skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every muscle pulls the weight.

There's a joy in seeing your work inside of a world. Knowing that, in the sum of parts that is the entire game experience, you made that potted plant. Or you decided it goes right there. Or you wrote the routine that makes it tip over and break when you bump in to it. No one will ever know, or even necessarily think about all of the little things that go in to the game. But you know.

Plus you get to go to E3. It's like setting foot in the holy land. You could only watch the coverage from afar before, as an outsider. But now here you are, standing at the precipice and waiting for the gates to open. You made it. You deserve to be here. You're a developer, and this is your three day exclusive industry only arcade parlor full of games no one else can play yet. It doesn't matter if you worked on Modern Warfare or Farmville. On those three magical days in LA, we're all equal. Brothers and sisters, all here because we love this industry, and all the things we are able to do.
Thanks so much. Been looking for an up to date blog roll like this for a while.
> The difference here is that she aced all her math tests without knowing math.

Yeah, which can mean she was the best in her class, even though they are all very bad at maths.
That, plus their insistence along with the rest of the New York media of putting periods in anything that looks like it might be an acronym or initialism, even when they are dead wrong and it isn't!

SOS is a case in point. SOS is just SOS. It is most definitely not S.O.S.

SOS is a Morse Code prosign. Like all prosigns, it doesn't stand for the individual letters. The letters are just a way of writing out the sound. SOS definitely doesn't stand for "Save Our Ships" - it was first introduced in Germany!

In Morse code, the letter S is "dit dit dit" and the letter O is "dah dah dah". When you send individual letters, you pause in between. So if you were sending the individual letters S O S, or a word that happened to be spelled "sos", you'd send "dit dit dit <pause> dah dah dah <pause> dit dit dit".

But that's not how you send SOS. You run it all together: "dit dit dit dah dah dah dit dit dit".

The same is true for other prosigns such as AR which means "end of message". The letter A is "dit dah" and the letter R is "dit dah dit". But you don't send AR as "dit dah <pause> dit dah dit". It's "dit dah dit dah dit".

If someone sent me the individual letters A and R with the pause in between, I wouldn't recognize it as an end of transmission. I'm listening for the entire sound of "dit dah dit dah dit". It's really more like a big long "letter" of its own.

Prosigns are customarily written with a bar above the letters to show that they are connected without a pause. Of course, that's not always possible, but they definitely are never written with dots between the letters.

Except in New York, where they love the periods no matter how wrong they are!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosigns_for_Morse_code
we're not disagreeing
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Tel Aviv startup http://tomodo.com runs a proxy that hosts mashup "mods", e.g. a mashup that injects price history into Amazon pages

http://www.amazon-camelizer.tomodo.me/Kindle-Fire-HDX-Displa...

Some discussion here, apparently only the cross-domain traffic goes via the proxy
https://github.com/TOMODOcom/TOMODOkorz/issues/3
Exactly. It's about non-delusional financial projections and transparency of business leadership. So, management.
It's weirdly common to hear about people getting laid off from the same company more than once—i.e., they get laid off, rehired, and laid off again in a span of two or three years

It's not too weird. This was how factories used to work on a regular basis. Guys would work for 8 months, get laid off, get unemployment for 2 months and lay around the house bugging their wives, then get called back again. Repeat until retirement. The supply chain techniques have improved so that doesn't happen very much now.
Interesting that they are blaming the profs. There is certainly some culpability there. But there is plenty of info available to students about their prospects. If they want to take on massive debt to essentially be entertained for a few extra years, at some point, that is their choice.
I don't understand why a real mathematician would want to work for the NSA. Suppose you had some amazing insight into a problem. Your work would almost certainly be classified, and you would be forbidden from sharing your achievements with the rest of the world. Worse, someone else could reinvent that same idea taking credit for it.

A beautiful equation or elegantly simple proof can only be realized when shared with the world. I would hope that a real mathematician would realize this before deciding to work for an intelligence agency.
>I would say she was a phenomenal student compared to her peers.

Top 7 percent in a group that small isn't "phenomenal" by the normal definition of the word.
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The JVM should, after enough iterations, inline all those calls as well.
You are part of a problem. I can't say this strongly enough.

Some people have tickets to sell, others would like to go to the event. You would interpose yourself to suck money out of the latter group while providing no service.

You're making the world a worse place.
It isn't Netflix's job to minimize their bandwidth usage for the sake of the ISPs. If I pay for 500GB/month at 20Mb down, that's what I should get. If Netflix does decide to increase the bitrate of their videos, than I'm the one that will have to deal with potential buffering issues and/or going over my cap.

As others have mentioned, the ISPs woefully miscalculated the growth of the internet and consumer bandwidth usage and as is the case with capitalism, those mistakes should cost them.
Actually they seem to mention it's symmetric:

Each email or file has its own unique key, which is stored
in and protected by a keystore in my butt. By default,
the Virtru keystore is used, but advanced users will be
able to operate their own key stores.
You should add some screenshots so people can at least see what you're trying to sell. That's one of the first things I look for with anything like this so I can get a feel for what's being offered.

Otherwise maybe it's prematurely on HN if you wanted to get best value for hitting the front page?
It's probably true there were ways to get yourself into real trouble before the Internet. I guess phone phreaking or calling in threats and such. Still it seems like there's a lot more temptation out there for a kid to cause mischief now that the entire world is wired together.
I'm fine with not getting my nutrition info from Oz, Gupta and Oprah if that's ok. I think they forgot to ask Dr. Phil what he thought.

I mean it's more than halfway through the article comparing pop garbage simplified nutrition before we start looking at any clinical studies.
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That might just mean that her school failed her. It sounds like she wasn't taught how to learn, and that she wasn't challenged with advanced topics.
I've worked in the AAA game industry and there are many factors. When you break down the interests of companies this seems like just a product of economic self-interest, financial risk, volatility, and publisher/studio relationships.

But the truth is that the practices of industries are often based on what the employees are willing to take. Employees in the game industry will come back after being fired ... and fired again. They won't quit their job even though they work 80+ hours a week for months on end. In other industries, this would never fly, and practices that assume you can do this to employees would have never caught on, because the employees in (many) other industries won't as consistently take that abuse.

The practices of the gaming industry have, over the years, formed around this fact of nature about the employees. None of it would be this way if employees weren't willing to take the abuse in the first place.
Do voluntary unions ever work? "Forcing people help themselves" sounds bad, but considering human nature, I don't think anything else works...
Nice. Some comments:

- he used simulation up front. This is a great thing. Some more detail would have been nice. I tend to design small circuit components up front on paper with a good old fashioned calculator then simulate in LtSpice. It kills a lot of frustration and things you've forgotten about. However it doesn't always work out as SPICE can't deal with parasitic inductance and capacitance easily without adding primitives to the net. This kills you after a few MHz.

- The art of electronics is a terrible book IMHO if you want to learn electronics. Even as a reference its not great. It's disjoint and poorly written. Better bet is the ARRL handbook even if you don't do RF stuff. The material is wonderful in that book. Being American though, it is undergoing a transition to SI units though so its a little inconsistent in the maths with random multipliers here and there.

- nice to see something without a microcontroller in it and some manual work (coil winding).

I still wish all electronics was at this level. Much more fun.
What I personally found out was that if you stay away from sugar and sweeteners completely, eventually you get used to the new taste and no longer suffer from lack of sweetness. I didn't think I'll ever be able to drink unsweetened coffee, but now I'm doing exactly that. More than that, things that had "normal" taste before (such as soft drinks) will now seem overly sweet, to the point of not being able to drink them at all.

So maybe instead of asking "what is the best sugar replacement" one should ask "how do I best get used to not sweetening everything I eat".

(I understand that the article casts doubts on sugar being evil. I still think that reducing sugar and / or sweeteners as much as possible at the very least will not hurt you, and most likely will be a bit of a benefit).
I paint a bright picture, because as has been pointed out, it's the dream. It was mine in the third grade. I had decided at that young age that I had spent so much time already playing games, that I should work toward that industry. I should give something back. I paint a bright picture because despite it all, I still have heart.

I pick on EA for their sequels specifically, because I can smell the stink on the disc. I'm a fan of Need for Speed. But I know I'm taking a gamble on each one I buy, because I don't know what corners EA decided to cut this time. It's not simply a case of the same thing being boring the second time around, the game is literally weaker than the predecessor. Skate is another example of an awesome game that shook up the skateboarding genre, and put Tony Hawk on the ropes. But sequels should improve in some way, not just better graphics, but better features, tighter gameplay. Skate and Need for Speed go backwards in their sequels. You can play the games side by side, and watch the gameplay get worse. Things that worked in the last game are now mysteriously broken, because the new dev team wasn't there the first time around. They don't understand or own the product in the way the original team did. By the time (if) they make it to the third game, it's a copy of a copy.

Games can be a lot like television shows, in that they may have an over arching story that spans across the series. And much like a television show can lag in the ratings and get cancelled, games with a story to tell wind up never getting a proper ending. That is the case with Dead Space, a deeply engrossing world that just kinda... ends. No real resolutions to tie up the plot. As a fan, over time you may become worried to invest in EA titles, because you know they're eventually going to be left to die, with no real ending. Why engross yourself in a world that you know is just going to disappear? Why watch a drama that is just going to end on a cliffhanger, and never get a 4th season to wrap it up? Would you read a book that just stopped in the middle of the page, paragraph, or sentence?
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Wouldn't one solution to this problem be telecommuting combined with contract based model. You put a team together for a project, work the project, and let every one know up front that this is a temporary gig, not a permanent job. Like in the movie industry. But the twist is, you embrace a telecommuting model, allowing developers to move from project to project without having to move from house to house.

This would also make it much easier to rehire people who worked for you before, providing continuity to the games, and increasing level of code reuse. I know it's not a steady job, but perhaps it's a fair compromise. Also, this would allow the video game industry to keep older talent, as developers would be able to have a more flexible schedule and live in more family friendly suburban neighborhoods.

Just an idea....
AFAIK no where in your Netflix terms of use is Netflix obligated to give you content at a specific speed or amount. They are obligated to stream you movies, not stream you movies at 100mb/sec. This is in stark contrast to ISPs who advertise 100Mbit/sec down.
I was the same until I got into embedded stuff. Started up writing a LP filter in software for something that was buggy as hell and slow and the tooling kept falling over. Changed the design for a simple RC+op amp LP and fell in love with analogue again.
I think developers/designers or any type of creative work that involves using the computer need a union of some sort. Artists have it, Writers have it, why not the tech crowd?
Here is a white paper of another exploit without user interaction, which is still working on most browsers. It's called "Pixel-perfect timing attack".

https://media.blackhat.com/us-13/US-13-Stone-Pixel-Perfect-T...

The related bug on the Chrome tracker was closed with a "won't fix".
Be more than 'barely above average' on the ACT.
You want to know what I did? I disabled CSS. Suddenly the page is ultra readable like 1999. Works everywhere too.
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For an alternative opinion: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2458816,00.asp

With Uber drivers making more than double what cabbies make, it seems that Uber is actually freeing the cabbies from the "slavery" of medallions.
"...and Mongolians are incredibly fascinated with Elon Musk".

I would bet that is a false positive (note it's the fuzzier 'topic' not 'search term') from Mongolian musk ox.
Wasn't too hard to find. If it were obvious it'd kinda take the fun out of it.
One of the Go developers did say that Go has a big following in China in GopherCon 2014, thanks to Windows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=u-k...
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From Wikipedia [0]:

Autobiography of a Yogi has inspired people, such as Steve Jobs. Walter Isaacson, a biographer, records that Jobs "first read [it] as a teenager, then re-read [it] in India and had read [it] once a year ever since."
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, told his story of attending Steve Jobs memorial service, where the attendees were handed a small brown box on their way out. "This is going to be good," he thought. "I knew that this was a decision he made, and whatever it was, it was the last thing he wanted us all to think about." The box contained a copy of Paramahansa Yogananda's book, "Autobiography of a Yogi."

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiography_of_a_Yogi
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> not as good as what she received

Sounds more like a reflection of the difference in studied topics.
Buy one of these:
http://www.mdisc.com/

And you are good for way more than a hundred years.
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Just what I was thinking. Can't you render the DOM to a canvas and then access the pixels in that?
No demo link on the website. - No Sign Up.
One thing I'm curious about is how exactly this burns bridges. Do they have some sort of blacklist?
But that sounds like a dependable cycle... one you could financially depend on. Your situation is more uncertain when you get laid off in the game industry.
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> More than that, things that had "normal" taste before (such as soft drinks) will now seem overly sweet, to the point of not being able to drink them at all.

This I can confirm. Apples for example taste as sweet as candybars taste to "normal" people. And candybars are un-eatable. They are so sweet that the sweetness starts to turn into bitterness. (I'm from Europe though so we don't have much high fructose sirup in our food - so I can't imagine how sweet US food is).

It's really interesting how much sugar and sweeteners our foods contain nowadays. And because people get used to sweetness the manufacturers have to add even more sugar to make things taste sweet again.

> I understand that the article casts doubts on sugar being evil. I still think that reducing sugar and / or sweeteners as much as possible at the very least will not hurt you, and most likely will be a bit of a benefit

Yeah, I don't really know how 'evil' sugar is - but I know that I feel much better when I eat less of it (less bloated, not so sleepy after eating). And that's enough for me. I think interested people should try a sugar-less diet for some weeks and then decide if it's for them. If not for health reasons it could make you just feel better.
"Eliminating sugars from a diet can’t constitute playing it safe"

That's ridiculous! There is no nutritional necessity to ingesting sugar. Not eating sugar IS playing it safe!

My god are people so ignorant as to think eating sugar is somehow part of an essential diet!?!? We're doomed.

... and by "sugar" we are clearly not talking about eating an apple.
That's true, though I resent being called oversensitive :)
It's a strange language when "getting laid" and "getting laid off" mean such different things.
Norton Commander was a great concept, but what really perfected that concept was Dos Navigator... It had so many useful features... If you didn't use it in the 90's, you missed out on a legend! It was open-sourced after DOS became history: http://www.dnosp.com/.

And there was also Volkov Commander, which was about feature-equal with NC, but was written by hand in assembly. Tiny resource usage and lightning speed.
Interesting - but is that the same tactic that has been successful in other countries, that didn't cut funding?
OpenCL would be way overkill for casual brute force. I get several solutions a second using a C hasher on a single CPU core of my laptop.

Maybe there's an OpenCL use for finding extremely optimal usernames, though.
Definitely needs screenshots. It's nice to say that you can "manage your pages clearly in tree structure" but I'd like to see what it looks like without trying.

Also, it definitely needs an "About" page. Who are you people?
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Just put a link to this on your landing page. Honestly, I am rarely interested in what the creator of a product wants to tell me about it. I just want a brief description of what it is and why I might want to use it, and pictures. A demo is better again, bit I want to see your product, not read about it.
I had to change it to start at i=1 to avoid clicking on the link to github and leaving the page
https://www.coursera.org/course/chuck101
Cutting fruit (fructose) from your diet doesn't seem like a wise choice. I agree that highly processed foods and sugared snacks/drinks are unhealthy.
Try the demo account: demo@example.com / Pass: torchpad
Considering that I can get different performance for the same C++ program simply by using different compiler, or even different compiler options, I'd say that there's a lot of wiggle room.
Very true - I need to find some stats that compare gun violence in countries with gang / suicides excluded or broken out
I've used some of their data for tracking and visualizing locations of methamphetamine-related incidents in the city:

http://keithflower.org/welcome/default/meth_timemap
Disassembling the Norton Utilities and annotating them was an excellent way to learn how to program X86, I'm not sure if by then Peter was still writing himself or too busy managing his growing empire but that was some pretty tight code. Think 'gnu base utils' but instead of in C a good chunk of it (if not all) was in assembler.

It's a pity the article does not really answer the question in the title, Peter is simply getting older (he's probably in his 70's now). Here he is at some function a few years ago, looking happy and well:

http://i558.photobucket.com/albums/ss23/Image-Gallery/norton...

I wish him a very long life and much joy, he's done a ton of good for the PC industry and his books on low level PC stuff were quite useful.
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It uses a list of sites, the ones that are in your browser history are red squares. The results may be wrong for you if you cleared your browser history, or if you share your browser with someone else, or if you habitually visit sites you don't like.
This article poses a question it never really answers to one's satisfaction
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your argument ("Americans just love moralizing and pointing their fingers at other countries for the exact same things they do") is called "tu quoque" and it's a logical fallacy.

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

It does not detract from, or even relate to, the subject of the article in any way.

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EDIT: Following downvote, to make it clearer:

1.
yes we should not have slave labor in America either, and yes some people are wrongfully imprisoned, and yes we use prison labor. The legal process is probably better in the United States than in China, but that does not mean the American legal process should not be improved. None of this has anything to do with the subject of the article, and does not excuse it in any way. Besides, the New Yorker is a private magazine - the article could be Chinese just as easily, and you would not have to change any of the language in it.

2.

Oh, except for the fact that there is freedom of speech to publish it in the United States (even if the subject of it were American prison labor) whereas it's doubtful if the Chinese are even allowed to read the present New Yorker article, let alone publish it if they had written it themselves. In America, the New Yorker, I, you, or anyone are free to publish a similar article on American prison labor.

Here are a few:

https://www.google.com/search?q=american+prison+labor+site%3...
same with me, my first reaction is

WHAT KIND OF SORCERY IS THIS!?

1.Technology 2.Gaming 3.Programming
On my second try, determined to find out how it works, I drew a random smiley shape in grey box area. Painting was added to the list! Was so disappointed to find out it was a coincidence.
How do you define 'work'? Iran, Cuba, Russia, France, etc...
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I know it's not typically restricted, I've enjoyed "unlimited wifi" for over a decade! The thing that bothers me is some providers in the UK say they give away unlimited wifi as part of the package.
> Not necessarily. What if the un-visited box was set to display:none?

Then it would remain 'none' for the visited box too. Messing with 'display' is disabled in 'visited' to prevent this class of workarounds.
Wow, what's with the awful low resolution scans? As public domain historical material, I thought they'd want to offer them at the best resolution possible.
nursing has changed.
Eyes In the sky(awesome project)
Eclipse plugin for svn integration
Which plugin, what version and what packages to install?
And, just like undertaking a startup is not for everyone, going indie is not an option for many people coming from the AAA world. They may not have all of the pieces among themselves and their associates to actually ship something, let alone something that will sell.