skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my case this was actually off-line games I played when my only Internet connection was a 56k modem. Mostly StarCraft and Fallout, and some old Star Trek games, and I learned English because I really wanted to understand the story. I still remember myself sitting with a dictionary and translating the words used in descriptions.
"By this time next year, Nintendo, Apple and Sony will be competing tooth an nail to get cyberspace decks to every home in America."

Not so much has changed it seems.
Slashdot has been terrible and out of touch for so long I can't even remember when the decline started. It was well before the departure of CowboyNeil. It's a pit of old 90s M$ memes, RMS lovefests, and fear of new technology.
At first I thought this was an obvious scam. Then I realized, when I upgrade my phone, the old one just sits in a drawer. In general, I can't be bothered to actually sell my old devices. So, maybe it isn't so bad.
The article says that the notation is for beginners.

I am surprised all the JavaScript programmers on HN are so opposed to an accessible notation for beginners.
New link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQLzZf34FJ8
All this is just arguing over definitions. No one disagrees (well, much) on what's going on. It's just a "semantic stopsign" to short circuit a proper evaluation. If you can make the case it's an addiction, hey, you've proved it's bad to some extent, mission accomplished. For magazines and many people, that's enough analysis.

And the author didn't seem to ever explain how a kid that refuses to get off Minecraft and fights with his family isn't a problem. Unless the point was "don't tell him to stop". While I generally appreciate the sentiment, maybe the kid has other things he's neglecting...

Same argument for drugs. People resist the term addict when talking about SSRIs, but that's probably because they never run out. And likewise, since everyone agrees that opiates are addictive, they must be bad. The thought that you can be an illegal opiate addict yet reap huge benefits from it is a contradiction to many people. (Unless a doctor is involved -- then it's OK.) It's just intellectual laziness.

Btw, MUDs were awesome, and I had my first real relationship by meeting someone via a MUD. It contributed to me dropping out of school, but getting more info software was far more useful.
That's what these are—SoCs from cheap Chinese tablets. They've been pretty up-front about that fact.
Good points. But I really don't understand why the keys need to be that big. People are used to typing on smartphones, where the sensitive area of a key is like 30% of the width of a finger. Of course, making them that small would be a little extreme, but I think piano keys could be much slimmer.
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (really good SF)
She's not counting the loyal lurkers such as myself that have cut ourselves off completely. I have blocked reddit on all of my devices as a result of this ordeal. I'm curious if there are many others like me.
General Motors(GM) will unveil a fully self-drivingin 2017
I've been using React for a year and a half, and it's probably the first thing in the JavaScript ecosystem for a long time (maybe since jQuery) that hasn't made me regret building a project using it.

It's not without its issues, but it's really changed the way I build things, which after 18 years is kind of impressive.
Submitted a pull request for that one.
oh crap I am very sorry.

I will mail the admins to ask them to edit my stories.

I at times have severe insomnia.
Digg just announced a trial of a new comment system - http://digg.com/2015/talk-to-us.

I wonder if they received an influx of traffic following the Great Reddit Blackout of 2015 and thought it was worth investigating if they could spin an immigration to match the emigration from Digg after their own past community mistrust issues.
Zendo is fantastic. Watching people unaccustomed to its sort of problem-solving struggle with and improve their methodologies for being good at the game is really enlightening.
I don't now how good is the virtualization nowadays; KSP is mostly CPU-bound anyway thanks to physics done in a single thread. You should be fine on Windows though, as long as you don't overdo it with parts mods. The magic boundary for 32bit processes is 3.2GB RAM (fire up Process Explorer after KSP loaded and see how much it uses). There's a trick you can use to get the game use only half of the memory (for some weird reason) - fire it up with --force-opengl command line parameter. This should let you install pretty much any visual mod you want and then quite a bunch of others. Some people also used to use texture compression mods. Either of those tricks may no longer be necessary though, because one of the recent updates got rid of the uncompressed textures in the game - but by that time I bought an SSD and installed a fresh Linux on it to play 64bit, so I don't know if the change helped.
This stuff gets reinvented every few years.

It never sticks, because there's literally an entire industry devoted to traditional notation and traditional keyboard design.

Meanwhile in pop and electronica everyone started using button grids to trigger loops and samples, and the notation thing was almost completely bypassed.

This is very, very limited a anything busier than a few block chords - which includes a lot of music - will be too dense for it.

Notation evolved in an ad hoc way, so there's certainly a lot wrong with it. But it's good as an efficient representation of music. Most of the examples here would fit on a single line of notation - so this model is around four to eight times less dense.

Try setting something simple like Bach's Prelude No 1 from the WTC and you'll see how inefficient it is.
Understanding Alice
You've pivoted to another topic. The question I asked is: what part of the AT&T Next plan qualifies as a hustle?
That would be a pretty lame bug! It's the difference between "chainLength++;" and "chainLength+=pow;"
Hadn't thought of that, but it sounds interesting. I guess this means that opcodes in your bytecode need to be large enough to store a pointer, this could involve some tradeoffs in terms of minimizing instructions vs fitting in the cache, but I suppose it could fall on the right side of things often enough.
> Is the teacher a govt employee or are they a private business?

Private business! I had a friend who spent hundreds of hours driving with his father before 18, and when he had to go through this thing to get the real driver's licence, they asked him to do 10 hours more (400euros). This was a joke really, and my friend is too nice so he didn't say anything.
There is no known experiment one can perform that tests if something is conscious or not. We know we are ourselves conscious, so we assume that entities resembling us also are, and entities that are too different are not. Maybe that's the truth, but for now it's just a personal belief, not a scientific theory. For something to be a scientific theory it must be testable and falsifiable.

Some people actually believe that all mater is conscious -- this position is referred to as panpsychism. Some people believe they are the only conscious entity in the universe -- this is solipsism.

These positions may sound absurd, but they are not more or less scientifically credible than the mainstream one. They all fit the observable reality, and none of them can be tested.

We all have our intuitions and personal beliefs, but from a scientific standpoint I think that the only rigorous attitude is to remain agnostic on this. Otherwise we fall into the same intellectual traps as mysticism. The scientific attitude is above all to doubt, not to blindly believe.
Super nice people too...
So is this article wrong[0]?

Landfills currently handle roughly half of China's MSW, while only about 10% is incinerated. Official credo suggests that landfills will continue to play a dominant role. But Beijing's push to increase the share of burned waste is unmistakable: a central target calls for 30% of MSW to be treated by waste-to-energy incineration by 2030.

And late last year they opened the worlds biggest incinerator outside Beijing[1].

In the article[0], it says only 2% was burned in 1990.. so it seems this is a new initiative.

0. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jul/04/dirty-tru...

1. http://shanghaiist.com/2014/10/08/worlds-biggest-trash-incin...
It used to be that one could vote towards the score you felt a comment deserved - that felt much healthier IMO and gave what seemed like a much better view of the community opinion.

I upvote everything greyed out that is well articulated or makes a point or expresses an opinion that is not well represented elsewhere in the thread.
I've been thinking about it a long time and hadn't heard it from anyone else. I'm glad to get feedback :)
Also, because of how complicated modern pipelining is, some instructions that you wouldn't expect to take a long time do take a long time (usually because they're waiting on a mov from memory to finish). In this case, the mov from memory could be throwing up a hazard that's blocking the mov from register.
I would love an open-source Heroku. Yeah there's OpenStack, Dokku, etc - but they're nowhere near as easy to use as Heroku (not knocking them, by the way, they have a place and are great projects). Presumably such an application would run on a server of its own and you would give it an API key for DigitalOcean, Linode, etc, and then push your repos to it as you do with Heroku. Massive undertaking, of course.

Something else I'd love to see is a server that's as easy as an iPad. Sandstorm is doing some work in this area, although I'm not convinced that the end result will be great. I want a server I can connect to, install apps from an app store as easily as on an iPad, configure as easily as an iPad, etc. Linux/FreeBSD/etc will always be needed for high performance websites and intensive or innovative computing needs but 95% of people just want to host a website or some email. I should be able to log on, go to the App Store, download the Minecraft server and be playing my game within minutes (with a nice GUI for configuration). Don't believe this is needed? The existence of SaaS is proof that it is - software is too hard and too complicated to install, configure and keep updated on your own server.
Several places have a buyback program. I used Amazon for my last phones. Didn't get as much as if I sold them myself, but it was painless. I had 2 iPhone 5s and got around $200 for each. They give you Amazon credit which is not as good as cash, but I still used it for things I needed for around the house.
Isn't C the first key of each group? If so, his black lines appear to be on the wrong side.
> From a statistics point of view working with such minimal samples is fairly useless.

Not true at all.
Not quite so sure...

1. Deaths per 100,000 seem to be pretty good a measure for pedestrian deaths

2. Your measure does not consider the cost of driving more

But, one point I think you have: If indeed the number of deaths per km is similar, then the solution to car deaths is to drive less, not to drive more safely
The wallets are still vulnerable to future forks of the same nature.

It is not a 1% profit boost. It is a ~1% revenue boost, and mining is a very thin profit margin business. 1% revenue can be 10-20% profit. Furthermore, that gives an edge over the competition which doesn't use the patch which may be enough to shut them out.
Happened to me too. Or even more often, I forgot to extend solar panels and ended up out of power. Only recently I had to fly a rescue mission and do an EVA to force-extend a panel from outside.

For those who don't know KSP mods, RemoteTech adds the requirement to maintain communication links (via powered antennas) in order to be able to control unmanned vehicles. You can create relays as well (usually the first thing you do is to launch a geostationary comm network over the home planet), and the mod can account for the speed-of-light delay if you so choose.

Combine it with bunch of other mods like Kerbal Attachment System (attaching and detaching parts by kerbonauts during EVA, including pipes that let you transfer resources without docking) and one of many life support mods, and suddenly you really have to think a lot about logistics in game.
Channel 4 (UK) Interview with Yanis Varoufakis
New plugin integrates Slack channels and chats in Wordpress website
What ordering? BIP 66 isn't about ordering. It's about the validity non-DER signature encoding.
Profit sharing is vulnerable to hollywood accounting, if you're serious go for the equity option (with proper vesting, also for yourself) dividends are all you need, otherwise expect a lot of bickering in the near future (and quite probably a falling out later on).

If you don't want these people as co-founders then of course that's another problem entirely.
Part 2 is even better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NphNVZ2M2p0
There is no way to allocate objects of reference types on stack because references can easily outlive objects, leaving you with dangling references.
And as I understand ByVal in VB.NET is redundant since it's the default option. It's just a leftover from VB6 where the default was ByRef. Crazy language.
Interesting - I am slightly embarrassed a UK journo is quite so ham fistedly aggressive - but Yanis seats them ask lee easily - focuses on its all about debt restructuring, and makes the very good point it should also be about democracy
> So if the government taxed each corporation $1000 per employee, then gave you that $1000 back at the end of the year, that would mean your wages were less by $1000 a year?

In many cases is roughly what social security does. In almost all cases, this is not too grossly far off from what social security does.

No, employer's contributions to social security are not typically counted as compensation.

More importantly, though, this is beside the point because a) the exact thing you describe doesn't happen in the US; b) to the extent things like it happen, we don't historically consider them compensatory; and c) again, taxes can't explain income stagnation when net taxation is down... so even if what you're saying is true, it's irrelevant to the central point of the discussion.
Pretty funny, some of these. I added couple. How long did it take to build this ?
WiReD has always been garbage (I read it for the first five years, which is probably three too many), but at least it justified its existence early on by giving the BoingBoing writers jobs.

Has anyone else got The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook by Nagel and Sirius? That was awesome.
No blackmail? No money in return? This hacker was definitely more considerate than your typical hacker with ill intentions.
> EDIT: Downvoting me as a way of saying "I disagree" is immature.

Paul Graham has said he thinks it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement[1]

Also, you may want to familiarize yourself with HN's guidelines, which state Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Lexus’ SLIDE – The Hoverboard We’ve Always Dreamed Of?
intentionally selling you a defective product masked as a new one.

signing you up for something and then changing the terms. - fraud

And here again, the math behind the swindle claim doesn't add up. You are still paying the retail price of the phone whether you sign up for two years contract or with Next. AT&T does not lose money on either contract. - hustle

I've paid $175/month for 3 lines (2 are unlimited data and 1 is 2gb) for over 8 years now and I've always bought the $199 iPhone (with upgrade). A comparable plan with high-capped data (closest you can get to unlimited) runs only a little bit more ($185-190) for 3 lines. When I recently went to upgrade I was offered Next and the monthly cost wouldn't have been any cheaper for the lines yet I'd have had to pay an extra $2X.XX/month for the phone. Trying to persuade me that this is a better deal when it is not qualifies as a hustle. It isn't fraud since there's no bait and switch. They're just bullshitting.
by content contributes you mean the people who take 30 seconds posting a link, right? Or the ones who game the system for karma?

Very few people create content for reddit, they re-post shit the way they would on something like their facebook wall.
The problem is nobody is willing to invest the time/resources to do the due diligence and consider this deal, when the outcome will still a mess for them to maintain, and isn't a finished product (let alone have any customers).
For other people reading this who are less familiar, there is a difference between dependence and addiction. This difference offers a clear explanation behind why someone can have withdrawal symptoms from abrupt SSRI cessation despite these not being addictive drugs. It also explains why some opioid use is considered beneficial while other use is considered harmful, despite all opioids having properties that can lead to dependence.
Scrum-Agile/English Dictionary http://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/594955.html
Replace "Afghanistan" with "the Fulda Gap" and you have exactly described the A-10's original design criteria.

In a ground support aircraft, slowness is good, because then it can turn over the battlefield. Anyway, the plane can take a huge amount of punishment and still fly.
Still no answer on the reason for the dismissal of the Reddit staff member, other than speculation that it concerned a particular AMA. Disappointed that they appear not to have even asked the question; if they had surely they'd say there was "no comment" or refusal to answer or whatever.

IMO it makes a lot of difference if they were planning the dismissal for a while and screwed it up or had to react to something like gross negligence or misconduct - as the BBC was required to when Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear) hit a member of the production team and the series was postponed mid-run.

Would be ever so interesting to see Reddit's stats and stats on exit pages and the URL's visited outside Reddit by browser put off by the blackout. Maybe the NSA will release an analysis at some point ;0)>.
There's been a few interesting articles posted on HN about Pacman's internals and gameplay:

http://www.donhodges.com/how_high_can_you_get2.htm

http://gameinternals.com/post/2072558330/understanding-pac-m...

http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html...

You can find the relevant HN discussion by searching HN algolia:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=pacman&sort=byPopularity&prefi...
FoundationDB was never free software, and LLVM is still free software. 2 of the 4, right off the bat are mislabeled.
My thoughts too, both seem to be pretty decent people
> Video games can be good.

I challenge you to show me a way in which video games can be optimally good. Not just better than some carefully selected bad alternative, but better than any alternative. As in, actually a good thing to do of all options available.
1. Point a 20" box fan at yourself.

2. Sip on iced drinks.

3. Repeat #2.
"least worth anything" on a personal level to you, but in terms of monetary value probably the most valuable?
Thanks, awesome job. I'm loving the definitions I'm seeing so far. How long did it take to create this?
Playing with blocks is a far better thing to do than playing with virtual blocks.
Thank you for answering! I can see your viewpoint.

I can't decide if Jodorowsky is bit crazy or genius. Probably both.

Thinking back, yeah I did find he dedication fascinating.

I remembered him of course from his films -- Fando Y Lis, Santa Sangre, Holy Mountain. Most Americans have heard or seen a David Lynch movie, well Jodorowsky is more out there if you wish. Even if Jodo's Dune was made, I doubt it would have gained international success and become a "Star Wars". It would have been an awesome and fascinating movie but not for everyone's tastes.
I think a social photo app would require more than just the camera app and would dive into the user acquisition "arena". It's definitely a portfolio piece and I would push it as a camera alternative.

If you're looking for something extra to put into it (not sure if you are or not), I would look into the photosphere functionality that Google built into their camera for Android. I can't speak for the utilization across Android as a whole, but I use it quite a bit when I think a panorama is warranted but I also want to capture images above or below the panorama axis.
I assume Apple store employees don't try to sway people into Next when buying in the Apple store?
One of the things Servo (the web browser engine written in Rust) has not decided to write from scratch is a (high performance) js engine. If they did, they might have more feedback on this kind of things.
The only thing that makes email useful is "everybody has this thing that accepts stuff and they get notified when new stuff shows up." That's all.

Email is the single biggest vector for "hacks" and stealing money. Email is the biggest vector for spawning botnets. Heck, in half the email clients I see, there's no easy way to verify if <a href="phishingsite.com">your bank login</a> is a valid link to your actual bank or not.

Plus privacy issues, auto loading images (tracking pixels), accidentally reply-all, the ad-hoc way people think adding 50+ people to a CC list is a "mailing list," the way people think reply-all "+1 Adding Charlie" to the 50 people to add one new person to ad hoc email chain from hell is acceptable...

It's not good. It's just everywhere and people have accepted productivity killing social constructs around it so they can attempt to communicate at about a 60% effectiveness rate through such a broken medium.
32-bit opcodes are ok, even on 64-bit architectures, if you add a constant offset - see how it's done in OCaml.
These are false claims and some the entries are downright wrong; for example, FoundationDB was always proprietary.

Listing LaunchD and LLVM are also wrong as they're not "formerly" free, they're still free with communities supporting the free branch. They are code bases that are available under free AND proprietary terms.

What's the point? Public shaming in favor of copyleft? Someone hasn't read their Dale Carnegie.
PG did also say this about how downvotes for disagreement are sub-optimal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057347
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Do you remember when all you would hear is angst about the new folks who disliked "discourse" and instead wanted stupid things like cat pics all the time?

This sort of whiny bullshit has been on reddit forever, the truth is the mods went for a power play because they didn't like what the admin's did, and the users got thrown under the bus.

As a redditor of many years I just don't give 2 shits about it and I blame the mods more for the bullshit than reddit itself.
I think the issue is that the client code is running actual database queries on the server, and I don't see any restrictions on what queries can be executed.

So if you log in and authenticate (through that file), it seems like you can just open the javascript console in chrome and run any type of db query you want.
True it's tricky unless the company is just holding cash but you can get a rough idea if a market is reasonably valued by looking at measures like Tobins Q of price to cyclically adjusted earnings for stocks or prices compared to income and rents for property. A government can then say make it harder to borrow money for speculation if things look overheated. Apparently the Chinese market was trading at about 220 times earnings in April. Normal is like 10-20 times so it was looking pricey.
She's not counting loyal lurkers as 'virulent detractors?'
But what about things like /r/askscience, which most people agree provides high value content?

That they're also unhappy and have the same list of complaints strongly suggests that reddit isn't doing a good job supporting their communities.
I see the bar fill up most days, I actually think reddit has missed an opportunity by not expanding reddit gold and doing more interesting things with it.