skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was sort of an interesting aside from an another aside. There are loads of different ways to write a Tetris Bot, and I've got a few different implementations varying from brute forcing the game tree to using genetic algorithms. But I figured it'd be interesting to see what could be done with perfect prediction of all the future tetrominos.
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You're not older than me. And if you believe that a career setback means suicide becomes a rational option... I don't know what to say.

There are so many things in life that can go horribly horribly wrong that the risk of career setback is completely acceptable in pursuit of a dream. Every kid who decides to major in ancient languages, philosophy or creative arts takes a way bigger risk and nobody bats an eye.
Wow, bitter much?

You don't have to take a low-level job. You don't have to stay at a low-level job. I have noticed people are willing to pay you much more for interesting work than they are for boring work. Just price yourself high enough and the interesting work will start coming.
The title is misleading, it should be 50% more battery life than did their predecessors. What this means is that if their predecessor's lower power usage offered an additional 10 minutes of power, Haswell will now offer an extra 15 minutes.
"We end up all working for the smooth-talkers selling trivial ideas because they've been overriding the "why you?" objections since college..."

This is a very interesting take on the issue, and not one I see discussed often on HN. The reality is that evolutionary psychology is the ultimate motive force in all human societies. The power imbalances in the work world that you have so thoroughly elucidated in your writings is but a mere symptom of the most basic evolutionary impulse: extract dominance from all.

Why do pointy haired bosses exist? Why do smooth-talkers like Steve Jobs always get the glory over technocrats like Steve Wozniak? Why do people so willingly submit to injustice? Weakness. People submit to those who they fear are powerful enough to harm them. Most often, even a weak bluff vaguely threatening future harm is enough to extract complete submission. The root of this is based on the evolutionary psychology of mammal behavior. Mammals exert dominance by challenging their peers: submit to me or pay the price. In the context of artisans (Technocrats), we can go back to the Feudal era, where artisans and farmers owed their lives to the Feudal lords, and could lose it any instant by not submitting some or all of their surplus value created when commanded to do so. Although the artisans created all the value in society, the lords were free to help themselves to it at will, because they were the ones who were willing to use force if their demands were not met. Although this strategy comes with risk, the rewards are disproportionately high, which is why history follows the story of one conqueror after another.

The only way artisans can gain control of their lives is if they beat the Feudal lords at their own game, ruthlessly and without mercy. This means playing as dirty as necessary to win, but still keeping your ideals intact. That is the true challenge of the Technocrat: defeat the Psychopaths using their own tools without becoming one of them. But make no mistake, they won’t go down easy. Look at Julian Assange, Noam Chomsky, and countless others who know this and have tried, in vain, to change the status quo.
The choice is simple: submit to the psychopaths and live in their world, or risk everything and attempt to change the dynamic to your favor.

P.S. You made references to psychopaths and their success with females. This is well documented, and I would recommend reading about the Dark Triad personality traits.
The new podcast app is dull, grey and boring. Stopped using it. Yeah, really. The reels were fun. That's not so bad as iPads clock/timer app though. That one i must use and i cry a bit every time i use it. It so flat, so boring and so ugly and so grey.
I hadn't seen that project before, but the old System 7 on my 1-bit black-and-white Mac screen was the first thing I thought of. The flat monochrome and pinstripe were things I missed for years after I stopped using that system.
This must be some new definition of the word free I wasn't previous acquainted with.

Slaves had a capital cost, and for a healthy young male I've read it wasn't small. They then had to be provided with food and shelter, and armed "management". Not sure if it's relevant or not if they got what went for medical care back then, the Civil War is around when antiseptics were getting experimented upon and later accepted. But again note the capital cost.

Which ... Paul Johnson? ... pointed out was unique about the American experience. The 19th century was when slavery and serfdom was technically abolished in much of the world, but the US was the only place where that loss of wealth was not compensated, and the country as a whole suffered from the impoverishment of the South. Then again, a failure to get that right is partly credited with establishing the conditions that lead to the Russian revolution, which was done so badly the Bolsheviks were able to coop that and....

So, substitute "cheap" for "free" labor. One step up from that, but a huge one in principle, was indentured servitude, and today's H-1B visa holders are with some justice often compared to the indentured servants of old.

As you note coercion is not implicated today, but I'd note the vast majority of people don't even realize how much information they're "giving up for free".
Along with pointing our which HN rule was violated, how about adding some meat to the debate in order to demonstrate the type of post HN encourages? Such as actual readership/traffic numbers for the WSJ.

For example this news piece claiming WSJ numbers are up after Murdoch took over: http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-journal-readershi...

I'm not saying the news story is accurate, but it does contribute to the conversation whereas the parent comment and yours do not.
If you get an "old style" laptop, like the Lenovo T-series, you get the same 60Wh battery as you always have, fully updated to the latest tech.

Laptop makers always have had old style laptops available. You're welcome to buy them any time.

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Another issue though, is that ULV chips kinda suck compared to a typical Laptop M chip. Your 35W laptop chip in the bulkier Lenovo T430s is significantly faster than say... a Surface Pro (using a ULV chip).

Either way, there are laptops out there in every configuration. Small&light battery with ULV processor (Surface Pro), Big battery with ULV processor (Samsung Series 7 Ultra Touch), Big Battery with Standard Mobile Processor (Lenovo T430s).

If you don't like small and light, then pick up a bigger model. They exist, and they've been selling. If you want 10+ hours of battery life on tiny batteries, Intel even sells Clovertrail Atoms. All of which are lighter than an iPad and offer over 10 hours of battery life.
In between steps 0 and 1, hang out on the mailing lists, IRC channels or wherever the devs talk to each other. You can get a feeling for the culture of the community, who the most active people are, the best people to ask newbie questions without getting flamed, and so on.
We do that before the equipment goes into production. We do not tempt Mr. Murphy to visit us in production.
Heat and (electric) power are pretty much one and the same for CPUs.
Yes - I think people refer to this as penetrance. I.e. there may be an overall inheritance pattern but additional factors (environment, additional genes, exposures) are needed to cause the expression of the abnormal gene. A lot of conditions are autosomal dominant but incomplete penetrance, and researchers can roughly quantify the percent penetrance of specific conditions.
Wow, yet another speculative article about iOS 7's UI overhaul with no images whatsoever. How uninformative.

I'm glad we only have to endure this silliness another couple of weeks.
This is an interesting question for me, because I am a teacher. Teachers don't get to specify a salary range, because we are paid strictly on years in the profession and the credits we earned. I am looking to switch careers, so I interviewed for a developer position recently. It was really interesting to be asked for a salary range. Money isn't everything, but I certainly felt a little more respected professionally than when I have been interviewed for teaching positions.

That said, I have almost no experience applying for developer jobs. The power to walk if you find another job is pretty good leverage. The resolution seems straightforward: be honest, tell your supervisor you undervalued yourself, and ask for an adjustment based on what you are worth.

If they hesitate, ask for a set of milestones to reach your desired salary, so you are not stuck on a long-term path below your peers. If their response doesn't satisfy you, quietly look for other jobs. If I were interviewing you and I felt your current employer was severely underpaying you, I would respect you for looking for new employment.
this kind of reply makes me cringe.. i had a manager once who would do something similar on rare occasions i asked about something he already stated in the past. he'd re-paste it into the chat window (sometimes twice).. as if fostering proof that i must be retarded for missing a nugget of his eternal wisdom. the only thing that kept me alive was collecting such snippets for eventual book or at least a blog post about how much he sucked at being a manager.

this was one of many valuable lessons of what not to do. ever.
No, a ret instruction would probably segfault, depending on the content of the stack. To terminate a program you have to use the corresponding system call. On linux :

mov $1, %eax

int $0x80
It's easier and cheaper to make a shotgun with 2 pipes, an end cap, and a screw. I'm not exaggerating the simplicity.

http://www.issafrica.org/armsnetafrica/sites/default/files/2...

Guns are simple.

Guns are 17th century technology.
Technology has been putting people out of work for millennia. In the process, sometimes it makes new industries (new, but different, jobs), other times it just makes existing industries leaner and more efficient (fewer jobs, but all involved have to optimize to compete, and the resources are freed up to create something new elsewhere). Market forces are never purely to "create jobs", they are to create new or better products more efficiently. The task of "creating jobs", regardless of efficiency, falls to politicians.
I know next to nothing about the dynamics of gene transmission (if someone does please shed some light), but it seems quite obvious that the less evolutionary pressure you have against a gene, the more prevalent it will become.

My intuition is that evolutionary pressure works against entropy. Without the pressure, the genome would evolve towards a state of maximum entropy, i.e. a particular mutation would reach a prevalence of about 50%. But of course there will always be some sort of evolutionary pressure.
Do you deny that factorial, as I implemented it, is a function? Do you deny that I can't pass factorial into another function without creating an object to hold it? It doesn't matter what else is true. These facts alone mean that ruby's function's aren't first class.
Uhg. IMHO there's a reason Digg and Reddit (and it's HN offspring) grew to prominence and it's partly due to Slashdot's confusing and archaic moderating system. I've been visiting for years and still don't fully understand, or care to decode how the system of moderating and nested comments works.
Or you could grow up and leave the Valley, and realize the world is a lot larger than you seem to appreciate.

Or just kill yourself now, and save us all the whining.
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Especially on how you would perceive a private cloud solution, where the data-center is replaced by your PC.

Yesterday we crossed over 50,000 downloads :)
tl;dr: We don't have any idea, so we're publishing speculation to drive pageviews.
It's simply a matter of what each thing is designed to do.

If a heart has stopped completely (asystole or 'flatline'), then an AED is useless. You can try CPR and epinephrine, and in the best case scenario, you might get the heart into a condition where you can use the defibrillator.

A defibrillator is useful when the heart is beating in a chaotic fashion (or _way_ too fast). The electrical shock it delivers completely stops the heart, in the hopes that the heart's internal pacemaker can take over again.

CPR can't 'reset' the heart, all it can do it help slow down the dying process until you can get a defibrillator in use. Without the defibrillator, the heart will progress into a state where even the defibrillator won't be useful.

Here's the basic protocol:
1) If it's a child, do two minutes of CPR before using the AED (the most common cause of cardiac arrest in kids is respiratory arrest, so ventilating them is sometime all they need)

2) If it's an adult, and they've been down for more than a few minutes, do 2 minutes of CPR to 'prime' the heart to make it more 'shockable'

3) If it's an adult, and you just witnessed the arrest, use the AED straight away. Their heart is likely still oxygenated enough to restart easily. If they're not breathing, be sure to fix that...

http://www.heart.org/acls
The design of Maps is great. It fails in other areas.
Actually what about putting in a bigger alternator and stronger belts and having it charge some super capacitors? That's already connected to the engine through a belt so whenever you use engine braking you could also be partially charging.

Can the alternator run in reverse though and provide energy to the engine/drive train?
The current set of government incentives that Tesla (and others) is taking advantage of seems fairly close to what I'd see recommended in econ 101: subsidize goods with a positive externality (assuming that's the case with electric cars, which is questionable).

Of course, I'm not saying there aren't better ways; I'd be curious what you might suggest?
Pain is marginalized by people upset with pathos.

Repeating reality is (is lost..) that programming has a real life cost equally important to every type of pain. Whether counting greater, technical, systemic, organizational and or proprietary pains, sometimes our lives are counted by asking people to pay with pain.

Framed negative and or positive, equally real, paying programming and paying with programming et al, still has real life opportunity cost and real life opportunity lost.
Every watt used turns directly into one watt of heat.

50% more efficiency entails a 50% heat reduction. This battery issue is a very very good thing for Intel to tackle.
i've been holding off my laptop purchase until i got more than 8 hours of battery life. currently the best option i can think of is the x230 series, but the screen is soso.

I have expectations for haswell, and hopefully i can buy a new laptop then. But I'm not really holding my breath considering the mixed messasges we've been getting. I currently have a 480gb ssd and 8gb ram in my ultraportable. the fact that a lot of the ultrabooks have 4gb onboard, and no means to upgrade the harddrive bothers me.
As pointed out elsewhere, if you are wealthy (qualify for the Alternate Minimum Tax) you don't get the tax credit. So that claim is false.

Secondly, the total cost of those tax credits is miniscule. We subsidize a lot of other much worse things a lot more. If you're going to get up in arms about tax subsidies, we'll be here all day.

Additionally, EV subsidies are not unique to Tesla. The only thing that was unique to them was the loan which they're paying back early. So bringing up the rest of it in an article ostensibly about Tesla is a bit misleading.

I think EV subsidies make sense, and I made the point of NASA for a reason. Sometimes when we have an important goal (interstate freeway, getting to the moon, moving the entire country over to electric vehicles) it's worth investing in.

You may disagree, and you can express that disagreement by writing to your local Congress critters and by voting.
With this approach, you could pull a lot of state out of the structure, and move it into variables local to the goroutine. It is interesting how this approach moves Go a lot closer to Erlang-style actors.
"I think Ive's background as an industrial designer prepares him well to do that, as the design of his products testifies"

Yeah. My MBP is grey, dull, solid brick of aluminium. It is not fun to use like older pre unibody ones. It is cold, bland, unfriendly solid block of greyness. I do not get layd using this, none of my friends say wow. How do you wow a brick of aluminium. No details. Nothing. And not fun, not fun at all.
Is it wrong to desire nice, fun tools?
Top Eleven developer trumpets the social soccer game’s impressive growth
You can go even shorter if you cheat:

$ cat short.c
M
$ gcc -DM='main;' short.c -o short
$ ./short
Segmentation fault
I think if there's anyone in the world capable of implementing a redesign correctly it's Jony Ive.
Labor wasn't free in the prewar South. There are costs associated with maintaining slaves. To be effective laborers they required feeding, housing, and clothing, and their acquisition wasn't cheap either!

This isn't fatal to whatever your point is, because computers also require the equivalents of these things. Yet...

>However, I can see a future where our data is used in ways we had no intention of allowing and the people in charge of the "big computers" will exploit that data.

So you are claiming that the future will be much like the present?
The visual design of iOS has hardly changed since it was introduced. Individual apps have changed their appearance, but the OS itself has largely looked the same.

Same goes for OS X iterations over the past 12 years. Minor variations on the same theme. That's a very long time in tech.
Well said.

Since the great depression, corporate shares of taxes has been steadily falling. One can only speculate where it might lead.

2011 USA Taxes:

Total corporate tax: 200.8 Billion.

Personal income tax: 1.1 Trillion.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/04/13/150441259/what-ame...
I am reading his book at the moment. While he brings a lot of good points, I don't think he is correct. His criticism is spot on, there will be a lot of turbulence and not everyone will be able to get a job. But I don't think solution would be what he is suggesting that we get paid for information.

Here is why I think that: when you are required to licence and pay for every little piece of info, it is like licensing pics on site, it makes it extra work just to get everything right, make sure you read all the licences etc. I think this creates barrier and business tends to flow where there are less barriers, and freer flow of information would be more likely to became a norm.
I have never wished iOS could be skinned more than when I saw this the first time. I think it'd be so cool to walk around with System era Mac OS on my iPhone. Of course, it will never be that pixelated, but I love the retro feel and familiarity of something long gone.
Ugh, the flat vs skeuomorphic debate seems like a false dichotomy. I hate flat design. Isn't there a middle ground? If you think this looks great, more power to you, but I'll stay far away: http://uxmag.com/uploads/clum-flat-design/UX-11.png

I like gradients. I like borders. I like physical metaphors. The tabs in Google Chrome look really great because of all three. I understand moving away from heavy skeumorphic design. But I don't get jumping to flat design. Why copy the person with 6% market share?
That's the first time I've seen the top comment on a story starting to 'gray out' from downvotes.
How to get invite for oomf?
An ambulance and a low-end Ferrari are pretty close in cost...

Both in the ~$200k neighborhood.
So this 10 second test is supposed to run... When a page loads? It's a good effort, but we really need a native solution to this issue. Or maybe just approach it by dictating 2 cores minimum (most modern day computers are operating at least two cores).

Also, I thought browsers didn't offer more thread access...
Hello, we have our app on Google Play. Would love your feedback. Especially on how you would perceive a private cloud solution, where the data-center is replaced by your PC.

Yesterday we crossed over 50,000 downloads :)
Looks like I caught it just before the fall :)
the article and your comments bring back memories of my model 50Z PS/2 which I had attached to the black/white monitor, think it was VGA
Not to mention selling guns to Mexican cartels.
In that case, yes I view Amazon as a form of rights management. On their system you are allowed to purchase and take delivery of said game, after that it no longer manages anything anymore.

But I don't think you understand my view. Just because a rights management system lets you do something without encumbering you doesn't suddenly mean it isn't a rights management system.

Your view seems to be that in a few situations Steam operates as a delivery service for a free game that Steam does not restrict you in any way beyond that, therefore it is not a rights management system. My view is that it is because the rights management is clearly in the system, it's just up to the developer to use it or not.

It's even conceivable that Valve could restrict a person's account from downloading a free-to-play game for whatever reason they desire.

The downloading of a free game is the simplest form of rights management it has, it lets you download the game with your account. But in many, if not almost all, other instances it manages your rights based on the criteria of the system and developer.

Steam is DRM, but it was created to balance out the needs of the consumer and producer that hopefully benefits both. Just because most forms of DRM seem to be created to only benefit the producer and not the consumer doesn't make DRM a horrible thing. Therefore, it doesn't seem right to try to explain something like Steam, that can behave as DRM, in a way that makes it seem like it isn't DRM.

By the way, I've enjoyed the discussion, it's given me new things to consider in my viewpoint on DRM and Steam.
> We should all be concerned about these kinds of issues, even if we like the programs.

And exactly what form should this concern take? Require a ballot initiative on every expenditure over $10,000?

Let's be realistic here.

Whenever you're doing something on a huge scale there are going to be inefficiencies and problems. We have to accept them up to a point.

Now that $8 billion that went missing in Iraq? That's probably something worth being up in arms about.

The small amount of money we're spending on EV credits? Not wasteful and not worth freaking out about. That program is working exactly as intended.
I think basically, the family agrees to an autopsy and there is a branch of medicine, pathology, which specializes in obtaining and preparing tissue samples, primarily for investigation into the causes, progression, and severity of disease. They are the ones that "scoop out the brain" then mount them on slides, stain, etc. With whole skeletons, I'm not sure - usually after autopsy, the "parts" are either put back into the body or otherwise interred in a container. I think maybe the family arranges something w/ the embalmer to remove the muscle and connnective tissue from the skeleton.
The basic look of iOS is unchanged since the first version. OSX has basically stayed the same for over 10 years. Apple like to find what they consider to be a great UI solution and stick to it for long periods of time.

In contrast see Windows 2000 vs XP vs 7/Vista vs 8, and Android 2.x compared with 4.x