skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked nearly entirely on console games. Generally the frame rate would be decided early on (either after prototyping, or because you've been given a pile of old code to start from and that runs at a given rate), and would stay fixed. The games I worked on were split near enough 50/50 between 30Hz and 60Hz, with one game update per render, and usually some provision for handling one-off frame drops due to rendering taking too long. (That's not supposed to happen, but it can, particularly if you're trying to hit 60Hz.)

I can't say with any confidence what people tend to do for PC - I don't play PC games, and I last worked on a PC game in 2006 - but supposedly one tactic I've heard is used is to interpolate object positions and properties when it comes to rendering. So you run the logic at a fixed rate (to avoid the problems I alluded to in my previous post), and save both current object states and previous object states. Then, when it comes to render, you'll be needing to render the game state as it was at some point between the most recent game state you have and the one before that - so you can imagine your latest state as a keyframe, and the previous state as a keyframe, and just interpolate between them.

I imagine this can be a bit tricky to retrofit, though, so no doubt many ports from console to PC just decide to use the same frame rate as used on the console. But I'm guessing a bit here. Unreal and the like might just do it all for you these days anyway. Maybe the Batman programmers just forgot to tick the right checkbox ;)
I thought MS was planning to phase out private offices and go open office for everyone?
>I think some people have this fantasy, that they are on their death bed and there is 3 generations weeping around them.

I think you hit it spot on with this. My dad's father died after parking his car in his garage. My mom's father died in his sleep. His wife (my mom's mom) died in an elderly care home in the middle of the day a year later. Between both sets of grandparents, there were 30 grandchildren. None of us had seen them in a few weeks at the times of their deaths. It's not like we weren't close, they all just sort of died unexpectedly. None of them were sick or anything.
I haven't seen cubicles in awhile. It's been all open offices, every place I interviewed in the past several years.
Please post penuriously.
> Sounds like you're interested in C++.

C++ is good as long as you don't have to read and debug other people's C++ code. C++ went to far with features and it didn't even fix all C core's problems. I personally like Cyclone syntax and features.
Why are there so many stories HN on social problems in Asia? I would have expected that smart people on HN would make some effort to understand Orientalism[0]. In the case of this story, this is a phenomenon that is occurring all around the developed world. Japan is in many ways just another developed country. But through the eyes of Orientalism, Japan's problems are unique and quaint, and the objective Westerner can dispose some sage wisdom[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism

[1] I don't want to pick on anyone, but there are already some great examples in the thread.
It's interesting to see this viewpoint given as a reason to continue using language that we've been told is offensive and exclusionary towards a large group of people. (If you disagree with "offensive and exclusionary," substitute in "plausibly impolite" which doesn't change my main point and seems inarguable.)
I don't think the author expects children to enjoy The Tree of Life; I think he just believes it's possible (if difficult) to write a film for children without losing its subtlety.
>I'm being vague here, because bigamy is a felony.

Bigamy requires being officially married whilst already being officially married. The state already has records, by definition.
79% in 1987 was probably high enough to win. Jesse Jackson ran in 1984 so it wasn't a foreign idea. I'm sure a well-spoken Harvard graduate could have won then too.

"The willingness to vote for a black for president was at 37% in 1958, when Gallup first included the category in its survey tests. That number rose through the 1960s and into the 1970s, although, as recently as 1987, only 79% of Americans said they would vote for a black person for president. By 1997 that number had risen to 93%, and it is now at 95%."
Why is /g/ obnoxious?
Philanthropy for Hackers
Crystal looks close to Orange maybe you should contribute to it instead.
I wonder how this impact employee options? They still need to wait another 3-4 years for IPO to see what their options really worth. There is also a big chance of a massive reverse stock split for a company with this many rounds of investments.
Absolutely repulsive. The people giving this "evidence" should be put in jail and the key thrown away.
The gist is that they are valued at $24 billion pre-money/$25.5 billion post-money and are growing insanely quickly :)
fixed : https://archive.is/P7JPO

By the way what's up with these strange urls in the bottom of several news site? some are blocked by my ad blocker yet they seem to belong to the same website. Why do websites also use these strange networks like outbrain and co to link to their own content?
Page 1 of your link, "Lithium-induced nephrogenic diabetes insipidus is usually self-limiting or not clinically dangerous."

So that's exactly in line with what you propose this counters.
Well it's nice to see the cancer that is eclipse being 86's from one platform at least.
That's still two factor authentication. The possible factors are "something you know", "something you have" and "something you are". Two "things you have" only count as a single factor between them.
Why do you think there'd be a reverse stock split? The price has been going up, not down. Or you think it would happen to get around the shareholder limit pre-IPO?
ZenPayroll is hiring experienced Rails/React developers
No, we worked on an already existing one. We are currently in the process of building one
Adultery isn't a problem if it's performed with the consent of the spouse. There are tons of open marriages out there.
These are great; my favourites are:

> How I rewrote Bash in javascript.

> I decided to re-implement Javascript in Javascript. It failed. Here is my story.

> [450 points] Why I have private Github repos at my startup but everyone else should give away their software for free.

It's so true ;~;
This is almost as bad as the same reviewer's brutal takedown of Steamboat Willie.
Filing serial number off is generally unsuccessful as a means of rendering a firearm untraceable. Law enforcement can use a variety of methods to reveal the serial number due to the changes that the original stamping makes in the metal underneath the actual surface impression. While in theory using an impact tool or a milling type tool could work to remove the underlying metal there is a risk that the integrity of the part (in this case the lower receiver) could be compromised.

I would take exception to the author's statement that the lower receiver is the primary firing mechanism. While it does contain the trigger and sear the upper receiver contains the full bolt assembly, firing pin, and gas system (or piston if you feel like getting fancy).

My biggest question is that if they are creating lowers from billet and other parts as well, why they just don't equip these weapons with auto sears and make them full auto. Go big or go home, right?
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_on_our_consciousness?la...
Yes, to make the numbers work for each round they usually split the stocks.
And it has a nice implication that you send your app on a quest through HTTP land :)
So I'm out of the loop. Are complaints about social justice warriors just a modern twist on "I'm not racist, but..."?
I would expect them to simply issue additional shares.
That one made me laugh out loud. Some of them are quite good.
for (i = 0; i < 10; i++)

Why do so many language copy C's error prone while masquerading as a for loop? This construct is responsible for quite a bit of errors (off by 1).
After looking more into Crystal, it seems to try to be as Ruby-like as possible. I like Ruby, but I think its more involved features are syntactically complicated. I'm also just not a fan of the "everything is an object" mantra.

On the other hand, while Orange takes some syntax as Ruby, I'm trying to keep the syntax small and simple (similarly to C), and make sure that you could write programs for target platforms like the Arduino without needing a runtime.
No, they usually went straight to "marrying pets" and "marrying children".

That said, the gulf between monogamy and polygamy is enormously larger and more complicated than the comparatively minor jump to same-sex monogamy. From a procedural and logical perspective, gay marriage is a SMALL change, opposed mainly due to cultural mores.

However, any programmer can tell you that refactoring from a one-to-one relationship to a many-to-many relationship adds complexity, and polygamy involves a similar architectural change that touches many issues. Just for starters, start thinking about issues like inheritance, custody, power of attorney, and tax-law.
"But progressive enhancement is the past!"
Show HN: Stop dealing with broken images from Twitter
I can easily crank up to 15000 transactions per second on AWS RDS for relatively low cost. Why would I want to hire people to manage that?
"hopes things will change"

Get out. You don't "hope" things change, you make a plan, then you execute the plan, and you make corrections as needed. You don't hope. Nothing happens when you hope. Unless this quote is vastly out of context, I'd say there's no hope.
If SQL is hard for your users take a look at EasyMorph (http://easymorph.com). Disclaimer: I'm the author.
Imagine if every Airbnb host had the option of having 5-10% of their earning withheld and used to purchase equity. You'd have a lot of regular people (that helped build the business!) receiving a windfall, instead of a few rich jagoffs getting a bit richer. And on the downside there would be no serious harm. IPOs are finished. Crowdfunding with equity can't come soon enough.
Really? Create something small and useful for your primary audience that you can give away for free to drive referrals to your business. Raise awareness and build loyalty. Sounds pretty specific to me. They even included data on four side projects they've successfully used this strategy on.
would you use this?
I had to conserve characters--that 80 character limit is hard!
We've spent a fortune on AIDS research in the past 30 years. Why wouldn't we expect to have treatments?

http://blogs.poz.com/peter/assets_c/2009/03/NIH_AIDS_Researc...

We could do so much more research for all diseases. Personally, in 1985, I would have expected cancer, AIDS, and many other major disease to all be cured by now. It's actually depressing how much work remains.
There's definitely reason to believe it's on a "spectrum", and I seem to recall I've seen studies that suggest probably everybody is on some sort of months-long cycle (not always directly correlated to the calendar, which would be relatively uninteresting). Many creative people who squeeze their creativity dry as coders or artists or whatever have observed this seems to exist. I've noticed it myself, here's another person who recently observed it: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=26444

In people with pathological bi-polar disorder, it may be the case that rather than some sort of novel problem, it's just that the amplitude and the frequency can be much larger and higher, where "creativity" and "energy" shoot beyond the realms where either of those words quite properly applies anymore.

But in the end, we don't really know enough about the brain to be sure about this. A proper, correct model of the brain might be able to prove this by showing the drivers of such a long-term oscillation, but we're a long ways away from the requisite level of detail. Even with the suggestive studies it can only be called an interesting theory.
In the '90s we were limited by the same phenomenon known as SBS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brillouin_scattering#Stimulate...) and were working to reduce or eliminate it using predistortion. As a CATV equipment provider, our signals were typically very wide band (we said DC to daylight) so comb filters could not be used. Using a comb filter on a digital signal is a pretty common occurrence.

What's truly amazing is how effective the UCSD researchers were - 12km is roughly half the circumference of the globe.
I downvoted you, not because I disagree, but because I think this is a desperate attempt at censorship. We're not allowed to talk about X because of Y.

I actually agree with this being a phenomenon that is occurring all around the developed world though.
Just avoid your thinly veiled accusation of racism.
haha 4chan has real hackers man
I really expected this as well. In my mind, there is never any justification. My time is worth the world to me, and so if you would like me to dedicate it to your task, that is going to cost you.

You never, EVER work for free. Not even for a charity. You invoice them. And you donate that invoice. And you get a receipt for your taxes. In this way, they can fully understand and appreciate the true value and real cost of the work you have provided for them. Everyone's book's are square. No one is left out in the cold.

When you work for free, you devalue the work that we all do. Many thousands of web devs still bitch about client's who won't pay or scoff at quotes, because "I've got a cousin who can do that." Then go get your fucking cousin, because my time has a tag attached.

Your time is worth something, and it shines in your quality. Believe in yourself.
There are not a lot of Pinterest-sized businesses. :) Amazon is documented as giving these guys some serious discounts. Even a cursory analysis of the costs of running at this at scale on AWS shows it's bad value at 'recommended retail' prices.
Not quite as bad as runc though https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/24 (admittedly not an acronym but entertaining nonetheless)
Someone mentioned that they hated the lack of humor in HN's comments section, which I tend to agree with.
GNU Superoptimizer
Many firearms, Glocks by way of example have serialized barrels. The issue is, sticking with the Glock example, that the polymer lower carries the serial plate and is considered to be "the firearm" since barrels are interchangeable and their sale is not regulated. It is straightforward to get a replacement barrel. Barrels do not have an infinite service life and barrel replacement is not uncommon.
A very good related movie: Departures http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1069238
Looks like a Chinese buyout, no?

Presumably a good way to get wealth out of China and then clean the money with an IPO. Timely, given the bubble popping in China.
wow! What did you use to make these? It looks awesome!
What reason would Airbnb have to do this?
this might be a good starting point if you're looking for a simple example http://www.luminusweb.net/docs
Three friends of mine are married; each one has an emotional, sexual, and financial bond with the other two. They have jobs and a house and two kids; they're basically a model family if you ignore the novelty of the bit where the kids have three parents.

The law only recognizes part of this relationship as a marriage, even though it is clear to everyone who knows them that all three are equal partners; it's not a couple-plus-another, it's three people who have chosen to bind themselves together as a family.

I see nothing to be lost by allowing their triad to gain the same legal status currently afforded to pairs, and much to be lost by continuing to prevent it.
check out all of these companies yc has invested in: http://yclist.com/
Why don't you start a FairBNB.com that does exactly this?
Not sure what you mean by that. If you are asking if they are a joke, a parody on real racists/sexists would say, then no. The complaints are serious. If you mean that people who complain about social justice warriors are really racists/sexists, well that's hard to answer, because it depends on one's definition of social justice warrior and one's definition of racism and sexism.
The Symbol workaround cannot ever clash with uses of `with`. Granted almost everybody considers `with` to be a bad idea nowadays, but that's part of the rationale.
Why use this instead of https://twitter.com/username/profile_image?size=original ?
It seems like the deceased in the article had nothing left to do but to wait for that death. Actually sounds worse then the death itself to me.
Most applications/companies don't need to scale to hundreds of servers, let alone thousands... Having the number of employees to setup and manage that level of infrastructure has a not insignificant cost. If you can have your dev+ops team not have to have as much specialized knowledge and get more done with AWS, Azure or similar, then there are definitely costs to be saved. Of course the more of AWS/Azure infrastructure you leverage the more locked in you are...

I'd like to see a similar analysis for say 50-100 servers, and see if AWS really costs more vs. colocation when you add in the resources to setup and maintain the infrastructure.
While it is true that there are legal M16 series rifles out there, I would be stunned if you could find an unfired full auto M16 variant for 10K. Full auto M16's in decent shape will fetch 20K plus. Additionally, I think it was only in the last few years that a legally owned NFA full auto was used in a crime. For decades there was not a single crime committed with a legally owned full auto post NFA.
I spent my late teenage years and early 20s often playing chess with old guys in the park. I regret I didn't engage in more productive pursuits, like chasing girls and taking them on dates. I am not kidding. If I had to go back I'd seriously cut down on the chess and up the dating.
Even if you can MOC, your own order can influence the closing price to move unfavorably vs. the backtest where you were absent. This is a huge issue on illiquid stocks or if you're trying to pick up a small edge even in liquid ones.

Knowing market structure really well matters more than math for automated traders, just IMO. I've seen people who know it well make money with little math knowledge beyond undergrad level but never the reverse.
I made a crappy visualization of the commits of our University project, http://codepen.io/Azeirah/pen/bdawBm

It was a 3D pong game, along with the game engine. Pretty neat to see this visualized.
Why not? The financial terms could be roughly identical. Having your users be your stockholders seems like a huge advantage in a lot of ways.
Doesn't seem to work, tried with my handle and getting a bad url.

https://twitter.com/uptownhr/profile_image?size=originaL
Uninformed opinion I'll try to pass off as insightful and fact-centric by using footnotes [1][2][3].

[1] theatlantic.com
[2] theverge.com
[3] blog.tumblr.com
Heh, not happening.

People will drive. Generally they will take their rage with them to home or to work. Commute length is related to risk of heart attacks and divorce. Your ideas have a huge quality-of-life impact that extends far beyond the road. I could do without the medical problems and violence induced by road rage.

The ideal for quality-of-life is what you likely despise: lots of wide lanes with minimal need to stop or slow down. This puts drivers at peace. No, it isn't ideal for hipsters who have a thing for silly sidewalk cafes, but those aren't most people.
Really? could you elaborate on these other providers? I would expect at least, VPS, remote files (S3/Azure-Blob), distributed key-value store as a service, some SQL variant as a service, and load balancing as a service. Most of the alternatives I've seen don't offer those services, and most only do VPS.
Archive link for future readers : https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/48696148
You don't need crowdfunding, this is literally the purpose of the public markets. Regular people can invest in the company (by purchasing shares), and the market ensures they can buy/sell shares in a fair way.

Also there is still a lot of risk involved for these private investors, this isn't just free money. Just ask all the Facebook private investors who bought shares for $40, when you or I could have bought them for $20 a year later post-IPO.
Correct me if I wrong, but wouldn't this force Airbnb to have to start filing financial reports once they exceed a certain number of shareholders? I imagine they rather these limited shareholder spots go to bigger investors.
The kind of political correctness that exists around "racism" does not apply to Asians, so there is not issue with censorship. As long as you are not using racial slurs, you can say whatever you like about Asian culture without fear of repercussions in our society. So there is no need to fear that my comment will encourage censorship.

On the other hand, I am accusing people of bias, and if you disagree you will have to show how my claims are wrong. Don't tell me what to do in a patronizing way either.
It is true that in the military, much shooting is done in semi-auto mode. That said there is a huge difference in the volume of fire that can be generated in full auto vs. semi-auto. Companies like Surefire are now building 100 round magazines that are far more reliable than the Beta mags which weren't much more than a gimmick.
The Tech Industry Is in Denial, but the Bubble Is About to Burst
3D printing startup Makers Empire to tap into the American education market
What do you consider a for loop to be? The loop constructs called "for" that existed prior to C all just iterated through a numeric sequence with an optional step parameter. This was present in BASIC, ALGOL68 and Pascal.

The C for loop was designed by looking at an ALGOL-style for loop:

FOR i FROM 1 BY 2 TO 3 WHILE i≠4 DO ~ OD

and trying to make the construct not tied to integer sequences (because such a specific construct would be out of place in C). The typical for loop, like the one in your comment, has a begin, end and increment parameter, just like the ALGOL example.

I assume you mean that you'd prefer some kind of for-each kind of loop, but in order to support that, a language needs a formalized concept of iterators, which may be out of scope for the project.
Stock splits do not change ownership or value. If you own 10 shares pre-split valued at $1 per share, and you have a split 10-for-1, you now own 100 shares worth $0.10 per share.

In general, companies do reverse splits prior to an IPO to push up the share price. It's seen favorably to have a $50.00 IPO price per share vs $5.00 even though the overall value is the same – the headlines read better that your IPO debuted at $50 but increased to $60 vs an increase of $5 to $6.
Consensus is not a suitable mechanism for authority. Consensus has many uses, but for use-cases where authority is a hard requirement - such as this one - consensus is simply not suitable. Authority needs to remain authority even if a bunch of other people would like it to be otherwise.

If the NSA can throw enough computing power at it and seize control of consensus to determine which keys are authoritative, then your whole PKI is useless.

I repeat: consensus is not a suitable mechanism for authority. Consensus has many other uses. Would you use a watermelon to lock a door?
> The financial terms could be roughly identical.

In what way would giving away shares to employees be the same as keeping them as an asset of the company?
Linode, and most alternatives, don't have S3/Blob storage as a service.. also missing are distributed key-value storage as a service and sql as a service.

Generally, with any given service as you can scale it makes sense to run your own instances.. but realistically someone who knows insert-tech better than AWS/Azure admins is a pretty rare breed, and having to in-source those specific skills costs in terms of time and money, redundancy even more so.

If you have a team of 3-5 people, you can do far more with AWS or Azure than you can most alternatives... Employees aren't free.