skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suggestion for people wanting to work a shorter week:

Ask you HR department for an employee handbook and read it carefully. I did this in the 1970s (worked for a large defense contractor) and discovered that I only had to work 30 hours a week to get full benefits. Much to the unhappiness of my bosses and coworkers, I "gave myself a 20%" cut in pay and stopped working on Mondays.

I tried to be a perfect employee the four days a week that I worked to make up for inconvenience to my bosses and coworkers.

I was able to work four days a week in most companies I have worked for, spanning about 50 years.

One advantage of part time work is that it gave me extra time to write computer science books and spend extra time with friends and family. But, I left a lot of money on the table taking a 20% pay cut.
The main problem with this is - news(and social media) are optimized to grab your attention and sell you ads, not to help you with your work. And generally you only recall a small percent of the news anyway.

So there must be a better way.
Plus with the current state of the web, jQuery from a major CDN is in probably every single browser cache in the world. There's something to be said for a core web library that almost never has to be re-downloaded.
>I don't need to 'cite' what I can see with my own eyes from the stats of my payment services provider.

Your original statement was broad and general, not qualified. Your anecdotal evidence is not sufficient to support this claim.

In the context of the discussion about supporting IE 8,9 and 10 and using your terminology flexbox (which IE 8-10 doesn't support) seems to be "all kinds of sexy stuff" and "not keeping things simple". Right, got it.

http://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox
This isn't about pseudo-science as much as about historical oddities. The hoax in this case isn't alchemy (which is a hoax in a way, or maybe a delusion,) it's the faking of a book.
Ford boosts self-driving fleet
Developed countries where nobody uses leafblowers, or in-sink food waste disposals, or what have you

"Places that are not America"

(OK, people will use leafblowers in the UK, especially professional gardeners, but the in-sink waste disposal is quite rare)
Agreed, now if they were tweeting about sandyhookmassacre.com being sold that would be a different matter..
Lessons Learned from Working Remotely
ALMA discovers the most distant object of the solar system
Agreed. For the last two years or so I've found myself weighting text-heavy websites like HN, or Reddit much more positively.

What I find disconcerting is that this shorthand seems entirely about ornamentation--the worry is that maybe some future TimeCube-like site will be subtle enough that it won't trigger my "is the author a kook" filter.
I use greasemonkey scripts:

https://gist.github.com/kennethrapp/7a21c0187fedd6f47e7c

highlights lines beginning with ">", which helps differentiating quoted replies from comment text. And yes, the idea comes from imageboards, but a lot of people on HN use that syntax in their comments.

https://gist.github.com/kennethrapp/5b5e413220afb93c9c93

removes fading from downvoted and dead comments and text posts.
> (and no shell games)

A massive pipe dream.

Norway has already seen the kinds of shenanigans that can come from private "service" providers on government contracts.

a couple of years back a chain of private schools were found to be siphoning off funds that was earmarked the students. This by setting up companies on Luxembourg that acted as service providers for the schools.
You don't care about your own privacy, but do you care about anyone else's privacy? If someone you care about deeply tells you that they value their privacy and they want to keep it, does that matter to you?
>Then there's the entertainment aspect: What's wrong with "wasting" time if you're enjoying yourself?

About the entertainment aspect. I think the point here is following: modern web media/pics/etc is too attractive and people can't focus on things what really matter. Every website with "funny cats" tries very hard to retain you as user and your attention -> entertain you more. I think many people (myself included) fall in risk group and can't actually measure/control time spent on procrastination while browsing infinite number of subreddits or something for interesting stuff. Even when i really need things to be done - there is something that can immediately capture my attention. And I have to say I am not alone.

The root cause here is inability to focus on important things and finally quit procrastination.
Kanban was invented at Toyota in the '40s and '50s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban

Depending on the scale you're operating at, it's easy to see this as a waterfall methodology. There are lots of different words to describe organizing work, but what's important is that the methodology remains consistent enough that the team understands it.

I think of time-boxed sprints as great for training. Humans aren't going to get better at estimating how long it takes to complete complex engineering tasks. But teams that work together over a long enough period of time can plan ahead better. (For example, time-boxed sprints would suggest that everyone has to take vacations at the same time for Scrum to be effective.) There are plenty of ways to deal with the fact that humans are asynchronous. I particularly liked this author's focus on team morale as a major factor.
That was incredible to read. Thanks for linking to it.
You are totally correct -- as long as competition isn't short circuited.

Think regulatory capture and ol' boys networks. Also, there is a ridiculous level of general incompetence among Swedish politicians today; they often do nothing but politics inside the party system from their youth.
It's been a while for me since I last used Django but i recall it not having a migration framework (besides south).

Language preference aside, I feel as though rails might be a better Django than Django is in almost all areas that you define as deal breakers.
CES 2016: The moment I nearly threw up at a VR demo
oh my god the vocal fry
Alchemy was science of its time, more or less. It wasn't until the 18th century that chemistry and alchemy developed into distinct disciplines.
Awesome. This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to get better at CSS.
I encountered a company with an "antique" mainframe running an "antique" COBOL workload. It had 17 YEARS of continuous uptime. Every single piece of hardware was either double or triple fault tolerant, and nearly everything had been swapped along the way, but the workload (a transaction processing system of a sort) had never ceased operations. It had never needed to be changed.

I know mainframe != Win XP, but it is important to remember that in many systems, it isn't really like a car, where you do maintenance to keep it running, its more like a wrench, where you use it until it breaks, and then get another one that does the same thing. In the years that the wrench is in service, new types of steel, new ergonomics, etc. might come out, but none of that is sufficient reason for upgrade. Only the actual failure of the system justifies replacement. Sure, its rare for that to be the case in a tech company, but not so rare in a company that just uses IT to do something else.
I am almost 38 and I look at the founder of the company I work at in my day job. He started the company in his early 40s and now he is worth in excess of 8 billion. 40 is not too late to start something.
http://neo900.org
Going to have to pass on $599. More than I was expecting.
I agree. And never add a gradient.
http://shop.oculus.com - blank screen...awesome. It has been since the moment the pre-order link showed on oculus.com.
I've gone the opposite and decided to jump into bed with Microsoft; I got the surface book and upgraded everything to windows 10. Besides the ads in the games, it has been delightful.
Show HN: Use your Mac/PC/Android webcam as a motion detecting security camera
Rift is $599, pre-orders start
Thanks for the very useful article. Minute point: for Rackspace, I thought that ServiceNet is a shared network and you require Cloud Networks to establish a private net.
I think this is the correct answer.
app-bundle-3.15.14.js:50 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'hostname' of undefined

Some great QA went into this release.
I agree and disagree. As an operation person, I think we need to make an argument for why X can't be done right away, but we must have a plan Y for migration. I know for a fact there is still some ancient database server running in our data center serving our critical business but there's a plan to migrate that to modern databases. While re implementing everything is costly, company has to hire specialist from a specific consulting firm to support such ancient database, and how long can we retain such talent without spending extreme amount and caution? "I am scared if I did this will screw everything up." There will be a point they have to migrate such database to something modern, and the cost is still several million plus.

The same argument that corporate world doesn't allow Python 3 or has a hard time to migrate to Python 3 because machines are running on some ancient RHEL servers or because of some security requirement. I get it and I don't get it. First, let's ditch RHLE. Fuck that. I really don't see reason to use RHLE; fine, YMMV. But it is people's job to do work. Some pieces can die, and some pieces will have to evolve, either from scratch, or slowly. No one said software development and operation support are easy, see https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWC74tOVAAAsls0.jpg:large.
Lessons learned from building real-life machine learning systems
Rhetorical question: what's the biggest potential target in New York State? Albany, or NYC?

You could move the government, but it wouldn't matter. Seoul would still completely dominate South Korea. Their entire economy and around half their population is based in the Seoul metro area. It's only a mild exaggeration to say that Seoul is South Korea.
Its not a question of profits or not, but about the risk of rent-seeking.
I guess if you don't mind the person running an unsupported system then don't. Most businesses desire support, however. You can't control when the old unsupported system is going to fail. You might find yourself doing a forced upgrade to a new system at an inconvenient time with zero time for transition. Strikes me as irresponsible.
I feel inclined to agree. These kinds of decisions are the ones that get you in deep trouble when the vocal minority starts to scream. It really is very trivial to at least give some sort of message, warning or guide to upgrade when attempting to use a web product with an incompatible browser.
Very nice! I really like this kind of teaching :-)

Nitpick: If the model universe is a square that is 100 meters across as said in one of the first lessons, it's area is not 100m2 as stated in one of the next lessons.
It's been puzzling to me for ages how some AI applications (e.g., natural language processing, image recognition, self-driving cars, ...) have progressed in strides over the past years, while MS Excel still asks me to specify the field delimiter when importing a CSV file. Seems a bit 80s. Only few BI applications seem to do better.

Agreed that consultancies have been the go-to insight providers for businesses over the past decade, but I see this changing as businesses get more data-savy and consultancies struggle to attract the tech skill needed to defend their top position (compared to skilled in-house teams).

Georg, ex-consultant
I can't access the page, is this the official price? Was expecting something around the 400$-450$ range. This costs as much as a full blown PC.
Oculus Rift pre-order: 599$, Ships March 28th 2016
True, but those would most likely scale (but not perfectly) with the consumer price. Higher tariffs and transportation costs for example.
it would be great if it was called, node on nails
Haha, that's a really good metaphor :)
Besides gaming and AE is there any reason to get this?
It will depend on the audience. Good elevator pitches focus on the audience needs.
I've found this with big and small teams. With small teams you already know what everyone is up to and with larger ones the meetings go on for longer.
Cool, but I don't think I'll buy this first version. Might be worth keeping on in a box for 30 years though.
I can smell that fear enough to frustrate my appetite for self-satisfaction and I am 28. Your mention of self-imposed limits makes me think more clearly about where that anxiety comes from and remember the roller coaster click-clack excitement of my pre-illness-self. I work so much harder for other people than myself, and trick myself into thinking it is all for my own benefit. I wish I did not care what other people think.
Stop with "Virtual Reality" hype. People feel dizzy after trying this out. You will see how this hype will decline after the product launch. We see hype because big companies bet on this product and now want to get their millions back...
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Rule #1 of hugely anticipated release testing: Make sure you over-provision servers.
> You need to tighten up your standups. Each person should be saying what they did yesterday, what they're going to do today, and identify any dependencies or blockers.

Why do this in a standup though? This information isn't on your planning board? I don't find standups efficient for this.
CM is based on OSS code largely developed by Google, yes. But if you avoid Google apps you're sort of ditching Google.

Google is one of the biggest contributors to Linux and also contributes to Mozilla in various ways, for example. You can't (practically) avoid all the fruits of Google, but you can avoid directly using them.
AmigaOS 3.1 source code leak – official statement
3 or 4 hours. Can go up to ~10h/day for a few days, but that usually leads to a burnout. Burnouts are bad. Avoid them. You'd actually do better if you work less.
I saw the same thing, but it appears to be fixed now. A quick fix/reaction by Oculus!
Hi sethbannon,

I am Radu, one of the authors.

We thought at similar experiments, however psychology is not our expertise. If you check our paper on hotness/attractiveness (http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~timofter/publications/Rothe-ar...), I am sure that you'll find some interesting results on how different age-grouped people rate, a paradox, and more. And yes, there are many interesting experiments to do and questions to answer.
I agree. It seems he doesn't really get it.
Subtotal: $59900

O_O
Site's up, now declining credit cards? I guess I'll have to paypal it...smooth!
What are your thoughts on Meteor?
"People"... Have you actually tried it?
Same here. I got in, though, after about five minutes of re-trying. $599 base, $32 shipping, plus tax, totaled $680.
The Healthy Web Developer: Staying Fit and Productive
If you are a pro athlete it allows you to practice your swing or your serve.
Finding a provider that leases dedicated servers to you for a monthly fee isn't exactly hard.
Suit yourself. One thing I do know: if you are serious about commerce you can't afford to lose customers that you've spent a lot of money to acquire it tends to wreak havoc with your spreadsheets.
My opinion differs: if you're going to package your tool as a "framework" rather than a "library", you should integrate a large vertical section of the technology being used. This doesn't mean you have to be coupled with a particular database server, but you should at least have special support for one that can be swapped out for something else.

If a framework can't offer me this kind of functionality, why would I want to use it over a library with all the control benefits that brings.
Yep. And that's a subsidized price too, according to Palmer.

https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/684511706677030912
There goes my apartment.
$675 after taxes.
ouch, I was all set to preorder but $599 is too much for me to buy this without seeing it in person first.

I will have to wait for retail demo units or something.
Ask HN: How to hire sysops/devops guys in US?
Hi,

I'm working for an IT operations consultancy in Germany and we want to hire skilled personell (full employment, half, or contract all possible) in the US. I don't know the US market that well, though.

Therefore I would like to ask you for some tips. On which websites do you look for people in the US? Which kind of meetings do IT guys use here? I'm in Atlanta (GA) now, and meetup is a little empty in all areas that are interesting to us. Every topic has a group but there are no meetings planned in any of them. Otherwise I only know that one can post jobs in Stackoverflow.

And where would you investigate what reasonable living costs and income would be?

Last but not least, taxes. Do you think to gain US employees one would need to open a company here? Would people worry to get a German contract (language can be English, but the contract 'location' and applied laws would be German)? How much would be reasonable to handle tax topics by professionals in the US for handling 1-3 US based employees?
> Anyway just saying its a line of reasoning, that while true, can only lead to unpleasantness. Like discussion of scientific racial / gender differences or discussions about IQ, all you're gonna get is social signalling screaming "see no evil".

I'm waiting for it to fall apart. The amount of information that you have to willingly ignore these days to participate in the ''progress solves all ills'' narrative is huge.

On vestigial monotheism read Straw Dogs by John Gray if you haven't.
Similar stuff exists for HP48G (et al) for all you RPN fans.

http://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/pc/emulators/
I felt dizzy at first, but quickly got used to it. It was a very fun experience. I would happily play for hours wearing it.

Its no Virtual Boy, but its the best substitute I can find. :)
Font issue? There's a dot in there - $599.00.
I know it is rare, but this situation can arise through no error of the car's controls. Consider the failure of the car's master cylinder. If your Brakes don't work, then this might be the exact choice you make.

I don't want to sound overly cynical, but I somehow doubt that self-driving cars are going to suddenly make cars more reliable. Mechanical failure are not a common cause of crashes - http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pubs/812115.pdf - according to the NHTSA there, they account for 2% of crashes between 2005-2007. Still, self driving cars will need to be able to handle situations where there are mechanical failures.
If you're a pro athlete you're going to use the real thing.
Not available in India. :(
The US has 4500 warheads, Russia 4700, The UK 210, France 300, China 250, India 105, Pakistan 120, Israel 100.

What moral ground has anyone to deny NK its sovereign right to do the same ?
Yes but with a complete DNA database you can match an external sample exactly to the database with (near) complete accuracy. The DNA database doesn't tell you anything itself.

With a database of all communications you have to mine it for probabilistic leads. The signal to noise problem grows as does the database.

Someone else (I cant recall who) said - the last thing you need when looking for a needle in a haystack is more hay.
Non Stanford students interested, please sign up to the MOOC version.
Plus $400 for the recommended graphics card :/
Very quick on the bundle fix! Unfortunately, "Something went wrong. Please try again." with both credit cards and paypal.

So it isn't just one problem...
I fear that those new laws would target classes. "No surveillance of elected federal officials." "No surveillance of government contracting corporate executives."
Seems to be €699 in Europe ($750)

(edit: This price does not include shipping.)
> Obviously, if you don't like javascript, move on.

I don't like many things and like other things. All in various degrees. So I shared my experience.

But you seem to be interested in what I like, so I'll share more. I would say, in general I am not really a "$X language" developer. A lot of people say "Oh, I am a Java developer" or "A Node developers". I am not a Python developer, or Erlang developer. I am a developer who solves problems. And languages are tools ( so far I used Javascript in the past, as well as Erlang, Java, C++, C#, and yes, even FORTRAN ).

The point about Python was that currently, most tasks I had to do, were made quicker and easier by using Python. Some are solved better by Erlang, some by C#.

Javascript and Node I found had enough negatives so it seemed helpful to share that too.

> Obviously, if you don't like javascript, move on.

I didn't know this was Javascript land and I wasn't allowed to come in without proper credentials. (See note about "friendly community" regarding Elixir in my original post, that wasn't by accident. I didn't want to say anything more about Node community, but I will now -- yeah it is not the friendliest, lost of insecurity and angst in it, which was another turnoff to me personally).
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I suspect reject uses some bandwidth and CPU time.
QB training is very compelling.
Sounds silly, but I know the Minnesota Vikings (an NFL team) used a VR setup for some practice this year, to help increase situational awareness.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/13328295/minnesota-vikings...
$599.00 is the official price before tax and shipping.
Why is Xbox One Controller included? Not PS4 compatible? But hey you'd now think "why didn't I back Oculus on Kickstarter?"
I thought Samsung has been doing a pretty decent job of integrating VR into their smartphones. Will there be a substantial improvement to the VR experiences using Oculus?
Most likely, but it was like this on both places.

Oh well, maybe they forgot to look at it on retina.
This happened to me, the issue was that I entered my expiration date as MM/YY rather than MM/YYYY. Give it a shot if that's happening to you.
a 599 PC is not going to have a GPU strong enough to give you any decent VR, 599 is about the starting point for the GPU only, I would honestly not go with anything less than a 980ti for a minimum of future-proofing, and unless you already have one I would wait for a Pascal card, which in any case will cost at least that much.

in VR dropping frames / latency directly maps to motion sickness, so it's not a case of "eh, I can deal with the framerate not being super solid" like it can be on normal gaming.

This costs less than some flagship cellphones, 599 is definitely not that much all things considered.
"Too much money" ... "It's all hype". Can we take the whiny asshole shit to Reddit? It's ok if you're not interested. Check back in 5 years. Everyone doesn't need to be an early adopter.
Plus the real sharing of knowledge happens in ad hoc meetings outside of the standup when people talk about details of the issues-- things you can't talk about in the standup.
I have the dev kit from the first Kickstarter (and will get this one apparently for free because of it); never felt dizzy at all nor anything else negative besides getting sweaty in my face after a while of playing. It might be a hype and it might decline but not because 'people feel dizzy' in general.
No, you're going to do both. Football players already spend tons of time watching film. This is an extension of that.
True, but pro athletes have already had other proprietary technology for the past year. Oculus might not even be the best solution currently for athletic performance. A cool read on Stanford Football's use of Virtual Reality in practice settings [0]

[0]: http://www.mercurynews.com/49ers/ci_28784441/virtual-reality...
"hero that saves the sprint"

To me, that rhymes with "hero that papers over bad management".
linux support was dropped, thank god I have a good reason to not give them all my money
UK cost is £530 including shipping and VAT (I presume).
It took some experimenting to learn the sorts of things that cause users to feel dizzy/weird. We've come a long way since then.

The $600 price point is not targeting average consumers -- this is a PC enthusiast product.

Expect the next generation of VR -- one with a clearer set of best-practices -- to hit mainstream.