skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is that games like Red Dead Redemption, Hitman, and Grand Theft Auto systematically reward sexist and racist behavior (tying a woman to train tracks, brutalizing prostitutes, etc.).

In a sense, yes. For example, Grand Theft Auto rewards players for brutalizing prostitutes because it rewards players for brutalizing NPCs full stop. It turns out that including female characters in your game and applying the same generic mechanics to them as male charcters is a really good way of producing a misogynistic game. That's... odd, to say the least.

(Also, it doesn't even matter if the game encourages violence against them. Just having female NPCs that can be the receipient of violence is enough, even if it's penalized by the game mechanics. If you don't want to be accused of encouraging misogyny it's probably safest and easiest just not to include any women in your game.)
My bad, then. But I can't see anything defensive about my original comment, and I'm certainly not angry:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8338469

It's blunt but it's short, accurate and to the point.
> I’m certain that if I had children, I would be failing at my job.

Quality not quantity.

I work as an engineer for an NYC startup and have 3 kids. No, its not easy, but yes you need to reset your priorities. Life becomes more focused on fewer activities. Once the kids get a bit bigger its not as time intensive.

I work roughly 6:30am - 8:30am and then 10am - 5pm M-F.

I have many other friends who are engineers at fast moving companies with 2,3,4 or more kids. Its definitely doable.

If your company is asking you to work hours and hours maybe there is something wrong with their product development process or business plan.

Stop worrying and start procreating!
Thanks for the clarification. As an anecdotal data point, I didn't recognize the storage class memory term, even though I'm quite interested in these topics, sometimes reading related research papers.

The abstract would have been more helpful had it alluded to the definition, for example "…of storage class memories (SCMs), such as flash memory, has been…".

Similarly, the term isn't defined on first use, and even following the footnote which strongly suggests definition/discussion of the same topic elsewhere ([21]), that particular term doesn't appear in the referenced Rosenthal "Keeping Bits Safe" article.

(Now I know, but I'm still not a fan of the term. At these levels of abstract analysis, it's all 'memory', and it's all being considered for 'storage', so storage class memory lacks vividness/contrast.)
I don't know about LJ, but I get the impression that Reddit released the source just out of the desire to be "good OSS citizens", and not out of any hope that it would directly benefit the company. I would be surprised if they thought it had a measurable positive impact.
The article waxes so eloquently about this beloved product that I would have mistaken it for a paid PR piece. The article is great read nonetheless.

For those who are also interested in the other darker, grimier side of the same coin, might want to check out its use of mercenaries for union busting in South America(by murder of course. In the hands of the right spinners that would be 'terrorism'), similar stuff happened in India as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Coca-Cola#Bottling...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Coca-Cola#Environm...
He was so reviled by early Christians that the number of the beast (666) is probably derived from his name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkZqFtYtqaI
I use and love it also :) But it doesn't satisfy all my note taking needs so I use it mostly for sharing and storing short-lived texts that I need to access from my phone.

I heard Simplenote developers was also thinking about a native & offical Linux client. I can't wait to try it out.
They created the term (I believe on tumblr) and their universal insufferability has caused it to be associated negatively.
Yahoo Stock Gets Crushed as Alibaba IPO: Core Business Valued at Less Than Zero
The linked page includes the ingredient list.
Livestream of Debate Between Peter Thiel and David Graeber (1830 EDT Sep 19)
“The Mess We're In” by Joe Armstrong at Strange Loop [video]
Where do you get this data from?
The point of this paper rests on an unfair cost comparison of local flash vs. S3. We know that S3 is much more expensive than local disk. If they compared local flash against local disk (e.g. Pergamum), disk would still win.

They have a newer paper that sounds better: http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/pub/gupta25-mascots.html
Uhm. I know at least three farthers that got kids right when their startup was less than 3 years old...

After having kids, you actually value your work time more. I have f.e. an almost strict 8 hour window. Hence, I try to make every minute count.
Do they really need more than a single README.md file? Many of those modules are so small that anything more than a single README of documentation would be excessively verbose.

I've never ran into the problem of feeling a module was poorly documented. The especially complex modules usually have more extensive documentation on their website. I'd say there are cases that are terrible or useful documentation for sure, but in general most modules are very good about it from my experience.
One Click App Login: The Magic of Continuity in iOS8
I wish Coca Cola would make a acid free version of coke. The Phosphoric Acid adds a slight tang to the drink, but in exchange absolutely destroys your teeth over years of consumption.

For regular drinkers like myself I'd happily pay a small premium to buy the "acid free" version of the drink. The sugar still does damage but with both the acid AND sugar it is like a double whammy of "badness" (acid which destroys your teeth's natural protective coating, and sugar to feed the bacteria which actually eat away at your teeth).

No amount of brushing can really undo the amount of damage acidic soda does to your teeth, trust me I know! Even with prescription toothpaste with fluoride 5x times stronger than normal (5000 ppm toothpaste Vs. 1100 ppm) you're only slowing down the progression.
SCM tends to be an abbreviation for "whatever comes after flash, even though we don't know what that will be".
So I should try all the one star places in case they're actually pretty good? Seems to me I'd be better off sticking to highly recommended places, if the false positive rate is small enough. The false negative rate is obviously not great but it's far less of a concern.
The Practicality of J2ME Applications
I think the only ultimately sustainable solution is not to "set aside" any percentage of the planet for wildlife, but to develop ways of living that are not based on a differentiation between spaces of civilization and spaces of wilderness. Our species is naturally a node in a complex set of ecological systems, and instead of trying to detach ourselves from that system we should find a way to achieve our goals while living within it.
You cant really do that in ES6.You'd have to use a co-routine framework (and a "thunkifier") and a generator that would yield some stuff.

something like

co(function *(){
for(i in uids){
users[i] = yield thunkify(load_users)(uids[i]);
}
});

While generators are useful, they dont make async code look like sync code.
Personally I wouldn't like to have an Assembler re-arrange my code, specially since the issues you mention can even change between firmware revisions.

On the x86, starting with the 486 and Pentium it wasn't possible any longer to fit all variations on the head.

At least I can't.

The porting I mentioned above was to make a compiler depend only on binutils.

Other than that, my last 100% Assembly application was around 1995.
There's already at least one startup building a flash controller intended to enable a DAWN-like architecture using TLC (triple-level-cell) flash, NxGnData http://www.nxgndata.com/ - more details on my blog at http://blog.dshr.org/2014/08/is-this-dawn-of-dawn.html

Full disclosure - I am a co-author of the DAWN paper. The key point of the DAWN paper is the same as the FAWN paper, that conventional architectures with large amounts of storage paired with powerful CPUs can be out-performed on many axes by large numbers of small nodes each with a small amount of both storage and computation. Flash is the available memory to do this with now, it will be replaced eventually by better solid-state memories (e.g. Phase-Change Memory) but the architecture will remain. See also Seamicro http://www.seamicro.com/ for a current example in the FAWN-like space.
you knew how to survive a civilization destroying world war tho
I'd agree for "shell", "terminal", "console", something like that. But to me, the distinction is whether or not it has a text interface. That is, I interact via text, and it responds in kind.

What about a GUI program that uses text to control it? Many GUI programs do have command-line components in them (editors, ides). (not suggesting that makes them command line programs per se, but that the idea of "command-line"-ness transcends X)
our local indie cinema produces its own cola using this recipe, it's very good, so good that they actually produce and sell it in bulk.

http://www.cube-cola.org/
> It's not about 'offending' people, it's about consistently and invisibly leaving people out.

The trouble is, this isn't something you can solve on an individual level as someone developing a single game - you have to leave some people out, there's simply not space - and yet, as the article alludes to, there's this pressure to meet everyone's expectations around inclusion.

(Even when the people being included don't actually exist. There was this big, screwed up gaming media hoo-hah a while ago about how a game and its developers were racist because they hadn't include any black people. It was set in a time and a region when they didn't exist - and from what I recall, the developers actually did the research on this, they didn't just assume everyone was white in their setting.)
The bugs and feature request queue got much better recently. In the past it was just a long and disorganized comment thread. https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues
Downvoters care to explain any disagreement with what I said or how I said it?
Overcome the Need for Instant Gratification by Delaying Your Urges
From a recent Oxford Economics study sponsored by SAP/SuccessFactors:

"As the economy evolves to a state where nearly everything can be delivered as a service, companies are increasingly tapping external expertise and resources they need — and on an as-needed basis — to fill skills and resource gaps and to accommodate rapidly changing business and customer demands. That means more temporary staff, more consultants and contract workers, and even “crowd-sourced” projects. In fact, of those companies surveyed as part of Workforce 2020, 83 percent of executives say they will be increasing the use of contingent, intermittent or consultant employees. " (Source, Workforce 2020 study, Oxford Economics, SAP)(http://www.successfactors.com/en_us/lp/workforce-2020-insigh... - need to register to download)

I laughed when I first heard the term "contingent labor". We all know that companies like Uber, and a whole host of companies that rely on contractor drivers/deliverydrivers will be the first to buy self-driving cars. That Uber would tout their job-creating function is pretty low. They would love to cut out the drivers and run 24/7. The sad part is, engineers could probably figure out optimizing algorithms that would make the service better if it didn't have human drivers, and maybe even cheaper.

I haven't reached the point yet where I give up on these kind of services, but its close. I feel badly that we aren't coming up with jobs as fast as we are coming up with ways to get rid of them.
I'm not so sure. Several of the most popular game platforms (Xbox, PlayStation, iOS) are effectively closed, with gatekeepers who decide which games are allowed. And those gatekeepers don't allow certain types of games on those platforms. Of course it's still possible to create whatever games you want on the remaining free platforms, but removing some of the most popular and lucrative options could make it economically challenging.
IcedCoffeeScript – maxtaco/coffee-script
Logged in after many months just to downvote you, then realized I can not :(
Please accept this sincere comment as a dovnvote!
SUPERVERSE game begins [video]
They should just go back to Flash. It spins up the CPU, too, but at least it then doesn't stutter..
i think the presentation (lay out and semi interactiin) of the article is very well done! running smooth on 1920 * 1200

leaving for bergen myself in a couple of hours: can't wait
"The top of the can is then added. This is carefully engineered: it is made from aluminum, but it has to be thicker and stronger to withstand the pressure of the carbon dioxide gas, and so it uses an alloy with more magnesium than the rest of the can"

Yes, but the pressure is the same on all parts of the can. Ok, almost the same, still.

Maybe because of the parts that have been cut to make it easy to open?
Thank you for posting to hacker news :)
You miss my point 100%. I know ASM code is technically superior.

However, the advances in tech have outpaced the advantages of ASM. Yes your code is 10x more efficient than mine, but I can throw 1000x as much processing power at this via cloud & a scripting languages.

Yes you've seen more "compiler-generated code" than I have but realistically...who is going to win this p!ssing contest? You writing ASM code or me scaling a scripting language across clouds? I bet I can deploy cloud processing power faster than you can

MOV AX,CS

MOV DS,AX

Also - I'm not in the cloud game - the above is a simple example/play the devils advocate.
did they settle for implicit generators ? if so that's great!
Ask HN: How do tech folks deal with support guys
Is it just me or do you, hacker news folks, also find Apple Store guys mansplaining things too often? How to get them fix exactly the thing you know is wrong?
This. I'm glad some people see this as a problem. We can only automate so far without providing credits, or redistributing wealth to some degree. If we decrease the number of jobs, and don't make any attempt to provide those "left out" of the economy with a reasonable income, we're going to systematically lower Aggregate Demand in our economy. There is no stimulus package that can effectively combat consistently falling Aggregate Demand.
H.261 decoder in OCaml, compiled to JavaScript
I didn't realize this was a valid method name
Thank you! Surely will add more tricks and options there :)
> Note that this particular routing leak resulted in no new routes and therefore didn’t increase the size of the global routing table.

Which, if you worry about these things, is on your mind nowadays.
I think the demand for taxi services has gone up since Uber entered the marketplace. Uber made it easier to call a cab and see when the cab would show up. Since the product was easier and better, more people wanted to use it.

I don't have any hard data to support my claim. I can provide some anecdata about waiting for a Yellow Cab in SF in the mid 2000s. Sometimes they would arrive and other times they wouldn't.
Deeply nested closures are harder to inline and optimize. If you want fast code then the easiest way to accomplish that is with explicitly spelling out everything in the prototype instead of generating closures.
I'm no chemist, but couldn't you just add a base to neutralize the phosphoric acid (e.g. calcium carbonate)?
No, for being a pedant. An incorrect one, at that.
Behat Documentation – Behat 3.0.12 documentation
I get really riled up when people are simultaneously cheering the low interest rate environment that we have and lamenting the decline of employment here in the US.

At 1% interest a $1mm robot costs about $4.5k/mo on a 20 year note. At 6% it's $7k and at 10% it's nearly $10k.

When interest costs are so negligible it's very hard to justify hiring people and having to deal with all the regulations regarding employment. That might be another $500/mo or more and then there are benefits on top of that.

I'm not necessarily anti-regulation but I think a better statement would be pro-simplification. Don't eliminate protections for workers but do make it easy to comply by systematically refactoring the laws to get say 90% of the desired effect with substantially less words, statutes and loopholes.

Further, get the interest rate up to something approaching reasonable. Yeah housing prices will go down and people will be under-water in houses but at least the labor market can get reasonable again. Better that people have to declare bankruptcy but have jobs to continue to live and eat than to have a great priced house and no jobs to speak of.

The idea that the Fed is doing a great job of managing the economy should start to look more and more like a joke if you pay attention.
>Health insurance should be taxed as income or should be deductible on personal income taxes.

What about other startup benefits? Laundry, parking,air hockey tables, free food etc? Isn't the whole point of these benefits to increase effective salaries without increasing taxable wages? I've heard talk of looking at total employee compensation from an HR perspective, but the government doesn't see those as earnings.
I read the whole comment. It is still an off topic plug.
Think of all of the jobs the making of Coke provides. Oh here we go......lol
At least in the U.S., you take them to a Tony Robbins seminar [1] or bring in someone to set it up on the lawn outside [2].

[1] http://www.tonyrobbins.com/events/unleash-the-power-within/

[2] http://firepowerseminars.com/fire-walk/
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Super G Funding, led by Founder and CEO Darrin Ginsberg, is the market leader in lending to merchant services Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs) with over 450 loans successfully made since 2008. Super G will utilize the new capital to expand its lending activities to include insurance brokerages, ATM providers and Software as a Service (SaaS) providers with additional verticals to follow. “For six years we have met the growth capital needs of merchant services agents,” said Darrin Ginsberg. “In preparation for our additional funding and expansion we’ve added talented executives from adjacent, residual based industries. Super G Funding now has the ability to lend up to $5 million per client and in longer term structures.”

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My Grandfather used to use it to take the rust off his car.
> [Stepan employee] O'Brien runs a network of agents in Peru and Bolivia who get coca leaves from some of the same farms that supply the Colombian drug cartels. When a shipment arrives in the U.S., a high-security convoy of trucks ferries the leaves from the docks of Manhattan to Maywood, where it is greeted by a rifle-toting guard. After production, armored cars leave the building loaded with barrels of high-quality cocaine.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=348&dat=19941106&id=62...
Adventure Tourism
Maybe l33tbro meant "disconcerting"?
Related articles:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3633389

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221586
No language can encode exactly how we think. We aren't going to get there until we have hard machine intelligence (then we are programming anymore). But we definitely think with objects, and OOP languages are simply trying to exploit that (we can definitely debate about how well!).

OO thinking has no problem with stateful reasoning, your father can be currently dead and previously alive.
Not really. You can speak of moral only if you are one of these 5 people who made a "choice". And, in fact, only if you are talking to people, that support your choice. In other case your speaking of moral is nothing more than saying "I'm right because I think I'm right" which isn't really an argument.

So, to be able to think about the world more clearly the "neutral position" is invented. There's no moral, no good or bad, there's just stuff that happens, causes and effects. And from that point of view primate, making nuclear weapons and causing extinction of the species is no different from some bacteria, who filled atmosphere with metane.

But that, again, has nothing to do with what actual author of this thread was saying. So I'm saying it only to point out that your appeal to morality is invalid. And if you'd ask me, I don't want elephants to extinct, but that doesn't make neutral arguments bad. It might be my position that goes against neutral one, but speaking is not really of much value in that case.
>The definition of "fast enough" varies.

You list one specific example where ASM provided a tangible speed benefit in a research oriented processing heavy env.. Indeed. Now take a good look at my original comment:

>>Sure I can understand some in-line ASM for hardcore speed-critical code
Then there's my little dog Tojo. I keep telling him "we're not in Canton anymore".
But the cop emoji should be 'and' not 'or'! It's a guard, after all.
Climate Science Is Not Settled
Try drinking water and eating fruit when you feel the urge to have a soft drink. Maybe you do already. It worked really well for me.
The replier in question was likely talking about the implementation of capitalism in the United States, with it's associated labor laws, taxes, regulations, etc. Compared to, say, China where it's a more natural extension of global trade creating a capitalist system. Or many European countries with better maternity leave.

Some forms of trade will always exist, but there's a fine line between trade, monetary systems, free markets, mercantile capitalism and modern (AKA industrial) capitalism. Which too many people seem to confuse as one.

And to answer your original question, of course capitalism isn't sexist, it's a broad economic system. However a capitalist system can suffer from sexist tendencies when the rules (laws, regulations, culture, society, etc.) governing it push it that way, the same any economic system can.