "us" for which it is true that the study of theology is "crazy" or a "waste of time" seems to me to be much smaller group of people than the essay seems to imply.
Why would you expect to pay the same? The resource is in higher demand. California has peak demand pricing for electricity to homes, why would this be any different?
I think at least he considers himself a Persuader, that should be clear is you read the blog.
Why Blake rather than Keccak? (Maybe I missed some reason why it's a good idea to avoid the latter.)
They will probably be waiting for the quarterly financial report for units sold. Though last time I check didn't the macbook, mac product range make a small portion of their overall revenue stream?
Well, I see it only a smaller project created by people in the Weex community who prefer React syntax. They did not even talk much about it on Weex Conf. https://atf.alibaba.com/weex
The Wii U didn't sell a lot.
The 3DS did sell a lot.

The Wii U has a higher price than the 3DS, and that is revenue Nintendo needs.

So how to create something as successful as the 3DS, with but as valuable as the Wii U... this seems to be their answer.

Then, "software sells hardware" is Nintendo's motto. They do not license their intellectual property, all games are exclusively released on Nintendo consoles.

Now, it has always been challenging for game studios other than Nintendo to profit a lot by releasing on a Nintendo system. Mostly because specs are always lower than the current generation of competitor consoles.
It's worth putting your contact details on your HN about page
> This is true today if you wanted to live at the same standard of middle class living in 1929, complete with eating only meals hand cooked from base ingredients and no concern with the environmental effects of things like burning coal and garbage.

I wished you stopped at "eating only meals hand cooked"

It's garbage that people in 1929 had "no concern with the environmental effects of things like burning coal and garbage"

OK, they probably had no concern, but that was because there was none to have.

They didn't buy stuff and throw it away, there was no disposable society. They lived simply. Not travelling the world, or large distances to go to X every weekend.

But whats worse in your comment to me is you can live a much much better lifestyle than 1929 on 16 hours a week, traveling the world and having great things while respecting the environment.

You just can't have the things society says you should have.
2016–A Year of Milestones for Computer Science for All
The energy crisis that sparked this crowdfunding campaign (to get a generator + fuel for Gaza's startups and developers) is now front page news...

For those of you who have been conflating all Gazans with Hamas, read this:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38604904

Gaza electricity crisis: Hamas breaks up protest

Meanwhile, comedian Adel al-Mashwakhi was arrested hours after posting a video criticising Hamas, the Associated Press news agency reports.
"There is no work, no crossings, no food, no water to drink and also there is no electricity," he said in the one-minute video, which has been watched more than 250,000 times.
"Enough Hamas. Enough, enough, enough. We want electricity, we want electricity, we want electricity."
Hamas has not commented.
You're speaking from biases because you're rejecting what appears to be very reasonable and plausible concerns as being prima facie absurd, without actually knowing any of the specifics in this matter.

Furthermore your proposed remedy isn't even consistent with your biases, as you propose throwing $840 per house per ad infitum will make the complaints go away, and then turn and round and effectively say that nothing would placate them.

I'm sorry, but that doesn't make any sense at all. If nothing will placate them, then any dollar spent is wasted. If concern is warranted, then spending the money to actually solve the problem would be cheaper over the long term.
Hey,

You are already on right track. Just complete the Graduation as it is required by many companies(and visas if you need any in future). Go for fundamental courses more on MIT OCW and others. I also studied in a private engineering college from India(2010-2014). My rant at the time here: https://nainomics.blogspot.in/2011/11/welcome-to-indias-high...

I just focused on my learning. Some professors were encouraging. That helped.

One anecdote: I made a heroku style PaaS for my final year project(like dokku). My professors couldn't understand what it does and why is it even necessary. Their main point was we have "shared-hosting" services to do these(I had to go from php to java/python example then :P). Now after two years they have their industry peers saying docker all over and have called me several times regarding that.

I am now Backend Dev building APIs with Python(Django) and Elixir at a small company. I also have small Open source contributions under my belt. Contact me if you need someone to talk to
That is a black-or-white fallacy. You don't need to have a group being historically oppressed in order for discrimination.

Oppression is about liberty for which there is little proof which gender has more. The number of working profession which is excluded for women is exactly the same number for men in countries where both women and men are employed in similar numbers (such as Sweden). Men are equally or even more forbidden to enter areas which are assigned female roles, and the studies that look at this (such as one about the teaching profession) acknowledge that feminism has made some minor progress to make it acceptable to women to move to typical male roles but not the reverse.

Womens right activist has fought a long time that their movement isn't about anti-men world-view, so why is it acceptable to draw that same conclusion on all men's rights activist?
My question would be "is searching worth optimizing for anyway?". Log files are typically only read when things go wrong or by automated systems where a few seconds here or there doesn't make much of a difference.

Faster to search often means slower to write too, I'd prefer faster to write and slower to search if I had to choose.
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I have tried both on identical PCs.
I think something had to change eventually. When the 3DS was announced, iPads weren't on the market (so tablets were still a very niche thing) and smartphones were still quite new. In the 7 years since, they've become omnipresent, and it didn't take long for them to become massively more powerful and capable than the 3DS while also being much more portable. I think Nintendo were justifiably worried that if they stayed on their current path, the next handheld wouldn't survive 7 years, just being utterly demolished by phones and tablets. At the same time, the Wii U was a relative failure, and it looked unlikely that they'd ever recapture the audience that made the Wii a phenomenon -- for related reasons, the Wii was an affordable novelty smash with people who weren't big game fans, and that market has all their needs satisfied by their phones and tablets now. So it makes total sense for them to fuse the handheld and console worlds together and focus all their efforts on one platform.

To my disappointment, personally. I wish it were a home console rather than a handheld for reasons that are entirely based on my own needs and tastes (I'll never take it outside so it adds cost for no benefit, the need for portability means games can never really make great use of the motion controls, a lot of multiplayer seems based on the joycons which look absurdly small for adult man hands).