skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if you owe anyone anything. Ultimately the right kind of people lend their voice to supporting someone because someone did it for them. if you paid them back somehow, would it be the same as taking the time to support someone else in your future when you come across a situation.

Being given to or cared for unimaginably often makes us feel like sharing it, be it giving it back, or doing it for others. Whatever you do, know that there's probably more than a few people that would probably be happiest if you join them in being a giver and keeping kindness and goodness fashionable. In other words your gratitude is not a debt to repay, but maybe another chance to participate in our universal responsibility for our human family by helping others not feel alone, and maybe a little more understood.
Thanks for the rec, this looks really good! Reminds me a lot of XHP.
Heightmap based 3d would be very simple to add via something like f(x, y) -> x, y, heightmap(x, y). The city building genre is essentially "2.5D", as the gameplay itself is purely 2d with the third dimension existing solely in the presentation layer.

Edit: As for the roads on uneven terrain, I'm thinking about deriving z coordinate from another 2d Bezier curve traced along 't' of the road. Control points could be derived from a convex polygon obtained via the road/heightmap intersection.
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The question assumes that you KNOW the rule, which is highly unlikely unless you've either been bitten by it or have read through the spec enough times to catch it.

Unless you know the actual parsing rules, there's no way to know if a real parser would be greedy or not (or perhaps it might try to be clever?). This is nothing more than a trivia question, which does not test aptitude or intelligence.
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aheroku.com&aq=f&#...

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Why would you think a firefoxOS device is going to end up cheaper than Android, when both OSes are open source and linux based?
It's in the OED, that's good enough for me!
I went through the same thing. A support group works. What helps me the most is vitamins, water and exercise. I also stopped spiking caffeine (I take a time release capsule) and stopped drinking alcohol.

Vitamins (every morning with food):
Vitamin C 1000mg (energy and health)
B-12 3000mcg (happy energy)
Magnesium 400mg (focus and mood moderation)
Fish Oil - EPA 120mg + DHA 900mg (memory + mood moderation)
L-Carnitine 200mg (precursor for acetylcholine neurotransmitter)
Time release caffeine (8 hours of stable energy with no spikes)

This has helped me completely conquer my mood swings (depression as well as ADD) and has made a huge impact on my enjoyment of life.
I'm proud of you.
You are of course complaining about all software. You can't resell Microsoft Office or Photoshop either.

So don't pretend that only games have this issue.
Don't let this get too popular or people (non-HN, of course) might start using it.
Public housing or housing vouchers are one thing. Price controls are another. Price controls are absolutely, without a single empirical doubt, the worst policy you could enact. You might as well start torching your housing supply...the effects are the same.
I just found out from W3S that there's still 19.1% of users using XP. I see where that could become problematic.
I had a bit of nerd rage over the d3 release. I never could convince anyone there to delete my battle.net account, so I had to settle for an authenticator. Then, of course, I deleted the authenticator from the phone.

Blizzard makes great stuff. I, however, have limited time. I wound up paying more that a dollar a minute for the time I got to played d3. I have no interest in buying another blizzard game, ever.
"What we did was the most simple-minded thing that you could do," Dmitrašinović says. "We were shocked when we discovered all these things, and we were even more shocked when we discovered that they had not been discovered before us."
Alright... what if they could only change the CSS, and not the HTML and JS? (Obviously not a solution for Github pages, but workable in some scenarios)
Everything this guy writes is toxic. He consistently misrepresents reality to fit his biases.
Oh, it can certainly be a life philosophy, but like everything, people change.

It really seems to be age related. When you're younger, you tend to have nothing, so embracing minimalism seems like a good way to go. As we get older and achieve some level of success, a better quality of life tends to follow, and with it more material possessions.

Later, perhaps when we become aware of the number, and perhaps the burden (maintenance, storage space, etc) of all those things, minimalism again starts to look good.

Right now I'm waiting for the kids to grow up and leave so I can talk the wife into us living on a boat :-)
The thing is: there's going to be a lot fewer such bad experiences when they cost the person wanting you to have them money. And it may provide an incentive to make promoted content a less bad experience, because in order to maximize revenue, Facebook had to balance the price of promoted content with its acceptance by users: content that is a better experience will cost less to promote because more of it can be shown to users before they get annoyed and leave Facebook.
Is there a way to disable the fade-in? It makes scanning impossible.
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No comma operator on the slides. Whata pitty :-)
A free text-based MMO alternative to SimCity
Totally exploiting this SimCity mess to plug my free game :P Reign is a completely free browser-based text-based persistent multiplayer strategy game.

It's kind of a 'coffee break game' as you make decisions, such as what to build, and then your nation carries out your orders while you're out living life.

The game is in active development (beta) and has about 130 active players right now.

Here's the game in a nutshell: Pick a modern day nation (that another player hasn't picked yet), build power plants, build residential, manage agriculture, issue executive orders, consult your general, draft citizens into military, manage citizen morale, build factories, trade uranium in the black market, trade with other players, form alliances, war.

Again, community-run, 100% free, no ads, no bullshit. Just pure fun.

Sorry to blatantly advertise, literally no other way to get the word out with a free game like this. I hope this isn't seen as out of bounds plugging. Honestly sorry if it is. I do genuinely think it's of interest to a sizable portion of the community and, again, it's a free thing.

Anyways, check us out if you're interested. Great community, good fun. Email me your feedback: ty@reign.ws

Screenshots:

Mobile UI:

- What to build next? http://i.imgur.com/4NR5vYE.png
- Managing assets: http://i.imgur.com/kDgCsi5.png
- World chat! Where nation leaders negotiate: http://i.imgur.com/nMAsVLc.png
- When duty calls. Drafting an army: http://i.imgur.com/n4JzzNw.png

Desktop UI:

- The mysterious Black Market: http://i.imgur.com/KKgpRys.png

Random ad I made but don't know what to do with: http://i.imgur.com/k8mCprV.jpg
Ya, HK is pretty much dominated by financial; no one goes there to work in tech, and there isn't much of a talent pipeline. Singapore, Bangkok, Shenzhen, shanghai, Beijing are better.

Coincidentally, I'm in HK on holiday going back to Beijing tomorrow. I'm suffocating in this small hotel room....my wife did a lot of shopping, though.
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Tens of millions of rows with up to hundreds of columns per row is pretty solidly in the relational database range. MySQL, PostgreSQL or even H2 will handle this pretty well on a single machine. However if you are doing any expensive per-row calculation (like natural language processing) or any sort of all-pairs work (like nearest neighbor) then you will see benefits from multiple machines and something like Hadooop to distribute and manage the work.
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Totally exploiting this SimCity mess to plug my free game :P Reign is a completely free browser-based text-based persistent multiplayer strategy game.

It's kind of a 'coffee break game' as you make decisions, such as what to build, and then your nation carries out your orders while you're out living life.

The game is in active development (beta) and has about 130 active players right now.

Here's the game in a nutshell: Pick a modern day nation (that another player hasn't picked yet), build power plants, build residential, manage agriculture, issue executive orders, consult your general, draft citizens into military, manage citizen morale, build factories, trade uranium in the black market, trade with other players, form alliances, war.

Again, community-run, 100% free, no ads, no bullshit. Just pure fun.

Sorry to blatantly advertise, literally no other way to get the word out with a free game like this. I hope this isn't seen as out of bounds plugging. Honestly sorry if it is. I do genuinely think it's of interest to a sizable portion of the community and, again, it's a free thing.

Anyways, check us out if you're interested. Great community, good fun. Email me your feedback: ty@reign.ws

.

Screenshots:

--- Desktop UI ---

# The mysterious Black Market: http://i.imgur.com/KKgpRys.png

--- Mobile UI ---

# What to build next? http://i.imgur.com/4NR5vYE.png

# Managing assets: http://i.imgur.com/kDgCsi5.png

# World chat! Where nation leaders negotiate: http://i.imgur.com/nMAsVLc.png

# When duty calls. Drafting an army: http://i.imgur.com/n4JzzNw.png

Random ad I made but don't know what to do with: http://i.imgur.com/k8mCprV.jpg
I think a support network for depressed hackers is a great idea, and I'd love to help out in some way (though I'm sort of lacking in technical skill).

That said, I also agree with what dandrews says: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5348693
Don't overexert yourself trying to help. If you think helping others will help you, then sure, go right ahead! But please be focused on your own recovery. We'll need a stable leader if we want to do this right ;)
Define which "it" it was that surfaced.

That ruling said that contracts created by corporations, defined under the law explicitly as things that can enter into contracts, are legal and enforceable, and not able to be changed by the government.

This makes sense since enabling groups of people to enter into into and honoring contracts is the point of corporations. But the principle that corporations have natural liberties as persons is generally dated back to the 1880s and jurisprudence about the 14th amendment. At that point the founding fathers were all long dead, and the 14th amendment itself was added long after the founding fathers died.
It is the responsibility of society and communities to end situations that even allow for the poor to exist, otherwise we are simply sending people to their doom.
I read the article. I wouldn't call it "covering up". It didn't explain everything going on, just like all kinds of things that go on behind the scenes everyday at AWS that users don't understand.

Define "intelligent routing". Maybe it is intelligent to route 85% of your requests to /dev/null. Can you sue because your performance sucks in your application use case? Most normal people eval their provider, try to get answers from support (which rapgenius have done here), and if the answers aren't up to snuff or the performance isn't whay they think it should be for what they are paying they move to another provider. They don't sue their provider for being "slow".
Unfortunately, that page only reveals its text through a typing animation this is much slower than my reading speed, so I bounced.
Are these phone numbers or DNA sequencing data sets? :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segment_tree
"I would love to give something back to you but I am not sure what that should be."

I would worry about creating an obligation that would require you to have anxiety and other issues by not being able to fulfill the obligation. While it's nice and might make you feel good to give back it's hard to believe that it wouldn't be better to simply try to get yourself stronger without the obligation of doing for others. For now.

After all even the simple act of "replying to all that wrote" appears to be more than you can handle right now. I'm sure some of those people would want to be acknowledged for taking the time to write.
In addition to the points made by riobard and kd0amg, using the JRE ensures that their engineers can write code that is as general purpose as possible. They won't have to rewrite large parts of the software if they want to deploy it to a different architecture/platform, for example.

Leave the low level stuff to the JRE folks and spend your resources on doing stuff that directly makes you money or furthers your cause.
Haven't used Lua much but the concept of tables is really neat. Its simple, orthogonal and the fact it lies at the core of many features in Lua (composite data types, metaprogramming, etc) means those features are neat too.
As a Mac / Chrome user I don't even really have the option of using Java in my browser any more. Can't say I really miss it, although I was fishing around for the command line appletviewer the other day..
I think this is a fine place for these issues now, as they're important to the community and the reaction has been positive. It will help drive awareness and encourage others to seek help. Unless of course he successfully creates a help net work, then it might be time to fork off to there :)
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I think Haskell wins out here since it has neither in the core language. Much easier to reason about. ;)
It sucks because it isn't there to enhance the user experience. Anecdotally I never once thought that performing a desktop search should return me Amazon search result (why just Amazon? Why not internet search results if anything? - which is kind of what happens when you perform search on Jelly Bean). It feels cheap, and clutters a visible portion of your desktop UI with ads. I haven't seen anybody like it or praise this because it's so transparently only about revenue, user experience be damned. Your argument for using it amounts to essentially charity (i.e. use it to support your OS). At least with Unity, I can hate it but respect that they were trying to build something new. This was only about revenue. Worse, Canonical, comically tried to argue that it isn't. Nobody bought it.

I actually want Canonical to be successful. I want them to be profitable and I wish they could find a way to make money without resorting to stupid gimmicks like this.

//

I buy things on Amazon twice a year (if that). I have a feeling I'm closer to the average PC user than not.
Agreed. Everytime i get back to C it's like coming back home. But first you must study it hard to make it your home. On the other hand javascript (lang i'm using at current job) is like living 'Groundhog Day' with everyday finishing with suicide. Well, not saying javascript is bad language, there are some really great things about it, but it's designed with a loaded gun put on your head all the time :-) I'd also put C++ on list of dangerous languages, because it is trying to fix C problem while introducing OOP (and in newsest standard lambdas and others), so now you have huge base for new and exciting set of ways to kill yourself. It's not even funny that simple languages like lua are getting more users everyday.
They can, but assuming that people (can) have a perfect understanding of all the technology they use in their daily life is not only optimistic, it is entirely unrealistic.
Given Mozilla's goals for Firefox OS can you explain how these web technologies are anything but the best option? If you think that Java, C# or Objective C would have been better choices you've misunderstood what they're trying to achieve [hint: it's about creating a mobile OS by extending the world's most widely used technology stack].
Nearly all dinners are communal in the many cohousing[1] communities in Denmark.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohousing
Firefox OS uses the Android kernel, so it benefits from Android drivers, too.
ты охуенен.

your posts are so entertaining, keep it up
That's such a great analogy. And is absolutely correct. Depressives helping depressives is a great idea on its face, but falls down quickly when you haven't given yourself the opportunity for actual, serious stability before reaching out your own hand. The process of becoming healthy becomes much more complicated and difficult if you are trying to balance your own mental welfare with the welfare of others.

I was once asked what I was doing to live up to a certain person's life with whom I was associated. I said I was doing what I could for myself today so that I could do anything at all for others in the future.
While the HN crowd have lots of things in common, especially those things that make us human, what things are you especially proud of, strengths that you feel are somewhat unique to you, the things you really enjoy doing and the kinds of problems you prefer tackling?
>if we're going to go down that road then we need to stop calling it a community-driven Linux distribution.

It's not like "community-driven Linux distribution" is such a badge of honor.
I'd be glad if you can pinpoint the location in the C standard where this constraint is given.
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I don't live on a ranch, and don't really have any desire to, but let's play devil's advocate.

With a ranch and lots of land, you can grow your own food, raise your own animals and not be tied down to requiring (as much) other people. You don't have to deal with traffic (foot or road), generally anyway, and your neighbors are probably pretty friendly - probably because they don't have to deal with masses of people on a daily basis and aren't stressed out / overly stimulated.

You get the night air, the country views and peace and quiet. That goes a long ways for some people. That is something you don't get in a urban setting.
It'll just look like a sawtooth wave.
This CTF is going to last for 2 days , prizes worth 15k to be won !
Google to Pay $7M to Settle Wi-Spy Case With More Than 30 U.S. AGs
int x = 'FOO!';

Took me awhile to understand this; single quotes define single characters, and for some C decided to allow multiple character character constants but leave their value as implementation-defined. Discussion: http://zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/computers/languages/c_multi-c...
Heck, if an avalanche of correspondence fell on any of us, depressed or not, it may well be overwhelming beyond the point of being able to answer it all!

In any case, I would add that the set of actions that matter and make a difference is not a perfect subset of the actions that feel like they're important. That is to say, you never know when something that seems like a small act on your part can change someone else's day...

So, to that end, though I missed the OP's original post, I'd challenge him or her to simply believe in some purpose – find something every morning that makes it worth interacting with others (and try to do so in a generous way) and you're likely to make a real impact, even if you're never aware of it.
What do you mean by orthogonal in terms of simplicity and similarity to other Lua features?
Today you, tomorrow me. Don't worry about it.
It's a fairly "simple concept", but I'm sure you would agree that it gets complicated when you get into the details. No way around that.
View it in the editor instead.
Thanks for explaining. The reasons sound quite obvious and I feel a little silly for asking in the first place.
A good deal of Marketing on the Advertising side deals with manipulation of the human psyche.

Using various techniques such as "bandwagoning", "celebrity endorsements", "card stacking", etc. are not at all intended to help the user make a good choice. They're intended to fool the user into making a choice for the associated product or service.

Really, any advertising that isn't just an honest presentation of the facts could easily be described as "unethical".
Movist has a “navigation mode” that works well as a simple Front Row replacement.
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Some do redirect to * .herokuapp.com, though. For instance: http://blacklistapp.heroku.com redirects to http://blacklistapp.herokuapp.com. I wonder if they switched it over for newer instances?
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C's corners aren't very dark. It's a small enough language that it's easy to explore them. Things can get ugly when programmers decide to abuse the preprocessor because the language isn't complicated enough for them, but thankfully most C programmers have a distaste for such shenanigans. C++ is down the hall and around the corner, if you want darkness.
int x = 'FOO!';

will not make demons fly out of your nose: it is not undefined behaviour. It is guaranteed to produce a value; the specific value is implementation defined (that is, one that the compiler vendor has decided and documented), but it is an integer value, not a demon value.

I'm sure, though, that someone sooner or later will be bitten by code like

int x = 'é';

which is equally implementation-defined.
Patches accepted! :) https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/

The Gaia repo contains the JS application frameworks and system apps. The Gon repo is the Android-based kernel and userspace. I believe the name Gonk refers to the small rectangular robots from Star Wars.
Ha, well in some ways the web is better: I generally don't get ads or annoying pop-ups or social sharing widgets, etc. CSS is often on a separate domain so most pages are unstyled and ugly, but pretty easy to read (usually just black text on white background).

But the downside is I had to open this page in a different browser to reply to you just now. And things like Gmail, GitHub, etc, I use in my other browser, but I try to keep the sites I use "unprotected" to a minimum.

On the whole, a fair trade-off I think.
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Orthogonal in the sense that the same concept is used if you need maps/arrays or for namespacing functions or metatables(for metaprogramming). Its like a "core" concept that binds seemingly different features in an coherent way. Havent seen a concept used this elegantly in any other language
Elevating JavaScript to the pantheon of machine code ignores two simple and incontrovertible facts:

- JavaScript is significantly slower than ARM (even if you cheat and reference asm.js)

- JavaScript is not machine code.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction

... and when it does happen - because of their already poor public image - they will be in big trouble.
The Humanscale switch mouse works well for a hybrid vertical / standard mouse.

http://www.humanscale.com/products/product_detail.cfm?group=...

I use one daily and really like it, although its made of cheap plastic. The $99 list price is pushing it, you can probably find one on ebay for ~$30. I got mine for free at the Humanscale showroom when I went to look at their chairs.
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I agree about the tables. Personally, I find Lua to just be a more honest language, in a sense. Languages like Python or OCaml really just use tables under the hood for objects and what not (from what I understand), but Lua shows you that outright.
On some slides there is shown how particular function is expressed in assembly. I know nothing about that language (I'm talking about assembly; I know c and even like it) and when I tried to find anything how to learn this I faced some problems. I don't know, where should I start, how should I start etc. Can someone point me to good resources or starting points (I prefer linux than windows if that's matters)?

(Sorry for of offtopic)
As someone who is still in a beginners course on OOP/Java, I can tell you that that's not the only bull they'll spout.