skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quote from the article: "This console, made for shooters and runners and jumpers, could become something much greater than Nintendo ever imagined, because anyone who wants to can build the software and hardware to improve it."

Is this true? Is it no longer necessary to be an approved Nintendo developer to write software for it?

I recall back in the day it was difficult for an indy to get a Nintendo dev licence. What's changed here?

EDIT: For those who care - this is what I just found...

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/292788/Becoming_a_Nintend...

According to above article, it will be tough getting onto the platform as an indy. Pity, I was excited for a moment...
GlobalComix opens public beta for digital comics publishing on the web
Even if they cared, they wouldn't risk burning a source/method over a couple of teenagers potentially harming themselves or each other. This apparatus isn't about helping police, it's about state control, ostensibly of things like immigration and terrorism, but realistically as you say it's pure power.
I find it quite shocking how little of the NY subway is automated.
An Interview with Peter Krumins, Founder and CEO of Browserling
> Right now they really don't have any decent EV on the market, any of them.

Toyota has the Prius, which is the car model that basically equaled "electric car" before Tesla even though it's "just" a hybrid. I wouldn't put Toyota out of the game yet.

> Both the Asian, European and American competitors will not only be 3-4 or even 5-6-7 years behind.

Where they will be in front of Tesla, however, and that for at least a decade: scaling and support. Once a car manufacturer figures out how to build a decent electric vehicle, it's easy to retool the factories. BMW with its i3/i8 series has experience with electric cars and with scaling while maintaining quality. Also, the big manufacturers have huge networks of dealers and service centers, which means that customers who value reliability and/or stress-free repairs are more likely to buy a BigCo car instead of a Tesla.

> They will be hundreds of millions of miles behind in terms of autonomy, and thousands of charging stations behind.

In Europe, charging station connectors should be standardized so there won't be a major advantage there. And autonomy... I would be surprised if big truck/bus vendors like MAN, Scania, Volvo and others don't have their newest fleet models send telemetry data back to home like Tesla does. Especially buses can deliver mountains of data about city travel back home.

tl; dr: I would not count on BigCar going belly-up, Tesla will imho just be a powerful competition but nothing like BigCar in scale.
save your STARTUP $1M in dev cost with OPEN SOURCE
My favorites:

# I like Self-Driving Cars Using Docker Components

# Elon Musk says he will be more than a secret artificial intelligence

# Show HN: A web browser for harassment in 2017

# Slack is the future of the world

# China has died
Lots of people that never earn more than $50,000 a year have hundreds of thousands of dollars of investable assets.

That's arguably the bottom of the middle class...
The thing is, those people stay rich and powerful precisely because of the sanctity of property titles.

And the city's own incentive is to be as harsh as possible toward unpaid property taxes. The quotes in the story from Jose Cisneros are consistent with this.

So even though the residents are wealthy, they are up against powerful institutional forces.

And while it's absolutely true that the legal system favors the wealthy, there are diminishing returns to being still wealthier. Beyond some point you can afford to have a competent lawyer on retainer and it's much harder to simply bury you in trivial stuff. It's not obvious that these real estate investors will be easy to push around.

I predict that unless an obvious loophole appears very soon, it will be cheaper for the homeowners to just buy the investors off.
I've always viewed IT as the new version of the middle/upper class. It's kind of weird to criticize a field that's open to people joining and paying well as the reason for wealth inequality.
Just let the homeless camp in the community spaces that were purchased. Let it be known as a safe-haven.
Good video. They said costs could one day get down to $50 per MWh.

We already have solar plants selling at around $30 per MWh, so that doesn't seem like it will be a major source, although it has the potential to run all day and all night, unlike solar.
> The scratchability of the screen means you really don't want to carry it bare in a bag bouncing around with your keys, and the protruding thumbsticks on the controllers make it something of a pain to fit into your default backpack/bag compartments.

this was annoying. My solutions were: 1) you can get a pair (1 spare) tempered glass screen protectors for $12 or so, 2) a slim hard shell zipper case for another $10 or $15.
Aside from the tone, I think the thought that the 'pro' series should follow the older body type and optimize for battery and performance. That's not the craziest thing. If you want a console to hit your cluster or work machines, get the not pro line.

There are worlds where people need self-contained mobile compute.
We have this concept in New York, too. It's amazing what obscure real estate quirks you learn about by sorting real estate listings from lowest price to highest price.
> anti-diversity manifesto published on Google's mailing lists

https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-di...
There's a lot of hand waving in that phrase, "it turns out". Sure, "it turns out" that 3D uses four numbers. Why?

Geometric algebra explains that in a succinct way that also appeals to our intuition about geometry. Start by using bivectors to represent reflections, then take the closure of your bivectors and you get the even-ordered subalgebra. This will have dimension 2^(N-1)... so 2 for 2D, 4 for 3D, and 8 for 4D.

This, to me, takes the mystery out of why quaternions can represent rotations, and it places quaternions in a coherent theory of geometry that works in any number of dimensions, not just 3D. Alternatively, we could accept that the math just happens to work out that way, or we could even show that quaternions are a double cover of SO(3), but all that does is analyze why something works, whereas the geometric algebra version is a bit less of a leap and builds quaternions from the ground up.
Don't misunderstand me, I'm not demeaning the value of a well-rounded education. I agree that it's vital to a full life. My point is that colleges don't have a monopoly on well-rounded educations. For me at least, America's higher education system (and really, its high school system as well) depleted rather than fostered the kind of curiosity needed for life-long learning.

I'm using "young life" in the sense of "up to that point in my life". I'm now in my mid-30s and on my 3rd career (first in sales, then as an overseas ESL teacher, and now as a software developer). I've travelled to 20+ countries, lived in China and Europe, and had many wonderful experiences along the way. I'm grateful for the many careers I've had, which allow me to state with confidence that my current career is a great fit for me. But none of my experiences required that I attend the college I did and go into deep debt to do so. While (as you said) I'll never know for sure, my guess is that debt probably cut off just as many opportunities as it gave me.
First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News
Your sarcasm is not lost on me :)
Maybe it's okay for people to be outraged about some things.
Presumably they were contacted but the home owners association failed to keep an up-to-date mailing address with the tax authority. It's not the city's responsibility to determine if mailing addresses are accurate, especially for a three decade tax bill of less than $1000.
>"I just love SF so I wanted to buy a part of it." The potential extortion of wealthy homeowners via legal technicality just happened to be a bonus of this great piece of real estate!

I agree, but it's hard to feel bad for the residents of that neighborhood. They're just getting taste of the type of crap that the lower and middle classes deal with every day.
This is the third argument in this thread that attempts to claim that the mechanisms of crashing might mean that the outcomes are worse, in response to actual data that the outcomes are, in fact, better.

This argument seems unscientific. The experiment already ran, and the data shows reduced injuries for helmets. Explaining why something "suggests" it might not work makes no sense, when it did already work on a large scale.

I also don't buy that helmets grip more on average. Most are coated in plastic and my scalp is coated in skin and hair. One of those grips gravel & concrete more easily, and it's not plastic.

I gave a source for the quote above, and it comes from a meta analysis of multiple studies.

The simple message is simple because the science showed a large and compelling result. When the statistical significance is enormous, and the results are a clear and unmistakable positive across numerous studies and a lot of scrutiny, the message gets less and less complicated.

Suggesting that there's anything complicated about wildly improved outcomes seems like FUD to me.
Is there a more general ethical stance equivalent to "Progressive taxation"? I.e., the more money you have, the more society expects you to take responsibility for internalizing society's externalities?
I hope you will be picky curators - I hate how so much of steam EA/ex-GL/etc is literal trash when it comes to indie games. Not talking about one person pixel art games, but talking about what's effectively cruft autogenerated rubbish to try and profit for $0.99 a copy.

I would love to subscribe if so.
She no longer has it, and if I read right she hasn’t since 1995: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/273989-fein...

I’m also not sure the sourcing of her armed bodyguards mentioned elsewhere. In DC, all senators are under protection of the Capitol Police, who are armed, but I can’t find details about what protection she has outside DC.
They mention Makani and others in the "competitive landscape" section of their site.
because the simple fact you can process the data and examine the output reveals untold quantities of information about the key.

the known plaintext attack breaks pretty much every crypto system, mix that with statistical analysis of this "processing" and I'm sure whatever is in the cloud will surrender its secrets pretty quick.

And all that risk for what benefit? none of this processing will ever be faster than doing the processing in place.
Mario Kart 8, Splatoon 2, and ARMS make good use of the controller gyroscope, HD rumble, ad-hoc multiplayer, multitude of control options, and portable mode. What other console features should they be using?
What? No Pablo the flamingo? http://pablotheflamingo.com/
That's a seriously cool thing to have in the toolbox!

Does it produce only encrypted output, or can it optionally produce unencrypted results also? Can it optionally use public data as an input?

Also I am guessing if it could be accelerated on GPUs. I worked with a guy who accelerated a standard FFT on CUDA 100..1000 times for scientific computations (and later NVidia copied his code, lol). I wonder if something similar can be done here
YouTube roll out in-app video sharing and messaging to users worldwide
At some point, the hardware is no longer supported by the OS though.
Proposal for JVM tail call support (2007)
My comment was from memory, based on my recollection of the director's commentary on the DVD. I'll have to see if I can find any supporting doc.
A guaranteed minimum income is only solution to this problem I've ever heard of that doesn't have many large flaws. I'm not entirely convinced minimum income is something I agree with (there are always hidden downsides - thus I'm reserving my judgement until after we know what they are)

However the topic is unemployment, which is designed for those are choose to make more than the minimum income to keep a good income (not as good as before, but perhaps better than minimum). This is a different discussion with different pros and cons.
Yup. I am currently studying the idea of designing better (more efficient) mining hardware. That's the arms race. I have a few ideas. Not intelligent enough yet to know if this makes any sense as a business venture given the current state of the art.

Not doing much with deep learning yet other than spending as much time as possible learning. Need to identify opportunities.

I did jump into the iOS fray years ago. It proved to be a bust. The App Store is so bad in terms of discoverability, building relationships with your users and the race to the bottom that it became impossible to make a profit.
Your attitude is part of the very problem, not of the solution.
So, about 40% more women are poor than men and you think this is not substantial? We have expressions like the feminization of poverty and the pink collar ghetto for a reason. This has been studied and there are scholarly resources on the subject.

You explanation is a big fat blame-the-victim position.

I am aware there are more homeless men than women. The reasons for that are complicated. They typically tend to be less pathetic than homeless women. It in no way justifies acting like the difference in poverty rates is small and due to personal laziness on the part of women.
They didn't pay property taxes for 30 years.

People have had land sold out from under them with much less notice. In Colorado, there is a recent get-rich-quick scheme of buying deeds to trailers when the owners fail to pay their taxes. The tax bill is often less than $1000, accrued over 5 years or so. The trailers' owners have the same excuses: they didn't get the tax bill. Many people come out to defend this system because "the law is the law."

Before we spend too much energy being outraged about this street serving the upper crust, I think we should fix this problem for people at the margins of society.
But point a and b in you're assessment of gold's value are two of the most common arguments for crypto, specifically bitcoin, as well.

a) crypto holders believe that the value will hold because as more individuals use it to store their net worth, the harder it will become to
manipulate. ie. a history of price growth/eventual stabilization will occur in time.

b) its algorithmically-enforced scarcity, which many people believe is as valid as physically-enforced scarcity. So long as hash-based cryptography always works.
would it be possible to rewrite Euclid's Elements with a proof assistent like Coq?
>it's 2017 and people still cannot get past skin color.

It's 2017 and you're still trying to silence the real impact of skin color on life experience in America.
But that guy at Google is very much in the minority, as are all of the people causing problems with various *isms. But that doesn't stop people from continuing to paint us specifically with too broad a brush, and I don't think that's just an accident, I think it's because they have an issue with us personally, and that's probably due to negative stereotypes about "geeks".
> "as the new system only works on post-2000s trains."

Actually, it isn't even all post-2000s trains. The CBTC [2] train controls aren't even on all of the post-2000s trains. In fact besides the 'L' train which has already been converted, only the 7 line has all of its cars as CBTC [1].

This is really bad news, because ideally, the very, very crowded 4,5,6 lines mentioned in the NYT article should be the lines to have the signals computerized, but the 4, 5 trains are relatively "new" having been put in service in 1999-2003 or so. Some of the trains in service are > 50 years old.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway_rolling_s...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications-based_train_con...
This looks like a perfect skeleton for bringing Minecraft redstone to an ascii game like Dwarf Fortress. Very cool! Especially if you could design "sub-circuits" by zooming in, sort of like the chips in Robot Oddysey[0] or in the super circuit maker mod for Minecraft[1].

[0] http://www.formauri.es/personal/pgimeno/temp/RO/stereorecord...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/supercircuitmaker/top/
I can't help but laugh at having to hire people to keep a home from serving its purpose: to house people.
say you're going to live in NYC for 3 years and will eat out pretty much every other night. you can do your online research and decide yourself each time. or you can randomize. can one really be certain that, in the long run, after 3 years, the overall outcome from letting the coin decide will definitely be worse than deciding yourself? i strongly doubt it. the time spent making each of those decisions will definitely pile up, though.
You wanted to read an article about someone escaping a bubble, but closed the article the first time it challenged your bubble?
http://www.toshiba.eu/generic/reliability/

I'm not a sales rep, check where you can get the warranties you need. My supplier includes 3 years on site standard.
Shallow article not worth reading.

tl;dr: Quantum mechanics and general relativity don't play nice together in extreme circumstances, e.g. the "Big Bang" (if it exists) and Black Holes. No further information is given other than Joe's relationship to the field.
The ratio has units of years - how many years of GDP does the value of the stock market represent? How long will it take the economy to produce the value assumed by the stock market valuations? Sure, that's not a pure number, but it's also not a totally nonsense number. At a minimum, it can be compared to historical values of the same number.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsaXMUelOEA "CryptDB: Processing Queries on an Encrypted Database - Microsoft Research"
They probably will be, long term. Short term either everyone will support the market leader's charger, or the market leader will patent the charger and charging stations will become pluggable/universal.

I can see no reality in which make-exclusive charging stations are viable.
Sure is! People can be offended all they want. Where things get really iffy is when they want 'justice'. It often means that they try to get that person fired or lambasted in front of their peers. I don't see how that's at all constructive, let alone 'justice'.

At the very least, it leads to even more divisiveness, instead of rational discussion.

As a thought experiment: have you ever seen someone change their mind or worldview as a result of being insulted & fired?
To echo carussell: yes, and that's why none of them are the future of gadget design.
Scott Alexander on Establishing Norms Around Free Speech – Not First Amendment
So you pulled out in 2006... When did you get back in? Timing the market is hard...
I've shared an office space with Andreas and Gustaf for some time in Copenhagen (they're currently located in the great Founders House workspace). They're an awesome, extremely passionate team. It's been great fun seeing them work on the prototypes, and sitting in a bit, asking a bunch of questions, and Andreas sharing everything he knows about building drones, and all the cool tips he's willing to share.

If you think drones are loud, wait until you've heard an industrial kite/drone combo take off in an empty office space.
If you equate a binary gate operation with an instruction, then that's 50 instructions per second, which compares to UNIVAC's 2000 IPS (0.002 MIPS).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second#Timeli...

Of course, an op on a single bit is still far short of a CPU instruction, AIUI.

You gotta start somewhere though!
Rare pine marten caught on camera in Yorkshire for first time in 35 years
They're petite bourgeoisie, sure, but that doesn't translate to lower-middle in America; America's middle-class is defined more by its culture of striving than its success. People in the US who have any investible assets are almost always considered "upper class"—at least by people who don't, which includes most of the people attempting to project the image of being middle-class.
I don't see this making it into the standard.

1. Interface = abstract class, already present.

2. Reflection, rtti is sparsely used because c++ is primarily used for speed and large teams.

3. Reserved words prefixed by $, etc. Well, outside of a preprocessor directives, that will be a first , if it ever happens.

By the look of the thing, the author wants c++ to be more like c#. But c++ isn't restricting on patterns, we create them. Unlike c# there is no language defined way for dependency injection, interfaces etc. Well we can argue that, but c++ is more flexible on pattern creation, and this proposal wants to put two patterns inside the standard. I just don't see it happening.
Why can't it be true? Land is expensive, road construction is expensive, road maintenance is expensive.

$600/year to maintain ~200ft^2 of road seems relatively reasonable to me.
Heh, saw this too, my whole office got a kick out of it:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2094740884_zpid/?fullpage...
But is it okay to campaign towards the goal of firing someone for expressing an opinion they feel outraged about?
How is it then, that we're seeing so much centralization in the industry? A typical megacorporation is just as centralized as a socialist government, and they probably do just as much forecasting and planning, and they apparently succeed (most of the time).
Yes, this isn't the only bloated window manager that gets more efficient when it only has to draw one app without a window.
Nope, you're reading what's not there. That statement never addresses the race of the current homeowners.
I was thinking of an activity called "mapping the stars". Essentially users with telescopes all around the world map as much stars coordinates as they can, and create a block with such info. Next blocks does the same and so on.

Users verify the validity of the chain by making sure those stars exist at those coordinates.

It's hard for any single entity to create a copy of this chain as they would have to map all the stars themselves.

Of course the whole endeavor ends when all the stars have been mapped - but maybe there are so many that this can be viable, and more importantly, cheaper than energy consumption.

EDIT: another idea would be using supernovas, which may actually be infinite since they're constantly exploding. Similar to mapping the stars, users signal the coordinates of the found supernova. Users validate the block based on whether or not it's a supernova - I think there are specific traits which remain in the sky for a long period of time that proves whether there was a supernova there.
> And you really think Elon will not figure out a way to do the same?

Scaling car factories across the world is something that took BigCar decades and billions upon billions of dollars. And the level of automation expertise BigCar has is something that Tesla won't have for years to come.

> SpaceX has already accomplished a much harder task (reusable rockets), which not even nation states have been able to do.

SpaceX had three advantages:

1) no political bullshit like NASA has to suffer from with political aims shifting at least with every new POTUS, only Elon at the top with a clear, extremely long term vision

2) they were free to research in any direction they wanted and in the workflow they wanted, without being stuck on technologies, suppliers etc. due to unions, political collusion or other "government-only issues"

3) massive increase in technological capabilities: SpaceX came at perfectly the right time to enjoy the combination affordable super computing, 3D printing and especially decades of material science and rocketry research, while the Russians were/are stuck due to a lack of money and the ULA was hampered by being stuck on Waterfall-style development and general government issues.