skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That still counts. Ambient temperature and pressure are necessary for just about any 'engine'. In fact, extracting heat from the environment to do something useful is more impressive than just converting one form of energy into another.
In terms of arcade, I think the first usable arcade emulator (as opposed to things that could just boot up and get to the attraction screen) was "Dave Spicer's Arcade emulator" circa 1995 for DOS. It only supported a tiny handful of games (Pac-Man, Galaxian, and an obscure game called Amidar)
Project: I'm hard at work on a "smart" worldbuilding tool[1] for authors, game designers, and roleplayers to flesh out detailed worlds in a structured, semantic way.

[1] https://www.notebook.ai

I'm still deciding on the best ways to crunch world data to benefit all users feature-wise (and what other worldbuilding features to expand into), but I'm working on an infographic of common tropes seen across genres now (did you know that ~2% of the population has green eyes, while nearly 60% of YA protagonists have green eyes? Fun!).
A* is much older than that. Age of Empires and Warcraft for example used it 10 years before F.E.A.R.
I was just going to say, it's refreshing to see an HTML page that renders without the help of JavaScript.

The page you linked to, however, disappointingly does require JavaScript to execute in order to show text.
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What on earth is the point in working hard and earning a large salary if there is sod all to spend it on?

If I were living in a small country town I'd be choosing a far more chilled job than I currently have because there isn't anything to spend the extra income on in a small town.
I'm actually disappointed they went with Stockholm. Though I can understand why (proximity to a large pool of talent among other things).
> They signify something didn't go quite right with your unit/integration/qa process

Staged rollouts are part of the QA strategy (whether this is something to be aspired is another question).
Not yet, it's something really early and I haven't had time for a project page yet.

Still figuring out if I should make this open or closed source. Hard choice!

I definitely reach out here again once I've project page up and running.
The effects for the dis-integrator pistols on the spaceship were so simple yet so classic. It's one of the early games where you got to do lots of different fun things, like scuba diving with a spear gun, driving a snow mobile, etc rather than smashing crates in a bunker.
Thanks for the comments. I can't say I miss those days (I'm too young) but I do miss responsive applications.
Prime Factorization - Just as a fun side project. I do not expect that I will ever be able to solve it but at least once a week I learn something new about math!

I've Been working on it for 3 years now and It's getting more and more fun every day. In fact, I have rediscovered so many things on my own that I thought never existed. My biggest "Eureka" moment was when I discovered factorization via the difference of squares method on my own by using 2D geometry. I previously did not know that such a method existed nor that GNFS is based on it. Later on I discovered that a composite number is actually a perfect square less a function of a triangular number which lead me to develop a method of factorization that is rather cool but unfortunately still not good enough. I have had literally dozens of these moments where I find a certain relationship between numbers that I later on find out is some sort of rule/conjecture that was made hundreds of years ago by some mathematician!

To some of you these might be really trivial and well known facts that you learned in school. For me however, it is something I take pride in as math was by far my worst subject growing up and I actually dropped out of college because of math. The last math course I took was in high school over 10 years ago.

I have a new found love for mathematics and algebra in general and I would encourage anyone reading this to pick a problem and try working on it just for the fun of it :D
I'm implementing a quota and usage tracking service for OpenStack: https://github.com/sapcc/limes

We already have something like that in our own OpenStack web dashboard, but it's a crude hack in many ways, so I'm now splitting it out into a proper microservice with a properly defined API.

If you find this useful for your own OpenStack installation, please use and fork it. I will happily accept contributions to expand the number of supported OpenStack services.
> It's more of a tantrum.

And the knee jerk response of bricking the device is ok then?
Why do you assume it is a western thing.

Have you ever been to Asia? It's extremely common in China/Korea/Japan
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A map of the new locations can be found here: https://www.thelocal.se/20170404/map-amazon-to-open-three-ne.... Seems like the one in Västerås is right next to the Westinghouse uranium fuel factory. Sadly no power plant right next to it though :)
Did you ever see the game "The Ship"? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ship_(video_game)

Similar to this; set on a cruise ship with NPCs doing random tasks, you had to work out who your (Player) target was amongst NPCs and assassinate them quietly.

I think one of the Assasins Creed games also had a similar multiplayer.
Lets compare this to a similar decentralized p2p network, the World Wide Web. If every node where a search engine and used web spiders we would fill up all bandwidth and web server resources (memory, cpu) with spider requests. Selfish nodes like google can and sometimes cause services to go down because of too aggressive behavior. Yet the network (and people who operative websites) do accept some amount of crawlers, and don't compare it to stealing a dollar from our wallet (even if power+bandwidth+man power could easily equal to just that). The cost of crawlers should normally not cause any actually latency issues since web servers operative in very parallel way, utilize multiple cpu cores, and bandwidth are generally wide enough (and not metered).

This is why I asked if there is real impact. In theory web spiders are extremely aggressive and non-scaling nodes, but in practice they are mostly background noise and have no impact on the service quality. In the cases they do impact we have blacklists (robot.txt) for just that purpose. As such the real world impact of non-scaling World Wide Web nodes is minimal.

You describe in the concrete example that there is currently a few dozen fake entries and that they cause increased latency in some implementations. A) is there any measurements and B), do it run parallel C), do the fake entries get higher priority than real nodes?
Agree with you 100%. This is hardly manipulative, not in the way the author is making out it to be. @ any rate this is not first time that its happening . Ford motors used to turn back clocks on shop floor to steal extra hal an hour of unpaid time.
A few questions:

- Is KDE a first-class citizen in Fedora-land? Everything I see about Fedora seems to focus on Gnome as the one-true-desktop

- How's the battery/power situation? I've seen some reviews find fault with battery performance under Fedora 25 as being worse than before (supposedly because of Wayland)
Can you not move? The distance is not that big as far as I remember (at least not comparing to AU in general).
I mean, you're not wrong - but couldn't you have found a way to make your point a little less antagonistic?
I have a project to get to know something about ML in computer vision. The project I'm doing that with is OCR of a noisy, low-resolution image (~32x16)

Main problems:

* Since the resolution is very low, I found it hard to use traditional CV approaches to segment individual characters and classify those (for example: is this rectangular blob a few pixels diagonal a dash symbol or just noise)

* End to end CNN approach on artificially generated dataset is approaching usefulness. Training dataset is completely artificially generated, test dataset comes from manual labeling (~2k samples, ~50 classes). This approach is almost usable (96.8% accuracy on test dataset), but it is still not acceptable performance. Next thing I'm going to try is first train the CNN on training data as best as I can (have had >99.9% during training, but that could be overfitting) and then do another training run just on a part of my test data to "fine tune" the weights from first run and use remaining test data for cross-validation.

All existing OCR engines I tried could not handle such inputs: abby, tesseract, google cloud vision.
It seems a bit silly to write an accounting system, this is no easy task once you get to the complicated bits and pretty fatal if you screw it up. Surely saner to throw a curses interface on top of an already existing one? Like https://github.com/beancount/beancount or http://ledger-cli.org/

Looks pretty nice though!
They aren't actually located in Stockholm, but close enough to use resources from the Stockholm Area. Supposedly the DCs will be located in Västerås, Eskilstuna and Katrineholm[0].

[0] http://digital.di.se/artikel/amazon-oppnar-tre-datacenter-i-...
This is a really interesting project. I just signed up to get notified of launch (andrew @ indentlabs.com) but if you want to shoot me an email with what you're working on and where you're at, perhaps I could help out or give you some feedback on the idea/implementation.

Either way, always good to have more eyes occasionally. :)
Archaeologists in China believe they have found ancient Silk Road capital
Fascinating: 71% say they trust climate scientists regarding climate change, yet only 49% say they think "most scientists think global warming is happening". This would imply it is not necessary to convince people anthropogenic climate change is real, only that most climate scientists think it is real. Very different message.
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For points one and two, have you tried Thunderbird with the Lightning extension?

Unfortunately I think it's still the best we've got in terms of fully-featured email clients on Linux.
> in a time when populist nationalism is causing all kinds of problems

(I realize this forum will be almost overwhelmingly in favor of the above statement, but thought I would respond anyway to give an alternative viewpoint from outside).

What problems? Is it really causing problems, or is it just that you are politically opposed to it? The lack of nationalism I would say has caused far more problems over the last few decades (Mass clashing of cultures, rise of terrorism, global multi-nationals exploiting workers, not paying taxes etc, moving democracy and accountability further and further away from people).

If a family member achieved something you would naturally feel more "proud" than if it was a person in the world picked at random.

For some people, their nationality is important to them - an extended family of shared identity, culture, experiences and values. I would much much rather use a local taxi company, which will benefit my local community, friends, family, than use some faceless global thing like Uber, which will benefit some rich people in another country.

Further, competition is good. It's the way we achieve things. If a team of scientists in [other_country] see this news, they will likely be spurred on.

This is why things like the space race worked so well.
For anyone else not familiar enough with the term to get the reference without some googling, that's: "Young Adult", as in media and fiction targeted at young-ish readers/viewers. (eg: the Maze Runner)
A file downloader for Mac, like IDM for Windows. First version out. https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/idownloader-fast-and-elegant...
I can't believe that it's 2017 and bad battery life is still a thing.
I'm working on an automatic chicken coop door. Using a linear actuator and ESP8266. A mix of Arduino c and HTML/JS for the interface. Playing with flexbox, svelte, webpack, and fontello.
I'm currently working on a website screenshot API. It also converts webpages to PDF.

You can check it out at https://urlbox.io.
Fully agreed.

Also, 1-3 can easily be solved with a Vanguard/ETF/S&P500/etc. While technically not risk free, it practically is in the long run.

Having money doesn't inherently create any problems for you. Having no money however definitely limits your options of living.

Having these problems (mentioned in the article) is completely unrelated to money.
Good point!! We will review your advise carefully, and then may change something on the landing page in near future. Thank you for your warm interest and helpful advise.
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I was wondering about that. The problem is that sites change, or even disappear. For stuff that matters, I bookmark and print to PDF. Maybe that wouldn't scale. But it would get around needing account information.
There's a large amount of effort put into denying climate change. There's even a movie:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=52Mx0_8YEtg

Kilimanjaro isn't losing snow because of global warming but because of deforestation, which I believe is true.

https://youtu.be/6hFxG-8I0Go

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-tanzania-kilimanja...
I went from being in a 'poor' household to being above average, but not rich by any standards.

Luckily, poor in the Netherlands is not the same as poor in the US, also, my parents knew how to handle money quite well, so we managed. A lot of my neightbours, however did not. I've seen what being poor does to health. What it does to behavior towards others, who seem to 'have more', but just spend it differently. What it does to expectations and opportunities of their children.

I'm sure that money doesn't make you happy, it often does make you happier than being in the exact same situation without money.
Have to wonder how much of the push for more EU AWS regions comes from dealing with a potential exodus from the London region due Brexit (e.g. because of data protection issues)
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Have you played any mods that expand the ALIFE system? There are some that run the entire ALIFE simulation in every map all the time, groups of stalkers can be having gunfights, trading, looting corpses, putting things in containers, etc etc - so every time you revisit an area after not being there for a while, people have moved, inventories have changed, piles of mutant and stalker corpses make appearances, all sorts.

It really keeps the game fresh and exciting.
The reality is the world has moved completely away from terminal. The speed and productivity advantages are well known, but no one cares. By no one, i mean sales and procurement who hold cobol/green screen apps in very low regard. In other words, it's very difficult to sell trerminal applications when the competition is browser based i.e. insurance claim processing
Sounds interesting. Is it more for creative writing or more business oriented?

I'm signed up in any case.
Maybe it was one of those 'electronic signatures' - they're simply a scribble on an electronic device.
Well it's causing the UK to leave the EU which is a disaster by any measure, not including idiots wanting "control".
The rest of the world does.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/03/29/felony...
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IT project deadlines: meet or fail?
Half the EU?
That is tangentially similar to SpyParty, a game where one players goal is to spot the other player in a room with a bunch of AI. Quite fun and a good example of asymmetrical multiplayer.
Don't play perseus mandate, stop after you've beaten extraction point.

Just don't. It's just boring and uninspired and... ugh.
It's not about "Whatever, here is your money back, just keep the device we don't care, goodbye."

It's about acknowledging the customers frustration, hopefully lowering it by returning the money no questions asked, and ALSO keeping the door open to continue the conversation in the hope for a more positive outcome.

Maybe the customer angrily throws the device away and you never hear from him again. Okay then, everybody moves on.

But maybe he is less frustrated and is willing to have a productive discussion about his problem, provide you with more information and try some things.

Again this might lead nowhere. Ideally you either find that something completely out of your control was the fault, and the customer can admit that blaming you for it was unreasonable, or you find the fault and are able to fix it.

So you might end up with a customer that no longer blames you, or even better one that is now able to use and enjoy your product.
Ps. Search everything on Windows searches through NTFS. Which is insanely fast ( thought it could be usefull)
Do you have anything to back that up or are you just gonna keep talking?
Thanks, I had some HiDPI trouble when I tried it previously but apparently I misconfigured some fonts so it works now. Pretty close to what I'm looking for. It's a shame that it hasn't seen that much work.
I did as well, but haven't played yet.
Seems just fine with TLP
> Well it's causing the UK to leave the EU which is a disaster by any measure, not including idiots wanting "control".

So you're just politically opposed to it.

It's not a disaster if you're very much opposed to an EU superstate.
What failed state is there in Europe?
FWIW, the product by Upwork Global Inc (formerly Elance-oDesk) is now "Upwork", not "UpWorks". May want to adjust that if this is part of a pitch elsewhere. :)
I like it but please enhance the translations, I don't need to see it in both Korean and English at the same time.
You realize how many people you are 'locking out' or lose interest by your headline and intro? Except you really only want this specific kind of people
Yes, but unfortunately I can't stomach how bad Thunderbird and Lightning look.
Do you not have recourse to a Small Claims Court or similar process where you are?

Here the mere threat of using the Small Claims Court is frequently sufficient to prompt adequate redress. No lawyers are allowed to advise parties. The head of the company has to show up in person and sit waiting on a bench along with everyone else waiting for the case to get called. Court sits outside of normal working hours, and there's no appeal. For small amounts it works incredibly efficiently.
Oh right, thanks for the clarification. Spending a morning neck-deep in jargon makes you feel like everyone is familiar with everything already!
Some neighborhoods != All of Chicago
Storing accounting information is not that hard. Generating reports on them is. I know about ledger and beancount and will definitely look into them.

Unfortunately local laws demand each verification to be enumerated and not editable. That's something ledger and beancount doesn't provide to my knowledge. (and this again proves your point, writing accounting systems are hard, perhaps it's better to stick with the CRM bit).
Like me, I have a "MyPhone" and there appear to be no ROMs for it, nor do automated rooting apps do the trick. There's so much crapware on my phone such that the home screen has been taken over by advertisments that I can't close.
"Yep they commit atrocious humans rights violations and systematically abuse migrant workers, but at least you can leave your car unlocked." And Mussolini made the trains run on time.
I play CoD exclusively for single player :)

I personally like the interactive movie feeling, the scripted events and the scenes. I did never enjoy CoD in multiplayer which I find too hectic. The battlefield series with a more slow-paced and strategic gameplay suited me better in multiplayer. However I generally don't enjoy competing in MP that much anymore - too little time and interest to train enough to be competitive with the younger players.
> I'll just note that this entry was posted twice, by two different accounts

another behaviour that's quite common here ;)
Oponents / proponents sounds a lot like sour grapes / rationalisation.
People have been trained to be individual consumers of both products and information. They'll believe something so long as it's easy to fit in with their other opinions. There is very little way of me understanding climate change science myself, but I'm willing to believe climate scientists, but this is actually an act of faith, I can't independently confirm that climate change is caused by humans, just say that it's very likely.

My Dad is a little bit like Donald Trump in how he searches the Internet for things which support his already well held views; he thinks that climate change is a hoax. When I quote him this brilliant tweet from Scott Westerfeld:

"Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies."

He just laughs and tell's me about fake news sites he's read as a counter point.

This is a great piece of research anyway; I love that people largely are willing to hedge their bets/beliefs and agree that investing in renewables is massively important, even though a lot of those people don't believe in climate change!
Focusing on the past instead of the future works for a surprising number of people: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/wouldnt-it-be-great-...

> Half of the participants got a future-focused message, like “Looking forward to our nation’s future, there is increasing traffic on the road.” The other half were given a past-focused message, such as “Looking back to our nation’s past, there was less traffic on the road.”

> After reading the message, the participants took a survey about it and their opinions on climate change and the environment. Participants who reported that they were conservative rated the past-focused message more positively and showed more pro-environmental attitudes in the survey.
How is this different from using google keep with tags?
I think social pressure plays an important role. People are more likely to protect the environment if that is common behaviour in their locality and social group. Policy like this is often more reactive to changing attitudes rather than being just a stick.

I would love to see some data on social attitudes towards the environment. Are people starting to dislike big dirty cars?
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Key/Value as a Service: Cloud Key/Value Store with REST API

https://keyvalue.xyz
Start your own other other startup group. I already want to join..
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Slightly? As far as I know, the United Kingdom is a democracy while China is an oppressive, imperialist, authoritarian state under oligarchic rule, with complete disregard for human rights or the cries for independence and democracy from its dependencies. Would it be ruled by Britain instead of China there would be a world of difference, don't kid yourself.
This is a consequence of a weak FTC and anti-trust bodies. I facepalm every time I see the FTC fining a company making tens of billions of dollars a year something like $2 million over significant multi-year violations.

If you gave a rapist a week in jail, would that make him stop? If not, then why are we acting as if a $2 million fine is going to stop a company from doing further violations that help it make billions of dollars?

And all the settlements, which don't even ask the company to admit to any wrongdoing, are even more blood-boiling. It's almost like it pays to be on the side of corporations when you work for the government these days.
It should be possible one day for ncurses to serve a web based app and a theme folder.

I'd much rather create an app in ncurses as a developer and then include ncurses-web (if it existed) compile and give the .css file to a designer.