skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imgur converts most moving images into mp4 and webm, serving the optimal file to the browser the visitor is using. I think this is part of the reason why people use the word "GIF" for any moving media these days as imgur is a very popular medium.
Making Grafista, a (semi-)monospaced typeface
A related question with the same answer:

Is the right answer authenticity or sincerity?

Answer: both.
This presumes a level of objective truth that is almost never available within the confines of casual conversation. I find the failure mode of a stubborn "truth-seeker" far more obnoxious in most settings than the failure mode of someone saying "huh, that's interesting, I'll have to look into that more" even when they're pretty sure they're right.
Supported
http://littlesvr.ca/apng/inter-frame.html
Interview with Oculus' Jason Rubin – Part 1: The Unpublisher
I agree and think Backbone/Marionette is under appreciated.
Any stylus with a battery should be good. Recent ThinkPad yoga, HP, Acer are ones I've tested recently, and have been happy with them
Thanks for the clarification. Do they at least get credit for backing and popularizing Pokemon Go? Where would it be without Nintendo?

(Real questions; I'm not advocating for Nintendo.)
Why no ~~strike out~~ in spec?
> Anecdotal evidence I hear from UC Berkeley employees is that there just is no money to be had.

I think this is missing a trailing "... due to the budget being allocated elsewhere."
It is not, and not just because of a few idiosyncrasies like C which require context.

Fundamentally, markdown was specified as some pattern matching and English description. The original specification was not done thinking of productions and grammar rules, and you typically don't get there by accident.

See http://roopc.net/posts/2014/markdown-cfg/ for a detailed exposition of how the '*' character in markdown is sufficient to ruin any chance of a CFG.

I have sometimes pondered how to make a markdown-like language with a simple production based grammar. I have not succeeded and would appreciate any pointers. The criteria being that is has to have something like the minimal intrusion into the prose of markdown.
It's not just you, but I think this is a pretty silly gripe. The vast majority of games that see release are essentially the same. Year after year, they tell the same stories with the same characters with the same quick time events and overpriced DLC (atop an already overpriced base title). Reusing the same characters is comparatively a non issue, particularly when the experiences tend to be of such high quality.
As Moore’s law nears limits, brain-like computers comes of age at Stanford
On the same note, not everything Donald Trump supports is death incarnate, or hilter-like. He's been outspoken pro-gay and in favor of plenty of other things that don't meet the hardline pov. I think he's probably not as well spoken as many who have reached his status. I think he's a bit of a sexist bully, though plenty of Presidents with a (D) next to their name have been similarly so (El BJ, etc).

And I've seen plenty of non-sensical crap come from both sides... anti-gmo and anti-vaxxers for starters, not based in science and reason at all.
Yes. Each frame can specify a region of the overall image, usually just the bounding box of the changed pixels. There are a few options for retention:

APNG_DISPOSE_OP_NONE: no disposal is done on this frame before rendering the next; the contents of the output buffer are left as is.
APNG_DISPOSE_OP_BACKGROUND: the frame's region of the output buffer is to be cleared to fully transparent black before rendering the next frame.
APNG_DISPOSE_OP_PREVIOUS: the frame's region of the output buffer is to be reverted to the previous contents before rendering the next frame.
Give Your Team the Winning Edge with a Field Heating System
Cross-Platform mobile development with Swift
>Why does it have to be one or the other?

Intellectual prowess helps you run the country. "Like to have a beer with," doesn't.

And 'like to have a beer with' isn't' the same as charisma. The demographic of people one would 'like to have a beer with' overwhelmingly skews to people like oneself. In other words, it's a form of in-group signaling, and, ultimately, a soft word for prejudice.
Placeholders – The Second
I can't tell you how much I enjoyed the relative lack of a tutorial and 'front story'. I've gotten games and then sat on them for months because I knew I'd need a good 45 minutes to even start playing the game and just never had the time or patience. This game was just such a great "pick up and play" experience; and it let's you learn a lot of stuff on your own.

The puzzles are amazing because they feel very natural. The game doesn't go out of its way to prevent you from "cheating" or solving the puzzle however you like. But it also doesn't feel like it was intended for there to be more than one solution. The intended solution is usually clear after the fact (even if you've solved it some other way); and it seems like the solution, but any other solution is also accepted. It feels as if I've really stumbled across this puzzle, and even if I can't figure it out, I can figure SOMETHING out, and that's alright.
Today I tried to write this on shell, I couldn't do it in a compact way. Are there some nice PLs for these kind of plays? Cleanest I could do was doing below in a single line via "python -c". I couldn't get it done via bc or awk.

from random import random
l = lambda (a, b), c: (a + c, b + 1)
g = (1 if random()**2 + random()**2 <= 1 else 0 for i in range(10**6))
r, t = reduce(l, g, (0.0, 0))
print r / t * 4
erm... that's Jorge Luis Borges
Yes, I am out of my mind and I was just telling you what has helped me personally.

If you are already very nervous about this and you are even the slightest bit interested, perhaps a first step would be to go to an improv show and see it in person.

Going back to your original questions, have you considered telling the person that "I'm fine and it is possible that I may have seemed _____." By doing this, you acknowledge that the person may have assumed incorrectly without being antagonistic.

I will stop now.
Witcher 3 is very interesting from that perspective. I found the controls to be fairly clunky, the detective vision a bit of a mess, combat as not particularly engaging, Gwent as an objectively bad card game... Yet, the strength of the writing, and the characters carry it.
The New Digital School and Subvisual Are Offering a Design Sprint to a NonProfit
Nintendo is an odd company. They are extremely conservative in some ways, but game design isn't one of them. At the same time, nothing in Zelda is really that innovative, it's just put together very very well.

They didn't develop pokemon go.

> But they don't get enough attention and praise IMHO

It's because they pull constant bullshit.

Everything is a shortage. NES classic, amiibos, etc...

Their online systems are years behind.

They try to get people to pay again and again for the same ancient games. You can't transfer games bought on the virutal console between different consoles, why? Fuck you that's why.

They are at times more concerned with being "innovative" then just providing a good core experience. You praise the wii but it wound being filled with shovelware and the motion controls are still just meh.

They are extremely hostile towards their own community. They zealously "protect" their IP (as is their right) from people doing lets plays and reviews and such on youtube.

I love nintendo the game maker, but they are not the best company around.
Journey is a great game. You can "finish" it in one setting. Unfortunately it's a Playstation exclusive. Maybe you have a friend with a Playstation (3 or 4) that you can use for an evening or a weekend?
I'd like to see them succeed with episodic game play.

I'm not sure if anyone really ever did that. I know that Valve wanted to do it with Half Life 2 and then just stopped after two episodes.

It sounds like Witcher 3 had two great extensions, but that's it pretty much.

It sounds like one of my favorite childhood games had that in mind, but then others figured out how to create content, and they let the community create new content instead.

Is anyone actually doing episodic game content successfully? I guess MMORPGs like WoW do, but is anyone successfully doing episodic content for games outside that genre?
How much of a "browser" is this browser? Is it just a wrapper around some kind of web view or does it have a native engine and all that?

Wondering realistically what the surface area for compatibility actually is.
A healthy relationship with open source projects is a great way to attract talent and gain goodwill.
Go uses quite a bit less memory than Java.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/go.html
How are scalpers trying to make the situation better? They don't increase the supply, as in your erroneous hypothetical.

There's an argument for scalpers, but it's more subtle. Companies want immediate sales and to be able to say they sold out. Scalpers let them do that by taking on some of the risks themselves. And it ostensibly allows people to make a time/money tradeoff between waiting in line or for later supplies versus paying more.
"..After learning a task, we compute how important each connection is to that task."

Anyone know if this was expanded on in the whitepaper?
It's more of a Windows version of a Pandora than a netbook.
The plan is to go codepoint by codepoint in ascending order:

`{"Z":3,"a":0,"\u0073\u0323\u0307":1,"\u1E69":2}`

See this issue for the discussion: https://github.com/seagreen/Son/issues/1

My current understanding is that RFC 7159 doesn't require Unicode normalization to be performed, if it does we're in trouble: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159
Rust's FFI is the same as C.
I also stopped using after 0.3 and tried it recently again to speed up some NLP code in Python3 and it hasn't been faster than Python3. Back then I didn't like the poor support for pyjulia, slow string processing, people using unicode symbols as variables, module import system, lack of libraries for more obscure NLP algos, and startup time. I know these aren't major issues for the core users of Julia, but these were my concerns.

The way I wrote the current code in Python was abusing sets and dicts a lot to take advantage of those fast data structs. Rewriting in Julia was fun because it was different and because multiple dispatch is fun.

However, it was roughly the same speed as Python. Ended up sprinkling some Cython on top of Python and resulted in 10x speedup. Didn't take much time to add types/pass pointers instead of strings to functions. I am not at all familiar with C++/Cython.

I think even if they speed strings/dicts up by a lot, there seem to be lots of breaking changes between releases so I wouldn't try it for something big.

I think if Julia is to succeed in the near future in the same way Python is successful for data science, it needs to be more usable for general tasks. Things like web servers, fast JSON parsing, maybe static binaries or easy parallelism. Basically, some more selling points. So far, for me personally Python is faster and easier to read for most of the things I write. At least given comparable amount of work.
They send me a lot of issues with my normal Economist subscription, but you're definitely right that it's not cheap.
The author's comment on access to a mediocre/unknown university instructor for a high fee vs free access to a very good set of lectures (Khan) is one of the doubts that led me to quit my job as a college instructor. I had kind of the existential "what are we doing here?" question -- why are students coming here and paying us money when better instruction is available for free online? Combined with a couple of education futurists predicting the imminent demise of in-person college (to be replaced by canned lectures from the best speakers and an army of automated or mechanical-turk graders), I decided to be first out rather than forced out and quit. That was five years ago and the landscape hasn't changed much.

The school I taught at, a community college issued associate's degrees in computer programming, is still going strong largely as it was back then. I still don't have an answer to my question, though: why are students paying for that?
"Be the change that you want to see in the world"

Sounds more logical to me
Having used and maintained a Swift translation of the StackOverflow .NET markdown processor, please, when there is a proposal to use source as a spec, burn it with fire. Scatter the ashes.
Underrated post
The video pipeline for the video shorts section is different from the reviews section.

The reviews section is an older video pipeline not optimized for today's video streaming needs. Whereas video shorts was purpose built with a much improved encoding pipeline alongside the video player. Unfortunately that team hasn't moved to using the new pipeline and re-encoded their videos. The older pipeline is basically in maintenance mode.

(Source: Worked on the video shorts team)
The OpenGL issue is fixed now. :)

Here's an example with THREE.js: https://sketch.expo.io/rkpPMg8ie

Plain OpenGL:
https://sketch.expo.io/SJaCWirsg
GIF also has the connotation of the animation or video being short (under 30 seconds), often subtler animation, and without audio - whereas "video" implies more a traditional multimedia presentation.
If you want to get started quickly then review the fact that you even require a SPA in the first place.

Other than that, you can get started pretty damn fast with create-react-app.

https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app
I do agree the data is probably quite useless, although it could give an indication of frequency.

A more extreme scenario: it could allow for public shaming when it's used in public; for instance by setting it to a painful and/or audible setting (although I doubt any remote vibrator can vibrate that strong), and by focusing attention on that via other means ("what's that buzz?").

(I don't understand why parent was flagged so I vouched.)
> It's odd how neither this post, nor the spec, nor GitHub's "Mastering Markdown" help page[1], nor the more complete "Basic writing and formatting syntax" page[2], mentions the fact that GitHub treats every newline as a hard break.

Well, actually it does say that "Hard line breaks are for separating inline content within a block."

https://github.github.com/gfm/#hard-line-break

So two spaces at the end of the line for a <br>, and an empty line for <p>.
All readers of the site have graduated secondary schools.

Chekhov is still tout in Russian school : https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%8...
Without scalpers then a shortage means the switches are actually in the hands of gamers who got them for a reasonable price, without some shithead sticking themselves in the middle.

Currently it's a bunch of people who want to play, but aren't willing to be gouged by a bunch of fucking assholes.
Or, you are like me (Libertarian), and many others who believe that a minimalistic government that only meets the needs of common defense, upholding court decisions and essential infrastructure are best on a number of levels. Most of us are also in favor of VERY high levels of transparency in both government and businesses in order to establish fairly open trade. Most of us would prefer to see transactional taxes over income taxes.

What consists of essential infrastructure is up to some debate, I might be convinced that education is, roads are, internet is (communications), electricity is... but not too much else. I feel that healthcare and other social welfare programs could lean towards family care requirements, which would allow for much lower costs for everyone else that doesn't have family for care.

I'm not hardline either, I'm open to pragmatic options for many things... but the direction should be towards freedom and not away from it.
There's an issue for min and max number values here: https://github.com/seagreen/Son/issues/3

Son seems like a natural place to put restrictions on them, but I'm not sure if there's way to do it that (A) still makes for a clean spec and (B) still allows everything floats can encode to to be used.
I suppose the next question is: should the voice of protesters matter more than the overall opinion of the populace, which come election time is that Net Neutrality isn't even worth talking about?
How/where are you planning on making them publicly available? I suppose UC Berkeley might actually turn a blind eye if one where to simply repost them on YouTube - because UC meant for them to be public in the first place. Alternatively, maybe repost on Vimeo?
Node.js 7.7.3
I would say your impression is wrong. They do have their strong points that they capitalize on, around an equally large graveyard of failure.

They aren't exceptional in the idea that none of the big game developers are really experimenting. Games today are very similar to the games 15 years ago in mechanics, and let alone title.

Even with Nintendo in the mix pushing for collaboration and positive experience you still have to turn to the indie developers willing to take the risk on a new IP with innovative gameplay. When done right is better than any flagship title since they are all the same.
I see your point, and thinking about it helped clarify my thinking, so first, thank you for that. I think another way of phrasing my opinion is that the US labor market is a large, reasonably efficient market; that it's reasonably well modeled by a simple supply and demand model; and that discussing it in other terms obscures the important issues. The notion of a shortage is fundamentally incompatible with a simple supply and demand model of a market. The market price in such a model is, by definition, the price at which supply and demand are balanced. So if you're talking about a shortage in the US labor market, you're either claiming that supply and demand is a poor model of the labor market, or you're talking nonsense. I think either is misleading or at best confusing. So to an extent I really am saying that shortages can't exist for anything you can buy on a large efficient market.

Of course not every market is a large efficient market. If you're talking about a price-regulated market, by all means, discuss shortages. Another good situation where discussing a shortage would be appropriate is markets that have very or perfectly inelastic supply over a relevant time period. Say, a vaccine that costs $1 but that takes 6 months to produce due to the biology involved, combined with a major epidemic in the relevant disease. It's fair to call that a shortage.
Doing server side rendering in Angular
He cannot move his king out of its way first due to check from the white pawn if that is what you mean. The article makes it sound like a difficult problem with some super prize. I can't believe that a chess program can't figure out it doesn't have any meaningful moves left.
I'm in the same boat.

Bought the toy, found the bluetooth connection was almost hilariously bad, gave up on it, but sort of assumed they were recording usage data and analytics because that's what you do.

It's odd, there's all these privacy and security scandals going on, and nobody seems to care about them. And then here it turns out that a mobile app that I logged into into is actually logging stuff, like every mobile app ever, and it's a huge scandal and a lawsuit and now a settlement?

I don't get it. I'm not even sure I understand what they were did that was wrong. I could understand a lawsuit over how crap their bluetooth was (I can't stress enough just how horrible it was), but over the fact that their mobile app logged usage? Really?

Newsflash: When you buy a vibrator from a vendor, they know you're going to use it. That's what people do with them. What next, a lawsuit that Amazon is tracking your purchases on Amazon? Man, do you think Facebook might have some logs of what you click on in the Facebook app?
"Huh, I'll have to look into that more" (and presumably get back to you) is not agreeing to disagree, though. I suspect 'mordae was making a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aumann%27s_agreement_theorem
You can always make the government take care of what is becoming increasingly fundamental infrastructure.

But then you'll be called a communist.
Well, that would just be Ingress:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_(video_game)
>Going back to your original questions, have you considered telling the person that "I'm fine and it is possible that I may have seemed _____."

Quite a few times, actually.

"Sorry, I'm actually okay, I just have resting 'bored' face/voice". They chuckle, we chat for a few minutes and one can observe their take of the situation changing completely as it dawns on them: "Oh, this is literally just how this guy talks".

You know the character Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh? Without sounding that drastically morose and actually being sad, it's sort of like that. Even when he's happy his voice just sounds slow, lethargic and uninterested.

So as it happens, I often have people talk to me for about two seconds, immediately jump to the "Cheer up!" routine, we talk more and it becomes evident the person slowly starts to 'get it'. It's not that I shut people out or refuse to engage in conversations, because my answers more often than not match up point for point with what we're talking about. I just have a very lethargic sounding voice coupled with answers that are sometimes more brief than a person is anticipating-which results in the oft-incorrect assumption that I'm annoyed with them.

Fact is: I just cherish brevity when speaking.

/Casual shrug
The only project I've found to be more stable than create-react-app is Ember.

Please elaborate.
Pandoc already supports different flavors of markdown (commonmark included) and you can add/remove extensions to base flavors.
Neat. Installed via Homebrew, I'll share thoughts if anything comes up.
No, they just overcharge you for old or gimmicky hardware instead. :p

They aren't afraid to take chances but not all of their chances are so great. The Wii U was a bit of a disaster.
Besides parallel queries (specifically parallel index scans), the Postgres 10 feature I'm most looking forward to is the work Andres Freund has done on using LLVM to JIT compile expressions[0]. Based on the the layout of the database I work on[1], an insane amount of CPU goes to processing of partial index predicates. If the improvements are anywhere near what is being described in the mailing list, we're going to start saving a ton of money on CPU.

Parallel index scans will be an absolutely massive win for us. Currently Postgres does not perform any sort of prefetching. When performing an index scan, this results in serialized random I/O. In our case, queries wind up using ~1/10th the I/O they could be using if there were to do more I/O in parallel. We are expecting a dramatic speedup just from parallel index scans. This is in addition to the bugfix in 9.6 (we're currently on 9.5) which added proper support for index only scans over partial indexes. That bugfix should also result in a pretty large speedup for a lot of our queries.

As soon as Postgres 10 comes out, we are immediately going to upgrade. There are just so many huge wins for us.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20161206034955.bh33pae...

[1] https://blog.heapanalytics.com/running-10-million-postgresql...