skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This emulator is fundamentally different to every other emulator I know of, in several critical ways. I'll publish more about that towards the time of release, but most importantly, Exodus is not a Mega Drive emulator. Exodus is a generic emulation platform, which allows systems to be assembled from individual components at runtime. Nothing related to a particular system is hardcoded. Exodus constructs a system from a set of discrete components, manages the communication between those components, and keeps perfect timing accuracy between each component. Other systems can easily be modelled without modifying or rebuilding Exodus, it simply requires emulation cores for each device in that system to be available."

Woah...this could be extremely cool.
"Because direct flash makes things look terrible"

Not every image is dictated by the same aesthetic.
Me too. This site got me into CSS. I remember when it had less than 50 entries. Wow.
Desktop Linux is just missing a vertical here. The "open and democratic" methods of Linux, also called "free market" or "bazaar", are a fine as a stage of development. This is why distributions exist; they make the choices from the raw technology and bundle it up all neatly. The issue is that the distributions do not have a real attitude of tight integration and strict user-centric organizational imperatives. Ubuntu, Fedora, et al use their platforms as late-stage testbeds instead of standardized, consumer-ready desktop burns with full integration.

In many ways, OS X has shown us the ideal distribution. It's based on open technology and continually adopts new technology as it proves itself, but Apple is not afraid to integrate tightly and replace components with well-engineered, well-tested replacements as necessary (the origination of the divergence between X11 and Quartz), as long as it means a solid, unified, consistent and functional experience for their users.

We need that now. Canonical fancies themselves after that pattern but I don't believe they take the needed organization seriously enough and I don't believe they have the technical expertise necessary to really make the tough calls and implement a technically-sound user-centric system (see: Mir). They need to get some new leadership in there.
As NewsRadio taught us so many years ago, deleting something from the internet is like trying to remove pee from a swimming pool.

sorry, i had to post this.
Something similar to how we use fire on books? Like how we seal or expunge criminal records sometimes, except every individual is obligated to comply?

The protocol could be extended to deleting particular opinions from the internet, which could help with terrorism (or talking about terrorism or whatever), or even tracking and taxing particular opinions, as Cass Sunstein theorized might be a good way to bring down the pervasiveness of conspiracy theories.

The possibilities are endless.
Because he doesn't know what he's talking about, and you shouldn't be taking camera advice from him.

The built in flash is perfectly fine for adding fill light to an image and with a bit of diffusion can even work as primary light source in a pinch.
MAME is a project to emulate Arcade games. This is a project to emulate Sega Genesis/Megadrive games. Although many already exist, they use a lot of different tricks to help performance. Some of these hacks can cause game-breaking timing problems in some games. A cycle-accurate emulator takes a lot more processing power, but allows for the most accurate emulation of the games.
> I find it extremely plausible that it was incorrectly transcribed in this instance.

I don't. The context it is used in in the article (not just the reference to "chattel currency" but the reference to the user of such a currency being a "shill for the financial industry" is pretty dead on the the criticism by the subculture in which you find "chattel currency" used prior to the article makes of US Federal Reserve Notes as a scam that was promoted by the banking giants that are members of the Fed to get people to hand over their "legal tender" gold for not-legal-tender (as they claim) Federal Reserve Notes, the commissioner has just dropped bitcoin into the place of Federal Reserve Notes and the network of bitcoin miners in place of the banks that make up the Federal Reserve system.

Its not particularly plausible that the commissioner meant to say something else and it was conveniently "mistranscribed" into an attack on bitcoin that specifically uses both the terminology and the substantive logic of a attack by a subculture that has substantial overlap with the pro-bitcoin community against the trustworthiness of the US dollar and the system supporting it.
People buy DSLRs because they have big sensors. But I suggest buying a compact mirror-less camera like Sony NEX that have big sensor and small size. You can get expensive lenses if you are interested too.
I disagree. Investors often have a much more personal relationship with the founder. They made a bet on YOU. Your boss may or may not even care about you or whether you work there.

More importantly, you might not give a rats ass what your boss thinks of you. Just because he's "in charge" doesn't mean he doesn't have a large amount of accountability.
The Secret of Making Space (Even If Your Schedule is Crazy)
Could you quote bits of answers and say what it is that you don't understand about them?

Don't forget that some of the conflicts are going to come about because people are simplifying substantially.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/explainer-pnp.html
[This poem](http://www.tricolour.net/som.html) is part of the Canadian ceremony (or was at mine, anyhow), and describes the aforementioned burden. It may be because it strokes an engineers' ego a bit, but I enjoy it.
Not sure I'd call it "too early" when it was the norm for most of human existence. Sleep at sunset, wake at dawn, enjoy some nocturnal activity mid night. Artificial lighting hasn't been around all that long, yet we have forgotten what natural lighting means for sleep cycles.
Thanks for the reply, and yes, that makes sense. What would you predict as the most likely other steps in the filter?

Looking at our own planet, I would guess that it's a combination of a) it being simply infeasible to send large animals to distant stars (we haven't yet colonised the moon or even made a serious attempt to colonise low earth orbit, and we might not do so before we run out of cheap energy) and b) technological singularities.
For pete's sake, can't someone wax poetic on a slightly related subject of interest without it having to be taken as a polarizing direct criticism of the article?

My bad, move along.
"I'm not implying he's a pedophile, I'm only implying that he takes advantage of young girls for sinister purposes"

Oh, well in that case...
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How different is a BS in Computer Science from a MS when it comes to recruiting?
You use "but" as though you're disputing some statement I made, when I intentionally avoided making any statement outside my knowledge. I said Kepler does use occlusion, and does not use wobbling.

I'm not trying to single you out here. I'm just curious what one has to say on HN so as not to be corrected.

Is there some "don't assume I've implicitly made a bunch of unsupported remarks" initialism that I can tack on to the end of all my posts?

/DAIIMABOUR
"If you study macro, well, you'll make a good candidate for a job.... doing macroeconomics?"

There's a damned good living to be made as a macroeconomist in D.C. The bar for intellectual rigor is pretty low, and you're basically a lobbyist/speechwriter masquerading as a "policy advisor." It's the sale of your soul, but the price can be attractive.

Alternatively, there are some very handsomely paying "life of the mind" roles available at the think tanks. Of course, this stuff is politics at its most base and animalistic, and so your advancement is 100% predicated on playing the game of thrones. (The modern-day think tank is a lobbying organization given a euphemistic name.)
They're still diamonds. Still a fake scam by DeBeers; still paid for with blood. And the synthetics are still better looking.
I never said I was interpreting the article. Can't I just discuss something interesting? Or does it have to be interpreted as an interpretation of the article?
Has anyone got a link to Zeus Goremunkist's Github profile? This guy looks legit.
Except for having his friends take pictures of him. So he'll have to explain to all of his friends why he's not to appear in online photographs.
A lot of the people that live near the stops in downtown San Francisco may be pretty poor, but I think most of the people using BART at those stops don't live there, they just work there.
Covering up your licence plate would be a really great way to attract the attention of the police.
Right now Meteor is changing so fast that a paper edition didn't really make sense (the online edition will be kept up to date, of course).

But once Meteor stabilizes at 1.0 we'll consider a printed version. And if we do this, we'll also provide a discount for people who have already bought the digital edition.
"Setting restraining orders and putting up barricades isn't the answer much of the time."

Jesus christ. It's for his protection, not for her benefit.

"Get her in a room with a moderator and a camera, reason with her/use recording as grounds to get her committed."

You overestimate the possibility of forced institutionalization.
John Carmack looking to do moderate sized project in haskell
This is an open source font, more readable for people with dyslexia.
Now that Reader is closer to death, has a superior alternative emerged?
I know there were several frontrunners like Feedly and others near the initial announcement. Now that people have had a chance to try out various solutions, I'd love to hear people's opinions of what's the best to migrate to. I'll pay if I have to, but of course would love a free option.
Double Fine has their own engine, they don't use Unreal.
Windows 8 six months in: 100 million licenses sold, 250 million app downloads
Photographer/photojournalist here. What a panamax-sized-load of complete nonsense. "Don't use the kit lens!" Says who? Some kit-obsessed "coffee enthusiast". And I'm keen on indoor-outdoor breathing! Let's be buddies!

Marco Arment knows fuck-all about

(a) quality
(b) photography
(c) camera hardware
(d) captioning photos

There isn't a sentence in that blog post that isn't either wrong or half-true.

Use the camera however you want. When you start finding that your tools can't keep up with your imagination, improve them. Photography is about light, and capturing it, first and foremost. See the light, see it change, make it change, appreciate it, capture it, and stop reading trash from insecure baldhead attention whores who take godawful photos like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcoarment/5196670116/in/photo...

Sure, some people think sharp lines, high contrast and Schneider-Kreuznach-like resolution == high quality. And it does, in context. If you want sharpness, high contrast and resolution. You may also want to play an Ibanez RG1570 in the same context. But to others, artistic quality is a more useful way to describe things - and it can cheerfully describe all types of optics in that useful way, a way that doesn't need to stick things on a scale of good to bad. Marco appears to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time and caught me on full-flame-on mode - but he's also being narrow-minded and only looking to one context, which doesn't help anybody make better pictures, it just helps them make sharper and bigger pictures.
Today's kit lenses are actually really good. In fact, a kit lens today blows away a high-end lens from just a few years ago.
Marco is also a professional wedding photograph if I am not mistaken. I think he actually knows what he is talking about. Generally the built in flash is too close to the camera, is obstructed by the lense and if direct facing.
>>I don't think Google is as altruistic as Schmidt pretends here.

Maybe they are (I don't buy it either) but Google has lost the right to get the benefit of the doubt, at last from me.

Now on topic, I understand the first amendment and public's right to know but people also make mistakes and at some point deserve a fresh start (criminal record expunge, bad news hidden after x years, right to file bankruptcy etc.)

Not only is it the right thing to do morally, IMO, it's also great for the economy, eventually we all will do something embarrassing or bad. For how long do we have to suffer? If I can't get a decent job based on my qualifications because of a marijuana /underage alcohol conviction 12 years ago, how is that good for my children and eventually the state /country?
I totally agree and the nifty-fifty's pricing is unbeatable. However, I find the DoF to be way too shallow for all but portraits, unless I tweak/fix the aperture settings (and fix them so they don't change).

If I'm going to be doing f/2.8 or f/4 anyway, I'm happier with the pancake lens - esp. with my APS-C cropped factor, and effective 64mm is much more manageable than a 80mm. And it's just that bit lighter.

I'm a big believer in the foot-based zoom approach, and really prefer primes to zooms.
Different goals it sounds like. MAME is intended to try and archive and emulate every arcade game known, the emulation doesn't have to be 100% so long as the experience of game is more or less playable. MAME likely contains code that replicates hundreds or even thousands of discrete architectures, probably sharing some common emulation cores, but lots and lots of custom code.

Exeodus appears to be more like a framework for describing different system architectures and enabling cycle accurate emulation (see BSNES/Higan [1]). As a test case, the author focused on the Mega Drive/Genesis...but it sounds like if you have a descriptor file of an architecture and the necessary components available, you could cycle-accurate pretty much anything, even systems that never existed!

I can imagine a community of authors that put together a library of different system descriptions that you load before loading a ROM or a disk image.

1 - http://byuu.org/higan/

Exodus is intended as a general purpose, cyc
We call them 'dentist photographers' in German photo forums. These guys get always the most expensive stuff and all they do is taking test pictures of screws and newspapers to determine if the optics are flawless. Then they put their expensive Leica away and go golfing.
I'm sympathetic but torn. I do time series econometrics, partly because macro is important but unrealistic like you say. But I've grown more sympathetic to macro over the last few years. For better or worse, it's a field that only really gets model validation during crises, and as a field it's been pretty willing to overhaul its methodology following a crisis: Sims's "Macroeconomics and Reality" was written in 1980, basically had the message, "macroeconomists suck," and is now entrenched methodology. The RBC stuff was written in the 80s and is now also entrenched. There's been a stretch of relative calm (people learned something from LTCM, etc, but since it didn't cripple the economy it didn't inspire quite the same urgency as the financial crisis).

So, as far as the agent-based modeling goes, now's the opportunity for people working on it to show that they can answer questions macroeconomists are interested in better than DSGE type models. I'm not very familiar with that literature, but I don't think that there's been much emphasis on things like predicting aggregate unemployment, output, etc. or understanding the effects of monetary policy, but there's been more emphasis on individual markets. VARs and DSGE models are ubiquitous because they outperformed the previous models, not because the underlying theory is especially beautiful or interesting.

But, yeah, I definitely agree that you should not get an Econ PhD unless you want to learn how to do research in Economics. 4-6 years of salary and job advancement is a lot to give up, even if you could be sure of getting the job you want after graduation. And the celibacy.

Edit: just to clarify what I meant by "as a field it's been pretty willing to overhaul its methodology." I don't expect that a lot of established people will radically change their research agenda, although some will. But I do expect to see a change in what grad students and assistant profs work on compared to what you'd see w/out the financial crisis. So the research will change, even if a lot of the same people keep putting out the same papers.
It's an excellent game, but the ending sequence was quite frustrating, at least on the 360.
It's cute that someone made this in response to the New Yorker piece. San Francisco always wants to feel like it's one of the big guys like NYC.

If anything, this transit/income data shows how little of a correlation there is between the two. This doesn't suprise me: most people in SF have cars, and muni/BART are embarrassingly awful compared to the big the cities in the US.
I guess it could be cut off if I really needed to :) But other than that, no it doesn't come off. You tend to gain weight as you get older, even on your fingers.
Dave Shea's ZenGarden, MezzoBlue and AListApart were, and still are, huge inspirations to web designers. I followed those blogs intently in High School. ALA's 2004 CSS sprites post was largely responsible for its widespread adoption.
> adding fill light to an image and with a bit of diffusion can even work as primary light source in a pinch.

And that's Greek to anyone who casually takes pictures.
I wish more people understood this, especially in regard to tax policy.
Better advice: don't be an equipment queen. Many kit lenses these days are very good.

I have the 50/1.4 on my Nikon D80, a fabulous lens, and I prefer using a prime, but it's not the right lens for every situation.
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In other words, he doesn't want bureacracy to encroach on Google, but he would LOVE for bureaucracy to depend on Google by providing fundamental privacy functions for the Internet. Content control is not to far from this logic, btw, though I'm not sure it qualifies as a slippery slope.

UPDATE: On further thought, I wonder if this is just textbook Rent-seeking or Regulatory Capture (or some hybrid). If so, my apologies for puffery!
I find that the biggest factor in getting great pictures is my bounce-able external flash on my 7D (and 300D before it) - and the only reason I haven't stepped down to a micro 4/3 already.

How do you solve the lighting problem?
>I'd hate to have a coincidental pattern become "proof" in some kind of court case.

Especially when the pattern is what the cops use to identify the suspect in the first place.

There is a real problem with big data in the courtroom. Take the intersection of a victim, a crime and a suspect and look at a million data points and you'll find several thousand that match. Put only those in front of a jury and you have something that looks like a mountain of evidence but is really just systematically applying confirmation bias to random noise.
New Arena Proposed for Piers 30-32
"When I opened some System menu, I could only Alt-Tab out of it, there was no visible option to close it"

Pressing the windows key to bring it up and windows to back out of it works just fine.
Why we chose to use the .io TLD
I agree that Fizzbuzz isn't a trick question or a brain teaser. If I disagree with you about "trivia", I think it's because I disagree what the word "trivia" means, not because I disagree about Fizzbuzz. Whatever.

However, I do meaningfully disagree about "variations of Fizzbuzz". It does make sense to vary fizzbuzz, if you suspect that your candidate will have literally memorized the solution, character for character. If that's a concern, though, trivial variations are sufficient: replace the 5 with a 7, or change the ELSE case from "print the number" to "print nothing", or something.

I agree that if your "variation" makes it "interesting", you're not doing Fizzbuzz.

Whether or not interesting programming puzzles are a good element of interviewing, well, there continues to be a wide range of opinions on that.
As a native hoi toid speaker I can confirm that we exist, and in numbers greater than 5000. I'd guess at least 20,000. The accent doesn't magically disappear once you get off Ocracoke. Quite a few of us woodsers grew up with it (GGFather migrated from Harker's Island).
Yes.

I am not productive whatsoever before 10am. I would rather work 10am-11am until late into the night (2am-3am).

One sleep schedule for everyone? Never going to happen.
Prototyping Pro Tip: Practice With A New Tool By Redoing An Old Design
It works out great for everyone else though. If you look at used Leica M9s on the market (as I'm doing these days...) a great many of them have only collected ~500 shutter clicks in the years they've been "in service".

Whenever I see a great camera sitting around unused it makes me ache :(
I second shot weddings and freelanced events, and have spent more on camera gear than my car.

Marco's advice is terrible and akin to, "Don't learn programming if you'll only use one language."

It's a chicken or egg first problem. People buying their first DSLR always ask which camera to buy, but it's hard to answer since they don't have established preferences from exploring the hobby. There are no early indicators whether a person will ever need to upgrade from a kit lens.

Marco 40mm pancake lens suggestion is projecting his own preferences onto readers. What if the person wants to shoot headshots, sports, landscape, low light, or events? What use is a 40mm pancake then?

He may be famous for Instapaper, but his unqualified gear snobbery doesn't belong on Hacker News.
I don't see what this has to do with mass transit. It seems to be a gimmick. Why not just plot this information with a (two-dimensional) heatmap?
> It took me about a month at to sleep off my debt.

I am pretty sure you didn't "sleep off your debt". Sleep debt is something you easily recover right away, just by sleeping until you wake naturally.

What you did was to shift your circadian phase. The circadian phase is usually measured by the nadir point of the core body temperature rhythm [1] (apparently the better measurement is of the "endogenous melatonin rhythm", but it's easier to talk about core body temperature).

Apparently you can force the nadir point forward, but it's relatively hard to move it backwards. You move it forward by delaying sleep, thus accumulating sleep debt that causes you to get up increasignly later. To move it backwards you have to curtail your sleep, thus accumulating sleep debt which needs to be paid at some point.

About your solution: As a fellow night owl, if I just set my sleep cycle free, at it were, then my wakeup time quickly shifts to around 16-17:00, and I sleep 9-10 hours per night. So while your recipe works for you, it's not for everyone.

[1] http://www.cmse.ch/pdf/colloque_14_octobre/6_approche%20trou...
Because SPDY is designed for quickly loading websites with lots of resources (the average page has 50-100 components). Just because it is new and fancy and from Google doesn't mean you should use it for other things that transport over HTTP/S.

If you are going to dedicate resources to switching to SPDY, you should instead investigate protobuf.

* Almost all APIs are transactional. Your API should be returning all the data you need to render a single screen in your mobile app, or it is inefficient.

* You should be stripping all request headers except for User-Agent, and the server should be responding based on the known capabilities of the app version.

* Pings are not the correct way to deal with hangs. I don't want to spill any secret sauce here, but it should be obvious to anyone with low level TCP experience.

* Pipelining also uses a single connection. Opportunistic FINs are not unique to SPDY.
"As for a 3 year old using Windows 8, well, thanks for giving me yet another reason not to use Windows 8."

This doesn't make the rest of your opinions sound more sincere.