skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is an increasing phenomena due to games getting 'better' as much as due to the economic climate. Even children do it, I did. It can be a good thing and a bad thing. The reason I am a hacker and earn a living as a 'professional software engineer' today, have worked in the games industry and now also at a startup is all because of the interest in games and software generated during my childhood playing video games in order to get escapism from the bullies. Games seemed a thing of beauty the way there were balanced. Even if the protagonist is getting attacked by one hundred enemies the programmer will provide some ability to fight back.

Games are pleasurable because the 'hard work' you put in pays off. Life is not always like that, it's only sometimes like that, and for some people it doesn't seem to matter how hard they work, there's a lot of hopeless places to live in the world. People don't want to live in the USA and other places because they want easy access to Disney Land, they just want to play a fairer game. Now the fact that this is happening in the US, indicates that the economic situation is not as good as it once was for some people. If it improves people would come out of the games because there would be opportunity outside in the real world and anyone would pick the real world rather than games in that case because games are created by people and are rather limited and dull imitations of our real world, our real world is infinitely more interesting and complex.
Somewhat off topic, but I can't figure out how ditch-digging would be particularly hazardous? The only danger I can think of would be a wall collapsing, but that could surely be avoided..
Paragliding requires ascending currents to maintain or gain altitude, IOW you're always going downwards relative to the surrounding air mass. Birds don't (although they obviously do know how to use it for the cheap).

I think maybe the GP is more amazed about the (self-) generated lift and assorted scale. Seems like humans have a thing for hurling self-propelled heavy metal boxes at ridiculous speeds, whether on ground, in the air, or in a vacuum.
I had the opposite experience. First a phone interview, then HackerRank which was much easier than they made it out to be (definitely didn't require any knowledge about algorithms and data structures), then another phone interview with mostly the same content as the first one but more inane questions like "name a project where you made an impact", then I got rejected because they had "no openings in my seniority". Pretty frustrating.
He's choosing to retire, so why not live beyond "getting by" if he can afford it and is happy to live where he can afford it?
I find your lack of imagination disturbing. There are more types of games out there, others can be based around finding the best designs, or alternate fulfillment for a standard interface if materials are short.

We have entire video-games, and mods for games, that revolve around setting up factories and designs.
I'd say Witcher 3 was a little below or on par with Mass Effect, Fable, Dragon Age, Elder Scrolls, Fallout or a Final Fantasy offering and combined you likely see at least one of those a year on average.
That's likely the sound of jetwash striking (nearly) stationary air as it exits the engine.

I'm familiar with the roar of jets taking off. Some years back I happened to be biking past an airport, at the end of the runway, just as a passenger jet was lining up for takeoff, headed away from me. I thought I'd pause to watch.

Only as the engines spooled up did I think, "hrm, this could get loud".

It didn't.

Instead, what I heard was ... the engines spooling up. Loud, yes, but not a roar, just an increasing pitch, until the airplane started accelerating down the runway.

It wasn't until some 15-20 seconds later that I heard the familiar roar, echoing off of hills five or so miles away. That's when I realised that the whine was the sound of the turbines, but the roar was the sound of exhaust gas, streaming out of the engines, hitting stationary air and generating intense turbulence, and radiating outward in a perpendicular line to that jetwash. So I didn't hear it directly (it was moving away from me), only the reflection (as that wall of noise, now reflected off the hills, was directed back toward me.

I doubt the vortex would make any particularly loud sound, though you might hear the rushing of air. Speeds are in the tens of miles per hour rather than hundreds as with jetwash.
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EME isn't a DRM standard. It's an API for passing over the keys to a DRM system. So no, it doesn't make things any easier than the object tag ever did.

The DRM module doesn't necessarily pass the content back to the browser if it's an OS component (which it often is) - there may be a secure video path. Heck, in the case of Netflix's 4K service, it appears the OS itself doesn't even see the content, it's entirely kept within the GPU in a secure area.

If the DRM system does pass back the content to the browser then you could stream rip it from the video path, but 'twas ever thus. And it's worth noting in those scenarios content providers only seem to allow non-full HD content to be shown.

There's nothing in the EME specification that defines how a DRM CDM module works, so there's nothing to help compromise one in the specification, and generally speaking for the last few years DRM systems have actually got pretty good at protecting their keys to prevent impersonation.
For treating them like slaves. You wouldn't mind being a slave for a few decades or hundreds of years if you were immortal?
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I agree, but the commenter claimed it was the "best" game, so a comparison, for better or for worse, was implied.
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The Occupy protests around the world? Arab spring? 2011 UK riots? Black lives matter?

There's a definite undercurrent that politicians are barely keeping a lid on, the latest manifestations being Brexit and Trump.
When running on the same machine, reverse TLS-terminating proxy isn't different from built-in TLS implementation, except for done in "microservice-like" way.

Most certainly, there's no difference whatsoever (or almost so, if the reverse proxy is "smart" and has some application logic in it) if your webapp doesn't speak HTTP natively, but talks FastCGI/uWSGI/SCGI protocols instead. Which is quite common.

I mean, the actual interface (passing buffer pointers in the local process or passing same data via local UNIX sockets) shouldn't matter much, right? As long as interfaces have similar security properties and all the necessary data is passed around properly. A sufficiently privileged user can introspect both (with ltrace or tcpdump), and insufficiently privileged one can't do anything anyway.
I always thought the statistic that mandatory helmets reduced cycling was a bit pathetic myself. It really isn't that hard. Yes, I have come off my bike and hit my head, while wearing a helmet. Unfortunately, I landed on a tooth rather than my helmet, which wasn't a lot of fun.

Regarding helmet hair, I had a colleague who had the most amazing hair spikes (think coffee cup sized), who would very carefully put a cycle helmet on every day before cycling home.
PyTorch tutorial for NLP
How much connection does it have to making the removal of adsense spam pages from Google's index a priority? I have a feeling it lowers that priority significantly, and if those pages were hurting Google's bottom line, it would be priority #1 for the company to remove them.
So this does not work with gitlab, right?
Robots, or no robots, it's very important from a national security perspective to have a sizeable domestic manufacturing base.
You know, I'm not sure this goes into the automation category—this is more of an operational improvement.

Originally, you'd go to a restaurant. You'd sit at a counter. They would take your order and give you a drink along with your meal.

Then someone realized that it saved a huge amount of time just giving people cups and letting them fill their own drink. Not only that, but it made the job of staff easier, because they had one less thing to worry about.

That happened again when they started putting the credit card readers in front of cashiers. It was one less thing staff had to worry about. It also reduced the amount of time ordering took and made stealing credit card information more difficult.

I see this type of improvement inline with operational improvements. That's not to say automation isn't a threat—certainly self-driving cars are. I'm just not sure everything should be classified as automation.
welcome to the internet, where few actually look at or understand the details of posts the comment on :)

floats to represent currency?

https://github.com/butor/blackbird/issues/118
the linearity of older Zelda titles was never an issue for me.

The thing is that the first 3 Zelda's were not linear. I remember being so frustrated that Ocarina of time went out of it's way to stop me from exploring new areas, and how navi ruined all the exploration. I think Breath of the Wild is the first 3d Zelda that feels like the classic games.
Amazing, I would love to read technical details, and how it's made.
I just didn't like it: I went back to it a few times but the whole "stand there squirting that" didn't work for me.
Or the obverse: I'm interested in searching for an item not including current results. In some search engines (DDG, Google Mobile) you can only specify "last day / week / month / year", not excluding within recent intervals.

Google Web, Books, and Scholar, desktop versions, are better in this regard, as specific intervals can be specified. The problem here is that for the Web, there's a great deal of newer content masquerading as older. The problem appears in print as well, but not quite to the same extent.
The 'air molecules impinging on the airfoil' theory of lift is not wrong, but does not account for a large fraction of the lift generated either. In a dense enough medium such as air at normal flight altitudes, you have to take into account how those air molecules interact with other air molecules and not only the airfoil. Sum up all those interactions, and you get fluid dynamics rather than a molecule hitting a surface in vacuum.
youtube has some videos on how it's plowed on the alps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzzwEQF84WE
the only way they keep the ongoing strife from really effecting the political system is by keeping the left and right wings fighting each other over often minor disagreements.
Prices for used Wii Us are around 200 EUR in my region. I'd say that's not a bargain and makes the idea of a new Switch for an extra 100 bucks way more attractive.
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They're trying to sell them, they just did it badly and are now scrambling to catch up. That said, they are slowly catching up. Restock frequency has been slowly increasing.

If you want one, set up alerts on brickseek.com, nowinstock.net and zoolert.com. Every few days they pop up somewhere online or locally. They're still scarce but it's possible to get them. Amazon had stock for almost an hour when I bought one a few weeks ago. Using these alerts I got two in the last month. One for me, and a second just for the controller. The official controller is even harder to find than the console.
Tough choice because there's a clash of personal preference, and role preference. JIRA is great for dev management, but it's hostile to business/design folk, and even developers tend to prefer lightweight github issues. Was tired of fighting, so went and built a sync tool to combine/switch Trello, JIRA, Asana, GitHub, etc seamlessly. Maybe it can help https://unito.io
This makes me feel nostalgic for the custom IT job I did at this oil-patch vendor a while back. They had a failing Win2k server and a SonicWall residential-class router "securing" their business. I replaced it with a linux based firewall and a linux based file/app server.

We basically had to protect the executive network/fileserver from outside and inside threats, keep porn/facebook/twitter off the production floor, and the rest was my design to streamline development/production operations. I've never had so much fun writing iptables rules. It's probably swiss cheese by today's security standards and known vulnerabilities, but it was hot stuff in 2008. :)

I guess I cared an awful lot about users of my infrastructure. Now people consumer my relational schemas but I still care.
Tangential question: What's the absolute cheapest storage per byte right now for someone who doesn't care about speed? Is it like a 4TB HDD? Any specific examples would be appreciated.
Wow that gitlab monitor on [0] looks really great. Thanks! Can I ask which software that is? :)
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Unfortunately GitHub is the only backend we've implemented so far. However, we are planning to support multiple backends, and the CMS is already architectured to do so.
The title is misleading, Google has not broken anything, Dutch providers have. I hope Google will do nothing, and the providers will be pressured into fixing their shitty hardware.
I disagree that no one wants to work - in many ways, working (being of use), is enobeling.

What will replace it culturally when we don't have any work?
I don't know about MOOCs, but I teach Programming online (we have a remote bootcamp) and I prefer the online experience 1000 times more than the physical experience. The amazing groups of people that we create, having folks from all around the world is invaluable. They feel comfortable, secure, and motivated.
Ask HN: Learning mathematics after college
I studied Mathematics and Computer Science at college, although I focused on the Computer Science part for most of my electives. I've been trying to get back into learning maths, but I've come across to problems:

- With so many fields and subfields, it's hard to identify what I want to learn next

- I can't find great learning resources, specifically resources which aren't directed at high schoolers / first year undergrads and are not actual university courses (for c.s. for example there's almost an infinite number of resources easy to find ranging every area and level)

I'm sure a lot of readers here have self-taught maths, and I would love to hear about your experiecnes and recommendations. Thank you!
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I don't know if LBO funds are doing this already but I think it's most likely going to become a trend in the future :

- buy a SaaS company which hosts all its infra on the cloud

- move everything to bare metal

- double the company's margin

- profit
Not yet - there's an issue [0] for that in the GitHub repository [1].

[0]: https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms/issues/57

[1]: https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms
Now UK government have complained about this with their ad too as has Channel 4 - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/17/google-mi...
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Not really. This heavily depends on jurisdiction. Downloading isn't universally illegal (especially if you have the license for the material you're downloading), sharing is.
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Few months back I have start a company for that exact purpose : helping you decreasing you AWS bill.
https://wizardly.eu/

The focus is around reservation, unused resources and tracking cost evolution on a day to day basics.

I don't get that much traction ( I'm not a marketer and it's my first SaaS project, still a lot to learn in that area).
I'm looking for more users feedback, if you willing to invested few minutes in my project that would really helpful. It's also completely free now.

As the article say, their is no silver bullet. Specially if you need infrastructure changed. But it's possible to have an interesting cut by using all the AWS pricing options.

Making teams aware and responsable of their costs is also making a big differences. Often, people creating and managing infrastructure have no view of what it is costing for their company.
How much do they still have ?
Can Snapchat-inspired self-destruct features be a thing in China?
Pushed enough they will crack, but our new masters know this, so they keep us as teetering on the edge as possible. I like Mark Blyths comment on the matter... The Hamptons, Long Islands is low lying and provides very little defence when the angry masses come for your blood.
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The current buzzword for feature flags is 'branch by abstraction'.

The idea is that instead of making a version control branch to change feature A to feature B and then merging back into the mainline of development, you build an abstraction over the thing you want to change, build a new implementation of that abstraction, switch out the two and then (if you like) remove the abstraction, all within the main line of development.

So instead of history that looks like this:

* Merge branch 'feature-cookie-login' into master
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| * Polish up cookie feature
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. * Switch from tokens to cookies
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. * Clean up and refactor login code
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Your history looks like this:

* Stop abstracting the authentication type.
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* Switch from auth tokens to session cookies
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* Add a SessionCookie authentication type.
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* Start abstracting the authentication tokens as a generic authentication type
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But with any completely arbitrary commits interspersed between those commits, as none of them break other code. The first one creates an interface, the second one reimplements the interface, the third switches the used implementation and the optional fourth removes the abstraction and deletes the old implementation.
BTW the low pressure generating the lift thing is a myth. The lift is caused by the fact that the air is being deflected downward and good ol' Newton's Third Law.
Blame Tolkien's World War I trauma, with which he coped by writing a series of therapeutic novels where ethical nuance quite understandably wasn't on the menu - novels which inadvertently inspired a genre that has tended mostly to be more of the same sort of flight from modernity, but without the originator's nigh peerless world-building skill.

(I used to write Quenya and Sindarin in the tengwar! Probably still could; I'm sure I kept those notes. Brilliant languages, if heavily systematized in the same unrealistic way as Esperanto. But I still to this day can't make it through the main trilogy without running out of patience. Would you believe, I used to think I was the one with the problem?)
I've seen the Mustache site before, but let's be honest here: this only works if you live a frugal life style.

It might work if you are alone with no attachments or your SO has the same views, but not for anyone else.

I'm trying to become less attached to things and have gone a long way, but telling your wife and kid to not want to eat out, for instance, is almost impossible...
Thanks. Anything for Firefox? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paywall-pass/ used to work but stopped working.
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Eh. Young men are "dropping out of the job market" due to a lack of ability to be accepted into it regardless of education or ability. And they're spending time doing lots more things than gaming, which you can see from rates of drug addiction and depression and suicide and so on.

Saying that they're dropping out of the job market to spend time gaming is bizarre and wrong. At various points in the article it hits vaguely onto the actual truth of the matter.
I think Derrida is treated rather poorly, even in taught philosophy. Just because a work has multiple possible interpretations, it doesn't mean it's obscurantist or bad.
Relevant Talk from GDC17:
"Reach the Largest Gaming Platform of All: The Web. WebGL, WebVR and glTF" [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLNtjujPhzY
There are a lot of interesting applications of topic modelling (including more interesting + powerful techniques than LDA) in recommender systems - worth looking into if you're curious.
The issue though is that a lot of the people mentioned in the original article don't think trying is worthwhile. So advice to "just try" is always going to fall short.

As advice it also ignores the structural issues that make trying easier and harder for various people. One way of encouraging people to try is to break down the real barriers that exists and make it harder for them than others.
> I wish to someday walk into an interview and pull out Clojure as my language of choice

We're hiring: https://nubank.workable.com/jobs/440029

Lots of Clojure and a few hours from beautiful beaches ;)
They were more linear than you realise, too progress in dungeon 3 you needed a weapon from dungeon 2, etc. OOT wasn't a radical departure from that and was about as open. The Wii ones were the most linear and that was a reaction to the criticism for lack of story.
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The problem with shadow banning is the lack of notification regarding rule breakage as well as some harmful psychological effects. People who are shadow banned may not realize they did something wrong / against the rules so they may continue saying the same types of things, without getting flagged / downvoted, thinking maybe it's okay. When they find out they were shadow banned it's easy to feel like an idiot especially if the site allows you to review what they posted while shadow banned.

I know reddit has taken the stance lately to only use it against spam accounts as it's highly effective against those.
Prescriptions ordered electronically seems to be the only thing that is an improvement.

Everything else is not only bad IT, but ruins your interactions because the medicinal person is bent over a laptop.
This makes a lot of sense. 3 and New Vegas are remakes of 1 and 2, which were respectively linear and open. 4 is the first one where Bethesda hasn't had earlier work to use as a reference, and it sounds like that really shows.
It does always seem so divisive. I’m in the ‘enjoyed Galaxy but I think I actually prefer Sunshine’ camp. The new Mario looks really great, too, though.
I was just thinking about Carmlliswd onions made with maple syrup with bacon and some of that special ham that costs $$$$ on some mashed russets with lots of Finnish butter and sel gris
You're probably more talented than me, I couldn't get through the boss fight of the water divine best so I went to level up.

It's a much harder game than normal Zelda's.
I don't think "viz." is correct here, either, which isn't surprising given the total absence of hyperlinks in the Latin corpus. A plain "see" would be best.
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> 4TB HDD

Yes. It's what Amazon Glacier runs on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Glacier#Storage

The Backblaze blog is also a great place to learn about a large storage deployment:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-benchmark-stats-20...
Yeah but "young men find out the job market is shit and turn to various other vendors of dopamine" just doesn't have the same ring. It's those gosh darned rock and roll video games ya know.
History completely disagrees with you though. The Roman empire. Biggest, most successful, longest lived empire that ever was? Built on slaves. The net benefit to them of using slaves vastly outweighs any downside that you can point to.

Almost all slave rebellions ended in failure, I'm aware of one example of success in the millenia of slaves, Haiti.

A friend of mine once said slaves became obsolete with the advent of harnessing fossil fuels. Before that, to get the raw power to do great things, it was all run on slaves.

Tragic, but I certainly believe it was true.