skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Airplane mode is the safest option for when our 3yo kiddo play games on the iPad. Unless the app is paid for, it most likely will be full of sketchy ways to make the kids press on ads.
The one-based indexing is indeed a total waste of time.

I've switched to using Wren for my new projets.
Despite not being as mature as lua (you may have to add some functionalities yourself):

* the syntax is much nicer.

* it's simpler/cleaner to embed.

* it's (allegedly) faster if you are running on a platform where it's forbidden to JIT (e.g. iOS).
The Well Grounded Rubyist is a wonderful resource and the third edition, released this August, covers Ruby 2.5.

https://www.manning.com/books/the-well-grounded-rubyist-thir...

* Sorry, it seems it's going to be released on January 2019. In any case, the second edition covers Ruby 2.1. It's safe to learn with that one.
I'm skeptical of that but not for those reasons.

When you memorize data points, you actually become more familiar with it, and you can say it with more confidence, more naturally. You've said it so many times it's like walking.

I just object to the whole 'study study study' BS that is now normative for interviewing, because it's encouraging 'gaming the system'.

YC had their biggest hits with the 'loose' style, maybe they should go back to that.

I'm lucky to have largely avoided it, but having to create and do pitches all the time is utterly annoying. If it were for customers yes , then essential. But for others ...

One approach would be to give no advice at all, to be totally quiet about intent and motivations, so you catch people in their natural states.

Finally, I would hope they are collecting data on all of this.

I'd love to see the A+B test on 'interviewed but passed and interviewed but rejected'.
I’m so glad this topic has come up. I have a young child with some apple devices. Apple has a feature where the child can request permission to download an app, I can approve or not. This is great... but it would be awesome if I could approve with “ads off”, I don’t mind taking the $$ hit on install. What infuriates me is finding out 3 days later that my kid is either being distracted non stop to an unplayable level with ads or trading eyeball time to watch in app videos in exchange for some monetary system to be used in game play.

What I can’t stand, when it comes to kids, is when I have to become an expert at X to be able to trust that something is a safe environment for a child. I have to actually check the game, play it, figure out its incentive protocol and then buy the ads away. Some games sell the ads away but still have incentives to purposefully sell your time watching a video to get more points / currency.

Here is what I want. I want a way to trial a game without ads. If I like the game I’ll buy it for $1-$20 just like I would in a physical store. Then it’s my game no ads or weird economic models. If the game maker “needs” recurring money to provide the game play then eat me signup for a subscription like I would on Netflix. I want a straightforward way to own the game or at least use it like I own it (SaaS like)
People that value ambition, drive, maybe want to pursue their own start-up and want to pick someone's brain? I stayed in San Fransisco last year and while my BnB host was great, I didn't really get the feel that San Fransisco was "the" start-up city in the world, which it is. I thought of it more like a very European city-thing with functional public transport and a lot of homeless people. I walked by Twitter's office though. Other than that, networking?
Might also be that newer versions of macOS need more RAM than Snow Leopard and therefore less is available for filesystem caches.
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It sucks because you can't freely post anything there, without people (family / coworkers) judging you. I don't want to broadcast to that group of people. If I need to talk to them it's personal or in small groups, so that's done in instant messengers.

The only people I would like to broadcast to are close friends or strangers on the internet.

I don't have that many close friends, so a bigger IM group is enough for that. (I guess Instagram might work if you have lots of "close" friends.)

That leaves only my need to anonymously talk to the internet. So Twitter, reddit, personal blogs?
Go has a large footprint with 2.5MB hello world wasm and some glue dependency.

Rust has a similar footprint at first sight but can be shrinked significantly:

wasm-gc test.wasm # 1.7MB -> 100 bytes

IMHO the rust language is quite ugly, so you might take a fresh look at c++ which became surprisingly readable with its new features (auto, initializer_lists, nice for loops, ...)
I'm only 24 and I'm already afraid of how I'll manage technology consumption once I have kids. Unfortunately your friends are naive, the problem you're trying to solve for your 3yo is one of most important problems parents are facing right now in the digital age (I believe it to be so big because most people like your friends aren't aware of the repercussions).
Doesn't GHDL fit the bill for VHDL?

GHDL is written in ADA, which isn't very popular these days and severely limits how many people can/want to contribute to the project, but GHDL does work very well AFAIC.
I think you got it wrong. S/he want to meet the founder. But s/he's a schlub.

After few cycles the founders may have lesser incentives to participate.
> Especially the deeply embedded one-based indexing

That's already reason enough for me not to use it. One based indexing caused me so many headaches in the past in Mathematica...
> functional public transport

San Francisco? The city that had to invent Uber because it's so hard to get around otherwise?
I would want to know if my product did not address any demands, especially since they’re charging money. This is not a run-it-yourself Show HN link to a github repo, and honest critique is the whole reason to post here.

Personally, I’m struggling to see the value over any of the many static blog generators out there, considering the recurring(!) cost.
Have a look here [0]. It's a personal essay, but there are a lot of resources, in the links especially, which go into detail about how your worries around manipulation etc. are in fact true.

http://matthewbrecher.com/socialmedia.html
Your comment makes me wish there was a way for parents to curate the appstore for their kids.
Is there really that much to learn?

You can just target WebAssembly like this:

cargo +nightly build --target wasm32-unknown-unknown
If anyone wants to jump straight to the code: https://spatial-lang.org/hello-spatial/
Reddit is becoming more and more polarized. As a European I am quite progressive but I do notice that literally only left-wing comments get upvoted in big subreddits (/r/politics) silencing any "real" discussion with posters from /r/The_Donald. They then move to /r/The_Donald as their safe space and create a bubble for themselves to express themselves with all their views, some wrong, some right, some downright propaganda. Please note that the left also does this in their own subreddits, but it seems like right-wing views are really quickly silenced on Reddit. I once made a post asking why a poster liked Donald Trump so much, and I got downvoted to -40 while it was an honest question.

There is no true discussion about politics on Reddit. Only mindless circlejerking and echo chambering.
Don't code in Python and the like, they are very bad for energy comsumption. Google it so you will find out what i mean.
Could be that the rewritten areas for the OS are showing some wear, requiring multiple reads.

Cause and effect is ambiguous because it is so transparent, one doesn’t know what interrupts where are taking the most time.
Is not Japan similarly clean and they do it without lots of fines and cheap Labour. They do it through the upbringing and linking cleanliness to morality.

I have not been either place but maybe somebody who have can compare to cleanliness of both places?
Compared to other cities I traveled to in the USA? Yes.
what's the performance penalty of the mono VM?
mother of misleading titles
Funny Vine Video Kit #153 – Popular Jokes 2018
Thanks, I haven't realized I could pass a method to a child, which acts on the context of the parent (that's what's happening here, right?).
YouTube is so incredibly shit house these days.

There are a few interesting channels, but otherwise I may as well be watching regular tv. The suggestions I get are also incredibly bad.
I'm not sure I understand your point about big vs small companies. The article states:

"In Olaf’s Adventures, published by Disney, clicking on a glowing cake that is not marked as an ad takes the player to a store;

Disney is not hurting for money, so why are they employing similarly devious tactics? The problem is obviously not just with "smaller developers, studios and companies".
> lack of a separate integer type (chars are strings, ints are floats)

> Even bit manipulation requires going through the FFI

This, and some of the other things, have not been true for years.
CoreOS is going to be merged with "atomic"

I’ve been following that work with interest.

Red Hat could suddenly decide they want to support Btrfs

Red Hat won’t be deciding much about anything after the merger goes through. I sincerely hope you’re right though and it survives and makes money somehow.
> I always perceived Lua of being completely weird, and asked myself why people would ever want to use it.

It depends on your habits. I for one prefer Lua to Python and find it much more pleasurable to code on. There are some things in Python that I like (like the blocks defined by indentation), but overall the language seeems too complex for no reason when coming from lua.
Heh, I like how you carefully worded that, because normally 'const' would signify that a variable is immutable in just about any other programming language in the world. Except in JS, where const was awkwardly jammed into the language. I guarantee if the spec writers had known how badly const was going to be abused, they wouldn't have added it.

If you want a strongly typed language, go use C or Java and stop making JavaScript incomprehensible to all but the most pedantic developers.
In theory absolutely. Just compiled a mid-size cpp project without any major hurdles.
They are not shifting for everybody at the same time, they are shifting only for “tech companies”, who are currently perceived (rightly or wrongly) as undercutting “normal businesses” in an unfair way. (Scare quotes because in practice I don’t trust the UK government know what they mean by the words).
I sort of feel like this is par for the course with SNAP. It seems to me to be a rather scummy company that got lucky despite its original intentions of encouraging people to send nudes (which is pretty sleazy IMO). The CEO as far as I can tell has never said or done anything that I would consider noble or respect worthy. His emails before he was in the public eye really show his true character. Obviously his word is worth less than nothing. Can’t wait for the company to die, just bummed that little snot got rich from it.
>It seems to me that memorizing them will make you seem robotic and un-engaging.

It's all in the delivery though, right? You can make a passionate case for your current traction by stating metrics with conviction. You can also recite them in a very rehearsed-sounding way.

I think the point here is to show that you know your stuff. instead of saying "we're growing rapidly" or "approx doubling users every two weeks", have numbers to demonstrate your command of the situation.
so, in a saner language, variables would be const by default
Both Japan and Switzerland are know to be very clean and much larger.

But they seem to approach it very differently.

I seem to remember Spain being quite clean too. People mopped the pavements in one of the towns I visited every morning.
A nice comment, good to see other people are thinking about this! I agree with you about the imbalanced classes, I do have a copy of this, the main issue is that the way this dataset was created was only looking at subreddits which include 1000 posts or more, meaning that class imbalance is somewhat unrealistic, if I do publish an imbalanced version it will include all subreddits, not just the carefully selected 1013.

re: the reason for the artifice. First of all note that none of the labels in here are exactly superficial - I have made a taxonomy - but I have only used this to filter out subreddits - I did not combine the posts from different subreddits in the same category here. The main reason was to combat the fact that these are not great labels otherwise - many subreddits are subsets of others - e.g. you have r/gaming -> r/finalfantasy -> r/FFVIII - and you don't know that this follows a hierarchy a priori (N.B. categorising all subreddits would require significant resources).

Worse than this, you have subreddits that don't really follow any obvious kind of categorisation, e.g. r/askreddit (by far the most populous in terms of self-posts), or more randomly, subreddits devoted to podcasts like r/joerogan - they are basically places where people go for broad, likeminded chat, and they can overlap with just about anything. I would argue that this is actually not always realistic - for the examples I have worked on in the past, labels were reasonably unambiguous.
How to Do Cube Roots of 9 Digit Numbers in Your Head
> The short format also encouraged better structuring of arguments

Did it? I feel like it rather encouraged going for the shortest available arguments. Which tend to be the ones low on data, and high on emotion - it's much easier to pack an emotional appeal in a few words.
Asking from complete ignorance, is it possible that skydiving occasionally attracts folks who secretly have a death wish?
I don't know which hotels you went to but that is bizarre. All water in Japan is safe to drink and, furthermore, is some of the best drinking water on earth IMO.

You probably misunderstood, or perhaps the hotel staff were all sharing the same oddly wrong english handbook...
I had a guy with 50 jumps request to do a 3-way jump this weekend. He was incredibly stressful, jittery and all over the place.

In the plane, no gearcheck - but he did take a stack of selfies. About 10 seconds into the jump, his helmet flew up - it hadn't been attached. Instead of breaking away and pulling, he deathgripped me and tried to reseat his helmet over and over.

We broke off and tracked away from the guy - when he deployed - he'd obviously been unstable - and had about 15 line twists, which he proceeded to slowly undo - while drifting up the jump run, before finally getting a flying canopy well below the hard-deck.

I tried to be as kind as possible to the guy, suggesting less selfies, more gear-checks and revisit some of the basics, but he just shrugged it off.

There were also 2 coaches in the plane that said nothing about the phone on the run up - wtf.
>A few months ago I went to Princeton University to see what the young people who are going to be running our country in a few decades are like.

Talk about privilege ...
Interesting, I am in paragliding and the rule is that the reserve is open, inspected, packed again at least once a year by/with the person flying with the gear. This has also to be done if for any reason the gear went wet or more than superficial dirt.
Too many apps are like that.

What you want sounds a lot more like a normal game console.
If you are not asking for take away, only the tourist-trap hawker centres will give you single use of anything but maybe tiny plastic sauce trays. What you experienced is incredibly far from the norm.
I think most people don’t “feel” unfree even in most dictatorships. You don’t read or hear about the people locked up. As long as you live a notmal life you will feel free.

The real test of freedom is when something goes wrong or you challenge the authorities.
Repl.it is hiring hackers
I've switched to controllers when I can to avoid hand and shoulder pain. I've found that, ergonomics aside, which is better depends on the type of game you are playing. I'd agree that, mostly, mouse + keyboard is the superior input mechanism. But the 'WASD' bit fails when the controls require two analog inputs rather than 1 analog and one digital (driving games, flight sims).

I'm still looking for the 'best' controller though, as I don't think it exists yet. I don't know if you can combine a device like a mouse suitable for 'twitch' FPS games with controls suitable for a 6 degrees of freedom game like Descent, Elite or Star Citizen (which currently require two joysticks, pedals, and ideally voice control to play in 'advanced' mode).
In London, the “war on litter bins” (removal of litter bins from train stations and central areas, supposedly to prevent them being misused by terrorists) has created a culture of simply leaving litter on the floor or in the street because there are no bins to put it in.

Perhaps that’s ok in busy central locations where a street cleaner will be along shortly to pick it up, but the problem is that people are now accustomed to dropping litter and do the same in suburbs, parks, and countryside where it just accumulates.

How do we solve it? We need to teach environmental education in schools and try to stop littering habits before they form.

But also, I think a great application for robotics technology will be litter picking, street-cleaning robots!
> Singapore is an interesting case study how a well-run government that restricts a lot of freedoms can work remarkably well. I wonder if this model is sustainable long term.

To me it sounds like the worst kind of dystopia possible. The wrong mix of medieval and futuristic: you get flogged or killed for silly things, the economy is effectively feudal, and if you are ever somewhat happy about something (wow! no mosquitos!), this does not last long when you realize the sad truth (they have poisoned all their freshwater to kill all mosquitos and fish and frogs). Honestly, I would prefer to live anywhere else on earth before scary, inhuman Singapore.
This problem isn't isolated to kids games though.

Just look at the "fee-to-pay" models employed by many AAA games these days. Game publishers have decided that SaaS-style ongoing revenue is the way to make money, and they will employ such at every turn. Every game has to be a "live service" now, with a bunch of gambling mechanics crammed in to make money on top of the purchase price.
Documentation on how this is implemeneted in emscripten:

https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/porting/pthre...
You don't have to be a member to take advantage of this. I syndicate my RSS feed to my micro.blog account (no membership) and have had quite a few useful conversations through there. I didn't see any point at first, but I'm sold now - it's a small community where you get to know people, which is rather rare at the moment.
> Google Play “discloses whether an app has advertising or in-app purchases

Yea but I can't search for apps without ads or in-app purchase, can I scumbags? I have to scroll through the algorithmically sorted list and click into each app page because you are evil people that sold your souls for that six figure salary and free cafeteria food.
Exactly. Buy a Nintendo DS
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It's relatively difficult to commit suicide via skydive (at least at the start.. there have been specific cases I have heard of where experienced fliers have killed themselves)

As a student, all your gear is double checked on the ground and just before exit. Even when you're jumping solo - if you don't open your parachute, your reserve will automatically deploy (there's a little computer that will fire the reserve if you're not open by a certain altitude)

Once you're a licenced jumper and have shaken off the 'student' label (meaning noone insists for a gear-check) - you could choose not to enable your AAD (automatic altitude deployer) and kill yourself.

To get to that stage, you've probably invested $3000+ and a lot of time. Not the most efficient way to suicide.
Its about fragmentation, Europe is fragmented by countries (governments), language, culture and law. US and China, not so much, a company has an immediate larger reach, and has less scaling issues than it would in Europe. Consider also the access to funding, how many small pots of money is there in europe all disjointed, compared to funds in China/US. Consider the focus companies can get in China with government support, its what makes china such a threat to the US. US has arguably accelerated areas via military R&D.
Yep, the app store really, really needs a section for games that are ad-free and that don't have any consumable in-app-purchases.

Angry Birds was a really nice game, and I'd love to let my kids play it, but it just isn't playable any more. It's so full of crap. Ads, in-app-purchases, loads of shit. I'd easily pay 10€ to get back the original version of Angry Birds that I bought in 2010 or so, but that version is gone for good.

There are some games that aren't full of crap. Monument Valley, Alto's Adventure, Pinout, Blyss, Canabalt, Glider, Paw Patrol, Duplo Trains are some ad-free games that I can recommend.

I'd love to have some kind of curated list of ad-free games. The games that Apple promotes / features in the store are usually less obnoxious, but I'm not sure if there's a way to search for them.

Since Apple has removed the affiliate payments for apps, I don't think there's an easily monetisable way to build a recommendation website for ad-free games, but it may be possible to build it as a volunteer effort?
^^This is how I use twitter too. Mostly small selection of communities on the web that we all share our experience's and help each other out.
Voluntary Parting?? Can this be extended to Voluntary Renting with companies like AirBnB or for hotels renting out their rooms?
> Why use Twitter for such things, given its limitations?

It has limitations, but it also has a lot of reach. A blog might not reach the people you are trying to share things with.
That's true! :) Thanks!
In Europe, TV advertising to children is in often heavily regulated (sometimes even to zero). In addition, in many countries you have the option of the public broadcaster with no ads.

It seems like a matter of time until app stores get regulated in the same way.

Anyone know if the BBC et.al. have any good kids games?
Hearing this from Apple of all the corporations is a bit rich isn't it?
Are you criticizing LuaJIT rather than Lua? LuaJIT is a third party implementation of an older version of Lua (with cherry picked features from newer versions). A lot of this criticism is no longer valid for Lua.

> lack of a separate integer type (chars are strings, ints are floats)

Lua 5.3 introduced integer types. [1]

> Even bit manipulation requires going through the FFI.

LuaJIT includes a bit manipulation library, but its FFI acceleration is optional. Also, Lua 5.3 introduced bitwise operators. [1]

> One cannot even format UTF-8 text

Lua 5.3 introduced "basic utf-8 support" [1] although I am not sure to what extent.

> The official documentation mostly revolves around C bindings. The actual Lua language documentation is provided by another web site that looks like it has been written by an attention-deficit child

Again, I suspect you are criticizing LuaJIT. The actual Lua documentation [2] has never let me down.

[1] http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/readme.html#changes

[2] http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html