skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But just a few short years later, X-Wing came out and blew Wing Commander out of the water.

I think they mostly flew by each other and then went into separate directions and ended up not competing all that directly. X-Wing came out between the releases of WC2 and WC3. X-Wing continued down the 'space combat simulator in the Star Wars universe' path, Wing Commander became 'movie/adventure game with some space flying stuff'. WC3 had two hours of video, Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell and only got crazier from there.
That’s not a very convincing response.

It’s like pointing out that electric vehicles are still dependent on fossil fuel power networks for their energy. It’s true, but misses the point that one of the requirements in transitioning to a sustainable economy is decoupling energy production methods from consumption methods. Fossil fuel as the input to a car is bad; fossil fuel as the input to a power plant, that produces electricity that is the input to a car is not perfect, but it is better. Similarly, plastics sourced from biological sources are better.
I see a few non educational issues with this trend:

- human nature has important points: teenage, young adult, young parents. Pushing education longer means delaying these.

- being a student is not necessarily being an independant adult, very often it delay teenagehood, whereas previous generation had to start earning their life around 16. It creates a meeting point between high desires and responsibilities. Something that doesn't happen nowadays where kids 'may' (only a mild subjective opinion) satisfy desires through culture and fads

- higher education was a bet on the previous structures, where being a grad student meant sure and high payoff. This changed... very often people with degrees are struggling. The education pipeline isn't met by a good demand in a way.

I think it also change the family structure where parents became grand parents earlier, now you may start stable life after 25 and have kids at 30, whereas before people would have them before that. And IMO this factor is an important source of happiness and motivation for the whole family circle. Delaying means everybody is older and doesn't respond the same way at all.
I really enjoyed the movie too!

Even the whole "broadside" missile launch like old war ships with cannons.

Despite the departures from the game information, I didn't hate it like so many others did.
Somewhat relevant topic into how many of these CEOs got to where they were: "New Study Reveals How Many CEOs Fast-Tracked Their Way To The Corner Office"
https://goo.gl/Bz8fP5
Yes, very. Anyone can create a thousand valid bitcoin addresses a second, and then send coins between them. There's no way of knowing who created the address. Technically, you can even send coins to a random address with the correct checksum, thus losing these coins forever. That address will not have an owner.
not quite solved is the right way to put it.

If you look at capsules papers, you will realize that convnets are not very good at recognizing transformations (e.g. 3d rotations) of the same object. That's probably why so many training examples are required to make them work well.

Also, if you look at errors made by state of the art models, some of them are obvious (to a human) objects, classified as something entirely different and unrelated. Which leads me to believe that object recognition is not completely solved until a model has some kind of common sense, either build in, or acquired during training.
I couldn't disagree more. I'm in my final quarter of my undergraduate degree, and I consistently stayed so far ahead of the curriculum in personal projects and internships that I learned almost nothing at all in University. For me, it was purely about proving I knew things to professors using an arcane and ever changing set of metrics.

I stuck with it because I want to work for a particular organization, and working in that organization in the position I want absolutely requires a degree. If there was any other path to getting a degree besides sitting through years of classes, I'm confident that I would be every bit as good a person and developer if I had taken that route over going to a University.
The thing is, I don't want to build search myself -- SQLite has a WAL (of course), runs in memory if you want (of course RocksDB has less holding it back from utilizing memory even more efficiently than SQLite could), and most of the creature comforts of SQLite, and I can lean on SQlite FTS search.

All I have to get right is the quorum (I'm actually thinking optimistic gossip with something like swim over a quorum with paxos/raft), and the sharding, and replication -- and that stuff has been worked through by people much smarter than me already.

The formula I think will work is basically SQLite + SWIM/Raft + consistent hashing algo + optimistic replication + optimistic rebalancing. Just about 100% of the things on that list I don't have to think too hard to implement, and should be performant in the happy case (where n/2 nodes are up and healthy and relatively performant)

Recently saw a talk from fosdem 2018 (https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/datastore/) about a project called Timbala, learned a bit from it (for example, assumed everyone was just using paxos/raft but SWIM evidently is used by consul)
distributed source code management theoretically doing this in a robust and replicated manner quite a bit easier. if you ignore partitions, it seems pretty straightforward to make a git push-all, and a recovery process for stale nodes coming back.
You have a great standard library; you don't need manual memory management, because this is an introductory course; the error messages are admittedly bad, but not that terrible if you are not using templates. I'm not particularly fond of C++, but if you intend to teach the basics of programming and data structures, it's a decent language.
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No, it's very obvious causation.

The variance is extreme, not subtle, and it shows dramatic improvement for all races. It moves upwards step by step with education attainment. Incomes similarly follow that path. Which is another way of saying, everything aligns. The income you can reach on average without a high school diploma, will radically implode your chances of ever being able to amass millionaire status.

Need to save $50,000 to start a business? Good luck without a high school diploma. You're going to spend your life barely getting by, much less generating a surplus of savings.

Want to become a millionaire via a mixture of 401k, company stock grants, savings, real-estate investment? You have a near zero shot at that without a high school diploma.
I see that there is a claim that such an email exists. I don't think this has actually been established yet. Even if this email was sent, I expect that either we'll find that in context it wasn't exclusionary (e.g. the group in question was to be dedicated to hiring from underrepresented groups, while other groups handled candidates from all backgrounds), or we'll find that it was in contravention to Google's policies on the issue. We'll also eventually learn that objecting to this email was not why the plaintiff was fired.

That's my expectation.
Uber does have tipping built in.
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>You certainly don't have to join a modern priesthood to gain access to high quality learning material, no matter how much the priests tell you otherwise

I've been reading that book, too, and agree with the sentiment
Are rnn that common for wordvectors?

I mostly see word2vec and fasttext, neither of which are CNN nor rnn
I do agree. It's a concept that was introduced to me in AP Economics, but I think it should be introduced WAY before more kids are making life decisions. Not sure if I just learned it unusually late...
The earliest Lego was cellulose, which is biodegradable.

They'd do better simply going back to that. Though I'm not sure how cellulose is for longevity.
Sounds like http://terralang.org would be your ideal learning language.

It starts with Lua(Jit) -which is a very simple, powerful, Schemy language. Lua is used both as a runtime and as a metaprogramming layer for a Lua-ish interface to LLVM IR (including SIMD) that requires static typing and manual memory management. It is intended to be the implementation layer of compilers and JITs and it is created by and for the HPC community.

All it really needs is more attention, documentation and tutorials.
Well at this point, the world's main alternative's are those. We live in a world with a handful of superpowers that are able to demonstrably project power and influence, arguably mainly China, Russia, and the USA. We already don't have too many choices.

Also the article, while well written, takes a very naive view of China's use of hard and soft power, which was very irritating. The USA constantly uses it's economic and military power in countries to ensure an 'America First' direction. On the front page of HN today, America accused a Latvian bank of money laundering and bypassing American sanctions so it shut it out of the FedWire service which eventually killed the bank within a matter of weeks [1]. Also see America's economic embargo of Cuba, invasion and occupation of Iraq, NATO's no fly zone over Libya in 2011, etc. All countries with enough power use it for their own benefit. This is neither a China-only nor a USA-only issue.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16495387
My family used to be in the funeral business, and as a kid I've gone on rides to pick up bodies in Hearses, dug and filled graves, and visited a crematorium.

My aunt was friends with the crematorium operator, and we got to visit one in operation. The operator was retelling the story about the big stain on the concrete floor near the furnace.

TLDR: There is a "formula" using body mass to determine whether they go in head- or feet-first. If you get it wrong, the fat sometimes liquefies and runs out onto the floor.

Whether this is true or whether he was just f'ing with a young kid, I don't know.
I've got a 2.5 yr old and an 11 yr old. The toddler loves his Duplo's, but doesn't build specific things with them. Just randomly mushes them together.

My daughter who is 11 now, grew out of that phase at about 5. She wanted real Legos and wanted to follow the instructions exactly to build what was on the box. Maybe that was unusual, she is very uptight, but its what I was basing my experience on.
Be sure to find or download a copy of Wing Commander I & II: The Ultimate Strategy Guide [0] because about a third of the book is a great set of interviews with the development team about the making of the games, and the company culture at Origin in the late 80s and early 90s.

A fascinating snapshot!

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Wing-Commander-II-Ultimate-Paperback/d...
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> First, time value of money. The Prius costs $24k that you don't get to invest over the time you're driving. Let's call that $1-2k. Plus, most drivers will pay interest on financing the car. ($1-5k depending on credit rating)

You can't assume that the owner has paid cash for the car (forgoing investing the $24K) AND assume they finance the $24K and ding their P&L with finance charges. (It's double counting.)
I agree but I’m not sure why my logic would be flawed because of this
> education for education's sake is a perfectly worthwhile goal

i definitely agree. but i think education for education's sake can be delivered in less expensive, more efficient formats than degree programs from accredited colleges
Hmm, I just pushed some commits over SSH. Seems to work fine on my end so far.
localbitcoins is a legit solution, I'm pretty sure we could resolve the issues around it. Mugging is an easy one, meet in public.

A Tor based exchange is not distributed, but I think the way to go.
This is just absurdly overdramatic and frankly, insufferable. Why do you expect the general public and media reporters to know offhand about polymer chemistry? Why does their lack of this knowledge doom the environment?

You had a chance to amicably and clearly educate others about the misleading connotations of the term "bioplastic" and instead you launched into some kind of weird tirade. This is why society needs better science communicators.
Well, the newer comment basically amounts to "Real programmers know to use C, so we keep the uncultured plebes out." Which isn't really any argument against using C++, but is rather the kind of attitude that should be expunged from system developers.

There are reasons to avoid using C++:

* The main benefit of C++ is that it has a standard library that's somewhat usable. Except you can't use standard libraries anyways in kernel code.

* Templates, particularly as they intersect with name lookup, are difficult semantics both to the compiler and the user. Until a decade ago, using templates meant more or less playing roulette as to which compilers could handle it correctly.

* RTTI and exceptions are broken features. It has more or less been accepted that these features are optional in C++.

* The famous saying goes "there's a safe subset to C++, but no one agrees what that subset is." That's still more or less true today.

The main advantage of C++ is that it gets you RAII (which makes dealing with errors much easier, since you're less liable to have issues like gotofail), and you can use templates to build safer ADTs. These are strong benefits in that it's a lot harder to make mistakes as a developer, but there is a strong tendency in this corner of systems developer to assume that stupid mistakes are a fault of the programmer and not the language, and so such benefits are considered flaws because it means letting in stupid people.
X-Wing was the future in terms of using 3D, but it was there too soon. Wing Commander (not to mention WCII) looked better than X-Wing IMO because the ships had more geometric complexity.

One thing that did bug me about WCII was the lack of feelies; I still have the ship identification posters from WC I, and making the manual in the format of an on-ship magazine worked great.

I got the WC II special edition, which had roughly 15 3.5" floppies in it, and until I opened the box, I assumed much of the weight was from feelies, but instead it was a single cardboard keyboard reference card / install instructions.
Yea, this makes no sense to me. I have a pretty heavy workload in AWS (us-east-1), don't use DC AT ALL and nothing is down for me today (except Atlassian Jira/Confluence Cloud), we self host BB. Why their 'cloud' based application relies on DC is very odd.
Agreed... but doesn't your toddler have a breakdown about everything, all the time?

Our life is just jumping from crisis, to the next distraction every 15 minutes no matter what.
But you are underestimating the degree of variability between providers. Some providers may have felt the XRay was necessary and others may have not.

In general, I find that patients have a sense that there is always a 'right' answer for what tests to order in order to diagnose their conditions. Some expect expensive tests to confirm a diagnosis that can be easily made at the bedside (like an MRI for sciatica for example). Others aren't interested in going through the difficulty of obtaining a somewhat difficult test like an MRI for a condition that is harder to diagnose at the bedside and would require further imaging to make a diagnosis.

The truth is that diagnoses are rarely 100% certain. How certain you need to be to make the diagnosis depends a lot on the risks of being wrong or missing a diagnosis and the risks of the potential treatment. For example, we want to be as close to 100% that someone has cancer before we give them chemotherapy. But, are willing to be less sure about diagnosing a cold. Sure, it could be the flu, but the risks and outcomes aren't that different.

The problem is that these probabilities aren't clear and doctors are humans and humans are bad at estimating with unclear probabilities. So there will be some doctors who estimate that the pain you were having that caused you to seek that doctor's opinion WAS enough to justify ruling out a fracture, because the risk of missing a fracture was worth the expense and very minor risk of radiation. Whereas the second doctor, may have seen things differently. AND this doctor has the added insight of the time that has past since your first appointment, ie you didn't get worse during that time (or maybe you did). That additional information of time, may have played into his estimation of the risks and benefit analysis for deciding on testing.

This is a good article to really understand the much wider than expected variability in professionals, including physicians. https://hbr.org/2016/10/noise
Love that site! Do you know of any other ones who are doing that?
>Lee alleges that she was slapped in the face by a drunk male co-worker "for no apparent reason.

It seems like having drunk co-worker is the problem here. Why does Google allow drinking at work? That seems like a really bad idea.
Even that doesn't really tell you who the real owner of the coins is. What if you bought bitcoins for your friend and withdrew to his address? Or you got hacked, or blackmailed, or ransomwared.
Higher education is not overestimated if it gives you better opportunities for the future. Perhaps some kind of higher education provides little economic value. I think that from a personal point of view, what you get from higher education depends a lot of what you put into the table, if you are a hard working intelligent guy and you have the ability to focus in what you are really good at, investing in higher education will give you a good ROI.
I don't think they're earmarked in Norway (they're not in most countries). Taxing autos and fuel generates revenue which is general tax revenue, and what goes to road infrastructure is up to political decisions.
How come then there is so much unrest in universities nowadays? And univ students seems to be on forefront in making feelings based arguments instead critical thinking based arguments.
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These supposed foreign entities helped just as many people on the left, like Bernie and impersonated left-leaning entities like Black Lives Matter. And their involvement was minimial (100k) compared to what the major political parties were spending on the election. Hillary spent 1.5 billion dollars.
Whenever someone wants to sell you their path to success, you need to ask why.
I don't have a vinyl cutter yet. I'm looking at the Silhouette Curio, Portrait 2, and the Brother Design N Cut.

I like my other Brother products and would ordinarily choose them, but I don't know anything about their protocol. Silhouette has been very open about their protocol in the past[1]. They use a variant of HPGL and there are a few open source tools that allow you to drive their plotters/cutters.

[1] https://ohthehugemanatee.net/2011/07/gpgl-reference-courtesy...
BTW Uber has a car buying program. I met a driver in Vegas who claimed to have to work long hours in order to cover the car note and have a livable wage. Felt sorry for the guy because his attitude was very optimistic when it was clear to me he was being taken advantage of.
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Same exact story except my mom is and still is a working R.N. There was no running to the doctor or emergency room if I got sick or banged up an knee or elbow. To this day as a grown adult I still work this way. It's a completely foreign concept to me to automatically run to the doctor like so many people around me seem to do.

You're other point about knowing the limitations of doctors is completely valid. Every night at the dinner table I heard one horror story after another about the crazy shit doctors would do at her hospital. Maybe its why today I don't run to the doctor for every little thing. I got the understanding that just because someone went to medical school and got an M.D. doesn't mean they're a miracle worker. There's just as many screw ups in that industry as any other.

On the upside though if something does happen where I(or someone in my family) need a doctor I can go to her(and my R.N. sister) to tell me who the good ones are and who to avoid like the plague.
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I attest to this. I have had a reasonable success in life (built and sold a few companies, have a financial cushion, a home, a small plane, etc.).

I have done everything well and with diligence but when I look at the flow of my life, the financial success came primarily from luck. Being at the right place at the right time. Having a good idea at the right time. Knowing the right people at the right time. Having the right product pivot in the right market conditions.

Many of these things worked out because of circumstances beyond my ability to predict and control. I have had a similar amount of failures and my ability to predict what will be successful is limited to nil.

Yes, I worked hard and put my all into everything, but so do many others I know. I was also fortunate (lucky!) to have support systems and friends which allowed me to take risks that turned out to be rewarding. I also try to spread the rewards and recognize those people who have allowed me to find this lucky success.

I also have the luck to be in a country that has reasonable government and infrastructure (perhaps notwithstanding the last year or two), lucky to have chosen economically stable parents who gave me a top education without debt at the end, lucky to have chosen (ha) white privilege which I didn’t fully understand or appreciate until the last decade and try hard to expand to everyone now.

Yes, I made some circumstances to benefit from the luck. But so have others who have not experienced the luck. I am grateful for my luck and work to enable others to have a good life without the same luck. There but for the grace (of god or gaia or luck) go I.
> But a Toddler plays with a Duplo set for maximum of two years,

Lego and Duplo are compatible, so as long as someone is free building (rather than just following instructions on a set) with Lego, there is no reason not to use Duplo as part of that. Unless their parents gave them away, most kids I've known that kept playing with Lego kept their Duplo too.

> they lose most of the pieces

Duplo pieces are pretty large and distinct, so if they are used indoors, the recovery rate is pretty high. I kind of doubt this, especially on a two-year time frame.

> and if they break it isn't that big a deal.

Broken shards of rigid plastic around toddlers is, in fact, a big deal, for the same reason people tend not to let toddlers play with steak knives and scissors.
Islamophobia and misogyny are stylistic criticisms?