skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The soundtrack for Shovel Knight is also excellent. Even though the game is recent, the music is completely authentic to capabilities of the sound chip in the NES.

That said, I find the sound of the NES to be a bit too bright and crisp for background listening. I agree that SNES era music is easier for programming. Super Metroid, Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore, Final Fantasy 2 (FFIV in Japan), Final Fantasy 3 (FFVI in Japan), Chrono Trigger, and Earthbound immediately come to mind as great soundtracks.

If you want to listen to soundtracks for SNES games, you can use Audio Overload (free and multi-platform): http://www.bannister.org/software/ao.htm

The music from SNES games is stored in SPC files (individual songs) and RSN files (collection all SPC files for a game). The files are extremely small. You could probably fit the soundtracks for every official SNES game into a few dozen megabytes. You can learn more about the format at the Video Game Music Preservation Foundation wiki: http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/SPC

The London Philharmonic has some great video game cover albums as well.
You don't want to transplant from someone that died from cancer or AIDS etc. You want healthy organs and they tend to come from accidents.
A Web Spreadsheet (in 99 Lines of Code)
Mezzano: https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
Not publicly documented, but CNN's ingest scheduling system (basically the backend that says "at this time, record this incoming feed, on this encoder, associate it with this metadata", and all the ensuing complexity that comes with finding a free encoder, responding in the event of hardware failure, allowing users to plan recordings that there isn't space for, etc) is in Erlang. Because it needed to be bullet proof; if it goes down, CNN doesn't record incoming video.

Had Elixir been mature at the time, we would have used it instead.
Unroll.me literally sold Uber data about Lyft receipts in people's Gmail boxes.
Always?

It is highly related to status. Places where many work outside correlates with a beauty standard of paler skin. Where many work inside we like tanner skin. Some places desire mates to be fat, others prefer skinny. And this depends on many parts of the society, with a lot dealing with social standing.

Evan Hadfield (The astronaut's sun) has a good video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exeUTS9ZElM
If anyone from eBay is reading: why do u disable pasting password from password manager? This has made me to have a small password. Please..
Seeing things like this puts a big smile on my face because I can take satisfaction that I'm on the right track and not crazy with some of my projects.

I'm actually using newskool-like effects in a game I'm writing. I'm writing it directly against X11, exactly as I would have back in 1996 when I discovered X. No SDL or other abstraction layers like that -- not even XShm. The thing about X11 that not a lot of people realize today is that it is fast. You can easily generate a quite complex game display -- at 60 fps -- just by loading sprite images into pixmaps and sending XCopyArea draw calls (with appropriate mask pixmaps) for each frame. I found that this was possible in the 90s on hardware that is quite weak by today's standards.

What you can't do is easily and quickly draw transformed (e.g., scaled, rotated, mirrored, or palette-swapped) images to the display. But! You can precompute such images and send them over as pixmaps, for example when the level loads, and then use XCopyArea as usual, and that'll get you pretty far.

I was inspired by two similar techniques from old-school game development:

* the use of precomputed scaled versions of a platform to make a pseudo 3D effect in Sonic 3D Blast on the Sega Genesis

* Smoothly moving sprites in Commander Keen. Because of the EGA's planar memory layout, it's potentially very slow to draw a sprite at arbitrary pixel locations. Most developers punted, and so Duke Nukem in his very first game moves horizontally in jerky 8-pixel jumps. Carmack's solution to the problem of smooth scrolling in Keen was to use EGA register trickery. His solution to the problem of smooth sprites was simply to cheat like mad and precompute four sprite images for Keen and the other moving sprites in the game, one image for every two pixels of the sprite's x position mod 8.
Before you get into edge cases I'd focus on the bulk. That's a far more productive way to spend your budget.
Work remote and rent an office from a law firm.
An innocent. Go watch this video from the Internet Advertising Bureau.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Glgi9RRuJs
Mailchimp vs. Klaviyo
> What's the problem with that though?

You don’t just delegate authentication. I trust Facebook to authenticate me. That doesn’t mean I trust them with my entire web presence. Delegating authentication promotes centralisation, which is presently to be a greater systemic risk to the Internet than some kitty picture site getting hacked.
Hello all! My name is Michael Arnold and I've recently launched a new product App Pile ( www.apppile.com ) , which is currently under a private beta release. App Pile converts Axure designs into native Android & React Native projects complete with source code. Not just source code, but readable, editable, expected code. As mentioned, it is a beta release which means the native Android offering has a stable build while the React offering is nearly complete and should be done in the next week or so. (But is still included with every download) Axure is a design program similar to Invision/Sketch/Marvel and recently created a plug in which lets you import Sketch projects, so defacto App Pile works for Sketch as well. Please check out my latest post which explains the product in a little more detail.
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I spend a lot of time in Ethiopia for my company. In many parts of Addis Ababa, the entire skyline is under construction - you can't look up anywhere without seeing a new building in progress. The sound of hammers is ubiquitous. You can tell the place is booming.

Most of the large construction projects are run by Chinese companies, especially the Chinese State Construction Corp. New airport terminal, ministries, hotels, convention center, light rail, and so on. This has caused some discussion around Chinese taking construction jobs etc. You'll see these state-funded Chinese construction projects in pretty much every African country.

Although Addis is booming, the population still primarily lives in the countryside, and their quality of life is a lot lower. It's misleading to look at average income across the entire population because the city's economy is so far ahead of the rest of the country. This has probably contributed to some of the unrest.
He was not, macro libraries like defmacro and define-syntax were later addition to lisp. Well before formal macro systems were implemented, code-as-data was particularly useful for implementing the eval function in Lisp (the Lisp 1.5 implementation takes up less than a page), which greatly simplified the process of implementing compilers and interpreters.
Shifty Jelly has never let me down either, but they got acquired by NPR. Neither has Q Branch, but they ran out of money and had to shut down. Business for indies isn't predictable. Is AgileBits going to be around in 10 years? I hope so, but I think it's far more likely that they'll be swallowed up by some other company, at best. After getting burned by this over and over again, I just think it's more sensible to stick to OSS options that will probably exist in some compilable state even in the distant future.
A lot of trains have a high top speed yet average under 50 mph. What’s it take to get the average speed to 120 kph, for example?
Iron Throne
Except the court has also ruled that simply keeping your job is sufficient "consideration".
Yeah, it's a great project :)

Flockademic attempts to help researchers promote their work without relying on publishing it in "prestigious" (and often paywalled) journals. I'm hoping to have quality research get its authors known as sources of credible research, rather than its journal.

I'm also currently in the process of applying for a grant for some exciting work that aims to solve the same problem in collaboration with preprint servers, but whether that materialises depends on the success of those applications. If you're interested and don't mind the occasional Flockademic spam, you can sign up for updates here: https://tinyletter.com/Flockademic
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Ask HN: I think my company might be selling. What should I be doing to prepare?
Some recent events have led me to believe my employer is pitching the sale of our small startup. I have a small amount of equity in the company that is nearly fully vested. I know that its a long process and nothing is inevitable, but is there anything I can be doing now to be prepared for the exit in relation to my equity? I'm not concerned with being out of a job and prepping for my next gig but I'm sure others who find themselves in the same position might be.

I'd also love to hear anecdotal stories of sales from an employee with equity.
Why are you polluting threads about the GDPR with countless low quality top level comments?
What I see is geofencing and consolidating of power (google, faceboo etc).
Humble Bundle: Web design and development ebooks
Don't remember ever hearing Emmet growing up on Scilly, but heard grockle plenty.
The costs could be a big deal for small businesses.

Take a business about as far away from data as you can imagine. For instance, a business that makes replacement knobs for antique radio restorations. They have a website with an online catalog and a shopping cart where you can order replacement knobs, pay online, and they ship the knobs to you.

They collect your name and address for shipping, your email address to contact you if there are any questions or issues with the order and to give you order processing updates, and payment information.

If this business is offering their goods to people in the Union, that data collection falls under GDPR, and they have to have a designated representative in the Union.

I've not been able to find anything so far on (1) how some random small business in the US goes about finding someone to be their designated representative in the EU, and (2) what they will have to pay that person to take do so.
Maybe PHP AJAX forms take a lifetime to master, compared with what people learn nowadays.
Is brain elasticity an objectively scientific thing? Can it be measured? It seems like an invention to fit observed mental rigidness with age.
it's passwords all the way down.
Isn't it common for babies to eat dirt if you don't stop them? Just don't stop them.
What is the Euphrates River.
It's great and we'll used in my library (outside Helsinki). Generally my perception is that it's a mix of kids printing silly things and adults printing spare parts and useful things. I've seen people print parts for their drones and some other odd spares.
In my library they have 5 Ultimaker 2's and they are all in use most of the time.
Worth nothing is that using them is free, and unsupervised, you just book them online and go there and plug your SD card or "lend" a card from the library to use with a dedicated 3d print computer.

You are required (or encouraged not sure) to do a quick intro course though where they show how to change color and start the print.
Announce Who Is Home Using Facial Recognition
(1) If the 'you are the product' maxim is true, then this behaviour of GOOG is equivalent to breaking, entering and stealing the product.

(2) This is not an imaginary slight, a corporation wrote a piece of code with a clear intent to bypass a security setting on a user's device. Would the roles be reversed, charges would be brought against human without the need to prove harm or harmful intent -- DCMA is broad enough for that. Why should GOOG be less burdened by its unethical behaviour?
Lo-Fi Chill hop 24/7 live playlist such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FlxM_0S2lA

Surfpop / Shoegaze mixes, this is one of my faves! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiwd4yCrws0&t=2515s

Artists such as Mogwai

Sometimes skate punk or metal (weirdly first thing in the day to get my brain going!)

Liquid/Intelligent Drum 'n Bass mixes (again good for motivation) This Netsky mix is a classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwTU4IVHlEg
Philp's (in Hayle) make some of the best commercially available pasties (my Cornish wife makes the very best, obvs).
A point of clarification: "She's been dabbling in the tech field since the age of 60." Still impressive though!

Also, the app isn't described until 3/4 into the article: "The app, based on the annual Japanese doll festival of Hina Matsuri, invites players to arrange 12 ornamental dolls --- representing the country's emperor, family and guests --- in a specific order."
In deed, gives the pasty such a bad name.

A homemade pasty and a cup of tea was a Saturday evening ritual after getting back from the beach/out on the boat.
Google invested 40 human years to assess GDPR readiness of its products
Since they did more tests the following day and didn't see improved performance, it doesn't seem likely related to thermal limiting in software.

If I were to guess, it would be that in a sudden stop, something inside the brake mechanism heats up so much it bends or deforms, and then doesn't work so well after that.

If my guess is correct, it could be an expensive recall...
That's not so simple. The class file, I believe, does have the generic instance at the use site, but then if you could have two overloads, foo(List<String>) and foo(List<Integer>), which would you call if you use a raw type (either in Java or from other languages). It's not that Java is a JVM macro assembler so much that there is not much to be gained from this feature given the rest of Java, and Java has a very different design philosophy from Scala, as it aims at a different audience. If and Java evolves in that direction, perhaps this feature would change. In the meantime, those who like Scala can use Scala.
The iab has a CMP proposal to create consent dialogs on page load. See eg http://advertisingconsent.eu/ and an implementation by Quantcast https://www.quantcast.com/gdpr/quantcast-choice-self-serve/ . I don't actually expect this to help much, but they're trying.

I also think you will see some acquisitions of crappy publishers with lots of pageviews so that advertisers can get an end-user touch point.
You'll likely be amazed at how many Americans would defend 'the freedom to ruin it for others', quite like asbestos was clearly a bad idea very much before its use was ceased.

Typically the US only understands two paths: free, or not. So either we get all these nasty virii both in government labs, and at home, and likely all sorts of places, or we just leave it at the government labs and when we all (or specific groups of people, as one can target specific genes nowadays) die nobody will know why but whatever.
I also found this article about the Mandaeans in Massachusetts:

https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-10-06/these-iraqi-immigrant...
The CIA made a Magic: The Gathering-style card game for training agents
Missing microbes 'cause' childhood cancer
I just listen the two first episode of the podcast, and i just want to say thanks you.
Strangely, this is just what i needed.
This podcast is truly something.
> I, too like more flight safety/healthcare hygiene/safer cars, but think for a second about this: who can afford more regulation?

As an end-user/customer, I’ll have the regulated version every single time, thank you.

You can reframe this either way you like, but what it will come down to is that IT has so far been one of the few completely unregulated industries, with only its own merits to show for why such regulation shouldn’t be needed. So far it’s not doing a very good case for itself.

People like Alan Kay has warned about this. If we don’t start taking our profession seriously (like doctors take not killing their patients seriously), someone else will. And then the future of programming will be legislated.

If that’s how it all will turn out, that’s because we as a industry has deserved it.

The GDPR is merely about basic decency and should only be considered a taste of what the future holds. Unless we ourselves show that we can act responsibly without further regulation.

Edit: Ofcourse if you are the world’s biggest privacy-violater with 100s of thousands of employees worldwide working every day to mine and AI even more shit out of you, ofcourse trying to get GDPR-compliant will take some effort. That’s the whole fucking point.

Smaller businesses treating user-data decently and with respect won’t have any such issues or conflicts of interests.
> "it is unlikely"

Isn't the uncertainty part of the problem?
I'm talking about the general populace not only actually reading a prompt but understanding it. Based on how people interact with computers/phones, I do not have a lot of faith in their abilities on this end.

I didn't propose an alternative but there's a huge difference in awareness between a physical in-person "update" vs an OTA update.

For something as serious as changing brake handling, I'm sure they would have some sort of prominent display/cannot continue until you agree prompt but there's always going to be people who do not read things in their entirety. For something that can be destructive as a car, I don't find that acceptable.
I'm curious as to what this will look like with using e-scooter rentals to replace some of the shorter rides.
Just a few years ago, Libya was the jewel of Africa and led in almost every social and economic metric. I wonder what happened there to throw them so horribly off course?
There will be some places where this will have a huge impact. For instance in the cases of real time bidding on advertising through open exchanges based on data about the user.

I think it is also an opportunity though, we might be able to roll back some of the more annoying ad-tech and get users to selectively switch off ad blockers again.

Another option is that more parties will switch to advertising space sold directly to media buyers without all those intermediaries (much like it used to be until we started to track everything and anything).

Once you are logged in to Google you can turn off the targeting of the ads through this link:

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

Slide the slider at the top right of the page to the left and confirm the change, targeted ads gone. This takes about 10 seconds or so if you are already logged in to Google.
It’s Called Distributed Computing, Even When It Shouldn’t Be
you are referring to pdf viewer exploits, you can circumvent most of them by either using linux or utilizing less targeted pdf viewer software like sumatra.
That's just not at all true.

Even if your business is nothing like selling user data -- say you're Dropbox, or Box, or Microsoft, or similar -- your sales and marketing org is going to get walloped by the GDPR. How do you run a compliant cold outbound process? The EU has largely declined to tell people.
The problem I have with every ORM I've used is it feels tacked on. The only framework that I know that treats queries like a first class citizen is .Net. The beauty of Linq -> Expression Trees -> data store can't be overestated.

The fact that you can use the same Linq expressions in your code and they can be translated to in memory Lists, Sql, or even MongoQuery at runtime is beautiful.
Next iteration of this will be ads that won't be "done" and give way to the actual content until you have looked at them, blinking at a normal pace, following the ad action (faces, etc.).

And answered some questions about the and, even :)
I'm not sure how true this is. As the car's weight increases so too does the grip, as it's a function of down-force multiplied by the roughly constant coefficient of friction of the tires.

Conceivably, the car's weight may mean that aerodynamic down-force produces a relatively smaller impact on grip, and air resistance a relatively smaller deceleration. But I'm not sure that's enough to account for the difference.
I believe that the class file does retain the specific generic instance at the use-site, it's just that there isn't much type-specific optimization that's applicable to reference types beyond what HotSpot does anyway (which is stronger than what would be available by the generic instance type information). It's possible that Java AOT compilers could make use of this information.
Well, it doesn't fix the greater problem of research being mostly behind disproportionately priced paywalls, but it does solve researchers' immediate problem of access to research. Yes, it's (mostly) illegal and no, I wouldn't endorse it, but I can't blame them too hard either, especially not by drawing on their "voluntary" paywalling of research.

Long term, hopefully there are other ways, and there are plenty of people (including myself) trying to affect that change. If there was an easy way, I'm positive that we'd have found it already, unfortunately. That's not to say that change is in the air, and it might be for the better.

(Btw, as for journals jacking up their rates: most of those rates are pretty non-standard, and the result of "Big Deal" negotiations with university libraries behind closed doors. However, both the pressure of Sci-Hub and publication of the results of some of those negotiations have led to the representatives of public money now having a much stronger negotiating position, so if anything, I'd only expect rates to go down in the short term.)
This reminds me of the DW documentary I watched on their (Chinese) "aid" work in Africa. The Chinese gov lends money to they country and makes them use Chinese companies to do all the work and thus effectively brings much of the money back while dropping the legal obligation on the citizens of that nation.
I've had trouble finding sources this early when it comes to Portugal concerning trade. Portugal seem to have been more involved starting from when the strait of Gibraltar opened up to christians and ships from the Mediterranean sea could sail up to the north sea. An opportunity in itself that seem to have had a negative impact of the trade fairs of inland france and germany. Although, i'm unsure to what extent this damage had.
I thought JetBrains was Czech.
For a long time I thought you couldn't get swedes in Canada (for my mum's mashed swede and bacon recipe). Finally figured out that's what rutabaga is.
on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17120082
The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce
It will be interesting to see how many of the items on that list the plaintiffs can prove in a court of law, as such proof would be necessary to claim of damages... Well, in US law at least, as I understand it. I'm a lot less familiar with the UK.

But even under a civil-court "preponderance of evidence" standard, wouldn't you have to prove some material harm to be eligible for damages (not just the potential of the data perhaps maybe being misused possibly)?
No opinion, but you definitely need to read Exhibit B from the Damore lawsuit if you're considering Google.
I know people that worked there and having Theranos on their resume caused them to not get an interview at at least one company.
1960s Navigational Databases
TBH, it'll just probably annoy people and those who do it will be seen as desperate. Kinda like the fake hair ads: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/12/11/16763664/sneaker-ad...