skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another reason is addiction. We have an industry set up to collect rents from creating the most addictive entertainment they can.

Some other largely overlapping lists of games whose creators collect no rents:

http://freegamedev.net/wiki/Complete_open_source_games

https://libregamewiki.org/List_of_games

https://wiki.debian.org/Game / https://packages.debian.org/stable/games/

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Category/Game (site linked to in post, but not the relevant category)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_game...
> in the end it is philosophically just the Copenhagen interpretation

No, it isn't. The wave function never collapses. This is easily demonstrated with a simple thought experiment which is described in the first two references that I link to.
The Game Theory has nothing to say about partially observable, stochastic, continuous environments and has no concept of future.
A few data points from a text/code/web based user..

- The most productive I've been has been using 3 monitors, 1 for messaging/research, middle screen for working, and right screen for testing/launching, etc.

Consider if you have an eyeglass prescription the amount of strain you may experience with any monitor size, pixel size, etc. The higher the prescription, astigmatism, etc, the more factors you may have to consider.

- Currently use 27" Asus at 1440p for the past few years. It was a big jump at the time but now I'm used to it and want more space. Tilts, pivots, so I got two to put them side by side. Not ideal, or bad either. The issue is the screen area, and how low and high you are able to look comfortably and productively.

- Have a friend who got a Philips 40" 4K and said it was too big in terms of the area you can look at without having to pivot your head a lot. Users with a 40'+ 4K monitor report a border of the screen around the outside that is not actively usable without for work but may be useful for other things like IM, etc.

- Asus has come out with a 31.5" monitor at 1440p that might be interesting to you depending on your needs and eyeglass prescription.

- Currently considering at one 33 to 38" 4K screen.

In some ways the three 19" 4:3 monitors I ran 10 years ago at 1200x1024 remain the perfect balance between size and productivity, although it only.
I second that big time. It also has a promising follow-up which I have yet to dig in to "Homo Deus"
In addition to that, the engines of the Air Force One aren't really modern. The disturbed air should be even more visible there.
Moreover the accused is being treated as guilty despite the lack of any corroborating evidence. And in fact, despite that all evidence points to explicit innocence.

It's abnormal from the beginning, by the end it's pretty clearly abusive.

I think we should start investigating the rest of this DA's cases. To see if everyone she dealt with was railroaded. And if evidence was disregarded in their cases too.
http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/cialacing.htm

This is fascinating: Coldwar era CIA agents lacing their shoes as "a form of covert signalling, using straight segments interspersed with one or more visible crossovers at different positions."
I have another hypothesis the article didn't mention: students who want to do research focus more on their studies while the ones planning to go to Wall Street do the bare minimum to get an acceptable grade (whatever "acceptable" is for the Wall Street institutions) and spend the rest of their time networking, preparing for job interviews in banks, or just enjoying life.

EDIT: spelling
Actually for Japanese in particular the extended CJK ranges are of limited use (I'm more familiar with Japanese than Chinese), although they do contain the parts of JIS X 0213 that were still missing from Unicode (all of them rare characters) and some ideographical component parts that are useful for dictionary and educational software. With the latter you can for example use Unicode codepoints for the distinct components of a single Chinese character (e.g., 𠂉 as the top-right part of 族). That is a fairly specialised use though.

For Korean and Vietnamese the extra Chinese characters might apply to ancient names (geographical usually I would wager), but neither language has a lot of ideographs in modern usage.

It's certainly an interesting topic though.
I'm using a Philips BDM4065UC at home. It's just under 40", 4K at 60hz. This gives you the same pixel density as a "normal" 27" monitor, but with far more space. I prefer it over smaller dual monitors, and feel no need for more screen space.

And yes, this is an actual monitor, not a TV.
H1b vs L1 visa
Hey, sorry to be off-topic, but your post does not have a downvote button for me. The rest do, and I do not want to downvote you, but I am curious as to the 'why not?'.
Oh cool, now we know why it looks so stupid: it's because it's almost impossible to distinguish takeoff from landing if you don't exaggerate the angle.
Yes! A title change is warranted. A proper title would be something like "Gates Foundation to require immediate open access to supported research"

And Peter Suber has a good analysis here https://plus.google.com/u/1/+PeterSuber/posts/dU6tWcorZEV
They're almost certainly doing something like Microsoft's Pelican: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

The first comment on TFA says as much.

Edit: This is the actual Pelican paper:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
I don't use ":back" (because using "H" from normal mode is better) but having a command line in your browser is awesome! Firefox has much better address bar than Chromium (which seems to be designed to maximize the number of Google searches from the browser), which does smart auto complete with fuzzy finding and search engine completions for lots of sites and vimperator makes really good use of this.

Example use case (which I use daily): press "o w<tab>" which is short for ":open wikipedia" and then type in your Wikipedia search, and you get smart autocompletion from Wikipedia. Much faster and better than doing a Google search and clicking the first link (while looking at a few ads).
I'm running a curved 48" 4k TV and absolutely love it. I have enough room to fit all of my windows, and the text isn't microscopic.

If you get a TV make sure it will do 4:4:4 chroma and 60hz over its interface (HDMI 2.0). You'll probably also need a DP to HDMI 2.0 dongle as well.
Do you find you're able to look at, and use the edges of your monitor? If you don't mind sharing the make and model of your current monitor that'd be great, thanks
I don't even consider the finance and consulting industries to be distinctly different industries. It is basically the same industry.
There are different ways of joining people together than forced paired programming. Loose coupling of people can be effective too.
I was a quant trader and hired quants out of MIT, et cetera. I never found them as brilliant as MIT's proper engineers nor as creative (or savvy) as other schools' proper financiers. (Part of the effect may arise from pure finance aspirants focussing less on their studies than research aspirants.)
There's actually a fourth group, they become President.
Neat, can you change gears?
The graphics card fetish point was valid 10 years ago, but not now. It used to be that all developers were requiring new and high end features--often simply because they weren't optimizing their renderers--but now any cheap graphics card is good enough for everything except a handful of triple-A games with all the knobs turned to 10. Especially if you buy indie stuff on Steam, you'll have no worries with a 5 year old video card, and you can play so many great games.

The graphics card comparers and obsessors are paying lots of money for higher power requirements, more noise, and higher failure rates. They can be safely ignored as a market.
Sorry I didn't really finish the point.

With exchange, we had all of this expensive, reliable SAN storage that would be perfect for a low requirement glacier like solution. Unfortunately, we lacked the ops mojo to pull it off.
For me it depends on what you're doing. If you are looking at a spec, it's annoying having to alt-tab all the time. Before I had dual monitors, I even resorted to -gasp- printing the spec so I could look at it while coding.
older than 24 hours, the others aren't.
No, I most emphatically did not say (or mean) that it is impossible to check this statically. I am saying that this is first a modeling problem, you need to have a model for your SQL. You know, things like

SqlStreamingAction[Vector[(String, Int)],(String, Int),Effect]

After you have that model for your SQL you can decide whether you want to check it statically or not, but first you need the model.

And yes, some languages allow you to decompose compile-time strings into model objects. Still requires you to have a model first, and I have to admit I prefer not having magic strings, but rather have polymorphic identifiers: http://objective.st/URIs
The argument is loaded. Of course not everyone will be covered. Of course there will be people that fall between the cracks of family, community and charity.

Really, you demand perfection of a hypothetical system, yet there are millions starving right now. Millions killed, forgotten and neglected due to negligence of the state, or by active effort. All while countless others are forced to pay a state to fix those very things, while the state doesn't do it or does it half-assed while funding gets sent to low-priority causes.

And to answer your question. I don't know. I can hypothesize, and we could argue the merits. But really, you will fundamentally disagree with every single suggestion. Or you'll find some little flaw or hole that gets missed(just like you did above), and automatically you'll declare that it is a bad solution and we could never do it.
I think I've used this one as well for about 7 or 8 years. I can recall an accidental untie exactly once. It's also fantastic because it makes for a much more symmetric, shapely knot.
Many people outside academia assume that researchers receive some sort of financial benefit when their paper is distributed, read, or bought for $35 on Elsevier.

But in fact, the publishing companies receive money from both the researcher and the reader. They charge the researcher up to $1,500 to publish the article, and then they extract money from the readers by charging a subscription fee to their institution (which constitute a large portion of the library budget).

Not even the editors or reviewers receive any financial compensation -- they often volunteer their time for the peer-review process.

The entire procedure and profit extraction is a disgrace.
Fun tech crossover, the word "aglet". In addition to the shoelace word, it was also the name of a Java mobile agents framework from IBM ~1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglets
Traders are trusted with balance sheet. Bankers and consultants aren't.

It's true that low-level banking and consulting are both grunt work; at their higher echelons it's relationship driven.
The author seems to want to return to "Create games as a hobby" instead of having an industry that creates the best creative jobs involving a computer. There has been so much development in the last 10 years in computer games that would not have been possible if there wasn't an industry. Of course there is some unnecessary hardware and depending on your income, there are parts that you can't afford. On the other hand, thanks to current game engines (which would not be affordable for indie developers if there wasn't an industry), there are so many possible hardware configurations to play the game you want on, you just don't have to buy the newest stuff every two years anymore.
Especially for indie developers, the current games industry landscape is a big opportunity. Yes it is very hard to be successful, but it was never easier to create a game, and that would not be possible if we stick to open source games and old hardware.
As Self-Driving Cars Approach, the Auto Industry Races to Rebuild
It's too bad 4:3 or other more square ratio monitors aren't as easily available. I think I might be a 3 screen mental model guy as well.
Universal patterns of innovation
Consulting vs Finance: well, many McKinsey kids go to HBS/Stanford GSB for MBA, only to go back to PE/HF (finance). The only people who go back to consulting from Stanford GSB/HSB are those who did not come from consulting/finance.
To me these losses could be completely justified. It's a simple calculation of two companies (Uber and Lyft) who perceive customer LTV to be huge so they are tripling down on acquiring customers, drivers, etc.

The only way I see this as a disaster scenario is if rides are operating at a negative margin in hopes automation will eventually solve that problem as it's not clear either of these companies will even win the automation race.
Nice! Sounds like all that compromised there, was the wallet. ;)
From the article:

"Shu noticed that since the Great Recession, after Wall Street careers had lost of some of their luster, newer classes of MIT students became more likely to major in science and engineering subjects — and their grades were better, too. This effect was most pronounced among the weaker students. Shu has a hunch that some students had been slacking off in their classes because they anticipated working in finance, not science, after graduating."
I love sites like this (and this one in particular). I remember stumbling on it many years ago, maybe a decade or more. No idea how I found it, but the secure knot is useful knowledge that's stuck with me all those years, and has come in handy many times. I don't really care anything about shoelaces, but I'm happy someone else does and built an enduring monument to that enthusiasm.
Althought your setup is interesting, isn't using 2.5( * ) sata disks via an usb3 adapter way cheaper and flexible?

( * ) So you don't need a power adapter.
The real issue here is that there is no economic incentive for many types of research. The more low level the research, the harder it is the reap the commercial benefits from your discoveries. Technological progress is one of the factors that drives long term economic growth, but we didn't find a good way yet to encourage it. (To clarify, this only applies to low level/basic research.)
I don't really get the advantage of open source games. Operating systems and productivity stuff sure -- you want to know what's running on your computer and ideally you want a community that can improve it. But games? First off, the vast majority of games have a pretty short lifespan of relevancy, by the time you're up to speed on the code base there's a decent chance people have moved on. Also a lot of the code isn't even reused among those who have it. If you want the reusable bits for new games, you can already go get an engine like Unity or Unreal, or if you're building your own engine, thousands of great libraries. For the most part source code to games is interesting on an educational level, but not much else.
Yes! A lot of the time people can't finish things because they don't know or can't decide what to actually do next. Having another person around to validate decisions or even just make them can be a great help. Bringing people together who will listen to and respect each other is the skill of team building.
I asking about outcome of Stern and Gerlach experiment. It's binary thing. Make public prediction, please.
What about Noise vs QUIC? Which should end up getting adopted?
I've seen this manifest itself in various forms. In some ways, it's like the classic pump and dump scam that used to plague the Internet stock forums back in the late 90's. Tokyo Joe, I think his name was, became infamous for using his track record to front run his mostly illiquid OTC stocks. Because people thought he was this great trader, they would plow into his announced picks, creating a surge of volume in these thinly traded stocks, in which Tokyo Joe would sell out and cause a frantic collapse.

Nowadays, though, you see this sort of behavior in legal and more respectable ways. However, I think the purported results are highly disingenuous. What do I mean? Let's use a well known investment advisory service known as AAII.

AAII has a model shadow stock portfolio with fairly well known and transparent stock selection criteria. However, they often announce stock picks and stock sells to their followers within a day, supposedly, of their actual transaction. I've been studying the behavior of their stock pick/sells announcements, and on average, stocks are trading +5% to -5% (depending on whether it was a buy or sell) within the day following the announcement. This is HUGE for many reasons:

1) They often have multiple transactions on the portfolio in any given year.

2) The performance on the portfolio is boosted by, on average, 5% for any buy or sell. Compounded, this makes a big statistically significant difference on their purported shadow stock portfolio's CAGR and strategy.

3) They do not disclaim this behavior as a caveat emptor.

4) Though their strategy is transparent, their data feed / source is not. No one will be able to replicate their stock picks/sells on their own with their own live data source.
It's only your property in so far as the government/society surrounding you says it is, unless you plan on defending it yourself, but that didn't work out so well for a certain group in Waco, TX.
>His strategy of turning the WashPo into the HuffPo Insider but with a better rolodex and even less ethics seems to be going solid from a biz standpoint.

Had to highlight that. Excellent summary of their current state.
The one valid cost you've mentioned would be the cost of parking all those cars. A couple of points. Cars in service don't need parking, obviously. They're either ferrying passengers or on their way to the next fare. And, as demand for transportation drops on a given day, parking availability increases and parking costs drop. Finally , a car being removed from service, on a given day, may be sent to low-cost parking, far from expensive urban centers. Many Uber/Lyft drivers do this currently and still make a profit.

The cost of infrastructure and automechanics, etc, is spread across the fleet. That's the benefit of operating at scale - economies of scale. You don't lose money merely because you're operating at scale, that's not how it works. What would it cost you to maintain a Prius? How about 100 identical Priuses? It's not 100x.

Finally, the comparison to FedEx/UPS is flawed. Those guys don't just have a fleet of trucks to maintain, they have to deal with shipping centers, hubs, air transportation, multi-day package tracking, and the logistics nightmare that's involved in doing all that and still getting packages delivered. They'd rightfully tell you managing their fleet is the least of their concerns.
Just because you don’t have permissions to do something, doesn’t mean something is wrong with the API. Technically, you can restrict permissions in a similar way on any NT-based OS. Doesn’t mean the Win32 API is not native. Doesn’t mean those ACL permission checks everywhere are “artificial limitations”.

Most of those UWP’s limitations are here to protect users. Microsoft learned their lesson about the security. I don’t want your app to be able to do local IPC or hook keys on my PC.

Furthermore, you can’t have unrestricted access to the lower levels of the system, and universal apps at the same time. There’s no Win32 subsystem on the phones, or on embedded windows 10.
I wish I could just super underline your point on favoring individualism. We have systems built to make the best individuals that we can, and wonder why it is hard to join teams later in life.

We'll even have times where we put people in teams, but then they still get judged individually. Completely ignoring that a failed team is just that, a failed team. Not a team of failures.
You can't really "adopt" Noise; it's a metaprotocol. You instantiate it for different applications. The ideas from Noise should probably filter into every secure transport.
He meant that if EBS has the same issue as his Exchange servers. To explain in more detail: You have 10TB disk space with 10.000 IOPS, your users buy 4TB with 10.000 IOPS then you have 6TB of storage wasted.

If Amazon has that problem with EBS, then selling that storage capacity as Glacier and using just the idle IOPS (or leaving a small bit reserved) allows them to sell capacity that would otherwise just be useless.
10 years ago people were saying the same thing (Team Fortress Classic is getting to be more like two decades ago). There is still a ton of modding going on, maybe even more in absolute terms, but a lot of people who would have gotten into modding back then are making their own games in Unity (and occasionally UE) instead.
The article neglects to mention that 15-40% [1][2] of graduating classes at elite schools go into finance. That's a staggering number.

Sure the top students are going into research careers/PhDs, but the banking/consulting/tech recruiting engine is very strong for the rest. I think there are many people who could have productive roles in science/engineering/teaching/etc without getting PhDs who end up in tech/finance instead due to the strong recruiting pressure and great job perks/prestige.

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/2014/03/20/education/top-student....
[2] https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/out-of-harvard...
I would propose that you just don't remember all the games that weren't changeable, didn't have interesting mods, and that just the place where you find those games has shifted. I don't know a moddable recent shooter (possibly because I don't care about shooters, possibly because none exists), but other games, outside the shooter AAAs, have tons of mods.
Why did AutoIt split from AutoHotkey? I hadn't even heard there was a split. Is there somewhere I can read more about this?

Which is the dominant user input automation tool on Windows these days? I'd thought AutoHotkey was it, but maybe not?
I avoid Washington Post. Am I smart?
I absolutely hate these new "N articles a month" paywalls. Using the "web" link is now ineffective because Google AMP also functions as a paywall.

What if click on an article to skim it and don't really want to read it? Sometimes I just want to gather some context for the HN discussion. Or perhaps I'll immediately decide it's not something I'm actually interested in. That counts against whatever number of reads they're tracking.

You might argue that I should pay for the website and the journalism it supports. Sure, if half of what I was clicking wasn't click bait. Maybe it's just me, but I have yet to find a website that I'd want to pay. (I'd pay for HN.)

To be clear, I do find some journalism to be great, but it isn't uniform in quality or relevance to my interests at any given news outlet. Not to the point where I'd pay for a monthly subscription to every news site for a chance to read the handful of things I want to. I might support microtrasactions if that were a thing. I wouldn't mind five or fifteen cents here or there. But that's never taken off.

These websites are taking valuable space on the HN front page, and they're hosting content I (and presumably others) can't even read! They're like viruses. I don't want them to show up. I wish we would ban them.

Edit: I usually don't make voting appeals, but I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted. This is an earnest call for discussion about an issue I feel is a pain point for many HN readers. You might disagree with me, but that shouldn't necessitate a downvote. I haven't been disrespectful, and I welcome different opinions on the matter. I'd prefer a comment expressing why I'm wrong.

I view links to WaPo and the like as an inequitable and unsolicited tax on HN readers. Students especially are impacted by these paywalls.
Trying to sell people on FLOSS games by using Wesnoth as an example is like trying to sell cars by pointing to the Ford Pinto.

It's ugly and not very fun.
I am soon going to upgrade to 3x 24" 4k displays in portrait mode. I used 3x22" 1650x1050 for many years.

I love hiDPI on my mobile devices, and this is a best way for desktop.