skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are already portable combined DAC/headphone amplifier units that support lightning input (either directly or via a USB converter). I did have one for a few weeks but sent it back it as the minor difference in sound quality wasn't worth the effort of carting it around.

The combined heft of both the phone and the DAC unit (most of them are similar size but twice the thickness of an iPhone) makes for an uncomfortable pocket bulge. Aside from being another thing to carry around. it's also another thing to keep charged (like I haven't got enough of those things in my life already).

Sure, the DAC on the iphone isn't the best in the world, but it's certainly good enough. Only when concentrating wearing studio-quality headphones in a silent room can I tell the difference between the two, and those times that I am sat in a silent room, it's at home (which has a decent audio setup not dependent on my phone).

I guess there will be smaller units produced that are perhaps powered through the lightening port (if this is even possible?), but likely the sound quality produced by them will be similar to the on-board DAC/amp circuit.
I don't think $600 is unreasonable for a brand-new platform's low-production volume v1. The PS3 launched at $499-$599.
I think you're right. I have a DK-1 and I think it's a cool novelty, but in terms of mass market appeal and everyday uses, I don't really see it. You look weird with the thing on your head, it's heavy and fatigues your neck, you still have to use a kb/mouse input device to control anything other than where your avatar is looking, you can't see anything else around you without pulling the HMD away from your face (bigger annoyance than it sounds), and nobody else can see your screen (in fact, when I used the DK-1, I would often clone the output onto the main monitor so my wife could see what I was seeing and vice-versa). It kills the limited real-life social interaction people can have with video gaming now.

3D TV was very similar in that it worked great for one person, but once you got more than that, you had to make sure everyone had their own pair of glasses, everyone was sitting at an appropriate angle, etc. You couldn't just walk in and out and have a casual social TV experience, because for people without the glasses or sitting at the wrong angle, the image is blurry and unwatchable.

I think there is a market for VR, but I don't think it's the mass market. That doesn't mean VR won't eventually get there, but it's not there now.
Boron: a scripting language similar to REBOL
Can it play Doom?
wow amazing I was waiting for this to come true.
FWIW, the initial loss of brightness is almost certainly due to a reduction in temperature a the fuel/air mixing piont. Blowing on a fire actually increases the oxygen available.
"White-collar workers check their inboxes an average of 77 times a day, according to research by Gloria Mark, an informatics professor at the University of California, Irvine. (If that sounds low to you, she found some workers check email far more frequently, up to 343 times a day or more.) The more time people spend focused on email, Mark has found, the less happy and productive they are."

This seems odd to me. I check my email half a dozen times a day. Can't see the point of checking it 10 times an hour....
I came here to mention Hapi, so I'll piggyback on your post.

For those looking for an "enterprise" alternative to Express, give Hapi a try! It's very mature, has tons of extension modules (as pfooti mentions), and basically can do mostly everything you need without your needing to write much glue code.

Also, if you use typescript, it has a .d.ts file at Definitely Typed. (I wrote it)
Great idea. Very interesting that you can connect to this many banks. Excellent source of innovation for pattern detection analysis and providing personalized tips (like breaking bad budget habits. As an example in case of a friend of mine, buying energy drinks as a habit every single day for years which has both financial and health consequences). Wish you all the best.
Cold gas thrusters (DIY by inflating a balloon and then letting go) operate on the same concept: the energy stored in the compressed gas is released through the nozzle, providing thrust.

All other types of thermal rockets simply provide a way for this energy to be replenished, either by external (laser, solar, microwave) or internal (nuclear) sources.

The US built nuclear thermal rockets from 1955 through the 1970s. The Soviets experimented with a few for their manned moon missions. Nuclear thermal rockets heat their reaction mass with a nuclear reactor. No nuclear thermal rocket has flown, but NASA keeps tinkering with derivatives of the Rover/NERVA programs.
Eartha, the World’s Largest Revolving and Rotating Globe
Agreed. I hate the system and how badly it seems to be functioning for so many disadvantaged people. I just wanted to share that lovely book. It kind of humanizes the people who are "terrible" by giving color to why they kind of turn to the dark side. Most/all think they're correct and holy (just like most/all of the dark side does)...
Scripts aren't against the rules in fact Draft kings specifically allows them for some purposes but not for others.
I'll make it explicit then.

It's easy to say that "as a society" we should protect someone else from their behaviors.

It's different when someone else ("society") is telling you not to do things.

Which of your behaviors should society protect you from?

Does that very question not make you uncomfortable?
What an irony that the link is missing the "s".
Ahhh this is just awesome. I spent the vast majority of high school chemistry class dinking around on my 83-Plus with whatever that flavor of BASIC was called. I would bet that if I were able to accurately measure 'minutes spent' in a variety of programming languages that this would make BASIC in my top 3.

Edit: Huh. Apparently that flavor was called TI-BASIC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-BASIC
Thanks for helping represent the refugees pro bono :)
Oh, this must be why the company I work for is finally pushing out IE11. (I upgraded my own machine a long time ago, but many people here are still on IE8.)
Most of the addressable market willing to pay $80k for a car do already own a house...
The 2015 Gyroscope Annual Report
This bug alone made me stop in my track and turn back from their website. I'll wait to see what the competition can offer.
The idea here is that the casino will be more diligent in not tilting the odds too much in favor of the whale, because it's the casino's money that is going to be lost to a game tilted in the whale's favor.

The argument is that in DFS because the whale is winning "other people's money" well then it's not as bad in the company's view.

But obviously the supply of "fresh meat suckers" is a corporate resource of the company's that is being exhausted by too much whale fleecing... so they still police it to an extent, but just not as much.
Draftkings specifically allows this.
1 Cor 15:14-19 is very clear that if Jesus did not raise from the dead, then Christian beliefs are in vain.

You are describing a cult not a core tenent of Christianity.
iPhone 7 Leaks 'Confirm' Apple Abandoning Headphone Jack
> I also hate DSM when I'm on a long task because I just say the same thing everyday and feel like a slacker. At which point do you start to game the system and only pick short easy tasks ?

I've had that feeling too. You feel like dropping the long tricky important task you're doing to complete a couple of easy ones so you have something better sounding to say for the impending standup. A similar and much worse situation happens when you have to give client demos too often I find.
FWIW DK2 works fine with a hub.
I think the standup meeting is there because it follows the first principle of the Agile Manifesto:

"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools"
Semantic Search Engine Omnity Reckons It Can Beat Google
And yet Healthcare.gov has had far more downtime and other issues than Facebook so...
Absolutely, there's some correlation if the test-taker isn't tainted. But I bring it up here because Lumosity basically tells its customers they're getting smarter because they're getting better at its "brain-training" games, when it's pretty clear that the only thing they're likely to get better at is the games.
I agree with most of your points, but why do you think "finger print collection of non-felons" is a problem? There are well-documented examples of that database being used to catch bad guys, and I have not heard of any abuses of that database. So I would think this is one example where a small privacy incursion is offset by a proven gain in security.

I would go as far as saying that collection of fingerprints and DNA profiles should be expanded. I have enough trust in Dutch democracy to change it back again if it turns out not to improve security after all. (As someone who has lived in other countries, I would not say the same of any democracy).
Wow. And looking at it, it appears blurry and slightly pixelated, as if it has been upscaled. It also looks like it might have jpeg artifacts from a previous compression. Although it cannot simply be made a jpeg as-is because it is largely transparent. I used https://tinypng.com/ lossy png to get it down to 770kB with virtually no loss of quality (since the quality was so bad to begin with). But it could be shrunk more by either using a smaller image and upscaling it in the browser (instead of upsaling it prior to saving), or merging the background gradient with the image and saving it as jpeg.
Having it client/server eliminates the possibility of cheating, lets me get exact timings for analytics and data mining and whatnot, and lets me implement cool things like "Observe Game" (coming soon!).

After the feedback from this thread, I'm going to move to a "hybrid" model where the model logic all happens locally, but still fires websocket events to the server. Best of both worlds.
>>people (inclduing me) will get sick from it is my big concern

Sick doesn't mean cancer or tuberclosis.

I remember from my childhood watching TV was considered bad, because it was thought to be bad fore one's eyes. Ear phones were bad for the ears and reading on the smart phone in a bus makes me motion sick to date.

Like everything there is a middle ground.
I love that there's a Flat Earth Society of Australia and I wonder whether they think they're on top or below the disk.

In short, we have a crisis of epistemology in our culture, and facts (empirical, repeatable, independent measurements) don't win arguments any more.
The absurdity of this intrigued me and I dropped by their site. Read a few threads and it seems like they're not fond of satellite photography and rely on their senses almost exclusively. So here's a little question for them: why does a ship seem to "sink" into the ocean the further it gets?
I find Flat-Earthers belief as surprising as an educated person believing in God.
> E.g. the website service posts random inspirational quotes from dead people or TIL from random wikipedia pages. You never have to log into Facebook and yet it seems like you're "with it".

For a large percentage of my Facebook friends, if they were silently replaced with bots like this, I doubt I'd ever notice. Sigh.
Or they might lend some money without being able to pay it back. Or they might steal money.

But in my opinion the harm an addict can do to others isn't even the only problem. Addiction is a sickness that needs treatment and help. Addicts are victims first (at least partly of themselves) and only then can also be perpetrators.

Living off the problems of other people (by enabling them in their addiction, not by helping them) to me personally is morally questionable. It might be a bit of a cultural thing though, as here in Europe there isn't as much emphasis on the idea that everyone needs to take their luck in their own hands as there is in the US.
CA$849, which pretty much matches the exchange rate, plus $65 shipping and tax (~$120 for most of Canada).
I understand how the technology works, and I still believe it's amazing and rapidly progressing. Certainly it isn't human level now, and it might take a decade or two to get there. But it's still an incredible advancement.

AI has gotten way better than anyone expected in the last 5 years or so. Progress in many of these areas like image recognition was super slow and challenging. And all of a sudden computers are approaching human level performance with a relatively general algorithm.

For decades robotics has been limited by AI tech. We didn't have the ability to do object recognition, control was really hard, teaching the robot to do things was nearly impossible, etc. Now those limitations are gone, and in the next 10 years it's likely there will be a huge explosion in robotics and automation.

Regardless of the success of current developments, in the long term AI is still inevitable. I have no doubt we will eventually figure it out.

I have no idea why people confuse long term predictions about something with short term ones. Someone saying "we will invent AI by the end of the century" is not saying that they it's definitely going to happen in 5 years and you should invest heavily now. Every time Bostrom and AI risk stuff comes up, there's a bunch of confused comments about how AI isn't that good currently, which misses the point entirely.
Sequential living
I mostly shoot digital, but bought a Pentax spotmatic with Takumar 50mm 1.4 lens a couple of years ago for like £60. It's fun and there is definitely a lot of vibe in the pics, but ends up costing about £15-20 to develop and scan a roll of film. For someone who shoots a lot, that adds up
Regardless of the semantics, I think you're missing the point of what he's saying. His overall argument is that DFS is more similar to casino blackjack than it is different.
I love CI but it does only works if it's continuous.

The scenarios I was describing don't lend themselves to it. It's usually vendor deployed, closed source software. Not an in-house production. That or it truly is ancient, from an era when CI wasn't a thing.

You can resurrect development but as I mentioned before, this can often involve resurrecting people, not just the project. And employing them indefinitely for something that —for the past 10 years— has been free. It's a bloody hard sell to higher management.

My last post wasn't my opinion. I wasn't advocating for never updating, I'm just passing along my experiences with the sorts companies that have systems they don't touch out of fear.
"Wage stagnation for the vast majority was not created by
abstract economic trends. Rather, wages were suppressed
by policy choices made on behalf of those with the most
income, wealth, and power."

Sounds a lot like Lawrence Lessig was correct:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic,_Lost
Great feedback, sorry for your laggy connection. I'm working on a fix now, but glad offline mode is working for you!
> It should take no more than a few seconds per person and I find it far more effective than any agile status tool I've used, be that a physical board or an online system.

Isn't that information already on your planning board? Likewise, it should only take a minute to review the planning board updates each day and you should be getting direct notifications for things you're suppose to be helping on.

I can see the value in you all getting together to have a high-level chat on how things are going maybe once a week but every single day is way too much for me.
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"better communication" and "cross training" are the biggest misconceptions about the stand-ups. A good/proper standup is short and there's no way to communicate and exchange enough detailed information and context to make it a meaningful communication and especially cross training tool. Standups are meant for peer-to-peer coordination on the dev team. This leads to another misconception... Standups are not status reports for managers. The manager's primary job is to support his/her team and to be aware of what's going on to facilitate the team needs and to resolve external blockers. Sitting in his/her ivory tower planning stuff is not it :-)
His argument seems sound; I guess you may debate only the numbers. I would assign an a priori distribution of celestial objects on near the solar system concentrated on the the planetary plane, so this effect may compensate a narrow f.o.v. to some extent. Still, for a narrow enough field of view, you can make the argument that the probability of observation will be too low regardless of the a priori distribution details -- leading to the (possibly absurd) conclusion that many more planets probably exist. I'm just an amateur, but I believe old telescopes had a fairly wide f.o.v.; this is in part because their resolution doesn't even allow too much magnification. I assume they also had very flexible directing so you could survey large patches of the sky if necessary (and in particular you could concentrate around the planetary plane if you're eager for solar system objects).
My worry is that someone in a leadership position might eventually start to believe their own propaganda. Not necessarily anyone in there now, but maybe a True Believer one-level down who finally gets fed up with realpolitik and compromise and decides to try to take over.
For what it's worth, I prefer your friend's version :)
Oculus claims that the point of the Facebook acquisition was that they'd have infinity money. As both Oculus and Facebook assert that there's a blank check there, one would hope they've already also heavily invested in a high-quality software library. If not, they need to quickly start doing so. They could start a developer program where devs qualify for free or discounted hardware. They could even start their own game studio. Most other gaming hardware manufacturers do have their own studios and release their own games for exactly the reason you stated (ensuring that there are killer apps on their platform). Oculus has got to put that Facebook money to work!
Ah microwave beamed rockets. Such a wonderful sounding idea, and yet so difficult to pull off. For those of you who know Keith Hensen his Solar Power Satellites are best launched into orbit with laser powered (or more generally ground powered) rockets. And the concept is mathematically sound, just the notion of having a multi-gigawatt laser pointed up at things in orbit is so destabilizing.

The summary for this link and for ground powered rockets in general, is that the amount of energy you can get out of an Hydrogen/Oxygen reduction reaction is about about it as far as chemicals go, but you can combine a lot of energy sources into a single transmission beam and if you can transfer that energy to your propellent you can do much better in terms of rocket efficiency.

The diplomatic challenge is that you need to be able to create a large directed beam of energy that you can steer at orbital (or near orbital) velocities that can reach into space. And while it is great when you're pointing it at some heat exchanger which is converting heat to thrust, its rather unfortunate if the target is a satellite just going by overhead taking pictures perhaps.

So really, in the current political climate, it's a non-starter. Not from a physics point of view but from a stir up the rest of the world point of view.
BootCamp is unsupported, from what I can see. https://forums.oculus.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=27138&p=30263...
I really like this idea. We groom our Kanban board, which creates a similar effect, but not so explicitly.

In your case or ours, one of the nice things about stepping back is reprioritization, which happens nicely in Scrum but not so much in Kanban. It is easy to define a path and never diverge only to wake up and realize you built an old vision.
Mixing up your analogies, but you never ever want to kill a guy standing in the crowd with an armed grenade.
I've always said there are people who are so set in their wrong beliefs about something that if they believed the sun rose in the west you could point them east in the morning and they would still persist in ignoring the reality.
Only if you include office computers and laptops that are not designed to play games. In gaming terms it's a low end system.

The AMD 290 is a sub 200$ graphics card and an i5-4590 is a 200$ CPU. More importantly this is a 600$ display, and it's not aimed at poor people.
Because the browser isn't isolated to only using a single website/application... users are likely to hit any number of sites, including those with popups that look like security warnings that then exploit and infect the rest of your network only to destroy everything.

For example look at speedtest.com in a windows browser, when you really meant speedtest.net ... This is only a single example, it happens and bad people are out there.
Try clearing your recent browsing history, cookies, and such. The link wasn't working for me either, but it started working after I had cleared everything.
Black voters seem likely to vote in higher numbers for Trump than any other Republican as do working class White Democrats. That isn't to say Trump will win those demographics, but 20% of the Black vote should be enough for any Republican to win nationally when the Republican average is 5% lately.

Hispanics don't vote in large numbers and Chicanos -- the only category Trump might be especially unpopular with -- overwhelmingly don't live in swing states or turn out to vote. Muslims don't make up a large voting block and already are overwhelmingly Democrats.

I'm not predicting a Trump victory, but you are far too sanguine about his chances and the underlying demographic realities.
The USSR had no real amphibious capability to carry out such a plan.

Civilians were dying at a rate of something like a quarter million per month in all the various Japanese-occupied areas at this point in the war. If the atomic bombings sped up the surrender by just three weeks they were a net win in terms of lives. (And yeah, I know how morally difficult that calculation is, but that's war.)
Simple error monitoring in Ruby on Rails
Someone at the 32C3 inserted a poem into at least 30M servers' logfiles
Oh, yeah! I just wonder if movie selection is the same, or if in some countries there are more titles. Anyone got information on that?

I pay for proxy service just to "pretend" to be in USA and than pay the Neflix regular price. I believe a lot of ppl will subscribe to Netflix once no additional tricks are required.
If you were waiting on Bob to finish xyz, why does he wait up to a day before telling you he's done?

After doing scrum for a few years, my impression is that stand-ups are useless because you can't depend on them. They're frequently too far away to be used for the purposes you're talking about, so you always need an alternative. If that alternative is good, you might as well always use it and cancel the meeting.
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The announcement https://media.netflix.com/en/press-releases/netflix-is-now-a... links to the full list of countries and territories where Netflix is now available https://help.netflix.com/en/node/14164.
But that is not 130 countries.
India and Russia are not there for example.
Humans instinctively like things that are clever or well-made, and tend to want to reward that; it's just a matter of where that bumps into the desire to get more for less.
Will definitely be changing the module system to ES6 in the future. For now I prefer this pattern. :)
> South Korea and the US would wipe NK out so fast they wouldn't even know what hit them. The end of North Korea regime? For sure.

Let's not forget about the millions North Koreans who would die as a result. They're people, and the number of them who are culpable for their regime's madness is a rounding error.
This fails for Asian faces. Tested it on a picture of Bing Bing (Chinese Actress) that is absolutely stunning. She got a "Nice" rating. This is a toy.

Check out how Sensetime did a similar feature.