skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's is amazing the pain and suffering a human can endure through shear force of will. In Ranger School in the US Army the primary thing you learn more then anything else is you mind can tell your body to shut up deal.
Are there any more tutorials like this on creating games?
only if github offered sphinx support.
There are many examples of losing candidates way outspending the winning one. Hillary is one.

To more directly answer your question, spending money does count up to a point - getting your message heard. If people don't like your message, spending more won't work.
No. Haven't you ever used an iOS or Android device? Your credit card information is saved. The default setting is that the password doesn't need to be entered again if you buy something in the next ten minutes or so after you last did (and were prompted for your password), so I guess what's probably happening in some cases is they're buying the game and giving the kid the iPad and then he's able to order a ton of DLC. Or maybe they have looser settings or the kids know the password.
It just seems there should be a difference between someone posting on a message board and someone entering into a business relationship with udemy.
I’m genuinely curious if it ever was ironic, or if irony was just a convenient excuse and recruitment tool. What do you think?
Load-reserve, store-conditional, and atomic memory operations (e.g., AMO-ADD).
I find that in most cases InDesign takes an order of magnitude less time/effort and dramatically less frustration to get a particular careful output than MS Word, LaTeX, or other commonly available tools. Your wife probably has difficult requirements and exacting quality standards, and could likely get output with quality equivalent to common documents prepared using amateur/automatic tools in a much shorter time, if she wanted to.

It’s almost impossible to do professional quality typesetting in MS Word. Last time I really tried was about 10 years ago. I spent like 4 hours trying and failing to fix basic typographic mistakes in another person’s 20-page document, and then gave up and did the whole thing over in InDesign in 20 minutes, with great results.

In LaTeX, you can theoretically do anything you want but unless there’s already a template for it (or you have numerous or long documents targeting the same output style, for which you want to make a template and then mostly rely on automatic layout), it’s going to take a huge amount of time. It’s a good tool if you want output that is “good enough” for many practical purposes without direct human input, but it is especially difficult to do anything special-cased for a particular spread (moving images, text boxes, diagrams, ... exactly where you want them).

LaTeX is great for things like auto-generated documentation, long structured outlines, legal documents, or math papers full of complicated formulas. LaTeX is abysmally ineffective for posters, magazines, or the like. I find that for the vast majority of content in between those extremes (e.g. college humanities homework, non-technical journals, resumés, menus, coffee-table books, novels, poetry, personal letters, ...), InDesign ends up giving nicer output with less headaches.
Why are they in the wrong (on this issue)?
I am pretty sure I have not learnt it deeply enough! I am also pretty sure that what I want does not exist yet, so it would not make sense to get deeper into Blender.
This is a reasonable thing. Prolonged harm is something that should be avoided. It is very likely that the need of these animals is not something that is well known. You are not trying to kill and eat your guinea pig.
A Clever Way to Explain Binary Search
Nobody else ships like them in the US.

Getting a product to me from California is 500 more land miles than someone in Rome ordering from Moscow.
I ran into this recently myself. The default implementation is 1 based, but a lot of APL users override it to 0, so that trips up a lot of beginners.
> Furthermore, all large countries, like Britain, France and Germany, engage in this kind of espionage against "friendly" countries, and none of them want an agency like Europol getting involved, because then they would reduce their co-operation with it, and that would harm the fight against organised crime and terrorism.

The UK seems well organized ;)
I've got a friend who buys targeted ads through facebook and they work well. At least some of the stuff isn't bullshit.
The end of the video - from 1978 - shows a bunch of people tapping away at CRT terminals. If you think about the fact that the first terminal like that was launched in 1969, and the first integrated microprocessor just a few years later, it took less than a decade for those monster linotype machines to go from the standard for printing, to so-much scrap metal. It's a pretty rapid change, which got even faster just 6 years later with the introduction of the Mac and "Desktop Publishing". I studied this stuff in 1990 and I might as well have learned all about making wooden horse cart wheels as the Web took over soon after. Crazy pace of change...
> Know Before You Go

Don’t go, leave it for the people who need it
Random cut and pastes:

THAIPUSAM, MALAYSIA

In a demonstration of devotion and offer of penance to the Hindu God Lord Murugan, devotees perform incredible (and sometimes gruesome!) feats. They pierce their body and face with skewers, drag chariots with hooks attached to their skin and carry uncomfortable metal frames called ‘kavadis’ through the streets and up the 272 steps to the shrine at the top of the cave. During the festival some participants enter trance-like states when their soul is believed to be cleansed of sins.

PHUKET VEGETARIAN FESTIVAL, THAILAND

By the name of this festival you may assume it to be a gentle affair where new-age vegetarian hippies share tofu recipes over yoga mats in Thailand. However, the Phuket Vegetarian festival is one of the craziest, most spectacular events in South East Asia. You’ll witness incredible acts of self-torture such as walking on hot coals, climbing bladed ladders and the piercing of cheeks with swords, shards of glass – even beach umbrellas.

Filipino fanatics re-enact crucifixion for Good Friday

In a bloody display of religious devotion Roman Catholic fanatics in the Philippines have had themselves nailed to the cross as the Christian world marks the day Jesus was crucified.

Read the link for quotes from people talking about the repeated nerve pain, blood, etc.:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-06/philippino-fanatics-cr...
I was also required to typeset homework for some classes in college, but I used LyX [1] instead and never really learned how to typeset a whole document. I picked up the equation syntax though.

[1] http://www.lyx.org/
a dozen of them at $50 a pop? Lock him and throw away the key!
I would say so, they are not limited to a certain amount of shelf space or square footage like grocery stores are. On average, grocery stores work much more intimately with their vendors than amazon works with theirs (or did, now that they’re breaking into the grocery business).

I was mainly thinking of how an unlimited number of third parties can essentially sell whatever they please on Amazon, unless of course you’re google or apple selling a competing product that doesn’t help amazon achieve their goals for an ancillary service that has nothing to do with their online marketplace. I can’t think of a good analogy to a grocery store scenario.
The optimist in me says that the Swiss are erring on the side of doing as little harm as possible, and respecting the rights of creatures we understand far less completely than we like to think. The realist in me suspects that this is largely politicsl, driven by unfounded, but popular notions of universal animal welfare which ultimately come from a compassionate place.

The cynic in me thinks that this is some rank hypocrisy from the former bankers of the third reich, who still struggle when victims try to recover assets, as they eat an average of about 160lbs of meat per year.
That doesn't describe me at all.

I have been into tech ever since I was born, and I have read 5 books in the past 5 weeks... wish I had more time to read more of them... so much to learn.

Spending too much time on a tablet before I read a book does certainly distract from my reading, however.

I tried to swipe up a page in a physical book the other day that really bothered me on a surprisingly deep level, so I have just decided to put the tablet down more often.

I despise the idea of tech consuming my life, as confusing as that is considering I willingly and enthusiastically spend 24 hours of my day completely immersed in it.

Perhaps I am an outlier because I know of the trials and tribulations that too much screen-in-face-time (or whatever you want to call it) can cause first hand.
As the complexity of software increases, how will future programmers keep up?
Why not just freeze them? Their metabolism is no mystery, and cold will slow them and eventually render them “asleep”.
> But wouldn't you agree it's still a bad thing that Russia is trying to influence our elections?

Yes, but it's a fact of life that won't change regardless of any new social media laws. It's not just the Russians, the Saudis, the Mexicans, the Israelis, the British and more all were doing their part to influence the election in some way. And the US does it too - both with friendly and unfriendly nations, and cracking down on it with new laws will have unintended consequences.

Are we really going to criminalize foreign nationals buying ad spend on social media to influence an election? Is that really a weapon the Democrats want to give Trump, especially in light of the current DACA/Dreamer situation?

And given how much the US tries to influence elections in other countries, is that really a stick they want to give other countries to beat the US with?

> Who knows how much worse it will be next time if we don't do something to stop them.

As the VP of Ads for Facebook mentioned [0], the solution is education related to digital literacy and critical thinking about misinformation.

We shouldn't be making laws criminalising common behaviour that can be selectively enforced depending on who is in power.

0: https://twitter.com/robjective/status/964680128092504065
Society needs to figure out if that should be illegal. It's the secret manipulation of people's reality to get them to do things that are against the interests of their wallets and health. Very few people would consent to that if they understood how it works, especially at Internet scale. I think it would be easy to reach a dystopia if society travels too far along that path.
Or markdown or restructured text or ascii doc.

I mean it’s not like it must be either LaTex or a word processor. Markdown is sufficiently easy to turn into text nowadays there’s really no reason not to first instance.

And that’s assuming someone agrees with the general premise of this argument which I don’t think I do
I just searched the gdp per capita of both the us and and France since 1960 to 2016 and you could not be more wrong.
Companies Must Be Accountable to All Users
Let's Encrypt Hits 50M Active Certificates and Counting
I just saw that pop up on the front page of observablehq. That resolves another pain point for me. (My first experiment with the platform happened to have a lot of math exposition in it.)
I would love to see a js interpreter for J.
That means that Roman Abramovich is the largest investor in Telegram ($300M is 35% of $850M).
Why would rebase require force-pushing? You can always rebase the pull request on the most current master. There would be no conflicts then and no need to force-push.

If the push fails because the master has changed during the few minutes you spent in rebasing, just rebase again on the most current master and push again. No force-push is required.
Charging Your Devices Could Soon Be as Simple as Connecting to WiFi
If you have Touch ID or Face ID turned on, you are prompted to authenticate for every purchase (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204030). I doubt too many people who own an iPhone don't have Touch ID enabled.
You do not pay to open a Mario Kart item box.
Aside, how does one archive/move/transform github issues? I like the low-friction aspect of blog posts as issues, but they aren't first class WRT git. The content is locked into the github ecosystem, not replicated/cloned/backedup.

Github wikis can be cloned, https://help.github.com/articles/adding-and-editing-wiki-pag...

But it doesn't look like github wiki pages can have issues/comments associated with them.
Because most humans would never agree that "freezing to death" is a just death, although I am sure it would work out just fine as you described.
Many of those books contents overlap. The overlap is often good, though. If you get stuck, you can read another book and continue making progress.

For now, 3D game development will see a lot of growth once VR/AR gains adoption.

Now, to be honest, you can make a decent game with just high school math.
:) you're welcome.
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Bean source, processing, roasting profile, freshness, grind, temperature, and brewing method all play a part in making a good cup of coffee.

And of course taste is subjective so it's hard to get an absolute answer here. Kona coffee is likely overpriced and overhyped. In my opinion there's a diminishing return on coffee taste past a certain point. I haven't seen any indications that the really expensive coffees' tastes are proportional to the price, it's just that demand is high because they're famous in some way (Kona, Blue Mountain, Kopi Luwak)

For a real eye opener of "bean origin affects flavor", try some Ethiopian Yirgacheffe beans from a reputable roaster. You should get strong blueberry notes from the coffee, quite different from other regions' coffees. It'll be more expensive than a bag of whatever supermarket coffee, but there's a clear distinction in taste. Whether you like that taste is entirely another thing, but drink whatever tastes good to you!
U got scammed for that price

One infusion for me in a clinic in Florida was 500$ and a one month supply for maintenance was 30$
Why they were able to spam?

Can it happen again? It's a very serious attack.

What if genuine (non-spam) on-chain transaction demand increases 10x?

Would it be harder to spam if block size limit increased from 1MB to 32MB or 1GB?
Yes, that is my point. Current anti-trust laws are only relevant when monopolistic behaviour leads to a worse product for consumers. Which is not the case for the big internet companies, who use network effects and their data advantages to build a better experience for the user (cheaper, faster, more etc)

The problem is, we have no way of knowing what ISN'T being built or what benefits or new offerings consumers aren't able to access because these companies have created an environment where competition is severely limited.

There's no easy answer here. Consumers are clearly better off being served a better product. Regulating based on the idea that there could be some future benefit that consumers are missing out on because of these monopolies, is a tough argument to make.

Should Facebook be able to buy up all the social graphs? If regulations prohibited them from doing so, would it really hurt facebook? Or would it create an environment with more choice, options and competition?

Exponent.fm podcast has some interesting episodes on this topic. Worth a listen.
> wish I had more time to read more of them... so much to learn.

What are you reading? It sounds like a self-help book or something pretty easily digestible with a definite goal. I think (emphasis on 'think') that the author is referring more to novels or open-ended content that don't have a point. Less a manual more a story.
Deliberate practice as defined by K. Anders Ericsson.
Yes it's called Audience Network: https://www.facebook.com/audiencenetwork
> They can beat anyone on price, placement, or delivery speed.

Well.. except for OEMs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1

You can literally blame the oxygen for the fire.

You are correct that people need these drugs, and there should be a distinction drawn between cancer patients and people with a dicky back. The problem is that for a while now, Purdue and other companies have been flooding us with “oxygen” and people just want to put out the fire. Sadly it will take time to to normalize the response once the flow of “oxygen” has been staunched, and poeple will suffer until then. More people and society as a whole are suffering now though.
The text is rendered with CSS, so you should be able to specify whatever rendering style you want using something like Pandoc.
Right now I'm manually posting the markdown files on the repository when I'm done editing them https://github.com/SSYGEN/blog/tree/master/posts But it's not a good solution I think.
The Google chromecast store does not allow you to purchase amazon firesticks.
I have been using Android for the past several years, so things may have changed on iOS. Nevertheless, it does seem like parents are getting hit with unexpected, huge bills from these games
Ask HN: Why can’t I submit Inquistr’s story about Reddit’s The_Donald subreddit?
I’m sure others before me have tried to submit the story from Inquistr about The_Donald subreddit being a haven for Russians. My submission was blocked but I don’t see the story anywhere.

Censoring, YCombinator?
There's been plenty of time to decide whether to regulate this stuff. Loot boxes are fairly new but I was a Pokemon card addict like your friend's son, at age 10 in 1998. No one cared much back then, so now you have former Pokemon card addicts like me designing more elaborate game systems like this, and spending real money is like a bonus thrill in the game.

Ultimately people will make the decisions about what they do. Paid DLC is nearly loot boxing, but I guess the difference is there is more reasonable pressure when deciding whether to buy the DLC vs. a loot box? It's less pressure than a perceived threat in the game provoking your purchase, but it's funny how there is still a lot of pressure to buy DLC when you're simply on the Steam store page (giant green buy button, videos with 25% actual gameplay flashing at you, reviews urging you to buy the game, etc). But that's not a problem, it's only a problem when a real-money store is moved inside the game.
You're assuming the only point against private prisons is that private prisons have resulted in ridiculous sentencing for petty crimes.

The US incarceration rate is ridiculous and you know it. Even if the share of violent offenses seems plausible, that still means either there's something very wrong with the US that's turning too many people into violent criminals, or there's something very wrong with the US that's getting too many people convicted for violent crimes.

It's a lot more complex than just "poor pot smokers" getting sent to prison, though. The War on Drugs alone causes a lot of collateral damage that's feeding into the prison system. Bails, plea bargains, entrapment, ... there's a lot of problems with the US criminal justice system from an outside perspective.

There are enough private prisons in the US for there to be a private prison industry and a lobby. That lobby has obvious incentives to help shape legislation in a way that lands more people in prison. It's impossible to say what role that lobby has had so far exactly but it seems a safe bet that politicians are paying attention.
I don’t agree with you, but even if I did I’d ask if you knew the difference between aiding, and abetting. You can make a lousy argument in this case for abetting, it unless you’re claiming that the PA DA gave people pot or paraphernalia, aiding is right out.
For the curious: https://www.inquisitr.com/4790689/reddits-the_donald-was-one...
Maybe tarsnap? What you need is a service to take object buckets and make a tape backup that is replicated, re-read and re-archived over time.
When you say "rendered to a screen", do you really mean "placed on a webpage"? PDFs generated by LaTeX are rendered to screen all the time.

edit: Actually, I find that I completely agree with your point if "printed" is replaced by "shared in pdf format" and "rendered to screen" is replaced by "shared in plain text or HTML format".
I found Markdown quite lacking for things like documentation. Restructured Text with Sphinx was similar to Markdown in usage but significantly more flexible (especially references other parts of the documentation).
The First Amendment is all about how we resolve that.

Problem is, we do not have a robust body politic. Media consolidation has left ordinary people and their interests largely out of the economic discussion. That has had a major impact on their lives.

They are talking on the Internet, and it's a good conversation.

The intended conversation too.

"FAKE NEWS?"

Half of what I saw branded as fake was actually opinion and advocacy pieces. Crazy!

And we want to make that more solid, official?

Makes no real sense to me.
That's a disingenuous comparison at best.

No exchange takes place. No fiat is given for a chance to open a box.
Humans would rapidly freeze to death in a lobster’s natural habitat. Humans are not lobsters, and we should be careful to remember that freezing to death is experienced differently by animals with different metabolisms. A good rule of thumb is that endotherms suffer horribly and experience pain in low temperatures, while cold-blooded animals experience torpor.
I thought Latex was superior to Word in every way than I had a colleague that knew Word. Word if you learn it is just fine generating a ToC or autonumbering sections, figures, and tables.

In practice, Markdown is better than either for documentation that isn't printed. It's easier to edit, can be viewed with a plain text editor, and has a minimal learning curve.
Bill Gates: Artificial intelligence is good for society
The main difference being that we didn’t use Quark for layout, we used MacWrite, I think, and would literally size our articles to 1-, 2- or 3-column width and then print them as one continuous column. We did all of our layout by hand instead of in the computer, so we’d cut up the paper and flow the columns into the layout on the board.

Quark definitely existed by then (I had used PageMaker at my high school newspaper to do the same task in years before). I think the paper stayed with manual layout because it would let a group of us collaborate on laying out the 5-10 editorial pages over a period of an hour or two.
DIY underwater monitoring with an Arduino-based logging platform
> RestructuredText has generally worked nicer for me that Markdown

Agree. As soon as you want to start having references to other parts of your document(s) RestructuredText wins out over Markdown.
It's sort of like capitalism in a nutshell. Have money? Great, live a grand old life off the dividends. Don't? Get bent. Work your butt off the the rest of your life for scraps.
From my experience, I suspect it was a little of both. A little sugar makes the medicine go down, and all that. Sell it to kids who don't know any better, and let the ironic nature filter away over time. What comes to mind the ironic/pseudoironic use of fascist and totalitarian tropes for Warhammer 40K now turning into the use of the same memes and ideas in a new context, celebrating Donald Trump as the "God Emperor" and portraying liberals/cucks/whoever-they-hate-the-most-in-that-particular-moment as the "xenos".
I spend between 4-7 hours commuting a week and around 5 hours a week exercising. That's up to 12 hours a week I can use to listen to podcasts or listen to audiobooks. I find the type of prolonged reading incredibly unproductive.
My comment was just about Apple/dev/customer interaction. What you're describing does not match my experience with Android tablets.