skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recent example which did this:

I'd have liked to do all the puzzles in the Tomb Raider reboot, but most of the temples or whatever were locked behind "you need to have gone to the next area and then come back with the thing you acquire" idiocy.

I don't want to endlessly retrace my steps to re-find places I've been before because there's a gating mechanism. If I'd organically had to go near to the places again maybe I'd forgive them - but I'd literally have had to go to old areas for no other reason.

It's just bad design
As do I, but he's a poster on HN and not on a flight with me, and I have considerations for the value of my time and the integrity of my sanity when dealing with people who think that "intentionally obtuse" is a position in argument.
Ah, gotcha. For some reason I always associated overtime with "unpaid". Probably because when I was a kid and had crappy jobs there would always be stuff that would need to be done at the start and end of every shift that outside my regular hours and therefore unpaid. I wasn't savvy enough to ask for pay, or to tell them where to stick it.

edit concrete example: Blockbuster Video. Shop closed at 11, the time I stopped getting paid. At that point I had to lock up and do accounts stuff, clean, and general admin (plugging the CC machine into the phone line so it could phone home and get lists of updated cards to watch for) etc. Would usually take about half an hour ISTR.
Yes to pressure part and no to the venturi part. Well, it's not enough. You still have to generate a downdraft to conserve momentum and the venturi idea doesn't explain that.
Uproar as bomb-detection dog Grizz shot dead at Auckland airport
A year ago Seagate's 8TB Archive HDD was the cheapest per byte at ~210€ across different vendors.

Since then the price went up by 20% for reasons that are beyond me.
I'm not sure if its quite the same, but Andrew Ehrenberg found to be called double jeapardy.

it turns out that brands with the highest market share have customers that do things with them the most and is predicted by purchasing matching a Dirichlet distribution.
Yes, it can be dangerous, but it's a risk you can manage yourself.

Probably what Michael Schumacher thought to himself, back when he could still think.
I don't know about the Seagate, but the HGST He drives are super reliable. I've been using them since they exist (3 years) in growing numbers (several hundreds) and I'm still waiting for the first one to fail.
Thanks, but most here are miffed they have to do so in the first place. It like ordering a big mac, that comes with a leech beeing attached stealthly to your calf while you pay. Some people, wont notice, others won't care, most will have you a handy tool they found to pry it off, but some of us don't want to do business with some sick freak who would do that to begin with.
Not to be too pedantic but (2016) on this title makes some difference considering recent events.

The Man Who Terrifies Wall Street: former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara

The Man Who Terrified Wall Street: former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara
It's just that every job is designed and paid for differently. I think the company simply has a budget to offer as payment for a certain outcome.

Think about it from the opposite direction: a business owner could state I have never fully understood the insistence that employees get paid when they are using the restroom.

It would be insanity.

I attribute a lot of this to the unreasonable demands from some unions to create job definitions that are impractical ("driver cannot be the person who loads truck"). Fortunately, unions are becoming increasingly irrelevant.
Progress twice too far perhaps.
the histogram of the star ratings are much more valuable. I tend to avoid bathtub curves.
I agree, for the most part, about style guides. But I wouldn't stick my Mom inside a pair of brackets (even if she were Ayn Rand). How about

“To my mother, Ayn Rand, and to God.”

EDIT: Well, I guess that might still be misinterpreted. A semicolon makes the meaning clearer (as it so often does):

“To my mother, Ayn Rand; and to God.”
I love and hate both Nintendo and Apple for pretty much the reasons you describe.

There's a maddening idiosyncrasy (I feel there's a better word I can use... eccentricity?) to both companies where they do enough things right that I feel a kind of loyalty that I rarely feel for a company, but then they do plenty of things so spectacularly wrong that I feel a bit stockholm-syndromed for 'loving' them.
I'm sure they will find a way to introduce the ads, as well as a premium subscription option that removes them.
I've been playing Zelda on CEMU and my advice to anyone who actually wants to play BotW is to not even bother with the emulator outside of morbid curiosity.

A few of the glitches in the game:

- Water doesn't exist, you just walk on the bottom of lakebeds, all the fish behave as if they're on dry land

- Magnesis and Stasis do not work (but you can just walk underwater to get to those chests)

- The game locks up often, typically during auto-saves

- Graphical glitches, big cyan and magenta polygons, flicker constantly on screen

- All humanoid characters, including Link, sink about halfway into the ground

- Animals will randomly disappear, AI behaves weird around the non-existent water

- Frame rate is extremely troubled

- You can't beat many of the shrines, including the first few, so you need a save file to escape the first area

So imagine trying to play through the shrines without Magnesis or Stasis. What do you do? The game itself is actually pretty flexible: instead of lifting metal boxes and spheres you can use bombs to knock them in the direction you need. You can use arrows and other weapons to knock around far away objects. Still, many shrines are impassable.

CEMU is not anywhere close to a substitute for the console, and it will be months to years before it has the same accuracy as say Dolphin.
I imagine a DF source release would spark a handful of Medium articles lambasting Tarn's coding practices.
Except that it's not. In the UK you can go to prison for pot, which is less dangerous than (for example) horseback riding. Its the situation which is absurd, not the comparison.
It's a great question. Without any good answer, just needs some better context.

You see, capitalism is a paperclip maximizer but has no builtin paperclip model to produce. It is still made of people, and gets it's goal from those people all the time. If there's no goal given, it simply fails (economists call the milder versions of that failure mode by "deflationary depression").

Also, unemployed people are not completely powerless against capital. At least not now. Even if the people are completely outcompeted, even if the powerful few have an army of robot actuators, people are still resourceful and not powerless. The really scary scenarios are those where the powerful few owns an army of superhuman brains.
The Five Principles of Software Ethics
Netflix recommendations are quite bad.

You've seen this standup? How about watching it again a day later.
Well, its about marketing. Used to be we dreamed of flying cars and going to Mars (1950's science fiction). Jobs got us programmed to anticipate a little more RAM, a bigger screen and more colorful icons. Just dumb down the consumerism and there you are.
I guess that depends on what neighborhood you live in doesn't it?

Try and suggest that ownership and operation of a vehicle is a Constitutional right and see how far you get with that.

Want to change the Bill of Rights and get rid of the Second Amendment? There's an app for that.
It's not pedantic at all. There's a reasonable chance he'll get his job best offers from Wall St.
Why do you quote the word experts?

It doesn't appear that the objective merits of the tools under discussion yield a single best answer. For example, if you look through various implementations of assorted somewhat-esoteric algorithms & formulae, I have found that the FORTRAN implementations are usually cleanest. Not because the language is cleaner or anything like that, but because the most experienced people in the field didn't see the point of bowing to language fashion.

If fashion were the deciding point I suppose we'd all be compelled to use JavaScript, so, yeah. I'd rather not reimplement something that already works right, least of all when it's a fiddle problem and I've got deadlines to hit.
YOU EVIL FUCKING ASSHOLES
It might be, if it weren't for the fact that the game already exists on the Wii U and is basically identical.

I tried to buy a Switch and Zelda on launch day, but couldn't find one locally and settled for the Wii U version. I haven't been disappointed.

I'll probably buy a Switch when the new Mario comes out for it in like 6-10 months.
Incidentally, Steam ratings are also simple up/down, with total and sliding window 30 days aggregate, and an Amazon-style helpful/unhelpful/funny meta-rating.
What if I program my robot in such a way that it is afraid to die?

Make it so that even if it doesn't get tired, it considers work as "spending useless energy" like a cold blooded animal would?

In short, what if I program a robot in a way that it had motivations to rebel? What if I make this robot able to build other similar robots?

Surely I am not the only person who would consider trying to make robots sentient or as close to sentient as possible. I don't even hate mankind. Imagine someone who does. It's going to happen at some point.
Are shipment and distribution fundamentally different? Seem like synonyms to me and thus the lack of comma ought not matter because: "package for shipment -- or distribution." I guess my question is how packing would be materially different for shipment or distribution.

Since it seems analogous, a reasonably intelligent person could assume that the sentence could read, "packing for shipment or shipment" that implies that shipment is a separate activity while packing for shipment is another activity. -- since shipping is really a subset of distribution actions.

My question is why they sued -- clarity should have been sought before engaging in the work. It wasn't like these guys were unaware of the law. They chose to read it in the most advantageous way rather than obtaining clarity before working.
>4 primary metrics that we use to decide when the cluster needs to be grown

I would imagine you could measure some sort of throughput/response time values to tune this instead of relying on cpu usage because having 100% cpu usage doesn't mean app is poorly performing it could mean app is performing optimally with all the resources available to it. Similarly heap_free shouldn't be measured on its own, neither should be tuned on its own, ideally jvm should be left to its own devices to tune these values based on your inputs in form of params like MaxGCPauseMillis, GCTimeRatio ect.
That Verge article has 2 different statements, the first sounds like this was for sure an AD though they try like hell to make it sound like it's not an ad...

“This isn't an ad; the beauty in the Assistant is that it invites our partners to be our guest and share their tales.”

But then the second sounds like no, it wasn't so much an ad as something an algorithm dug up.

"What’s circulating online was a part of our My Day feature, where after providing helpful information about your day, we sometimes call out timely content."

Giving them the benefit of the doubt here, those 2 statements seem to describe things that can be different. One "came from a partner" the other was just "timely content".
Most welfare systems don't have a cliff where you lose more than you earn; they phase out. For example, in the US, the child tax credit is reduced by $50 for every $1,000 earned above a threshold, so the phaseout is a 5% "tax" on income in that range rather than being a welfare cliff.

A phase-out reduces effective hourly wage, which theoretically reduces the incentive to work. That's no different than any other kind of marginal tax rate, though, and UBI would require a high marginal tax rate.

Probably the best argument UBI is to replace current welfare systems with one cash payment because, in addition to theoretically reducing administrative costs, it would make phase-outs easier to understand. If there are welfare recipients who misunderstand when benefits apply, they might not want to obtain additional income even though it would benefit them.
Unless you're implying that Ayn Rand is God (I wouldn't be surprised on HN) I read the upper example as using parenthetical commas, with the result that they parse to the same ambiguity.
Its about basic human necessities, not some hunkydoodle future where everything is infinite for everybody.

So, food clothing shelter and maybe entertainment. Hey! We're already there - those things take a tiny fraction of the population to produce for everybody. Mostly automated from start to finish.
Yep, the Wii U is basically what the original Wii should have been and it's my favorite console right now. I've got 3 kids and also own a PS4 and an Xbox one and the Wii U definitely gets the most play.
A casual perusal of ww2 videos clearly shows that bullets hitting a wing tends to cause planes to crash, whereas air hitting a wing tends to cause them to fly. This bleedingly obvious point says some very bad things about the way the aviation community has tried to teach history.
He's probably limiting the definition to the kind of overarching EMR that fully replaces paper charts for all departments and provide a single view of the patients.

I've also done migrations (I'm in radiology systems, PACS and RIS) where clients had reports going back to the early 1980s. Not very common mind you, especially in private practices (which we get a lot of) and rural hospitals (the kind of places with CPSI/Evident or, god forbid, Healthland.)
Also a game designer here (and programmer). I think you should be clear that a game designer is not always the one who makes the decisions on how to monetize a game. Often it's the people who are in charge of financing the game's development, i.e. publishers or executives.

In fact, often game designers would rather not do this pay to win crap, although it's hard to ignore that it does seem to be the primary way people are willing to give you money in certain markets nowadays (mobile especially), and they would like to keep making games for a living, instead of making one game while ignoring current market trends, the game failing spectacularly, and the company shuts down as a result (I've worked for three game studios which have done basically exactly that, although two of them did try making free to play games eventually and still failed).

I would love to make mobile games where I just charge $1-3 and still see success, but the stats just do not back it up. Yes, there are people who have successes that way, but they are either much larger, much more networked in the industry and know how to get a ton of media coverage (Just getting 'some' coverage is not enough. I've worked on games that have gotten 'some' media coverage. They've done poorly), or have worked on something so beautiful and compelling people feel they have to share it with others (Monument Valley comes to mind).

I've actually mostly given up on video games right now and I'm focusing more on board games, where it's much easier to actually charge money for what you produce, since there's a physical component to it. That industry has exploded in the last 5 years also and it's starting to get harder to find success there as well, but I'm more passionate about that right now. Plus there's the bonus that you can make a video game version of your board game and existing fans would be willing to pay money for your app, as well as some cross-promotion between the two.

Personally I don't think there's a problem trying to make your game as fun as possible (and fun and addiction are very closely linked) as a designer, you almost have to in order to get people to talk about and share your game.

It's when you actively try to snare people into giving you a constant feed of money for virtual benefits that I think is a bit dodgy, but again the public has already voted with their wallet and said they won't download a mobile game unless it's free, so game developers/publishers have to get money for the game somehow.
I had no idea you could still do this! That's awesome =) There are also a couple of companies that send printed telegrams by snail mail, though the one I tried (http://www.telegramstop.com/) didn't work.

I'm hoping Teletype makes the joy / novelty of vintage telegrams accessible to a wider audience.
Appositive clauses like that often require a comma. [0] I'd argue that this one does, even though it makes the sentence more confusing as a whole.

[0] https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/596/01/
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If your mother is Ayn Rand, you've got bigger problems.

Sorry, couldn't resist.
Silicon Valley shrugs off Julian Assange's help – and questions his motives
a) Just for the record, I'm not a fan of being a "dick" (more on that below) towards women. My thought-crime was merely pointing out how gaming communities insult everybody equally and don't just insult women because they are women. I would have thought that a community like HN would understand that this was an explanation of what I believe happens, not an endorsement.

b) I'd like to make a mild observation. You used the phrase "dick" to mean a synonym for rude or disgusting behavior, and nobody batted an eye. Can anybody guess how the usual suspects would react if somebody whose ideas they disliked used "pussy" as a pejorative? It's an interesting thought experiment.

c) I'm not sure where your ideas or philosophy is at, but I appreciate your observations here and your willingness to at least advocate openness to ideas you may disagree with.
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There are great ways to mitigate the problem, but disks still get fragmented. So, at best we can say it's probably not an issue the majority of the time.
Yea, it seems strictly better to include the comma. It can only make things _more_ claer, never less.
A friend of mine developed something to do just that: understand AWS/Google/Azure costs and compare prices (and save big).

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Boston has bike lanes, so... that would usually work.
GameStop is a company that had similar tactics. Had to close the registers, process and late trade-ins, and close/clean the store. Then they trusted me to take thousands of dollars to the bank and drop it in the slot. But all of it was unpaid.
Don't know about parent's store, but SL's peak year was 2009: http://taterunino.net/statcharts/mo_cmedian400full.jpg

My guess is most "2nd lifers" still among the living (people with disabilities and medical conditions seem to be overrepresented among users; death announcements are not uncommon) are still around, they just log on less frequently and spend more time in other online worlds.

The obvious successors in the works are Linden Lab's own Sansar,

https://www.sansar.com/

and SL cofounder Rosedale's High Fidelity:

https://highfidelity.com/
I wonder how Maine is able to exempt works from overtime, wouldn't that contradict federal overtime laws?

https://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime_pay.htm
Contrast this with https://www.propublica.org/article/when-it-comes-to-wall-str...

The lesson I take is not that he was bad at his job or intentionally avoided top level investigations, but that nobody really terrifies Wall Street.
Your Gothic example sounds much more natural. I never liked the typical gating mechanism because it takes away your choice. In a sense, this still does the same thing, but sort of gives you that illusion that you're deciding not to go that way and get slaughtered, rather than just being told no.
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This seems like a reasonable place to start a discussion, but hard to assess without real proposals. If I had to guess at what he is suggesting it seems to argue for all risk to be borne by the company, which really seems like an argument for less risk taking and more consolidation, not too surprising from a military man, but pretty anathema to technologists.
Why would that be embarrassing for the UK? Maybe you could call it embarrassing for US counter intelligence but even there it only seems justified if it would be done in a blunt manner and still go unnoticed. I won't dispute that it would not be good for the relations between the US and the UK, on the other hand the US doesn't care much either when it is spying on allied leaders. So the UK spying on the US president seems fair game under current circumstances.
Nothing to be embarrassed about, you got results. Results are what matters in the end.

This is even more the case with software. If this cost 20 or 20 million man hours is irrelevant in the long run because eventually it will be used enough to offset costs if it is as good as every one says. Of course short term cost hurt now, but sounds like you still had computers do much of the heavy lifting.
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The thing I don't understand is, if we take the last two elements in the list to be a compound, shouldn't there still be a conjunction before them? If I say you can choose between "French toast, cereal and bacon and eggs" that is very different from saying "French toast, cereal, bacon and eggs" regardless of whether the Oxford comma is used.

The fact that this law doesn't have a second conjunction should be definitive in showing how it was meant to be interpreted.
It may not be up to date at the time of actually READING the data, but it will be up to date if the date is the moment the client requested it. You can actually achieve this using timestamps. (So basically, it's semi-stale data, you're right, because you have a guarantee about the timestamp at which it was up to date, where the timestamp can be recent)

(Not talking about etcd, check out the spanner paper)
I haven't played much DF, but from what I remember there are quite a few tools around it, which already hook relatively deep into the game, either by simulating keypresses (I think) or reading/writing game memory. Development of those probably would profit from easier access to game internals.

There is "academic" interest in "how was this built".

Even a project not normally accepting contributions can do this on special occasions if it wants (If I'm not mistaken, several features in Minecraft build upon mods made by fans. Of course, Minecraft is also closed-source, but it is relatively easy to get good decompilations since it is written in Java. You might argue that the existence of tools around DF proves that source access is not necessary for improvements to it?)

For other games, I've often had a question along the lines of "I wonder how gameplay would change if ...". Sometimes that's solvable with a debugger and/or disassembler, but code would make it a lot easier. (With commercial games there is also the aspect of "can I share hacks/experiments like this", which admittedly isn't directly related to source access or a game being fully Open Source, and likely not an issue in the case of DF)

Other posters mention the long term issue of game development surviving its creator, but of course that doesn't require source publication now.

In general, I'd say it would be wrong to pressure a game creator in any way to open source their work, but I understand why people like games being open.
> And since there is no difference between your local repository and the remote one

Uhh, there's plenty of difference between your local repository and the remote one. One is local and used just by you and one is remote and used by many, for starters. Changes aren't automatically synced between them. You can rewrite commits locally to your heart's content (which I do all the time). You aren't "locked in" to anything until you've pushed it to a shared repository and someone syncs from it.