skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People say a lot of things. Doesn't make them right.
"gather eggs from the chickens"?
UX in email design
As much as VR purists love to hate it, Google Cardboard was the first to market.
If I recall correctly, the DK2 tops at 75Hz, wich is not so extreme.
As important as the resolution is the PWM induced flickering (perceptible to some) that may cause eye fatigue, headache, nausea etc.

Hope the displays are better than their past models.

T450s is supposed to have a good display in terms of PWM flicker.
Yup. The lenovo p50/p70 will offer 64GB of ECC RAM.

They were suppose to come out last year, but were delayed for some reason.
Am I the only one that's still a little skeptical? I'm sure that it's a great technology and we will see interesting things come out of it, but statements like this

> Oculus + 3D audio + input + eventual tactical is going to completely blur the lines of reality in ways we can't yet imagine.

kind of just make me roll my eyes. We've been hearing things like that for decades. Is it really going to blur the lines of reality? You'll still be sitting a chair with a machine strapped to your face. People also think it will change video games forever, but I honestly don't see how. It improves immersion, but for me, immersion isn't even on the top 10 list of things that I care about in games.

Feel free to disagree, but I'm just saying that people are really hyping this thing up.
The touch controllers are delayed, won't be ready for launch. It's a wet fart.
Yeah, this already exists. Slack hasn't added many commands to their marketplace, but if this is at all successful, they will.

Don't see how this lives as part of the Slack ecosystem. Maybe their goal is to become standalone.
Right but you'd have to document what each constant represents. Interface builder gives us a universal language. You know what the UI will look like or how it will resize etc. because it's right there. There's no confusing constant names with magic numbers. You know the why behind the constraint values because you can see it.
And without a bouncer your client must be always on to have any backlog. Mobile access sucks without a bouncer. Even with a bouncer it sucks for anyone not technical.
I've tried both (and own a Vive) and the Touch definitely has better ergonomics and is more analogous to having your hand in the world whereas the Vive 'wands' feel like you are holding a stick. It's not a clear cut decision. Personally I prefer Touch.
Excellent alignment of braces. Also, he appears to be using a 3-space indent, but that's not so obvious due to proportional font.
Facebook’s Android Contingency Planning (requires Email)
I think that's right. The terms 'design' and 'model' are often used for this nowadays. Naur's point is that a program is a shared mental construct that lives in the minds of the people who build it. The source code is not the program. It's the canonical written representation, but a lossy one.
If anything science tends to point more to the fact that there isn't a single metric of intelligence that is somehow the most important. Maybe the most important factor isn't intelligence at all and is some combination of intelligence, communication and charisma? Even if there some set of human dominating factors, there's no guarantee that the order of the world in that moment would consistently value that factor without changing to another. There isn't even a guarantee that at the same point in time the same fitness tests are applied consistently - in one corner of the world one set of characteristics if favored, and and in another it's a different set. Heck, in the same city there's a huge variation...

In this environment the best we can to is provide somewhat consistent access to resources to encourage the development human ability in all its varied forms.
Plastic Passion: The Civil Engineering Solution to Weak Roadways
> Then again, a car is a car is a car,

also,
a phone is a phone

an airline is an airline

a shoe is a shoe

....

Clearly consumers have preferences in any of these markets today. Even in cars today. That won't change with CaaS.
Absolutely - when a person cannot act as an adult in the real world, the LAST THING you want to do is have any contact with them. HR are obligated to side with the female in practically every situation short of physical assault on her part, as anything else opens them up for some serious litigation.

Just think of her as a bully - give her a wide berth while passing her on the corridor, don't stay in common areas when she's there if you can help it, and if you ever get invited to the same party as her by a mutual friend, stay at the other end of the room. Best of all, if you can, quit your job. You don't want toxic people in your life.
huge fan of Boiler Room, this is sounds like an awesome job!
Did you read the article? Every router... routes, so every router needs to speak the new protocol. If you tried to send packets in an IPv4-compatible way, what would you put for their addresses? They'd end up in nondeterministic routing loops which would be terrible to debug.
Hey, "Arabic" numerals are finally conquering Roman numerals at the Super Bowl. Take heart!
Stories of up and coming bands signing stupid deals are far to common. Too many greedy managers, record companies and representatives with their hands out when someone gets a bit of fame.
The 1966 Sci-Fi Animation That Shaped Me
>sitting on the deck of a mountain cabin with no Internet connectivity

As someone who often struggles to 'turn off' after work, this is my favorite way to disconnect. I try to make it out fairly regularly to camp deep in the backcountry–there's no better relief from work stress than sitting by a campfire in the forest, a full day's hike from the car, parked an hour's drive past the last trace of cell service.

The feeling of freedom is intoxicating–the feeling that there is literally no way that some work 'emergency' could crop up and demand my attention. It's something I used to get on airplanes, but with the increasing availability of in-flight wifi it's not quite so peaceful.
Getting Started with Kubernetes on Google Container Engine
Now watch this face plant in the market. It's a niche product with horrifically overinflated expectations, steep pricing, and no application ecosystem or clear, killer-app use case. Good luck folks, you're gonna need it.
Most people aren't hauling scrap, either. And of course there could be autonomous solutions for that. If you don't have to own the truck, you could more easily get some sort of enclosed vehicle (like a box truck or small dump truck) to do the hauling, because your investment is very small (you only need it for a few hours or days).
Seriously! The complete lack of vision from people who self-claim to be "visionary startup leaders" is mind numbing! And if you can get them to think even a little on the problem, all they can come up with is pedestrian garbage like movie viewing apps.
I moved to Linux and it's even better than I expected
The only shipping information currently available (to the public) is 'starts shipping Q1 2016'.
Eventually, yeah. E.g. a lot of ISPs have shut down their Usenet servers over the last few years.

But it could easily take another 20 years to reach that point.
I don't disagree that people could be servers much more easily in the early days.

But my mum doesn't want to be a server. And I don't really want my TV being one either.
How does it alert the publishers that a donation has been made?
How can I be ensured that my donation is going to the right place?
Can this auto donate a set amount per site?

Good idea but advertising vs altruism is a tricky battle. I will try it.
You nailed it! Fixed. :)
That's a pretty good point; same price as a smartphone, and I upgrade that pretty frequently (although, less and less frequently as time goes on and no compelling new features are being added)
I thought he meant working as a button pusher or machine operator in a factory and not working as engineer in a factory.
For me that kind of story gives extra justification to abolish copyrights in the way they currently are. Our culture is being held hostage by all these games and the real artists get paid very little.

Meanwhile, we technologists should just torrent stuff to make a point and continue to innovate with systems that make copyright obsolete.
Correction: it's a thing that she thought he had done based on hearsay from other coworkers, but which he hadn't actually done. Could have been "Hey, so-and-so told me you have a great rack when we were both wasted at the bar", used as a flirty opening by a coworker, but one which backfired spectacularly.
I'm not enthused simply because there is no pricing info, and no ship date. Until those exist, this is just marketing.
Just because you haven't encountered it doesn't mean it is not true. Most "cheddar" at your average US supermarket isn't even cheddared (but undergoes a washed-curd process instead, and optionally addition of annato to re-add colour and "flavor").
They would get sued for libel, and they would lose because these taste tests are not valid evidence in US court.

I suspect the problem is somewhat overstated - to me it sounded like the tasters believed the olive oils were lower-grade, but without a rigorous definition of what that is it's hard to say how big the problem is.

Personally, I buy the lower-grade EVOO for sautéing. I'm going to be disappointed if it's really just olive oil with chlorophyll added, but at the same time I'm not looking for high-grade stuff when I buy a $10 bottle of oil. It would be a waste for what I'm doing with it.
Colyseus – Minimalistic MMO Game Server for Node.js
string.Template is the one used for i18n, it is simple for the end user so has a use.
Red tape and a three-year FOI battle with Cabinet Office
Will Future Historians Consider These Days the Digital Dark Ages?
Google is not the only group whose statistics show this trend.

Here are a bunch more, including measurements from CDNs, ISPs, network exchanges, RIRs, the US government, and other large content providers, as well as analysis of publicly available information like AS tables, DNS records, Alexa lists: http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/ http://bgp.he.net/ipv6-progress-report.cgi

My own personal measurements support these claims. I worked on a small academic conference website not too long ago and the percentage of signups from IPv6 addresses approximately matched the traffic % that Google published for that time period. My own website statistics see a higher level of IPv6 traffic than Google shows, though it caters to a more technical crowd so I am not surprised.

10% global IPv6 deployment is not a Google conspiracy. =)
Waiting to see exactly how high above their original ~$350 target price the thing will go for before I decide whether this is interesting/exciting news or not.

Pricepoint determines market adoption. It could be the "best thing ever" at $1k and no normal consumer would buy one, leading to a drying up of interest and market adoption, resulting in a dead product. Given who's supporting it, granted, that's not a very likely outcome, but it's still something to keep in mind.
Heka with InfluxDB and Grafana
Now that I look at it again it also seems offensive.
Switched it to a more boring but more suitable logo.

Thanks.
FYI: https://www.bountysource.com/

It would be interesting to see some type of collaboration between similar sites, including:

- http://24pullrequests.com/

- https://www.codemontage.com/

- http://www.codetriage.com/

- http://www.lookingforpullrequests.com/

- https://bountify.co/

- https://www.bountysource.com/

- http://yourfirstpr.github.io/

- http://socialcoder.org/
Laptops and tablets webcam security issues
I'm consistently impressed with the results that Aphyr publishes. Always very thorough and as balanced as I've ever seen regarding database testing.

In addition, I really appreciate the approaches that RethinkDB team have taken. Their approach to features and growing the product have been impressive and well calculated. I've followed several issues, and know that they work well on changes that take multiple steps and iterations to achieve (automatic failover, for example). I'm hoping to have more opportunity to use their product in the future (out of my hands at my current position).
I do not prefer my home network to be part of the internet. I have insecure devices, things I'm developing or testing, things that third parties have developed. Having my network as a non-addressable space with outbound-only connection forming is a positive for me and I suspect many people.

I hope that as IPv6 takes hold this continues to be the default setup.
Life Sciences Marketplace Quartzy Raises $17M to Build Up the Supply Side
Why can't your job be one of those? Why do your employers feel entitled to free labor?
In that time I’ve reviewed a total of 251 resumes.

63 of those have gone on to an interview (25% of applications received)

That statistic stuck out to me and it looks really high. When I've gone through resumes for technical positions, less than 5% looked like something we'd want to set up an interview for. I'm guessing places like Google and Facebook interview less than 1% of their stacks of resumes. Is anyone else in that 25% acceptance range for interviewing programming positions?
Actually, Elder Scrolls Online on the DK2, using Vorpx, is a lot of fun. It's not perfect, but it's much cooler than the game without it, and I've not had any sickness in it.
The difference between real first-cold-pressed EVOO and olive oil is the same as the difference between butter and oil.

What's going on here is basically like cutting butter with oil. Yeah, you probably won't notice at 10%, but you will definitely notice at 50%.
I genuinely don't understand your point. You make it sounds like newspaper editorial policy is some gross conspiracy, or that newspapers aren't published every day. Or that I somehow even mentioned wanting keyword search anyway - as if that's even relevant to getting a daily news overview.

Seriously, what's your point?
The closest thing to "power windows" would likely be "needs an SSD." Since they don't normally put SSDs into their cheapest i3 machines, only the i5s with the 1080p displays (or better).

Also an SSD is a valid requirement if you actually need to get stuff done, in particular development/SysAdmin-like stuff.
My X220 has an i5, 16 GiB RAM, and a battery run time of 19 hours.

Still waiting for a worthy replacement. The X260 clearly isn't one.
> It's not obvious. A twenty-year deployment plan is a joke: Maybe this is the best they could come up with, but that doesn't convince me this was a good plan, or IPv8 should be modelled on this deployment.

It weren't broke, so nobody would ever fix it. A twenty year deployment period has no intrinsic problem, only philosophical ones. IPv6 was not needed, if not for the IPv4 exhaustion. When it became necessary, deployment started.

> You have that backwards: No sound company would launch its services in IPv6 only because the Internet is IPv4.

You read me wrong. I did not mean single stack IPv6. I meant dual stack IPv6/v4. The Internet is no longer IPv4 only. If it isn't clear to you yet, it will become so along the next 12-24 months.
Scaling Compose: The Road to 100 (How we'll grow after an IBM acquisition)
Pretty good reasoning. I'm not sure though that income inequality is necessary for progress. I think it's a side effect of progress but not a cause for it. I think it might be possible to obtain hard work from smart people without a lot of inequality. Of course rewards are important, and in that sense some amount of inequality is necessary for innovation to happen. But if you look at the bulk of major breakthroughs in technology throughout history, they were done by academics or government employees. Sure we need investors to get excited. But for that we don't need insane levels of inequality.

The bottom line for me is that "taxation doesn't remove incentives". We need people to get excited about making money, and investing in startups, but we don't need most of the crap that neo cons are trying to push on us. 99% of problems we face that have to do with inequality won't affect rates of innovation and startups.

We can see that nordic countries have even better rates of startups and entrepreneurship per capita than the US as a whole. What this means is that we can deal with the inequality problem in a smart way and be better off. There is fundamentally no difference between taxation of successful people or companies, and spreading the risk like YCombinator does. This is the solution. It's just the smart thing to do. The reason we're not doing it is not because "we don't know what to do", or because "inequality is necessary for progress" but because people are dumb and are being brainwashed by the media.

Please read my comment (mike429) and answer any point you disagree with. You sound smart so I'd like to see if you make more sense than me on the things I pointed out. Thanks.
It would be interesting to see how this would be handled in the European Union. It's almost certain that it would have been more work for the HR department than in the US.
The Definitive Guide on How Large Corps Use Tax Loppholes
So... the answer is Ford, I suppose.
Swift is a multi-paradigm language. In that Ray Wenderlich article you linked, he writes "This tutorial focuses on just one of these methodologies, FP (Functional Programming)"
Why would the autonomous vehicle I rent for a commute ever be the same one you use to load up with refuse from your home remodel?

Wouldn't it make way more sense for you to rent (or own) a pickup truck and for me to rent an autonomous passenger vehicle?

Setting autonomous vehicles aside, current short-term car rental companies (i.e Zipcar) have requirements on the condition you return a passenger vehicle in, vs a cargo/hauling vehicle.

I've rented a Zipcar pickup truck to haul a load of concrete pavers, but I wouldn't try to do the same in one of their regular passenger vehicles.

There should be a sufficiently large market for both use cases that there should be limited sharing of vehicles between them.
Ford was in bad shape in 2006.

Does anyone even remember the Ford of 2006? With their awful Focus when everyone was clamoring for the euro version? Or the Ford 500?

They didn't avoid a "bailout" because they were a strong company. Two years earlier they mortgaged everything (including the iconic blue-oval logo) while money was still cheap. It was pure luck. Not strength or some sort of moral superiority.

So by the time the crash rolled arounds and GM and Chrysler couldn't do the same, Ford had already secured over $25 billion in funding, with another $5 billion in government loans to refresh some factories to produce greener cars.

I'm not trying to argue GM or Chrysler did or didn't "deserve" a bailout. It's just a pet peeve of mine that there's this revisionist aura around Ford these days. They sold Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata for $2.3B, about half what they paid, and significantly less than they've made since. They sold Aston Martin for about $1B (well, that one was probably not a bad idea at least). They also sold Volvo for another $1.5B. They liquidated their stake in Mazda to the tune of about $500M dollars. Discounting the F-series, Ford easily had the worst portfolio, and were in trouble years before the others. They sold off several brands at a significant loss for some quick cash. Not all of those were smart moves in hindsight and they lost their shirts on most.

While Ford has taken government assistance, they've milked their amazing ability to avoid TARP by failing before everyone else for all it's worth. Will they be as lucky next time? What are they going to put into a $10B fire-sell next time? And will they be lucky enough next time to secure $25B in loans while the market money is still flowing? Will the government be handing out $5B loans to modernize factories?

I guess time will tell, but I felt like the conversation could use a little balance.
It seems that shitty screens is the one IBM tradition Lenovo will defend adamantly.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10637828
I don't have any experience with zeromq as I mostly deal with AMQP protocols. But good that you mention it - if there is a demand I can dig into it.

There are quite a few other message queue systems out there.
I can also imagine that pipecat could work as a kind of migration systems between them. But this probably should be a separate tool as it requires shuffling around metadata as well.
Thank you for clarifying the tracking differences, didn't realize the Rift had added so much. I'm interested in room-scale tracking, but my apartment is pretty tiny so I'm not sure I would actually get to use it (so maybe the Vive would be overkill)

Interesting to think about obsolescence of the headsets- I wonder if it will be tied to graphics cards getting more powerful and allowing for higher resolutions or more "breakthroughs" in the headset hardware itself, i.e. lenses and screens and eye tracking.
> (Here we can fix up the silly US date formatting, too, although really you shouldn't be localising dates in your format strings).

ISO 8601 (similar to Japanese format) is the most logical way to format dates: YYYY-MM-DD, easily sortable, not the silly way US and Europeans format their dates. ;)

https://xkcd.com/1179/
A solid product with a sketchy tech team will result in a solid company that needs some internal work to truly take off.

A solid tech company without a product is just some devs congratulating themselves on how smart they all are while they pour money out.
The X220/T420 series already supports 16GB RAM, sadly the X210/T410 series only supports 8GB RAM.
Keep in mind, we're talking about generalizations; my experience doesn't serve as definitive proof against a wide and lazy generalization of Americans and their cheese knowledge.
Unfortunately the FTDI stuff (really any USB<->UART converter) has latency issues in the embedded space. : \
By propagating the carries in the ALU? (oh! intel announced they are going to ship this feature)

By using indirect addressing? (like PAE)

Since they are physical boundary to this world and since linear addressing is constricted by speed of light vs the frequency of computers, there is a definite optimum we will not be able to break easily through for the next decades.

Every time we extend the memory address space, we add levels of indirections on the Silicium anyway.

C0 (the velocity of light in the void) is our first limit. Available resources/power on earth is our second limit.
And money available to the consumers is the last one.

Do we really have any good reasons to adopt new technologies that do not prove to be more efficient and/or less costly?
Guesstimate is a tool for performing estimates using monte carlo experiments
The Apple Pencil; a lot of semiconductor content in something so small
put up a landing page with 3 bullets for benefits and features, you may think customer want. Add a link to a free trial form. figure out your cost per lead. Now you have a starting point for business. Email them and tell them your working on new version and when its complete you'll let them try it. try a couple variations on bullet points until you find the features most import to your potential users.
Don’t make bicyclists more visible. Make drivers stop hitting them
Or as soon as you are asked to sign a PIP the relationship has soured and you should be looking for a new job, or if you have FU money, resign.
GM had and still has an impressive technical research center. Its just that establishment big companies dont get the respect that startup companies do. Nor can the employees win big like in a startup IPO.

General Electric is currently running a humorous TV commercial about this. A hipster engineers friends throw him a "new job party". But they go slackjaw when they discover he joinged GE instead of Facebook. GE has the oldest R&D lab in the country, started by Thomas Edison.
When you factor in the learning curve of the usual tools that go with React like Flux/Redux, Webpack, Router and whatnot, the combined cognitive load becomes a lot.