skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we've definitely seen architects get real value from VR beyond the novelty. That's definitely one of the harder parts of being a VR company at this stage. Getting people to adopt because its actually valuable and not because it's cool or because they want to be the first.

Some of our customers are using it to analyze the impact of re-arranging work spaces or to communicate why design A while more expensive is better than design B. We've been working on and are really excited about using VR to A/B test physical spaces. We do it for websites, why not for the spaces we live in every day?

a cool case study:

www.interiorarchitects.com/blog/the-future-of-architectural-renderings-at-ia-is-in-virtual-reality/
It feels like "good" or "real" VR has been ~6 months away for the past 2 years.
Some controllers already do some similar things, more like shared secrets though. It's common in the brakes. There is some sequence of commands that have to be sent first otherwise later commands will be ignored. The problem is that 1) you can wire in a scope and watch 2) just try every possibility or 3) use the diagnostic/test messages instead that accomplish the same without all of that.
I agree with your points. I do not think even most users would want a link to take them away from the page they are on. I am wondering why links on HN let go of its visitors!
"But not letting them actually get it."

Article thesis is that funds go around that limit. Not even on purpose, just by their definition. No single company has monopoly but index funds collectively own all of them.
The beauty of modern capitalism is that it is more about incentives, not performance.

Incentives drive swings between consolidation and fragmentation, because individuals believe they can profit from being different from the status quo.
You should be embarrassed. What kind of a person writes things like this? You literally have no idea who you're talking about. You saw a name once in a story somewhere, projected a whole backstory onto that name out of your own febrile imagination, and now here you are, lobbying to make everyone else honor your delusions.
> The rein of aol was killed by stagnation and outside innovation, people seeing that there's more and better outside of aol, and the second round will probably die a similar death.

AOL was also a US-only thing, so when Internet started reaching other countries, they had no adoption.

Heck, living in south america I only even heard about what AOL was less than 8 years ago!
First, I agree with your sentiment. Cuba is an excellent example of this. It's one of the last Communist holdouts, and one of the few Communist countries we refused to open up to. Coincidence? I think not.

However, when it came to Vietnam, we merely fought a war to keep Vietnam on our side. South Vietnam was not free and democratic, so there was impossible to "keep" it that way.

It's possible, maybe even likely, that a victorious South Vietnam would have eventually opened up and turned to democracy, as happened in South Korea and Taiwan. But I think it's important to recognize how two-faced US policy was in these places, fighting "for freedom" by propping up dictators.
We originally started Pizzacharts with the goal of providing a better user experience for charting Bitcoin prices. Our goal has been to provide beautiful charts for the cryptocurrency community in a way that can communicate as much information as succinctly as possible. As such, we've sweated over each pixel and animation, and provided some features not typically seen on stock charts that can be helpful when charting long term trends or high volatity. For example, our charts can graph the volume logarithmically, invert the chart, chart the volume in either the base or the quote currency, and line knots can be proportional in size to the volume.

Since then, we've packaged our charting as a separate product for developers, which we're now announcing publicly, as we realize it can be useful to the broader financial community.

We aim for our charting library to set a new bar in the charting community as we iterate together with you!
Here's a review of Wikipedia's math articles by a mathematician:

http://wikipediocracy.com/2013/10/20/elementary-mathematics-...

If you don't already know what you are reading, you can't distinguish knowledge from nonsense.
I dunno. I've never experienced any of the problems described in the post. Always kind of dangerous to extrapolate from n=1. It also feels somewhat myopic to claim that people don't like apps like Notes or Calendar because there's more featureful alternatives. The point of stock apps isn't to please the power user.
DK1 and DK2 are light years behind the newest revision of VR tech. Try both of them back to back and see for yourself. Night and day.
More data, no problem at the LHC
From there, I cannot figure out how the vehicle
communicates to receive these messages.

Prediction: 3G/4G, with specific settings on the SIM giving it access to a private APN.
I would just trust the first option to appear when you google for it.
I don't see any issue with his analogy. My only regret is that I accidentally upvoted one of your comments when I clicked on the wrong pixel.
Some states has only one country as France you just mentioned. I don't understand why referring to facts you perceive as reality twisting. What's wrong with you?
Good job. It would be nice if benchmarks could be arranged by the gains in ascending order.
so what does this imply, security wise? Isn't public key a give-away anyways? which is what public means?

Or I'm going to ssh-keygen a new one once a while.
Bitcoin deemed regular currency by Australian Senate Committee
This is cool, but incomplete. An index fund would still want competition if by competing, Pepsi gains 100% and Coke loses 1%. i.e., in any case where competition grows the pie rather than cuts it up differently, the index fund would want competition.

I claim this is the right result. We should discourage competition where everyone ends off worse, and encourage competition otherwise. Individuals competing do things like dump goods below cost to bankrupt smaller competitors; an index would perhaps not do that.
A very interesting article. I'm not part of the Apple ecosystem so I have no way to judge its veracity, but in my experience this is a feeling common to quite a lot of users regardless of product or manufacturer.

Is this driven by competition? complacency? capriciousness? I've no idea.
Crema: A Sub-Turing Programming Language
Would installing this spyware require physical access to the device (eg. flashing the ROM?) If so, that's kind of boring, because with physical access to the phone I could just put my own bug with its own mic, using it's own power & network inside the phone's case and easily read all your data without modifying anything on the phone or giving any "tells" like increasing network usage.

Also presumably if law enforcement needed to listen in, there would be better ways to do so than to physically steal your phone... like subpoenaing the phone company.
Elon Musk: AI Is Going to Happen. Let's Prepare for It.
Bug: after loading a 1.5mb image on OS X 10.11 Beta, scrolling in the image viewer causes it to crash.

EDIT: Turns out not loading an image and just trying to scroll with the trackpad (two finger scroll) on the image viewer window causes it to crash. Normal scroll bars actually work.
Unions are supposed to support their members, and legally defend them. If it wasn't the union making this crazy request, it would be the cops' lawyers.

And that's not a bad thing. Proper legal defense is an extremely important and fundamental right, even for the people we dislike. Adequate legal defense is often how people end up needing to protect themselves from crooked cops.

If this crazy request is honored, then something is broke.
> In a move that angered customers and generated waves of online pique, Amazon remotely deleted some digital editions of [1984 and Animal Farm] from the Kindle devices of readers who had bought them.[0]

That's when I stopped leasing DRM stuff from Amazon and other sellers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18ama...
China plans security offices inside Internet firms to stop 'illegal behaviour'
CatskillsConf – A Tech Conference in the Foothills of the Catskill Mountains
Internal Server Error -- HN effect?
hopefully, Mac deployment upticks will finally convince MS to bring Mac Office to parity with Win Office.
You do have that gateway, it's likely the radio too. That thing has the most complicated and feature-full code of anything in the car and humans make mistakes when writing even simple software.
I don't think Haxe really is trying to fix JS, any more than it tries to fix C#, C++ or Java. It's similar enough to JS due to being a ES4 (ActionScript) derivative, but that's mostly a coincidence due to it's legacy.
That is true if you limit yourself to preserving some political structure. It is not true if you consider revolutions and radical changes to be politically legitimate. There is no ideology or system you can encode in prescriptive rules that endures forever. Capitalism(s) has had a long run, but so did feudalism(s). I pluralize because those systems have changed. What happened to feudalism in the end was that its fundamental tenets were overthrown. What remained could not be called feudalism. It remains to be seen if and how that occurs with capitalism. What can be discarded to make the incumbent institutions endure? How long will that last?
Sorry, that came across wrong.

Etsy already removed the ability for Sellers to leave feedback on buyers. It isn't a good thing.
No but I would be flattered to contribute what I find and organize it for you guys!
It also does something else.

It makes smaller apartments even easier to live in. Suddenly my 400 sq. ft. studio is not small, but now very spacious. In fact it's as big as I want it. Virtual, of course, but that makes tight living spaces livable. Perhaps, it can even be applied to tiny houses movement. 150 sq.ft. is now reasonable, as long as I stay in the VR area.

Given that many of the younger generation rent, I would surmise that reasonably priced VR will make rents go up even further, because small spaces will be in demand. And I'd also think the hikkomori trend from Japan will be exported to the rest of the world, as well.
AOL never sold hardware, but google, apple do. It's going to be worse.
No. It's just that the word "innovative" spoken by a company is the dead canary that tells you the company is so full of bullshit that the methane vapours are creating a fire hazard.
It's clear, that the regions varies - and you have the possibility to go and check the data in the dashboard - they are the ultimate source. It's definitely not only London and not England only. That's about it.
I am immediately reminded of http://zapatopi.net/mindguard/
I don't think I was clear so I will try again.

How does one pick the test cases for something like the GildedRose? Emily Bache, who provided the test cases for this essay and who ran the Python user group kata that I participated in, developed the test cases manually.

Are those provide test cases sufficient? As this essay shows, they are not.

The solution shown here "recorded bunch of input examples and output results from the program we wanted to refactor." However, are those seeded versions themselves sufficient?

Another solution is to use branch coverage testing to identify untested paths, and write unit tests which specifically target those paths. When I did this using Bache's unit test suite, I found that two branches were not exercised.

Even coverage analysis may not be sufficient. I mention it to suggest an alternate technique that I found useful in working with this kata.

Coverage assisted test development is, in my opinion, an underused technique.
Yet another example of why you simply can't trust or do any internet related business with Chinese firms. Even if these firms wanted to be above board they legally couldn't with Chinese cyber monitors breathing down your neck - literally.
I don't see any risk of this scenario. I invest heavily in index funds. Generally my focus is on which countries / regions I believe will outperform others. It has provided strong returns without active trading.
Oh man this is heartbreaking. I've been developing what looks to be an incredibly similar product/workflow to yours, solo, for the last 8 months.
I think Apple software is generally good but occasionally buggy, especially close to release. Apple's iOS-era policy of free updates every year has just subjected more people to these bugs more often.
Or if you want something that works now, you can use Blender, which has a very full featured video editor built in to it, and has had for a long time.
I don't understand what this means. They don't mind when poor people move out? Of course they don't.

Unless you are going to legally stop people from moving out, you are going to figure out how much you can keep the factor you apparently need -- rich people -- while letting as many poor people as possible benefit from being in a mixed-income neighborhood.
In 2012, The Economist reported that mainframes accounted for about a quarter of IBM's revenue and about half of its profits. [0] [1]

IT budgets for large banks and financial firms usually dedicate something like 20% their budget to mainframes, but it usually accounts for about 80% of the firm's workload/processing.

[0]: http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/09/ibms-mainf...
[1]: http://blog.nullspace.io/mainframes.html
I've been watching apple's software quality decrease over the past few years with increasing disappointment . It still astounds me that their test suites haven't caught the multitude of issues i've seen before shipping.

It makes me wonder if Apple actually uses their own products. Don't even get me started on the Remote app...
Run, do not do anything (do not add a filter, load images etc.) click + in Image Viewer - kaboom!
TaiG iOS 9 Jailbreak Possible – TaiG CEO Has Announced
> Leap Motion for jog and shuttle control.

I love this idea. I added the ability to scrub through the history of my paint app [1]. The circle gesture provides the direction, size, and speed which can be used to create a very expressive scrubbing tool. Fast tight circle scrub really fast and large slow circles scrub really slow with high precision. Can't wait to check out their implementation.

[1] http://youtu.be/DM1JtYyr88k
It's really frustrating for me just how many bugs Apple software has. Let's look at a simple one - the icons on iOS safari for frequently visited websites. They "randomly" assign the wrong favicon e.g. I click the Facebook icon and it loads Hacker News. This has been present since iOS 8. Yesterday I pulled down the notification screen and it occupies only 50% of my screen. Cue another reboot of the iPhone.

My iMac. Upgrading to Yosemite was the worst mistake ever. Now I have to use a cheap mouse and keyboard, as Apple's Bluetooth versions no longer wake the sleeping iMac. I have tried every solution on the Internet to this and none fix it. The beachball is becoming ever more prominent on the iMac too. Very disappointing for a machine which isn't 3 years old.

My Macbook Air. It's better, but the power button no longer does anything when I press it.

Apple products have a huge premium and the quality of the software is not matching the price tag. I am not surprised to see the stock falling; usually when IBM buy your products en masse you know something is wrong :)

I don't know what the culture at Apple is. But I don't think their software developers can be anything other than the "norm" - and I am extremely worried about their automated testing culture. Maybe someone can comment.

EDIT: I just remembered my Apple Cr*p folder home to Podcasts, Tips, Apple Watch, Calendar, Health, Apple Store, Apple Maps, Videos, Reminders and Newstand. Podcasts actually cost me money when it started downloaded podcasts over 3G despite me saying wifi only. I think that bug got fixed, but I'll never trust it again. I also forgot about the white elephant that is the Apple Time capsule I purchased. It's slow over wifi from the iMac and was one of the causes of my beachball, but the main issue was it kept saying it couldn't back up because the disk was locked. For a company like Apple who should supposedly simplify backup, the product is a shambles. Maybe this is better now, but I won't be upgrading.
In the high-res image, if you look really closely at the outline of the moon against the earth, you can see where they photoshopped away the green screen they used to fake the image.
A very sad thing. I don't think the early hackers writing GPL code envisioned this turn of events.

Most of those Internet companies would not exist if it weren't for the free and open source software that they run on.
Instead of 'liberating' people and bringing them 'freedom', the free sofware has the undesired effect of creating the Supreme Big Brother.

We are "Hacker news" here, we should be very worried about this - the early hacker's visions are being killed by the hour.

How can we win back the dream ?
Data Structures for Andela: Iterators (part 1)
Self-defense and the Law
> But at the end of the day I’m still a Developer in an Academic world. And more and more Haskell is attracting the kinds of developers who don’t know Lambda Calculus or Type Theory.

Haskell's ability to become a major language depends on its ability to attract, and keep, that kind of developer. There aren't enough developers who will learn all the theory in order to learn a programming language for Haskell to become one of the dominant languages.
Ask HN: Tech jobs in Europe
I have been living in the bay area for over 6 years now, and have worked in small and big companies as a software developer. Although the bay is awesome if you are a developer, San Francisco and the US in general is lagging behind other countries in terms of livability compared to many other countries in Europe. work-life balance takes a hit, health insurance is not free, public commute sucks, education is expensive etc. I have been thinking about moving to Europe to experience the lifestyle there. Many countries in Europe (Vienna, Switzerland, Germany etc) consistently show up in the list of most livable countries in the world published by multiple sources. I am wondering what the best way is to find developer jobs in these countries, and if anyone else out there also is thinking/thought about this
The SSL Performance Myth, and Tips for Making Secure Connections Fast
When I do buy Kindle books, I make sure I can remove the DRM and backup offsite. I should not have to do this.
I like to visualize code quality as a point on a triangle with corners labeled "readable", "extensible", and "performant." Most of what is considered "low-quality" code is biased towards one side of the triangle, and most code quality advice tends towards over-correcting that bias towards another corner of the triangle.

What I love about this presentation is that it's not advice -- it's a collection of tools for your perusal. Use at your own discretion. A lot of quote-unquote "high-quality" Ruby code I've seen is either biased towards readability, biased towards extensibility, or sitting somewhere on the edge between the two. So I really do think every Ruby developer should at least glance at this collection and be familiar with it.
How to Negotiate with a Domain Owner
I download my Kindle books, strip the DRM, and store them in Calibre with backups in AWS' Glacier.

Doesn't work for everyone, but its easier than lugging a book collection across the world. I'm paying for convenience.
This looks cool but I'm sure I used something similar over 20 years ago running on a Unix workstation at a university.

Of course I don't think it was accessible to everyone back then. I'll try and find it.
"Everyone ends off worse" - by a strange definition of everyone that leaves consumers out of the equation.
None taken, many great projects such as the Linux kernel are written in languages with near zero type safety, and their authors with tremendous experience continue to this day to advocate the choice of languages with poor type safety over those with excellent type safety.

I think it's worth hearing Linus out on the reasons you might want to choose a less type safe language over a type safe one.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
Complementing Hadoop at Yahoo: Interactive Analytics with Druid
WildTangent to Launch Unique Mobile App Reservation and Delivery Service
Loss of focus and feature creep. They've became an engineering company (as opposed to an "appliances" company, I guess). This, of course, IMO.
Slack has exactly the same problem.

How could one connect to Slack, without using Slack? What open protocol does Slack use for its internal communication?

Convincing everyone to switch to Slack is just as bad as convincing everyone to switch to Facebook Messenger.
Seattle Pissed at Amazon: from traffic to housing, we’re all worked up
Still waiting for it to "come" to Austin.

But on the plus side, TWC, ATT, and Grande (my favorite) all upgraded their networks in Austin in the year+ after Google's announcement. Even though coverage still isn't complete, we have all of them fighting it out.
I'm confused, what does GPL have to do with China's restrictions on the internet?
what is your backend stack ?

is redshift that cost effective ?
The article also explains that this is only true when a few large players control the market. E.g. an index that includes all of the major pharmaceutical companies. Indexes generally don't invest in startups taking on the incumbents, so there's an opportunity there as long as competition is realistic / the existing players are not too entrenched.
Show HN: Hootsuite for Instagram
Best place to learn magic online is theory11 (http://www.theory11.com). They work with David Copperfield, JJ Abrams, and make cool cards with MailChimp. Production quality is great. I'm also a big fan of Scam School on YouTube (Brian Brushwood).
As far as I've read "index tracking" is seen as this wonderful thing that cannot go wrong. Until it does. It's another way of saying "this time is different".

The last part of my comment is related to the fact that "index tracking" and all the related "investment strategies" rely on the assumption that, over all, things will only go up, i.e. ROI will always be positive. I questioned that assumption. We cannot guarantee that in 30 years' time (let's say) we will still be able to return 3-5% on our huge piles of pension funds' money, no matter the strategy. What I'm saying is that we should be prepared for a stagnating or even deflationary world, financially and economically speaking
Three Years on Mars
It's worth noting that San Antonio has had a fiber network in the ground for years that it's municipally owned utility company put in.

The only reason it isn't open is because the state government passed a law forbidding municipal ISPs.
You're right. Thankfully, I had a quote to give some context to what I was trying to rebut. It'd be great if a mod could change the location of the reply.
If you have any multiple of 9 and repeatedly add the digits, you get back to 9:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_root

Conversely, if you have any number whose digits added together sum to 9 (or a multiple of 9), the original number is a multiple of 9.

So, all of your original sum numbers (999, 99, 27, 1485, 2871, and 42858) are themselves multiples of 9, which will be the case for any number obtained by adding a set of numbers which together contain all and only the digits 142857. That means a lot of other "also" additions will work out too! You can even change the order, like 578 + 214 = 792 (a multiple of 9, and hence the digital root will end up being 9). Any order and any choice of how to break the numbers will work, because of the digital root property (and, importantly, the rule that "The digital root of a + b is congruent with the sum of the digital root of a and the digital root of b modulo 9").
Have you thought about switching to type script to get the benefits of type safety?

http://www.typescriptlang.org/