skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recommend Viscosity.
I mean, the techniques developed through such a research project would map onto many other domains, obviously including any other RTS.

Using SC2 as a starting point isn't really of much consequence. "Too late"? It's not as if the algorithms developed will die alongside the game.
Noted; thanks!
Yes. Tall grass gets cut. Sad, isn't it? This is known as the Chilling Effect.
Dude, you have no idea what you're talking about and you're wildly speculating. And it's pretty offensive, to be honest. I'm not "seething", this isn't even close to the defining moment of my career, and I'm not on a crusade.

You're trying to portray me as some crazy caricature because it allows you to ignore my argument. That's not even remotely okay. My argument has nothing at all to do with that one interaction, and I only brought it up because you were trying to argue that Linus's asshole nature was just him being correct.

Please don't reply to me again. I have no wish to have to defend myself against your offensive and wildly incorrect accusations any further.
Protoss hasn't went FEE PvZ in a long time. It used to be good, though.
1 This article isn't talking about the environmental impact of electric cars, its talking about the collapse of the oil industry.
4 Yet again, electricity is never made from oil. The fact that it takes effort to generate electricity doesn't take away from the articles main point that the oil industry will collapse.
Or Portland, OR. Though, that's rapidly changing.
Bill Gates talks about that. They eventually receive 5 million but didn't use the money.

https://youtu.be/cBHJ-8Bch4E?t=8m24s
If you think "not designed with Firefox in mind" breaks things, try using uMatrix for a while.
Have you played SC2 before? It's hard to explain if you haven't.
The cobbler's children have no shoes.
Can we get a trade on this font, gosh it's bad. Color and weight both need to be increased. Seriously #00000 on #FFFFF makes life easy with a font weight of at least 400
Using Firefox for Android.

I can't not notice the irony that this is happening with FF on the mozilla.org Web site.
Viscosity is great on macOS. (http://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/) never tried it on Windows.
One more thing on the home page (full screen view).

Simply saying

> "Do incredible things with your data."

with a "Get Started" button below it, tells me nothing about what you actually do, so I didn't click your CTA.
Ok, 2 seconds in and I'm shocked. All my life I pronounced gnu as new, like Nutella.
20% of the planet? How do you figure?
I mean... It takes just one click to get the SSL. That is already far easier than I've seen from any other service.
That still doesn't explain New York. The density and shape of New York is more like what you describe for European cities due to the fact that it was developed before the car was invented. So why does the internet connectivity suck in Manhattan?
Not to be a pedantic, but I guess I will be. From bitcoin.org

"Bitcoin - with capitalization, is used when describing the concept of Bitcoin, or the entire network itself. e.g. "I was learning about the Bitcoin protocol today."
bitcoin - without capitalization, is used to describe bitcoins as a unit of account. e.g. "I sent ten bitcoins today."; it is also often abbreviated BTC or XBT."
> Google is not an encyclopedia. Google fails recently at providing varied results, on any topic you get a Wikipedia article

That's not recent. Google has been returning Wikipedia as a near universal top result for a decade.

Regarding content farms, they overwhelmingly smashed the content farms with their panda & penguin updates years ago and have refined the destruction of content farms since then. Very few remain, much less sustain, outside of temporary niche corners.
Ironic because Socialist forums are heavily moderated and quickly ban those who don't repeat the talking points. They hate having their ideas challenged, but get mad that a public company won't give them web traffic? Cry me a river.
Government in the US doesn't govern anymore. Period.
Hellblade is an audio nightmare
That's really cool!

I just gave the online demo a debug view, and your counter is the first code I tried (this is a link to your code on the demo site):
https://goo.gl/edPZdR
If startup is defined as a business focused on rapid growth and likely VC funded I'd say that is the hope of nearly every one of them.
"Could also be office politics bullshit; a high-up was gunning for them with no real justification and ginned up a smokescreen to fire them."

Ding, ding, ding! We may have a winner.

Here's my guess - the guys that got fired were more than technically competent (basically experts going off what I've read), but probably were pushing the envelope in terms of what Salesforce, or more specifically Salesforce's large enterprise customers, felt comfortable having discussed out in the open.
Hats off to the interviewer, I thought he did a good job of curbing Stallman and keeping him on topic. He does have this fantastic meandering style that would undermine his agenda if his audience has a short attention span. Like so many of us these days.

I first read about RMS in 1999 in an Australian PC Authority magazine, it also featured an interview with Linux Torvalds. The distinction between the two personalities was felt keenly at the time as well. RMS really hasn't changed in those 18 years.
Ask HN: Which nootropics actually work?
I'd be interested in hearing about any non-prescription nootropics or supplements that have actually helped people, specifically WRT focus, clarity and creativity.

There have been discussions here from time-to-time, but wondering about recent experiences.
I have no way to tell if this was deliberate or not, but personally I lost any respect and trust in Google the day they removed the discussion search filter. Before that day I could find common people talking about a product or a political issue, now unless I'm prepared to jump dozens of pages I'm inundated by sites selling that product or affiliated with that political orientation.
Were there any right-wing mobs during or since the election?
I actually just added it :)

http://asciidots.herokuapp.com/index.html?code=.-%24%22Hello...
I think maybe Delphi 5 was the first version where it stopped even being an option. I remember 3 was MDI and I'm surprised I never bothered looking for the option to switch it back.
Hey, I'm using Vapor (in production). It's really great to work with and moving fast - feels like the early days of rails. There's a real technical advantage to having the brevity of swift (like ruby) but with the type checking of the compiler. I actually migrated this app from Node.js and it's faster and easier in almost every way (notably lack of 3rd party libraries).
I recognize they're biased, but they allow discussion about free speech. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive.
> Re: first paragraph - incorrect.

Please, do detail.

> The problem with "specs" is that you don't know whether they solve the problem until the solution is implemented and shipped.

No. Good product management eliminates this risk. And that's what you're talking about: risk.

You can test a product, feature, anything, many different ways before you build an actual implementation.

That's basic product and risk management.

> And even then, you have no real way of knowing what's meat and what's cud.

Monitoring.

> When you decompose the problem space into small pieces and give development teams a high degree of problem-solving autonomy _and_ accountability for production

You just like... defined what a spec is... man.

> This isn't witchcraft - it's progress. It works; and it works in large organisations.

Please provide the proof to back this up. Otherwise it's a baselsss claim.

> You haven't witnessed it, so you don't believe me.

No, I've arrived at my beliefs through the data on this point.

And the fact of the matter is that 100+ successful companies that have shipped successful products/projects operate with specs across many different industries from pharmaceuticals to construction to aeronautics and so on and so forth.

If the data supported your conclusion, then I'd agree with it. But the data does not support your conclusion.
I think the closest would be Java's Spring Boot: http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/

I think it is easier to find resources to answer rails questions though.

In addition, many of the languages you list are very young and their frameworks lack the maturity of something like Rails, Django, Spring, or Laravel.

I think it's worth asking, why are you looking to switch? If rails is not a performance barrier for you, then I do not see a good incentive to switch other than wanting to learn something new.
The DN life is great if you don't mind the issues that come along with it. And a lot of that is the other DN's, the idea is to harken back to the old days of longer term travel and working travel where you would go to a place a work there on a project. However, in those instances people would take their families

DN's, as everyone knows them now, are mostly just tech-bro's with websites trying to get you to do some drop-shipping. Honestly, they should have just spent the money on a gap-year and enjoyed themselves instead of trying to bootstrap a business via their macbooks in coffee shops in Chiang-mai. (which they have mostly ruined CM now, I was there in 2010-2011 and it is a whole world of different now.)

The DN's I would run across were typically just middling online marketers who were trying to extend their 'lifestyle' by a month here and a month there and they choose one location (usually Chiang Mai) and then never take advantage of this 'lifestyle' they are supposed to be living. The blogs are mostly BS.

If you are outgoing and personable, can work remotely (I have found that most people can't, at least for long periods of time), have some autopilot sites that you can make money on to keep you going in cheaper places and are not afraid or unwilling to learn new languages quickly then it is a great fit for you. But the number of people that can do that is small and I think the DN blogs, the book four-hour workweek and sites like tropical MBA are talking a lot of people into doing this who are absolutely not cut out for it.
I basically just moves the bottom rung above poverty, so these people can now spend and help the money velocity increase. Plus, they are no longer in poverty (hooray!)
Page two for "site:web.archive.org" loads immediately on Google, no delay.
I use both—GVoice through a GApps account and Project Fi via a Gmail account. I've had Google Voice since it was called GrandCentral.

My primary number is a Google Voice number, so almost all calls for me are done via data. I don't use it very frequently away from WiFi but when I do the service is fine, and my bill is always pretty low (my usage varies wildly between $30 and $60). I'm a happy customer, though other carrier's unlimited plans have been enticing lately. I'm holding out hope that Project Fi drops their prices the future to be competitive with unlimited plans.

Also, their Project Fi support is great. They replaced my Nexus 5X (bootloop issue) without any hassle (just a 3 minute chat session) and then they replaced it's replacement (charging port was smoking and melted within the last week—yikes) outside of warranty with little hassle (just a longer chat session). Both times, I had the replacement less than 36 hours later.
Do you pronounce Nutella "Nu-tella" or "Nut-ella" ?

FWIW, I pronounce 'GNU' as 'nu'.
Actually they should just report the facts and let the people have their own opinions.

The media used to be the check on the government, now they're firmly on its payroll. When that happens, you lose all credibility. When you can't trust the news being reported to you to be unbiased, and not filtered through a political lens or some ideological slant, then it's no longer news, it's an agenda - which is exactly what I saw and experienced all through the election cycle and even now several months afterwards, with no signs of abating.
This nearly could have been on The Onion :)
Churning to the degree described in any of the major blogs by and large doesn't exist outside the US. No other market has as many airlines and banks competing for the same business, not the mention the relative lack of regulation.
That doesn't seem related to the topic unless I'm missing it.
Also it has nothing to do with browsers or Chrome vs Firefox
Checklist:

- [x] Working in a consultancy

- [x] Government client

- [x] No direct communication with the users

- [x] Waterfall project

- [x] Short timeline

- [x] Understaffed

- [ ] Clear requirements

Was definitely delivered on time and on budget...
Tezos, staus and filecoin all have inflating supplies, they are the biggest icos in history. Bancor is essentially uncapped in how many tokens can exist.

Between them they've raised $500m.

I'll have disagree with you on this
Well, WaveNet[0] outputs audio in the time (not freq.) domain using PixelCNN, so it's not unthinkable.

https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...
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The worst part of password rules is that every site has its own.

One requires a symbol, another doesn't allow symbols. A third requires 12 characters, a fourth only allows 8.

And they only tell you the rules when you're creating a password. They could at least remind us of the rules so we could remember how we had to mangle the password to match.
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1. Please see a defense of Evo Psych here: https://evolution-institute.org/article/on-common-criticisms...

2. Social justice authors are notorious for confusing explanation with advocacy. For example, Evo Psych is constantly reinterpreted by social justice warriors as advocating gender roles, as opposed to explaining that these roles arose and survived to present-ish day because they conferred advantages in particular evolutionary contexts.

3. Stop inventing your own "Truth" and ignoring science.
The alternative is less appealing.
why people are complaining.

https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-adds-pepe-the-fr...
The advantage of Firefox's NoScript plugin is that it can be selective.

Say you randomly visit a site and want to temporarily allow the javascript it uses to do its thing, but you don't want to allow any other javascript on the page such as facebook's and google's. The built-in chrome javascript blocker doesn't let you pick and choose temporary permissions at that moment.
The floating windows were still very much present in Delphi 7, my preferred arrangement [0]. D7 was the last "good" version before the .NET era. Actually I remember the buzz around Lazarus and Free Pascal really growing when the .NET versions of Delphi came out. So I think its fair to say Lazarus took plenty of influence from versions later than D2.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/gHQR6aH.png
I do have two monitors and understand multi-window mode has it's uses, but for any person who used to [name standard IDE] it's frustrating first impression. It's basically gives false sense of complexity to the tech that actually easy to use.
This is what happens when I trigged DevTools while logging key events:

document.addEventListener('keydown', ({ keyCode }) => console.log(keyCode))

91

16

73

You can see each key.
You just made that up. There are fake cell stations every year, and there has never been an arrest.
"Honest" is such peacock language. Unsettling seeing it like this.
Why do you believe this is contrary to reason?
"Fake news" is a bullshit category. The purpose of talking about it is not to protect poor impressionable idiots like us from misinformation. The purpose is to continue pretending that the Democrat party doesn't have to make any changes in order to appeal to a voting majority. Now they're talking about Jerry Brown... it's as if they're determined to keep Trump in office for 7 more years, and get those 38 Republican legislatures it will take to pass all those horrific Constitutional amendments that the bigots have planned.
Software is not the spec, it's an implementation... of which there are many implementations that satisfy one spec.

Spec writing is not like programming, and if it becomes like programming, then you're doing it wrong.

Specs are meant to constrain the visible solution space by defining the problem sufficiently.

To put it in programming language terms: a spec is declarative not imperative.
On Bullshit, by Harry Frankfurt (2005) [pdf]
>Don't Socialists advocate for a centralization of economic capital (among others like political and news) or do I misunderstand?

Not necessarily (distributed economic planning, comumnal planning and indeed some (though not I) advance market Socialism), and further, things like search can be decentralised, as I'm sure mosts Socialists would agree with if aware that such technology exists.

>If purist socialists had there way, wouldn't there only be one search engine?

No, I see no reason to think that. This is largely stemming from the myth that "everyone has one car under Socialism"; it neglects that aside from seeking profit, different cars have different uses and advantages. It's probably the same with search engines and GNU/Linux distros.

>Google has become so successful that their search is very advanced compared to upstarts.

I agree, and I think that in a world where there is less incentive to keep secrets (though of course there is always incentive, such as personal pride, mastery, or even embarrassment over how your code looks!) because profit doesn't need to be protected from "theives", such research might even be public for others to benefit from. The learning technology can be free. Google would not have to collect data "on the sly", perhaps.

However the response to this is - would people willingly (and by this I mean when properly and fully informed of what they are doing) give over this data that Google uses to learn in such a way? If the answer is no, perhaps it's time to consider the ethical ramifications of such 'learning'.
Of course people without professional political career can be presidents, even great presidents sometimes.

However, if the main differentiating factor of your favorite candidate is that he had zero experience in politics, it's hard to take that argument seriously.

People considered Bernie Sanders an outsider, and he's been a senator since 2007. Trump isn't an "outsider": he's simply unqualified.
No in practice the Internet is great (see the Akamai stats above). And at least for fiber the price is comparable (see my edit above). The US just has more income inequality, and segregated poor people into inner cities. While lamentable, that is an orthogonal issue that has nothing to do with broadband policy.
Rails is great, but where it really shines is server side apps, content sites, blogs, CMSs, etc .. If you know you're building purely a SPA, Rails isn't really the right tool for that.
Wish I had more to suggest, but Wiki has some good articles on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution
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Node v8.3.0 (Current)
You have good point. I take issue with only a couple.

> No, this is not an anti-pattern, it is a perfectly valid solution to vendoring dependencies.

I'm not going t to tell you it won't work, because it will, but this very rarely done, particularly if you use a DCVS like git. When's last time you saw a Java Maven project do this. Almost never. Why? Because there is a very standard, robust way to vendor dependencies.

> Please learn the language better.

How is learning go better going to help you make a useable skiplist? What non-novice wisdom would help out?
The only reason as to why I pronounce "GNU" with a 'g' sound is because of Richard Stallman. Otherwise, I use the silent 'g'.
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If you don't like being logged, then having a logless VPN like ExpressVPN, Tunnelbear, etc should be fine. For torrents, some VPNs like Tunnelbear preferred to disable the BitTorrent port completely

So, it's just a matter of finding a VPN that matches your preferences, but I'd avoid using a free VPN.
This is not the same AI you normally face in a game. Most (all?) of those AI opponents use rules written by the game developers to make decisions and some of them simply cheat to be competitive (cough Mario Kart 64 cough).

This blog is about creating AIs that interact with the game the same way humans do, the computer plays by the same rules and has no special access to the game state beyond what the player would have. With these constraints there are no existing bots for StarCraft or StarCraft 2 that can even beat the built-in rule-based AI. They aren't even close to beating professional players.

If the strategy abilities are so weak today that we can't even beat the tutorial AI then why introduce further arbitrary handicaps on the bots? How do those handicaps advance the state of the strategy layer? The AI has many potential advantages over the human player beyond just reaction time. Should we also limit the amount of data the bot considers to emulate the amount of inputs a human player can process? What about emulating human memory, can a human really learn from 60,000+ games? What about 1.5 million?

I do not think it is desirable to emulate human limitations in AI unless you are trying to create an artificial human. I think the advantage of creating an AI is to do something people can't already do so why should we impose our physical constraints on them?

I do not think it is important to separate reflex from strategy. Since every player has a different APM ability some strategies are more valid than others for each individual. If I do not have the reflexes of a professional player there are strategies I cannot employ. As long as StarCraft is not imposing APM limits on human players to maintain competitiveness the bots should also not have a limit.
> The physical censorship implemented by Google is so extensive that of the top 150 search terms that, as late as April 2017, connected the WSWS with readers, 145 no longer do so.

> These findings make clear that the decline in Google search traffic to the WSWS is not the result of some technical issue, but a deliberate policy of censorship.

...or that they have not been keeping up with their SEO, are getting edged out by AMP sites, tripped over some other google rule, etc...
I guess they'd rather play the victim and try to get free PR.
Lots of people think the Democrat party is the Left.
>> If you think "the media" and especially CNN has its reputation "destroyed" by Trump you are deep in a bubble.

I'm not in a bubble. I've been an independent voter since I was 18. I read both conservative and liberal news sources and then have to sort them out to try and determine where the truth lies. It's exhausting, but it keeps me honest.

I didn't say Trump ruined CNN, they did that all by themselves when they cast their lot with Clinton and after she lost, they've since doubled down trying to oust Trump, outing them even further as partisan hacks.