skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They lost me at "there is reason to disbelieve in preexisting physical truths". Conclusion: Psychologists shouldn't play with quantum theory unless their goal is merely masturbation.
I think the charitable interpretation is that the listed websites get more yearly unique visitors from influential segments of society, regardless of the fact that their raw traffic numbers are much lower, and hence are more in the "mainstream" mind in terms of websites visited.
Would be cool to have ES as Lua plugin for KONG [1]

[1] https://github.com/mashape/kong
Except the argument doesn't hold water. There is a difference between playing with toy blocks or virtual blocks. The toy blocks develop physical skills, and teaches physical experimentation. The virtual blocks develops keyboard/gamepad skills and usually illustrates unphysical simulation. The toy blocks allow arbitrary social interaction with other kids, the virtual blocks constrain social interaction to the limits of the device or setting.

I've been in that camp -- I got a degree from DigiPen before I decided to do something more meaningful with my life. But I wish I could go back in time and tell the adolescent me that obsessed over games, hosted LAN parties, and spent all his waking hours in front of his custom-built PC, to just go outside and play.
Well, unless it actually costs 39 dollars.[0]

> After the Kickstarter their computer will sell for 39$.

[0] https://olimex.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/how-to-get-in-the-ne...
He comes off as so full of himself when he claims that the original programmers didn't know about the different ghosts' "personalities" (algorithms).

He's referring to this: http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html...

And there's just no way that the game's creators didn't know how they programmed the behavior of the ghosts. More likely they were humoring him and he took it as him "knowing more about the game than its creators" or whatever the quote was.

Plus, I would never claim to be able to execute a perfect score (or even a very impressive one) but I can definitely put Pac-man into a blind spot. His claim that "you couldn't do it even if I told you how" comes off as pretty egotistical.
The lack of comment searching is pretty bad though. I'd say that when I want to search reddit it's for comments more than 50% of the time. For example, if you're looking for product information the answer is more likely to be in a comment than in a post title. Google is able to do a decent job of this though with the right query.
I don't think so. These wallets implement Simplified Payment Verification as described by Satoshi in section 8 of the original bitcoin paper[1]. They do validate the block headers, which contain the proof of work.

[1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
In my view the hard thing is sight-reading. With programming, if it takes one person twice as long as another, to read or write a program, at worst their productivity will be a bit lower. Or maybe higher. ;-) If you can't read music at tempo, then there are certain kinds of work that you can't do at all.

Granted, sight-reading skill is a matter of degree. I can read a jazz band gig, but would struggle with complex modern orchestral music. In musical styles that I'm familiar with, I can often make a good enough guess about what's next, that I only have to focus my attention on the dangerous bits. My attention often wanders away from the page.

I used to think that sight-reading was something that had to be learned, starting at an early age. I don't know if I still believe that, but I know that most adults who attempt to learn, find it to be prohibitive. This is one reason why it would be great to find an alternative. Even a piano with keys that light up.
Remember that episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle when every time the words "Civil" and "War" were used, a southern man would stand up and correct the person talking with "War between the states"?

Thanks for bringing some of that to HN.
4 Days of Pebble Time
But Apple has done exactly that. The core (Darwin) is open-source since the beginning - but other newer parts are open-source too. A great example is Grand Central Dispatch[1] which Apple open-sourced and has been since ported to FreeBSD. Another example is launchd, a replacement init system, that was open-sourced too.

Even if they didn't do any of this though, it's silly to treat proprietary software as if it doesn't exist and doesn't provide any benefit. Personally, I would be thrilled if Apple (or any other company) used any of my open-source work, even if they made a proprietary fork, because as a result I'd end up with a better OS. Yes, it would be even better if they stayed open-source and contributed back - but if that's not going to happen, I'd rather software, whether open or proprietary, keeps on improving. If a proprietary fork is what it takes, so be it.

Some of my favourite and most useful software is proprietary but contains open-source libraries. If those libraries restricted the use to only open-source applications, and the developers were unwilling to open-source, those applications might not exist - or at least might not be as good. If that were the case, we'd all have lost out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch
Seems like a young person making some bad calls in life and enjoying the thrill of doing things you're not supposed to do or be able to do.

Can definitely be a slippery slope, though.
Are you dyslexic as well, or does it only happen with music?
Neat hack. But .. RSS? :)
... Risk of death from leukaemia and lymphoma in radiation-monitored workers
As far as I know, "polite expectations" are not how businesses tend to operate.
it's impossible to be addicted to video game? I'm sorry I had to stop reading. I feel like there is no point upvoting or even constructing a thoughtful comment to this article.
I just found out about Hubski today, I think for me personally it fills the gap that reddit is currently filling. It feels like HN level discussion, but without the tech exclusivity.

There's a lot of other former Redditors making the migration there too.
Really constructive comment- and it was very easy to guess the 9 points you wanted to mention why it's not true at all.
As I recall it the problem with Digg was that preferential treatment was being given in secret for pay, or that is how things appeared. Also that a voting ring had been established such that ordinary users could never get stories off the bottom spots - they simply got duplicated by part of the 'diggerati' and the alternate story gained the early traction needed to launch it to the top pages. Thus the apparent notoriety, the focus that people crave, that pays users back for their submissions was missing from the loop. Then the redesign came and rubbed everyone up the wrong way; but it seemed to me more like the straw that broke the camel's back (i.e. the last in a line of bad things) rather than a reason in itself.

Similar things have happened at Slashdot, user disenfranchisement as the (new) owners try to screw out every last cent from the site forgetting it needs the community to be what it is. Hit with a second punch of not entirely well executed redesign and you've got problems.

But then I think HN perhaps goes the other way, the more I stay the more I hanker after some simple redesign to address the site's deficiencies (collapsing comments threads for example, spacing the up- and down-vote buttons). I'm a big believer in "if it ain't broke ..." but also consider that a design should move with browser/web developments to, in an evolving way. Mind you dang seems to do a great job with the moderating.
Is it standard practice not to disclose to anyone that someone was fired at all? Is it standard to fire your main community manager and not replace her, to just stop replying to the community's emails? Is it standard to not cancel a terminated employees appointments? Is it standard to let your celebrity guests fly halfway across the country, wait an hour for their scheduled appointment, and only reveal what happened when their agent calls to complain?
Well let's see: development of motor skills, physical exercise, development of a reality-based sense of consequences, ability to feel embodied cause and effect, chances for ad-hoc social interaction with other kids, truly open-ended possibilities for play unconstrained by the imagination of the video game creator, ...

I think the onus is on the person claiming virtual blocks are an equal or better substitute to prove it.
I built an ambitious MMO in college, it's time to shut it down
What's intriguing to me about The Guy I Almost Was is that the guy he almost became, presented as a sort of paragon of anticommercial virtue before being sucked into the vortex of the nascent Web, is recognizable today as a textbook hipster caricature. And really, is that much better than the technoweenie caricature he was trying to avoid, from a values standpoint?
> There is no way to allocate objects of reference types on stack because references can easily outlive objects,

That's simply due to a lack of analysis. In many cases it's easy to show the object is short lived. Yet there's no way to annotate this and AFAIK, the JIT doesn't even try to figure this out.
1. It would make the equivalent keys even further apart and many songs harder, if not impossible to play.

2. The 2-3 key structure makes it obvious where each note is, it would be extremely difficult to find out where the notes are if all keys looked the same.

3. How often do you need to transpose music?
Dude Sneaks into Game Studio… Eats Their Food… Discovers Unannounced Game
My own experience with my son is that he spends an enormous amount of time online on Pokemon. I'm still figuring out what the hell he's doing there. Some of it seems useful. He just recently got excited about JavaScript, to help his buddy run a server, but fizzled out after five hours. He just doesn't have the follow-through skills. I'm trying to gently help him forward with it, but there is an engagement problem. (And some other problems, we're paying a lot of attention to him right now.)

He's been through Minecraft, done some stuff, and then fell off when it got harder than he liked. Likewise with other video games. He loved Kerbal for 45 minutes and was done. He gets hooked on video games because they are shiny, and sniffs at some of the possibilities, but then drops out. They provide enough stimulation to distract him from whatever is bothering him, and to keep him from getting so bored that he might actually read a book. But they don't provide any steps up to an actual learning threshold.

Yes, some people can learn enormous amounts from video games and such. But I worry that those people have a particular set of focus and problem-solving and follow-through skills. I don't see much in the online environment to help identify and fill those gaps for other people. Ideally schools should be able to do that, and no, too often they don't. But at least they have the opportunity to put great teachers in position to do just that.

I definitely get the possibilities of video games and I hope I'm not hung up on conventional learnings. But I fear that for a large category of kids, these games are really net negatives. I'm definitely worried about my son.
I tried Hubski, couldn't get over my frustration with the interface. I don't like voting restrictions in general (yes, that includes here. There's a reason I'm not more active here), and Hubski is no exception.

That being said, if you like it, go for it.
I've lived in England and the Dutch speaking (Flemish) half of Belgium. Certainly trying to appear you're someone's friend when you don't know them is frowned upon. But Mick Jagger's English so he knows the customs - and they're fairly similar between England and Holland. There's probably quite a few people that would love to be called by their first name by Mick Jagger, but clearly Meneer Escher wasn't one of them.
Typing is 1-0, you either press the key or not, there is no need for as much precision.
A Holacracy of Dunces
Downvotes derail conversations here several times a day, your condescending tone notwithstanding.

Apparently everyone is fine with that. So I see no reason not to be myself.
MUDs are significantly different in that you have to read, solve, and think a lot more rather than the "watch six timers tick down and then hit a button" gameplay loop of most modern MMOs.

But I would also agree that playing RPG games of any description for a large portion of your day is a net negative.
New edition of print magazine Amiga Future is out (English and German)
My grandfather was an expert piano player who used klavarscribo. All klavarscribo players I know have a very distinctive style/intonation, maybe because they were all either taught by my grandfather or from his generation or something. I'm not sure about any inefficiencies, my family said you needed to know classical script to get into music academies, and the academics wouldn't switch so they were locked out, but obviously my family is rather biased..
Have you seen anyone try to type on a smartphone? Slow, and riddled with typos. Keep piano keys the width they are, unless you want slow, error prone pianists.

Besides, we already have the ideal chromatic keyboard layout:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hexagonal+music+controller&t=lm&ia...
True, the content creator/consumer relationship is not a perfect analogy.

The secret sauce to Reddit is a formula comprised of anonymous identity, freedom of speech, user generated content, witty humor, cat pictures, atheism, technologists, reward systems (gold, up vote) and transparent communication.... all baked in a social oven for 10 years.

In turns out, that all those social network qualities happen to represent a significant population of the real-world; and everyone, from politicians to celebrities, are acknowledging that fact.

Without knowing the specifics of voat or frizbee, I just don't see another community coming along that can replicate this formula in the short-term.

Reddit is actually in a good position to introduce healthy dialogues that involve brands, UGC producers, and consumers.
One thing missing from the quick is operational guidance on how to make this all work smoothly. A big key to using an "all AWS" model (which as most have pointed out isn't the only or necessarily best option) is that scaling isn't instant.

You need to add some additional logic to smooth out the rate of scaling. Most deployments fall down when the rate of scaling can't keep up with the demand.

In general the white paper provides some solid AWS-specific & AWS-centric guidance on how to buy yourself some time. It's not the end-all, be-all but a good start
It's something that gets frequently discussed on HN. You might want to look back over the gajillion threads about it.
Not in the usual sense. If there is such a think as numeric dyslexia I might have that to some degree. I frequently transpose digits. I have trained myself to be very careful whenever I have to transcribe a number, fill out forms, or even dial a phone number. I find it helps to look at numbers in groups (pairs or triplets) rather than individually. I don't recall every trying that with music...

But I don't have any difficulty with reading text, and enjoyed reading a lot as a kid so in that sense I am not dyslexic.
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> But I wish I could go back in time and tell the adolescent me that obsessed over games, hosted LAN parties, and spent all his waking hours in front of his custom-built PC, to just go outside and play

That sounds like you were in the opposite of that camp, actually. If you embraced the idea of medium irrelevancy as a child, then you would default to ambivalence between, say, playing a sports game, and playing an actual sport. This would let you freely weigh the pros and cons of each, which would likely end up with you playing the actual sport.

The medium may be irrelevant, but the individual activities are not identical, they're just in an equivalence class with one-another. Playing with wood blocks can be better or worse than playing with abstract-vertex blocks, exactly insofar as either of those can be better or worse than playing with jello blocks, or imaginary blocks, or building something out of real fired-clay bricks.

What I'm getting at, is that activities done on a computer are not in a separate magisterium where their "computerness" is their one and only property. Ignore that they're on a computer; look at them for what they actually are, what they actually require and enable you to do, etc.

Soccer is better as a real physical activity on a field. Scrabble (as my grandmother continually attests) is better as an asynchronous online mobile game. The reasons why have nothing to do with the "computerness", and everything to do with the required affordances and social goals of the two activities.

I should also note that frequently there isn't an either-or distinction. I "hang out with my friends" strictly more than I used to, because I do the same amount of real-world "hanging out", and a bunch of additional low-engagement online "hanging out." This is especially true of the friends I have in other countries; 20 years ago, my relationship with them would be something like "I write them letters and see them once every three years." Now we talk all night.
Rebasing openSUSE
What's the limit at which CloudFlare will start billing you at a "enterprise rate" instead of $20 / month? That bandwidth can't be free forever...
> Information that is stored in the cell connection structure of the mammal brain isn't irreversibly destroyed at the moment of death, as one of the many similar studies shows

That's irrelevant. We cannot access that information, so it's presence makes no difference. Once I die, all that's left to humanity at that point is a bunch of meat which I used to control. I can no longer do it, and while most of who I was is probably still stored there, nobody can access it, so either burning the body, or eating it, or whatever makes no difference.

IMHO, bodies of the dead should be treated as resources. People need to learn to cope with death, since we're not cavemen any more, and we can't still believe treating the body differently will change that (at least not until we have a lot more tech).
I'm always very hesitant to suggest anything based on a vague description - but it sounds like games are not the problem here, because the same pattern repeats in other things.
It's not an uncommon idea. There's a Mitchell and Webb sketch about it too that you may be able to find online somewhere.
I understand the desire for "authentic" parts, but one is chasing rainbows. I recall once a business was selling "authentic" 1960s air in a can one could use to fill the tires on one's authentic 1960s muscle car.

My personal opinion is that wrecks dredged up from swamps and such should be put into museums as is. Flying airplanes should be replicas, made as close to the original specifications as the owner wants.

For example, a few years ago there was a project at Paine Field to build flying replicas of the Me262. They took apart an original to measure everything and make a specification. As a concession to safety, they used modern jet engines and instrumentation, and used lead weights instead of guns (to maintain proper balance).

I would have bought one if I could afford one!

Nobody would actually want to fly an original, because the engines only lasted about 20 hours, were extremely unreliable, and nobody bothered with corrosion protection (didn't expect the machine to last long enough to corrode).
Give this a shot: https://github.com/search?l=JavaScript&q=match+3&ref=searchr...
"Most Americans live in the populated parts of the country in or near a city, not in rural Nevada or Nebraska"

Yes, that's true ... but they only just got there. They, or their parents likely grew up in a much more rural, sparser population density.

So in the same way that it's going to take a generation or three to convince folks not to eat as much as a farmer needs to eat to do manual labor all day, it will also take a generation or three to convince folks that they don't need to start an engine to run every errand.

much of american habits, beliefs and culture are heavily derived from rural farming life.
Have you tried OpenRC?
Yep.

(Fully) persistent data structures are absolutely wonderful. It's a pity that more languages don't have syntactic sugar for them.
1970s healthcare vs 2010s healthcare isn't an important difference?

edit: grammar
I believe the whole website was built in a few hours. But, it took us a few days to add the definitions.
It wasn't just the coolant. My dad, who flew both P-51s and P-47s, had an incident in each where the engine swallowed a valve. The P-51 immediately lost power, and clearly wasn't going to keep running for more than a few minutes, and required an immediate emergency landing. The P-47 kept producing power as if nothing had happened, and enabled my father to bring it home.
Don't forget that FPGAs are good at different things than GPUs.

GPUs work well for massively parallel problems. But FPGAs work well for mostly-serial problems, and problems that have short parallel sections interlaced with serial sections.
I don't really have any opinions about video games; I always got bored with them too quickly to spend any substantial amount of time on them. But that's really just me... I suspect if my hand/eye coordination and reflex time was a bit better I might've spent a lot of time on them.

I had some problems with following through on hard tasks in grad school. When I got to the point where Google was completely useless and I knew I had six months of work to do (at best) with very little outside guidance, I kind of got down and couldn't focus. I found that biting off small pieces that seemed either easy or interesting and then convincing myself to forget about the long-term picture until I figured out that piece was a helpful way to avoid paralysis.

Also, whispering "I could give you a hint" in your own ear is pretty amazingly helpful, for the same reason that just knowing you could just Google for the answer if you need to is helpful when you're working on a hard assignment. Less stress, I guess.

Not sure if or how that applies to your son. Also seems like the sort of thing a kid would have a very difficult time doing for themselves. In any case, it sounds like you're very in tune and thinking about things the right way. Good luck with your son.
DB queries are validated through a whitelist on the server, so it should be impossible to run an unauthorized query when it's locked down. E.g. https://github.com/mikemintz/react-rethinkdb/blob/master/exa...
probably the best article ever written about mondo:

http://totse.mattfast1.com/en/ego/literary_genius/mondo2k.ht...
Not only were some mining pools SPV mining, but they were advertising compliance with BIP66 at the same time; if they had not been advertising compliance, then it is unlikely we'd have switched over to enforcing BIP66.

So, don't lie about your SPV status in your coinbase is one of the lessons here for a pool operator.

When I ran a (small but noticeable) pool, the bitcoin core team would occasionally reach out with warnings when an impending network change was coming that we didn't look compliant with; often we'd get two or three e-mails independently with plenty of warning.

So, I would say this is chinese mining pools not playing by the rules, either because they didn't care to listen, or didn't care to have engineers do anything about it, and now they are eating it a bit, (and of course we all have some minor knock-on effects for a little while).
clickable -> http://mongolar.org/demo
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9798099
Chinese stock market crash
The addiction to Minecraft (or most other online games) is purely social. Soon a new game will come along that the next lot of kids will all play together. There is nothing about Minecraft itself that makes it addictive. I've lived through this myself hopping from game to game with my high school friends.
I was about the hit the purchase button!, thanks :D