skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe VR Journalism is the future of journalism and the Killer App for VR: place multiple 360 cameras in the same area, and the area can be reconstructed to the degree a that a person wearing a headset can walk freely around the space viewing where ever they choose. Now imagine installations like that in Paris right now - being able to see and walk in the places the attacks took place, or imagine such an installation on the red carpet at the Oscars, or such a treatment for sports. Being able to project oneself into live, impact events and view them unfold is the Killer App for VR.
S3renity:  Easy batch operations in S3 (forEach, map, reduce, filter)
Yeah FT links here are useless unless there really are a lot of people who subscribe...
Putin is building underwater drones to carry nuclear weapons
Their latest LP was added to Spotify a month ago, FWIW.
Opportunity: Doctors Complain About Electronic Health Record Technology
every technical job i've ever interviewed for:

Q: where do you see yourself in 1 / 2 / 5 years?

A: The last couple jobs i've answered with "I'd like to find myself in a management / leadership type of roll - I know enough about technology / what my industry (programming) does and operates that I think I'd be a great project manager". I've yet to accomplish this; i'm still a full stack developer (albeit, making good money) but I have yet to break into management at a day job.

If I get asked this in the next job my answer will most likely be "I have no idea. I don't want to say "well see where the wind takes me" but the technology landscape changes to quickly and to frequently to make any educated guess as to where it'll be in 1 / 2 / 5 years - and as a developer, you need to go where technology goes. 8 years ago, I was a systems administrator; 5 years ago, I was writing almost exclusively in PHP. This year, it's almost all AngularJS and NodeJS. I'll know where I'll be tomorrow when tomorrow comes."

or something like that.
0. We should try to counter the radical ideology by allowing everyone to air their grievances in public without condemning or shouting down those we disagree with. Debate should be welcomed and encouraged not stifled and stigmatised otherwise those with extremist views will still be able to seek out the impressionable and monopolise the narrative they hear.

As I see it this is the most important solution. Trying to catch people just as they are about to commit an atrocity doesn't go anywhere to help solving the root problem. Extremists have been using secure lines of communication for a while and will continue to do so regardless of whether is is decreed legal or illegal and this is to say nothing of offline communication.

You may prevent some fraction of the attempts, but many will be successful and all we will be doing is treating the symptoms whilst probably severely aggravating the cause. No one has their privacy routinely violated and feels more sympathetic to those violating those rights.

We have been involved in a battle of ideas and we need to start formulating a response on this front. Everything else is secondary.
Major rental agencies only. I would never rent a car from a private individual. Nor would I borrow a car from a private individual unless I know they keep their stuff up-to-date.
Not every comment mentioning gold is automatically downvote-worthy. In case of market collapse, gold does tend to have more utility than other assets.
I encounter this problem all the time, incidentally also with calls.

Often I'll doing something at the same moment as someone else calls me, I end up hanging up the incoming call by mistake. A delay in "screen change" would be great!
"Mindfulness meditation reduced pain by activating brain regions (orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate cortex) associated with the self-control of pain while the placebo cream lowered pain by reducing brain activity in pain-processing areas (secondary somatosensory cortex).

Another brain region, the thalamus, was deactivated during mindfulness meditation, but was activated during all other conditions. This brain region serves as a gateway that determines if sensory information is allowed to reach higher brain centers. By deactivating this area, mindfulness meditation may have caused signals about pain to simply fade away, Zeidan said."
On unix at least (linux and aix) there was mount / umount of a floppy, which should always be done before removing it from the slot. Linux couldn't force you though, but it was good practice.
I recently watched Guy Steele's "Growing a Language" talk. It's very much related to jmoiron's post here, and is worth a watch despite its age:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0

Steele's commentary on "Worse is Better" seems to me to be a better representation of the original essay than the one expressed here about Go. Steele says:

"The gist of ['Worse is Better'] is that the best way to get a language used by many persons is not to design and build 'The Right Thing,' because that will take too long. In a race, a small language with warts will beat a well designed
language because users will not wait for the right thing; they will use the language that is quick and cheap, and put up with the warts. Once a small language fills a niche, it is hard to take its place."

In other words, the lesson of 'Worse is Better' is that getting a 'good enough' thing to market, and benefiting from the network effects of its widespread use, will always beat getting the 'the really good' thing to market in the same category, because the cost of delay is the loss of (community) network effects. The illustrative example here is UNIX and C, but it can be easily cross-applied to more recent projects.

From that vantage point, Go isn't a good example of 'Worse is Better'. It occupies the same niche as C, but was delivered nearly 4 decades later. It seems to be a "second edition of C" designed with very explicit goals of correcting specific deficiencies of C as a systems programming language, but without the scope creep that characterizes many "second systems".

Other languages -- like Python and Scala -- occupy completely different niches and have already achieved similar scale of network effects.

The rest of Guy Steele's talk is worth watching, because his high-level point is that the languages that win aren't the simpler ones, or the ones with the simplest/best design, but instead are the "growable" ones that get to market. For example, from Steele's vantage point, the success of a programming ecosystem like Python's would be evaluated as follows: it isn't that it has the right level of simplicity/dynamism, or an appropriate programming paradigm. That Python made good decisions there helps, but they aren't the key ingredients. Instead, its success is that it shipped in 1991, evolved over time to keep up with programming trends, that it has an awesome 'import' statement, and that programmers feel they can 'grow' the language through libraries (e.g. Django for web development, Pandas for data analysis) without waiting on the slow core language or stdlib evolutionary process.
Great point; I remember being really bummed out by the Youtube app for iOS in ~2009 not having playlists. It's not exactly a power feature.
> At the very least, this study tells us that the mindfulness meditation is a 'more effective' placebo than the cream.

Which leads one to consider - what is a placebo anyway? It's a mental state one puts oneself in that improves physically measurable symptoms. That seems indistinguishable to me from meditation. If you think about it, it's kind of funny that skeptics like to dismiss impressive sounding treatments as being placebos. A placebo is a pretty impressive phenomenon!

If one can reliably create a reliable, powerful treatment that actually works (fixes what you're targeting rather rather than symptoms, unless symptoms are what you're targeting as in this case) by putting ones self into a mental state, that sounds like a win, even if it does meet the definition of a placebo.
Entrepreneurial Toolkit
Yes. It's a huge problem, and it looks like it is getting larger by the day.
Also, is it legal to posses a ROM that you own physically? I would think legal precedents for archiving or ripping (format conversion) might apply.
Ben Horowitz's preface to High-Output Management
> We've reached the point where the Islamic State is a nation-state, which is at war with a number of other states (including France).

Ok. So if it indeed can be attributed to them, or if they go out and admit, then fine, send in the tanks - the Paris attack would be an act of war.

> considering how crazy the latest security law are, I don't see how much worse it can get in this regard.

Oh it can. We have a long way to go from what we have now to what was in USSR or Nazi Germany. I just hope we don't decide to run the distance.

What worries me more is that the overrection will be aimed at immigrants and minorities who live in Europe. There already are reports of this beginning to happen.
Key quote:

>And ultimately, for all the success indicated in the MDRC study, the same study shows that three years after completing the program, there are few significant differences between graduates and their peers in the control group on measures of crime, delinquency, health, or lifestyle outcomes.
If only it was so.

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
I always wonder why I never see this one on lists of choices:

5. Stop killing large numbers of Muslim people in the Middle East every week and see if that doesn't make them less likely to kill comparatively small numbers of people in Western cities every couple of years.
Same here. I'd also add OS X UI has gone downhill since the good old Tiger days, backporting all bad ideas from iOS.

Somehow, it feels like the hardware design guys at Apple took over UI design and seem to have broken all the guidelines created by their former HIG lab, which once was at the forefront of UI research [1].

Now it seems minimalism (flat design) for the sake of it trumps everything else. I miss cozier designs, and so do many other heavy users I think.

[1] http://interface.free.fr/Archives/Apple_HIGuidelines.pdf
In the UK you have a duty of care even if your visitors aren't paying. And even if you didn't invite them (eg. trespassers).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupiers'_Liability_Act_1957
While most real estate agents are completely useless I don't believe the profession is useless. A good real estate agent knows everything about the area they service. What areas have bad reputations and crime scores but are perfectly safe? What areas have development plans in the works? What are the local laws and ordinances, how does that affect your purchase? How difficult is it to get permits for types of work? Are residents fleeing an area because of upcoming re-zoning that isn't well published? They'll have a vast network of trusted service professionals that can help you renovate. They will know little things like which HOA has unreasonable board members or which homes keep going up for sale because the next door neighbor is crazy.

On top of all that small but invaluable information a good real estate agent will make the process of buying your home smoother. I don't think many people have an appreciation for how difficult it is to manage a title company, the seller's agent, three attorneys, a loan officer and the bank. Contrary to popular belief it is not always in the best interest for them to all work together. In some cases one or several of those parties my have a vested interest in slowing the process down or killing the deal completely.
> So unless your solution for the "prime cause" is glassing the middle east a large portion of asia and africa there won't be just one simple solution.

And even that won't work since our societies have become quite intermingled.
IBM’s Design-Centered Strategy to Set Free the Squares
Einstein's ideas went against the orthodoxy of his time.

Of course, Einstein had facts and logic on his side.
I'm still confused. This seems completely trivial.
Press the "web" button above then click on the first link.
we're not discussing the motives of gender studies researchers.

Have you considered the possibility that those researchers have the same motivation as the "friends"? You brought up gender studies researchers by referencing material of questionable scientific credibility.

As to you "doing a lot of work on exactly that subject", what are the results? Why do you, like a lot of men, automatically genuflect to damsels, going on about their distress?
Microsoft Invented Google Earth in the 90s, Then Blew It
You do know there's not one monolithic body of Sharia jurisprudence, right? ISIS supporters hew to specific juristic readings and would abhor the Sharia of many other sects...
That can't happen without crashing the entire system. Interest rates are effectively zero because everyone (governments, businesses, citizens...) is carrying all the debt they can handle. If they try to raise the interest rates the entire world will go bankrupt. As usual, Bloomberg points the finger at bank regulation. The banks should never have survived the 2008 crash, but $2.5Trillion buys you a lot of time. Remember, all that QE went to pay down financial sector losses from the crash. It didn't do anything to ease the debt logjam.
Beyond Reactive – QoS for Apps – ΜCon 2015
Except the headline is not true. One was brought up in Nazi society, knowing his Jewish ancestry but kept it quiet.

The other not brought up Jewish and didn't really become part of his life until he was 15.

That is radically different from what the clickbait headline suggests.
I don't know which floppy drives you used, but the ones I did had no push-button. It was software only. I skimmed through the models in Wikipedia and couldn't see any with manual ejects.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Macintos...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Macintos...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Macintos...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Macintos...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Power_Ma...
Surveillance is not going to fix the issue. If we want to have fewer terrorist attacks, we have to prevent radicalisation by fixing the social issues that cause it. If we continue to do nothing, the problems will get worse, and surveillance will be futile.

Fixing social issues is not easy. Masses of youths without education or perspective, racism, increasing segregation between the middle and lower classes can't be fixed with simple methods.

Where do we start? I'd suggest starting with schools. Make sure that kids go to school. Send social workers to schools, that talk to students. Offer courses in the native language of migrant children, to make sure they are not left behind and drop out early. Make sure that every student has a grown up at school that they can talk to, that they relate to.

Next, housing. Rents in most european cities are skyrocketing. I assume that this is caused by the current low interests rates, which lead to more and more people to use real estate as an investment. Low interest rates also make credit cheap, increasing the amount people can pay for housing, again increasing prices. This means that even the middle class is struggling to afford housing, and people working low income jobs have to live in very low quality housing, in poor areas. Fixing this is probably not easy, and probably requires a number of unpopular measures like rent control, or subsidised housing (for example you could require real estate developers to offer a percentage of affordable appartements when they apply for a permit to construct a new building).

Also, jobs. I really don't know how to fix this. A starting point would probably be to require minimum wages even for contract employees, or better to outlaw the current practices of hiring people as "independent contractors" instead of proper employees.

Anyway, these are just some suggestions. Note that all these measures are about helping people, rather than harassing them. Happy people don't become terrorists, and happy people don't need to be put under surveillance.
As someone who has actually found Apple's design principles to be stupid and dumbed-down to the point of being dumb, I am not sure if I agree or disagree with this article.
The number of magic numbers in that code makes me a bit nervous.
Correct.

262.5 lines/frame * 60 frames/sec = 15750 Hz.

Ref: http://www.infocellar.com/television/scanning.htm
Stack-able queue consumer framework in Scala using RabbitMQ, Akka and Mongo
#1 seems acceptable to me.

Yes, these attacks are horrific and I wouldn't wish this on any nation. But it's not worth sacrificing our essential values to save a few lives.

Automobiles kill way more people than terrorists ever will, yet I don't see anyone calling for the evisceration of liberty to protect us from it.
What a load of crock.

LoL is still easily the most toxic community I've ever laid eyes on, and most of the toxicity is created by the way Riot has implemented their system.

All it takes is 1 person to ruin an hour of your day, and if you try and refuse to allow it to be ruined, riot will ban you (you're forced to play a game with someone who is purposefully losing the game because they didn't get what they wanted, and there's nothing you can do except spend the next 30-40 minutes in a game you know is a loss or get banned for leaving the game early).

The result is that the community writes these long articles about the "art of dodging". For those unaware, the game happens in 2 stages. "champ select" during which everyone decides on the role and character they're going to play, and then the game itself. If you leave during champ select you get a penalty before you can rejoin a game. First dodged game is 5 minutes, every subsequent dodge is 30 minutes (resets 24 hours after your first dodge).

Because champ select + game tends to last an hour and a dodge only lasts 30 minutes, you save time by dodging and waiting. It gets more subtle than that, in that your teammates might get angry at you halfway through the game and then decide to purposefully lose the game for you. Because of this, it becomes an art to determine how much risk you have of wasting time going into a game.

So there's these guides running around about how to determine when to dodge as a means of climbing rank (most people will tell you that learning when to dodge is absolutely a skill necessary for climbing quickly).

This is all a result of Riot's decision not to give players a means of extricating themselves from these games in a reasonable manner coupled with too much leniency in ranked games with respect to people who do this sort of thing.

What happens a lot of times is people get really angry because they end up wasting 3 or 4 hours from these trolls in a single day. A 17 year old off for the summer can play 10+ games a day, a 25 year old with a job cannot, and so that 25 year old can often get very frustrated when he loses multiple games in a row due to trolls. And when you consider it takes another win to even out the loss, it's actually 2 hours that troll took away from you.

I stopped playing league because I got tired of just how time consuming it is to play that game and climb rank.
That's....a great point.

As the saying goes, "If you don't like the advertisement, you're not in the target market."
you are not supposed to use minimize so often.

So you are saying he is "holding it wrong"...
Interactive Real Time Music Game (aka Twitch makes electronic music)
Sadly, I uninstalled Spotify days ago. I cant pay for their service from where I live, but I can pay for Google .
Thanks anyway.
Square's IPO: the beginning of the end of the unicorn-driven tech bubble?
Why should the OPEC stop pumping? Why is it expected that the OPEC has to regulate prices?

Lifting prices, the cost of bringing oil to the surface, are much higher in the US than in the most important OPEC producers. Regulating the price by limiting supply would benefit non OPEC, high lifting cost producers the most. This are different times, now OPEC is letting the market, governed by supply and demand set the prices.

The expectation before was that non OPEC countries would produce as much as they could and OPEC would supply the leftover demand. It was called "The Call on OPEC" that was back when the US was a net importer. Now the US producers more oil than what it imports. Heck, is producing more oil than Saudi Arabia!

This article explain quite well how the call on OPEC used to work and why it is crazy in today's environment:

http://blogs.platts.com/2015/01/02/opec-call-price-collapse/

Edit: excuse my English, is not m my native language and this was written on a phone.
Former Apple Fellow Don Norman: “How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name”
Would happen if you were shorting
5. Close borders, transfer populations, and return to ethnostates. Use Israel and her 20' concrete border walls as a template.
Why Your Secure Building Isn’t
No offense generally means "I'm about to be a cunt and expect you to suck it up." You aren't being a cunt but you completely failed to address any arguments. All you've got are assertions.
Glad I'm not alone!

Not delay in screen change - system can't predict when user is going to press the button. But it is highly unlikely that the change of screen occured, I have noticed it, found the correct button and pressed it - all in 50 ms... The system should just disregard the touch, because it was obviously meant for previous screen.
This doesn't work for me. I get the same thing.
Safer than the deck of the South Dakota.
> The default grey background with white lines was just pulled from one of Tufts's books without a second of thought b/c these grey backgrounds are horrible waste of ink when printing

I don't follow. If it's a waste of ink, why were they in a book? And why is it bad to copy them to ggplot, which - well, I don't know whether print or screen or neither is considered its primary focus, but there's no denying that it's used a lot for screen graphics, and those don't need to worry about ink.
Just found out about this.

I'm a bit out of contact with Debian politics - anyone got an insight? Quite a few derivative distributions depend on this tool for making .isos that are their main installation vehicle.