skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came here to post this, but with "Sega" instead of "Nintendo". The Genesis/Saturn D-pad is still king, as far as I'm concerned. Easier to roll the pad than a Nintendo one and it isn't a cross-shaped cutout from the plastic so diagonal presses are more comfortable.
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Things like white privilege, male privilege, heterosexual privilege, you get the idea.

What you are talking about, if it even exists, is a rounding error compared to the massive good fortune relative to the entire rest of the human race that has ever lived, of being born in the West in the late 20th/21st century.

Perhaps you can see that dropping a few hundred grand on a hobby makes the speaker incredibly more privileged even within this already privileged group, and gender is absolutely nothing to do with (as the majority of homeless, etc, happen to be men, where's the white male heterosexual privilege there? Oops your whole model of the world just imploded, sorry 'bout that).
How is it "brittle" and "error-prone"? You create your model object and KVO observe its properties from the controller. How much simpler and more decoupled could you get? If you're using MVC correctly, it seems to me that the pieces just naturally fall into place. You also get the benefit of being able to change your model from elsewhere in your program, or even swap it out completely, and have it automatically reflect in your view.

(On the other hand, if your app is not model-based, I can see how it could get unwieldily.)
Same here, I posted the cure for Cancer ... But since it`s not a responsive web app ...
It's interesting that this has ramifications for the emulated console(s) within the console. On one hand, it's an amazing technological achievement to emulate a system well-enough that it can emulate another. On the other hand, however, it's staggeringly inefficient. Emulating a system is inefficient, but it makes sense because it prevents the need to keep all kinds of hardware 0n hand. Emulating a system that emulates a system compounds the inefficiency and is unnecessary, but is a really cool achievement.
Would love to see a bitcoin purchase option.
The non-min version has a UTF-8 character in a comment. Rather silly.
IIRC the PS2's dual shock 2 had pressure sensitive buttons. It wasn't a feature used by a lot of games. Nowadays only the shoulder triggers are analog I think.
Actually, no, many (esp. British) publications style acronyms in initial-caps rather than all-caps, its not styling "Nasa" as a word (i.e., "Nasa" is not styled differently from how other acronyms are styled in those same publications.)

What may mislead some people as to what is going on is that the publications that style acronyms this way still style initialisms in all caps, and many people don't note the difference between acronyms and initialisms (and, particularly, may be more familiar with publications that style both acronyms and initialisms in all caps.) See, e.g., "Abbreviations and acronyms" in the Guardian and Observer style guide [1].

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-a
I love the fact that they responded to feedback and adjusted their design accordingly. While the original concept of a programmable touch screen interface in the center of the controller was pretty cool, in practice it was unwieldy.

Controllers are meant to be interacted with by touch. You should never have to look at it. A touch screen interface is completely useless for this type of interaction.
> You can't have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources.

Blasphemy! I bet less than half of the otherwise smart people acknowledge this. Or they think we'll just terraform Mars some other planet light years away, soon enough.
Feedback:
The reading stops in the middle of the following link:
http://lifehacker.com/the-truth-about-speed-reading-15425083...
points = content quality + luck + being in the HN "in crowd" + cartel-like behavior of certain HN cliques (see previous term)
Fun fact: Dolphin emulates some N64 games better than current PC N64 emulators do. For example, Mario Tennis (N64) is considered very difficult to emulate, but the official Nintendo emulator running in Dolphin has almost no problem with it!
This is not in any way useful as a library. Charitably, it's a useful reminder to set max-width to 100% on embedded media. Less charitably, it's an artifact of the hype du jour on one of those terrible new-fangled TLDs.
I want to thank the Tunnelbear guys, they've made their service free for everyone in Venezuela during the protests, to avoid government internet censorship (which is about to get worse since they are now meeting with the ISPs to implement more strict website filtering).

I know they cannot offer this indefinitely but I want to thank them for their help.
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They're trying, but a cursory evaluation shows it's a lost cause. Much easier to achieve a sustainable civilization (zero growth), as hard as that is.
I'd have to imagine this is because the game executed by the virtual console has been simplified and improved by Nintendo since they have direct access to the source.
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The Emperor has no clothes ... pass it on
NASA funding doesn't mean much here. see danielweber's comment.
"We have many radar systems operating in this area, but nothing was
picked up," Rear Admiral Sudhir Pillai, chief of staff of India's
Andamans and Nicobar Command, told Reuters. "It's possible that the
military radars were switched off as we operate on an 'as required' basis."

Separately, a defense source said that India did not keep its radar
facilities operational at all times because of cost. Asked what
the reason was, the source said: "Too expensive."

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/03/15/world/asia/15reute...
Curious what logs and other personal information is kept on their servers. Haven't read through the blogs yet, but one thing a number of people consider when using a VPN service like this is the type of information that the provider keeps.
While I am not saying this is some universal truth or anything like that, but I have found these kind of articles to be wildly popular amongst cynical students at my college.

There is something about the idea of "The world is fucked, and I will be here to watch it burn!" that seems to really click with these people.
Because of course nobody could ever understand it entirely yet still think it's a bad idea to get involved. That's unpossible!
> “the idea that it [bitcoin] has intrinsic value is a joke.”

I would love to hear Warren Buffet on the "intrinsic value" of gold.

Edit: With the comment of thatthatis in mind, WB uses "intrinsic value" as future income potential. That use then makes me wonder about his "intrinsic value" of dollars, euros and yen.
That's some really shoddy reporting. Shame on you, "Ryan Burgess"! But what else can we expect from a news site that rips off the name from two better ones (Gizmodo and Technorati)?

Original sources instead of badly regurgitated crap:

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-11-75_en.htm

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/2014...

Quote:

> What was the process leading up to a solution?

> To tackle this issue the European Commission gave phone manufacturers an ultimatum in March 2009: to voluntarily adopt a common charger or be subject to mandatory EU legislation. As a result in June 2009, Europe's major mobile phone manufacturers agreed in close co-operation with the Commission services to adopt a common charger for data-enabled mobile phones sold in the EU. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) - signed by 14 manufacturers - committed the industry to provide charger compatibility. In the course of 2011, European consumers will be able to purchase a standard mobile phone charger for all data-enabled phones - including smartphones - sold in the 27 EU Member States.

So everyone except one manufacturer standardised on Micro USB back in 2009. Apple wouldn't play ball, so in order to compel them the directive finally had to be established.
I think it's a question of the tone with which he "didn't love."

There's a difference between:

"Another flat CSS theme for bootstrap? How many minutes did that take you?"

and

"There have been a number of flat CSS themes presented on this site, so I find it hard for any one of them to really distinguish themselves. Have you considered [the idea that OP thinks is better or more original or more useful]?

---

The reason it's less than ideal to weigh in with such disdain is that it discourages other people for whom creating something like that would be a MASSIVE undertaking.

Imagine a beginning designer who doesn't know anything about CSS or graphic design, so, for their initial project, they want to create a flat CSS theme. It's ambitious for them, and they're anxious to start and they log into HN and...oh. Wow. That person just made something better than I could ever make and got BLASTED.

What's the point of trying?

Comment #2 encourages them and points them towards a better suggestion. Comment #1 adds nothing.
It's a shame, really. For example, Metal Gear Solid 2 used this to great effect. If I recall correctly pressing square on the control would raise your weapon but not automatically fire it until you actuated the button all the way? It was finicky, but very cool.
Looks like a fun challenge. However, I must say that it reminds me of the story Ms Fnd in a Lbry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Fnd_in_a_Lbry
Correct me if I'm wrong, but are we not now, reading this, sitting in a civilization with greater capacity for resource production and allocation, longer average lives, and better systems of healthcare than all of the previous cultures this study brings up?

Are we not also aware that any mathematical model of consumption for any growing civilization at any period -- easily predicts resources running out and impending catastrophe? Do we not note that priests and others have been predicting the end of mankind for as far back as we have written history? Can we not observe that all cellular-based automata modeling systems default to runaway conditions? Is any of this some kind of mystery?

There may be real danger on the horizon -- creating some kind of human super-organism on the planet creates a single point of failure, and that's extremely bad -- but I remain convinced that when the world does end, there's going to be a lot of disappointed people out there that it did not end the way they thought it would.

"Scientists" are folks who tell us the likelihood of causality. You do A, B is likely to happen. They do this through falsifiable theories and reproducible science. They do not spend time and money with broad speculations about the ills of human nature, and how those ills will conspire bring about our punishment. I don't know what that is, sounds like religion to me, but it sure ain't science.
Asymmetry. It's not an accident that movement is on the left and aiming is on the right, both on controllers and PC. On PC, though, you can move the mouse to the left side of the keyboard and rebind your movement keys if you want to.
Here's another relevant discussion on HN that you conveniently forgot to link to, which does explain in detail the flaw in your argument (the discussion you did link to does too, but not in detail):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5233894

Click on "parent" to see the post of yours that I was responding to.
Anyone working on anything a little more non-standard like a modern DataHand?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand
Tangentially on topic, McDonalds used to have a special once a week where they'd sell cheeseburgers for $0.35 or hamburgers for $0.25. I would, from time to time, walk into the place with fifteen dollars in my pocket (and two co-workers, as they put a limit on how many one person could buy), and walk out with a sack o' sixty neatly wrapped hamburgers.

I'd bring them back to the office, and simply start tossing them at people in their cubicles (or in the parking lot from a moving vehicle if they were unlucky enough to be walking past when I pulled in), and basically just feed the entire building.

I don't think they intended that to happen with their little loss-leader deal to get folks in the door, but it sure was fun. It caught on too. If you haven't had a sack of 20 warm burgers dumped into your lap while you weren't paying attention, you haven't lived.
The Club of Rome [1] did the same thing in 1972 with its famous study »The Limits to Growth« [2] and came to similar conclusions. An updated version »Beyond the Limit« [3] has been published after 20 years in 1993. The model they developed is called World3 [4].

After 30 years they validated their model and published »Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update« in 2004. The actual development of our world over this 30 years period is frighteningly close to one of their scenarios without happy end.

It is unfortunately a real possibility that we are already doomed, i.e. have crossed the point of no return even assuming perfect future developments, and are just not aware of our approaching downfall.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Limits

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World3
MH370 used to transport embargoed material to Iran for nuclear program?
> Tesla wants to maximize the profit share they see from the car sales

While true, it's also universally true of just about everything. Yes, using resellers/dealers/etc. means that you have to give them a slice of "your" money. It also frees you from having the scale up the infrastructure and employees yourself. Which is why franchise models (either pure or blended) are so popular.

I suspect the more pressing motivation is that Musk wants to have complete freedom to do things his way without filtering by a middleman who would likely be strongly influenced by the way that auto dealers have historically operated.

That said, a couple of points.

1. As another poster noted, the auto dealer "experience" that many of us are familiar with doesn't necessarily reflect the experience one gets with a luxury car brand. Haggling over a Ford Fusion and walking into a $INSERT_LUXURY_BRAND dealership aren't the same thing.

2. I suspect a lot of folks are underestimating the degree to which Tesla will have to provide local services that look a lot like a dealership as it scales up and certainly as it introduces cars at more mainstream price points. For example, you need service centers--as they are building out today.
His take, "gold has no intrinsic value," is pretty well known and easy to google.

http://m.seekingalpha.com/article/424581
So, in the event of nuclear fallout, we could seed mushrooms everywhere to clean it up? Maybe we should do that in Fukashima.
Everyone seems to be jumping on the hijacker theory, but I have yet to see any evidence to contradict the theory of a fire aboard the plane. It explains the sudden course change, the failure (or deliberate shutdown) of some electrical circuits, and the altitude change (an effort to starve the fire of oxygen in the unpressurized regions of the aircraft).

It seems like aircraft fires occur more often than hijackings. Is there any reason at this point to prefer the hijacking theory, other than that it's a bit more sensational?
I've heard that before, but oddly enough, performance in a Parallels VM is often close to native Windows for me, despite ultimately going through those same OSX drivers. Someone on HN hypothesized that this might be due to Parallels' shader optimization.
The loop (particularly `range c`) keeps getting element out of `c` and assigning it to `n`. If it's "done", then `n` wouldn't be sent into `out`, but still gets read from the channel `c` constantly. In other words, it's the loop itself that makes sure everything sent into channel `c` is consumed.

If `break` is used, for loop is terminated once it's "done", hence nothing would be reading from channel `c`. The previous station in the pipeline would then block at sending operation.
"Vertical scaling"? As in, buy a bigger box?
World3 is a famous simulation done in the 70s of our world/civilization that broadly predicts how our interaction with the environment will lead to a breakdown (decrease) of population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World3

You can run this world simulation here:

http://insightmaker.com/insight/1954

(Click on the green run simulation on the upper left.)

The lady who is responsible for this is called Donella Meadows, she is a famous systems thinker, I read one of her books titled 'Thinking in Systems'. It's about how to think about such systems (without actually modelling them).

http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/...
Bruce Schneier's RSA Conference Talk
The 1024/2048 games are themselves clones of Threes: http://asherv.com/threes/

Threes is doing really well in the app stores right now.
An interesting thought experiment I like to entertain is the case in which climate change is mitigated by the same kind of factors that cause and exacerbate it. It's not outrageous to imagine 21st century materials technology making it profitable to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, or low-power, ubiquitous computing/surveillance/logistics technology that can extract heat energy from the atmosphere and convert it to usable work.
Well put. I'm definitely a "never assume the government is telling the truth" person, but even if finishingmove were right in this case (I don't think the idea that wealthy governments release false data explicitly for the purpose of misleading people when they could just not release it is compelling, but hey, they've probably done stranger things), the GP hasn't even hinted at context or support for such a statement here.
This is a case of a famous, high status person making a statement without credible arguments. In other words, if a non-famous person said this, nobody would take him seriously (or noteworthy), because he doesn't really contribute anything to the discussion about bitcoin. The internet is full of good comments about bitcoin (for and against), but more visibility is given to Buffet's comments because of his status.

I guess media is to be blamed here to some degree. If someone is famous, then the media will make a story about anything that increases ad revenue. And also users of social media like Hacker News.
One small nitpick about a statement in the article; it says:

Though we think of them as cosmic vacuum cleaners, black holes are actually just like any other massive body, such as a star. This means other objects can safely orbit them, until they get within a particular distance and pass what’s known as the event horizon, after which there is no escaping being sucked in.

Technically, you can't "safely orbit" a black hole if you're any closer to it than three times the horizon radius. That is, there are no stable free-falling orbits, like orbits around a planet or star, closer than that. If you want to get closer than that to the event horizon without falling in, you will need to continuously fire your rockets to hold yourself at altitude against the hole's gravity.
Tried them about a year ago, Service was pretty slow. Never heard from CS after 3 attempts. Ended up needing to go through PayPal to get my money back. Private internet access has been my goto ever since.
Ecologists tend to squeeze their data good and hard (you see them building a lot of the statistical modeling tools in R or whatever).

Facile analysis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oecologia ) says that it isn't the very best journal but probably isn't a joke either.
You can actually download the ISO from a Microsoft CDN, but I don't have a link on me right now.
They claim that they keep no logs. http://help.tunnelbear.com/customer/portal/articles/1469449-...
The Making of GoldenEye 007
Too little too late for what exactly? Certainly not for their target audience. Perhaps you're on the wrong site. This is Hacker News and this device is for hackers. Name another mobile computer of a similar form factor or even a smartphone that can do as much as this device. As for being too late, well I've been waiting a long time for a device that can fully replace my N900 and ideally I would've liked something sooner but I was never going to stop dreaming because there was nothing on the horizon.
This isn't for games that would use a d-pad. That's what an Xbox 360 controller is for.

This is for games that would otherwise require a mouse and keyboard.
Fixed-point math is faster, duh. Yer a fucken nigger.

My fixed-point routines are twice as fast as floating versions, fucken retard-nigger.

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Just because everyone has more wealth(very disputable especially regionally in certain areas) doesn't mean the distribution is increasing at the same rate for all classes of society.
Is there an actual link to the study? I couldn't find it.
What has a higher probability (honestly):

- getting an increasing majority of the population of people who for the most part of their entire lives are taught/live/believe by certain ideals (i.e. are not doing anything different now), to the benefit of the few, to convince themselves of another way.

- convincing the few who benefit now who have the means to try something new (or old) (i.e. who are doing something now)?

Meta: I wonder if people thought exploration of the globe was a lost cause a millennia ago?
Which with the framework, compiles to more than 7 megs of code. Which is a lot to download for a mobile phone on an overloaded 3g network in many parts of the world. It is better than a cross-platform framework like regal though, which is probably triple the size.

Pandora, Pinterest, Yahoo Mail, Tumblr etc. are all smaller sized apps. Because small on mobile is currently important. Cross-platform frameworks which handle OpenGL ES tend to be bulky.
I find it hard to believe people that rich can make judgements this wrong about anything. I think Buffet had a history of saying "I don't understand it, therefore I don't invest", but not discouraging others to invest. It is possible he doesn't understand Bitcoin, but it is a lot less likely he makes a fool of himself instead of saying "you know, I just don't get it, so don't ask me about it".
I wonder if ordinary people would even consider holding any digital currency even if the value of it is superstable.

Even if there would be an altcoin that achieves stability there would be huge adoption hurdles.
I was just thinking about this as I woke up. Somewhere in my HN comment history, I took a contrarian (and supporting) position about the pre-iPad Microsoft tablet vaporware commercial: basically that if they did do something like this, with an accurate stylus and split-pages multitasking, it would be a winner.

That's not the middle ground iPad is aiming for, though. It's a spectrum, and it sounds like you'd rather have a Surface. Sometimes I think I'd like one to doodle with, too. I've seen people be productive with iPads as well, but you have to use them differently.
I hated how they worked. The buttons did not have enough travel in them to be comfortable to use in this way plus the way the thumb sits on the buttons it is not a very comfortable way to control pressure like with your fingers on the shoulder triggers. I am glad the Dual Shock 4 got rid of them and just has two decent shoulder triggers.
Many/most widely used “quicksort” implementations are actually introsort (in particular, `std::sort` is), and thus O(nlogn) worst case.
I can't tell if you're trolling or not. I tried to respond to you in what I believe was a mature and respectful way.

You've responded with a breathtaking amount of immaturity. And completely ignored any of the points I made. Perhaps one day you'll be more open to hearing and responding to what I wrote to you. Maybe that day won't come. Either way I wish you well.
Should prices change depending on user's location?