skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brand, coupled with independent and trustworthy review companies is one solution. nytimes has started showing reviews from the nytimes's "wirecutter" review department.

When reviewing, they also offer the best "budget" choice, so often, even the premium isn't large.
Apparently it doesn't compile because of how the pow function is implemented. I am not able to figure out what the issue is right now.
some iPhones have bigger margins than these drones.
His online scientific calculator is great!

http://numcalc.com/
Assuming that life expectancy will remain the same and that the number of children will also not change Hans Rosling predicted our world population never will exceed 11 billion people.

He was a very passionate and entertaining public speaker.

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_...
No, technology is constrained by physical and logical laws. No amount of technological progress can make 1+1 = 2. Similarly, it can reasonably be stated that no amount of technological progress will make earth be able to sustain X population
Like the OP I paid for a copy of angry birds in 2010 or so.
I’d love to let my kids play that version. But auto updates means that version is long gone — and I don’t even have the option of paying more to just turn off the ads
Only 60%? I would have thought we had made more progress at this point.
Bezos cares because he’s customer obsessed.
Most countries are already below the replacement rate. America fell below 2 children per couple in the 1970s, and it's only through immigration that our population bubble continues to inflate.
We programmers
I'm currently a PhD candidate at PUC-Rio. For context, there's a 'meet the researchers' round of seminars during the first semesters mainly targeted towards Master's students (so they can choose an advisor).

Prof. Ierusalimschy's was one of the most interesting seminars in my first year. His passion is apparent in the way he talks about Lua's history and current development. Unfortunately I haven't taken any courses with him

As a side note, it's nice to see folks from around here on HN
> The fact is, if you want to improve the state of humanity on the Earth, your only effective means of doing so is technology.

This I agree with to some extent. We need the tech to save us, but I'm not convinced that we can get to that tech in time, without reducing our quality of life now, or having it reduced by the climate degradation in the next decades.

> As you call it, “last-minute technological breakthroughs”, dismissing centuries of human progress as some sort of accidental stroke of luck.

I'm trying not to, but looking back, how many more tricks like Haber–Bosch process can we find? We've always somehow risen to the challenge, but then again, almost all fields of science and technology were severely underexplored back then. We've fixed that now, we know the general landscape in which we're moving. I fully expect we can pull some more rabbits out of a hat, but will we be able to do that in time?

And the flip side of this is that we need those new miracle technologies to continue growing. Which means we need to actually fund and encourage them, and that seems to become a problem lately. Insert anything from "best minds of our generation wasted on getting people clicking on ads" to Bret Victor's musings on cleantech funding[0].

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[0] - http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/#funding
It scales strictly linearly with the number of sub contractors.
> Human Population has more than doubled... This is not sustainable

Hans Rosling had some interesting findings on population growth:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnexjTCBksw
> playing games where your only goal is to kill (oops, eliminate) people from the other team for hundreds of hours must have some kind of effect on you, even if it is fun.

Why would it? Furthermore, does this mean we also believe that people who do stuff like karate or Judo are more desensitized to violence?
So is it filled with nvidias TESLA GPUs?
Depends on the market.

For the pedestrian heavy cities with inclement weather (New York, Chicago), you are probably right. For the car-heavy cities that never rain or snow (LA, Phoenix), they’ll probably make it.
When you sit in the front of the computer your hands on the keyboard, your pectoral muscles are being shortened, your shoulder turn inward and posture becomes hunched. --> upper back pain.

If you want just one exercise to do just now it's 'supine gross-leg spinal twist' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L41eyPmXhIQ It's a core exercise for upper back pain and helps neck, pecs and spine.

You gradually stretch until you get knee to the ground and the hand is on the ground also and you can look at the hand.

You should really get short program 10-15 mins you do daily, but that one exercise is the best single exercise for upper back pain IMHO.
The hydraulics will probably start leaking.

More seriously, it is possible to fit quite a lot of this stuff into an undergrad program - my Cambridge degree included logic gates (including drawing silicon layout with coloured pens), computer architecture (ARM assembler), a lab on FPGAs, Java, Standard ML (for type inference and lambda calculus), and had plenty of time left over for higher level topics.

Current syllabus: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1819/cst.pdf (one term = 8 weeks)
I had upper and lower back pain (and RSI in my forearms) for years with tons of physical therapy, meds, and acupuncture to fix, but nothing stuck. Eventually what fixed it all was eating healthy, lifting, and now CrossFit. I know this is an unsatisfying answer and I don’t know what you’re doing atm, but for me having a generally healthier and fitter body pretty much fixed all my chronic pain issues.
Those transactions have been in AC games for years. What happened with Odyssey is they made an absolute slog of a game.
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> If an organic animal can feel pain and it it possible to create a 100% accurate computational simulation of that animal, then the simulated animal must also experience pain.

I believe that from the simulated animal we can only learn that the real animal experiences pain. I believe anything else leads to too many paradoxes and questions like "when you stop the simulation, does it stop existing or continues to experience the pain forever?"

It basically comes down to beliefs and I'm strongly in the "100% simulated organisms don't have real pain / emotion / soul" camp. (And the Chinese Room doesn't know Chinese. :-) )
OBS has been useful, so has Overwolf, but I think the best tool I've used has been Quicktime on OSX. It's much easier to use than most things. My go-to on Windows is the XBox Game DVR recording functionality but I only use it because the alternatives are pretty slow.
A fix or an end. It is said that without enough population to watch and repair the current nuclear systems, the problem would quickly scalate in a few years when nuclear plants in the planet would deteriorate, get out of control and explode one after one.
When I lived in Sofia, Bulgaria for a few months, I stayed on the ground floor of an apartment building with a wealthy family on the top floor. The place was constantly surrounded by plain-clothed armed guards: four or five stood outside on the road, more in the lobby. I used to chat with them when I went onto the balcony for a smoke. As a British person, it was quite an eye-opener to see all these guys wandering about with pistols on their belts.
This discounts the obvious fact that Facebook itself is the new next-gen intermediate org.
Of course they are. There's no viable project or service that is not sustainable.
There's some recent discussion here: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6393/1080.2

I don't know if the citations therein are cherry-picked, but oddly enough it seemed like mostly what you might call "public intellectuals" on the "it's not so bad" side and lower-profile ordinary lab/field scientists on the "doom and gloom" side - a bit of a reversal from the usual trope
Coinbase raises $300M Series E round
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The average millionaire's college GPA is 2.9
An MBA is a great addition to addition to a Computer Science degree. If you don't have a Computer Science degree then get one of those first. The skills you learn are that which are not talked about in both fields. In the business world you have to understand the business person's motivations by speaking their language. An MBA is a great way to round out and provide those skills and understanding.
All three of those points are somewhat obvious, though.

a) We like violent music because our brains like it. Ok, how else would that work?

b) We distance ourselves from the lyrical content. Well, duh. Otherwise we'd all be serial killers. You'd have to be a psychopath not to.

c) Yep, that's sort of the point of being counter-culture.
"Sometimes, if you were going to have any hope of getting useful answers, there really was no alternative modelling the individuals themselves, at the sort of scale and level of complexity that mean they each had to exhibit some kind of discrete personality, and that was where the Problem kicked in.

Once you’d created your population of realistically reacting and – in a necessary sense – cogitating individuals, you had – also in a sense – created life. The particular parts of whatever computational substrate you’d devoted to the problem now held beings; virtual beings capable of reacting so much like the back-in-reality beings they were modelling – because how else were they to do so convincingly without also hoping, suffering, rejoicing, caring, living and dreaming?

By this reasoning, then, you couldn’t just turn off your virtual environment and the living, thinking creatures it contained at the completion of a run or when a simulation had reached the end of its useful life; that amounted to genocide.” - Iain M Banks "Hydrogen sonata"

I love to watch Star Trek with its upbeat "always do good" general vibe when contrasted with completely oblivious cruelty they show towards simulated life.
Human behavior is vastly more impactful on the planet than human numerosity. We are not feeling the consequences of simply people - it is our gross behavior.

impact = people * behavior

To make people reduction the target in this situation would be systematically misanthropic.

Behavior can improve by orders of magnitude and even reverse polarity amicably and rapidly, through culture, inspiration, technological potential, historic renaissance - this is the solution to envisage - not come on... you know... people ~reductions.
War is good for business - 34th Rule of Acquisition (Ferengi, Star Trek)
I'm CS since 2015 and am graduating next year. Most of our programming classes were in Java, which was deemed outdated by some. But we still had an operating systems and an embedded systems course that used C exclusively.

I think it's important to use the language that best applies to the course material. For example we looked at UNIX in the OS course and it really made sense to use C there. But when we did Algorithms and data structures we used Java for that. Using C really takes away from the point and bogs you down in language specifics in this case.
As I'm reminded every time someone mentions Lisp or Forth, it seems that different people prefer very different "intuitive" representations of programming. Bottom-up from assembler is one of those. It suits some people very well and others not at all.
Gab, the social network used by the Pittsburgh suspect, has been taken offline
I think that's making the assumption that having 100 billion livestock + the current human population is sustainable. Even if that were the case, humans consume a lot more resources than animals living on factory farms.
Norway too
Although it has become fashionable to decry making personal changes as "irrelevant" and "ineffective" with the lie that since everyone isn't doing it, there's not point in anyone doing it, making changes to how you and your family live is still very important.

Things you can do:

1. Find an energy provider who sells green energy - here in Germany, it's possible (and common) to buy 100% green energy, but I don't know what it's like where you are. Even if it costs more, get the green energy - it's a big change you can make that won't affect your lifestyle one bit.

2. Reduce the amount of red meat you eat. The environmental costs of this are well known. Give it up if you can, but if not, at least reduce it.

3. See if you can fly less. If you fly intercontinenally, then the CO2 from that will dwarf almost anything else you do. Again, this is something that's easy to say, but it's something that's very effective.

Those are the changes you can make in your personal life. There are plenty of other good suggestions here as to how to make systemic changes.
Ideally I'd like to see people start screenshotting the emailed "offer" and adding it to their existing negative review.
Billionaires Chase ‘SpaceX Moment’ for the Holy Grail of Energy
A simple little puzzle site I was inspired to create this past weekend. Hope you enjoy it!
The first Burzum records were pretty not-so-happy. Pretty good if you can ignore the ideology ...
How to install Jenkins on CentOS 7?
> Not sure how now, but steam used to be hostile to anything causual or too much tablet like.

It's more like the users posting on Steam forums who were hostile to casual games (to so called "shovelware").
If Amazon has exclusivity on those brands, having the most valuable and trusty reviews becomes very valuable, especially if the other reviews are crap.

Could be a powerful tool for selling stuff to countries where Amazon isn't so strong.
For some reason x86 emulator is not open-source. If you download source, x86 is just stubbed out.
Market Research on Intelligent Virtual Assistant - IMARC Group
This is where multi-nationals like Amex come in handy. I'm Canadian and got my first Amex while living in the UK. Later when I moved to the US I was able to bring my Amex history with me and get an Amex there with no issues.
Maybe they'd be better off looking at black metal, especially early Norwegian stuff when members of Mayhem were killing themselves/each other.

Or maybe My Dying Bride, Mourning Beloveth etc.

The rest of it is a blast.
YouTube videos too. I was at my friend’s place and they were showing some cartoon to their kid.

After the cartoon was over came a 10 minute ad that does not look like an ad. It’s just a woman and 2 kids playing with toys. Ofc the toys being the focus.

It’s so dirty!
some people can listen to death metal and suchlike and have a positive reaction where others (anecdotally, the majority of other people) will have a strong, visceral negative reaction.

Couldn't you find exactly the same thing about lots of genres of music? Opera and some genres of jazz for example can cause extremely different reactions in people, at least as strong as that of death metal.

I wonder how much of it is simply due to unfamiliarity and baseline expectations of what music 'should' sound like. We've all heard old stories of people reacting to Rolling Stones the same way people who grew up listening to Rolling Stones might react to Dimmu Borgir.

I know my perception of jazz changed a lot after I spent time with huge jazz fan who taught me about the genre and explained the different aspects of the music and how to approach it. I bet if someone sits down and honestly tries to learn about and understand the different aspects and genres of death metal then their negative reaction will, if not go away, then at least greatly diminish.
This may not be a popular opinion here, but I feel like engineers disease is actually contributing to the problem. [0] Every time I see a new carbon sequestration startup I die a little at the arrogance of the engineers that they think they can beat nature at that game. Let alone in the time span of ~30 years that we need it to happen. If those brilliant engineers had spent time working with domain experts (i.e. "talking to your users") I feel like some of the effort might be better spent elsewhere. This family of plants is incredibly efficient at sequestering carbon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poaceae. At a minimum, why not have a startup that exploits something like this and use nature's ability to heal itself instead of trying to reinvent the wheel? The mere perspective that we need to "save the environment" is a fallacy. We live in the environment, and we need to care for it, it's not something to be blocked and cordoned off.

My point is, yes you can help, but it might not be by writing software or engineering a product. A lot of brilliant people have been aware of this problem and working hard to combat it, it is arrogant to think we can disrupt something we don't fully understand, instead of doing something solo, try to join up with others already fighting the good fight. You want to help try reading and learn from experts in the field. Then with your programming background you might see something in a different light. Talk to people and ask questions from your perspective!

For anyone who is interested in combating climate change I highly suggest these three books, they have been perspective changing for me:

1. Permaculture By Bill Mollison (or this free online course https://open.oregonstate.edu/courses/permaculture/)
2. The Hard Rain By Timothy Egan (Think SFO is relatively green? Think again the 'clean' power projects have been wreaking havoc on the ecosystem in the PNW)
3. Rethinking the War on Invasives By Tao Orion

In addition to that as others have indicated, reduce meat consumption. Don't think it matters? Read about the dust bowl, and those areas of the country covered in sage brush? Yeah a-lot of that is from overgrazing.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10812975
Analyzing the Walmart site performance
Pivotal is a separate entity and business model from VMWare, I wouldn't compare them directly. They are both owned by EMC/DELL.

I'm under the impression that cloud foundry is specifically targeting mega corporation like fortune 100 banks. In that context, it only takes a few sales to capture the market and a lot of money.

I didn't see OpenShift used anywhere.
How Economic Inequality Inflicts Real Biological Harm
There are a ton of decidedly non-vocal casuals turning to ‘secure’ messengers to have chats they imagine are ‘military grade’ encrypted (they heard that was good) and not associated with their IRL identity (they consider that a must). They end up using terrible things and their entire chat histories exposed.

But they ‘know’ the phone number is a non starter because that’s how other social networks outed them. So they will also often end up using a string of bad tools as an awkward way to keep several worlds separate.

Most won’t admit it, but this second reason is why they, as iPhone users, aren’t in encrypted Messages for those chats. Neither end wants the chats in their phone number world.

While you can argue this use case is for hiding that one even participates in chats others might frown on, that to me sounds like a use case that matters, since today, most of the world doesn’t agree what should be frowned upon.

// This is not a technical assessment, it’s from the non-technical users’ point of view, how they think it’s working or not working. Same folks assume phone number is more identifying than finding an app that doesn’t need phone number because it can accept their FB log in. It’s a pretty rough world for non-techies.
Truth. And commuting. +1 for remote work.
Isn't it O(n) where n is the length of the string to match? Because you can compile any regex to a DFA and run it over the string.
You would criticize a doctor who would order expensive unwarranted scans, or a taxi driver who would take longer routes than needed.

In other words you would criticize people who charge you for services that don't address your needs.
It used to be a misuse (when metaprogramming was templates and then after the very first constexpr functions were introduced) since back then metaprogramming was intended to decide simple facts about the program and make inlining easier. But in this standard they actually made it so that pretty much all C++ stdlib can be constexpr and it is encouraged to "constexpr everything". So while this is not an abuse of C++ compiler, it's likely not a fantastic idea since C++ compilers tend to be slow.
One thing that has really stood out to me is that we need to clamp down on companies outsourcing risk and cost by declaring what are actually employees as “independent contractors”, including Uber and Lyft.

Story time: my car was hit by a bike delivery guy. Not my fault, and the bicyclist was thankfully ok. When we called the company he worked for, their response was basically “he’s an independent contractor, not our problem”.

Really? An “independent” contractor working how many hours a week with a company branded bike? Managed by the company? At this point companies are just blatantly dodging employment law, and that needs to stop.
I think you might be mistaken.

Not just vertebrates: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

It's biomass that's decreasing, not just numbers: http://www.climatecentral.org/news/amazon-may-lose-65-percen...

Yes, maritime animals too: https://www.int-res.com/articles/theme/m512p155.pdf

And yes, plant biomass too: http://www.pnas.org/content/115/25/6506 (This one's on a much longer timeline, so hard to compare)
>Something similar happened to me in a general engineering curriculum...

The implicit context is that we are talking about fields that need to understand programming at a low level: Computer Science, Computer engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical engineering.

There is no point in a Chemical Engineer programming in asm. Just throw some python and R at him so he understands the basic concepts.

But for the fields that need to understand computers at a low level, I would expect enthusiasm from the student to understand how it all works.
Sensors and wearable technology in healthcare
just a matter of time until they realize all their friend's games are way more entertaining, if they haven't already

tick tock OP
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I was only ever a regular on the (small, now-defunct) irreality.me imageboard. The most activity I ever performed on 4chan was that time I wrote a bot that responded to every post on /pol/ with a random section of Society of the Spectacle (in an arguably successful attempt to improve the quality of discussion there).

I find imageboards to be interesting from a media-studies perspective, though. They're a clear case (even clearer than twitter) of design influencing user behavior in a way that eventually generalizes outside of the platform. Three countries have shockingly similar & arguably totally distinct right-wing authoritarian populist movements that sprung up from totally distinct popular imageboards during the same period, & there are probably more that I'm simply not aware of. So, serious study of the kinds of behaviors imageboards encourage & highlight (and serious study of under what conditions those behaviors generalize) is potentially really interesting. It's one of those things that makes me wish I was a real social scientist instead of just a programmer with hobbies.
This is often very overstated. For example in government research labs there are often huge, critical pieces of software in both C and FORTRAN. I worked in one of these labs in the 00s and about 80% of my team’s work required running reports and simulations through a huge system written in C between the late 80s and mid 90s. Even generating plots for conference presentations was done in pure C with a special DSL tool that took in a static plot conf file and wrote raw postscript outputs.