skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Competitive pressure. Gary Taubes in his books "The Case Against Sugar" and "Good Calories, Bad Calories" mentioned the competition between Kellogg's, Post and other cereal brands.

While it's hard to believe today, Kellogg's was founded by a health nut who was eager on bringing healthy grains to Americans. Once his descendants took over, they noticed how enriching their product with sugar increased sales. Kids specifically don't have necessary mental controls to recognize addictive behavior (which is why we have restrictions on sales of cigarettes and alcohol).

So bit by bit American breakfast table and grocery store cereal isle turned into varieties of concentrated sugar instead of the muesli, oats, granola and nuts mixes it was way back in the days.
This is why everyone in Houston was begging people not to donate to red cross but local charities.
Increase demand for their products.

Overweight people eat more. Creating obese people needn't have been a corporate goal; a blind optimization process could have produced the same outcome. Just tweak the product until it sells more.
Written in PHP no less... Zuckerburg is nothing like Woz in terms of technical knowledge, acumen and ability. The comparision is almost an insult.
Adversarial Search and Spatial Reasoning in Real Time Strategy Games [pdf]
It's really weird for me to observe how Westerners fetishize NK. On one hand there's all this exaggerated hysteria of "NK is going to bomb us" (never going to happen), where people fall for obvious posturing (oh, and the dictator of Korea is constantly portrayed as silly, while at the same time condemned; pick one). Then there's the overt "concern" for its citizens by people who haven't even taken a second to research how the situation came to be or what to do to alleviate it. No shit a country under heavy sanctions [0] and with its manufacturing centers razed after a war [1] isn't going to do so good. I don't think democracy is the citizenry's main concern, nor is its situation only of the country's own making. If people cared, they'd donate to international food banks and contact their congressmen about the matter instead of gloating about how "free" they are in their homes and how grateful they are to not be under the C-word menace while their own country goes around suppressing democracies and murdering innocents in the name of "freedom". As an American, I've noticed that my people tend to revel in ignorance and will readily eat up any propaganda thrown their way without any critical thinking involved (and to the obligatory comment saying you can't generalize 50 states: well our President represents those states and he's emblematic of the problem).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_North_Korea

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-war-crime-nor...
It is a patch on top of an open source license, BSD-2-Clause.

Legal terms aren't exactly like computer code, but the analogy works here. Unmodified BSD-2-Clause meets OSI's "test suite", the Open Source Definition, and FSF's test suite, "What is free software?". Patched, L0-NC fails both test suites. Passing isn't about provenance of the "raw material". It's about what the terms do.

The reason I did that, even though I could easily write a more modern and approachable permissive license than BSD-2-Clause, which is almost as old as I am, was to make automatic reversion back to open source terms very clear. The "patch" touches the header notice, and adds a third condition. The automatic waiver removes the new, third condition. That means BSD-2-Clause and some extra stuff in notice are left.
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Then potentially you’re out your deposit, depending on the whims of the bankruptcy court. That’s life, and you knew what you were getting into (or should have known the risks).
Brent Simmons has an interesting habit of writing blog posts in order to help him think about the problems. His blog is http://inessential.com, which includes some non-technical stuff too. For the start, open one of his “diary” pages from the bottom of the page, like “Vesper Sync Diary”.
Not true, you can get the platform feel easily. I've seen swing do Windows XP through 7 easily. Never tried 10 yet.
And at the end of some successful two year project, having moved on to a new position at a new company, am I to call George back a few years later and ask for him to leak me info about my project's impact, assuming George still works there himself?
It's always impressive to me that it takes a 233 MHz(+) processor to emulate a 1 MHz one.

I think modern N64 emulators need at least a 2 GHz processor. (Less for ARM ala RPI, IIRC due to similarities in the instruction set.) And there's even an SNES emulator (BSNES) that needs >3 GHZ but it's schtick is that it aims to be completely accurate.

*Obviously these are not hard numbers. The point is the order-of-magnitude.
A bunch of companies are using this primarily for learning via spaced repetition. I use Memrise and Drops for foreign languages.

The problem is training your brain to capture and monopolize that brief moment of boredom and inactivity.
I tried using the platform look and feel on macOS, but it gives a number of important elements tiny heights, including comments, making them unreadable. I'm sure there's a fix but I haven't looked into it.
Have a nice life.
The HTML5 parsing in Java is awesome now! built a desktop app with Bootstrap 3 recently and the logic in Kotlin, fun stuff. Your Swing metal L&F is great :)
Nature has a preference, for wont of a better word, to certain shapes. Here is a quickly found link on the subject of hexagons and nature.

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/why-nature-prefers-hexa...

If you blow a bunch of bubbles, those in the middle of the bubble pile will naturally tend to form into hexagonal shapes. Nature is full of them.

Nature is also full of things like the Fibonacci sequence. It's really quite fascinating.

But, yes, we still have a lot to learn about the universe. If the science were complete, we'd no longer need scientists. I think that assuming we know it all, or even that our understanding is correct, is hubris and vanity.
But people justify paid services by the amount of attention they dedicate to it. If you barely read the magazine, you'll likely not renew the subscription.
Internet is full of Information, good and bad. So is social media. But we should take purpose driven approach whenever we are online. Instead of getting ourselves trapped into psychologically designed products, we should remain focus on our purpose.
if it's exactly the same, that would imply that quantum mechanics and decoherence effects are equivalent for both internally generated imaginary stimuli, and external stimuli based on "real" physical objects. but it seems like a stretch to suggest that if i dream that i am flying, that the same quantum mechanical effects that contribute to Time's Arrow in that dream are in play in the "real world", where such a thing would be impossible physically.
>Any college of any-kind that makes a profit short of coding boot camps (and they’ll probably turn into a scam within a few years which is sad)

You definitely lost me there - while there are scam schools and the cost of reputable private colleges has ballooned from expensive through unacceptable into stratospheric, higher education remains one of the best investments a person can make in themselves.

Yes, vocational training like coding bootcamps or other trade schools can be a way better path for a lot of people. And yes, the sort of bootcamp that charges 5 figures to teach you the javascript framework du jour is probably not worth what it charges. But a lot of bootcamps these days are partnering with large companies to learn what sort of skills are needed and going with income-based payment, something like X% of your income above $N for Y months expiring in Z years. I wouldn't write them off.
As someone who does research in the sciences, my eye for typography (which in my humble opinion is well above average, at least for an amateur) is based completely on intuition. I'm sure you can study it scientifically, but to be honest a lot of it is like doing art -- you can train yourself to do it well, and sure there is some scientific aspect to it, but having a good eye and a good sense of style is all you'll really need. Of course, practice also helps.

I know what looks good and I design things that way. If you asked me to explain it and justify my choices, I could, and a lot of people are like "does that really matter?" or "wow, I didn't even notice" when I point out subtle details like leading, kerning, etc. Yes, you could pick up books that teach you about these topics in detail and learn the finer points of graphic design from there, but that won't give you imagination or the creativity necessarily. The spark just comes from absorption. Much like supervised machine learning, you do not learn any explicit formula for doing things, but rather you learn a model based on what you've seen, and you use it to rationalize how future things you make might be or might not be. I realize those sound very similar, but the difference is in that actual "learning process".

I personally think habit will take you further than scientific study in this area. It's an art. The more time you spend immersed in it, the better you'll get at finding what works and what doesn't. That's not to say that there aren't "rules", as in a science, but perhaps they are more flexible than you might imagine. :)
Ask HN: Designing addictive products?
Suggest books, articles, and courses on designing addictive and persuasive products.
Red Cross response:

http://www.redcross.org/news/press-release/Red-Cross-ProPubl...
Not open. Hardware design is closed and only for sale as a netlist.
I worked with GiNaC https://www.ginac.de/ and noticed that the bottleneck was variable substitutions, e.g., replace a variable with a constant and simplify the expression. I'm still dreaming of an efficient CAS.
> I don't think that the most valuable thing you have to offer is your software

What about the OP's point that typical OSS business models don't provide an incentive to write great software, but may in fact provide an incentive to not do so? Consider the fact that great software should just work with minimal support or training.
Which means it sucks and looks weird on all platforms.

The story of Swing.
I am surprised no one has mentioned Monument Valley on iOS or Android. I played it a bit in front of 4 years old and they were instantly hooked. Of course, they will need bunch of hints and help to get through all the levels but it's almost an ideal logic puzzle game I have ever encountered. I also started playing tic-tac-toe where I lose randomly to keep things interesting :). It is surprisingly not easy to teach all rules of tic-tax-toe to (perhaps many) 4 year old. The trick was to show them I play it against computer on iPad for lots of games.
In what respects do you find the LSTB version to be crippled? Most people seem to view it as the version that introduces the fewest unwanted features. What's missing that enterprises (or power users) actually want?
Yes, that makes sense now. Thanks!

Edit: I fiddled around a bit and came up with:

https://pastebin.com/WA1Tp2KK

The nullprogram.com version is 0x185 bytes (gcc 4.8.4 x86_64 -O3; objdump -s -j .text -j .rodata)

I switched to __builtin_clz (with cross platform support). I hesitate to put in your assembly code, though it would work great! My version still sticks to C and not inline assembly.

My version takes 0xeb bytes.

Benchmarking with clang-802.0.42 -O3 -march=native on a Core i7-4770HQ @ 2.20GHz:

branchless: 490.666725 MB/s, 0 errors
0xeb small: 352.000042 MB/s, 0 errors
Hoehrmann: 337.333374 MB/s, 0 errors

With gcc 4.8.4 -O3 -march=native on a Xeon E5-1650v3 @ 3.50GHz:

branchless: 436.000052 MB/s, 0 errors
0xeb small: 345.333375 MB/s, 0 errors
Hoehrmann: 412.000049 MB/s, 0 errors

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19527897/how-undefined-a...
Yes, because running the server in your garage or getting a colocation deal for a special purpose-made device is certainly more secure.
The difference is that Red Cross was collecting donations left and right. Now where did my donation money to Red Cross for Harvey really go?
Because Sun made the boneheaded decision (and never admitted it was dumb) to go for emulated widget controls instead of native ones. What this means is that they have had to reimplement and imitate the behavior of native controls on all platforms (realistically, Windows only) every time Microsoft came up with a new version.

In contrast, IBM took the native approach with SWT / JFace, and the interfaces written with that library look and feel infinitely more native and performant than Swing and JavaFX ever did and ever will.
I do my hunting and gathering at the local supermarket. There I find my favorite prey - the elusive coffee bean.
Any computer vision people that can speak to the accuracy of using a single photo for facial recognition?
>While it's hard to believe today, Kellogg's was founded by a health nut who was eager on bringing healthy grains to Americans.

Strictly speaking he was trying to prevent masturbation, but I see your point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg#Masturbati...
Ah, maybe it's been abandoned for JavaFX as others have pointed out?
Red Cross says they served a lot of meals, and the official in Texas says all the meals came from them. Not opposing statements, and Red Cross seems full of it. Walking the meal across a building isn't the same as really helping -- trying to conflate the two makes me extremely suspicious of them.
This press release is a pretty valuable read, gives a very different picture.
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I donate to local charities because I can see the results and I can trust the administration to give the majority of the funds to the people/purpose who need it.

Usually it's run by volunteers or a religious organization (provided their mandate is to provide help regardless of the receivers religion).

Are there any charity organizations with totally transparent accounting? I don't need nor expect charity organizations to be run by volunteers, and I'd prefer them to pay their administrators/employees a reasonable wage. But I have no idea which organizations user their donations efficiently.
And then you'd likely be in a select group of people who could be investigated individually. OPSEC is hard in most circumstances, but it's very hard if you're trying to be an expert on one topic in a short period of time.
I too believe those things are achievable, and I said repeatedly that fair pay is important to me.

However, terrible places that stay in business are often compelled to pay more. Sometimes they can do that because they exploit their customers. Sometimes it's because they can dump negative externalities on others. Sometimes it's because they cut corners. Sometimes the work is just soulless and extractive.

And sometimes it's just because they are very stingy with non-cash benefits. E.g., I was just talking to someone who had taken 5 months of paternity leave. I have friends who will take 4-6 weeks of vacation per year. I know other people who get a lot of support for education, for speaking at conferences, for learning.

If a company does more of the bad stuff and little or none of the good stuff, they can afford to offer higher salaries. And that's fine. If somebody wants to work at a place like that, godspeed.

As a perhaps more obvious example, consider some equally smart but differently trained people: lawyers. I have friends who joined soulless corporate firms, worked 100-hour weeks for years, and now are doing very well financially. Some started their own small practices doing the kind of law that interested them; they make decent money. Others do public service law for nonprofits, helping people who can't afford to pay lawyers; they make yet less. All of these are reasonable paths, but they pay very differently. If one of the non-profit lawyers gets an offer from a giant law firm, their current employer will not try to match that. Everybody understands that.
I used to weigh well over 300lbs, and I eventually took up a hobby that made me want to lose it badly enough to go through the trouble of making my body eat half of itself.

I don't get to order pizza. I don't get to pick up something from a fast food joint on the way home. I can't go to a restaurant with friends. I have to avoid gatherings where free food will be present. I dread the days a coworker brings in donuts. I've had to get used to going to bed hungry. I usually don't have much energy at all because my caloric intake has to be restricted so much to prevent me from gaining weight back, so I take stimulants to suppress appetite and make it possible to get through the day without falling asleep at my desk. I am a slave to the scale.

So I guess what I'm saying is that I disagree with your statement. Oh, it sucked to be fat alright, because people treated me like shit just for existing and because it was embarrassing every time I broke a chair, but I wouldn't say I had less energy and I definitely wouldn't say I had less fun either.
For anyone who is interested in the rise of the Cavendish and the banana industry there is a book "The Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World" that is well worth a read:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1260005.Banana
How to record and play audio in JavaScript
Bitcoin will definitely go up when trump nukes rocket man this week
I am happy with Windows 10, as of now. They have done good, in my opinion. But then again, I usually switch OSs once MS has released a service pack or two, so I can't say if it was as big of a shitshow as people claimed it was in the begining.
I think my Yahoo! mail. It's created at 2002 or so.
Misparse, I think. Both "was"es refer to the state of using 7 being defensible. Maybe a better phrasing: Using 7 would have remained defensible as long as it had security support, but now even that's insufficient. Alternatively, the parent argues that 7 is de facto unsupported now no matter what Microsoft claims.
So horrible...
It seems like we agree. If your provide exceptional value and the pay matches, that sounds fair to me. If you are the kind of person who is in high demand such that employers will pay more, then it sounds to me like you have a higher market rate.
I was guessing the 3-5, for us it 3 and 4(3 laptops/4 desktops). Do you mean the replace HW faster or slower?

It depends on size, we have over 60,000 computers and before End of Support for XP we moved to 7 in under a year. That was a kick in the butt and Win10 has been far quicker. It's the standard and almost everything deployed gets it, but there are always stranglers who are slower. You have to take from other projects to do a mass upgrade and it can be a hard sell when it will happen on the systems renewal schedule anyways.
Which do you care more about: it works, or it looks good? There's a reason Java became such a big platform for business applications and it isn't because it cared about fashion fads.
The counters (like/retweet/views/upvotes) that produce the feedback loop have to be looked at.

There is no reason for realtime feedback. Delay the feedback and lot of behaviour will return to "normal".
I grew up eating at least 10 different varieties of bananas. US is a banana desert in comparison - no variety or choice. US multinational corporations via their Latin American banana farms control much of the trade.
Thanks for your explanation. It tallies well with what I observed living there.

But I still sense there is a post-war avoidance of the word: to you it might seem very common but I hardly ever heard it except as part of a larger compound. Compound words are so common in German, that the omission might not be obvious to people who are too familiar with it.
It's a book you can read every few years and get something more from it. Quinn's work is one of my favorites.
Headline is misleading. This already exists and has for a long time, essentially they seem to be seeking a realtime database, currently there is delays and inter-agency issues on weeklong scales.

Though the government hasn't been clear on usage and whether it will extend to public cctv much like seems to be happening in the UK.

Anecdotally, have an old passport with a cleanshaven photo and a recent drivers license with a beard. Australia has an automatic customs system based on biometrics, been through dozens of times and the epassport system will only work if i have a beard as exists on my most recent license photo.[0]

Despite being routinely swabbed for explosives because of beardedness (about 30 seconds extra) have now learnt to travel with a beard in order to save the 15 mins extra from being diverted into a customs queue. It's well worth it.

[0] https://youtu.be/2SAnexoNUAM
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Your example of catching a baseball is apt, but disproves your point.

From afar (where gravity and drag would dominate), it's been fairly conclusively shown that humans primarily rely on the so-called gaze heuristic to meet the ball at the appropriate point.[1] In the gaze heuristic, you continually adjust your position so that the ball stays at a fixed point relative to the horizon or some other reference point. If you keep doing this, you will meet the ball. Studies have shown that if you disrupt this process--such as by removing reference points or the ability for people to continually move so that their position, the ball, and the reference stay relatively fixed--people suck at catching the ball.

Now, we could argue that this heuristic itself has rules, and in studying the rules we can master them. But the salient point is that, especially in this case, the human is an active participant in the heuristic. Moreover, it works because it trades a nearly infinite number of variables (the heuristic still works even as winds change) for a few simple variables which are intrinsically dependent on context--specifically, context other than those things directly acting upon the ball. And the gaze heuristic isn't the only heuristic used to catch a ball, just the one that works best from afar. The brain simultaneously applies many heuristics, most of which we don't even understand, yet.

Ultimately there's irreducible complexity here and no optimal solution. There's a trade-off. And because our environment is constantly changing (e.g. display material, lighting, and the place and time people read evolve over the years) the trade-offs will change. To be sure there's science involved, but it will never be an _exact_ science in the sense of being able to create a perfect font or completely enumerate a set of typographical rules.

[1] I think I learned this from "Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty" by Gerd Gigerenzer.
Check out Charity Navigator. They are a good resource to get a little more transparency. They tend to toss up pages for large events like this as well: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&...

I ended up donating to All Hands after getting some requests from people I know close to the area, but it was nice to take a look at them on Charity Nav and see them with high marks: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar...
I find this idea horific. Rape and war are a normality in Hunter and Gather societies.

I acknowledge they are fun and make us happy, in current society we farm these out to other activities like sport and computer simulations but in pre societies they are not so fun for the losers. It seems like survivor bias.

If they are talking getting the best of both worlds then perhaps it's possible to move in that direction but the Earth won't support it in anything close to the way the tribes currently live so it seems like a bad way to be looking at it.
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What good is checksumming with no parity? You’re just losing capacity for no reason since drives already have bad sector protection