skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The cynic in me suspects that data science for a game company will involve mostly marketing research, however.

Actually, there's a lot of it involved in game design. In the case of MMORPG, what to develop next as extensions or monthly content packs. In the case of single player games, feedback on building sequels. A lot of game developers these days put effort into gathering all sorts of telemetry from their games, RPG developer Bioware for example knows how many hours the average player spent on Mass Effect games, how many finished the game, how many made a customized character vs how many used the default face, how many played a female character versus male, how many imported saves from the previous games, which quests were completed and which were skipped, how much of the dialogue was skipped and many other things that are used to understand what to focus on for their next games. And it's all on a solo RPG, so they had to deliberately add some online analytics reporting functionality and are not just using stats that was lying around on an online game server log.

Guild Wars 2's developer arenanet is employing a data scientist and economist, John Smith, to manage and keep control of the virtual economy in their MMORPG. He's also head of the analytics team which is the primary decision maker on what content is going to be cut and which is going to be developed in the future.

Marketing can be a part of it but more and more, analytics is getting to contribute in game development decisions.
Well, for example, take the medical profession. There are of course many problems with how doctors are trained and licensed. The AMA might do well with a shake up. But in America you are not getting a license to practice without demonstrating a huge amount of skill, dedication, and competence. Your cousin who is already a doctor doesn't just get to say, "You are in". Or you just have to pay some large amount of money to the right person.
In Gabe Newell's own words, Linux support was a hedging strategy against Microsoft potentially mandating software distribution through the Windows App Store:

"So we’re going to continue working with the Linux distribution guys, shipping Steam, shipping our games, and making it as easy as possible for anybody who’s engaged with us — putting their games on Steam and getting those running on Linux, as well. It’s a hedging strategy.

I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space."

> https://venturebeat.com/2012/07/25/valves-gabe-newell-talks/

Given Gabe's fears never really materialized (perhaps with the exception of Windows 10 'S', but even that no longer has fees to enable third party software sources), there simply hasn't been anything like as much pressure for Valve to push SteamOS/Linux.
Acceptance as a bona fide AI person by HN.
Am I the only one to recoil at the thought of someone chewing transparent aluminum foil?

The potential is tremendous in aviation. Imagine transparent aircraft skins -- the superstructure and internals (fuel tanks, hydraulics, etc.) could be inspected without disassembly (which itself adds stress to the structure). Though I'm not sure passengers would take kindly to aircraft with transparent skins. Sometimes it's best that things are hidden under a bonnet.
Ya this is America, they are not going to do something they don't have to that affects their profitability.
Thanks for sharing; it was a good quick read, and I found it instructive.

What I'm not sure is how the lessons of a material production culture might translate to the digital one that most of HN (presumably) interacts with. Version control, getting rid of legacy systems, concentrating on the high-margin products that keep the business going. These could all be applied, correct?
that doesn't work on my computer (Fedora), but what I usually do is paste it in a box that doesn't allow formatting and then copy it again... but I don't know if it would remove fingerprinting in this case
Koda: the importance of testing
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Ommiting microcode from the EFI has nothing to do with whether a CPU has loadable microcode capability or whether it is vulnerable. Unless you are using some pre-pentium intel CPU, an initial microcode revision is included in an on die ROM and an updated revision can be loaded at boot. Loading it in EFI/BIOS vs OS is a matter of convenience, which is why it's usually left to the OS these days.

Not having microcode blobs in the EFI doesn't magically mean your CPU doesn't use microcode or doesn't need patched versions to stay secure as in this case.

I do find it a little deceptive with some of these "libre" projects where they draw an arbitrary box around something, evict all proprietary blobs from it and then announce victory despite it operating underneath a whole load of other blobs that could easily subvert it. However I suspect the intent behind evicting microcode from libreboot was more due to it being a redundant task for EFI today.
ARM isn't exactly your typical RISC either.
Restic's threat model assumes trusted systems - the ability to make a backup also implies the ability to destroy and tamper with existing ones. Tarsnap has fine-grained access controls which can severely restrict hosts:

https://www.tarsnap.com/man-tarsnap-keymgmt.1.html

e.g. you may give each host their own write-only key so they can automatically create new snapshots, while keeping the keys that permit reading and deleting old snapshots on separate machines with separate passphrases.
The moment YouTube started paying her for content?
Netflix are hiring professional binge-watchers to rate and review their shows
If someone consistently behaves in such a way that prioritizes heroin over their kids, then from a purely behavioral and external perspective, they really do care more about the heroin. Maybe they don’t want to want heroin as much as they do, but that’s another level up. You can’t look into people’s souls; down here on Earth the best you can do is try to predict behavior, and it’s safe to predict that junkies gotta junk.
Works wonders on fajita meat (flank or skirt steak).
I switch between vim and Sublime with vim mode.
If one didn't have this background knowledge, one might hesitate to enter a totally fictitious number on this form.
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To some degree, it is though. YouTube has a quasi-monopoly on the promotion and discovery of video content, which is far more important than the distribution (which you're correct, is relatively cheap and straightforward)

If a business capriciously de-indexed from Google search, I think there'd be plenty of room for criticism of Google. I don't think there's a terribly large difference here. It might not rise to the level of illegality, and it certainly doesn't justify shooting employees, but I do think it's a predictable result.
Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project
The main difference here is that they track all the mouse moves and clicks so they can replay the user session right before the error happened.
Are you referring to the online courses that are simultaneously providing the output of the code as soon as it's written?
If that's the case, it's not really helpful as people do obviously need to test it out from scratch, on their own for a better understanding of how stuff works.
But this method is easy and fast, provided some hand holding is needed and if that support is there, one can learn pretty quickly.
Or maybe we'll just start watching live TV of simulated life interacting with each other. Sort of like the Truman Show. Just like Big Brother or Jersey shore, but this time people can pay real money for things to happen to the simulated people. They will have simulated emotional registers designed to mimic our own.

Sometimes one might wonder if we're someone elses Truman Show. It's OK though, in that case climate change doesn't matter :-)
> that [they think] affects their profitability.

FTFY. This is a gamble on Facebook's part that for now and forever, the American users it has do not care about privacy enough to seek an alternative or stop using the service. They might be right. But it is also possible they are wrong, in which case this move certainly would affect their profitability (negatively). It remains to be seen how Americans will react and feel about their privacy as time goes on - and these feelings are already changing somewhat rapidly in some places in the US.
From the https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/: "‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;"

The central question for you should be: is it possible to identify a natural person from the data you're processing? If it's randomly generated ID and if no-one (including you and your employees) can identify an individual from that ID (or other data you're storing/processing) then you should be on a safe side, and GDPR should not apply to you.

However, if it is possible to identify an individual from the ID (other data), then you should comply with the GDPR. In that case, you should determine a lawful basis for processing (e.g., legitimate interest, consent), possibly ask for consent, ensure that a data subject knows what his rights are (e.g., right to be informed, to rectification, data erasure, etc.)

My favorite GDPR resource is: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
For basics, take a look here: https://www.gdprhq.io/post/how-the-new-european-general-data...
Sure, but I don't think that third tablet would have had any more success than the previous ones if it wasn't a Nintendo console.
Still playing Ultima Online, ~20 years later.
CockroachDB underwent a Jepsen audit by Kyle Kingsbury before its 1.0 release. Check out the blog post[0] and Kyle's analysis[1].

We also run Jepsen tests against the database nightly, ensuring that its isolation guarantees do not regress.

[0]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-beta-passes-j...

[1]: http://jepsen.io/analyses/cockroachdb-beta-20160829
so, we'll copy text to editor, screenshot it, OCR it and then paste? did I get it right?
>Japanese prime minister Shinto Abe was the first

err...

>My e-Residency is not a passport. It’s more than a tourist visa, and far less than citizenship.

what? Slip that into the last paragraph? What is it exactly?
Have you faced issues setting up RBAC?
"GDPR doesn't penalize or prevent innovation. It just forces it out into the open."

This is a nice summary.
Which they've been doing for around 2 years at least

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/diy-jepsen-testing-cockro...
In many ways this case isn't settled until the foreign stakeholders agree with it also, or? I mean Ireland can still force Microsoft to not hand over the data because its on their soil? Or because its digital law makers assume the data is already in US. Doesn't this need agreements between countries? Anyone know more, I'm not super savvy on that topic.
You don't increase the chance of a mistake, you increase the cost of a mistake because each little defect means you're throwing out a whole chip. The larger each chip is, the more expensive each little defect is.

Sony had a hard time when they were ramping up Cell processor production, so they designed the chips with 8 SPEs but only shipped them with 7 activated. That way if a defect happened to be in one of the SPEs, they could just turn it off and still ship the chip.
What are you talking about? If it's less than the local statutory limit (quick google tells me $7500 in California, likely around what this woman thinks she was owed) then you don't even need a lawyer. File a small claims suit, show up at court, and make your case before the judge.

Now, she probably wouldn't win, because there's no contract here and Google has no affirmative duty to host anyone's video in particular nor to pay them for it. But you can absolutely do it.
You are exactly the type I am talking about. For some reason these management types think of themselves as worth 10 engineers bestowed with some mystical powers called “managing” while having little clue about what was supposed to be produced. This is typical MBA culture and interestingly you also fail to enlighten all of us low links about what your role was supposed to be. Also, noticed that I talked about meeting other suits at customers/partners. This is not same as actual customers. Suits typically only meet other suits. Have you seen how badly designed and almost unusable some websites like banks and Fortune 500 are? That’s typical example of suit never using his/her own product, let alone meeting actual customers.

BTW, knowing where your code is and how to build it is important. It tells you basic health about your engineering process. A good technical manager instinctively knows that anyone should be able to build a product or there is something very wrong. A suit will delegate and hope everything is workings out. If you managed sausage factory and if you had no clue where your factory was, that would be odd. Right?

About the “hard decisions”, suits needs to hold them accountable for those results. This could be done either by getting mega salary cuts or even just resigning for producing a massive failure. I have rarely seen suits getting affected when they had to make “hard decisions”.
There's the common minor error with perror().
Intervening printf("\a"); can foul the errno and you get the

beep: open: not a typewriter
It couldn't take place in Europe.
Writing to the Framebuffer
Mastodon generates an RSS feed for every user. Check out their web profile pages and look in the HTML header. Most popular RSS readers will just pick it up if you paste the profile URL in.
I saw that too, and personally thought it was probably not deliberate, but it could be a poke at his uyoku leanings.
I live in the painfully uncool neighborhood of Jefferson Park. There are a decent chunk of good K-8 CPS neighborhood schools up here. A very safe neighborhood, in part due to the number of CPD who live in the area.

Uptown is amazing and while it is still rough around the edges it is easily one my favorite neighborhoods in the city. The crime is slowly getting better, but I think most parents of means send their kids to private school or lottery them somewhere else.... or move.
I can't recommend Strang enough. I tend to learn better when I can visualize math concepts, and had such a hard time understanding Linear Algebra until I finally bought a copy of that book. I love that thing, and it still sits in my bookshelf years later.
Yeah Hetzner would be awesome. We already run some stuff over there so I could foresee spinning up some transcoders if you have connectivity there.
More importantly, in many places in the USA, what would be medium inconveniences in other countries (illness, company folding) can quickly and easily destroy a life.
As someone who learned JS as a first-ish language, I totally love how much simpler and cleaner the syntax is.
The quote says that it was the PowerPC core (PPE) was all that was used in the Xbox 360 processor and all that the PPE is is an implementation of IBM's Power ISA, one of several (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Architecture#Specificati... under Power ISA v.2.03). It's no different than an ARM processor vendor re-using a core design for multiple customers.

The thing that made the Cell what it was, namely the 7 SPE units, were not used in the Xbox 360.
Is the host down? I can't open that page.
It would be a nice enhancement to do so automatically (rather than on-click), but at least for me, this serves the purpose.
Ideum Corp announced yesterday the start of the Ideum pre-sale of its Tokens
I understand that mobile app development can happen only with the respective editors and its quite obvious. For everything else, you seem to use Atom. Any specific reasons?

Of course there is no wrong answer. Just trying to understand what people use in 2018 for development.
RBAC itself is enabled by default on new gke clusters afaik, and has been enabled on ours for months. We're a small team so we haven't tried to do anything particularly complex with RBAC inside the cluster, but I can't say I've run into anything particularly troublesome.
Looks like you want the government to implement a perfect law that works in every case and will never be misused. Perhaps you could propose one? :)
I loved subspace!! The ability to jump into anyone’s ship and become a gunner was such a great mechanic.
Geo-partitioning seems to be the killer feature here especially with GDPR looming. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I'm not aware of any other DB which makes physically locating records in a particular region so easy.
The casual explanation is that the brains are infused with a chemical that prevents formation of ice crystals and chilled to freezing temperatures until the water in the brain solidifies into a glasslike solid.

This is how frogs in shallow pond-bottoms can freeze solid during the winter and then thaw out in spring. The formation of ice crystals is what damages the organ. But glutaraldehyde is highly cytotoxic, and the brain cells are killed, along with anything else, so your brain won't ever be thawed. They will use ion beams to shave off very thin layers of your brain and use a scanning electron microscope to image it, all while still frozen.

This is the same process, in finer detail, that occurs for detail 3-d imagery of plastinated organs and entire organisms. The crosslinking and heat generated during the curing process of most epoxy resins will destroy the finer structures in the brain as it preserves the macro-structure, so no, you couldn't use the same types of plastic typically used to preserve anatomy specimens. Instead of a microtome, the top layer is ablated with ion beams. Instead of an optical microscope, an electron microscope is used.

You can't currently get a more detailed 3-d image than this. The ion beam can strip away one layer of atoms at a time, and the electron microscope can identify the positions of all the atoms in the next layer.

But imagine the size of that data set. Imaging a volume of about 1500 mL, at a detail level of 1 nm, is 1.5e24 voxels. Even at one bit per voxel, for filled/empty, that's in the yottabyte range. A trillion 1 terabyte hard drives. The gap junction of an electrical synapse is about 3.5 nm, and chemical synapses are 20-40 nm apart. so if you image at a resolution of 3.5nm, you're still talking at least a zettabyte, but at least that's just under half the maximum file size of UFS, at around 2^75 bits.

Better hope those cryo-coolers don't fail before we can store that much data and reduce it all to a neuro-map.
The only people I've heard of using Smalltalk at all other than in dogfood situations are people using Gemstone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemstone_(database)
It seems that a "European" facebook will appear that strictly adheres to EU laws.
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I'm glad things work for you. I'm not at all saying that they never work right, but that they often enough don't work right to the point that complaining about their lack of quality is justified. Just because something works for your setup doesn't mean that it works for everyone else's.

> And Video card support, with AMD, it's at the same level that Windows.

I haven't used Windows in years, but if that is the case, Windows must have gotten way worse. I can't say my experience with any video-card vendor has been smooth on Linux.
I don't remember reading that in the DSM. You perpetuate this problem when you trivialize their concerns in this way.
Is anyone else having trouble viewing this on their phone?
Sounds like a job for Bridg-it!
Mentioning the Potato Sack gets into one of my biggest complaints with Steam and why I worry about its monopoly position: we can't talk about the Loot Box problem and dumb addiction hacking and not point to the elephant in the room.

Valve has invested a lot of time and effort into its various loot box schemes (hats, trading cards, stamps, badges, etc), and Steam is currently the only retail platform deeply complicit in the worst slot machine tendencies of the industry at large, and has been for a long time.
Why is the US more violent? More video games? American football? Or is it just the easy access to guns that makes Americans violent?
Ask HN: How to pay international employee?
Do we have any founders who have to pay outsourced employee / company ? please advise on how and tax implications.
Ask HN: What CMS in 2018 for webapps?
I am looking for an open source CMS that integrates well with a frontend-only app (like a React App) and so far I have found:

- Good old full-stack CMSs such as Drupal or Wordpress that can expose a REST API, but seem a bit old for 2018

- Brand new Headless CMSs such as Strapi (nodejs) or Cockpit (PHP) but they don't look very mature (but I guess that's normal as "headless API" is quite a new concept)

Have you tried CMS integration with a React Apps yourself, and what approach did you take? Would you have some feedback to share about this stack?
> For a simple es2015 it looks a bit more complicated than the prototype extension [2].

That's because it provides somewhat different features and Babel apparently attempts to replicate them properly. For instance "class" methods are non-enumerable by default, whereas "prototype" methods — being bog-standard properties — are.
Aside from the unnecessary snarkiness, here's my main reason for downvoting you:

Even somebody who is familiar with the concept of man pages would have no chance of knowing that xset is the one to look for.

Discoverability is super important. Luckily, the kind of desktops people actually use tend to have a System Settings app in which mouse acceleration can be figured.
I thought this was such a good idea I did it on the parent's behalf:

https://github.com/mml-book/mml-book.github.io/issues/33
This is pretty cool!

It would help a lot with growth if we could identify what content our prospects see as most valuable
https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/3luo7c/in_star_tr...
Banned Instagram Hashtags API
> Maybe Adonis can keep improving and eventually get to Laravel's level, but I highly doubt it, as it is a single developer project. Also it's a risky bet to use a single dev project.

You know Laravel is a single dev project right?
> They are supposed to obey but they, in the USA anyways, swore to protect the constitution...

Are you seriously saying all the troops deployed in Nam and the middle east was protecting US constitution..
The only person in this thread who used the word "victims" was you.

This is a Burning-man-sized strawman.
How Objective-C messaging works
vim for small changes to scripts, or editing lots of text; vscode for any scripts/applications that only involve one language; pycharm for web apps using Python
No, would you? People want to decide and vote, at least in areas that they are interested in. See most referendums world-wide or the participiant rates in Switzerland.
That is not apologism, that's realpolitik. It doesn't mean the deed is acceptable, but that people in power should've anticipated it.
> They're going to look at you like you're an idiot.

Are they really going to? As someone with many years of marketing/branding/advertising experience, CockroachDB is a bold, powerful and meaningful name, that, in my opinion, is one of the best branding cases I've ever seen for tech infra products.