skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The big difference is when deciding on an action, each general only needs to eventually learn the action to take.

This is implicitly dropping the requirement that the actions be coordinated.

When the message is what to do, the when must have been previously agreed upon (e.g. "dawn of the day after we figure out what we're going to do").

> using this algorithm will eventually finish

No, the same problem exists as in the other scenario: neither general knows when the other learned the correct action to take, and cannot schedule it correctly.
Similar can be sad about people getting emotional when watching something like the Bachelorette (or anything sad/happy, really) no?
I'm halfway through Lilith's Brood / the Xenogenesis series from Octavia E. Butler, and I'm loving it. Despite the sci-fi angle, it feels like this is how things could play out if we were introduced to a mostly well-intended alien species.

The first book is mostly conversation in interview form, but I was drawn in tight and didn't want to put it down.

The audiobook performance for this series is fantastic.
Ive read it and to be honest found it very dissappointing. SciFi is not about characters, its about ideas and what they do with society. Characters are just for authors who secretly crave to write "real" literature, and have no intersting ideas to explore.

As always its just my opinion, but i read it and found it lacking.

Read Le Guin instead, she had ideas and a wry sort of humor, which could be best described as situational comedy for ideologys.
Greg Egan's Diaspora was very good.
I’m a big fan of the foundation series.

Another book which I recently enjoyed was Dragon’s Egg.
That bit had me scratching my head. To me the law of large numbers had to do with stats. But apparently, MBAs have come up with their own completely unrelated "law".
I am just finishing reading the Hyperion Cantos which is an absolutely inspired masterwork by Dan Simmons.

I can’t stand rereading / rewatching anything, this series is so rich that it feels like reading fresh material all over again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos
Given voter turnout rates around 50% for presidential elections and even lower for House and Senate votes, getting the vote out is an old-fashioned but still viable strategy without resorting to ranked choice.

I doubt voters are sufficiently aware or engaged in most issues to make ranked choice effective.
I'd love to be wrong about this, but I don't see them as privacy oriented - only marketed as such.

Mozilla made it harder for me to handle my passwords. In their effort to not lose market share and to market themselves as ecosystem rather than a browser vendor, they did horrible things to their password storage. Sync1.1 was tolerable. Accounts+Sync1.5 is an abomination. It's bloated beyond reason, full of weird protocols and formats mixed in odd ways. I'm not even remotely a strong engineer but I can't call what Mozilla made there "good engineering".

And I spent some time writing my own implementation of Accounts and Sync, so I believe I can assure myself my opinion is not completely baseless but relies on some first-hand experience (my crappy code is not good engineering - but neither I claim it such)
I thought the Dune series was most excellent.

Also any Asimov books.

I also quite enjoyed Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity.

As for lighthearted...you can't go wrong with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I highly recommend Off to be the Wizard, https://audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Off-to-Be-the-Wizard-A.... It’s fun and lighthearted.

Also the Bobiverse series. https://mobile.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/We-Are-Legion-W...
They will be in the next 5 years.
Rick Cook's "Wiz" series (SV programmer transported to a fantasy realm, invents programming language for magic, hijinks ensue) meets your criteria (fun, lighthearted, new ideas), I think:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/43084-wiz

Spider Robinson's "Callahan's" series is also great, especially if you like puns:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/49629-callahan-s
No, Prettier offers a better approach for standard rules.
Otherwise I use ESLint.
This 21-year-old’s 3D-printed aquatic jetpack makes scuba fins look prehistoric
I used to run a BBS in Florida (904 area code) on an Atari 800XL with two acoustically coupled 300 baud modems. I eventually found a pair of 1200 baud USRobotics modems at a garage sale (!) for $50 (!!), and started curating ANSI graphics and RIP menus and Atari demoscene (such as it was), along with all the code and scans I could find for Atari projects (like a WeFax decoder, my favorite).

Man, I was so addicted to Door programs like TradeWars.

I ended up going to a few (I guess you'd call them) meetups of other SysOps and learning all I could about FidoNet and NNTP gateways and so many things I think I'm starting to ramble out of pure nostalgia.

Those were the days; watching a roughly pixelated scan of a swimsuit model slowly paint on the screen while downloading at 300bps via ZMODEM.

Yep. Those were the days.

Especially when your BBS was running on your home phone lines, and your older brother needed to call his $%{*3H# NO CARRIER
Ask HN: Found Wildcard AlphaSSL Cert Private Key of Large Webhoster – What Now?
I just stumbled upon the wildcard ssl certificate private key protecting the control panels of my (rather large) webhoster - it was world readable inside a common directory accessible by all tenants on the server.

The webhoster ignores my requests to revoke / replace the certificate / making this file not world-readable.

The certificate was issued by AlphaSSL.

What should I do?
2018 is assumed
Dune. Definitely Dune.
The most epic sci-fi world that is so far in the future it feels like it could be middle earth. Politics, mysticism, prescience, intergalactic travel build an amazing world that feels utterly alien but still relatable.

It’s like reading about modern battles between oil, culture and money, but in countless years and star system into the future.

Honorable mentions for Hyperion and Neuromancer for my favorites :)
> unintentional backwards incompatibilities

You mean a bug? Because that's what that is and it is no different from any other bug, and like any other bug they are outside the scope of dependency specifications as they are unintended.
I was going to say it'd be even more interesting if it were OCI-compliant, but I forgot Oracle already wrote an OCI-compliant container runtime in Rust: https://github.com/oracle/railcar

Though I've never really heard of folks using OCI runtimes other than `runc` and kata/clearcontainers. (edit: I guess Chromium uses `run_oci`)
Conversely, when someone writes out an argument with ideas and thoughts behind it and you come in and say "nah you're wrong", that doesn't actually make the argument wrong. And then when you're presented with more supporting arguments and you just say "I know you're wrong, but I have no arguments to actually prove you wrong", that still doesn't actually prove my argument wrong.

All you've done is said "nah bro", and when challenged, you then insulted my intelligence while admitting you have no actual argument against me. All you seem to be able to argue against is my argument style and then later my intelligence, which is not an argument against my opinion at all.

I'm really disappointed here, I wanted an actual conversation about why helicopters are not considered flying cars and all I get is someone saying "they're not because I said they're not".

Please, please actually argue against my points or don't argue at all. Insulting me is not an argument.
I'd recommend "The Player of Games".

Not light-hearted, but definitely pretty fun in places. And a cracking story - I go back to it and dip in randomly every few months.
Yeah High Sierra was what broke for me: https://github.com/scrod/nv/issues/365

Maybe it's working now?
Yes, JavaScript also has a single namespace, like a Lisp-1.

The advantage of a Lisp-2 is that it makes macro writing easier; you can include calls to known functions in the expansion without having to deal with the possibility that those names have been shadowed.
Costa Rica, Iceland, and Uruguay run almost entirely on renewables. Other countries are catching up quickly.
Try Stanislaw Lem's "His Master's Voice".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice_(novel)
1. The Liaden books, by Steve Miller and Sharon Lee. Space Opera covering the death of a universe and migration into a new one; dastardly villains, reluctant heros, gripping plots, sentient tree.

2. The tales of Vlad Taltos, by Steven Brust. Gods, swords, elves, humans, cooking, and one of the best snarky first-person narrators ever. Has a side series of five books pastiching Alexander Dumas.

3. The Vorkosigan universe, by Lois McMaster Bujold. Best characters; you'll care about their fates.

4. Seanan McGuire's Incryptid series. There are monsters hiding among us; the Covenant of St. George was founded to find them and kill them. The Covenant are the bad guys.
even E17 did finally end up releasing despite all the jokes
Agreed. I read it in one sitting and sits very up on my sci-fi hall of fame
But April isn't, and (April 2018) is less confusing than just a bare (April).
The Story of Your Life was really remarkable. A collection of short stories, only one of which Arrival was based on. The others are equally intriguing and unique.
You are correct. It bakes semantic versioning into the dependency system making it a requirement vs. just a convention.
Short disturbing story: the metamorphosis of prime intellect
Here is the citation for the actual paper, including a link for its download without fee or login:

Sunstein, Cass R., On Preferring A to B, While Also Preferring B to A (March 21, 2018). Forthcoming, Rationality and Society; Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 18-13. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3132428
> I was a freshly baked postgraduate in Melbourne

Oh man I knew this was going to be a disaster when I head they were going straight into a grad degree.

I'm still on the fence about if CS students can actually program before working in industry, but doing a grad program that isnt paid for by Industry was a major red flag.

On the bright side, it sounds like OP learned tons and tons and tons. While the game flopped, I bet they could throw together a top notch program in a year with their lessons learned.
I'm waiting for the day when 'async' will be the default function type and 'await' will be the default type of function call.

If anywhere down the callstack a function needs to await something it has to become an async function. And this needs to be done to the whole callstack recursively. So over time more and more functions of every codebase turn into async functions.
Saturn's Children. It's a neat idea for a story(humans have died off and robots have colonized the solar system) and it's pretty well written.
As one who can recollect the old days where one had to pick up the phone and read catalogs to source a supplier, I'd suggest he didn't do that bad - MS is still around and generating billions, after all. But he botched a few potential growth vectors along the way - think mobile or SaaS.
Give a shot to Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber (fantasy, not sci-fi). From his sci-fi, the one I’ve read most times (so far) is Lord of Light.
The Ted Chiang anthology is sooo good. Every story's premise was so unique - it blows my mind that one person can come up with so many out there ideas.

I know OP wasn't looking for dystopias, but if you like Parable of the Sower, I recently read two excellent new scifi/dystopia books: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, and American War by Omar El Akkad. American War was really cool - it's by a journalist who covered military trials at Guantanamo Bay and the Arab Spring, who transposes the stories/atrocities he witnessed as a reporter onto the future US.
Asimov's original "Foundation" - it's effectively a collection of 4,5 short stories. I recommend to remain at a discreet distance from the rest of the series. While good within the universe, they are ... different.

"Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead" by O.S.Card. (Do not touch Xenocide without a hazmat suit. And if you do, burn it before reading.)

"Snow Crash" by Neil Stephenson.

"Rendez-vouz with Rama" by Arthur C. Clarke.

If you're up for some thought-provoking stuff, "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Heinlein. Not the easiest read but your carve-out basically rules out "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".

"Embassytown" by China Mieville.

EDIT: I forgot "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons.
Just 7 years? That's surprisingly short in game development terms, especially where certain examples of vapourware/overly ambitious titles/indie games are concerned.

I mean, this guy took 13 years to make his dream game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b0tSu0QDQ0

Duke Nukem Forever infamously took 15 years to make.

And well, as Metacritic shows in this list, 5/6/7 year development times are not too uncommon in general:

http://www.metacritic.com/feature/games-that-shed-vaporware-...

It gets all the more insane with mods and hacks too, since fan projects don't have any real pressure to get released at all, so overly OCD creators can spend decades on projects without having a publisher telling them to hurry up.

Mushroom Kingdom Fusion started in 2007 and only got cancelled in 2015, with the last demo being version 0.5. Brutal Mario had its first known demo released in 2006, and is still (presumably) in development in 2018. May be longer, said first demo was actually number demo 6.

In the Doom community, Mordeth apparently started in 1997, and was (probably) still in development just a few years ago. If it ever does get finished, it would have been in development so long that Duke Nukem Forever would have started and finished its own development in the middle of this game's dev cycle.

Really, games can take a really long time, especially if you don't have much in the way of monetary pressures or nagging publishers. And hey, who knows what projects will turn out to join that list in future. For all we know, thousands of people may have been working on games since the 90s, with their finished product only being released sometime in the next few years.
Came here to say that Hyperion to me is a SF masterpiece.
The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

First read it as a teen in the 80s and still rate it as one of the best SF books ever written. Well paced and enormous fun.

The Player of Games by Iain M Banks.

Probably the most self-contained of the Culture series and the least heavy SF of them. Which makes it a great starting point.
To be fair, if you google the first steps in choosing a library, you are going to get bombarded with people suggesting you do things from scratch avoiding any boilerplate that people before you worked on.

You know... for customization and some obscure problem that one person ran into...
Didn't sysops usually give donators extra time? Not sure if that mattered, I didn't spend much time playing those games.
But why "pedo"? Why not ahole or something less specific. Is there something Musk knows about the guy?
Or reading.[0][1][2] When we read a book, we put ourselves into the positions of the characters and our brains react as if it were so.

0. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/brain.2013.0166

1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/novel-finding-rea...

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-neuros...
That does not make him an engineering and/or business genius with carte blanche to behave as an entitled thin skinned idiot online. He's reached critical hype mass, there's enough people that think ha can make no mistakes and that everything he says must be true and smart.
I always considered the HC to be Hyperion and The Dawn of Hyperion. They as entity, leaving things open but felt cohesive. Would you recommend the later Endymions?
The Shockwave Rider, by John Brunner. Read it, compare it to the Internet we have today, and marvel at all he was able to foresee back in 1975.
Dune - enough said.
They raised $10M according to crunchbase, likely on the premise of building a BI solution
John Scalzi's Old Man's War series is really enjoyable.
I want to reflect on that this is still done without any garbage collector.
To Batch or Not to Batch
Another recommendation from me too. This series takes you to some magical places and ideas.
Async being a “default” function type doesn’t make much sense unless you’re doing io. If you’re just computing, you often can’t proceed without the result and want to proceed as soon as you have the result—i.e. blocking. Both are critical to getting good performance.

I’m curious if discerning which is the best type is possible to tool automatically with static or tracing analysis.
My greatest fear is becoming a meme or going viral for the wrong reasons. I feel terrible for this woman. She did not ask for her privacy to be invaded, or her personal life to go viral. In the future it would be best to avoid barging into peoples lives, printing their personal conversations and life for all to see, critique, and humiliate. That's what journalists are for.
True, but in those case they are also much better served by TSMC rather then Intel.
Haven’t read anything more hard-sci-fi than Egan myself (Clockwork Rocket, quite good). From comments from the OP Egan may not suit (but very recommendable nevertheless)
Read Philip K Dick, specifically his Valis "trilogy": combine drugs, God's 2nd coming, it's marketing campaign competing against junk food, time travel, and God changing it's multiple minds mind way through. There's Sci Fi and then there's Mind fuck Sci Fi, which PKD is the master, after perhaps William S. Bourroughs and Stanisław Lem, both startling writers requiring one to suspend conventional thinking of expectations of reality to comprehend where they are taking you.
Just about to chime in about Vernor Vinge myself - awesome conceptuals and well written
Self-Driving Race Car at Goodwood Festival of Speed
Does anyone know if something like this exists for Ruby and or Java?

Best I've found is a few libraries supporting JSON Schema.
Enom Domain Transfer Site, SSL Expired
The Star's My Destination by Alfred Bester (also known as Tiger Tiger). Really great Count of Monte Cristo type plot with teleportation and a great antihero. I'm surprised it hasn't been adapted to film or long form series yet.

Anathem by Neal Stephenson is superb and I recommend you carve out some time to really let it soak in. Anything by Neal is phenomenal, but Anathem stands out for me.

Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson is my favorite sci-fi book I've read in a while. Generation ships, AI, and a fascinating narrative perspective. I'm a sucker for realistic/hard scifi with well-researched technical explanations, and KSR is among the best.
One of the more under appreciated features of Mailinator is the fact that they’ll take any mail sent their way, regardless of the email address domain. This means that, if @mailinator.com is blocked for a given site, you can use any number of aliases for it and still get through (my personal favorite is @devnullmail.com), or you can even set up an MX record pointing at Mailinator and effectively use a custom domain.
The process of amending the US constitution is exceedingly difficult. Whether that's wise or not, telling someone who is unhappy with the US constitution to change it is unproductive.
Nitpick, RJ-11, but before that was a four-prong.
This is exciting. It allows programmers to model their problems in code that fully accounts for the parallelism.

For comparison, here is async/await in Zig: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Coroutines

Zig decided to go the other way - when you async call a function, it does eagerly evaluate until the first suspend point. This is less overhead than immediately suspending, plus it removes the dependency of the language feature on a userland event loop. Users who want the immediate suspend feature can call a userland utility method of the event loop which suspends and then tail calls the async function in question.
Thx.

OK, so that makes it sound like it has nothing to do with GOPATH.

But interesting (annoying?) that vendor won't kick in unless you specifically ask for it.
Fully agreed with that. Along with LOTR are the series that I did read most times. The first book can also be seen as an antology of short stories, each one superb, but the total is far more than the sum of the parts.
Does anyone really find it surprising that you can do contortions around KL divergence among candidate probabilistic models to the point of shoe-horning some analogue of thermodynamic laws and equilibria into machine learning? I don’t find this either surprising, illuminating, or interesting.

It reminds me of the “information geometry of boosting” section of [0].

[0]: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2fad/679058e465fc07f942cfed...
analogies are like entries in a compression dictionary, good analogies are like succinct data structures in their ability to approach the theoretic lower bound.
For security reasons, we keep JavaScript disabled even when browsing our own websites (which are ran on remote servers). If it was locally developed, it wouldn't be a problem to have JavaScript enabled.

Also, as a side effect, it's considerably faster browsing the internet without JavaScript enabled.
Having made "async" the default, you've just returned to regular threading, which is what we should have stuck with all along. The thread model is actually pretty useful, the pitfalls are well understood, and the tooling very mature.
I enjoyed the Expeditionary Force audio books (there are 5 of them so far), read by R. C. Bray. Very funny, one of the few books to make laugh out loud while listening to it.

My other favourites are Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained by Peter F Hamilton (and the rest of the books in the Commonwealth series).
This lines up well with McLuhan's revelation that the search for identity is usually correlated with violence [0]. By recognizing organized sports as a "highly-organized form of violence" (his words) you can start to see the corollary.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULI3x8WIxus
Oh Spectrum one of the first computers I've touched with the Amstrad CPC 464 :-)
The theory says it's easy to be delisted, but some very large Telcos have given up and they don't try to be delisted anymore. This task can be very time consuming and they only focus on prefixes of their static pool or business services. For example, prefixes of Telefónica de España have been included in Spamhaus Zen for a while: https://www.spamhaus.org/zen/.

Mailinator is a hack to workaround the spam flood. But for trustable business, the anonymity of the disposable addresses is a big problem because it is not possible to start a marketing process (if you register for a trial, for example, you should be "paying" with your email to let the company start a marketing process. Marketing for a service you have registered is not spam...). More and more companies deny registration from Disposable Email Addresses. Because these users are worthless.

Spam is a plague that hurts good users and trustable business.
I’m going to get blasted on this but what if all this python static type checking and such is not needed. Python is python. It’s slower than other languages and that’s ok. I fear that too much is being done and slowly the clean syntax of the language is being eroded.
Sure... and there are other reasons too, but knowing them doesn't really help solve the problems.
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