skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Museum of Jurassic Technology in LA has an exhibit of letters written by interested citizens to the astronomers at Mt. Wilson observatory in the early decades of the 20th century (http://mjt.org/exhibits/letters/letters.html). Mt. Wilson was famous at the time because Edwin Hubble had just discovered extra-galactic light sources, and the Big Bang, while observing with the 100-inch telescope there.

Most letters are just routine congratulations and thanks. But others have the tone you mention. A sample from 1928:

http://mjt.org/exhibits/letters/26ezekielp.1dropped_image.gi...

http://mjt.org/exhibits/letters/23ezekielp.2dropped_image.gi...

People have been having fevered imaginings about little-understood technology for a long time.
Is there anyone else here, who has used VR in the form of an HMD, that thinks this is all just a passing fad that will fail miserably? Can I note for a moment that this technology has been hyped since 2012 and we're only seeing the first consumer-facing products now? One of which is nothing other than Google Cardboard (GearVR) and one which is $600? The only real attempt at targeting consumers is coming from Sony, and it costs nearly as much as the console itself does. This is still decidedly a hobbyist market, and it doesn't look like that will change for another year at least.

But let's put the price of adoption aside for a moment and assume that at some point it will come down in price. Even then I can't imagine that the average household will be buying this.

For one, you wouldn't want to use an HMD in any context other than sitting alone in a room, and that's something that the nerdy hobbyist market doesn't mind, but to the average person it makes it nothing other than a novel toy. I keep hearing people on CNBC talk about how this year the Superbowl will be able to be watched via an HMD, and how this is the future of media.

Are they serious? Have they ever heard of a Superbowl party? I watch football around friends, and we enjoy good food and beers. It's a social event first, and a content event second. How does an HMD fit into that? It doesn't. And I think most media we have today (save for video games) are social events. I watched the Breaking Bad finale with friends. I watch scary movies with friends. And that's not to say that I don't sometimes watch things alone, but when content creators have to worry about accommodating both of these experiences, it's difficult to make the VR experience comparatively worthwhile. VR content is going to face the same fate as 3D movies do today.

It might be the evolution of video games. But that's a far cry from the hype that it gets.

I think that the evolution of Google Glass is what will really take off.
The average American travels 2.9 times/year, defined as an overnight trip >100 miles from home. The average European travels 4.9 times a year by this definition. So yes, a huge gap - add to this that the majority of trips Americans take are to visit family rather that to visit somewhere new. The early stage travel startup scene in Europe is much more vibrant than the US, but fewer of them get funding because European VC is so cautious and travel is universally acknowledged to be a tricky industry. I guess this means there should be more American startups that target European travel markets...
For what it's worth, I've met an alarming number of people making minimum wage or close to it who see themselves as middle class and see those making only modestly more money as rich.

From what I've observed, it seems to be based on what feels normative to their social groups. If most of the people you know make minimum wage or close to it, it feels normal, and therefore you're strongly motivated to believe that's what middle class is.

As for $71k median income in SF, I would not personally define that as middle class. To me, middle class is the capability to own at least a modest home and have significant ability to save for retirement. You can't do that on $71k in SF. As such, I would characterize the majority of SF residents as being less than middle class.
This is a an argument built on appeals both to Eric S. Raymond and the last several years of Twitter/Tumblr drama. It doesn't even discuss the CoC; instead, it adopts as a premise that any CoC that refers to "safety”, “welcoming” and “respect" must be tool of Twitter oppressors.

There are valid arguments against widespread adoption of CoCs (for instance: they can end up as window dressing). But this isn't an example of one.
Funny, everything in this post is exactly why i prefer Python(+Django/Flask) over Ruby(+Rails). Too much magic happening everywhere, a gazillion of built-in methods, weird shit happening all over the place, all that combined with all the syntactic sugar Ruby offers.

Granted, it might look "beautiful" in the eyes of a experienced RoR developer, but personally i find it just makes code very hard to read. Just my 2 cents.
> We don't have the full picture, but what we have suggests that there were other ways to handle it.

So it's safest to assume that the victim of sexual harassment is at fault, of course.

> because otherwise they may assume nothing is wrong.

So in this scenario, you're taking the stance that the Manager at Google has no concept that asking an inferior employee to sit on his lap could be unacceptable workplace behavior?

That doesn't seem like a generous read to you? You honestly think that this man, who has been working in a professional environment for at least a decade, was completely unaware that asking an employee to sit on his lap could possibly be construed as sexual misconduct?

So to review:

victim of sexual misconduct: obvious potential liar

perpetrator of sexual misconduct: blameless victim of ignorance

Got it.
I find it hard to believe they can pull this off, but it is theoretically possible that they could visually look at clouds vs trees and trash blowing about to correct for the difference between surface winds and winds aloft, which sometimes can be quite a difference.

If you somehow magically knew the wind vector at various heights (visually, I guess, although a mesh network of cooperating air drop parachutes would work), even relatively slow actuators could very accurately pinpoint land.

Another "I can't believe it, but maybe..." is GPS doesn't have a plot of every tree or vehicle and visual could be programmed, in theory, to do something ridiculous like thread the needle of individual trees and bushes to land next to visually identified military vehicles, where ever they may be parked, or even crazier, supply on the move vehicles, so if we're hitting the ground in 30 seconds and that APC is moving at 25 MPH to the east then I want to land 20 feet away from where it'll be in 30 seconds while missing the nearby trees...

Another strange visual landing idea... regardless of GPS jamming, using narrow beam optical signalling make a mesh network of dropping pallets and visually coordinate landing such that you avoid all trees vehicles and people while landing in a super convenient straight line exactly 50 feet apart regardless of how/when the pallets were kicked off the plane.
My car insurance tells me to never apologize even if it is my fault because that can be equated with admission of guilt. I imagine Doctors are told the same in regard to malpractice suits.
Just as a point of reference I ran this 30k [1] (18.6 miles) at 8:38 pace vs. a flat road half marathon (13.1 miles) at 6:41 pace about 5 months later.

As you can see in this [2] it climbs from a low of 2500 feet to 3700 feet. I'd estimate 1500 feet total so much less than in the article.

I usually place in the top 5% of men in most races.

[1] http://www.othtc.com/ultra/course/Course.htm
[2] http://www.othtc.com/ultra/course/ultra%20maps/30kprofile.jp...
Is there a way to enforce a particular style across a project? From what I've read the abiliity for projects to be internally consistent, even with third party library usage, seems to be one of the big advantages of this design-wise. So if you had an optional setting somewhere that enforces it, it might help communicate the intention of the feature.
Site is broken, here's a link/mirror in googles webcache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
> Now that Rails isn't the cool new thing anymore, is it still a good choice for new projects?

It's probably the best choice for a straight-up CRUD webapp (as was always the case). I wouldn't want to do a project with nontrivial business logic in an untyped language these days (having seen how little flexibility you have to sacrifice for safety in a modern typed language), but your views may differ.
I'm not sure I agree that makes it a Rails problem, more of a developers who happen to use this tool problem.
wat - Buffer(number) is unsafe
Vertikul2: 50% quadcopter 50% blended wing.30km60km/h, soft lands in high winds
>I don't know, are we going to pay the children directly to not work in cobalt mines, or are we going to prevent them from accessing the 100% opportunity to make cash?

As I pointed out elsewhere, they can make more money with greater physical safety if we only changed the laws to allow for certain work involving camera phones. I'm pretty sure their clientele would even provide the phones to the children at no cost.

>What's an action you would suggest to improve things?

What about the one I suggested? It isn't perfect, but the children are physically safer and will make more money and get a phone with internet access out of the deal.
Stephen Hawking: Humanity will only survive by colonizing other planets
For those that are interested in a more performant and scalable Rails-like experience I encourage you to check out Phoenix: http://phoenixframework.org

We have been working with Elixir (the language Phoenix is built on) for over a year. It is an incredibly satisfying language and its toolset is surprising advanced for its age. Phoenix has been a very easy mental jump for our developers who were already trained on Rails.
Sure, I install cyanogenmod when I can. Ordinary users cannot do that. Samsung is actively hostile to this and samsung makes some of the most popular android devices.
I had one running with Ubuntu, and after around two/three weeks the Nuc didn't want to boot, no reaction when pressing the on button, but lan led was on. Then I got another one and the same thing happened after a month or so. Afterwards I've decided not use a Nuc again.

But in our customer support everybody has a Nuc and they're running fine, I was the only one with these problems.

Probably I'm just unlucky.
As someone who lives near Chicago, the museums have a few free admission days for Chicago residents pretty much every month (and some libraries around here let you "check out" free passes).

However, the free days are often during the weekdays and I think during work hours, so lots of working people can't really take advantage of them very often.
Shameless plug. Give www.voiceclonr.com a try (something I built a while back)
It's a good question and it's really what I'm asking about.

The only web-stuff I've worked on in a commercial settings was a long time ago using Java and Tomcat. At the time, it was the cool new thing. I think that some of the pain points of languages and frameworks from that era are what prompted DHH to develop Rails (I'm specifically thinking about convention-over-configuration and admit I could be totally wrong here).

So today, I probably wouldn't pick Java and Tomcat for a personal project just because I know it won't be as fun and I won't be as productive as I would be with different technology. Has Rails been eclipsed in a similar way?
It is funny how small things affect your future. I did a lot of stuff with rails back in 2007 or so. However I really got fed up with it because some things were so slow. So for the next project I decided to pick up django, and I've been using django since then.

Would it have made much difference if I had staid with ruby/rails instead of python/django? I dunno. Many of my friends have careers with rails, and they have nice careers. I have nice career as well, as do many other friends with django. In the end they are not that different, I guess.
Community is part of tool choice though, for better or for worse.
When doing projects on the side, I like to play with node.js or Elixir but when I have to develop projects for paying customers, I tend to gravitate towards Rails...

Few reasons for that:

1. I'm extremely productive and fast at developing in Rails

2. It's much easier for the client to get an app that's develop for a Framework that's been there for a while, is stable and will continue to be there

3. Ruby is a nice language and the principles behind Rails resonate with me (so it's not like Java and Spring which I was eager to get rid of when I switched to Rails a bit over 10 years ago)

That doesn't mean that I don't use node.js for certain specific use cases on client projects... But my goto framework is Rails
DHH is amazing.... Thank you for creating RAILS.
It's partly a Rails problem because there's a ton of different ways to implement something, so people will always find reasons to disagree with what you did. And the Rails community seems particularly over-opinionated about these things. There's a lot of cargo cult thinking going on when your stuff gets code reviewed.
>There's an important distinction between an "honest" CSR and an oversharing CSR.

It seems an appropriate response to this (not uncommon in different contexts) situation would have been to say something like: "It turns out that even though the car you purchased was listed as available in our inventory system, it's not." At which point, the CSR should have been empowered to do something along the lines of offering an equivalent or better car for the same price and expediting delivery.
Work with on open source projects or with with in a company? In either case, having some agreed upon coding style guides may help reduce individual style conflicts.

* https://github.com/airbnb/ruby

* https://github.com/thoughtbot/guides/tree/master/style/rails
If you haven't decided exactly where and when you want to travel, Hitlist (hitlistapp.com) makes it easier to compare options across variable dates/destinations.
Please don't use an auto-carousel, especially for interactive features. There's nothing more annoying than clicking a drop-down only to have the carousel move.
Given that it looks like commits were just made 12 days ago (https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....) or possibly as recently as 38 hours ago (https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....), perhaps only 4.4 has the fix?
Ask HN: How do you deal with 2000 line functions?
I'm working with an archaic code base and I'm stuck at trying to add new business logic into a 2000 line function that is absolutely crappily written with nothing but if() conditions in it. Given such a scenario, how do I go about adding a new functionality to this mess? Should I tell my manager that the function needs to be refactored and take time to refactor it?

Edit: Removed offensive word
I took this class (188) from Abbeel, who is now involved in advising OpenAI from YCR. It's an incredibly well structured class, on par with the intro course at Berkeley, 61a. For anyone who wants a relatively fun introduction to core AI concepts, try working through the projects (which will require learning most of the materials anyway). They're not coding intensive, just thinking intensive; Each question in a project probably takes ~5 lines to write!
This is incredibly cool, I have a request.

Please do not post comments on the GH issue unless you have something important to add. These issues gain a lot of attention and it makes it _incredibly_ hard for collaborators to communicate.

Locking the issue to collaborators means other people from the outside who have a significant contribution or want to help can't do that.

Comments like +1 -1 and such create a significant amount of noise.

Support open source, keep the discussion clean.
This post directly targets an individual in the PHP community and not the CoC in question. I'd suggest renaming this post as misguidance, irregardless of which side it is from, isn't addressing the point.
Twins study finds no evidence that marijuana lowers IQ in teens
Depends on what you consider "most users" to be.
4:4:4 is pretty much required for text on TV's if you are using your Smart TV for some browsing, screen casting and the likes it becomes very important.
It's also quite important if you play games with a PC connected to your TV as it reduces artifacts and aliasing (it doesn't matter with consoles since they don't output 1080p even so upscaling artifacts trump chroma sub sampling ones).
It's also a bit out of date the current Bluray standard and UHD Bluray(4K) master in 4:4:4.
I did not see a doctor. Not before, not after. The truth is that even if I had seen one I wouldn't take in account her opinion anyway.

The current standards for nutrition are based on a diet rich in carbohydrates. Any response from a doctor (at least the ones I have access to) will discourage this event. It just doesn't fit on their models. Plus they have to play safe.
I appreciate all the people who are concern about my health. I'm doing fantastically well. Thanks.

I do believe that ketosis is the "default" state for the human being. I have plenty of reasons for that and I'll try to explore more arguments in other posts. Its a very broad subject and I wanted to narrow the scope.

I didn't do this experiment out of nowhere. I've been running in ketosis for long time and I know myself pretty well. I've been reading and educating on the subject.
I'm not completely stupid. I know the risks and I know there is a lot we don't know about. But if I've done it its because previous runs and experiments gave me the enough confidence.

This post doesn't suppose to be a scientific study, not to give any medical advice (I'm taking note from your comments and I'll add a warning). Its just my experience based on what I thing should be a more commmon approach, to focus more on the fundamentals than on a micro view.
you might want to check out some websites on lean startup and ways to validate your idea without a lot of upfront programming. I was able to hack together a simple website with a template and wufoo.com form for collecting leads. upwork is a good place to hire remote programmers, also.
I don't have any different sources. I read them differently.

You read "the US made plans to make/support relebellion and the sectarian aspect".
I read "the Syran regime already has these vulnerabilities that could get exploited"

Probably because I don't believe in an all-powerful US.

>PLAY ON SUNNI FEARS OF IRANIAN INFLUENCE: There are fears
in Syria that the Iranians are active in both Shia
proselytizing and conversion of, mostly poor, Sunnis. Though
often exaggerated, such fears reflect an element of the Sunni
community in Syria that is increasingly upset by and focused
on the spread of Iranian influence in their country through
activities ranging from mosque construction to business.

> There
is also tremendous fear in the Alawite community about
retribution if the Sunni majority ever regains power.

> DIVISIONS IN THE MILITARY-SECURITY SERVICES: Bashar
constantly guards against challenges from those with ties
inside the military and security services.

> THE ECONOMY: Perpetually under-performing, the Syrian
economy creates jobs for less than 50 percent of the
country,s university graduates. Oil accounts for 70 percent
of exports and 30 percent of government revenue, but
production is in steady decline. By 2010 Syria is expected
to become a net importer of oil. Few experts believe the
SARG is capable of managing successfully the expected
economic dislocations.
They should also have the option to use FireFox's engine as well.

Who has the fastest JS core these days?
"5. Use tags for better organization"

I'm still waiting for the Mac version to get custom Tags. They only give you a few canned options like Project A and Project B :/
webpage down?Any link to a cached copy?
Technically I'm an Apple share holder (very small part of highly diversified retirement portfolio which is probably nothing next to the people you are talking about), but hopefully from my other comments on this link you can see I do not approve of exploiting children for personal gain and personally find it hard to comprehend how many are willing to wrap up the exploitation as being for the children's benefit.
There is generally a big internal difference between cars that are used by a customer and cars used by the company.

Dealerships often deal with this for their internal loaner cars used when someone is getting repairs vs. there normal inventory. He was buying a car that was likely at a transmission point where the company was still using it but it had entered there sales channel early.
About picking the "Best" tool for the job. One annoying thing about Stack Overflow is that they aggressively stop those types of questions with their mod system. Just understanding the Pros and Cons of the major options is very valuable, but not allowed.
Is Mobile Immune from the VC Funding Drought?
There's a Microsoft blog post which gives much more details: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/01/19/nodejs-chakra...
> Too much magic happening everywhere, a gazillion of built-in methods, weird shit happening all over the place

Couldn't agree more on this. Magic is good if you understand the underlying stuff but if you don't and you are once offtrack you are lost. Maybe it's also a matter of taste. However the hype and traction DHH could build when RoR started was quite impressive.
What does this mean for noje.js?
I think there's still way to many things that require dedicated accounts out there, and that erodes our ability to create secure passwords.

I think I can handle 3-5 passwords on sites I use on a regular basis just fine. The next 10 sites, and I misremember things. Past that every visit that requires a login is me going through the "forgot password, request password, log into email, wait for password reset email, click link, reset password, have it slip my mind again, reset password again, log in" cycle that may take anywhere from 10-30 minutes of my time.

But having to come up with new passwords for these website makes me lazier with them. I want a chance to remember it given low repetitions, so I follow a pattern. I might not want to type a long complicated password in twice, so I make it shorter. I might start reusing it. There's only so much space in my head I'm willing to dedicate to remembering passwords and usernames, so I start to compress things, and this becomes habitual. Against all better knowledge, even some of my more important passwords become trivial to guess.

Now as someone who is running a low usage frequency website, you could say to yourself: "User error, not my problem". You could imagine a pretty world with unicorns and users who remember their passwords for your risotto blogs comment section, and that they parkour through your login experience, straight from A to B. It says one-click login on the tin, didn't it?

No,I think requiring login at all should be a conscious design decision you have to make before you ever boot up the old Apache. Is it necessary, can you offload it to third parties, or if you do it, at what point it starts being necessary. Take a sober look at whether your website is one of the 5 I'll use often enough to remember the password for, and if it isn't, keep it in mind when deciding what to put on which side of the login wall.
India's net regulator called FB's FreeBasics campaign 'crude' and 'dangerous'
10,36M Bitcoin moved on Sunday, 2nd highest value in the last 2 years
Grep for commit_creds and prepare_kernel_cred in /proc/kallsyms. The address is in the first column.
My resources are limited. But given the chance I won't mind repeating it.