skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have suspected for some time that, at the present rate of churn, game dev is increasingly moving to a movie-like model, where a given crew assembles for one product, then scatters when it's over.

It's certainly the way I'd expect things to go if I were applying at most studios these days.
You could have played nethack.
Hi all,

Thanks for looking at the RiQ and for the great comments. I'd like to point out three things since people are looking at it:

1) Regarding the price, as the CEO of PCS Edventures, I'd love to be able to offer it for much less - we do a lot of work in developing countries and we're working on versions that would be less expensive. Unfortunately, this little guy has high quality fischertechnik components, rechargeable lipo, built in shields for 2AMP DC motors, servos, etc. as well as custom designed injection molded parts such as the case, swivels, and system adapters. In addition to just the "stuff" the creation of something like this involves a hardware engineering team, a software company specializing in Unity game development, and an education team that works on the builds and projects and curriculum. Sheesh that's a lot of expensive stuff and people!

2)The Open physical platform approach of RiQ is something we are very excited about. The specialized case has the ability to connect to fischertechnik, LEGO, K'Nex, and other systems. There is even an R/C adapter that allows you bolt it onto your favorite RC vehicle. We wanted to create something that educators or home users could integrate with just about anything.

3) Same philosophy with the Arduino compatible nature of the board - you can program it with the UI we have developed or with the Arduino IDE - that's the path we want students to take so they can learn quickly with our system but move on to more advanced work.

Hope you don't mind the sales pitch, I am familiar with all the items listed in the last post - lots of choices out there. We want ours to stand out so let me know what else you think it needs. We're adding on new sensor packs and capabilities as quickly as possible.

Best wishes,

Robert Grover
CEO
PCS Edventures, Inc.
I don't know much about ATS, but you've given me reason to investigate. Thank you!
They even translated it to German, I think. Got me started.
It is cool~!
A note that the openness to new thought pathways doesn't end when the psychedelics' effects do. The "doors of perception" stay open -- This is implicit in what you and others have said. Making it more explicit here for those with less-wide experience as this differs from how other narcotics behave.
I'd like to congratulate all the students for all of their hard work. 6.858 always produces new, original results, and this year is no different.
You accurately describe the many subtleties in audio engineering and pitch perception, but you omit the conclusion that, at least for pathological cases, there is no objective "note in question." Two reasonable people, both musically educated, can have different interpretations of a note, especially in the context of a particular chord or musical arrangement.
Except for the damage caused by steroid use.
And people are working to bring the chestnut back via genetic engineering: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/geneti...

The problem with extinction is that you are throwing away a working code base that took 3 billion years to write. Every organism that goes extinct before we sequence its genome is an absolute tragedy.
Its hard for me to wrap my mind around this. Are you a person is willing to risk losing their intellect, health, usefulness to society and even their life but is afraid of the legal repercussions of that decision?

That doesn't make sense to me.
From the HN Guidelines page:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.[1]

Terrorists taking hostages aren't an interesting new phenomenon.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Are there any opiate based research chemicals? It seems like I mostly see psychedelics, or an occasional amphetamine or benzo-like chemical.
It's a little disappointing to see so many articles like this voted to the front page recently. These articles aren't exactly pseudoscience per se (and indeed they are normally the work of someone at MIT, Stanford, Harvard, etc.), but at the same time they're still kind of outlandish. The articles are all along the lines of "What if the universe is [random idea here]?" and then some kind of weird computer simulation or physical analogue (water drop experiment) is done that supposedly backs the idea up in a way that typically doesn't convince me very well.

For instance, I feel like I could ask "What if the universe is really a network of time bundles?" and then I make up a definition of "time bundle", generate a bunch of fractals, and then loosely say "hey, that looks like a galaxy". It just isn't very good science to me. It reminds me of that history channel show "Ancient Aliens" where they keep asking "What if?" Yeah, so maybe one of those 8,000 theories is actually true, but it's just not all that satisfying.

I prefer traditional science articles: observation or hypothesis, followed by direct experiment, followed by conclusion. This type of science makes up 99% of research today (read any scientific journal), and in my opinion is much more intellectually interesting. It's like everybody in the media focuses on the one article on beer carbonation in Physical Review Letters and ignores the other stuff. Why don't I see many articles on HN about cellular networks, or fuel cell polymers, or organic photovoltaics? These topics are exciting too.
Thanks. Here's GitHub link for others interested like me: https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-spec
The 9p protocol does not do well with high latency links. I advise against using a VPS for this purpose.
It's a bit disappointing that you see it is OK through an understanding of the system.

In a time of emergency, its just not right.

Market pricing can be justifiable but not when the person may have no choice. It is taking advantage of people.
The point is that once storage is all-flash, people outside the storage industry have little incentive to think about differences in storage speed. What will matter broadly is:

1) Code that scales well over a cluster.
2) Code that distinguishes between RAM and storage well.
3) Code that distinguishes between cache and RAM well (for really computationally intensive stuff).
Bill Gates can jump over chairs. That was useful in his meetings with Ballmer.
they're all humans -- female homo sapiens are easy would be the bumper sticker....
Quick nice reaction from Uber, the PR was really starting to turn against them with surge pricing making it cost 100 AUS to get the hell out of dodge

BTW,seeing the situation unfold is Sydney is insane. Been at that café and have friends working a block away
Apparently, their surge pricing, as reported earlier, was generating too much bad PR for them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8750431
I remember reading this before and thinking, if this is so obvious how come life doesn't exist on any other planets we know of?
You're assuming

A. You will always have internet access.

B. You will always have unlimited internet access.

C. You will always have very fast internet access.

D. Dropbox will always be online when you are.

I stopped using Dropbox 3 years ago for these and other reasons. Backup to a local external USB disk, and backup to an offsite file-server that you also control. You only need incremental backups, so your throughput is low.
This was the most depressing quote for me:

>It is unlikely that launching a space vehicle will ever be as routine an undertaking as commercial air travel—certainly not in the lifetime of anybody who reads this.
Follow-up: Looks like JSON Schema is emerging as the standard, in part thanks to Swagger and Google adopting it for their APIs. References to Amazon and Heroku doing so as well (not exhaustive list, just what I've found while searching).

Helpful links:
https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-spec/blob/master/vers...

Powerful array of tools to enable wrappers for Go, Scala, Flash, Java, Objc, PHP, Python, Python3, Ruby, Node, and more.
https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen
Dealing with Highway Congestion
I thought Python 3 was fully supported by boto?
To add one more data point, I usually set my mouse sensitivity to maximum (people usually complain about how sensitive my mouse is when they borrow my computer), and while 30fps is fine for everything else, it's unbearable to me when mousing.

I just did a test: Over 5 seconds I moved my mouse to the top of my monitor and back down 15 times, which works out to 12000 pixels per second, or 396 pixels per frame - which seems about right for how far the mouse seems to jump per frame. For comparison, Chrome's Close Tab button is 15x15 pixels, and HN's upvote button is 8x7 pixels. Framerate really is the limiting factor for how long it takes me to move my mouse onto the kinds of click targets common in computers.

Another test: it takes around 6 seconds to close 7 tabs with a mouse in Chrome in 30fps, and 4 seconds to close the tabs in Chrome in 60fps.
Interesting reading. Just today I was doing an internet research on a similar topic.

I want to take a piece of Salsa music and extract a pattern each of the instruments make. To figure out whether it is 2/3 or 3/2 (for clave). Which patterns the bongo plays. Where is the '1' (phrase start). And - of course - I want this all happen auto-magically.

It sounds like there must be a solution for it, but I did not find the actual ready answer for it. And my own music skills are below useful.
That's not really true. Many people and our nation became very rich by conquering the continent. What's the upside on the moon?
I would love to only have to spend one hour at the airport. From my experience, that's minimum for a domestic flight. International and you're talking 2+ hours.

(Unless we're talking about Europe; in that case 15 minutes should usually suffice^; at least last time I was there, a few years back. It was great.)

^ Although I'd give it 45 to be safe.
How is this bad for anything except Uber's public image? If prices remained the same, cars would be unavailable. If you want that outcome, then simply don't order a ride. There's absolutely nothing wrong with surge pricing when there's an actual spike in demand - the alternative would have been not getting a ride at all which you can still do with surge pricing. This problem is exactly what happens with traditional taxis - you simply can't get where you want to not matter how important it is. This was meant to be one of Uber's strengths - greater availability. Now that gave us a little, we expect charity from them too?
From Pretty Good Chat:

"We consider the case of the private key being stolen as very unlikely. The users themselves are
not able to access it outside the app, and no other adversary will be able to either"
I'd really like Julia to become the winner of that race.

I've used everything but Octave (sorry Stallman :[) and coming from a CS background, no other language/platform made me feel more at home than Julia.
Possibly because we don't actually know very much about other planets.
People are acting like there's a hurricane. Trains still run. Why are people entitled to a black car?
The Pale Moon Project (Browser)
I doubt it. If your access patterns follow a power law distribution, why should you pay more for less space, if the performance boost gained by doing so (i.e. putting the "long tail" onto fast storage) is negligible? Moreover, the need for storage space certainly isn't decreasing, and the storage/cost ratios for disk and tape certainly haven't stopped increasing. If your access patterns follow a power law distribution, a multi-tiered storage system lets you find the optimal cost/performance trade-off.
lol at your downvotes.

just go to google.com on any browser other than chrome and you see a huge banner asking to install google chrome and experience a faster web or something.

then came back here and tell me how that is not advertising.
I wasn't thinking anything this ambitious. We can keep people alive in the crushing depths of the oceans for weeks/months/years at a time; the real limits there seem to be economic. We could do the same thing for tens or hundreds of people on Mars if we really wanted to. Living indoors/underground most of the time, dependent upon certain things being supplied from Earth (but otherwise some kind of closed cycle or local production for anything bulky), etc.
If everybody stopped trying to do something the first time they failed, no one would do anything or learn anything. Heck, science is all about systematically and methodically failing - that's what the null hypothesis is all about!

I almost wrote that we probably won't have permanent outposts in space within any of our lifetimes, but that isn't strictly true, is it, what with Skylab, Mir, and ISS? So let me posit that we will probably never see self-sustaining space habitats (whether in orbit around Earth or on some other body in the Solar System) within our lifetimes, nor within our children's lifetimes. That doesn't mean it isn't a worthy (or feasible) goal. Mankind has wondered about traveling to the moon for hundreds of years (if not thousands), and only recently has it become possible. Living somewhere other than Earth isn't really all that different, insofar that it is an engineering problem and not a scientific one, and unless some apocalyptic disaster strikes us, we have nothing but time in which to figure it out.
The discovery of denisovans is really interesting. Now I'm starting to imagine ancient societies were like the classic Planet of the Apes movies, where sub species of different humanoids lived together and societies developed political hierarchies/roles based on those sub species, i.e. Orangutans functioned as politicians/state-mens, Gorillas worked in the military, and Chimpanzee were scientist (I think that's how the movies went -- I haven't watched them in awhile).

I wonder which sub species for human were responsible for blonde hair and green/blue eyes -- or maybe it's a sub species yet to be discovered. I bet in order to make that call you'd need a near perfect genome -- which is probably vary hard to come by.

(My Thoughts)
There is a similar Perl implementation that we use at my company (Semantics3), which uses auto generated code from the botocore - https://github.com/pplu/aws-sdk-perl
"Doesn't justify what the hackers did, but collectively sticking our heads in the sand about the contents of the hack, simply because we disagree with the way it was attained, is idealistic fantasy with no basis in reality."

Which is why hackers keep doing it. I'm glad I'm tech savvy. It's pretty easy to destroy a company or a person you don't like..Just knock out their wireless hotspot, collect private information, release anonymously, and repeat.

Don't complain when cameras are installed everywhere and more of our privacy is taken away. You already just admit that it doesn't seem to matter to you.

"None of this information leaked would stand up in court, as it should be, because it was attained by illegal means."

This doesn't matter anymore. People are tried and found guilty by social justice warriors and other social networking mobs. Hastag propaganda has become the norm.

I thought there were at least some smart people left in the US, but now it really makes me wonder. I can sway public opinion (for political or monetary gain) pretty easily through almost all Social networks.
Thanks. I tried following this guide:

http://blog.m104.us/post/34434621914/up-and-running-with-pla...

But I get a bunch of lib9.h errors:

1 error generated.

rregsub.c:1:10: fatal error: 'lib9.h' file not found

#include <lib9.h>
I've heard -- and am biased to believe -- there are some practical bases for kosher laws. Some people got trichinosis from mishandled pork, e.g., and prohibition is simpler than quality assurance; Other, non-Hebrew cultures cooked lambs in their mothers' milk as a "sacrament;" not doing so was a practical cultural differentiator.
> that they are shipping shadow dom in conjunction with Mozilla

With my Mozilla developer hat on, that happens not to be the case. Which you would have known had you either read the entire linked-to thread, or even just read the mail that was linked to, which points that out explicitly in the "notwithstanding your apparently inaccurate statement about Mozilla" bit.

> That was literally the next statement where you cut your quote.

It was also a misrepresentation of what's actually going on. Quite common out of Google these days, unfortunately; we've had to call them on it publicly a number of times. Not that this is stopping them from continuing to claim that others are OK with something they're doing when that happens to not be true.

> but all the talking and consensus building was done

The only thing discussed at the CSS working group f2f was the cat and hat combinators, not the entire shadow DOM spec. And even for those, serious issues were raised later by people who were not present at the f2f.

For shadow DOM as a whole, there is no consensus at all. Mozilla is not really on board with the spec in its current form (and we've said so repeatedly and publicly, though we do at least have a plan for how to get the spec to something that we'll be OK shipping... which won't match what Google is shipping). Apple is very definitely not on board at all with the spec in its current form, and Google is not even trying to get them on board. Microsoft has basically said nothing apart from having concerns.

In addition to that, the spec doesn't match Google's implementation at all, in all sorts of ways that are obvious if you actually stop to read what the spec says.

Basically, Google implemented and shipped whatever they felt like and made a sort of attempt at specifying something or other which totally doesn't match what they shipped. And other UA vendors at best (Mozilla) plan to ship something somewhat different from what Google has shipped and at worst (Apple) think the whole thing needs to go back to the drawing board because it's just broken by design.

If you don't think that's unilaterally shipping before standardization, I'm not sure what you think it is, exactly.
Of course, that could certainly be completely incorrect. It seems to me, from casual observation, that the rate of rocket launches is increasing very quickly. We seem to be getting better at it.
Agree, with caveats: in the context of vocal tuning there's often a desired note that represents the melody. And objectively there's often a note that a musician intended to play.

Even if the instrument and signal path cooperate to capture this intent (the inharmonicity of the string itself; nonlinearities of the microphone and amplifiers; resonances in the instrument soundboards and rooms themselves) you're already chasing ghosts!

Then add in a mixing engineer boosting and reducing frequencies, a tape machine varying in speed ever so slightly, and a mastering compression step throwing away amplitude detail -- and you've really got to wonder what the hell someone thought they were doing by running FFTs on a 50 year old analog mix and pretending they've got insight into the original solo instruments.
Mistakes Developers Make When Using Python for Big Data Analytics
It's your personal choice to play roulette with drugs. They aren't required to live and the ones you are talking about have almost no health benefits (we aren't talking about weed here). Yet, you someone blame the government for forcing a person to make this choice. Complete and utter bullshit.

The government is the organisation that chooses to regulate the behaviour of it's citizens. Why should the citizen need to make a case for need? Shouldn't it be the other way round?
This article is not exactly like the others on the front page. Quanta magazine is in general extremely good science reporting. (It's an editorially independent branch of the Simons Foundation.)

The title is sensationalized, but I found the rest of the article to be an honest description of (what I understand of) England's paper. I particularly liked the way that the article discussed the (technical) work that led up to England's.

Is there something about this article that you really didn't like?
You need good theory so that you can ask the right questions. We can spend billions of dollars asking the wrong questions.
this gets brought up again and again with no agreement and the only advice I know how to give you is that when working in any language that has mathematics as its primary focus (mathematica, matlab, Julia, R), you use 1-index, and other languages you use 0-index.
As ever I find myself inspired by Kerbal Space Program. I hate flying my kerbals anywhere, because irrationally I don't want them to die horrible flaming explosive deaths due to some error or miscalculation on my part. Instead I nearly always send probes - it's definitely cheaper, and it's totally guilt-free in the face of my almost-certain screw-ups.

That said, there's something deeply satisfying about flying my little green men somewhere, landing, and having a good walkabout. It isn't at all rational. I think real life is the same. There are plenty of places on Earth inimical to human life---Everest's death zone springs immediately to mind---and yet people travel to these places purely out of a sense of adventure. So too with space. "Because it's there" is a damn fine reason to go to the stars.
same with `npm home <pkg name>`
Java is the absolute priority in Amazon, while strangely, though Python is widely being loved and accepted, is absent in the official support list.
Six million carats of diamonds
I'm on mobile, so can't easily find a link. But its basically the term landen used to describe using indentation to delimit block structure. There is a wiki page on it.
Distributing third party libraries in Mesos
I'm starting to think winter is the season of plan9, I remember a whole lot of plan9 links last winter.
If a man and woman are both at high altitude, and the man is chasing the girl, and the man has the gene for h-a tolerance and she doesn't - he can catch her ...
And that makes sense, you can just return the car and get a new one. And lease contracts fees reflect this. If you have a fixed term lease, then returning a car ahead of time costs you, so you opt to repair it, and probably the leasing company wants it repaired at a brand licensed garage, so higher prices on that means you're likely to get a proper insurance, but you get the lease for cheaper.
That seems like an absolute crazy mission, the kind you'd see in a hollywood movie.

As long as we're imagining, was there maybe an option C, an EVA from the Columbia crew to just replace some of those tiles? Was that even possible?
The original surge pricing was the latest piece of evidence that there's probably no adult human making the calls at the top. The rightful horror expressed in the initial media coverage would have been obvious to almost any actual adult participating in normal human society on a day-to-day basis.
We got this very "problem" in Hy. AST allows for several characters as Names, where python does not.

A great example is with gensym, here we will make an ast.Name node with a prefix ":", if you run astor over this, you produce AST containing that very character. What happens if you try run this Python code? Syntax error. There is also a few other cases i can't think off right now.
Huh? http://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-python/
OneRNG – an open source entropy generator
True. But being able to use something like actors or functional constructs, immutable data structures etc from within rails for example, could be neat. If it's baked into the language this way it enforces those ideas better. Using elixir could be great but it's a much bigger jump from the ruby ecosystem.