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After so many attempts to innovate and bring new ideas to the console space, Microsoft must be relieved (and kicking themselves a bit) to finally realize that all that their most vocal consumers ever wanted was bigger iron.

I sense that the console market has picked up a lot of "performance enthusiasm" from the PC community. The tried-and-true tech/car analogy works here - a lot of people love building, or even just buying and owning, really powerful cars. Do a search on Youtube for "[game] framerate [test|comparison]" and you'll find a zillion hits, many of them with details down to patch versions, driver versions, and detailed settings. The number one complaint I saw of the new greatest-game-of-all-time Zelda game was "framerate," and the web was flooded with framerate tests as soon as a patch was released. A common meme in Reddit's PC-building community is dropping $X000 building a monster rig in order to install a big new game just so they can jack it up to max settings and watch it run at 100FPS, then shutting it off and returning to browsing and Minecraft.

That said, it's a little surprising to me to read all the positive feedback on this, especially around the price. Game-related Reddit threads are usually full of hate on any topic that involves paying for something, but all I see for this is "I will drop $500 for this, day 1, I'd even consider it at $600; guess I better get that $1500-$2000 4K TV I've been looking at too; let me know when the VR's ready and I'll put $600 on that as well." Just a couple years ago, speculation about a move like this was widely poo-pooed by industry analysts, who said that bringing the PC's complexities of hardware upgrades to developers and consumers would kill the only thing consoles had going for them - simplicity - and leave consumers wondering why they're expected to shell out $X00 just a few years after buying the last new box. Now the overwhelming consensus appears to be "4K at 60FPS or don't bother".

With hardware standardization increasing, compatibility becoming the norm, and the focus on power, I think there's going to be a really interesting convergence between the PC and console market in the next few years.
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The problem is that basic microbes only resperate over their surfaces so they have big square/cubed law limits on how large they can be and, by extension, on how complex their genomes can be. You need a hopeful monster that can run its metabolism throughout the cell to develop large genomes of the type that can support differentiated cells in multi-cellular creatures.
GM to Launch the World’s Largest Fleet of Self-Driving Cars, Documents Reveal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14113412
Supercomputing Gets Neural Network Boost in Quantum Chemistry
Beautiful image.
man I can't understand why this guy just didn't get off the plane. Was it worth losing two teeth? You can always get a new ticket, but teeth are irreplaceable.

Of course United handled it wrong, should have just given out more miles and somebody else would have given up a seat.
I'd never actually dealt with a co-op before REI. The profits shared aren't huge, but combined with the membership discount it's often cheaper than shopping online resellers. I'm impressed.
The lower-level abstraction (raw CSS) vs the higher level (bootstrap's grid) is more flexible. It's not simpler though, which is why the abstraction is worth learning. With a grid framework, you can make changes at a common level of abstraction that your teammates will understand. Because I guarantee the way you'd implement the equivalent behaviour in raw CSS is not how I would, and now we have both styles in the codebase (complexity).

Also yet to meet one of these 'designers' that would rather change CSS than HTML. And logically ... you can't understand CSS without understanding HTML, so preferring to make the change in CSS is just an arbitrary decision.
um... medium hosts the files and handles the necessary bandwidth already. Adding a custom domain doesn't change that at all. I don't disagree that you'd be better off with other sites but those are NOT the reasons it costs $75
This seems like a great opportunity to try out Rust with these new bindings!
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I disagree about the limitations of software parallelism. The article is correct that many existing algorithms like ray tracing or apps like web rendering have inherent limits to parallelization, but there exist a large number of "embarrassingly parallel" things that simply are not done on small PCs and phones right now because they're too costly. This includes things like neural networks, genetic algorithms, all kinds of optimization algorithms, etc.

This article is from 2007 so it predates the AI renaissance. Lots of AI, ML, and optimization stuff can happily eat as many cores as you want to throw at it.

Then there's the multitasking angle. On a desktop at least I often run dozens of applications, developer VMS, etc. I could definitely use 20 cores in a desktop/laptop right now. We have tests that easily max out a 24 core server that I'd love to run on my own box.
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Tests generally are the answer for the complex stuff in my experience.

If it takes you more than a minute or so to check for the failure, then write a script to automate it. Once that's done, you can just run the script at each iteration of bisect, and you'll save time in the long run. The bonus is that the script you've written to determine a failure case will also serve as a regression test so that the same bug won't be reintroduced in the future.

Adding the script as a regression test isn't always a possibility (you may not have a set of tests to add it to), but that's just a "value add" anyhow.

Oh, and if you don't have tests at all, that's a huge red flag. That should be remedied as quickly as possible.
Its not nintendo but from everything i can find its a pretty faithful reproduction of the hardware for a reasonablish price. https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/12/retrousb-avs-review/ .I havent gotten one yet but I have been mighty tempted.
> For all sorts of reasons, New Zealand suddenly makes sense. The cost of living is less than in San Francisco. Commuting is less wearying. And American politics, “Brexit” and the Islamic State are on the other side of the world.

For the most part, this is all true in, say, Tulsa. Especially if you stay off Facebook.

You especially don't have to go to New Zealand to find a cheaper, commuter-friendly place to work.

Nothing against New Zealand. I'm sure it's a great place to live. The writing in the article is just sloppy.
> Good for you. And make sure you pass the lesson on to others so they don't have to learn it the hard way.

Already did that, I worked at a place where I was the 5th programmer on the team but the most experienced and the lead, the boss was not a nice guy and worked the two youngest programmers like dogs, I soon put a stop to that with the "If you don't turn your computers off, I'm going to go flip the breaker, it's 6pm on a Friday go home".

The thing I've learnt with bosses like that is most of the time if you stand up to them they either back down, respect you for it or fire you at some point in the future (assuming you haven't already left) but in any case your life improves.

The last job I had for someone I came in at 8:30am, left at 5:30pm and outside of work I didn't answer calls, emails or issues unless I was on call, this was despite the pressure to do so that many of the other programmers succumbed to.

Team pressure is a hard thing to fight against but I've seen enough to know that a team working (actually working, not screwing around on a computer all day) 12 hour days 6 days a week can do that for a month at most and then the damage sets in and each day is less productive till you end up getting less done in 12 hours than your team would normally get done in 6.

Tired people don't do good work.
yes it must be a mistake

it seems in other drawings which appear to also be by Coltrane they are drawn as you suggest, A + Ab/Bb preserving the symmetry

https://roelhollander.eu/en/blog-saxophone/Coltrane-Tone-Cir...
Why stop there? Imagine what we could achieve if we didn't "waste" resources on anything that was purely for entertainment, e.g. most movies, lots of facebooking/instagramming/twittering, restaurants focusing on making food that is more than bare sustenance, etc.

Of course, what then is the point?
Heh, no.

I'm still skeptical. Basically wondering if "Manufacturing Sector: Real Output" is somehow "dollar driven" vs "actual number of electric consuming plants" driven.

Of course, I can't find any good statistics on that. Something like this: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/apr/23/... but with more detail. Because that could just be consolidation into smaller numbers of larger plants.
I think business speak is like a second language in that I may need to switch to using it for a while and certain constructs I'll get tripped up on and others not so much. But like any language, if you use it often enough you may start to actually think using the language.
I think this is actually more important than the "too much democracy" argument top comment was heading towards. Representatives are supposed to do just that: represent their communities. They should be voted in based on how much the voters trust them to represent their interests, rather than along more abstract political orientations. When the community is small enough that everyone can easily see their representative speak, attend local debates, and here how they respond to questions, you can vote for someone based on your personal liking; when the community is too large for that, you need to vote based on party affiliation and stump speeches. This inherently leads to polarization: you're not voting for a person, you're voting for a team, and trying to beat the other team.
Closing all the factories in the Midwest would have a lot more impact than efficient light bulbs.
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Well i read a _lot_. Like during 10 years i read one book per day or more. I am lower now, but i am slowly getting back to it. So i think i have the vocabulary anyway. It is deeply engrained into me now.
Well, we do have evidence of past life on Mars - just not conclusive evidence. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbially_induced_sedimentar...

And, of course, that's not evidence that there's still life on Mars.
> A lot of mountaineering gear costs a lot, but lasts for a really long time.

Precisely. REI has some stuff which is wildly overpriced - I wouldn't buy hiking shorts there. But if I'm buying climbing gear, no one will sell it cheap anywhere. REI dividends and a good warranty make the competitive, because I'm expecting to keep the gear for a decade or more.
Intellij also has this functionality. I use it as a task list when working on features that span different sections of a project.
Then i hope you have found some things which work for you. And kudos for keeping going.
This might be relevant: in the AMA that he did less than a year ago [1], Alan Kay said [2]:

> "Dealers of Lightning" is not the best book to read (try Mitchell Waldrop's "The Dream Machine").

That said, I have read Dealers of Lightning myself, and really liked it. I have not yet got around to The Dream Machine.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11940756
The answer is in the question!

We know what's the best products, and what are not product, but enslavement or spying/privacy infringing systems. We use the former, and avoid the later.

On the other hand, our bosses are not that discerning, they only want to maximize monetary profits, and this mean they will provide average products for the average (undiscerning) customer. Hence Android, facebook, AWS, and MS-Windows.

You can get more insights by studing the bell curve.
"You may claim to have submitted to the most prestigious journal (judged by acceptance rate)." => You win
There's good evidence for this. That was part of the reason the Feds pushed employers to do withholding "on our behalf" during the 1930s. Prior to that, taxes were filed quarterly and then only a small % of people. But people actually saw how much they paid.

Withholding was a clever and subtle way for us to never see part of our paycheck so then any tax return we get feels like a bonus when it was actually just an interest free loan to the government.

Another way to look at it.. people here talk about $Xk that they make but it's always pre-tax. Ask the same people what they make post-tax and I'd wager less than a quarter can answer it accurately.
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Already on the homepage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14112748
Human prejudices sneak into artificial intelligence systems
What are the internet throughput and latencies for typical setups in residential locations in New Zealand? What about more expensive commercial setups?
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Most designs have a CAN transceiver that takes TTL/UART and implements the differential signalling used on the CAN bus. I've used the TJA1048 before in designs:

http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/TJA1048.pdf

You could certainly clip the TX line and make it receive-only if you wanted. But there's always one person in the room that says "hey, why not leave it in in case we change our mind about software?", or perhaps it's more "hey, let's copy the reference design and move on".
I like the way the Golang team handled the introduction of Contexts. Adding them required a lot of re-thinking, and so they added a Context.TODO() method which returned a context stub essentially.

Something similar could be used with todo comments in general, e.g. in your favorite language something along the lines of:

import todo

todo.add("Fix this later")

Which would keep track of those and you can somehow automate reporting, various restrictions and what not.

[1] https://golang.org/pkg/context/#TODO
I did mine yesterday. It took me a few clicks and couple of minutes. Very pleasant indeed.

I remember when I lived in the US a few years ago. Everybody told me that I had to go through a professional to fill my tax return as it was just too hard and error-prone. It sounded insane considering my situation was extremely simple. I was also surprised because I assumed the American tax system to be simpler than the French one.

In the end, it wasn't that hard, but I did have to spend some time to find and read the proper documentations. I think in France people are more reluctant to spend money on things they can do themselves, where Americans are more willing to rely on service providers.
I'm not going to use it every day, it would be just much more handy - opened it, clicked "update" or "yes" in "new release is here, do you want to update?" window, and it's done. Now you need to visit download page and download/install it every time.
Honest question: why use Godot over something like Unity3D, which also has great 2D tools?
But, like Tulsa, I'd be worried about what happens when that tech company, which I moved myself and my family halfway around the world for, goes under and I'm out of work. I'm sure there is more than one tech company in Auckland, but how many? And how many of those will want to hire me? And out of those how many will I want to work for? And out of those, how many will pay enough where it makes sense for me to stay? Those questions have to be raised outside of tech hubs.

I used to live in a very low cost of living area in Florida. I'd go back in a heartbeat, but guess what, there was literally one company within a 100 mile (probably 200 mile) radius hiring software people like me. That's too damn risky.
Isn't there FreeFile on IRS's website which allows someone with a simple return (no capital gains, only standard deductions etc) to file for free. It would be as simple as described in this article.
Isn't that only a problem if you're completely planet-bound? If you want to play it safe, you shouldn't put all of your eggs into a single basket anyway.
You need more than heat for life to evolve. You also need a source of useful energy. Probably a long-lasting chemical gradient like you see in undersea vents but there are a number of possibilities. Life has evolved on Earth to use other sources of energy too, most commonly sunlight, but the machinery to use those is much more complex.
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Such an employer would have to tolerate high risk, frequent failure, high cost, low "productivity", and slow unpredictable progress toward financially unrewarding intermediate results... and do so for years without administrative interruption.

Unless the innovators are somehow overlooked by the omnipresent bureaucrats and bookkeepers -- e.g. working in a small lab hidden deep in a very large organization disinclined to optimize costs/profit -- I don't see any established organizational model that could sustain innovators like Nicolai Tesla or Kurt Godel.

Maybe a bored billionaire?
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I'm looking for a tool to get an overview of all the repositories I am working on. Preferably one that is capable of overseeing repositories from different hosts.

So, for instance. I want to colocate all of my repositories from Github, Bitbucket and Gitlab, in one UI experience.

Or is this something I have to build myself?
Mostly, but you swipe left to get rid of someone, and swipe left to see the next image a person has if you are on their profile. occasionally I get this mixed up and swipe left on someone I was interested in.
It's more liberal and has better social services and you get health care in NZ. Plus amazing outdoor activities.
What if people want to develop game engines? What if people want to play games? What if personal passions are an important part of life? What if it isn't your time to allocate, but theirs? What if throwing a bunch of game developers onto protein folding wouldn't really help with protein folding anyway?
Just one more proof that the U.S. Government is owned by corporations.
Great for the Kiwis. I wish them well.

But regrettably, I lack the patience to read past an intro sort of equating the ramifications of Brexit with those of Islamic State.

Could journalism please step outside for a minute and perform a reality check?
> I was particularly surprised how you have to pay many different fees which in Finland would have been bundled together. Namely having separate bills coming on varying payment schedules for income tax, municipal tax, entrepreneur tax (5%) and health insurance. This seems inefficient and confusing to me.

That's how it is in most countries because they're all different entities collecting.
Agreed. This feels a lot like a submarine article. For people in the US, it would be way easier to just relocate from SV to middle America. Or even just to other parts of California.

New Zealand does look absolutely stunning, though.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
You mean the wormhole with a blackhole on the other side?
Instagram isnt hard to build compared to game engine. Making food is not the same as highly skilled engineer. Drinking in a bar doesnt make you a scientist.
It is related? The article is about space research, his question is about the management and organization of space research.
I'm in that looksee contest the article says got works wide interest but when I look at the online dashboard it says only 556 people are registered and in the running....
The only hard ones are VAT and pension plans. Everything else is manageable.
I use WP10 because I don't want to be a part of Apple's ecosystem and Google's interests in Android security do not align with mine...it's Windows 95 but Google can (and does) say it is the manufacturer's responsibility.

I also use WP10 because the user interface is not a rehash of the Xerox Alto from 1977. It's really good and has been since WP7. OLED displays are part of it. Live tiles are part of it. A willingness to use text as an interface is part of it.

The lack of apps is not such a big deal for me because, you know, the web. What I miss from Android is having Forth and Ruby and Clojure and J and Python and Octave running on my phone.
I am a game-engine-developer... without any work at the moment.

People just rarely want my skills, I work with C, C++, Lua, ASM, blazing-speed well built code that takes a long time to make.

People don't even ask me to do interviews, when I see all these posts on HN complaining of interviews I can't relate, I never get invited to them in first place, because I don't know React, Enterprise-Java, Electron and other whatever new very high-level tech designed to speed up dev (at cost of program speed for end user) that is popular.
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I think it depends on what you're getting. REI is very pricy for common or short-lifespan gear like hiking shorts - you can do much better with Backcountry or Sierra Trading Post. But for quality, long-lived gear (rope, tents, etc) you're not going to find it cheap anywhere at all.

I usually end up comparing REI with Moosejaw + Activejunky, and it's a tossup which one will be cheaper.

(If you haven't tried Activejunky, do. It's usually another 5-15% off while shopping through other sites.)
hammock is referring to the orientation of the apps. The way they're designed make the creation vs. consumption balance vastly different experiences.
Not recently, but I made the move in 2000, and ended up returning to the USA in 2004.

I'm sure the country has changed in the last decade, but one thing's for sure: saying that the cost of living is cheaper than San Francisco is like saying that Ferrari is cheaper than Pagani.

Also, in addition to the relatively high cost of living (housing in particular is terrible, especially in Auckland), the level of bureaucratic nonsense is very high. My parents owned a restaurant and grocery that targeted American expats, and the red tape they had to go through was much higher than just about anywhere in the USA.

The tech scene was very young when I lived there, with very little community. I'm curious if that's changed.
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"if we used"?

Did it occur to you that many of these people might not want to do something else and would then actually not accomplish what they'll accomplish in an environment they actually enjoy?

People are not something "to be used".
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Me too - I stopped participating after they announced a security leak a few weeks ago.
I always had this question - Can life exist outside our perception of biological life?

Intelligent life might be an anomaly, and rare in the universe - but is it possible that life exists outside our perception of biology? Afterall everything is just rules and actions that lead to predictable reactions (unless quantum physics says something else)

I look at artificial life - that exists in virtual environments. It looks like life - but we know it isn't for real. It cannot replicate/grow outside its environment. But that argument could be used to for all non-human life on Earth, if humans never existed.

Even stuff like mars rover could be engineered to mine, manufacture and duplicate - eventually creating a colony of rovers that populate the planet and consume the planet's resources. Well, that might look like semi-intelligent life - but we know it isn't - or is it life?
How much of that $5K is fixed and how much is variable (on number of employees)?
I have not edited the comment, maybe you confused mine with someone else's or misread it?

Anyway my point wasn't to support or deny Amiibo hacking, just to highlight the contrast between basic/pro software versioning and Amiibos.
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Take care to not blame all of journalism for one author's missteps.
Does the gender pay gap actually exist?