skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author didn't fail, he just changed direction slightly and is still working on the game.

A more apt title: "A story about how I tried to get into game development and didn't finish yet"
Bitcoin doesn't try to fly under the radar of the authorities - it just doesn't give backdoors for authorities.

Building currency taxable-first is like building messenger invigilation-first or building social-media censorship-first. Do you imagine Skype selling their software with main feature being that every conversation you have is being sent to authorities "for your protection" or "to fight terrorists"?
Yeah, I see this all over these indie game dev posts. Highest priority is writing your own engine and solving some deep but tertiary technical problem. Whether the core mechanics are fun or not is whatever. It's truly BPDD (blog post driven development).
Maybe not a hack but a clever way for the venue
to get the obvious free publicity.
As opposed to an 'o game', which is output only, i.e., just a movie.
It's actually a result of colonialism. The british and the elite hong kongers lived like kings and took the lion share of land/wealth and relegated the ordinary hong kongers to poverty.
The marketplace for these devices is probably shrinking as smartphone penetration increases. The BOM for the ipod touch is probably similar enough to the iphone for them to justify keeping it around.
Hi Toby

Quick responses:

> I'm signed into two accounts while the author is signed into 11.

Yup. Also, see a subsequent update at https://medium.com/@matt.at.ably/wheres-all-my-cpu-and-memor.... One of the Slack developers got in touch and confirmed this issue is resolved in beta 2.7.0. I tried it and it is indeed.

> The author is CEO of a competing messaging platform

Ably is not a competitive platform in any way whatsoever. We are a realtime data distribution platform, we have no consumer apps or products you can use, only a low level platform-as-a-service for broadcasting realtime data.
No, I think most of his work is good.

I just hadn't the feeling he's a pleasant person to be around when I read his rants about Twitter and co.
> The haskell book[1] is apparently really helpful with this but it also costs 60$ and is over a thousand pages so it's a pretty large investment in both time and money.

For a really good book on programming, I'll happily pay 60 bucks. I will put that on my Christmas wish list, and give it another try next year.
> Many Latin American countries fair just fine when you adjust for their inherent handicap

Policy volatility is about as significant a driver of Latin American per-capita economic growth as income inequality. Capital inflows and debt are insignificant; only U.S. interest rate volatility is comparable to domestic factors.

"Regarding macroeconomic policies, the higher the volatility of discretionary fiscal policy, the lower the growth.

...

Despite several episodes of reform reversals, most countries made progress in market-oriented structural reforms during 1970–2004, except Venezuela. The intensity of reversals was highest in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Venezuela. Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Uruguay made the most progress during the 35 years. Greater market-oriented reforms and fewer reform reversals were associated with higher growth."

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2016/12/31/Vol... pages 26 and 28; also see Table 17 on page 45
Ask HN: What dev newsletters do you read and why?
What are some of your newsletter reading habits? Do you prefer getting JavaScript Weekly instead of going to a blog or website everyday? How many newsletters do you subscribe to? I'm subscribed to 20 I think. It's a sickness. :)
This is hear-say, where-as AMD previously confirmed and gave written permission to der8auer for his video.
I love DEFCON, attended a few times, but I never understand why the big LV hotels agree to host it.

Before you say 'money', my experience is that DEFCON attendees are very unlikely to gamble (the main reason to host conventions). Plus all the collateral damage: I remember the Starbucks POS systems at the Rio would always be hacked during DEFCON and other guests couldn't work out why the wifi didn't work
You're right but your supporting evidence is applied wrong.

People survive crashes in racing regardless of speed not because the crashes typically take place over a long period of time but because they have a seat that fits them well, straps keeping them in it and heat restraints.

Also, going off track is not crashing.
Why vest absolute trust in anything at all? Just figure out how much trust is justified and act accordingly. And remember: the conservative, do-nothing choice is also a choice, because the world still does its thing even if you do nothing.
Because that's who OP is presumably talking to, young tech entrepreneurs in SV with great ambition. The are represents to me an interesting intersection of a lot of East Asian-background talent with Western business ideals, that as parent comment points out can sometimes be at odds with each other. OP being a Western-cultured VC (kingmaker), picking apart this dynamic may be interesting and important.

In plainer terms, what happens when your Western VC boss expects you, as an East Asian CEO, to run mass layoffs in a certain way, when your heritage informs you to run them in a completely different way? Or fill-in-the-blank with any other major top-level decision. Thinking honesty/integrity vs. honor/shame/face-saving, etc.
I would guess that the hearing impaired marketplace is small enough that if it had made it big I might never know. Maybe it did make it big.
I think the history goes: agar.io and slither.io were surprise smash-hit games that both featured simple, drop-in-and-play multiplayer HTML5 with a dedicated .io domains. They inspired literally hundreds of copycats that each set up .io domains to signal that they were following they genre. The genre has become so popular that "io game" is now a term.
Because 20-something devs actually do suck at their jobs, and experience matters!
This is ridiculous. Its almost like your premise is rich people aren't allowed to enjoy hip-hop music without there being ulterior motives.

Its even more ridiculous because the author has been a fan of hiphop for a long time...
Which is so fucking strange.

Is TagPro a "gg game" now, because they use the "gg" domain for their main site? I mean, how obtuse can we get..
> asp.net is end of life

Even Silverlight is not officially dead until 2021 so I'm not sure I'm clear on your terminology (vs. https://support.microsoft.com/help/17455 ).

Just for fun I dug up the "Mainstream Support End Date" for ASP.NET on .NET 4.5.2: 10/9/2018.

--

Starting from https://www.asp.net/support

Many parts of ASP.NET are a part of the Microsoft .NET Framework, these include ASP.NET Web Forms, Controls, Modules, Handlers and more. For more information see .NET Platform Support.

Then at https://www.microsoft.com/net/support

The Support Lifecycle information for all versions of .NET Framework can be seen on the Microsoft Product Lifecycle site.

Then at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search?alpha=....

For more information, please visit the .NET Framework Support Lifecycle Policy FAQ.

Then at https://support.microsoft.com/help/17455

Support for .NET 4.5.2 follows the lifecycle policy of the parent operating system. It is supported as a Windows component on the latest required operating system update for Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 Update, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2.

Then at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search?alpha=W...

Products Released: Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard

Lifecycle Start Date: 11/25/2013

Mainstream Support End Date: 10/9/2018

Extended Support End Date: 10/10/2023

Service Pack Support End Date: [empty]

Notes: Mainstream and Extended support for this product has been extended to provide customers with the standard lifecycle transition timeline. For up to 6 years of additional support beyond Extended Support, please see the Premium Assurance website.
I feel like I'm starting to notice this as well because my i5-4670k is idling around 40 °C on an H100i even after clearing out trapped dust
Determining Cat Chirality
How MOS 6502 Illegal Opcodes really work
The Most Important Color in UI Design
Are there any simple projects like HTTP server in F# for CoreCLR somewhere? With a Dockerfile if possible. Last time I tried to build something like that for PoC the amount of struggles I had with various versions of CoreCLR was overwhelming.
Touchscreen in car :: Start menu and manual keyboard on mobile device
> Ethereum - Frontier/Solidity and IBM Hyperledger/Fabric

translation: IBM talked them into a pilot program using Hyperledger Fabric, which IIRC uses the smart contracts functionality from Ethereum.
The Fire Alarms I've experienced also are so damn loud and screeching I can physically feel the sound waves. I would be amazed if Deaf people couldn't feel the vibrations. Also, would they still be able to feel their ear drums vibrating?
Dear Toyota: look at this truck, and at the FJ40, and get to work.
I've noticed apple cutting under-performing products over the years to boost their stock price. It works but think it leads to a poorer ecosystem in the long run. A shame.

For example I was a big fan of their wifi express, and purchased several, but they have been dropped too. So one day I'll have to go back to a clunky linksys or belkin and their insecure attempts at ease of use.
Injection Vulnerabilities – or: How I got a free Burger
BofA's been messing around with talk of various blockchainy projects for a while now, though little visible result beyond overexcited articles in the Bitcoin blogs.
yes you can.
C# / F# interop is not zero hassle but it is low hassle. Most of the time it just works. There are a few features in each language that are not zero hassle, if a C# api uses a custom implicit conversion, calling it from F# requires you to explicitly call the implicit conversion (ha!) and if an F# api returns something F# specific like an Option type, using it in c# can be a pain.

At my company we have a C# codebase for a large web application, but we create a 2 stage caching feature for it in F#. This F# project uses a couple of C# oriented libraries (stackexchange.redis and protobuf-net). So lots of interop going both ways.

Some examples of people using it in production:
http://fsharp.org/testimonials/
> Airbags certainly do run the cost and complexity of cars way up

That's not the case (emphasis on the "way up" part). The average new car price is over $33,000 in the US. Airbags, including side curtains, are a trivial portion of that cost. Even if you averaged it all out by including all airbag deployments and the cost to replace them, you're talking about a net 1%-2% of the cost of a new vehicle's purchase price (much less if we were to count the total expenditures across the lifetime of the vehicle, including fuel and routine maintenance).

"NHTSA estimates that when side curtain airbags become standard to meet the new side impact regulations in 2013, the airbags will add about $33 to the overall cost of the vehicle. Side curtains are slightly more expensive from OEM suppliers than traditional chest airbags (which cost about $50 apiece, on average) [source: Automotive News]"

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/safety-regu...
Not true. Let's derive it. Here's NB for a binary classification:

p(c|w)*p(w) = p(w|c) * p(c)

p(c|w) = p(w|c) * p(c) / p(w)

p(c|w) = p(w|c) * p(c) / [sum_i p(w|c_i) * p(c_i)]

Let's look at the probability of class 1.

p(c_1|w) = p(w|c_1) * p(c_1) / [sum_i p(w|c_i) * p(c_i)]

Notice how the numerator is going to show up in the denominator. We can simplify that by bringing it into the denominator:

p(c_1|w) = 1 / [sum_i p(w|c_i) * p(c_i) / p(w|c_1) / p(c_1]

Then cancel it out:

p(c_1|w) = 1 / [1 + p(w|c_0) / p(w|c_1) * p(c_0) / p(c_1)]

Not let's apply the NB assumptions:

p(w|c_0) / p(w|c_1) = prod_i p(w_i | c_0) / p(w_i | c_1)

Now, if you take the log of the final p(c_1|w) I derived, the product in p(w|c_0) / p(w|c_1) turns into a exponentiated sum, giving you one parameter per word, plus an intercept for the log of p(c_0) / p(c_1). You end up with exactly the same 1/(1+exp(linear stuff)) with the same parametrization and form you have in logistic regression [0].

This is a broader thing that a given graphical model with a given fixed parametrization can be generatively or discriminatively trained. They will end up learning different models, but that's because they make different assumptions, not because of different parametrizations.

[0] linear stuff = intercept + sum_i (coefficient of word_i)
> And out of the people that would prefer a device like the Nano for certain activities (e.g. gym) how many need a new version?

And for those who do, Apple would probably prefer to sell you an Apple Watch with 2GB of music storage than an iPod Shuffle.
Please don't troll and have a look at what Ably actually is.

It's data messaging, not user / VoIP / chat messaging. We are in no way a competitor to Slack or ever will be. We deliver a platform realtime data delivery. In fact, companies like Slack are often our customers.

See https://www.ably.io/platform if you want to see what we offer and how it is in no way related.
> Without tons of hassle?

Well, yes and no. You definitely can do this, and for some applications it's worth it, but often the overhead at the API level will make you cringe.

APIs designed for C# are very different than APIs designed for F#, to account for partial application of functions, sum-types, non-nullability, immutability and value-like behavior by default from F# types, and also to make good use of F#'s type inference. Also, given stuff like the |> operator, making "fluent" APIs looks very different.

Using APIs made explictly for F# from the side of C# is somewhere between enormously annoying and de-facto impossible. The other way 'round, it's just massively annoying, as you lose many advantages of F#, and the code will not be much more compact as if you would write it from C#.

Pain-points in practice are around F# functions vs. C# methods and delegates, async/await vs. async-expressions, code quotations vs. Linq expressions, etc.

To be productive in F#, you want your API small and primitive, and stay within the language for the rest. If this is possible, go for it; if not, evaluate.

A final tip: Porting a big block from C# to F# is much less work than it sounds, and opens the door to refactoring that part into something sensible.
Probably, FreeBSD.

Besides, last time I looked the native Linux version was still 32 bits only. KSP has many problems with 32 bits platforms.
try to paste a text as plain unformatted text, good luck with that.

CTRL-V, release. Press & release the CTRL key, then press T
I've climbed at Frenchman's Coulee before: https://goo.gl/maps/4pFfBLs13452

It's a really interesting place with some great scenery, but there isn't a huge variety of climbs on columnar basalt.
Addresses are hard. Debugging harder. Have you ever tried debugging issues regarding addresses in foreign countries?

It sucks.
Not to say that every blog post needs to make you look great, but there were a LOT of code issues with this process. You should invest in a grumpy QA team.
Just to confirm, we are not in any way a competitor to Slack, we are a realtime data delivery platform. The article confirms we use Slack ourselves. See www.ably.io/platform for more info.
Seconding the f# for fun and profit suggestions, especially the railway oriented programming section, I've also heard the following is good, but I have yet to try them:

http://www.fsharpworkshop.com/
http://products.tamizhvendan.in/fsharp-applied/
Scientists set sail to unlock secrets of 'lost continent' Zealandia
R’s tidytext turns messy text into valuable insight – O'Reilly Media
Malt: A WordPress-style static website generator
This article seems very dismissive of the utility of standalone mp3 players.

I, for one, still find my standalone mp3 player incredibly valuable. I don't care that it doesn't make calls, or track location, etc. Sometimes all I want is music, like when I'm biking and don't want a big ole heavy smartphone hanging around. I clip my little Sansa mp3 player to the chest-strap on my Camelbak and just ride. I mean, yeah, the smartphone is my pack for running Strava or for emergency calls or whatever, but I wouldn't want it front and center where it could get in the way, or get damaged easily.
Lots of negativity in this thread. I've been there too; plenty of companies I've worked for have blown sunshine while it feels like we're headed straight for the cliffs.

The fundamental problem, I think, is that there's frequently an imperfect understanding of the scope of the truth.

Missing the sales number feels like the company is failing. But is this a blip, because 2 big deals flaked? Or is this a systematic inability of the sales team to build urgency?

3 of your best engineers quit. All of them have personal reasons for leaving, but was it really because they had started drifting when a director didn't deal with that toxic team 6 months ago?

Most of the time, nobody knows. And even if they think they do, they're just guessing and confident.

In a practical way, the only thing that really matters is that you have a plan everybody believes in. Telling the truth is crucial, because otherwise your plan feels out of touch. Unfortunately (and this is especially true at startups), nobody knows exactly how the company will go in the next 2-5 years. But you still have to acknowledge the narrow facts and find a narrative that's consistent with them.

It always feels optimistic and silly. It always feels like spin. The alternative is to hunker down and pull a salary until the truth is that the company is filing for bankruptcy, at which point the naysayers will have been right all along.
Microsoft has been steadfast that it will support the .net 4.x for foreseeable future and improvements and newer versions will come, given that 4.7 is on the way, I see no grounds for the claim webforms are being deprecated, the guidance has been MVC is the recommended solution, but WebForms were always supported.

It would be helpful if you can provide some source for this.
The airbag significantly reduced the distance between your face and anything else. In all but the most serious crashes your face will not hit anything if the seat-belt fits well.

I'd rather have a sore neck from driving into a wall at 35mph than have a concussion from bouncing my face off of a bag full of high pressure gas.

Side curtain airbags are a much more useful technology than frontal ones.

Edit: Fire needs three things, fuel, oxygen and ignition. The atmosphere has oxygen. A gasoline vehicle keeps the fuel and ignition relatively far from each other. A battery contains both fuel and a source of ignition in close proximity. A punctured gas tank will not cause a fire every time. A punctured battery pack will cause a fire basically every time. In many cases a rusted out or leaking fuel system is noticed well before it starts a fire. There isn't much opportunity to notice a high-amperage short before it's a problem. Putting out a fire is even harder on electric vehicles. You can't throw foam and water on an internal short. There are many advantages of electric vehicles. Fire safety is not one of them.
That's the Declaration of Independence. If you look at the beginning of the Constitution, you'll see "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons."

Pretending America's founders were consistent and genuine in declaring "all men are created equal" is cringeworthy, disrespectful, and woefully out of line.
Your comment intrigued me because I've never heard of syntex. I must say, it's hard to find. Not only is Syntex apparently a commonly used company name, but .stx is already used by another markup language, "structured text".

The sheer number of lightweight markup languages is truly amazing.
CEO says iRobot will never sell your data
Gotcha - thanks! I haven't touched functional languages other than for fun lately, so I may take a look sooner or later. I've always been interested.
Why does it seem that every rocket he designs gets more and more thrusters exponentially?
Ubuntu 16.04 Partition Scheme on a Single Internal SSD?
Hi,
I recently purchased a "Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD " to replace the 500GB HDD, which came originally shipped with my ASUS Zenbook UX32VD.

I have done a tonne of research online, as to how best to apply a partition scheme to an SSD and what i found is a lot of conflicting and confusing information, such as some schools of thought echoing the use of TRIM and No SWAP partition due to the quick wear that can have on the SSD, whilst some are proponents of just creating one large partition without any customization and yet another camp that rather implement an SSD + HDD configuration, which will not work in my scenario, as i just have a one Drive bay on the motherboard, plus the ASUS does not have a CD bay i could have re-purposed .

Your advice as to how to best tackle this will be much appreciated.

NB: I'm primarily going to be using the system as my development system (Python centric Projects)

Cheers.
Boosted decision trees account for >50% of all Kaggle winners. That is the real surprise, since people rarely talk about boosted decision trees.
The distinction here is that their are no discernible developmental differences between races. An asian girl is going to start menstruating and noticing guys sexually, just as a black or white or [insert race here] girl will. Same goes for guys and their development. We are talking about developing individuals here, and there is no indication that race (without social factors) impacts development.

Gender/sex is different. Sex is quite possibly the most important indicator and impactor of adolescent development. For example, mixing genders absolutely makes sexual behavior more accessible (mixing races does not).

From there, studies have linked increased sexual behavior in adolescents to increased delinquency[1] and strong negative impact on grades for white males (and less inclination to go to college for white females)[2]. The body of work surrounding this topic is still somewhat small, but I would be happy if you could provide a source that indicates increased sexuality has a positive net impact on the productivity of adolescents, or anything to that effect.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10964-006-9128-4
[2] http://www.jstor.org/stable/2786919?seq=1#page_scan_tab_cont...
Maybe wear your seatbelt next time.
Agreed. It's a copy of the original article with that ad inserted. I'm surprised there's even a link to the original.
Same here, it has the ability to control the intensity and pitch of the tone, a unit to shake the bed, and the ability to flash a lamp of your choice. The lamp or the bed shaker is usually the way to go with someone else present, definitely.
I can't stop thinking about moving to Austin, Raleigh or Atlanta. The cost of housing difference is truely vast. For a typical 2K sq ft with nice backyard the difference is 3m$ vs 300K. It's like getting 2.7 million$ signing bonus! Google and facebook can't compete with that - the best facebook can muster is 100K signing bonus.
I'm generally not a poetry fan, but wow, that is quite impressive.
Looks like they're being valued like a tech firm, and not a traditional brokerage.

What makes Redfin a tech company? Why couldn't prudential (or another brokerage) build the same thing?
Well, they could have turned it into a half decent product. Instead it lets it limp along while Symantec continues to improve.

P.S - Sorry lots of spelling mistake in the original post.