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Here's my take. Back in 80s there was no established concept what video game was supposed to play like, so developers experimented much more than today. Some of those experiments didn't belong to any established genre (Seven Cities of Gold, Civilization, Harvest Moon) but managed to get huge following.

Modern remakes aim to bring back same spirit and open-endness of those games, but with UX improvements, more streamlined gameplay, multiplayer and other nice features we came to expect from games.

Another improvement over classics is more open development process with fascinating dev logs, creators requesting feedback and with suggested changes making it into future version.
> That's a relievingly admirable way to look at these creatures.

What's "admirable" or not "admirable" about. It's just language. If you read about the way orangutans are treated in indonesia, I doubt you'd feel it was admirable.

> I find the English "it" an exceptionally tiring feature.

Then don't use it.

> We call ourselves hackers

Who is we? I haven't seen many hackers here. Just people with agendas, particular leftist social agendas.

> but where's a hackaday.io or hackathons for human language, the ubiquitous communication medium?

Are you saying english is the "human language"? Also, math is the closest thing to the ubiquitous communication medium.

Not sure what your complaining about. Orangutan is part of the english language as well. You don't have to use 'it'. And as for your "hacking the language", I don't care for your or anyone else Newspeak. Language is a tool and it should evolve as the need requires, not because people have a social agenda to push.
Also, there are two pricing tables. One on the home page and one on the page "Price". They show different cost per plan.
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In poor countries technology can make big improvements to education
Dang.. my sleep center is way behind. Had a take-home sleep study last week and I had to have the chest strap and finger sensor. Pain in the butt, but worth the data it captured. Going on APAP after trying for 6 years to work with an oral appliance after not being able to tolerate CPAP.
Rationally it makes some sense, but irrationally - charging money for such triviality as a choice of colors is ridiculous.

I can see buying _icons_ being a bit more justified, because it implies at least some amount of non-trivial work on your end, but I don't really know anyone willing to pay for better code editor icons.

Also the fact that you offering to buy a "license" is off-putting, again considering the context of selling a set of RGB values. It's too grandiose, which too contributes to this looking nuts. Just say "buy" the scheme and it'll already be much better.
Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal data on users
Why not switch to a note taking application with web clipper? It seems any of them would have similar functionalities.
What if that is happening to all of us when reading news headlines?
> Come back in 6 months and say that.

He probably will. And again six months after that, and six months after that, and so on. Because it's fun and socially rewarding to predict an enemy's demise. Whether the prediction has any chance of coming true is irrelevant.
I've owned or used about half the machines on that list. Good times. We had to push our bits uphill both ways back then.
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This service looks promising, but it is unfortunate that we have to go as barebones as 'no javscript' to convince people that they are not doing any malicious tracking. Javascript is becoming inevitable and some service/company that helps us trust a site's javascript will be most welcome in the future.
Every article on Eli Bendersky's website is just great.
If he ever writes a book I would immediately buy one.
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For some reason unicode includes a few characters in a different "font".
Would be interesting to explore whether evaluating ∇²f(x) for higher-order SGD methods directly is now feasible for smaller DNNs and whether this leads to faster convergence during training. Most methods like Newton or Gauss-newton were thought intractable for DNNs. Also curious if the angle descent prescribed by quasi-Newton methods is empirically closer to the true 2nd order gradient and whether these approximations are useful in wall-clock time.
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Income taxes are generally either flat or progressive. Most consumption taxes are regressive. So you'd expect that a revenue-neutral change from income tax to sales tax would end up benefitting high income earners.
There’s nothing reasonable about the cost of housing in Vancouver. Last I checked median price of all housing stock (including condos) was $900k+.

If you’re a two income family with kids home ownership is basically out of reach.
I don't think so. Let's substitute balk:

> The more enjoyable a job is, the lower the salary the boss can offer before people [hesitate to] take it.
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I like your open source promise. So I guess you have some private GH repo which needs switch to public to fullful the promise, right? I just wonder how you implemented the family eventual part.
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> Male and female humans fall under the first two.

No. Male and female anything fall under the first two. For example, when we talk about our dog, we say "He's a good boy". People use he or she for animals too.

> Not long ago even children were "it"s, I believe.

We use it for 'gender neutral'. For example, when my sister was pregnant, everyone used 'it' to refer to the baby. "I can't wait for it to be born". "I wonder what it's gender will be". Once people discovered the gender, we used he or she.

> - a human can only be talked about in the context of his gender;

This is simply not true. Ask anyone with a dog or a cat.

It's so funny how people with agendas are. Languages with gendered everything like spanish is attacked for gendering everything. And languages with a sensible gender system is attacked for not gendering everything. Seems like there are too many useless people with too much time on their hands.
I met an IT professional when I was in Singapore last year. He wanted to convince me it's a brilliant place to live, citing the advantage of very cheap labor. He told me they (he was married with 2 kids) have an Indian woman working in their household. He provides her food and shelter; she does the cooking, dishes, cleaning, etc., and makes enough money to send it home. But: she's only allowed in the state as long as she's employed by him. Her family in India is dependent on her income, and so she works really hard because she can't afford to get fired. She gets one day per week off, at least on paper - she often (voluntarily, he noted) works 7 days a week. He tried to sell this setup as a positive, though I left quite alienated.
> Corpora is a collection of small files. It is not meant to be an exhaustive source of anything: a list of resources should contain somewhere in the vicinity of 1000 items.
A massive change: Nations redefine the kilogram
Migrating the very big AcousticBrainz db to new hardware as a junior engineer
Malays can be denied permanent residency permits even if they are married to a Singaporean citizen.

My ex is Singaporean and I (white American) was denied work permit, so I researched it intently. We were considering marriage until we saw the thousands of Malays who were unsuccessful despite marriage.

Really hidden and heartbreaking. And that's just one example of Han Chinese racism
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There is a fine line between stupid and clever
Interesting. This is the first thing I thought, but when I fed "lazy" into google, it happily accepted and displayed the results, so I thought there might be something else. But teh text editors that I tried indeed don't match the characters when I search them.
Excuse me, I disagree with the parent and think their views of FB are completely wrong...

But that's absolutely not reason enough to blatantly impugn someone's motives, and suggest outright that they are doing something illegal.
So is that a no/maybe/yes
They are just different Unicode glyphs on the same font.
> Or do the kids just think that's how it is/has to be these days?

I just don't think that's the defining feature of a job for most people, and most people don't care so much. All of my schooling happened in "open office" plans, like studying at the uni library. I also learned to cope with an eight hour workday. Why are more people not demanding four hour workdays?

Open plans are less stifling/depressing to me than cubicles, and I don't watch enough Mad Men to be fixated on having my own office.

To me, it's like being fixated on any office perk. You could die on the hill of demanding catered food. And that may be worthwhile to you. But I think I'd be at a worse position in life if I suddenly needed catered food to tolerate my job.

If we're ranking job perks, floor plan just isn't in my top 5, and I reckon it's the same for most people. Pay, how interesting the day-to-day, how cool are my coworkers, how long is my commute, is it slave labor, is there a culture of people interrupting me regardless of floor plan, etc.

Finding a good job just isn't Build-a-Bear workshop, so you have to pick your battles. Keep that in mind when you look around and assume "I guess other people aren't up in arms over $thing because they know no better."
When I first learned how Debian (and other) packages were put together I was somewhat surprised. Not just by the security implications but also by the inherent complexity. Even if you’re using templates and generators you can gain a lot by moving all of that out of the package and into the package manager/installer. Distribution-level changes, user OS customization and possibly even reduced privileges would become easier to handle. On the package manager side it seems like maintainability would (in the general case) vastly increase.
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There's a Jurassic Park quote in here somewhere...
Like john_moscow has pointed out, though, that deters people from becoming Patreon creators. It's very normal for people to underestimate the difficulty of what others do or the real worth of their work. Besides that, supporting someone economically in a capitalist environment is giving them your vote for them to continue doing what they're doing. Not voting for them, when you otherwise would, solely because you can see they have some quantity of votes already, disrupts that.

I would like this type of economy to flourish, as it seems like a very viable way to get good economic support for open-source. However, if this is a common occurrence, it seems developers will continue to be better off working on closed-source.
I’ve been a member for at least 5 years because they offer group rates on disability insurance. I was also a member back before ACA for group health insurance plans.
That is understandable, as long as it is not difficult to find the cancellation button.

Gonna go and subscribe as well, probably. Looks quite promising.
You mean both Johns? (Carmack & Romero)
Does such a scent sensor actually exist outside the nose of some animals?
I use an X220i, which has a Sandy Bridge i3-2310M CPU, with 8GB RAM and an SSD. I have no slowness issues in Firefox at all.
Monkey Sort: Vaporworms, Global Web Disruptions, Rogue AI Chatbots and More
I agree. I would imagine that the vast majority of packages could easily be marked as "doesn't run anything as root, doesn't install any SUID executables", with enforcement from APT. This then reduces the attack/bug surface to those packages that do need to do dangerous things.
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With 6500 languages to choose from, I'm sure there are more than a few incorporating a world-view which aligns with yours. Rather than create something entirely new, wouldn't it be more reasonable to delve into what is already on offer?
That is not the mission statement.
Google understand almost all of them (it misses just the last one) and the first result is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over...

Bing doesn't understand any, if you search it, the first result is the github repo with these frases.
Just got back from Austin and Dallas. Your options are going to be a lot deeper in both of them. And if you have a family, nothing in OK, sounds very encouraging on the education front.
I would like to add few more books to the list:

1. Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse

2. On shortness of life by Seneca

3. Letters to stoic by Seneca
didnt know not caring about the mentally ill was a requirement for being fun at parties
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Wow, this is probably the most insightful comment I've read in the past 2 years on HN. Thanks.

It is also a giant market opportunity. If there were a video site for tutorials (in every field) that just show what you want and not emphasize "user engagement" (time on site) instead of, "hey what's up youtube justin here and today we're going to take a look at how to (click, snip, tie, step, whatever). Intro music. So last week we looked at something totally unrelated and a lot of you got back to me with a request for how to do this one simple thing. (Montage of comments asking how to do one simple thing.) Well have no fear because Justin is here. All you're going to need is what you put in the search field, and today for this demonstration I'm also going to put in a totally unrelated product from our sponsor in a vaguely related industry. If you want to check out more information check the links below. Okay, let's get started. So, this is what you searched for. Have you ever wondered how to do the thing you searched for? Like this. Okay ready? This. And, there you have it. Now to finish this up I'm going to also go ahead and do this, this, and this, and.. voila. The picture in the thumbnail. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and if you liked this video be sure to tell all your friends. Thanks again to unrelated products for their generous support. Got anything YOU want to see on this channel? Just leave a comment below. And as always, stay beautiful/fantastic/ amazing/smart/awesome/
productive/strong/etc."

I'm not sure what the right micropayment model is for 5 second tutorials but if some video site found it I would put that URL straight into the browser and search there.
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An article came across my feeds today suggesting that banning palm oil might have unintended side effects [1]

Basically, a reduction in consumption of palm oil would result in manufacturers switching to soybean oil instead. A lot of soybean oil is grown in South America and contributes to deforestation over there. Banning palm oil simply shifts the environmental damage. Palm oil is also apparently one of the least land intensive oils to grow. Instead of banning specific products, we should work towards sustainable growing instead.

I haven't done any additional research on those claims, but it is food for thought.

[1] https://theconversation.com/palm-oil-boycott-could-actually-...
I've been a member for around 7 years. I'm not all that sure I get the most from it, however the magazine and articles are interesting and I'm happy to support the organisation as I feel it does do good work overall. I'm not a scientist nor do I have any scientific training/background. Just a very interested outsider.
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They downloaded it because it was free.

Its value is in the fact that it's free.
> I also think that we should just ban palm oil in general. I'm not sure that it has any applications worth the damage to rainforests.

That would be totally misguided.

> While only 5 percent of the world's vegetable oil farmland is used for palm plantations, palm cultivation produces 38 percent of the world's total vegetable oil supply.[82] In terms of oil yield, a palm plantation is 10 times more productive than soya bean and rapeseed cultivation because the palm fruit and kernel both provide usable oil.[82]

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_oil

Banning palm oil would increase demand for oils which have lower yields leading to an increase in the cleared areas.
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This is a bit late, but does civil disobedience for a corporation in the modern America have to be violation of the law? I'm wondering where Apple's refusal to help the FBI unlock the San Bernadino shooter's iPhone lies.
I wonder if (apart from the points about workers' rights) this is also a "softer" consequence of automation: Yes, there will still be jobs, but those jobs will generally be more competitive and stressful and less straight-forward, because all "straight-forward" work can eventually be automated.
Missing the point that if the USA wanted him they didn’t need to go via Sweden.
Was a Senior Member for years until they backed software patents and I quit. I didn't get tons from it honestly, although it was fun to read Spectrum.
These are not bad counter examples, but I think they still hit the mark, just off center.

It's the changes of perks, that predicts managements stance on future prospects.

Amazon didn't change perks, so at best Lefkowitz’s Law predicts management is not bullish, not that management are fearing for the future and nothing about the state of the company [1]

Similarly, nobody starts a startup without being bullish about the companys prospects. Thus the law predicts start-ups often have good perks.

[1] or at least, the law is always 1 step removed from predicting the state of the business. E.g., if management have a bleak outlook, it is probably because things are indeed bleak.
Exactly this. Following the existing memory items and QRH checklist items taught to every 737 pilot is (very, very likely) enough to overcome this contemplated scenario of a runaway trim from a flaw in the stability system. (It's remotely possible that the crew holds no blame in that they followed the checklist properly and the cutout switches were defective or the checklist response was otherwise insufficient.)
I can confirm it is difficult. Not in terms of climbing, but in terms of breathing. The higher, the smaller your steps. Above 6.000m do you 3 steps and 10 seconds of gasping for air or more. But the view on the summit, that was the most beautiful one I have every seen. You could see the shadow of the mountain, see below. In my case there where some clouds, which made it even more beautiful.
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"take some profit from your pocket" is needlessly severe, but the sentiment that doctors are juggling too many patients resonates with me. "Doctors don't have time anywhere in the world" probably isn't accurate, but my doctor certainly never had enough time to listen to me, which caused me years of needless pain because of a simple misdiagnosis.

I was frustrated enough with engaging with medical professionals that I instead just adopted a healthier lifestyle. My last regular checkup was in '09, and I next visited a doctor in 2013 when I pulled a muscle in my chest, and wanted to make sure I wasn't having a heart attack.

Obviously my anecdote isn't proof that this is a systematic problem, but the fact that I see comments like this "in the wild" at least triggers my confirmation bias :)
> Finding mentally vulnerable people and putting them in harm's way to stiffle a perceived opponent is standard operating procedure for the CIA.

Simultaneously true (IMO) and irrelevant.
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Maybe the balloon could condense water in its environment and electrolyze it to refill itself with the produced hydrogen. (Though I'm pretty sure you also need salt.)
Wikidata has a SPARQL API though
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So if I go to any country...

If you go and commit the crime there.
The CVR is mounted next to the FDR so they should search in approximately the same place, and it probably won't be damaged if the FDR wasn't. It's more likely to be buried, as you note.
I wonder what version control system do they use for that monstrosity (how long it takes to checkout/commit changes)?
"We hold the copyright on a bunch of stuff you'd like to read" has never felt like a compelling sales pitch to me. They and the ACM do a fair job of hiding information from people who could use it, many of whom don't know it yet, but I don't think that sort of thing should be rewarded.

I was almost ready to make the jump and join one of these until I realized how many extra fees I'd incur to read everything I was interested in. IIRC with the ACM it's papers presented at conferences that are extra, but it sounds like IEEE has similar problems.

I can see how membership could have some other benefits, but it's hard to justify the expense, and just distasteful to contribute to the academic gatekeeping involved.
I imagine because it's useful and has a fun name. So when someone stumbles across it, they post it. I've seen it on here a number of times and I still upvote it...because its useful and has a fun name.
Ask HN: What 4K monitor for the new Mac Mini would you recommend?
Hey there,
I was thinking to replace my MacBook Pro 2012 with a Mac Mini., so I would need a bigger external monitor so here’s the big question: what >24’’ and >4K monitor would you buy?

It seems that Apple recommends LG monitors but the UltraFine 5K is quite expensive. Are there cheaper but good alternative products at the moment?

According to this post (https://bjango.com/articles/macexternaldisplays/) it seems that a Dell UP2715K could be a good alternative to LG, but it seems that it is not available anymore for sell.

Thank you in advance for your precious advices!
> You're basically looking at $733/year for limited access to their publications.

Not to mention, you should be able to get free access via the library system anyway.