skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN Search doesn't find "Unicode text variants", so it's probably not a good idea to use these characters in article titles:

https://hn.algolia.io/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/unicode%20te...

What's weird is that if I copy/paste the variant characters from the article title into HN Search, it matches a whole bunch of articles, none of which are this one.

DuckDuckGo finds this post as its first hit if you copy/paste the title into its search box, but not any other articles about "Unicode" or "variants" (just lots of random junk).

Google, on the other hand, apparently canonicalizes the text, since it returns hits on other articles about Unicode and text variants, as well as this post.

So, here we have three text search programs that behave rather differently.

Also, Firefox doesn't find any of the variant text strings on this page if you search for the normal (ASCII) characters.
I was initially surprised that minimax worked at all for the exact reasons you cite. But it actually matches my intuition from playing the game kind of a lot. I think it's generally the case that most "opponent" moves are completely OK but there's one move that results in a high probability of loss (the one that's behind your "stack"). Avoiding worse case scenarios is really the entire game (i.e. your example wherein low probability of certain loss is being compared unfavorably to a guaranteed 99% loss rate does not actually come up). So if you built a really good, comprehensive MC approach, it might just reduce itself to minimax anyway. Thus perhaps the minimax is just a simpler way to implement the right approach from the get-go.
I'm trying to imagine what would happen if a grocery store lobby started trying to ban farmers markets.
What Microservices, ESB, SOA are anyway?
I obviously would'nt call anything else sexy but a women.
Ah. Lower bounds... they get me every time!
Didn't see him complaining when the government was subsidizing Tesla's R&D with cheap loans and tax incentives [1]. The government giveth and the government taketh away. Not saying I agree with this decision by NJ, but its somewhat disingenuous to take a moralistic argument (corruption) at face value from a party that possibly stands to benefit financially from the alternative decision. (Yes I'm assuming that pg is a Tesla stockholder).

[1] - http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732465940...
I have yet to see a sexy Emacs. I've found sexy looking vim terminals. But Emacs is just weird
A few years old but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=450702

Also: http://www.hnstore.co/movies.html
Not if you never actually owned any of your housing in Malibu. This is why the notion of purchasing and owning property exists in the first place.
Ah god
Ugh, the Short Hills mall. The ultimate rich mall. Of course they have a Tesla showroom.
> Most devs with ~10yrs experience at a B2C software company you've heard of earns >$200k total comp.

I don't think that's accurate. Most? Really? Maybe the top 5 or 10%, and in most cases I suspect they are team leads with 3+ devs either reporting or defacto following their lead.

It's absolutely not the case outside of USA coasts.
I agree that Google's spreadsheet is good enough for most people. My point is that good enough for most people appears to be good enough for Google, and that's why it won't replace Excel in many organizations.

The reason Excel is the killer app for corporate sales is that it is attractive to influencers (to borrow the term from social media). There are people on the executive floor who use Excel and often quite well. That's where the decision comes from. They don't want to fool with finagling their subordinates' TCP reports out of Scheme in a Grid, or Libre or Docs to crunch the numbers.

The power of Excel to drive top down decisions is why WordPerfect disappeared. Secretaries didn't choose Word. Their boss bought office because she wanted Excel and Word was part of the deal.

The fat part of the bat for Google is free as in hog pens and slop troughs. And that's the basis upon which they allocate resources. The development of Docs is so glacial that just about any expansion of the ecosystem is news. Even a whopping 50 developers.
Calling it a "Magna Carta" is very appropriate from a historical perspective.

That said, because of the perverse corruption in each country, I'm afraid it'd look like this:

USA Version:
People (=companies) have the right to protect their interests by suing/banning anyone who makes copies of any data.
People (=companies) have the right to innovate by throttling, or inspecting packets, to extort or ban competitors.

Other countries might have better versions, but the USA, through TPP, World Bank, Aid packages & other secret trade pacts will assert their version to be dominant.

We really need election finance reform before we can take actions. Until then, I'm kind of fine with gridlock, to slow the corruption down a bit.
Is it reasonable to expect her to move out when she can't afford it? I can't think of anything more reasonable. Housing isn't guaranteed. This isn't simplistic. It's how the housing market works. It might not be fair, but that doesn't make it wrong. Plenty of us have had to face a move because of cost. It's not easy, but we don't whine about it, we accept the consequences and we deal with life.
Next up: New Jersey prevents people from pumping their own gas. Oh wait...
Surprise! You are! :)
I always get at least 1024 now. I'm playing somehow like tetris...
Show HN: Visual Release and Sprint Planning
About Popcorn Time
You are correct, of course.

My point was more about how journalists too often spout "PRICES DOUBLED!" to get attention like blood in the water, including here. And, in too many cases, it's over a time period that's 10+ years, so it's not really doubling, but 6%/year.

And, yes, leverage can profit, but it can bite hard too. Plenty of people bought at $500k with $100k down, then saw the value drop to $300k, meaning they lost 200+100 = $300k if they had to sell.

All fun math, with, yes, GROSS simplifications here.
If enough large games were released for OS X, even as a port, Apple may put a little more effort in. And yes, the graphics cards are weak (mine is an Intel HD 4000.) But look at the Mac Pro. They invested a ton on engineering it for performance, including a lot of effort on the cooling. Apple can do it, they just need a little push. And now is a great time for it, they have no place else to go. They can't keep marketing the CPU speed or how thin the machines are for much longer. They need a new metric to push and gaming performance would be a great one.
Bulletproof men's suit blends Bruce Wayne style, Batman-worthy tech
It's not weird, it's kinky!
Even with fancy cars they tend to give you a crap deal on your trade in.
As rchowe said, the different formats are mostly used in higher math and have semantic meanings specific to that context.

These should almost never be used outside that context as they have different byte values from the usual Roman characters (which means the computer doesn't even see them as equivalent without "help" from the programmer), may not be supported by every browser or text search program, and may not even render correctly on many OS systems as the glyph for that character may be swapped in for a glyph from a different font or not at all for older systems.
It's usually quite important if you want to create AI that behaves convincingly in a 2D world. The previous game I built using a 2D lighting system used it explicitly for this (other than making the environments look cool, of course) - the same geometry and light source data that lit the environments and produced shadows also determined whether enemies could see objects at given locations and whether you had hidden yourself by vanishing into the shadows or behind a given surface.
Professional Website Design Platform Showdown – Webydo vs. Squarespace
Chrome on iOS shows it as all boxes.
Ask HN: What does GPA indicate of a person?
What does it say about a person with a 4.0 or GPA v. a person with a 2.5 GPA?
The laws are equally quaint. Despite their precedence.
> The Bill of Rights is working just fine for me, thanks.

First, saying "things are worse in [some] other places that do not have a Bill of Rights" does not negate OP's point that "Far as I can tell, the first, fourth and seventh have all been forgotten about [in the US]".

> I speak and write freely, my personal possessions are safe from arbitrary seizure, and when I want a jury trial, I can get a jury trial. Many people around the world enjoy none of these freedoms.

You may enjoy those freedoms. But not all US citizens enjoy these freedoms.

On paper the Bill of Rights protects all US citizens, and all US citizens equally. In practice, that is very much not the case. As the saying goes, freedom of speech exists to protect those whose words critics want to silence, not those whose uncontroversial words have no critics. More broadly, the litmus test for the Bill of Rights is not whether your freedoms are being upheld, but whether all others' freedoms are being upheld.

It's not enough to simply say that "the implementation is imperfect" when the exact ways in which the implementation is failing are the exact ways in which it needs to succeed.
I've purchased a $60,000 BMW and they still tried to sell stupid crap.
I don't think the owners are saints... but they get way more sympathy than that rotten tenant. We don't know what they thought the end game would be. It sounds like to me that they were willing to keep the tenant but then started to see she was a nightmare. I have no doubt they knew the unit was illegal. But once it got to the point that they were required to take action to do something to fix the situation... they were promptly met with incompatible laws that would not allow them to do what they were ordered to do. Also... $500 a month is not really "bank" in the context of this $1.4M house that was purchased by two families (that lived in it for 10 years). And they gave her over 2 years worth of rent back in a relocation settlement.
And here he admits to fake name use:
"In my limited experience creating Internet pseudonyms, I've been quite distracted by the continual need to avoid leaving pointers to my True Name lying around -- excess mail to/from my True Name, shared files, common peculiarities (eg misspellings in written text), traceable logins, etc. The penet.fi site explicitly maintains a list of pointers to the original address. All kinds of security controls -- crypto, access, information, inference -- have to be continually on my mind when using pseudonymous accounts. The hazards are everywhere. With our current tools it's practically impossible to maintain an active pseudonym for a long period of time against a sufficiently determined opponent, and quite a hassle to maintain even a modicum of decent security. Pointers to info and/or tools to enable the establishment and maintenance of a net.nym, beyond the standard cypherpunks PGP/remailer fare with which I'm now familiar, greatly appreciated. Especially nice would be a list of commercial net providers that allow pseudonymous accounts.""
Some people seem to be missing that first screenshot; the landing page clearly started with "Start The Demo" (http://sendwithus.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Sc...)
You seem to have an unnecessarily narrow view of games and how they're constructed.

Try out Mark of the Ninja and tell me they were 'just trying to make an FPS'.

Picking an appropriate perspective for a game involves a lot of tradeoffs. While certain mechanics are most appropriate for certain perspectives (top-down 2d, isometric, first-person 3d...) a general approach to 'visibility' is not one of them. Visibility (or an approximation of it) applies to AI in almost every action game type, regardless of perspective. Whether they can see you or not is an essential consideration for creating convincing enemies, and AI allies need to know whether they can see foes.

You can also extensively use vision cone mechanics without having anything to do with an FPS. Classic games of the Rogue variety (i.e. nethack, angband...) all leverage vision cones and line-of-sight despite the fact that they predated 3D games of any kind.
Cool, this made it to the front page! I just discovered this whole area of unicode and wanted to see if it would show up here and why it exists. I guess the answers about it being for Math make sense.
Congress... pronto. I don't see this happening.
Corruption is subjective.

Graham is exactly on the mark. The distinction between a law [previously existing for a long time, just recently existing, or about to exist] is laughably trivial. It is a worthless distinction to a person's opinion of a law or system's corruption.
I think it's more that online distribution reduces distribution costs and breaks the publishers' ability to charge monopoly pricing.

15 years ago, when games were sold mostly in stores, you had to go through a publisher to get your product in front of customers. And there was a limited amount of physical space in stores -- so games had to compete with all the other physical goods that store might offer.

With digital distribution, both development and publishing are closer to perfectly competitive. It'd be pretty easy to build all the technical functionality of a basic online game store -- although building relationships with gamers and developers is harder.

What bothers me is that Steam is starting to get lock-in -- many developers feel pressured to be on Steam, that a significant fraction of their market will be inaccessible if they don't. And as Steam builds more features into their client libraries, it's getting more tempting for developers to use those features, making non-Steam versions of things harder to keep feature parity (or even maintain two different builds of the code).

Once Steam has lock-in, I think they'll try to take control of pricing from developers, and we'll see prices for Steam games rise.

I try to vote with my wallet and avoid buying games on Steam, but it's getting harder and harder to do that.
Any of this is absurdly trivial on modern graphics hardware, you can literally do all of the geometric math to compute your shadow volumes on the GPU and it will be a miniscule portion of your frame time.
You are completely wrong. I go to the dealer and pay whatever they ask without haggling. They make a lot of money off of me. I am "sophisticated" theoretically but I get completely taken advantage of. Why is that?
The cynic says the more things you regulate, the more industries that can donate money to your political campaign and hire you when you retire.

Some regulation serves a purpose. All regulation can be justified with some sort of logic. That doesn't mean it is either necessary or a net benefit to society.

Proponents claim that cities need to regulate Uber to ensure passenger safety. Meanwhile an NYPost investigation found of the 16 fatalities caused by cab drivers since 2009, all but 2 kept driving cabs. ( http://nypost.com/2014/02/09/cabbies-who-kill-or-maim-in-nyc... ) May be its different in other cities. I haven't been kidnapped by a cab driver in NYC, yet at least.

The Tesla dealership issue is more erroneous and transparent to me than Uber. Car dealerships are a public nuisance. No one would argue we need more middle men for electronics, clothes, or food. Why for cars? The current structure makes it easy for dealers to get away with dishonest business practices. Mechanics are paid to do repairs as fast as possible, increasing the chance of future failures. Car companies are vulnerable to large class action lawsuits while a single dealership is hardly worth an expert lawyer's time.

Heavily regulated environments repel innovation. Regulations, both in Uber's case and Tesla's are written by the incumbents for the incumbents. Follow the letter of the law and instead of a sleek new structure you produce a disfigured chimera, which probably will piss money.

Perhaps one of the best things the internet provided us was a regulation minimal environment. You could put up a website and try new things with out having to worry about getting shaken down. I hope the future web won't be full of rampant EU-mandated privacy notices and DMCA federal government web site registries.

Uber and Tesla don't have a choice. If they want to provide high quality services, laws have to be broken. It is unfortunate that you need to be a large and well funded company to force much needed changes on state and local regulators.

I predict that cities and states which are friendly toward innovation will do better by leaps and bounds in the long run. Betting against change and efficiency tends to be hazardous.
Looks like Tesla is going to convert it's sales centers to "showrooms"

I have to admire Tesla for standing up to this corruption.
DA: Internet mogul hit girlfriend 117 times over a half-hour period
There are not that many people named Satoshi Nakamoto, a few hundreds, and we have the complete list.

A number of journalists (most lately NYT's Hiroko Tabuchi) have looked into these people, and found no match (if you ignore Dorian, who has clearly nothing to do with BTC).
As mentioned in the article her medical care is already taken care of by a union-sponsored health insurance plan run by a big HMO. These typically require very low or zero payments by the insured.
"Dudebro startups like yours get shit from angry feminists all the time. Using Vim will put a stop to that. Vim donates money to children living in Uganda. You'll look so accepting and humanitarian just by using Vim ... Don't get me wrong: I know you don't actually care about human rights and social issues. All that matters is that you look like you care."

Suddenly, the snark appears!
I found Battle for Wesnoth to be entertaining as a game. It's open source, but I don't know about code quality. If you are willing to read code from when dinosaurs roamed the land and sea, try Nethack.

If you only care about reading code, open source or not, I think the first Deus Ex's in game scripting code was visible in the game's editor. (And the rest was the first Unreal engine, whose might also be available for reading nowadays. Or you just read the source of the various Quakes.)
did they try to sell you, or did they try to sneak it into the contract without you knowing?
I'm not sure I understood your point. But..., HUGE capital investments does not seem like a valid reason to protect a company. Should we protect Walmart from Costco or Costco from Target?
Demo doesn't imply fake features. For me demo would be not my data, perhaps a sample set in there.

I'd have no problem if it said "there's a bunch of features not yet implemented, we have the buttons there to gauge interest and we'll work on the most needed ones".
Thanks. I guess I didn't mean to suggest the history was the same (I know almost nothing about the history of theaters), just the current situation. So sorry for the poor paragraph organization. I will stand by my assessment of the status quo, though. I remember a few years ago, theaters refused to show a Soderbergh movie because it was being released simultaneously on DVD and the theaters.

Not a great article, but here's a reference: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060118/195200.shtml
i'm not sure which party would make the most sense

Open your mind!
Another subtle but important point is that the Julia code can be very easily made completely generic without sacrificing any performance or clarity. All you need to do is remove those Float64 annotations and replace the 0.0 values with `zero(y[1]*weights[1])`. With that small change, the same exact code will work for Float32, Rational, BigFloat, Complex (if that even makes sense), etc. – even new, user-defined numeric types that didn't exist when you wrote this code and that you know nothing about, as long as they can be compared, multiplied, added, and divided.

This kind of generality isn't necessary for a lot of user-level code, where there's a specific application, but it is quite important when writing libraries that need to be as reusable as possible. And this is where the Cython solution has some problems – sure, you can make it pretty fast, but in doing so, you lose the generality that the original Python code had, and your code becomes as monomorphic as C.
Apropos nothing, WASD bindings for the snake game:

(eval-after-load "snake"
'(progn
(define-key snake-mode-map "w" 'snake-move-up)
(define-key snake-mode-map "a" 'snake-move-left)
(define-key snake-mode-map "s" 'snake-move-down)
(define-key snake-mode-map "d" 'snake-move-right)))
I thought, that the US are the land of free market?

Sometimes, it just seems to me the land of free market for those that can afford it?
And were dabbling for a month in Haskell to make an elaborate "Hello World" program makes you an expert in Monoids and type theory...
Great... yeah, it looks a lot better now! Nice work on the solver. I just tried it and it won the game with 20312 pts. Pretty good one!
As soon as I saw that the sexy gTLD was out I tried to get is.sexy. That would have been awesome but there's a minimum 3 character restriction.
Well, when debt is involved, prices doubling is a big deal! Prices going down 10% is a big deal too though.
Hmm, Apple does this just fine, but Apple isn't franchising the stores, they just comfortably run them at a loss. The fact that the dealerships have independent owners may make that more complicated. Your system seems reasonably sensible.

And you wouldn't have to enter a dealer showroom code, your dealer would just give you a code for a "special discount" -- this is how businesses already track which of their ad campaigns are paying off.
Reading socialistworld.net will only make you more confused about economic issues like these. I'd suggest any basic economics text as a good place to get started.
This isn't relevant to this discussion, you're not helping.
Many states had pre-existing laws which barred auto-makers from selling directly to consumers, this is not significantly different from the many cities which have barred unlicensed taxi operators for a long time. The states are simply the ones 'fighting back' here.
Landing pages: Its all about the faces
Since I'm an adult, I' wont reply to this by saying: "emacs has more likely fucked you over."

OS X is on the other hand sexy, since you can build emacs-keybindings into the OS and every app that uses the Cocoa Text System, you can even get an "extra clipboard" with the kill-ring.

As for programming, when it is more convenient with an editor as the "control-center" for the endeavour, or real small things that makes a simple editor feasible, then I must say I prefer Vim.
Can you tell me why you think PG is off the mark ? Tesla is a company marketing a product that people want. If people want Tesla their elected representatives should not and cannot stop them from exercising their choice. Passing laws to prohibit people from buying something available in the market is an index of corporate interests using money to buy favors from elected representatives i.e. an index of corruption. Do you have any claim to support your argument other than a blanket statement "PG is off the mark here" ?
The article states that, but it is semi-official policy to let these units be. I think that if you made some random complaint about your neighbor's mother-in-law unit, you would likely not get any action from the city. Therefore the complaint must have been fairly serious (or the developer pulled some strings).
Chromium's ctrl-f also canonicalizes, at least well enough to recognize this title.
Bing doesn't find it when searched in plain-text, while Google can find it in both their auto-complete suggestions and in Chrome's page search. +1 Google.
Julia's mental programming model for many things is not much different from Python: dynamically typed, pass by sharing, the implicit scoping rules are even quite similar. Sure, Julia has a few extra bells and whistles, like type annotations and dynamic multiple dispatch (which you can ignore and you have something very much like Python but faster), but still, Fortran and C++ are much more different from Python than Julia is.