skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Programmers are inherently encouraged to be lazy, so they'll follow the easiest path assuming you're careful to actively encourage that... if you're not really careful about exactly how "obvious" you make your intended path (Hint: It's never obvious enough) then you wander by a few weeks later and there's a giant Rube-Goldberg construct blooming in source control.

As per all generic advice, YMMV.
>So the whole thing feels....dismissive.

Welcome to the future. This is what happens when you have a highly concentrated, morally bankrupt nouveau-riche out-of-touch with greater society drives "innovation". It's only going to get worse as the bubble continues.
I think this is a bit like a "pocket PC" in the early 2000's. It was just a toy for nerds, then they got more and more useful, then they got re-branded as smartphones and made it big.

You're looking at the Palm Pilot of VR. VR, and mixed reality, is going to get more compelling.
Dodging the question. Given that you're a human being, I'm sure you also have problems that affect your partners and children.

So, which of those should we protect you from? As a society, of course.
It can play NerdWars: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/220/22036.html
> Have you have ever used the "flex" nib?

Tried it once. I suspect that if you spent thousands of hours drawing that the haptics would make a difference.
Netflix is now available in every country in the world
Trump will just say he's going to bomb NK flat and that'll energize the base that thinks Obama is a total coward for not killing all of those filthy foreigners already.
Would people recommend a team moving directly to Kanban, or is it useful to learn/use Scrum first?

What books/resources would people recommend to learn Kanban effectively?
Except in that shitty analogy, the way I understood it, Ocolus is the delivery guy. The Rift is not the product, its just the delivery mechanism: the games are the product.
>since I outgrew the idea that I need to erect some kind of monument to myself in order to validate my existence.

I know you're generalizing but I don't think vanity "monuments" is accurate of most techies' aspirations.

People just want FU money: comfort, security, and freedom. The "starting a succesful software based company" is a reasonable shorthand for FU money for techies because if programmers are going to get rich, they're not going to do it by striking oil in their backyard or acting as leads in Star Wars films. If people don't have fu money by the time they're 40-something, they question their current job, their previous life choices, and their future possibilities. People can get bummed out and even question their abilities -- aka wondering why they procrastinate and can't focus (e.g. "Damnit! I'm too distracted with social media!")

I think most programmers would be absolutely fine with being "not so famous" like Chris Hughes[1] with a net worth of $450 million instead of the more well-known Zuckerberg with $40 billion. Zuckerberg's face is on all the magazine covers but most programmers would be ok with no publicity and $450 million.

I don't think the percentage of techies with the ego to be the next Larry Ellison or Steve Jobs is that high. Maybe I'm wrong.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
It's also worth noting they don't have to be faked, just mis-represented.

You can cherry pick sections of long testimonials.

You can cherry-pick testimonials themselves.

:-/
A top venture capitalist thinks startups are causing inequality. He’s wrong
Netflix announces it's now live in 130 new countries including India and Russia
> unlike Iran we are never going to give a damn, politically, morally or otherwise.

Disagree, the US troops and mines have been there for a long time. South Korea is doing well exactly because the world cared and the US in particular continues to.
Mostly false. IE9 remains supported until Vista hits EOL. Various other minor editions of Windows also have other versions of IE supported.

Microsoft is merely pulling support for older versions of IE than the latest any given Windows supports.
Can confirm, always was skeptical when I heard people say this, but I borrowed my brothers for a week when he was on vacation and it was a game changer. Now I've become a proponent myself.
Because some things just pop up during the conversation.

Another benefit of hard allocated blocks of time for standup - they're explicitly grabbing people's attention. It's very easy to ignore stuff on the board, if you're not directly involved in it, but if you are simply in the room, listening to other people, you may contribute something useful to the otherwise unrelated conversation.
The issue is not necessarily ownership, it is the existence of competition. Unfortunately, for most (all?) government services, there is no competition - hence the inefficiencies. But private companies are prone to the same, if they don;t operate in markets open enough.
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Monetary Inflation's Effect on Wealth Inequality
> By that I use our Nissan Leaf as an example. There is no direct mechanical linkage on any part of the car that makes it stop, go, or steer. Parking brake is electrically actuated. Brakes are run on a wire. "Gas" pedal is wire. I'm pretty sure the steering is drive-by-wire, but I'd have to go back and look it up to make the claim with confidence. I'm sure there are redundancies, but I'm picturing an ECU letting its smoke out and then you might as well just let go of the wheel and pray to your preferred deity.

This is not completely correct: your Leaf does have a purely electronic throttle and the e-brake is actuated by a solenoid, but no production passenger car presently uses brake-by-wire, and the first (and presently only) production passenger car with drive-by-wire is the Infiniti Q50. While your Leaf does have additional electronic braking means to make the regenerative system work, if the ECU lost its magic smoke the service brakes would still work. As to drive-by-wire (perhaps you're confused with electronic assist?), on the Q50 at least there is a physical linkage to the steering in case of electronic failure.
The Postmodern Left and the success of neoliberalism
Under the Influence from the CBC.
In reality, success in most games comes from a combination of luck and skill. Part of "skill" is dealing with and capitalizing on the randomness of "luck".

In practice, who typically ends up drawing this distinction? Appellate judges?
This is an interesting, thought-provoking piece. Don't be discouraged by the linkbaity title. The author himself acknowledges the linkbaityness:

> Any reasonable answer to these questions has to be: Not yet. Not for a long time. But a person can dream, no?

But there's a cool idea lurking somewhere just beyond his grasp:

> Windley is excited about using blockchains today to build registries. We need directories to find things; here’s a way to “put a directory on” anything without requiring a private-company middleman. The companies won’t go away. But, as with email, he says, their services will be interoperable, and you’ll be able to switch providers.

A blockchain is a ledger (piece of paper that records transactions) with perfect memory of every single transaction that has ever occurred within a certain network. This makes double spending within the network impossible as you can trace every single "coin" in the network back to its origin, verifying that your trading partner does, in fact, have the coin he claims to. This removes the need for a trusted third party to oversee/verify transactions.

The author misunderstands the properties of the blockchain, instead seeing it as some kind of handwavey tool that can decentralize any kind of listing + licensing + verifying-as-a-service type businesses.

If you got every Uber and Lyft driver to sign up on a single block chain, thereby creating a "distributed" ledger, you would basically just have an excel spreadsheet full of names, numbers, and constantly updated ride metrics (which both companies have right now). But the reason Yelp/Uber/Spotify/AirBnB exist is because they actively verify and license products [restaurants/drivers/rentals] and resolve customer/provider disputes.

The blockchain stores and remembers - it cannot license or remediate. This requires human action, usually in the form of a centralized, for-profit organization.

The cool idea is that if you were an organization that only focused on building these distributed ledgers, vetting and aggregating quality products [restaurants/drivers/rentals], you could then force Uber and Lyft into a much tighter competition as their pool of inputs (drivers) would be coming from the same source, rather than two walled-off ledgers. This is where the idea of a union/collaborative comes in - strength in numbers. If the labor market was tighter and there were some sort of driver certification process besides getting a license, a driver's union would solve the problem of too much corporate power, not enough labor power in negotiations.

But at the end of the day, you need someone to code and maintain the distributed ledger and to spearhead and guide the union/collaborative. There is no such thing as pure decentralization.
No - the precondition is that agents share common knowledge of each others' priors (not that they have the same priors).
I have a fun story.

IE10 and below have two modes. "Browser" mode, which means the IE10, IE9, IE8, IE7 rendering engines. "Document" mode which means the engine treating the page like it was meant for IE9, IE8, IE7 etc. Or so it says.

Confused? Take a look at this chart:

https://i-msdn.sec.s-msft.com/dynimg/IC780294.jpg

More confused? So was and am I. I don't fully understand document mode and I suspect Microsoft doesn't either. Likely the reason they deprecated the moment Windows 10 came out[1]

So what's the problem? Well, even though a web page would render fine in IE9, IE9 could look at it, take issue with your markup, and then, surprise! Your user sees it like it's IE7... using the IE9 rendering engine.

For most web developers that needed to support IE, you basically always needed to insert a <meta> tag with a value of X-UA-Compatible in the <head> of your page. It forces the latest document mode, i.e., "treat this page like a modern page and render it without being stupid." 99% of the time this is what you want. 1% of the time (the need for document mode) is when a page was so reliant on older browser quirks that it needs to be treated as an IE7 page.

Cool, that's all we need right?

Enter oracle.com. In all versions of IE9, there is a hidden, built in compatibility mapping which will always force a certain document mode[2]. So even if your little page brings with it a valid meta tag and uses completely valid markup, IE9 will take look at its name on its blacklist, smile, pat your page on the head, and then shove it the trash compactor.

Smash. So IE9 forces a terrible document mode upon all pages on oracle.com and several other domains mode and Microsoft, to this days, says just about nothing about the hidden blacklist in their documentation. The only way I found this out was by searching "oracle.com" in all of IE9's source code, whereupon I found the responsible XML file, the blacklist.

So what's the solution?

Well, after some hair loss, I discovered the solution is to bring the X-UA-Compatible OUTSIDE of the <head> tag and put it right above the HTML one. In complete contrivance to everything Microsoft said in its documentation, and also normal browser logic.

... That, kids, is why IE9 and below needs to die.

[1]https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn384051(v=vs.85).a...
Thanks for contributing to my massive backlog of "talks I really want to watch but don't have time to" :)
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I've used a live-preview app (http://marked2app.com) for a few years that I've been happy with for smaller projects, but I really like how they've created a Scrivener-like IDE with integrated source code control.
I like to think that NK built their bomb based on plans they found on the Internet from some Anarchist Cookbook wannabe and are now scratching their heads as to why it didn't work properly.
Maybe you should use conversion metrics combined with usage statistics weighted against trending and flow relative to feature enhancements and capabilities instead of any raw value against general hits?

Each business is different, and even then different areas of a product can have differing requirements and needs. What is 15% for you, may be <2% and declining for others. My current and former positions see iPad users in greater numbers than any other single platform/browser, as an example. It may be better served to create features that work for the larger audience and other platforms easily supported than grasping at a fraying edge.
In reflex based games, given two otherwise equal setups with players having equal reflexes, the one who gets the stimulus first due to higher refresh rate will win. The standard 60 Hz means new data is sent every 17ms. With 144 Hz you cut it down to 7ms. With equal reflexes, the player who receives the stimulus 10ms earlier will execute the necessary actions 10ms earlier.

In practice no two players are that equal, but it's still beneficial to accumulate every advantage you can.
Society protects people from a vast amount of stuff all the time.

I don't understand the point of your question in the context of parent's post which was talking about gambling addiction.
The thing is, I don't think the "What would it take to convince you?" discussion is generally actually fruitful for beliefs like these. For example, Bill Nye posed this exact question to Ken Ham during their Evolution/Creationism debate and essentially his response was "Nothing, this is my belief and I'm sticking to it."

So, it seems like your best option is just to ignore those with decidedly unscientific opinions for the moment and attempt to instill more genuinely curious/less dogmatic thinking into those who have not already made up their minds.
Can it run linux?
This is an interesting topic on it's own. I think it has to do with the hyper-connectivity that our modern digital world provides that allows us to self-segregate and form self-supporting echo chambers for just about anything we want to believe. So while the psychological underpinnings for people preferring their beliefs over objective truth is just human nature, I think the potency of modern day conspiracy-theory thinking is because we really can form an entire world ourselves, (print/visual media, online communities, higher ed) that supports our own thinking and it gets further embedded.
And so is debt-financing of non-necessities by the poor; most of the poor in the US are already likely to be bankrupted at some point in the next 10 years (even living fairly frugally they don't get paid enough to cover expenses for a likely period of unemployment, or a large bill due to unexpected health problems), so they might as well have fun before that happens.
If a disproportionate rate of growth widens the wealth gap, then certainly a disproportionate degree of wealth erosion is likely to exacerbate wealth inequality as well.
Mike Brown discovered those "three or four" Kuiper belt objects to which you refer (at least if you're thinking of Eris, Sedna, and Haumea) and has the credentials to snark all that he wants to.

His book, "How I Killed Pluto And Why It Had It Coming", is a great read, highly recommended.
Based on tweets with the #Twitter10k hashtag, many users don't think it sounds like a good idea. Wall Street and the userbase seem to both agree for once.
They have a lot of competition in India. Plus most new movies in India pop up on satellite within months of there theatrical release. Lets see what happens to Netflix.
Right, it has led to great peace among nation-states, except for the fact that rogue actors can easily acquire nuclear materiel in the former Soviet republics.
I agree that there have been plenty of quality indie titles but I think the 3D / recreating reality aspects of VR are somewhat limiting here. 2D games (some of my favorite recent indies) are out of the question in VR. A major goal of VR is to recreate reality or some "reality", which requires well designed 3D models and animations. That being said I think there will be great indie experiences available, but they'll also be up against a limited user base when it comes to making money.

Another way to look at it is that the Oculus isn't just a peripheral, it's a platform. Console makers have learned how important it is to either keep console costs down or subsidize in order to reach the largest user base, which in turn draws developers and subsequently a larger library which leads to more platform purchases.

Most titles aren't going to work with the Oculus out of the box. Even for a standard FPS you can't just check box and enable VR. The best experiences, and the ones that will drive sales will be designed specifically for VR.

Think about 3D movies and the difference between seeing something like Avatar that was created with 3D in mind and some of the terrible 3D addition cash grabs that have come out. A lot of those poor post 3D additions have turned people off to 3D movies altogether.
Farbfeld 1.0 released: suckless image format with conversion tools
Do you happen to have a link to Taleb talking the fat tailed risks of terrorism? I'd like to read more. Thanks!
May be the link to this page needs to change...

Its high time Netflix be open to India, as there is dire need for such a service there. Recently I was in India for a few months and I missed Netflix there a lot.
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> Like finding a cold campfire by your back fence.

Great simile!
As I said, I don't see a documentation link with specs anywhere, can you link us to it? Are you talking about this docs site: https://developer.oculus.com/documentation ? Because I don't see any hardware specs on there either. Are you saying I have to run the validation tool (.exe) to get it?
Yup. This is bad news for public perception. Now you have to fight against the new negativity plus being a competitor.

Even if you're more effective, you not have to prove you're not a fraud.
> a bunch of dedicated servers means a sizable shift from "operating expenses" like AWS fees to "capital expenses" for hardware.

Not anymore. In the US, you can now write off $500K/year in equipment costs immediately.

> It also means shifting expenses from monthly as-you-go to mostly upfront.

Dedicated server provider or lease the equipment instead of buy.
While I think your understanding of the business situation is accurate, I don't think your distinction about language vs. web APIs stands. My (non-lawyer) take on the situation is this: The interoperability exception for copyright applies only at the system level, for things like binary protocols, byte code and machine instructions. This, I think, is because at that level there is only purely functionality and little expression. Copyright law explicitly covers creative expression and not functionality.

APIs, on the other hand, are required for humans to create systems that interact with other systems. As such they are meant for human consumption and communication and can have significant creative expression. Note that to be interoperable with other Java code, Google did not have to re-use the existing API. They could have used their own APIs, or heck their own language, that compiled down to the same byte-code. This is why I think the interoperability exception does not apply to this case.

As such, I think this ruling does mean that most web APIs, being text-based and intended for human consumption, could be copyright-eligible.
How would you modify tls-unique to not be vulnerable to collision attacks?
Christmas Eve vs. New Year’s Eve: Last Minute Price Inflation?
How is broadband penetration in India? Does the bandwidth exist to pull this off?
Curious to try this as an alternative to Evernote. I'm not wholly dissatisfied with it, but I feel that I tend towards messiness with Evernote and find myself never bothering to delete anything. I also get frustrated with formatting, though I absolutely love their inline image markup functionality.
It's insightful links like this that bring me back to HN everyday.
It's government that has something to hide and it's them I don't trust, which is why privacy is important. I wouldn't want government searching my home on a whim and neither my digital content because they're the ones with the track record of planting evidence, seizing assets, and perpetuating falsehoods for their agendas.
Try to compare it with the entire New York area, or the entire United States. It's a minor event. It won't destroy a country. Having one nuke doesn't make you a danger on a geopolitical scale.

That said, such attack would obviously be a horrible thing, and reasonable preventive efforts are justified. The key word being reasonable.
Where I work IE<11 accounts for under 5%, ymmv.
Who cares about a "real name"? A "real name" doesn't tell you anything about a person. Or at least nearly nothing. It's an arbitrary label. If I know how much money you spend on what, which other people you communicate with, how often, and at which times, I know way more about you than if I knew just your name. And I don't need to know your name to recognize you by your cookies. Or your email address. Or your IP address.

If you regularly send emails back and forth with a specific doctor, I have a pretty good idea which condition you have. If you regularly call a specific company at specific times, I have a pretty good idea that you work there. ...

Also, private surveillance is not about "finding you", but about influencing groups of people. For business purposes. Or maybe for political purposes. If I know that you are likely to be receptive to a specific kind of emotional message, I don't care what your birth certificate says, I care about how to get that message onto your screen in front of your eyes.

And finally, as other have mentioned: Yes, it is a matter of pressing a button. That is the essence of what Snowden revealed, if you will.
DJI 10 Years Anniversary Sale and new Phantom 3 4K
Netflix Is Now Available Around the World
I suspect that the demographic make-up of the customer base is a huge factor in this. Location and age, predominantly.
Evidence for new state of hydrogen
Varnish caches dynamic app data. Your static assets should be in a CDN, served outside of your infrastructure.
counting cards in a casino or professional setting will get you blacklisted and thrown out of said casino. the preventative measures against card counting are extensive, to say the least. Your example still works, but it's not applicable in America, where the daily sports issues arise.
>$599 may seem like a perilously steep price to debut at

$599 is nothing for their target: a Dell "Gaming Monitor" is $699.99 (S2716DG) for instance.
Actually, as an addendum to my other comment, I think a more accurate metaphor would be like buying a Tesla S.

You have to have a house that you can add a charging station to, in order to buy it, which most people don't have.
TensorFlow Disappoints – Google Deep Learning Falls Shallow
"Core tenet" overstates the case a bit, but credo quia absurdum has a long history in Christian apologetics.
You're welcome! I know it's easy money. It's just not worth it to me. :)
Great post! I totally agree that quality of tests is more important than code coverage, but the author does a great job of really explaining what that means, why it's important, and shares some great practical examples.