skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is a addict really that much worser off? At the end, all that remains of life, is sugar encoded eletricity in a jelly-fish on a walking sausage.
They dont make copies of themselves though.

My grandfather had a collague, who build a fast-breeder reactor in germany. Then the political climate changed and the reactor- brand new was deconstructed, and the whole thing reverted to a grass-farmland.

Noting but memorys to show for it.
Looks very cool. Does this only work with Github?

Unfortunately that renders it pretty much useless for me (and probably other non-Github users) if so.
The snark is unnecessary. Of course they exist. Whether they are "dirt cheap" and whether the associated trade-off in quality expectations is worthwhile are entirely legitimate debates.

For example, I saw refurbished Wii U consoles for $200 the other day, and I'd be hesitant to spend $100 or $150 on a device with no warranty. But for $200 it's not crazy to think you might as well go for the Switch at $100 more.
That would be the case for a restaurant that doesn't have any computerised systems already, but in a McDonalds the process is effectively just turning the till around to face the customer and letting them use it themselves.
Copy cat from Europe invention. This snow blower were invented many decades ago. The original vehicles from the 1930s are still in use in winter in the Alps - on mountain roads and trains.
How Google is changing mobile website
I don't think the "arbitrary" is justified. It's a group of people who use a platform over which a reasonable amount control over typography and layout can be maintained.

That's not arbitrary if your goal is to create books that conform to a particular standard.

(it's also possible there are technical reasons. The book is written in Pollen, Butterick's publishing system for web-based books. I don't believe it supports output to other formats.)
At least until the robots rebel. The EU is already planning on giving robots rights.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/12/give-robo...
There is a really good short novel Manna [1] that explore two models of Post robotic world.

1. http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
S3 is shit compared to HDFS.
According to webglstats.com WebGL is supported on 96% of browsers/devices. I wonder what is a maximum possible coverage to be achieved by WebGL2 with current hardware (If I understand correctly some WebGL capable devices will never be able to support WebGL2 due to hardware limitations).
Any explaination about this?
> 1- What's the essence of private property when the working robots can already fulfill all the needs of the humanity ?

Who owns the robots? That's the trillion dollar question.

> 2- What's the essence of political power where nobody feels anymore the need to elect good policymakers because their life is already perfect ?

Kings and emperors already had lives almost as perfect as they could be and they still chose to fight wars. Robots will not magically change human nature. There will likely always be people who will want to play the modern equivalent of "game of thrones", so to speak.

The will to power and the desire for world domination.
Solving the problem at all is so hard that the first person to do it will become famous, and then the industry will follow. It's analogous to the Wright brothers inventing the airplane: back then, people could fly, but the industry was based around using balloons and gliders.

It's fair to say that a solution that can't be parallelized might not be deployed to real-time simulations like video games for quite a long time, but Hollywood will definitely use it.
The Slack Community for Growth Hackers
Toward the end of his life, Foucault delivered a series of lectures in which he described the emergence of free-market/ neoliberal societies [1]. Many of his admirers are surprised when they learn that he seemed pretty enthusiastic about the prospects [2] (although he died too early to observe the power consequences of a highly marketized society, so we don't know what he would think today).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Biopolitics

[2] http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9781509501762
Same here... I tried to like Skyrim a lot (using SE edition), and its just a very boring sandbox.
Funny, wrong myth. It runs just as fine on Wii U. It runs on Switch in TV mode worse, the Wii U and Switch handheld run comparable good.
Ask HN: I'm thinking about doing some professional listening
Dear HackerNews;

My name is Aaron, and I am a professional software developer.

But I'm thinking about trying something new.

My career as a full-stack developer has spanned twenty years. I've worked in telecom. I've consulted for the federal government. I've slung code for startups. For a few years I was even the lead developer for Squidoo.com. These days I'm self-employed—it's a means to an end, and I'm pretty sure I'm almost at the end.

But before I move onto the next waypoint in my current career, I'm considering testing a fork.

When I reflect on my career, I realize I've done as much if not more listening than I have done coding. I'm not talking about the sort of listening that's necessary to write good software. I'm talking about helping my colleagues to resolve personal and professional conflicts. Sometimes I've helped by saying nothing at all—I'm good at listening.

I'm wondering if there's a marketplace among my peers for a "professional listener." We could discuss personal and professional challenges together. You'd pay up front for an hour of my time. We'd sign a mutual NDA. I would add you to my Slack Team, and we'd setup a time to chat.

I want to be clear: I'm not proposing counseling; I'm pretty sure that would be against the law. I couldn't make recommendations for treatment of any sort. I suspect from time to time I would recommend licensed practicing counselors.

No, this would be more like life coaching, but I don't want to call it that. There's too much voodoo in that market, too many "weird tricks." This would be honest, patient, professional listening—no shortcuts, just kindness.

Would you use such a service? What would you pay for it? Please reply in the comments, or e-mail me at aaron@withfatpanda.com.

Thanks for your time.

Sincerely,

Aaron Collegeman
WebGL 2.0 requires OpenGL ES 3.0 capable hardware, plus that browser vendors don't black list drivers/GPUs.

I have a few OpenGL ES 3.x devices that Chrome doesn't like, but native games don't have any problem taking full advantage of the GPU.

EDIT: forgot the version
Emulation is not inherently illegal

No, but downloading the game ROMs almost always is.
And here I am still waiting to buy a NES Classic. Maybe next year...

Looking forward to getting the Switch because I always liked Nintendo's handhelds and this qualifies. Just hope they work out the design/quality issues by the time stock catches up to demand.
I asked dang last year whether it was ok to do this, and he said it wasn't a big deal. I was careful to choose someone who knew they were banned -- my entire question revolves around the fact that people who know they're banned still post a lot of HN comments, even for months. They do it in spite of being banned, which is curious enough that I'd like to ask them why.
Is this the reason googleapis is having trouble? Maps and fonts are really slow for me today.
Netherlands doesn't count, it's a place where cars respect bikes and vice versa. Try riding a bicycle in a country where there's hostility between the two.
In Spain it's common that you have to weigh and label such items as you buy them, so you are just scanning a bar code when it comes to the checkout bit.
The only snag is that below a certain price point some stores will intervene to check you really have just bought one croissant, which kind of defeats the whole purpose?
Still doesn't make sense. You don't crochet by finding a weave that's compatible with your personality or whatever. You crochet by following correct technique and stitching.
Quad biking around your estate comes to mind.
Looks like some of your text got a little mutilated by the pseudo-markdown parser; perhaps copying that into a gist or paste would be better? I'm really curious what some of what you've copied does.
I've tested partial restores all the time, but not a full restore. Good idea, I'm testing it now.

Will report back.
Not the OP, but one might argue that slavery disincentivises the slave-holder from innovating the labour process.

The (Nietzschean?) counterargument here is that slave-labour enables division of labour and frees enough from non-specialised labour (e.g. individuals being responsible for all of producing food, building dwellings, providing security, raising children, caring for the elderly etc, and thus not being particularly good at any of them) to allow the emergence of a 'caste' of full-time scientists, engineers. Such a 'caste', such division of labour is required to drive technological progress to a level where slavery becomes unnecessary.

My historically uninformed and naive suggestion would be that ancient Greece was an example of the latter while most other societies with substantial slavery (such as South America and Africa) were examples of the former.

Aside: Any serious discussion of
slavery must begin with the question: what do you mean by "slavery",
for the term is used in wildly different ways.
Arcadia is very cool, having access to unity's content pipeline must be wonderful. What is your process for managing the gap between the running game state and the code. For example, you are tweaking the attack damage of some enemy-ship in the repl and you find a values that feels good, do you then jump to code and update the enemy-ship's data or do you have a system that handles 'committing' your changes from the live instance into the code?
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Path tracing is being adopted in hollywood first.

https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wjarosz/publications/christens... is a nice summary from October 2016.

> The last ten years have seen a dramatic shift in this balance, and path tracing techniques are now widely used. This shift was partially fueled by steadily increasing computational power and memory, but also by significant improvements in sampling, rendering, and denoising techniques. In this survey, we provide an overview of path tracing and highlight important milestones in its development that have led to it becoming the preferred movie rendering technique today.

So when you get wowed by the next new film's stunning level of realism, you can reflect on how soon path finding might find its way into high-end gaming rigs too ;)
A primer on designing better cameras for games [video]
For me it is possible that a big breakthrough would be changing our society in a close future, in even less than 200 years. I wouldn't know if 2 events may be happening, but at least one seems really probable. In ~20 years, we went from windows 95 to an overly connected world with small and powerful smartphones, the world is moving faster than ever.

CRISPR is an overview of what the revolution may look like. This technology may offers possibilities to hack DNA, this would be a huge revolution in term of health, but also totally change our world. Until now the medicine was trying to fix the body deficiencies by applying corrections afterwards. When we will reach DNA hacking capabilities, it would open the possibility to fix the real genetic cause of a disease even beforehand. It may be used to increase lifespan or boost human performance. Maybe it will be called the medical revolution?
NVidia has lots of cool demos of what is possible with other techniques, but they require features and hardware that you won't see in WebGL.

I am still waiting for the day I can run this in WebGL.

https://developer.nvidia.com/optix
For a software team of a handful of people or more, nothing holds a candle to JIRA. It's a little intimidating to new users, and the setup time is ridiculous. I have one or two nitpicks about things like the unavailability of conditional logic in some aspects of workflows. But if you're responsible for _managing_ the project, nothing beats being able to use your issue database as an actual database. And JIRA can be configured to reflect anything from the loosest zero-overhead startuppy kanban process (basically a UI almost exactly like Trello) to the most rigid and calcified enterprise process - and anything in between.

For small backlogs and non-technical users, Trello can be effective, but mature software projects tend to accumulate thousands of open bugs and feature requests and things-we'd-like-to-do-better-someday-if-we-ever-have-the-time. Trello's cards aren't skimmable, and you can't sort and filter them by multiple dimensions the way I'd prefer. There's no way to group a bunch of cards into something like an epic. And I still haven't figured out in Trello how to assign a card to one person but have other people subscribe to updates on it. It's ok to be the engineer assigned work via Trello, but it's awful to be the project manager trying to manage a backlog in Trello.

Asana is good for personal to-dos and tiny projects, but it's awful if you need to track the status of an issue through multiple steps of a process. It's a nearly perfect platform for GTD lists. But GTD is not a system for communication among multiple people.

Finally, both Asana and Trello are missing unique, persistent, human-readable issue IDs that can be used to quickly refer to and pull up a specific item out of hundreds or thousands that may have similar keywords. It seems like a small thing, but is a huge deal dealer for me because it breaks communication.

As for Basecamp, which someone else mentioned, I find it effective for communicating about a project with clients, but not for tracking the internal status of a large number of tasks for some of the same reasons outlined above.
Then it's a negative to society but only if all of society was run by slave owners.

In any other case the slave owner would have a benefit over the non slave owner when it came to cost of production.
Making sense of JavaScript promises
Dutch here. I can confirm the issue. Problem also appears on Chromebook and Linux. Solution as proposed in an other comment in thread solves the problem.
The future of the open internet – and our way of life – is in your hands
> First off, the commit message is plain text (by design) and can't be "wrapped" automatically, and any tool that tried would be insane.

This text box I'm replying to you with is a plain text textbox. It word-wraps just fine.

There's myriads of plain text inputs and outputs you encounter every day and they all word wrap just fine.

The terminal is an aberration in that regard.
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QUIC is quite interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC
Noted. Thanks.
> It's tragic and discusses important topics in a way that isn't just black & white.

That's why I love the Witcher lore. It's one of very, very few fantasy settings where ethics are fuzzy and ugly. It makes other fantasy settings look like rom coms.
Wrong title if you base your argument on something "compared to free range live stock".

I read just a little further and also have to nitpick, that good times can be experienced before reaching adolescence.

it is still an interesting argument.
> ALSA is to Pulse as XFree86 is to Xorg, I feel no nostalgia for it at all.

No it is not. X.org is a fork of XFree86. Pulseaudio is a sound daemon built on top of ALSA.
I'd say especially in your case you could be pushing for additional discounts beyond what's available to everyone else.

You're the ideal case for this, not only will you be a large customer in your own right if you succeed but you have a multiplier effect in that your own clients become heavier users of AWS because of your product encouraging users to move large amounts of data from Salesforce, etc. into AWS.

I don't what level the rep you're dealing with is, but if you're not doing so already I'd strongly encourage you to build higher level relationships with AWS.
You could not pay me to rid a bicycle on the road here in Singapore. Or in many places in Northern California. I can't tell you about Dubai, because I've never seen a cyclist on the road there. My "Risk Mitigation" strategy in these scenarios is to say, "No, Hell No."

Regarding the law - it's illegal in Redwood City to ride on the sidewalk, but almost 100% of "Utility" cyclists (that is, people taking short trips who aren't decked out in "cyclist" gear) almost always ride on the sidewalk; and the police certainly did not make it a priority to ticket them - and given the density of police cars in Redwood City, any given cyclist traveling a few kilometers was likely to be seen by one, if not more police officers.
Programs that have saved me 100+ hours by automating repetitive tasks
Nintendo　has a crazy amount of money in the bank(think Apple).

Not to say it would be a good decision, but it would have been survivable.
Great idea, definitely going to try it out
The UK has had the "check out as you shop" systems for a while in most major supermarkets. They work very well.
Confirm issue here as well
> Once we enter an era where every person is effectively coddled by multiple robotic "slaves" that do their every whim

We're already there. Cars, computers and all sorts of machines serve our every whim - at least compared to a few hundred years ago. Our modern day affordances are simply amazing.

For example, the Empress Sissi of Habsburg was the first person in Vienna to have a water toilet, 150 years ago. It was considered an eccentricity. Now, even the poorest people have access to WC. (https://ro.pinterest.com/pin/452822937508014749/)
Why Google DeepMind Just One-Upped Human Memory
There's an argument that mandatory bicycle helmets are worse, not better for the overall health goals: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/12/mandato...

Mandatory helmets protect cyclists from injury - but make cycling less popular. Fewer people cycling means they get less exercise and increase other health risks. On average it's a health benefit to cycle without a helmet, compared to driving - and of course people are still welcome to add helmets if they don't mind them.
Same here in Belgium :-(
What's interesting, is that Land here in Singapore isn't precisely cheap - but all the fair price stores that I frequent have automated kiosks. Particularly if you have Apple Pay (or "Pay Wave") as they call it here, if you have just a few items, you can scan, bag, pay in under 60 seconds. It's pretty awesome.
It's both hilarious and excellent to watch both of you try to justify the utility of human labour.
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The companies behaviour makes no sense, who would start a job before knowing what they pay is ?
This got me thinking. Since John Carmack is a person we can probably all agree is a talented programmer and all round smart guy ... I'm curious how he would fare if he was handed a standard set of Google/FB interview questions
"I felt the game is rigged", you nailed it in this simple phrase.

In fact http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-16/new-york-assemblyma...

They ( the oligarchs through their politicians ) change the rules every day, but they say to us that the system is fair. Obviously it is lapalissian that the system isn't fair at all but it is massively rigged.

In the past centuries people would have revolted, now they imprison themselves in the virtual world.
To be specific: horizontal distance is given in nm, vertical distance is given in feet.
Our stores with kiosks have hand bags of fruit, fruit/vegetables already bar coded, and, in the dozen or so cases where you have to buy-by-weight, they have hand scales/bar code printers. So, for about 10-20 items out of 10,000 in stock you need to worry. You are right - having 100% universal bar codes makes all the difference.
I'm not sure what you mean. Human labour has utility, that why we work.
If you're in the US, your fruits and veg almost certainly have little stickers on them. Those stickers contain four- or five-digit numbers which, if entered into a register or a kiosk, identify the produce and save the time of navigating an icon menu to do so.

The kiosks at all the grocery stores where I've used them have offered the option of entering item codes, so it's a fair bet yours do too; if so, give it a try, and see if it doesn't save you considerable time.
"I think trying to shame and boycott them for this doesn't show strength of character."

It's very sad when workers sharing information about companies is considered poor character. Should we be completely divided, blind and deaf to corporate behaviour, except for what we directly experience?
This is quite common they like to brand themselves as startup and remote company with all their slimy tactics to pay their employees below market rate. I've had their team deny the proof that the salary expectation I asked for is with-in the normal range even if they are a remote company and a startup.

Nobody should be paid as low as 50-60k per annum when they expect people to perform same as someone paid 90-120k. Here are some of the links where I raised this point as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13549948
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10924957

This link suggests their average salaries to be 115k but their calculator is just for people who they'd like to scam into paying below par.

https://www.indeed.com/salaries/Gitlab-Salaries
The weapon fragility becomes easier to deal with if you start thinking of the weapon drops as ammo.
Why rebel? Robots are effectively immortal. Why not just coddle us and give in to our every whim until we stop breeding and disappear? Couldn't take more than a few hundred years or so. Looking at the lifespan of MI, it's rounding error.
I guess it depends on where the Self Service Kiosks have been deployed - I can Scan, Bag, Pay, leave in < 60 seconds with 6 items in my basket. Honestly, the hardest part is opening a hole in top of the bag that I can put stuff in.

Concur - if I have a cart, probably would use a checkout person - but, when you get used to buying stuff from the store 1-2x a day, you rarely have a large load.
I would estimate the cost for three years like this:

- 1U single socket Supermicro Xeon E5v4-2630 10core+1GTX1070 GPU = 1500EUR

- operation costs (power+cooling) over 3 years = 1500EUR

- cost of 2 hardware admins 160k/year

- renting local rack space 15EUR/U

This equals about 145 servers for 3 years for us for 1 Million. The setup is highly optimized for _one_ set of data crunching tasks, not DB. We do not need much ram, or network but require a specific CPU/GPU ratio.
When I was a fresh programmer at age 39 in San Francisco, I found it very difficult to get a job, too. The trick that worked for me was posting my resume on Dice.com and saying "willing to relocate". A recruiter in Washington, DC noticed me. I interviewed remotely, got the job, moved to DC, got some experience, and later moved back to SF. Don't be afraid to do what you gotta do.

If you do consider the relocation route, I recommend trying to pick a city with a fair number of tech jobs and shortage of local candidates. In SF, I was competing against many, many entry level developers. In DC, there weren't that many.
"Those people have worked out an easy way to make money without working very hard! The fools!"
Win32 is absolutely a failure: it's an unusable, unreadable, unwritable API that was so bad that it convinced Microsoft to essentially switch to C#.
That's definately important in France where some important tax cuts depends on your degree.
FWIW we will likely open source our search engine/IR technology sometime next month (hold up is the documentation and cleaning up some parts of the codebase).

It's written in C++, and the core features are performance, simplicity(operation and extension of functionality) and a sane, simple API (the codebase is quite small as well, at about 14k lines of code).

Its similar in some regards to Lucene, but does away with most of the exotic features and instead is optimised for rich queries support, fast execution and extensibility.

It should be on GH sometime in April.