skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TIL. Never expected bash would do an expansion on PS1 by default. Thanks a bunch.

bash-powerline is affected. I've sent out a PR: https://github.com/riobard/bash-powerline/pull/12/

My own fork (with some additional features) is already patched: https://github.com/Hexcles/bash-powerline
I don't think there's a need for weight since there are many reviewers. The weight is the percentage of people who thumbed it up.
How to Install a Coin Battery in an Amiga 2000 Running 1.3
Yes, but that doesn't explain why our voters consistently elect such people, while voters in other industrialized nations don't (nearly as much).
Smashing Magazine just got 10x faster
Hey there, I'm one of the creators of Terraform. Honestly, if you're happy using CloudFormation and you're sticking with AWS, just stick with CloudFormation. Terraform will be around when/if circumstances change and it'll be better than ever by that time. No rush if things are working for you.

The best time to look into something like Terraform is if you begin managing more than just AWS resources. Even so, you can choose to use CF for AWS and TF for non-AWS. Or, if you want to start taking advantage of the higher-level features Terraform is beginning to support.

At the end of the day though, I'm a big fan of working with what you're most expert with until circumstances require otherwise.
Ask HN: Best books on AI?
Which are the best books on AI, for somoone who doesnt have much knowledge on the topic. Mostly practical, and not academic.
> So much of the online world is premised on feedback loops and empty rewards, like levels in games or even karma points on Hacker News. You get "praised" by these systems just for using them. It can become an addiction like gambling can become an addiction. It becomes easy to lose perspective and waste time pursuing something that is ultimately valueless.

This isn't endemic to the internet. Businesses have this problem and they have it way worse. And they lie about it too – no manager is going to tell you up front that you're walking into a dead-end job, and that a few years down the line you'll be poorer than you started and with no useful skills to show for it.
Born and raised Kiwi. Robbed in every home I lived in, in Auckland. Devonport, Takapuna, Glenfield.
Yoot Saito just presented a classic game postmortem of "Seaman" [1] at the recent GDC.

[1] http://schedule.gdconf.com/session/classic-game-postmortem-s...

Unfortunately I wasn't there to see it, but I saw him talk earlier about Seaman at GDC 2000, and it was fascinating to learn how he was able to pull off such an unprecedented original design, even supporting speech recognition on the Dreamcast!

Announcement: Yoot Saito is coming to GDC 2017 to present a Classic Game Postmortem of Seaman! [2]

[2] http://www.gdconf.com/news/yoot-saito-coming-gdc-2017-presen...

"Yutaka "Yoot" Saito, the talented game designer known for his idiosyncratic approach to game development, will be delivering a Classic Game Postmortem on his remarkable Dreamcast game 'Seaman' at GDC 2017! Saito's game development career took off in the early '90s when he created the game that was published by Maxis as 'SimTower', but it was after he founded his own studio Vivarium that he really came into his own. Under the Vivarium banner, Saito developed the groundbreaking virtual pet game 'Seaman' (lending his own face to the titular Seaman), its striking sequel 'Seaman 2', the pinball strategy game 'Odama', and the airport baggage management puzzle game 'Aero Porter'. Now, Saito is coming to GDC 2017 to speak at length about his work creating 'Seaman', a game that left an indelible mark on the fabric of both the game industry and pop culture at large. Don't miss it!"

I just found the video of his GDC 2017 talk: Classic Game Postmortem: 'Seaman'! [3]

[3] http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1024327/Classic-Game-Postmortem...

And here's a review and summary of his talk. [4]

[4] http://www.seganerds.com/2017/03/02/yoot-saito-gives-gdc-pre...
There's a huge difference between providing a stable source of iron from a mine, and dumping on the market, all at once, what would take ten years to mine.

If you were certain you'd get it back to earth, you could offset this effect by slowly selling futures contracts. But if you then fail to bring back the iron you'd just cause he opposite problem: a sudden increase in scarcity (when you default on your futures contracts), rather than a sudden increase in abundance.

I believe the solution is to partner with an insurance company, but I'm not sure anyone is large enough to cover the amounts we're talking about here. The amount you could bring back safely would probably mostly be limited by the insurance premium you can afford to pay.
We were AWS only and switched from CloudFormation to Terraform and have been a lot more productive.
as a European I pity you for not having data protection regulations.
Instead you have to deal with unregulated, unreasonable despotism.

ISPs are telecommunication providers and bound to special secrecy, disclosing browsing history is punishable by criminal law (§ 88 TKG in Germany).

Cambridge Analytics showed us, how dangerous it is for democracy to know users habits, values, attitudes, preferences and their contact details and how easy it is to manipulate individuals.

US-Americans, you seriously need to wake up and get your democracy back before your society is to Orwellian.

Also, you are giving a bad example.
And stop cheering USA USA USA, your society is malformed and dysfunctional, you shouldn't be proud of it and lie to your self about it.
There are many well functioning local governments in the United States.

The US is a big country both in terms of habitable land and population, with almost 325 million people (Canada technically has more land, but since most of it is uninhabitable, they don't have to worry about plumbing it). You've read about ONE city where the mismanagement was so severe that the water became poisonous. I'm sure it's not the only one, but I'm also sure this happens in countries that aren't America sometimes too.

I'm not a civil engineer but from what I hear, Flint's water problem is nearly impossible to resolve and would practically require a complete extraction and replacement of the city's infrastructure, which isn't really possible without destroying the city anyway, since there are buildings and roads and stuff on top of it. Of course, it's politically incorrect to admit that, and politicians and bureaucrats will probably keep pretending like they are going to do something to resolve it to try to keep public anger at bay, and just hope the city empties out before anyone notices that it's been 30 years.

Maybe that evaluation of the engineering issue is incorrect, it's just what I've read; as above, I'm not a civil engineer so I don't actually know. But this is not just a simple matter of cleaning up a minor bacterial contamination. Minor contaminations of that type occur and get cleaned up all the time without anyone taking special notice (except the citizens affected by the boil order).

I understand it's fun to throw rocks at the big guy, but your comment is not representative of life in the US. If we had such a hard time providing basic services like water and our neighbor to the immediate north didn't, things would look a lot different.
Why Y Combinator Made All the Difference
Sorry, no. The opposite, in fact. A script that demands to run as root on my computer needs to be extremely well mannered.
Building railways is kind of like visual programming.

The Railway orientated programming comes to mind http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/recipe-part2/
Why a Single Failed Router Can Ground a Thousand Flights
The answers to your questions are yes and yes.
The asteroid could be used as an attachment point for a space elevator, the other being on Earth, provided it's on terrestrial orbit.
I stopped reading at the "Super Intelligence" part. Interesting use to prevent theft of NN. But the second reason is just laughable.
Works on Chrome 58 out of the box. Very cool!
I certainly don't disagree with that.

If one downloads and blindly runs some random script as root, however, you are effectively allowing it to do anything it wants.

It sounds like javajosh took the time to look the script over first which, of course, is exactly what one should do.
Bruce Shelley was working for BonusXP on The Incorruptibles until it released in December 2015 [1]

Rick Goodman's last game was in 2006 (though apparently he was prototyping one in 2012 [5]), and the only thing I can obviously find is that he was on the board of (and co-founded?) 8D World, a virtual world for Chinese children to learn English, but their site doesn't load. [2][4]

Chris Sawyer appears to have been working to port RCT to mobile (came out December 2016) [3]

Geoff Crammond hasn't apparently been associated with a game since 2010. [6]

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3w9vkr/i_am_bruce_she...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Goodman

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Sawyer

[4] - http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?...

[5] - http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/what-is-ric...

[6] - http://www.virtualr.net/catching-geoff-crammond-interview
I haven't played it, but Vivarium has a version for iOS: http://tower.tv
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13654730
That may be true from your point of view as a rater, but from mine as someone deciding whether to watch a movie, I want you to condense your thoughts down to a yes or no by assigning an appropriate weight to each factor. Was the acting so bad that it ruined the movie despite the good cinematography?

For example, I found Mirror Mask enjoyable and would recommend it. They dreamed up and brought to life a fantastical world full of magic and wonder. The visuals are excellent. The story is mediocre, so you should watch it with the right expectations, but watch it nevertheless.

The ability to distill something complex and multi-dimensional to a clear conclusion ("enjoyable and I recommend it" in the above paragraph) is a sign of clarity of thinking and expression. If you can't do that, I'll go by other people's ratings.

Remember that the goal isn't to accurately capture one person's opinion, but to help potential viewers decide whether to watch it.
This is NOT going to work, You alone can do nothing.

There is NO way, an indie, or a Game firm, can afford to NOT make as much money as their competitor in the industry is making.

1) Margins and discovery is difficult in this industry.

2) If you are a public company, you will face management and market pressure to improve your numbers which means going ahead and making a skinner box.

This is straight up a case for legal frameworks and avenues for legal recourse to be made available.

So no - you wont manage it on your own. Its not possible.

You WILL manage it by connecting with other game devs, writers, reviewers, indies, game houses, parents, programmers - especially people who get why this is an issue (as opposed to the ones who are happy with the status quo)

I know that there is at least one other Game dev who recently spoke out against this (<5 months ago).

Also consider that NOT having addiction boxes as your competition means the hooks and attention grabbers in gamers are shallower. This both reduces the size of the population.

You are definitely not alone. This is precisely what needs collective effort at an international scale. Farmville/candy crush is as effective as it is in California, as it is in Cochin, or Trindiad.

Frankly, I wouldn't be damned surprised if eventually a law firm does catch on, and then targets the entire industry.
Generational flamewars are one of the circles of hell that we're hoping to avoid here. Please don't do this again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13891018 and marked it off-topic.
If you got such a deal to de-locate, would you continue to pay an inflated bay area price for services at the new place? If not, would it be fair to those people that you are not paying them a the bay area price just because of the location they choose to live?
>> charge significantly more for non-citizens (in India, in this case)

Out of curiosity, in India specifically, are the prices targeted at tourists truly exploitive, or are they simply in line with what we can afford in terms of currency exchange? There is a vast gap between "prices are ridiculous, even for tourists", vs. "the tourist is paying more than locals, but they're still getting a bargain or similar to what they'd pay back home".

As a tourist, I don't care if I'm being singled out and paying "reasonable prices based on my wealth". I'm smart enough to "nope out of" paying $100 USD for something that should be $20 USD, but I'm not going to complain because a native is trying to earn a decent wage in their poor economy (eg: $100 USD vs. $70 USD).
Which would be nice if we didn't have such easy ways for rich people to dodge tax in NZ with trust funds.
Apparently these people think it makes it "simpler". Well I'm sorry but me looking up how to format things with yaml and no autoformat and no intellisense just isnt good and doesnt make things simple.
Even xml with a backing xsd would be better than that, but that's apparently not cool enough anymore.
Inflammatory partisan comments are bad for HN to begin with, and when they're also unsubstantive swipes, that's definitely something you shouldn't post. Consider the crap it provoked below.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13886557 and marked it off-topic.
The Restless Ghosts of Baiersdorf
Thanks for the link. I do vaguely remember seeing a controversy around that, but not really having the time to get into the threads. No one really knows what happened on the call between "kevin" (who I guess is important) and idlewords, but it does seems like they were quick to dismiss him.

I could probably understand if they tried it for a month or so and it fell apart; it is true that some people have personality clashes that are not really worth the investment to overcome vs. having each party just move on independently, but he seems to expect a "connection" to materialize in a couple of minutes.

That speaks to the bubble that these VC types end up believing to be reality, and unfortunately it means that a lot of people who aren't necessarily convinced that there's any reason they should be pitching a VC are written off as low-energy merely because they're being compared to all the sycophants who will say anything to get a check.

The next question is whether someone being conservative, a Trump supporter, and/or both is enough to make the YC partners feel like they can't establish a "connection". One would hope that Thiel is proof to them that it is possible. The question is whether they'd give the benefit of the doubt to someone who doesn't already have billions of dollars.
It kind of is, as sillysaurus3 already answered.

The point is about graphic programming algorithms that we still cannot explore in WebGL, because its model is a DX9 level graphics card.

Ray tracing was just one possible example, there are other ones I can refer to.
Since they say they're a fully remote team already, then it sounds like the company doesn't derive any advantage from having an employee live in the Bay Area (the fact that they're willing to pay employees to leave makes this even more obvious).
It's risky to be clever because malformed characters are still a thing. You can't trust that the rules of UTF-8 have been followed without examining every byte of an unknown stream to make sure it is all valid. The best you can do is optimize future uses of the string by keeping the buffer constant and remembering some hints after the first scan about what was found in the string.
I pulled mine from https://www.netflix.com/MoviesYouveSeen. I did notice a bunch that just said MOVIE but that was just a handful. My ratings page goes back to 2005 and I'm not subscribed to the DVD plan anymore.
I liked SimTower, but it was very hard to lose. You could have unhappy people, but there was little impact to it. I recall it being described once as the most computationally-intensive screen saver available at the time.
If all they want is the size of the file, then what is wrong with using fstat?

It's not the same thing as trying to walk the FS to look for the filename is silly.
Yes - sometimes people refer to people who are attractive as 'drop dead hot' or 'bombshells' or '10's.

These are colloquial terms for how we sometimes refer to attractiveness.

Your insinuation that this is 'sexist' is completely wrong.

And even if I did refer to gender, it would be fine.

Crude, maybe, but sexist. No.

"Does the HN community condones this and at the same time rally against sexual harassment at statups?"

Referring to some unidentified people as 'drop dead hot' is not remotely harassing, and your indication that this should somehow be screened is wrong, and problematic. I'll suggest that your position might be the impetus for why so many people are weary, or skeptical of some movements concerning 'sexism in the valley'.

And FYI in no way did I imply that somehow immigrants cannot be 'hot'. I'm indicating that in some places 'menial jobs' are done by otherwise 'high social status' individuals because of the social dynamic. In most places, you don't find attractive people working at McDonalds - because they will work in retail, in funner, better environments consistent with their sense of identity. Or bartending/waitressing where their attractiveness yields significantly better outcomes in tipping - and frankly - even in ordering (attractive staff make people spend more).

Though migrants can definitely be 'hot' - individuals who are undocumented are generally 'very low social status' and are almost excluded from most of the social context.

It's not a moral statement - being 'low social status' does not imply lower human worth - it's an observation of a social system.

All animals are social, and develop social hierarchy - it's a fundamental dynamic of nature.
“On the Hatred of Poetry”
> Have you been living under a rock?

This kind of thing will get your account banned on HN. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
HTML5 offline application explained
Sphinx search is C++, and uses little memory compared to Lucene. It has many advanced features like Lucene.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_(search_engine)
This issue gets little traction, and has been going on for way too long.

I argue that this problem be posed as one of collective action as opposed to individual responsibility.

As comments have already shown, people will point out that if they don't do it, the competition will. IF the larger group uses abhorrent systems, people will just say its normal, and do nothing.

Individual responsibility will only get us as far as comments on social media.

There is instead a larger coalition of people ranging from devs, non dev coders, game houses, parents who will be able to collectively push for changes and organizations to manage this.

This will require legal frameworks and legal recourse. Private incentives are not aligned to create a healthy environment.

It is also possible that the entire industry can soon get sued, which I suppose is one way of attempting to deal with it.
Comments like this will get your account banned, so please don't.
> Jurors don't interpret law

They can and do. Quoting the Oregon constitution:

"In all criminal cases whatever, the jury shall have the right to determine the law, and the facts under the direction of the Court as to the law, and the right of new trial, as in civil cases."

Similar measures exist in other legal jurisdictions, though it isn't universal.

> judges have a well-organised system for exception handling

I didn't suggest they don't; I suggested that two different judges can interpret the law differently.
Are you being straight up honest? You've been robbed or burglarized at least four times in 22 years, living in four different residences, while living in four separate cities? The odds of that having happened are infinitesimally unlikely. Do you walk around your neighborhood, flaunting the fact you are a millionaire, while living in the poorest districts? Your situation cannot be representative of the norm; you sound like someone who is embellishing, flat out lying, or unnecessarily putting yourself in a position to become a victim. There's just no way your luck is "randomly" that bad.

Edit: I've read your history. You clearly indulge with every comment. You have not been robbed 4 times in 22 years in New Zealand. Pathological liar, you should be ashamed. This is HackerNews, not Reddit - people are not going to give you 1,000 sympathetic upvotes for your invented sob story.
If he had done this in last two years when the problem came out, the election result may have been different.
Ask HN: What's the best country to incorporate tech businesses these days?
When starting and running a business, there are many concerns: start-up capital requirements, the amount of paperwork involved for starting and running the company, for managing employees, taxes, currency, banking, international "recognition" of the company type (e.g. an LLC or limited company in the UK or US are probably more "well-known" than their equivalents in Germany or Japan). Finally, in particular for tech companies, things like surveillance laws and the ability for governments to mess with you / your customers can be a critical issue (in particular for e.g. security products).

So far, the UK has been straightforward and easy to work with (little paperwork or other requirements), but now with Brexit, the weak pound and the investigatory powers act, it seems less and less like a good option.

So, I'm wondering what HN has to say. What countries do you guys run your companies in / which countries are good options these days? What's "good" / "bad"?
Worked without any configuration changes.

Chrome Version 57.0.2987.110 (64-bit)
They lost 3h of customer data, it's not open culture. It's just gross incompetence.
Rubygems mobile app is finally here
My company gave me a relocation bonus and used a third party service to handle it. I got all of the money upfront, and had to sign a document saying I'd pay back a prorated amount if I left the company within a year. I was asked to submit reimbursements directly to the third party, so I didn't have to give the receipts for my fictional BDSM dungeon to the company directly. The taxable portion was the total bonus minus any moving expenses. I liked this model.
What are best tools to increase conversion rate for ecommerce? Is there a top?
Tools play the significant role in every business. Its help business to make less difficult. Here we talking about best tools. I think best or worst is depend upon your requirement.
Tagove
Tagove is much endorsed by too many customers is an advanced tool that offers multiple channels for communication with your customers. It offers real-time chat, screen sharing, Co-browsing. Tagove is assembled with various channels.The good thing about Tagove is it provide 24*7 support.

Following are the best feature that Tagove offer
Advanced live chat:
It helps you to send and receive text messages together without any disturbance.Not only text, you can also send your files as well. It is the nice tool to use for the customer.

Co-browsing :
This is something new provided by Tagove. It allows an agent to interact with a customer’s browser, view the customer’s web page and also the mouse cursor, and interact with the web page in real-time.

2). Socialpilot :

SocialPilot know how time-consuming and annoying is to revise yoursocial media posts on multiple platforms at the same time.With SocialPilot you can schedule your posts and tweets. It also offers you the relevant text in case if you are not in a mood to brainstorm.Ultimately it reduces the burden of share tweets and increasing visibility with your followers.

Following are the best feature of Socialpilot

· More posts, more accounts, and affordable price
· Bulk Scheduling
· Content Suggestions and Feeds
· Custom Facebook Branding