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Show HN: Nethack as a Screensaver
https://github.com/tessi/LazyNethack

A screensaver for MacOS which lets you watch random nethack games live played on alt.org/nethack.

I'm a web developer at day, thus this is my first Mac app, screensafter, swift experience. I would be glad about feedback/best practices i missed/random comments.
Theme park offers illegal migrant experience
> the vast majority of YT content doesn't cost anything to create

And does that painfully show. You basically have to build a small TV studio, or invest in computer graphics software and skills, to produce good content on a regular basis. And good writing also. None of these things are free.

And this devalues the time of these independent video producers, They could be producing high value for another business, with appropriate compensation.
Thanks for the template. I based my email off the back of yours.
Not sure why you'd compare Houston to all of California?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_statist...

Just looking at top 50, you've got a real geographic spread - about half of the people are in CA/NE, the rest are split pretty evenly between the four quadrants...
As the founder of a SAAS ad serving company, I can say that as slick as (I think) my platform is, it's not a problem I would want to tackle again. There will be a large volume of technical challenges and required features to support.

It'd be like writing Apache or Nginx from scratch. It seems simple on the surface and then you wake up to all kinds of inconvenient and unexpected technical challenges.

I'm not sure Reddit's engineering resources are best allocated to building ad serving infrastructure and software. It was going to be an ongoing headache from the start, and worse, it sounds like it was build with a language and stack that was fairly new to the team.

My prediction is that it will become a high cost and difficult to maintain project that will also prove difficult to hire for when this engineering team gets tired of working on the (currently new and fun, soon to be old and scary) adserver and moves on to other jobs.

My point being that some challenges are best left to third parties who make solving some problem its full time job. I truly do not say that out of bias, just experience building and managing such a complex system.
Can you provide referrals and / or known good facilities? Direct email welcome.
But he's at the very top. Think about the tens of thousands of others that will have to deal with many of the same problems, but make a thousandth of what he makes. Nobody starts out streaming knowing they will be successful. Most people that became successful through streaming have been streaming for years for little return. The risk they took is ENORMOUS.
I enjoyed reading the first part of this last year, and was thinking of it recently.

As someone who built a bootstrapped company from $40k/y revenue through $3.5M/year over 14 years, before we were shot in the head by our bank, I was thrilled to hear that you were doing something like this, but concerned over the many potholes (pun, I guess, intended) you were going to encounter. One of the biggest ones that was an eye opener for me early in starting and running Scalable was the rent seeking behavior of your suppliers. You wrote this as "Everyone wants a piece of the cake."

Yeah. That. It doesn't get better.

My comments for now are

1) beware of banks and debt instruments. If you can avoid personal guarantees on loans, then sure. Chances are they will say "no guarantee, no money". That money is extremely expensive to you. Avoid it like the plague.

2) beware "partners" and people/companies that claim to want to help you. Do due diligence, deeply, on any organization, including lawyers, accountants, etc. you might consider using. Most will waste your time.

3) hiring ... is ... critical. This is hard as a small co, as you generally can't find great people unless you have a pile of cash. You can try to turn who you can get into great people. But this only works if they are willing and able to learn.

4) Venture capital. Don't get me started.

I'm rooting for you, and like you, I had every ounce of skin in the game. My retirement, my daughters college. Everything.

Understand that things don't always work out the way you intend. Starting over when you are my age is very hard. Consider me as a cautionary tale.

I had a number of folks offer to buy the company. I was too stupid to realize that one should hit a number of singles and doubles to be able to get enough of a base to hit homers and grand slams.

Best of luck, and I've subscribed to the site now.
So what is his competitive advantage over the incumbent providers - the cable company and the phone provider?

Is he offering service in areas they aren’t?
https://www.broadbandsearch.net/service/pennsylvania/scranto...
Automotive finance is responsible for supporting a deadly and inefficient mode of personal transport: cars.

They are heavy, deadly, about 3x less fuel efficient than motorcycles, lead to congestion and sprawl. 3.6m people have died in a car in the US alone.

Lighter, cheaper forms of personal transport like mopeds and scooters would have been extremely dominant in the USA if it weren't for the car lobby.
I wonder if it is even possible to decentralize search. An authority needs to create an index and letting the authority query that index is far faster than downloading gigabytes of data on every single machine that wants to search the decentralized internet.
"How would you like to live in Looking-glass House, Kitty? I wonder if they'd give you milk in there? Perhaps Looking-glass milk isn't good to drink."

Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
I suspect one day, in a distant future, we will discuss the issues of manufacturing with external forces ie gravity, and how only the best products can be made in environments we 100% control.
I feel like that would have happened this time if there were a viable alternative. I know if they kill the ability to opt out of the new redesign I will be looking a lot harder for one.
No it's fine. Just change the rules so black moves first.
What Is the Impact of DevOps on Business Continuity?
Show HN: Galiboo – An A.I.-powered API for music
Hi guys! At our startup, Galiboo, we've created an AI-powered API for music, which can do things like:

- searching for music with natural language
- extracting hundreds of moods & emotions from any track
- finding tracks by tags
- get similar-sounding music
- and more.

The website is https://galiboo.com/, and the API docs are at apidocs.galiboo.com.
We've also got a live demo at demo.galiboo.com.

We also have a Python client library at https://github.com/galiboo/galiboo-python.

Our APIs are in beta, so we'd love to hear your thoughts & feedback! :)

Thanks!
If your error margin is still bigger the scale of what you want to measure...

But I wasn't aaware of that development, so thanks for pointing it out!
> because of limitations in the part of the brain that controls the muscles of the mouth

That makes it sound like it might be feasible to "fix" this. Maybe by implanting electrodes to stimulate these specific muscles and have the electrodes controlled by unrelated moto-neurons (or maybe capture the sign language and apply the correct stimulus).

How far are we from this, are there any research team working on this? Is it ethical to do it? Is it ethical not to do it if we have the means?
What happened to Citynet? They were supposed to wire the whole of Amsterdam with open access fiber. Did they stop after the Reggefiber/KPN acquisition?
By the way, I think this comment [0] sums it up well for many HN folks:

> As a web developer, I like chrome. As a private person, I uninstalled it. You might call it a feature or a core extension, most people consider this spyware.

[0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435...
I'd it possible to share a browser window though? That's a key aspect for us!

Thanks!
If you're both using macOS, the Messages app's screen sharing [1] is seriously good.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/messages/screen-sharin...
Access your music and videos from anywhere
I haven't touched these topics. But in my experience, nearly none of my edits remained, despite providing credible and neutral sources for whatever I added. Usually, there are long-term Wikipedia editors who have put plenty of pages on their watchlist, and treat the pages as their own personal property. Every tiny change is treated as if it were controversial, and must be fought over in the talk pages. Beginners to Wikilawyering and WikiBullying lose these fights. "Anyone can edit" has become a joke.
> Some rabid open-source wonks accused Redis Labs of trying to trick the community into thinking that modules were open source, because they used the word “Apache.” (They were reported to be foaming at the mouth while making these accusations, but in fairness it could have been just drool.)

What an incredibly uncivil article. How can one say this when, in basically every HN thread on this subject, it had to be explained to at least one person that this is not an Apache license?
It's Google's offline dinosaurs birthday today, see it's hat
Honestly I think you make a good point and implicitly they could have used those resources instead to improve the user experience (for example, improve the sites efficiency and load times)
The unpopular perspective on net neutrality
Hurricane Florence on track to hit East Coast as major storm later this week
Im pretty sure Apple has a marketing team patrolling ycombinator.

or fanboys.
After Spying on You, Your Vizio TV Will Ask You to Sue
Another hurricane is barreling toward Hawaii
Yes, I think all three issues won't be issues in 20 or 30 years. I fully expect my children to grow up being able to "spot" digital titles the way I do with spines, and looking at the physical books roughly the way I looked at my grandma's physical ledger-book. (Edited: Although I think you misunderstood me on 3. I am willing to pay for those books, provided the price is sustainable considering the quantity I am consuming, and they are not in English, which may qualify what I meant when I say they largely don't exist digitally currently.)

I meant I can classify 200 books as interesting or not in a minute, obviously not find 200 interesting ones. It takes me 15 minutes to find 4 or 5 books I actually want to read.

One unfortunate side effects of books moving to digital (although, to be clear, books moving to digital is not remotely a bad thing in itself) is that they are getting longer. There is fewer and fewer pressure on authors to limit the length of newer books that are unproven, with the result that people who don't know how to speed read are seeing reading novels as more and more of a daunting thing, which I think is sad.
For me the bigger irony is all that work to serve adds and the adds are all for clickbait websites and/or scams.
> Constant anti-EU propaganda in public

The EU has a ton of structural problems and staying skeptical is in Poland’s best interest.
‘Ryuk’ Ransomware Attacks the Latest Threat
Not at all. The shelves are 18 mm thick multiplex, but they all have a thin 20 mm strip of MDF covering their front edge (overlapping the shelves by 2 mm downwards), so the effective shelve thickness is 20 mm.

The bird's beaks vertically divide each case in increments of 53½ mm. The four practical shelve heights this allows are:

A: 53½ mm × 4 - 20 mm: 194 mm
B: 53½ mm × 5 - 20 mm: 247½ mm
C: 53½ mm × 6 - 20 mm: 301 mm
D: 53½ mm × 7 - 20 mm: 354½ mm

Other configurations don't make much sense, although I do use (53½ mm × 2 - 20 mm = 87 mm) for the special atlas shelves at the bottom.

You may have to adjust these sizes depending on the books you own (particularly paperbacks; they can have regional variations in height). If you go for the bird's beak approach (looks really classy, but a lot more work) you could increase or decrease that basic unit size of 53½ mm.

Test it all in a mock-up before you build it. :)

I used a custom jig and a router to cut the bird's beaks from 18mm multiplex (went through three router bits; gruelling work that), but you can also buy them pre-made.

Feel free to contact me on Twitter if you need more details. I'm only an amateur woodworker though. I really should write up the process of building this beast some day.
This stereotyping is just exhausting. If in my career I have both - years-long stay in a boring corporation and multiple job-hopping periods couple of months each, am I double incompetent, double competent, or these nullify each other?
I don't want to be switching between profiles. I want to be able to see my personal Gmail and my work Gmail, and only sync up my work profile. Or alternatively, I don't want to sync.
Can someone suggest a good static site generator that uses Org files?

I'm looking for something I can have a blog & wiki with that integrates with how I already take notes. Gollum & derivatives seem alright but very bare bones.
Panchgavya has a patent from the previous regime.

IIT Delhi is not a collection of extremist morons. I would much rather take somebody betting their career on something than the random opinion on the Internet.

Ayurveda has been an established practice for a long time. Somebody needs to bet their career on disproving it or else I will continue benefiting from it.

I don’t know why you bring up Jio Institute here.

I don’t know why you missed part of your own link where the scientist says “Scientists supporting the march say the need is to recognise the actual contributions made by ancient Indians, often whitewashed by the European school of science history, rooted in the Enlightenment period. However, this is getting lost in talk of interplanetary travel and cosmetic surgery during the Vedic ages. This had been publicly denounced by Indian Nobel laureate V Ramakrishnan Anne. He even refused to attend the Indian Science Congress last year.“

This is just storm in a tea cup. I don’t remember seeing any cutbacks on any of the scientific programs. In fact some of the long awaited research programs like the neutrino lab came up.

So again what exactly was important that was cut back?
That is an important point but kind of orthogonal to P2P. A popular P2P website, say DTube could delegate its moderation to some group of "censors", and have some of its listings removed. Besides, unmoderated spam/trolling-infested sites are not going to become very popular anyway. Now you surely can't completely remove content that has been distributed but you can condemn it to be forgotten. 'Organic' forgetting may actually be easier in distributed web because sharing of content is generally temporary - just like you can no longer find older movies seeded in torrent sites.
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Sorry to break it to you, but with control of the Supreme Court, the GOP has done real, significant damage to the United States long term, even if they're (the politicians) all voted out in Nov 2018 or 2020.

Trump isn't the problem, he's just the populist enabler that is allowing the GOP to undermine American institutions. Even if Trump and his cronies are thrown in jail (wishful thinking), remaining in power will be the republicans who have actually done the most damage and will continue to do so as long as American's stay silent.
There are also promoted posts intermingled with user generated content. They are specially visible in the mobile app
Another fellow who's been creating generative images for a long time, as part of the fine-arts world, is Jean-Pierre Hébert: http://jeanpierrehebert.com/index.html Had a grant from the Krasner/Pollock Foundation at one point, I believe.

He's got some great pieces displayed there.
Thanks! We took a gamble with that, but it works as expected.
> "eye color is a social construct" and "the importance of eye color is a social construct" are two completely separate ideas.

And that's the point. In ths case, "race" is equivalent to "the importance of eye colour", because "race" is the importance and social meaning we build around certain genetic differences.
That's very interesting. For me the behavior is 100% consistent. Paste the URL in the address bar with JS enabled - get a blank page. Paste it with JS disabled - get straight to the destination.
1 thing. Code review. Even thou notebooks are not meant for production code, it's good to check them into repository to document what you did (let's ignore out of order computation and other horrors), and get feedback on your code / experiment.

Right now, ipython notebook is stored as json, where code is list of json strings (so that you have it line by line).

Additionally, the "WYSIWYG Interface" is horrible in comparison to vim, emacs, idea, pycharm or whatever you are using. What I like about notebooks is being able to present things as experiment: this is the code, and there are the outputs. "WYSIWYG Interface" is good if you want to tweak few things, or if you are starting out.
When open source became popular, it was designed for practitioners to experiment with and build on, while contributing back to the community. [...] open-source software was never intended for cloud infrastructure companies to take and sell.

Uhm no. If you are using the BSD license or the Apache license, you are explicitly saying: you can use this software as you want, just give me credit, and don't sue me if it does not work. Many companies have used the BSD TCP/IP stack and included it in proprietary software, including the BSD projects. This is something that the non-copyleft open source licenses explicitly permit and has been encouraged by a lot of projects. Using open source software in the cloud is a modern variant of it.

When it comes to copyleft licensing, the goal is that the user of a program or service (in the case of AGPL) can obtain the source code of a program and redistribute it under the same terms.

The goal of open source was never to protect (VC-backed) companies that want to pretent to do open source, but then object when other people earn money with their software.

What you are looking for is a non-open source license, optionally with the possibility to make the source available. That's fine. But please stop hijacking the history of open source and diluting the reputation of open source licenses by calling it Apache 2 License + Commons Clause.

Commons Clause is not open source and had nothing to do with it.

Some rabid open-source wonks accused Redis Labs of trying to trick the community into thinking that modules were open source, because they used the word “Apache.” (They were reported to be foaming at the mouth while making these accusations, but in fairness it could have been just drool.)

What does this poison even do on Hacker News?
As you say, you can ignore this content today. And yet the authorities still feel obliged to make access to child pornography etc illegal. There is no reason to believe that changing the platform would change this stance.

Just because it can't be dealt with by threatening the odd CEO or two, doesn't mean that it won't be dealt with some other way. Now, it may be the case that governments react to a change like this and just accept that they can't control terrorism, child porn etc etc. But it would be astonishingly naive to assume that that's the most likely outcome.
Scaling neural machine translation to bigger data sets
The author downplays the critical feedback, and raves about the small pieces of positive feedback he got. The feedback on previous HN posts was largely negative though
As stated in a different post, there are differences. Of course there are. My Point is that in a world in which Technology and the capability of using said Technology is getting the deciding factor the physical differences between sexes are getting less relevant.

Also, if you take boxing athletes are put into different weight classes. Making it rather futile to tell if Floyd Mayweather or Anthony Jushua is the better boxer, right?

Also, out of experience, These differences are much less pronounced if do not only look at Olympia-Level individuals. But I digress.
> If people want to have a political argument, take it elsewhere

For example the Intelligencer? So why did folks cause a ruckus to prevent that?

Not having a political argument in a journal also means having freedom from politics. That was denied to both the Intelligencer (by outside parties) and NYJM (arguably by both outside parties and the editor who rushed in that paper).

> It's particularly galling that the political people had so infested NYJM that they decided to simply dispense with the formality of peer review in the case of this particular paper.

I agree - however, NYJM wasn't the first episode of the paper but (so far) the last.

> Please, TRY to be reasonable here. I'm not saying you can't have the flame wars you want to have, I'm just asking that we not put low quality science or math papers in peer reviewed journals. Especially papers so low quality that you feel the need to exempt them from peer review lest they not get published.

Here I disagree. First, the plea to be "reasonable": I think I'm quite reasonable asking to undo the damage by undue interference. Second, I don't think scientists will have issues handling a properly annotated paper (ie "we publish it here not for its quality but because some people want to keep it hidden for non-scientific reasons") in a sensible way.
This is usually called "uplift" in science fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplift_(science_fiction)

Obligatory video of a Chimpanzee playing in VR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yD4KQGZUs4
Thanks for this.. had no idea Coleslaw exists!
They certainly could. But they wouldn't group Khoisans and Bantus together as "Black" compared to the Irish person being "White". Traditional racial categories fail to carve reality at the joints and modern geneticists will always use terms like "ancestry" rather than "race" because the later just has too much baggage to deal with.
Trump just signed a new NAFTA deal with Mexico and has improved relations with N. Korea more than any other president in history. His domestic policies might be a wreck but he's actually doing pretty good with his handling of foreign policy.
Worlds largest offshore wind farm Walney Extension swings into action for energy
The youtu.be domain is autokilled. Try resubmitting using the youtube.com version of the link.
This may be my "this time it's different" rationalization, but I can see an argument for valuations staying larger in the future.

Real interest rates have been decreasing in the long run over hundreds of years. This reflects the institutions of society becoming more permanent and less risky. In a world of low interest rates, P/E multiples naturally become high. Over the last couple of decades in particular, the financial world has become globally intertwined, and it has become increasingly unlikely for any event to truly upset the status quo. Institutions are more fixed than ever, so valuations should be as well.

If the high valuations remain high, then a lot of financial wisdom developed in the last 100 years will have to be rethought. Saving for retirement is a different calculation when your returns are dominated by P/E expansion rather than dividends and earnings growth.
They also assume he's guilty whilst simultaneously claiming they have no evidence to demonstrate to a court that guilt. That's contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Art.11).
A founder of Mimosa (CTO Jaime) is a friend of mine. I'll try to direct him to this thread.
Essential Math for Data Science: 'Why' and 'How'
Another thing it’s going to take decades to fix.
It’s actually not that unusual for allies to spy on each other.
House edge on most table games is significantly bigger than 1%. Single zero (euro) roulette is about 3%, blackjack can be played near to 0% with skill but the rest is all terrible.
What is the reinstall rate? Are historicals higher or lower? What are typical app delete rates for other apps?

So many bits of missing information that prevent these stats from actually providing meaningful insight.