skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Utopia? Did you read the last sentence of my comment? I think a self-driving car future is a future with disempowered individuals in a neo-feudal transportation world. It sounds terrible to me, but I think it's likely to happen (at least in the US). There are practical and economic advantages in that future and some large existing economic players who can profit from it.

I'd tend agree with your comment in the short term. Moving my daughter's child safety car seat would be a pain, for sure. Longer-term I would expect to see modular standards emerge for child safety car seats. You lock your child's seat into the standardized base that's hiding under a seat cushion in the back of the car. There are already stroller / pram systems that incorporate the child safety car seat, so I could expect that market to boom, too.

Moving things besides yourself is something a lot of people in urban areas already do with public transit. With a private autocar service it's more likely that you'd get more space than on a subway or bus, so I'd think it would be even easier to move more than just yourself. I would expect a rental option to let you keep the car with you, as opposed to it returning to the fleet when you reach your destination.
This worked, so I imagine its being silently developed

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/02/07/mozilla-starts-to-push-read...
> EFF-card-carrying subset of the tech community, people who are most able and least ethically inhibited from piracy anyway.

Good rhetoric. They are evil because they believe in ethics. Go for it dude, who's holding you!
Firefox doesn't do that for you?
This hits so close to home for me personally. I recently got some feedback that seemed very similar (it seemed much more useful and constructive than what boz got) and I recently had a similar realization about my friends putting up with me.

Thanks for writing and publishing this. It's very good.
Do the right thing and make it the default.
> You tell me, you brought it up!

I talked about GNU Emacs.

> Emacs is for more than Lisp development, though.

Not Emacs, GNU Emacs. That's what I wrote.

> we haven't seen major, broad-based wins for Common Lisp, on the scale that we have for other languages.

Common Lisp tends to be used in very specialized areas. It's a complex language.

Though sometimes it has been used where you don't see it, but you may be affected. American Express runs a Lisp based system checking credit card transactions. Should be running for two decades or longer. Amazon was using Lisp to compute some stuff on their shopping pages. CIA and NSA use it to spy on us. Lots of aircrafts (Airbus & Boeing) and cars (Jaguar, Ford, ...) were designed with Lisp-based CAD systems. NASA uses it for checking software correctness. Chip makers like AMD have used it to check processor designs for correct operations. There are many of those applications. Google's flight search engine has its core written in Lisp. Dwave wrote the software for their quantum processor in Lisp. There is a broadband internet of satellite company running Lisp on their antennas. Parts of the precursor software of Apple's Siri were written in Lisp. That's the stuff what it was originally was designed for...
I would like to say I'm trying to help a close friend who seriously lacks math skills. He knows your everyday arithmetic but no algebra whatsoever. I understand algebra but haven't done anything calc related. He said he wants to be able to learn calculus (I guess whats presented in a typical first year of calc in college). He has a lot of time on his hands and he wants to dedicate that to studying, about 12 hrs (6hrs in the morning, 6 in the afternoon). He's a junior in HS.
On the smart phone, you don't see the comments for an article but the Tablet version gives you the comments. I can't say if the comments are worth the 33% extra cost but I typically end up reading the web version because I find the comments on the article usually interesting. I ended up going for the Web + Smartphone version because I like reading NYTimes and this was the cheapest I could afford. I've also found quite a few people in this same position.
Yep, sometimes we race with GPS to see how fast we can go.

80 km/h on a snowboard is fast.
Good question. It's also fairly simple to answer. Players of freemium games fall into two categories:

People who have some emotional draw to it (maybe they like the art) and play it despite recognizing that the mobile freemium game industry is a giant social engineering experiment aimed at extracting money by exploiting weaknesses in the unaware human mentality.

People who don't recognize this, either by simply lacking awareness, or lacking enough experience to draw a comparison to non-exploitative games. Regardless of which it is, in both of these case, on average over the entire population, it is fair to assume that they will either not be attentive enough to appreciate details in the art, or won't even have enough knowledge to draw a useful comparison to other kinds of art.
No matter how cynical Rumsfeld quote is, the unknown unknowns seem related to the eureka moments most of us love to have.
Now available across all major app stores.
Surprisingly, the kindest manager I had (and still have) at the same time wears his ability to bring fear to a room in an impressively efficient way. I have never experienced a room transitioning from theoretical daydreaming to practical results so fast, just because someone enters it. Amazing skill if you use it appropriately and if it emanates from knowledge rather than being mean.
Other networks learn - this network evolved.

By breeding the winners of many self-play tournaments a perfect player was born.

Training and learning show examples and mark the student against a correct answer - the student network tries to minimise their error.

Genetic Algorithms are a type of Reinforcement Learning, i.e. learning by trial and error.

The agent can direct it's own learning and explore.

Useful for training robots and other embodied agents such as oppenents.
> I'm annoyed by some of the tactics and lengths that publishers go to to monetize content

> having readers circumvent that, as opposed to supporting that, is disheartening to many of us who are working on the inside to push change.

So what you're saying is that it's OK to circumvent the methods of monetization you don't support?

He doesn't like paywalls, so he circumvents them. You don't like ads, so you circumvent them. And then you say shame on you? This is absolutely the pot calling the kettle black.
I'd say he stuck to two standards: Old good. Japanese good.
CHIP Open Source $9 Computer gets 20,000 backers and 2,000% bugdet (over $1M)
Did the second manager fire you?

He doesn't sound so unkind letting an apathetic unmotivated lead keep his or her job. It doesn't seem like we're getting the whole story here. That second manager might have been an ass, but it seems like he got the job done.
I had no idea those existed, That certainly would solve the problem.
Perhaps so, but to say that seat belt laws are to protect the society from those who don't wear seat belts is equally unjustified.

Not to mention they can, and do, find all kinds of other ways to kill themselves, both accidentally and intentionally--and almost none of those are regulated in a similar fashion.
Seen it every time I look into Jython and stumble upon their docs. Still curious if anyone uses it.
That's kinda...uncalled for. Seems like you have personal issues with him? What does having a tattoo have to do with anything, or am I missing something?
I'm going to break ranks and say the 909 was the far more revolutionary work horse. The 808 has a very 80s hip-hop / electro sound which was limiting. OTOH, the 909 has a very generalized sound with a strong kick and snare that has supported the bulk of EDM for the last 20+ years.
Foreign workers are a great benefit to the economy. However, past a certain point, foreign (non-resident) ownership of real estate doesn't provide much benefit to the local economy and can easily push prices up to the point where housing is unaffordable for locals, due to the influx of foreign speculators. Chinese ownership in the Bay Area and Russian ownership in London are two current examples.
Why I Moved from NYC to SF After a Decade in Tech
> You could either have objects of the same type, but with virtual functions

If objects have the same type, which is statically known, there is no need for virtual functions because the compiler can resolve the specific method implementation at compile-time.

> or you could make a union of all applicable objects (thus guaranteed to be constant sized, at the size of the largest object) and store those in the array/vector, switching on a type enum

You can do this in both C++ and Rust easily, with equivalent efficiency in both. In Rust you would just use an enum type. This design is generally highly discouraged though, because it requires callers to be aware of all possible "derived classes".

My comments were only about the case where you are using true language-level polymorphism.
Can't imagine how author pulls out of his ass the notion that speed limits are less impinging on liberty than seat belts.

I also find it hard to believe author is not being disingenuous stating "repercussions of not wearing seat belts only affect the decision maker".

The last couple paragraphs are opinions stated as facts and very much want the reader to agree with them I can't help but feel the whole article/data was just a means for author to push his opinion.
I empathize with you. But be careful, the trouble is that those people fill their time at work with political games. They are dangerous to someone who wants to be head down doing great work.
This is why I am surprised it is to hear about Jython, even here, where the GIL is thrown as a topic routinely any article with serious use of Python comes up.
> at the expense of the majority?

My point is that this is just a matter of perspective. Windows UX was never a paragon of design clarity so adding sparsity to accommodate for touch is nothing new in the world of Windows which has seen other transgressions far worse. Windows is still influenced by choices made in DOS age, in some places it still drags graphics from 9x age, the choice of ribbons, menus and sidebars seems random and seemingly non-systematic. If elements are farther apart then this is nothing new for Windows, what is new is that they are going against the view established by Apple which dictates that desktop and mobile OSes should be different for some undeclared a priori reason.

Apple likely did it because they didn't want to obliterate their Mac line with its higher margins and Google concurred because it promoted their emergent Android instead of giving credibility to the established hegemon from Microsoft.

> if the mobile didn't have the minority share of the install base.

I'm of the opinion that choices should be made based on their intrinsic value, not something as arbitrary as the current market share. You can reuse exact same SoC to do both environments so why arbitrarily force one into media-consumption role with choices made in OS.

> it doesn't work in both environments.

This smells of echo-chamber of Vista days. People seem to have bought to the tick-tock theory, not realizing that it is likely something pundits with blogs created to sell them ads.

Windows 8 worked very well to me - it never gave me as much gief as did my old iPad with its arbitrary restrictions. Use Dropbox or iTunes for file transfer - are you fracking kidding me?? I can install everything on Windows. I can run Eclipse. I can hook external monitor and it works. All for the price of learning a few new metaphors which would come to Windows regardless because UI on Windows has always been changing.
Author's 'before' picture is me very often. I'm nearly ego-less in pursuit of the truth--more than ready to be shown wrong myself--but that doesn't mean that coworkers and loved ones end up feeling good about the conversation.

I hope he will write a "how to" follow up, because I would like to change, but I don't see how to do it in a way that doesn't sound impossibly exhausting.

I'm hopeful that it actually is possible, though, because for 30+ years I had never been able to keep any space well-ordered for more than a few weeks, nor had any reason to think I ever would be able to. I read "the life changing magic of tidying up" and it turns out I can do it--I just needed to be taught how. This may not seem relevant, but it's been life-changing not so much to have a tidy office, but to learn that what I assumed was a fixed personal trait was changeable after all.
Fair enough. However, I'm tired of cleaning up after people who don't care about obvious security issues. Really, really tired.
Which is exactly my point: if we're resorting to external assets, there are infinitely more spritesheets available online for the low, low price of free, because making decent sprites is such a comparatively small effort that even artists themselves attach less value to the task.

(Which still isn't to devalue the effort that it takes to make good-looking sprites; I've tried, and damn do I suck at it.)
Thanks for the tip. Are there any portable technology that would work outdoors ?
The big thing that a lot of these articles overlook, is that seatbelts keep the driver in front of the steering wheel and potentially in better control of a car during an accident -- whereas without one, it is possible to be thrown to a different part of the car, and it keep going in a random direction (thereby affecting others).
Thanks, never tried right-clicking that before. There's also a checkbox in dev tools settings to "Disable cache while dev tools is open."
Kick ass job guys!
Yep, that post has lots of humblebrag in it.
Nope, it doesn't. Things can be inconsistent and/or false there is no inherent correlation.
If you received or find good ways to actually make these changes, please write about it.
A big thing about pixel art and it's issues today is that what he mentions as pixel art, isn't so.

I mean, he argues about the way the devices scale his art up and change aspect ratio etc.

But on the other hand, he compares a picture of Yoshi at the end to an algorithmically smoothed version.

However, Yoshi was never intended to look like the leftmost image. The thing is, pixels aren't square. In fact, when we played it on the SNES, it was rendered very differently, it was interlaced, scanlines were distinct, and each pixel was a bit of a blob.

Because of this, an image like Yoshi looked just fine, because we weren't looking at a blocky grid of squares. The brighter colored glowed around the darker colors, the darkness between the scanlines caused your brain to interpolate the lines. We got a nicer looking image.

When you blow it up to 500% on a crisp LCD panel it doesn't look the same. What used to be smooth lines are now stair steps. And just the same way that he complains about Auro being blurred or stretched, when you display pixel art designed for a CRT on an OLED display at 600% nearest neighbor scaling, it doesn't work.

I like the symbolic style of pixel art. But we don't have the same limitations. When people made great art for the NES, it's because that's what they had to work with. We have more to work with.

It's one thing to represent things in a symbolic, simplistic or minimalistic style. It's another thing to feign technological disadvantage.
So your proposal if to make Google say "hmm, I don't really think you searched for that, so the link is going to have missing content"? Otherwise how are they gonna differentiate between someone searching and finding the article "by accident" vs on purpose? Sounds like a crappy user experience.
If you assume otherwise, you get into all sorts of weird utilitarian edge-cases where your friends and family should be able to force you (or at least have a vote in) whether you're able to do things like eating candy or taking on a career in Fire & Rescue.

It's not that that value is incoherent or anything—it's actually not a bad idea in isolation—it's just that we seem to value self-determination strictly more.
The wealth moves from $100M in cash to $100M in ultralux NYC condo. Absent some event that diminishes the value of ultralux NYC condos, the only real sacrifice is in liquidity. It's harder to spend a condo if you need to.

When you can pay cash for everything, the budgetary math is more oriented around periodic cash flows. Taxes and insurance and depreciation become monthly accounting expenses that have to be paid from monthly incomes. The actual sale price of the place is almost irrelevant.

What if you had so much money that you have already bought everything you ever wanted? Keeping it all is now just a matter of keeping the monthly expenses below the monthly incomes.
The telephone had already been invented at that point, yeah? So the prediction was simply that telephones would become small and wireless. An accurate prediction, of course, but not a shocking one to venture.
Agreed, it can sometimes be exhausting. But I think being kind is (to be rather mercenary) very practical also: I've found it is much easier to get people to listen to and go along with opinions stated kindly (it is also exhausting to try to get through to people who've stopped being receptive because they're feeling attacked or shamed, or anticipating that feeling).

And it's definitely possible to disagree, even sharply, in a considerate manner - eg focus on the point of disagreement, not on the person disagreeing; avoid name-calling; point out that the issue you disagree with may be valid in other cases; etc.
Well, yes. You look at my comments and see I am interested in a recent post bemoaning how to build the simplest REST services possible in Java. So I know the name of the game.

I just want to see how this works if django-jython wokrs at all.
The law sometimes does apply only to the driver--I think that was labeled in an image in the article, in fact.

At the very least, it does not apply to riders in the back seat very often.
Why not both? In general, strive to follow the robustness principle: be liberal (forgiving) in what you accept, and conservative (delicate) in what you output.
I'm really glad that he worded that so well; it's really easy to disguise "being a jerk" as "just being right," and I often see it justified as such (at times by myself).

Being right and being kind aren't mutually exclusive.
I think reading, "How To Win Friends and Influence People " from Dale Carnegie helps.

Took me years to understand soft skills are as much or more important than technical skills.

(Fixed book's name)
I know that Windows 10 IoT core already has Chakra, but in terms of getting node working, I'd suspect there are a lot of binary modules in play... so I would think the question becomes, why not just get node proper (V8 and all) working, and signed?

And for that matter, how will this work in tandem with the number of existing IoT libraries already in use from npm.
> Mozilla's entire mission statement is contrary to Eich's stated beliefs

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/

Their mission statement is to create an open internet.

To suggest that the people that made him leave cared about a culture fit at a company the didn't work at is ludicrous.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8626931
Google actually encourages this and call it first click free.
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One more way for narcissists to annoy naturalists.
This is a great step. Things I'd like to see:

- Real obstacle avoidance so it can work in urban areas so people could do news / tour guide broadcasts like some people are doing on Periscope these days. Rather than holding your phone up in front of you (which gives you a pretty shaky video), you could just tell it to follow you while you talk to it

- A sliding viewfinder that stays on your "face side" so you could see exactly what is being shot at all times.

- The ability to stream the video to another device (like your phone attached to an external HDD) would make it so you could shoot longer form stuff - maybe even complete solo movies, like some of those Assassin's Creed-esque parkour videos.
Then absolutely. Understanding functions is the biggest mental obstacle to calculus, and as programmers we already do that.
The Hayek is using the Counterparty token system.
I agree, that he fails to acknowledge the issues with his own art. I agreed with him through most of the article, but when it came time for him to get to his stuff, the forced dithering was immediately off-putting, and is actually something that causes older games to feel dated to me.

Pixel-art is great, when it is crisp. Most of his examples are crisp and well animated, until you get to his. The characters are oddly proportioned, but I can deal with that, and at least they were pretty crisp, but the interface around them was horrible.
haha, I like that.

Yeah, there are a total of 140 weights/biases in the neural network. This stuff is not bleeding edge - just taking techniques popular in academia and industry many years ago to make a fun game mainly for my own educational purpose. Basically recently I saw a lot of work on AI's playing ATARI games and wanted to learn reinforcement learning techniques, and the best way to learn is to build a game!

I put up a description of this sketch here:

http://blog.otoro.net/2015/03/28/neural-slime-volleyball/

Basically, the agent's brain consists of 7 neurons (compared to 250k for an ant), which are connected to all the inputs. The inputs are the game states, like locations of agents and ball, and velocities. Each neuron is also connected to each other.

The first 3 neurons control the neuron's output (it's motor function), like whether it hits the up, forward, or back button - the same function that a human game player can do.

The other 4 neurons are hidden neurons responsible for any deeper computation or thought, and are fed back into the input with a time lag.

I also graphed a slice of the neural network in real time on the screen just for effect. More for design effect if anything.
First, not all of the choices will work for each person. Its a bit of a science experiment so don't get discouraged if the first medication you try doesn't work very well. I also recommend that you ask to try a set of them to determine what is the most effective for you. I have taken them all until I found the one that worked the best for me. Starting with Adderall, then Ritalin, and finally Vyvanse. At this point I take one 70mg Vyvanse capsule a day. While Adderall and Vyvanse are quite similar, the major difference is that Vyvanse is not a stimulant until it is metabolized by the liver. For me this results in a smoother transition on and off, with the duration lasting 10 hours or so. Adderall didn't last nearly as long (8 hours or less) and I became a bit of a jerk as it wore off. (They don't call it "Madderall" for nothing).

I want to emphasize though that none of these medications will cure you. If you want to see the biggest change, then combine the medication, exercise, quality sleep, and a good diet. Last, learn all that you can about ADHD, how it effects your relationships with others (you would be surprised), along with how other people with ADHD go about getting things done in spite of the disorder.
Part of me wishes I could un-see all the stuff that came after it, so that I could go back and play it with my original excitement intact.

You're in luck:
"Black Mesa is a re-envisioning of Valve Software's classic science fiction first person shooter, Half-Life. ... All-new music, voice acting, choreography and added dialogue give way to a more expansive and immersive experience than ever before."

http://www.blackmesasource.com/