skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you haven’t tried it yet, I encourage you to give Markdown + Pandoc a try for printed docs. Pandoc can take a LaTeX template and flow Markdown into it. I find Markdown formatting simpler to remember and execute than LaTeX, and there are a huge number of editors and live-preview apps that will let you validate your Markdown as you write. A few keystrokes, and you get a beautiful PDF document, flawlessly typeset in Computer Modern - and with a few more keystrokes, you can have an HTML page with exactly the same content.

There is even a company, LeanPub, that is based on generating paper and e-books direct from Markdown.
I worked at Sears credit in the same time period. The tty machines would echo your keystrokes onto tractor fed paper for feedback. The blind entry just seems odd to me. It's an obvious impediment to quality, and avoidible without great expense at the time.
Is Mario Kart regulated as a gambling game in the UK?

Sure, you can't convert its items into money, but you can convert them into wins in the game. And it has a "random" item drop system that's known to be rigged.
> As an European, I can't understand this beancounting. Yes, technically it may not be gambling, but that does not heal the issue. The problem a predatory practices that ultimately harm the victim in any way e.g. money but also time spent unwisely on collecting lootboxes instead of exercizing for college.

To be clear, you're saying that lootboxes in a video game are a problem because they distract people from studying for college?
Pluralsight has been my favorite training platform for some time now, luckily my company bought my subscription. Speed controls on video (typically do 1.5-2x speed) and ability to download a series to your mobile device. I like all the instructors I've come across.
Onur Mutlu's Computer Architecture Lectures
There being "many cultures" that do this, I'd like to hear some examples. The only ones I can come up with are fictional
Great point. Americans will also be arrested for beating their wives, a conduct that might be 100% legal in another country (or at least ignored.)

Or try driving with a legally owned gun through a few USA states and see...
Thanks captain obvious, Although maybe a more insightful response would have been pointing out the contrast between the modern culture of switzerland and that of nature which lacks major intrusions by humans.
Don’t Use Markdown for Documentation (2016)
Thomas Edison worked on the two-way variant of this: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dial-a-ghost-on-thomas...
I assume this does not take into account taxes?

If not, I would like to see an option to input your tax rate and get a more accurate number. If I want to get $10,000 in passive income a month, a 12% return from a $1,000,000 investment per year won't do it because I'll need to pay taxes on the $120,000.
There's a recurring thing where I run into a person with a very "spicy" potpourri type odor. Happens in elevators and other confined spaces, and the odor is really pungent. Seems to span cultures... sometimes an old white lady, other times a young Indian male, other times just random people. WTF is this smell? Somewhat like cloves, but worse and more nauseating.
That was a great video, thank you for the link!

I think that's a pretty sensible set of rules, but it turns gray in situations like this helicopter hover training one where civil aviation pilots have a legitimate need to be under 300ft AGL for a length of time. My intuition (and this is what I was trying to push with my comments around the collisions in the article never affecting an airframe) was that drone pilots need to be better educated around staying the hell away from other flying vehicles (which I treated as a given, probably leading to downvotes) but also that helicopter pilots will need to be trained to treat drones like geese and not to react as strongly as this pilot did, since, to your point, it's going to be hard to put the entire burden on RC pilots.

However, based on the other comments in this thread, this seems like a very controversial stance for the HN crowd, and I do sympathize with the argument from the helicopter pilot in this thread that they've already got enough on their plate without needing to handle mental interrupts from other junk flying around. The proliferation of recreational drones with terrible inexperienced pilots is definitely a problem we'll have to handle in the coming years.
I guess this is one generation before my own experience, I worked in the late 1970s and early 1980s with CompuGraphic 7500 machines[1].

This is an integrated unit that accepts the keyboard input, shows the marked-up input on the display (not WSYWIG, of course, but you can see the layout commands and check the spelling), can save and load files onto 8-inch floppies (to the left of the screen), and uses the same photo-typesetting scheme that's described in the article to produce the actual output, the big box to the left of the screen/keyboard contains a drum with filmstrips on it, and has the strobe system that flashes the letters one at a time onto photosensitive paper that gets fed into a light-tight cassette that you pull out of the little door there and then run through a developer/fixer machine.

The CG 7500 could load two font families at a time (one on each of two filmstrips), and could mix and match font sizes, also, which sounds like it's also an advance over the 2961 unit in the article.

This was in a graphic-arts company mostly focused on advertising, although we also did a bit of legal work from time to time. We occasionally had rush orders, but we didn't have the constant relentless deadline pressure that newspapers have.

[1] http://www.forgottenartsupplies.com/?what=artifacts&image_id...
Recently we landed booster rockets and took a picture of an atom... And there is so so much we don't know about our own planet. We still have a lot to learn and discovered and invent.
Like rwmj says, ask somebody at SiFive -- but if I had to guess, I'd say it only breaks out some low speed IO/GPIO lines and a few chiplink lanes. That is to say if you want anything high speed, you're going to have to go through an FPGA board.
> I think there have been two, maaaaybe three expansion sets in the multi-decade history of the game where the average price for selling all cards in a booster pack exceeded the price of the booster pack itself.

Which sets are those? I would be shocked if that were true for unlimited-run sets during the time when they were still in print (the first few sets were limited to a fixed number of cards, but every normal set since has been printed to demand).
Each card is assigned a rarity (common, uncommon, rare, mythic rare) based on its power

This is not really true. Rarity is a combination of power level, complexity and some other design principles. For example, cards which appear at common rarity can have powerful effects, but they must be simple and straightforward effects, easy for a newer player to understand (since commons will be the majority of the cards a new player sees). Uncommons are permitted to be slightly more complex, and rares and mythics more complex yet.

Several cards which even in recent years appeared at common in their respective sets are considered too powerful to reprint in the Standard format at any rarity. And of the seven cards currently banned in Standard (which is a massive failure on the part of the set design/development teams, and almost unprecedented in the game's history), one (Attune with Aether) is a common, and three (Felidar Guardian, Ramunap Ruins, Rogue Refiner) are uncommons.

All cards of a given rarity have the exact same probability of showing up in a given booster pack.

This is also not always true due to the logistics of the printing process.

A while back I posted a comment on reddit about how it can happen, sometimes, that not all cards of a given rarity are equally likely to appear in a booster pack:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgfinance/comments/2fblta/odds_of_...

The tl;dr is that the math of setting up the printing sheets doesn't always work out perfectly with the number of cards the set needs at a given rarity (commons are printed on one set of sheets, uncommons on another, and rares/mythics on a third set of sheets). Which sometimes -- though not always -- can lead to a card being slightly underprinted relative to other cards of the same rarity.
> the difficulty of creating art assets for 3d games

As somebody who is a hobbyist at best, this is my biggest sticking point. Anybody can learn to slam together some pixel art in Paint, and even doing more advanced work in Photoshop is not out of reach with a little time and practice. But learning a 3D modeling tool is orders of magnitude harder - I've made a couple runs at Blender and older versions of 3D Max, and there's just so much to making meshes that look decent, and then you have to skin them. And then there is the question of adding animations. My hat is off to people who have developed those skills.

My only hope is that technology to make this process easier will advance. I've seen some demos of people using their phone cameras to scan real objects and generate 3D models, but even if that worked perfectly, it appears to me that there would be a lot of work to process that into passable 3D art assets.
Wow, this is fantastic and I just realized Github has topics. Anyone have recommendations of other really well done complete tutorials on https://github.com/topics/tutorial ?
I'm personally on Debian. Some times it lags behind a couple of releases but I'm happy with it as it's very stable.

Some people are extremely happy with KDE Neron though.

The core stays on the latest Ubuntu LTS but the KDE is updates real quick to the latest version.
I could not read the entire article to much filler to much jargon. For the same reason that my patience for books have gone down.

My patience for text that is not relevant to the message have definetly gone down.

I find that it is the same with video or really any media. make it concise and keep to the point don't try to impress me with words.
I use RStudio with `knitr` when it is the wrong tool, because it is just too easy to make something that is easy to read and people think I put a lot of effort into formatting. I do have a few templates that I use so that the text isn't always Computer Modern, but it is mostly a mix of Markdown, Latex math, and features from R like `kable` for making tables. I even tend to plot graphics into the text using R, rather than looking up how to place them using markdown.
Wow, rapastinel: I dont kniw how I haven't cone across that before but thank you for mentioning it. I'm astonished something so close to "done" is so atypically effective. I know too much about these things to throw around the term "miracle drug" but it looks very well inside the "game changer" territory.
Creating an Express API
I don't believe they had any real impact.

Based on...?

Run Medicare For All, strong commits, nationwide, 80 percent support issue and watch non voters come right out of the woodwork to dominate.

If it’s that easy to “dominate” why has no one done it?
Opiods help thousands and many people need these drugs. My mother is a cancer patient and has to jump through hoops to get her meds filled with back and forth trips. Has to turn in empty bottles and account for all pills. Again, you cannot blame the oxygen for the fire. We need serious reform and make help available as all other advanced countries have already done and proved it works...but the US is full of greedy, ignorant conservatives on their throne of perfectness and pure hypocrisy.
Note that looks like you are assuming 4% investments after retirement. Per the passive investment chart, this implies a fairly high level of risk? I'm unclear if you're also assuming we will live forever?
Submission which links to the underlying MIT News source:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16401904
It's more for illustrative purposes, not to be used as an actual calculator
I have this exact distraction issue if I try and read on my iPhone or my iPad. I'm 99% sure I could avoid the issue if I read paper books but I very rarely do that; I've avoided it by reading almost exclusively on my kindle paperwhite.

No YouTube app, no Twitter/Slack/Email/etc notifications bothering me. No "I'll just go check the news/stocks for a second."

The fact that I have to physically put down the kindle to do anything else but read creates a physical barrier that I can easily recognize and allows me to mentally avoid most interruption.
These are the most extreme example I know of, but it's a lot of pain for a manhood ritual

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maw%C3%A9_people
Drops all marijuana charges? Boy am I glad I'm not in Philly or I'd be in city hall every day demanding this person's removal and incarceration for aiding and abetting drug users immediately.
I think that the lootboxes are far more optimized to exploit human tendencies. It's like a comparison between Facebook and letters.
Surely part of the concern here is that the audience for these games include children who are incapable of making an informed decision.

> Hassan urged the ESRB in the letter to examine whether loot boxes are being marketed "in an ethical and transparent way that adequately protects the developing minds of young children from predatory practices."
> if you are able to sell a cup of coffee for $5

That's the retail price though, the grower doesn't see much of that.
> If it’s that easy to “dominate” why has no one done it?

It's easier when your candidate doesn't get railroaded by the DNC. Don't run trash candidates, and people will vote.

"Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) is the country’s most popular active politician, underscoring his importance to the Democratic Party as it seeks to rebuild in the wake of a disastrous 2016 election cycle.

Sanders is viewed favorably by 57 percent of registered voters, according to data from a Harvard-Harris survey provided exclusively to The Hill. Sanders is the only person in a field of 16 Trump administration officials or congressional leaders included in the survey who is viewed favorably by a majority of those polled."

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/329404-poll-bernie-sand...

"Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's favorability rating is at a new low one year after her election loss to President Trump, according to a poll released Tuesday.

Clinton now holds a 36 percent approval rating among Americans, according to Gallup, down 5 percentage points since June. The rating falls below Clinton's previous low of 38 percent in August to September of last year.

The former first lady also reached a new high disapproval rating of 61 percent. Clinton has bucked the trend of defeated presidential candidates gaining popularity after the election, Gallup says."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/365656-gallup-hi...

Trump's approval rating (41%) is still above Clinton's; his disapproval rating below hers as well. That says quite a bit.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

And finally, US support for universal healthcare:

"A majority of Americans say it is the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage. And a growing share now supports a “single payer” approach to health insurance, according to a new national survey by Pew Research Center.

Currently, 60% say the federal government is responsible for ensuring health care coverage for all Americans, while 39% say this is not the government’s responsibility. These views are unchanged from January, but the share saying health coverage is a government responsibility remains at its highest level in nearly a decade."

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/23/public-suppo...

Sorry for the wall of text, there was nothing I could cull away without removing data points to support the argument.
I don't believe they had any real impact.

It's amazing that massive amounts of money are spent on election campaigns, precisely because candidates believe voters can be swayed. Similarly, massive amounts are spent on on online platforms, because businesses and organizations believe that it's an effective way to reach people.

But combine the two (use of online platforms to attempt to influence an election), and we hear confident pronouncements that it could not have had any impact. It simply doesn't add up.
From their parents, often without their parents' knowledge or consent. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9928381/Boy-runs...
Indeed, sleazy marketing tricks to get you to buy. You can always find a $10 coupon if you search and get to a site like dealsea. I have enjoyed some courses on there and follow a few authors, but this kind of crap needs to be dealt with by them.
It isn’t just that it is more difficult, it takes much longer to produce a final art asset. If you are doing a 3D game you won’t be able to get away with one artist, you’ll need a team.

A good pixel or 2D artist may have more skill in many dimensions than an average 3D artist, but given the fidelity of what is being created they will be able to produce more in a given set of time. Ideally, as an independent game developer you want to have one artist. You can do that if you choose 2D.
Uber to report crimes direct to police to boost safety
I like the spiders. They eat the flys and other bugs. Of course they do so in a method that would be outlawed in Switzerland.
I don't see why figure skating men don't wear dresses. They look cool when you twirl. One would think that would be a (possible) artistic aspect of the performance. It would definitely get noticed as well.
It is probably not the case that the stance itself would cost your votes, although, yes, the pro-gun lobby is much stronger.

Moving on, I have to wonder whether you read the article if you're referring to Maggie Hassan as "him" and missing the point that asking the ESRB to voluntarily take action is a pretty softball maneuver. I'm not sure you want to "shut up" someone saying this kind of stuff:

> Hassan, who said she heard about loot boxes from a constituent, took time during the hearing to highlight the FTC's previous finding that the ESRB is "one of the most effective voluntary enforcement boards" in entertainment. "That is why I am confident that the ESRB will take this seriously... We should be doing all we can to protect our children and to inform parents about their options when it comes to these types of games."
So $15,000 (250x$60) is a gold mine? I have a feeling this won't scale...
I am really interested in how you found people too.
I don't know, that's why the point is relevant. Were I to know then that would be my cross to bear and I could work towards that. I don't know where you live, but where I live I'm seeing a steady decline in quality of life and increased mental health problems in youth mainly related to anxiety about their future. A high paying career isn't a question of simply working hard for them, not is it available to all them. Many of them live with the risk of dipping into poverty at any moment and their safety nets have been chipped away over the years to be ineffective. They don't see a clear path to home ownership and many of them are straddled with debt for a degree that they now find out isn't particularly useful. They are in all cases set up to have worse lives than their parents. Aside from that they live with the looming specter of environmental disaster and political structures unable to effectively deal with the problems of the future. It isn't a question of wanting to change things so much as recognizing that things cannot continue as they've been. I'm not saying people shouldn't be getting jobs and pursuing economic stability, but that we have to be willing to rethink those systems to be sustainable.
Wow, this is just so far off the mark I don't even know where to begin. LaTeX excels in three areas that are crucial for writing complex documents -- cross references, citations, and indexing. You clearly have not had to endure the house of horrors that is the MS Word ToC, or trying to get autonumbering working as you wish for sections, figures, and tables, or managing a large (100s of pages) multipart document, or any one of a bazillion other little asspains that crop up when forced to use Word for a nontrivial task like maintaining documentation for a large complex project. And point #1 is a complete straw man, setting up a TeX env takes 20 minutes and the basic doc format has not changed since the 1990s at least.
Great reference.

I will note that he seems to shrug, especially in footnote 19, as if to confess that whether lobsters feel pain or merely express reflexes is basically unknowable, not for any lack of humans trying to figure it out.

He seems genuinely conflicted, rather than firmly opinionated, certain only that people should take these questions more seriously. Or maybe he's being coy, to avoid alienating the gourmand.

I'm curious if he hesitates to kill spiders since writing this article. Spiders are similar to lobsters. Spiders exhibit preferences. Maybe we should all hesitate to kill them. Or maybe that's just crazy. I don't know.

Incidentally, if you want to feel incredibly confused about how you balance empathy towards human and nonhuman things, including arthropods, (and robots, and sociopaths, ...) you should read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It's a short novella, it's culturally relevant, it isn't really captured by the films, and it artfully messes with your head.

DFW on lobsters:
http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf

(The PKD is pretty easy to find, no link.)
>... simply to input text into a text box ...

Vim (and other editors) offer powerful editing macros that ease bulk text operations. Simple things like text substitution across hundreds of lines save so much time. I still use https://github.com/docwhat/itsalltext running on https://www.waterfoxproject.org/ which allows textarea editing from the terminal.
I'm not sure that substitute ecosystems are a bad thing? People are more likely to emulate what they see out in the open rather than what happens in darker corners of the Internet. Scale matters.
You probably mean mode 13h - 320x200x256 colour. Mode X is actually similar in some ways to the Amiga's bitplanes because it uses a planar memory arrangement. This is actually quite useful for fast drawing of pixels because in Mode X for example you can draw four pixels at once with one write.
Well said.

Though I could imagine that only <1% of FB users are aware of all the headlines we get served here on HN every day...so it’s probably not a real issue
I find it troubling to put the government in charge of what is "fake" news and what isn't.
Pressure.js  Handling Force Touch, 3D Touch, and Pointer Pressure on the Web
I'm sure it gets the events. It probably has to walk back up the tree to determine if the file is hidden. Dunno how much work it does. I presume it doesn't actually do the metadata extraction from the files. (But my presumption is based on "surely they wouldn't do that".)

The biggest offender for me when I touch a lot of files is Dropbox. It seems to use a lot of CPU when, e.g., an Xcode update is being installed. I've read that they had to listen to events for the whole volume because the more specific APIs weren't giving them the data they needed, but you'd think they could fast-path the files that were outside their sandbox.

Is your dev drive a platter drive or SSD? I've found that the last few major releases of osx have big performance issues on systems with old-school hard drives. (Frequent beach-balling, etc.)
How are they doing that? Are they taking their parents credit cards?
Nice! I’ve had good experiences with love, I’ll definitely check this out
I'm with you there...we used to live in an apartment on the ground level and people nearby had outdoor cats that would regularly come to our windows and it would really stress my cat out. He's a lot easier going without the daily visual contact with other felines.