skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BTW, the project itself seems interesting. However it may be strange for someone to use this library because you need, for example, to do a:

#define FBG_PARRALEL

For it to work, and for some people this typo will be infuriating or distracting. I recommend the author to fix this typo.
Hey gkya, I'm the author of the post. I basically have been a long time Mac user and now I have a window machine with a VM with Xubuntu where I do all my dev (I only game on windows). When I want to test cross platform I use my wife's Macbook pro. When I develop and maybe don't have enough RAM to use an Android Emulator, I've found running the app on a real device works well actually.
What criteria do you recommend for qualifying the unpaid writing of an individual, as ready for online publication?
I find it interesting how many people on the linked HN threads for previous discussions say they've been in similar situations. I've never had a position where I didn't have anything at all to do for an extended amount of time, though I've only worked for one really large company.

I did work at a pretty reasonable pace on projects that were obviously not a practical idea and would probably never amount to much, while numerous good ideas that could have saved substantial money got ignored. But I didn't really know of anyone who really didn't do anything. Though there was one guy who had less than a dozen commits in a year, all just a couple of lines. But after trying to work with him on something for another project, I think he really was just that bad at coding.
a bunny suit with a tuxedo print would really help your brand.
Not only VR but when pixels are smaller than the area needed to produce light they can become invisible like adverts that wrap vehicle windows. Lets us have cameras and other sensors behind the entire screen.
Someone forgot to enable ML spell check for linter. With big data trained model, linter should be able to catch this.
You may find value in studying some stoic philosophers. They have been pondering this question for a long time and have many insights that I have found valuable.
I do tend to err on the side of inclusivity, but I don't think it becomes meaningless to say that anything can be art. Is there anything physical that can't be made as sculpture? There is engineering and craft in most art to realize it in a permanent form. I disagree that unbridled self-expression is a requirement, heck limitation is often the enabler.

Maybe I'm missing your point, though, and it sounds like I'm saying everyone with a paintbrush is an artist. Certainly many games, even those much less complicated than your game engine diagram, are just made to "work": look pretty, hook players, shift units, sell replays. But I think we can criticize these games for what they lack just as we would for poor visible or audible aspects. We can recognize the existence of an "art film" on the same spectrum as a popcorn-munching AAA blockbuster, if maybe at the shallow end.

I'm not very well-versed in this argument, though I know it has been going on for a long time, sorry if I'm boring you with the easily-rebuttable stuff. I may be trying, as a former game developer and hobbyist game designer, to appropriate something that is better understood much differently. If art has to be the pure expression of one mind, unfiltererd through commercial necessity, engineering, and cooperation, then I have it wrong. I wonder if there's a better term for whatever it is I mean, entertainment doesn't seem to do it justice.

(Edit) fwiw I am trying to understand where you're coming from, too, sorry if this got too argumentative. I was intrigued by your observations about playing games and just a bit confused why you seem to reject game design as an art, as small a part of the whole product as it is.
Netflix's profit has only started to grow big enough in the past few years to even become a blip on those massive companies radar.
This is a bit pedantic, but this type of entity component architecture, isn't really the architecture that "Entity Component System" has come to describe. ECS usually refers storing the components separately and looping over each one (or small groups of them) separately.

For instance, you could a physics system that loops over all of the velocity and position components and increments the positions by the velocity and a collision system that loops over the position components and handles collision.

>memory locality

The system you're describing has less memory locality than the ECS system described above. That's the main benefit of the added complexity of storing components separately. Another big benefit is that you can store different components in different types of data structures depending on how you need to access them.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the ECS I'm talking about is necessarily better. It's not normally needed, and it's almost definitely overused by games that don't need it.
Consumers aren't an undifferentiated mass either. Why are paying customers sitting through 5 minutes of FBI warnings in front of DVDs because some other people pirate? These arguments go both ways but a large portion of this forum seems to only view it from the companies perspective
That depends on what the law is and if it is ever enforced.
If you're anywhere near Seattle (or any other tech hub for that matter), you really should be charging by the week. I've noticed through my own experiences that clients can get super micro-managey around here on hourly pay and try to renegotiate discounts if you're not doing something that's strictly "work". Weekly billing takes care of this as they're less likely to argue over the specifics of each day as long as you're making good progress.

As for pricing, seek around $5500/week. This is roughly $130/hr x 40 hours, plus an extra $300 for "crunch time insurance". Again, I don't anticipate clients being picky about this weekly fee as long as you're meeting their needs. Heck, you could probably knock off 4-5 hours a week (eg Friday afternoons off) and still be able to charge this if you were making good progress.

Lastly, since I'm assuming you're contracting, make sure that you're making the decisions about where you're working, what hardware/software you're using to write the actual code, etc. If a company wants you to work in their office on their machines as a condition of a contract, you risk losing your independent contractor status (and the business risks getting fined for avoiding L/I insurance by "subcontracting-but-not-really").

Hope this helps! Don't stress too much, it's summer in the PNW!
This is the best answer, but it raises a difficult question, which is what do you do with a classroom of thirty students?
Have similar feelings, am 32. I miss the old days of ultima online, vanilla wow, shadowbane, can you tell I was a gamer :)

There is something very nostalgic to dialing up to your aol account and opening up a chat with random people. Playing conquest for the first time... wow. I don’t normally live in the past but had to fire up UO playlist this morning.
Adorable and Edible
self-explanatory got one for my dad for fathers day instant smile. http://www.sendafruitey.com
You would think self hosted solutions would be more popular with so called influences.
Hi there, I'm the author of the article. I'd like to clarify that it's not bad at all. Libs exist out there, such as offering a cross platform nav bar, seemless where you wouldn't have to maintain two separate codebases. Also for things like forms, if you have a custom design, you won't be having a lot of "if/else" statements, you'd simply use one set of widgets since they'd be custom.
> For Jared Diamond, the answer to the question of European domination is solely that Eurasia won the agricultural jackpot

This is oversimplified to the point of either being disingenuous or misinformed, and China was discussed in the book. There are valid issues with the work, including environmental determinism[1], but it was a wide ranging pop sci book and as such has many surfaces and incentives for attack.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_determinism
Probiotics fight Cancer
'everything is legal if you scale it up'

Wish I could recall the months old thread I found that in. I believe it was also blockchain-related
Consider freelancing or going into business for yourself.
I know it will but I don't honestly care about downvotes. It is hilarious that people are so dedicated to these obvious scams though.

Literally every ico is a scam aimed at idiots.

Honestly if I met someone that outright said they sell cocaine I would have more respect for them than anyone involved in an ICO
C is in no way typeless.

Furthermore, i would expect a well behaved dev to avoid c at all cost.
This is one of the great things about youtube, that alongside Disney videos you have home made videos. But it doesn't work for kids. Should youtube change? Or parents reliance upon it.
Got any links or a blog that consolidates your findings? I love learning about gnarly hardware, and yes, Saturn takes the cake there. Dual SH2s and VDPs, with scaled sprite quadrilaterals for polygons... what a nightmare!
Predicting the past based on the present is rather difficult. To the point that I suspect we would just be wrong in other ways.
I'm not sure where I mentioned charity?

I wrote an assumption based on what i read in the article.
The curious tale of the man who slapped General Tojo
I think it's one of those sunk cost fallacy. Because you put your reputation and social credit as collateral for a large expected return, you have no choice but to keep living the lie.

Like that aussie dude who keeps telling people he is satoshi. He told the lie for so long that he refuses the remotest possibility that he is amongst the very small minority of people he surrounded himself with that reinforces his reality. The facts don't matter to religious fanatics. They are simply pawns of sociopathic tendencies.
The first cipher gives directions in yards, in this order: east, south, west, north. When followed in order, this gives a location just north of an old dolomite quarry, 3.95 miles from Buford's Tavern. It's not far off the Appalachian Trail, but not so close that you would stumble on it accidentally.
The Balloonfest That Went Horribly Wrong
Do you make them? What glue are you using? Do the eyes move?
You aren't going to have time to resolve everyone's concerns in one large meeting. One on ones are better for hashing out the idea and looking for compromises. Usually there is not some other person you are directly competing against - if there is then it's worth looking at the bigger picture of why you are competing in the first place when ostensibly your on the same team.
You can buy shows and movies a la carte on iTunes and Amazon Video if you want. Perhaps a company should create a $9/month streaming service where each customer gets to choose their catalog personally.
> If you move faster than the government, the letter of the law no longer seems to apply once you have established a substantial market

The track record of firms breaking laws to get ahead is grim. Where running ahead of the law has worked, it involved a trifecta of (a) popular support and (b) a municipal (not state or federal) law challenged with (c) civil (not criminal) penalties.

The narrow opinion this article is based on is limited to Ethereum. It is the personal opinion of a single SEC commissioner (albeit, an influential one).
It's actually the opposite: HN has always had a large contingent of rabid cryptocurrency haters. These commenters show up in large numbers on even highly technical discussions to spam their off-topic pronouncements of moral outrage.
Make them pay upfront for the hotel and then if they can directly attribute 25 guest stays in the future they can a refund. Problem somewhat solved :)
The actual computer driving the display is probably in the pedestal. I was actually wondering at first why there was a glass case around it, but it's almost certainly so that you don't try to pick it up :-) When I worked for a hardware company we did the same thing at shows all the time.
I think you need to go to YouTube and actually watch some of those. They are way, way darker than animals eating each other.

EDIT: a few samples here https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/comments/6o6baf/what_is_el...
I think the headline might be glossing over some important details. There is a subset of ICO's that consulted lawyers and structured their deals in such a way that they don't run afoul of SEC regulations. If you ever see people talking about a "utility token" that is a why they are calling it that. It doesn't give the owner any stake in the company or right to a share of the company's profits. It's more a kin to a virtual currency in a video game the likes of which preceded crypto currencies.

What people really want or where I think the promise of Ethereum in particular really lies is to tokenize traditional assets in the form of ERC-20 tokens in the case of stocks or ERC-721 tokens in the case of unique property. The SEC will need to be involved in the former to make it legal. Both Coinbase and TZero possibly others are working on that now.
one of the most annoying things ever - recently I had to waddle through services offering VoIP solutions (phone support, IVR) and quite a lot of them had only 'contact sales' option... and most of the time they came up with astronomical prices...
On Mathematical Arguments Against Quantum Computing
This is pretty big departure from your original comment. (Which was, I believe, supposed to be something of a rhetorical question, but my reply was to point out that it missed its mark.)

> this is a fundamental problem in the world

Although I agree with your sentiment regarding the corruption of systems, I don't believe merely calling out the problem, especially reducing it to the fundamentals, is helpful.

> Somewhere, we lost our way and forgot that all of these things should serve the common good for humanity.

This implies that (at least modern, Western) society evolved from some kind of kinder, gentler, common-benefit civilization in the past. That's inconsistent with my understanding of history, wherein people behaved toward each other in many ways that are reprehensible.

> we sit around lamenting that this is just how it is and we are too powerless to stop it.

> we loudly proclaim that this is the new natural order and there is nothing to be done about it.

These are either straw-men or self-deprecation (since you were the one who used the shruggie originally).

If you want to discuss how best to change the situation, then I would suggest at least proposing what can be done about it. If you merely want to complain, then I would suggest a different forum.
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> if you ever see people talking about a "utility token" that is a why they are calling it that

The SEC has consistently seen utility tokens as securities. The workaround, so far unproven in court, is the SAFT (simple agreement for future tokens).
There are thousands upon thousands of them (though many have been recently removed). Especially the 3D ones. And they have staggering view counts in the hundreds of millions, due to the compounding effect of quantity, shock factor and recommendation algorithms.
We've had a few thousand years to work out the health risks of alcohol. The health or environmental risks of GMOs are based on scientific predictions made in the last 50 years, rather than centuries of experience passed down through culture. That seems reason enough for a little more caution.
> And it comes at the cost of having to process all of those pixels.

Totally agree. I wish they had stopped at 200ppi phones. I don't understand the logic to spend cpu/gpu horsepower and mwh on a mobile display. I like my phone (LG G6) but really wish I had the battery life and performance dropping the resolution to 1080p would give me.
Can anyone verify if this is fact or fiction?
So, you'd consider for-hire hitmen a fine business, if they pay off your police?
Inside the facility where Kodak brings film back to life
IA Spends Microsoft Antitrust $ on K-12 CS Incentive Fund Microsoft Lobbied For
> Matthew Iles, the chief executive of Civil, said that by selling crypto tokens masquerading as ownership stakes they could raise a large amount of capital without setting any expectation of returns.

It's just another coin capital scam. Launch a crypto coin, get suckers to buy it, go yacht shopping.
See I was going about this with the presumption that those results would be studied, reproduced studied more and fully understood before LabCo. Whiskey made it to market.

Aren't those 'different and unpredictable results' sort of the point when one aims to 'redefine U.S. whiskey'?
I have 700 songs in my various Spotify playlists and growing. Back in the day I would have had to pay $700 for my songs. Now so pay $10 a month.

I pay $10.99 for Netflix. That doesn’t pay for one movie, let alone a dvd box set.
(Spoilers) You can't give away the twist in the title and expect it to be a big reveal at the end. I think the slowest reader will have figured it out when he loses his coding ability again. I was expecting the twist to center around "Where has the narrator's code been going all this time?"

Any actual hacker would drop everything to investigate where the code was coming from, and try to harness it in parallel to become a 10x developer. I don't want it to just be unexplained magic unless it makes some kind of realistic point like Kafka's Metamorphosis.
> Well, why can people trust any other people at all?

I trust (some) people I know, because I know them.
A late night mistake that is mostly fixed. (and there are some other typo errors as well, will check it later on)

Thank you!
Someone do a PR to him
That's not really the criticism. Jared Diamond is very extremely wedded to the environmental determinism theory (this becomes more obvious after you read Collapse; it's somewhat more muted in Guns, Germs, and Steel), and this theory has serious gaping holes that Diamond never really addresses.

One of the problems of GG&S in particular is that the book presupposes that the European colonization of the Americas was inevitable. For anyone who's actually studied that topic--and Diamond pretends that no one has ever done that before, which is a big fat lie--the most immediate and important conclusion is that it was not inevitable. Pre-Columbian history is already a topic where pretty much everything you were taught is completely and totally wrong [1], and Diamond takes these wrong facts as axiomatic, and people constantly suggest Guns, Germs, and Steel to help reinforce the explanation--it's no wonder there's a large amount of exasperation on the topic.

[1] If you want a good book on this, read Charles Mann's book 1491. It's also a great way of showing how a non-specialist in history can competently approach the topic.
You’re just underestimating how disturbing these are, even for adults. Violence, rape, cannibalism, gore, in the creepiest form possible, involving either your favourite cartoon characters or adults dressed in ragged Spider-Man costumes.

EDIT: a few samples here https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/comments/6o6baf/what_is_el...
I think it’s closer to Either
Don't forget Uber and Airbnb ignoring taxi laws and hotel/zoning laws, then expecting that governments change the law to suit them.
I think the backward thinking has problems too. If you ask the wrong questions you will inevitably get to an improper understanding as well. Things make a lot more sense when taken in their proper chronological context, since thats how humans perceive time in the first place.
Marijuana is more states rights vs federal though. Those MJ operations following state law are making a bet on federalism, rather than simply flagrantly ignoring law.
The Wall Street Journal has significantly amplified extremism in the last two years? It is not considered a legitimate journalistic organization? Please give examples.
There are only 3 options we have for dealing with families illegally crossing into the country. Separate children from families, place families together into detention centers, or let the families go free.

The 3rd option we cannot tolerate, and the second option is irresponsible as it's possible many children are being smuggled by human traffickers into the country and may not actually be related to the adults they are with.

Therefore separating children from parents, while uncomfortable, is the only responsible solution we have to a very challenging problem.

Given the significant numbers of people trying to illegally crossing into the country from the southern border - over 50,000 last month - the border must be fortified so the complications and challenges of dealing with illegals can be avoided altogether.
Why not run thelounge on your VM then?
Regarding the similar distribution you pointed out in the plot, I was considering that perhaps the cipher numbers were ordered in a gridlike fashion on the original, such that perhaps vertical or diagonal reading, or more exact positioning would reveal extra information.

So I was browsing the NSA pdf files "The Beale Papers" from archive.org, and apperently according to these files theres even different versions of the CIPHERTEXTS!

It is unclear to me why there would be different ciphertexts floating around, possibly:

1) the pamphlet author published multiple versions
2) after analysis, later authors "fixed" the ciphertexts as opposed to describing the encryption errors in the decoding mechanism
3) flat out disinformation by: the publisher (how does the anonymous author defend the true ciphertext? would other publishers at the time dare to publish a second version of the cipher? how does this author prove he is the same anonymous person?), disinformation by treasure hunters (you can recognnize your own manipulation, but this confuses everyone else)

Do we know what happened with the publisher? did it merge with others, and is it still in existence under a new name? Do they perhaps have any early original (from the box, or original manuscript from the anonymous person, etc...)
That’s misleading. All federal criminal prosecutions are done by the Department of Justice. But when it comes to prosecuting regulatory violations, it usually starts with a referral by the regulator (e.g. the SEC) who otherwise enforces that regulation.

My point is about the regulatory regimes being enforced with criminal penalties, not some technicality over who does the prosecution. I’m not sure why you’re so focused on that.
Guide: How to get exposure to “secrets” and proprietary information
Are natural scientists more masculine than humanists?
I don't have the slightest idea — that's why I teach my own kids.
Just couldn't get past the first season despite being told that it gets better.
To my mind, it's not a big departure from my original comment. But your stance seems fundamentally dismissive, so I think I'm done here.
See, I think the content piece is harder to achieve. Not to take anything away from Netflix’s technical accomplishments, of course, but I think it’s easier to become them than it is to become Disney, or 21st Century Fox.
At only 300 nits, it is not gonna look good in daylight though.
Persi Diaconis is fascinating, it's definitely worth reading through his biography [1].

A small preview: after leaving high school at 14 to travel as a magician, a little more than a decade later he managed to get into grad school at Harvard, largely due to a letter of recommendation about his magic abilities (apparently that's a thing).

I also really enjoyed that he was shy revealing his background in magic to other Stanford faculty until he discovered that Paul Lévy also studied perfect shuffling [2].

[1]: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Diaconis...

[2]: https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Magical-Mind-of-Persi/...
I'll check it out. But yes, Jared Diamond definitely believes in maybe not determinism per se, but definitely geographic, erm, importantism.