skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My opinion is not that everyone who has kids is screwed. My observations are that many people don't plan it well. This is possibly not the same issue in the tech centers where the salaries are middle-rich class and people are generally more educated and rational in their decisions.

This was more of an opinion coming from my hometown, where we have an epidemic of twenty-somethings divorced with three kids because they took on too much too fast.

edit: also, when you're at a bar and the first questions are:
- are you divorced?
- how many kids do you have?
Not really of any importance to the article, but:

> It’s not crazy for Sam Altman’s phone bill to rack up 6,000 talking minutes in a month. He talks a lot, to a lot of people.

Maybe 6000 is above average, but is it even close to 'crazy' for anyone? That's only 3.3 hours a day, I probably hit that on week days for work alone (sure plenty of people will have jobs where less phone calls are needed), and with family and friends (several who I'll have regular long chats with, rather than just 30 second calls) I think I definitely go above 6000 a month, and I don't consider myself a massively heavy phone user.
Popularity != Quality
I constantly want to touch my Pebble's screen. It's plenty big enough (and could easily be bigger). The buttons are workable but not ideal. With, say, 3-4 menu items on the screen, there's plenty of area for touching them, and it would be a lot faster than hitting the up/down buttons a couple times followed by the select button.

I don't get this "can't see what you're doing" thing at all. Do you not use touchscreen phones? What's your finger doing in front of the thing you're going to touch before you go to touch it?
Techniques Adopted By 'System Crackers' (1998)
> 2) Display visibility

I can't decide whether this is genius or ludicrous, but on your phone, you can ask Google Now "What time is it" and get a spoken-word response. So presumably, you could wear a watch that you have to just ask for the time when you're outside. :)
> I'm not sure what's complicated about the Java type system

I assumed this was a reference to the unequal handling of "primitive" types vs Object types, with only the latter being able to be used with generics. Except for the weird "dual" object types which sortof are and sortof are not equivalents to the primitive types (int -> Integer, etc). WHich for methods needing to take actual primitives leads to having to do abominations of repetition such as http://www.docjar.com/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.html.

Some other bad things (not necessarily "complicated" but it does complicate the code that needs to be written):

Enumerations all have to have the same constructor params and therefore the same "shape". SOrt of defeats the purpose of enumerating ALTERNATIVES, I would say (this is part of the lack of sum types that was mentioned, though).

Others mentioned nullability. Some other things I didn't see others mention:

Botched covariance of arrays which leads to runtime failure where compile time should have been sufficient, http://k2java.blogspot.com/2011/07/parametrized-types-and-ar....

Some other minor things, such as botched clonability system, where Cloneable is a "marker" interface that doesn't tell you whether some type is really cloneable, a bizarre unforced error where a simple interface (you know, with an actual method called "clone") would have sufficed.
I personally just don't see the point of preorders. There is no scarcity of games. There is no downside in waiting another week if your local Gamestop (or Amazon) are sold out to get it later.

In fact, I kinda like waiting months... or even year to check out a game. It gets past any hype about the game, and then all bugs/patches are done. And cheaper.
GTA3: 5 cars and 5 people in one frame

GAT5: Static world and a single car
So this is what I was getting at precisely. As buckbova said, programming is problem solving, and solving problems is a creative process.

If you treat developers as creatives (like you do design, etc) you get a superior product and work environment, and you involve more people in the product brain trust.
You have to read the context. A different male employee had just been fired for inappropriate behavior with a female employee. Since he is much more higher-ranking than she is, she is concerned about what their coworkers will think about his interaction with her. It's not that she doesn't like the guy. She's trying to shield his reputation.
Right on. I have been meditating for almost 40 years, and yes, I agree with RS that it is a secret weapon for happiness and success.
Doesn't this metaphor break down when you consider that taxi drivers are capped already?

Also AirBNB and Uber and similar things are in a weird spot since they are in heavily regulated industries.
I'm exactly the same, but don't particularly like it... I do pay lots of attention to who's gay, from celebrities to people I come across personally, and the logical side of my brain tells me it's irrelevant, while the emotional side can't stop caring. (Also gay.)
Looks like the book is freely available - https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2197699M/Peter_Norton%27s_as...
No, please!

I already have the real world. That's not What I'm looking for in a game.

If you want a Boringness Simulator, there's always Farming Sim, or something.
Is this different than using <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">?
Original link: http://youtu.be/NKjyXtLVs20
Lenovo Series W + Linux?
Google has been frustrating with this for a while. Google voice has been ignored for a long time (the chrome plugin is also quite buggy/broken on mavericks).

Voice solved the texting problem with a cross platform whatsapp/iMessage type solution years ago - when they bought gizmo5 I thought they were going to incorporate SIP calling too. Then when hangouts came out I was hoping they'd somehow incorporate voice into that.

I'm not sure what the plan is for it, but it seems like nobody is actually on the project.
Multiple threads of execution means you can saturate memory instead of alternating between fetches and computations. But I thought pathfinding and fluid simulation were big CPU hogs, and those can cache very well.
couldn't they just tax the Uber, Lyft, etc... drivers' revenue? The same with AirBnb - whenever someone charges the money for their condo/apt/house, be it aunt/uncle, friends or unrelated tourists - pay the share of revenue thus leveling playing field with established players.
...it's become very, very clear that a person's upbringing almost determines whether or not they're going to be successful...

The old town drunk died. His two sons, the bank president and the new town drunk were at his funeral. An onlooker, surprised at how different the two sons were, asked each one how he turned out the way he did.

The bank president responded, "With a father like that, how else could I turn out?"

The new town drunk responded, "With a father like that, how else could I turn out?"
The problem is a difficult one, and using the imagery of the righteous founders does not help the debate. Remember that they lived in a different time, where it would have been much more harder, and the scale would have been much lesser, of terrorist acts that can be carried out. I'm not saying either way is better, just that its not a simple choice, and there might be other choice as well.

Or maybe, we can root out terrorism by bringing progress to the entire human race. OK, but then you still have to deal with domestic terrorism: sniper shootouts, school massacres etc. done by Citizens. How can that be prevented?

One has to give credit to the US govt.'s efforts though: not a single case of terrorism on US soil after 9/11. That's pretty impressive.
Why classify it when nobody bothers to read it anymore anyway?
How To Relax In Tense Startup Moments
Gamevenda – reddit for games.
www.gamevenda.com
People forget that modern 3D games take up huge amounts of storage space. Meshes, textures, maps, and sound recordings aren't cheap.

You could mitigate this by asynchronously loading certain files, or outright designing a game to be quickly downloadable (for example, by using an art style that uses only shading and mesh coloration instead of textures, or by going all demoscene and procedurally generating everything), but for anything resembling a modern "AAA" game, a long download time is probably unavoidable.
Firstly, I loved the project when I see the simplicity of it, secondly, it is good to have alternatives in case that, they got shut down, and maybe go down a wrong path, thirdly I was the first person ever to fix and distribute a working binary version :). BTW, I also linked to repo you mentioned, not to let my users in the dark :)
Also, I do not agree, the wealth created by tech companies is legitimate progress, whereas finance is more rent-seeking/pushing tail-risk off to the government.

The link below informs much more of my world-view however.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/jna/finance_as_a_career_option/ajkc
The Tao of Windows Buffer Overflow
Unfortunately I cannot really justify my interest in philosophical or design-oriented terms. I had simply gotten used to the tab switching behavior in Opera, and have missed that behavior a great deal since having to switch (for reasons that should be obvious).
My guess is that he is an excellent adviser; his success is the success of people he helps. And I do not say that in a derogatory note. Being a consultant myself, I recognize that my advice may be valuable but only given the context of people who make use of it properly. Now, you can allocate merit between adviser and advised in whatever manner suits better your perception of the world.
> There are ways in which the First, Second, and Fifth Amendments help to inform terrorists too.

Don't worry, Emperor Alexander is already working hard to fix that glaring 1st Amendment problem!

http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/05/nsa-chief-says-legislation...
Fair enough. Various folks seem to put it slightly above the rhythm method in practice [an example [1]] and pretty much less effective than any mechanical system [2]. The original joke was a statement on the variability of trying to gauge the internal state of the system versus mechanically disarming the system. And in that analysis it still holds.

Nothing is quite so impresses as a natural system that has evolved through selective pressure to be effective in so many adverse situations.

[1] http://www.fertility.com.au/Docs/Contraception/Contraception...

[2] http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/UnintendedPregnancy/PD...
http://www.gamevenda.com
Yeah and I don't get why the loggers default to noop when they're not configured correctly. Here's a typical scenario:

I'm deep in the zone, half way through fixing something and it's not working. I start up my app and realize log4whatever can't find its configuration so it defaults to no logging. Now I need to unpop my mental stack all the way to switch gears so I can fix this logging configuration issue because for all I know the key to my problem is in the log message that log4whatever hides when it's in noop mode. Why not default to as verbose as possible?

From what I can tell, the majority of these crappy Java logging frameworks are made by this one guy who keeps on screwing up. Eventually he abandons ship and starts over again. log4j, logback and slf4j are all by the same guy.
Nice try, Obama
I don't know or respect Sam (well, don't respect him more or less than anyone else reading about him), but 'success' depends on many things, it's possible for idiots to find it and for geniuses to miss it, whether because they aimed too high, or were with the wrong people, or luck, or...

But when it comes to personal opinions/endorsements it comes down to more than what can be written on a CV. I'm sure you judge your friends and colleagues based on your personal take on them rather than by looking at a checklist of their achievements, so why would it be different for people who know Sam?
The executive seems to have put a higher priority on protecting the people than upholding the constitution, which is not consistent with the oaths they take. The cynical take is that this another simply another consequence of the influence of money on politics. It's simply more profitable to "protect people". You see, when you uphold the constitution, nobody gets paid.
What generation is his Macbook Pro? ;)
So, I guess I should specify that the addresses in question are United States addresses. My company operates entirely within the US and does not deal with international addresses. In this regard, Carmel is very unusual within the US.

But yes, you're right. :)
OK, but then you still have to deal with domestic terrorism: sniper shootouts, school massacres etc. done by Citizens.

One has to give credit to the US govt.'s efforts though: not a single case of terrorism on US soil after 9/11.

Fastest contradiction I've seen in a while.
“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.

"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.”
> My most beloved brother,

> This is sent merely to inform you that a short time ago I received a letter from you from which I learnt that you have had an heir, which circumstance I understand has afforded you a great deal of pleasure. Now in so far as I had judged you to be possessed of prudence I am now entirely convinced that I am as far removed from having an accurate judgment as you are from prudence; seeing that you have been congratulating yourself in having created a watchful enemy, who will strive with all his energies after liberty, which can only come into being at your death.

http://archive.org/stream/notebooksofleona027479mbp/notebook...

Harsh stuff.
It's very easy to fall into the notion that you need to have ALL of your ducks in a row before having (planned) children. My wife and I called it "the tyranny of the ducks" and eventually learned to push back a bit. In our case, it was not freaking out over putting a car seat in the back of a small 2-door car instead of a big 4-door car.
I'm surprised the Indians were speaking Hindi to each other; India is linguistically very diverse and two random Indians running into each other (without knowing where each other is from) would probably speak English, often even within India.

I work in an English-speaking office that is 95% Chinese (and I'm the only non-Chinese on my team), my Chinese is marginal but I make it a point to interject English into conversations even if I have the slightest idea about what is being discussed. But otherwise, I'm used to it.
Err..Am I missing a joke? I think they literally mean the word "literally"
US Freezes Putin's Netflix Account
Did anyone else have to reload multiple times before the text actually showed up? (Using Chrome v33)
Are you okay with this policy?
That was imposed by adobe not unity.
Yep. OneNote might have been the single hardest app to give up when I made the switch to Mac back in '08.
This list directly contradicts your last sentences.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States#...
Google debuts wearable Android
> How can that be prevented?

That's a totally tangential conversation. The first conversation is: is the NSA being lawful?
You don't understand.

The article is arguing in a different level. It says that reality is inherently artistically irrelevant, and this race to photorealism is a wild goose chase. You can't 3D scan Skyrim!
Oracle blames Venezuela for poor Q3 results
I understand this type of argument, but it is somewhat faulty. I think we can all agree that the intelligence community can't operate with 100% transparency. They can't exactly do their job if they have to specifically tell their targets that they are being targeted. The opposite is also true. None of us want these organizations to operate in complete secrecy without having any idea what they are legally allowed to do.

The problem is that Snowden's actions land somewhere in that huge gap between those two options. We can once again all probably agree that the ideal solution also lies between those two extremes. So trying to frame the debate as if either extreme is a possible outcome or one that is preferred by anyone seems disingenuous.
> I definitely think everyone should speak the official language local country while at work.

What about an American company in China? There is a good reason why English is the business language in our office; also, many foreign employees don't speak Chinese but do speak English even though its not their first language. If you want to be international, I think English is pretty mandatory.
> because companies

Which companies?

> the NSA

You mean, law enforcement agencies who specifically request your information with a subpoena?
"One has to give credit to the US govt.'s efforts though: not a single case of terrorism on US soil after 9/11. That's pretty impressive."

Wait -- that's definitely not true; the Boston marathon bombings and Newtown come to mind. I think you implied in your second paragraph that "dealing with domestic terrorism" is a separate issue -- in truth, I don't think we can properly separate domestic from international. Terrorism is terrorism.

That being said, I'm not convinced we live in a different enough time to warrant the infringement of basic rights, either. While the article might be suggesting that we can't draw a line at all, that's not what I'm suggesting either. I just think we need to carefully balance the issue of safety vs. freedom.
The defacto common language of India is actually English, however.
At that level, one doesn't care about money in the way you're thinking. One cares about power (money naturally follows).
Notational is so badass. I'm going to give OneNote a hard look when I have some time but I'm so used to Notational that I might just stick with it. I would like to see some additional formatting options in NV but the speed and UX are unbeatable.
Show HN:  A URL shortener I made in a few hours with Node.js
It would be nice if I could fly too, but I'm fat and able to generate shockingly small amounts of lift.
> ALDE spoke pro net neutrality but voted against.

To be fair, the initial proposal from the Commission was atrocious, and ALDE have played a good role in a massive redrafting which has made it a pretty okay piece of legislation. They only voted against the last amendments (from Catherine Trautmann). It's worth campaigning for those amendments to be adopted, but you need to adopt the right tone when talking to ALDE members.
There are hundreds of people he talks to on a daily basis? How?
You might feel differently if you ever had to do shadow mapping on traditional hardware. Even in AAA games, there are tons of artifacts in the shadows. Same goes for reflections.

I don't see why it's harder for artists to control the results... can you elaborate? It seems like it's going to be 90% the same. You have a point on a surface, you have a camera vector and light vectors, you supply a small piece of code and out pops a color. The major differences in the pipeline are in the scaffolding: depth tests, reflections, and shadows will be done in different ways. The differences for artists are that they'll have to learn a system with different limitations.

My guess is that game graphics are going to follow the developments in movie CGI. Pixar switched to ray tracing in 2013, and games will switch when hardware powers up and expertise filters down.
I've read a lot of what Stewart Baker has written over the years in his various capacities, and i've just never been impressed with either his logic, or his arguments.

He really really doesn't get it, and seems to not be able to follow the logic of his arguments through to their end result (often claiming that those end results just won't happen, despite actual evidence to the contrary).

For example, he doesn't see how (and has in the past denied) his idea of having secret overseers made of a special class of citizens may resultin a star chamber, despite this actually happening multiple times in the past.

He also doesn't understand that his techniques are simply ineffective. Keeping surveillance and its limits secret has not stopped anything from happening. It's just caused it to be abused along the way. The "good terrorists" (in the sense of being good at terrorism, not morality) were already taking literally every precaution anyway, because they have to assume the worst. This is true whether they know they are being surveilled or not.

For a small government conservative, he is one of the most paternalistic people i've seen in a long time when it comes to intelligence. For example, he was responsible for forcing everyone else to provide incoming passenger details to the US, then, on the side, repudiated most of the US obligations to protect the info.

He also strongly believes 9/11 was an intelligence failure, but of "the FBI was required to follow too many laws, and wasn't allowed to use invasive modern technologies" type.

See http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing6/witness_bake...

("In my view, there were two problems – a problem with the tools our agencies were able to use and a problem with the rules they were required to follow.")
Miguel Cepero of the Procedural World blog said something similar: that with the increasing complexity of AAA games, the only way forward is to procedurally generate much of the content. He talks the talk, too: the engine that he's currently building can algorithmically create varied terrain and architecture while still allowing you to manipulate the game world like in Minecraft. http://procworld.blogspot.com

Personally, I don't necessarily agree. I've had way more fun with simple-looking games over the past few years (Super Mario Galaxy, all the crazy indie platformers, Minecraft, Counter-Strike, etc.) than with any AAA games. I think the way forward for the medium is to focus more on tight and innovative game design rather than shiny graphics and enormous (but ultimately empty) spaces. No procedurally generated world will ever contain the intelligence of a single cleverly-designed level.

On the other hand, I've also had a lot of fun with roguelikes, and I really look forward to the innovations in procedural generation over the next few years.
Disclaimer: I live in San Diego. Working on starting a startup (read: planning)

The presentation references http://www.sandiego.gov/nccd/zoning/home.shtml

This all doesn't sound so bad. Some of the nitty-gritty details sound a bit annoying, but overall it just sounds like legalese for "don't abuse running a business from your house". What I'm hearing when I read this is that we don't want people running hair-salons or restaurants out of their homes.
've tweeted a link to that post to the CEO this morning. If you're feeling charitable a public shaming via retweet would be appreciated. I'm hoping it forces action

https://twitter.com/Richard_Branch/status/445897175969857536
>"It's simply more profitable to "protect people"."

I am very cynical, but I am not sure about this claim. I would agree to a narrowing of it, saying 'surveillance is more profitable to some concentrated and identifiable interests'. The government imposes a very large regulatory burden on many organizations as part of the PATRIOT act and many related executive orders and actions. The regulatory burden imposed by security interests often approaches the costs of labor and insurance regulations.