skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10923741 90+ comments
I really hope Valkyrie has something more than just VR dogfighting because flying in circles, playing the "who-can-get-behind-who-first" game gets old fast.

What made the Descent series so much fun was that it took place in an enclosed environment, with obstacles and other environmental effects to consider.

My ultimate "space sim" would take place in Karl Schroeder's Virga environment, which is a giant air-filled bubble in zero-g. Speed and sight-distance can be realistic, air resistance makes maneuvering fun, and you can have lots of obstacles if desired.

Though I'm hoping that there will be some decent plain old flight simulators coming out with Rift support. That would be a good reason to upgrade my gaming system.
Objectives:
* Propose design concepts based on new design concepts based on new design concepts based on new design concepts to non-design people;
Could you use two vertical strips, calculate the length of strip covered [segment image and use number of pixels as first approximation], assume the articles are discs [or some other assumption depending what you're expecting to measure] and use that to naively alter for objects not moving parallel to the plane of the cameras? Would be interesting to see how accurate you could get given the massive assumptions in play. Known objects would be easier to handle.
What part(s) do you consider dross?

To me, "flamewar material" sounds like "stuff many people would disagree with" [1] and "tedious posturing" sounds like, "Unfortunate realities I don't like discussing," so if you could quote [2] the specific part that breaks the rules it would help.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html

[2] http://paulgraham.com/okung.html
Nice! The FUSE mounting method for obtaining secrets is similar to how Keywhiz does this. Very cool and novel solution. Though, if you are unfortunate enough to still have Windows servers in your architecture, I think you're out of luck.
I think everyone had made some very good points here, but I think it can be summarized from what I've seen. Engineering is essentially a black box for a lot of companies. It's hard to directly measure the amount of money engineering brings in or saves vs the actual cost. This goes in hand with what caseysoftware said with understanding business but its more than that. Its about quantifying it in monetary terms for the business. Lets face it engineering is expensive from developers to infrastructure.
The rest aren't nearly as powerful as the latest AppleTV though are they?

I got a Amazon FireTV Stick for my MiL. It seems like a nice device. The interface is really decent, though it pushes Amazon Videos harder than the AppleTV pushes iTunes I feel like. Netflix and Hulu on the latest AppleTV feel "first class" for example. Same number of steps as getting to iTunes content (or one extra if you have multiple Netflix profiles). And the search is universal. Whereas on FireTV the Netflix App is kinda off in a corner and most of the content you're presented on startup is inaccessible if you don't have a Prime account.

Anyways, hardware wise, the latest AppleTV feels more powerful/capable than most devices on that list. Not sure about the PS3 or 360 or original Wii since I didn't really use them as media devices, but it's definitely much more powerful than the WiiU (I've tried Netflix and Hulu on it for the kids and it's nowhere near as snappy or responsive).

Anyways, yes, the PS4 (I don't have an XBone yet) does most of what the latest AppleTV does. But it's less focused and more cumbersome. No voice search for example. The apps seem a bit slower. (Except for Youtube, which is far better than the crippled version made for TvOS.)

Not sure where I'm going with all this except to say the latest AppleTV has it's own strengths/weaknesses and is more of a media-device++ than a Console--.

My own pro/cons would be:

Pro: Boots way faster than the previous version. Just a few seconds.
Con: Needs to be rebooted every other day or so when apps can no longer play video for unknown reasons.

Pro: Board games on the AppleTV with a young family are awesome.
Con: Not enough of them.

Pro: Plenty of age-appropriate games for children. Crossy Road is one of the few games my 3yo and 7yo can really play well together, and the TV experience is great.
Con: Not enough more in-depth games. Where's Kingdom Rush?!?

Con: The on-screen Keyboard is the worst ever designed in the history of on-screen keyboards. W.T.F. Apple. Seriously. Especially painful in Youtube since you can't voice-search there.

Pro: The optional Controller is great.
Con: It's not used to it's fullest since most buttons map to things that'll kick you out of the current app.

I totally get not making the 3rd party controller required. But it's a rough compromise to be limited to NES level controls.
Your links don't open in a new tab, despite the icon and even if I use my middle mouse button.

Extremely annoying.
There's a business opportunity for ridiculously long extension cords right there.
Unless one is commenting on a huge number of threads, isn't the "threads" feature adequate? It shows any responses to one's comments.
So java is in the negative list.

As are 3,4,5,6 and 10. Python 3, Perl 5, Perl 6, Windows 10? What's wrong with 4? :)
There's also blackbox by StackExchange https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox
It's rather hard to make a B2B business without the target industry exposure and goodwill. And those are hard to get because many of us, high-tech developers, are not good at listening to the low-tech user, or even each other. That includes me, of course.
A reusable SSTO would be a very difficult project, given that noone's even built an expendable SSTO yet.
Microscopic Capsules Leak Dye to Reveal Damage in a Material
I had a decent experience with United over the holidays. Only $99 to upgrade to first class from DEN - LGA.
neat, would be cool to have some pictures on the front page.
The problem I see with this kind of carsharing is that it does not scale particularly well to rush hours. I must note though that I'm living in Germany where Uber is not really a thing yet (mostly because of regulatory problems), so if anyone can share insight on how Uber scales to the rush hour, that'd be great.
>You seem to be taking a pure statistical approach yet ignoring OPs specific complaints with tech workplace

That's what smart people do: ignore anecdotes, look at actual data.
JetBrains MPS: https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/
Roadtrip Mixtape: generate a mixtape of local artists for your roadtrip
What?? Three days of work and no meta description??? I feel betrayed.....;)

(just kidding)

I just signed up and am going to work through a few things. I'll keep notes as I go, so some of these may seem a little rough, but I hope that they help.

First, my environment:

- Ubuntu 14.04
- Chromium 47.0.2526.106
- Resolution - 1366 x 768

and

- iPhone 5c
- iOS 9.2
- Safari

My thoughts:

1.) You sign your confirmation "Team Clerk Team". That isn't wrong per se, but it's kind of awkward.

2.) I know you have only put three days into this, so this is a really shitty thing to say, but when I first loaded this up in mobile, I had to really seriously zoom in.

3.) After I signed up (on desktop), I was presented with a tooltip that reads "Click here to create a project". In my environment, the 'c' in create is cut off.

4.) This may be a time zone problem, but when I created my first project and set it for being due today, it immediately showed up as being overdue.

5.) After I started up that project, I created a task and assigned it to myself. When I checked in mobile, I couldn't figure out how to view that task. In good news, your account settings page looks great in mobile. :)

6.) I wanted to test if I could log out of mobile and then assign a task to myself in desktop to see if the task would show up again when I logged into mobile. I couldn't figure out how to log out in the mobile view.

7.) I couldn't figure out how to show that a project was completed.

Overall impressions:

I like this a whole lot - it's one heck of a good application considering that it only has three days of dev behind it. With a few little tweaks to the experience, this is definitely something that I'd use. Great work! :)
Well, the OP article is about writing a server density dashboard app. I think that's a pretty good example. Any kind of real time metrics and status monitoring would make sense. How about video conferencing? Interactive training material?
Preposterous notion. The farmer can sabotage that in so many way, undetectable until the crop doesn't come in months later. And if farmers are being held at gunpoint, society has broken down to a degree where cities are unsupportable.
Perhaps landing into a tank of non-corrosive liquid would prevent such collapses? Or on some kind of "glue"/alloy that quickly freezes.

You can also have spearguns firing cords from the top of the rocket to the ground after landing, to hold it.
The startup that will change the way you travel
Does the open source nature of Android help here for a fix?

200M devices sounds like a lot, is it not possible for the community to fix it?
You should also consider that humans are naturally lazy, and our brains can make up excuses for that. Maybe she just said that because she wants her brother to do it for her, instead of doing it herself.
Unlike religion, there are actual verifiable facts to consider. Calling food choice a religion sounds like an excuse to not consider ones choices critically.
Free small business app
HUDs (i.e. face-locked user interface elements, as opposed to world-space UI like on the cockpit surfaces) can cause discomfort in VR. One reason is the vergence accommodation conflict. Focusing on objects inches away from your face is also difficult and painful with the current generation of VR headsets due to the fixed focal plane (1.5m in DK2, infinity in others).

I've played EVE:Valkyrie for a few hours in the Rift, and the cockpit-based UI is extremely comfortable.
For Now, Self-Driving Cars Still Need Humans
Thoughts on Julia?
The most interesting part of this paper is their simpler RNN structure than LSTM.
Airlines taking away free snacks for customers feels like companies taking away free snacks for employees: it doesn't really matter much by itself for anyone involved, but it's an obvious signal that the management involved can't bother to even put a fig leaf on the matter of your personal comfort.
A Former Dentist Uncovering Sugar's Rotten Secrets
Maybe Tom Cruise was using hardware and apps all from the same vendor?
I wonder if Satan also has a quest to be less evil.
Coindrops is a cool and free app for small businesses. It allows you to generate unlimited invoices, keep track of expenditure and many more. Sign up for free and take it for a spin
Was gonna say something similar. Used the tutorials to do openCV stuff for my whiteboard robot. Thanks!
> And yes, when a rocket falls over it will often explode.

Why? Why would a small hit make it explode, when the stress of going from orbit does not?
It's 100% possible to use the new ConfigurationBuilder class outside of a asp.net site (like a console application). ex: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31885912/how-to-read-valu...
My biggest takeaway is that in 2013 two-thirds of the North American workforce did not have a 4 year degree.

[1] http://victortanchen.com/educational-attainment-united-state...
Analyzing the Voynich manuscript text
I couldn't see from those links, but what is their business model exactly?

I am a happy signal user BTW, but I can't see how they are making money off me.
Definitely. Again, Apple will come into a market where a lot of their competitors make reasonable hardware but the software is complete trash.

An example is a DVR I encountered. The "smart" part of the interface takes ~30 seconds to activate, loads icons from a remote server somewhere (how long will that stay up?) and appears to run on some unholy mashup of HTML and an old version of Flash. Don't even get me started on the UX.

Apple's coming in with previous experience of TV interfaces, a slick design team and a software team who actually prioritise performance. And I'm no Apple fan.
> proper multitasking

That's actually equally lacking on JS side (if you mean parallelism); moreover, Node advocates callback/promise-based concurrency, which is completely achievable[1] and even practical in Elisp, too. There are at least two HTTP servers written in Elisp.

Lack of a high-performance VM for Emacs Lisp is a real pain, though. Emacs does everything I need it to do, it's just that sometimes it's a bit slower than I'd like.

[1] https://github.com/kiwanami/emacs-deferred
Fair enough. I feel like there's been stories / sentiment along this line for a while, though apart from Microsoft's ChakraCore announcement last week (?), the only two specific stories I recall from last year were about github's valuation (US$2B) and when they threatened to remove someone's repository because it contained the string 'retard'.

You're right that both github and gitlab are commercial endeavours - obviously very much in the same space - so I'd expect them both to pop up in any discussion about bug & feature trackers, community involvement, etc - especially if there's the potential to improve their business.

On the other side of the coin, I'm curious why Github seems to often get a pass by the free software community.
This is incorrect. I recently read an article (unfortunately, it's in Czech) about a father who decided to take parental leave, and what sexism he faced from the other mothers. It wasn't so blatant but he felt more like a stranger.
I'll take the bait: tell that to my father who is a nurse. He has fought blatant sexism and discrimination his entire career. And I wont speak to the taunting I endured for having a father who did "woman work."

"Meet the Parents" was light on the view of men who work as nurses...

Sexism and discrimination are hurtful regardless of the industry or the dominant gender of that industry. Unfortunately as humans we are better at finding ways to highlight differences than working together collectively.

And, unfortunately, we in the software industry are no better at overcoming our latent human biases than any other industry.
I think you're burying the lead, how did he make 100 million?
Possible application of Law of Unintended Consequences: every time you write a program to extract data _out_ of HN, you increase motivation for someone else to insert data _into_ HN.
Ask HN: Morse code easter eggs
I wanted to insert a visible but really discreet morse code easter egg on my company website and I'm curious if anyone knows other websites that have done something similar. I will not put the URL here because I don't want it to look like I'm promoting my company or anything, but I would really want to see how/if others have done this. I've added it as an "active" selector for the "what we do" menu item. The morse code basically explains in two words what we do :)
In short - you are awesome! Thanks so much for taking the time and putting thought into your feedback. Very much appreciated! I'll be working out these bugs for sure!
We (community college) have them connected to all the overhead projectors in each room. Airplay is also the reason. We are exploring apps and will probably setup a mac with all our videos for play in the classrooms.
Easy enough to add in post.
So basically you think the cost of generating a thumbnail of a website (likely less than 1/100 of a cent) is too expensive, so you make the client do it and destroy usability in the process by making the page slow to a crawl. Remember, usability has a value, since you wouldn't make the website in the first place if people couldn't use it.
Dark Money review: Nazi oil, the Koch brothers and a rightwing revolution
Clearly proprietary lock-in - just like using pre-cogs from the same family, once one turns, the whole thing falls apart.
DomTerm: A web-based rich terminal emulator
Wireless charging for phones enclosed within the space inside cars. Allows someone to charge their phone without connecting to any port, as long as it's in the car.

I know wireless charging already exists to some extent, but it'd be cool to extend its current range. Lots of possibilities with that technology
My Life Sucks, the truth is out there
No, you don't seem to be getting what I'm saying. I'm saying don't use !, and showing you how to avoid using it in a common pattern. Using 'if let' instead of ! does give you compile time verification of correctness.

! is there for the small number of cases where that's not possible. And it makes it much more obvious where you've got a potential problem, because the '!' is a literal code smell. You can't really do that with c++.
For both the AppleTV and FireTV, is the Youtube app just a thin wrapper around youtube.com/tv? There doesn't seem to be that many "native" Youtube apps around - it kinda suffers from the same problem that Netflix does in that someone's decided to code for the lowest-common-denominator device [1]. I've heard the Netflix experience on AppleTV is pretty good.

1: WTF, Netflix, why would you remove proper Kinect support from the Xbox One app?
A company should always focus on your strengths if not it'll be both overstretched and unsuccessful. Great read.
I'm building a web-to-speech(-to-podcast) app that's gaining traction. Integrating new voices and integrations all the time.
https://narro.co
But I wouldn't expect of you to assume that a "every time realloc" should be an optimal and at the same time a portable solution in such a case?
That would work, but only if people appreciated the scope of the risk of continued operation of their vulnerable phone.
I never know if it's nostalgia or not, but I've often felt the same way - that the younger generation of geeks, thanks to one part 4chan and one part Silicon Valley mercantilism, has gotten a very twisted attitude about nerd gender dynamics that's quite different from the idealists of my youth.
Interesting product. Awful name.
Tell them to double their rate! I'm not joking.

Just start quoting double. It's a negotiation.
No, I don't. If you look at the code in question, every time I expand an allocation I at least double it.
A lot of people actually enjoy meeting in meatspace.
It would be awesome to have all EVE (Dust, Online, Valkyrie) games in a simultaneous environment. I think there have been no other games like this before?
WRT the tie-in to the "nerd" phenomenon. Lots of things compete for kids' finite mental resources. It becomes a variation of do I invest in Social Status, or Subject Matter X? Those investments happen in a small way at first, but end up having an outsize impact on the rest of a kid's life.

Such choices are strongly influenced by cultural expectations for gender. Those cultural expectations are, in turn, cartoonishly amplified in the typical lord-of-the-flies high school environment.

Actually all of the above is just me—some random HN puke—speculating and repeating things I've heard elsewhere. But it definitely sounds plausible!
From your jobs page:

> Unlimited vacation days

If a candidate requested a firm six weeks of accrued PTO, would that be granted?
I'm not sure about HDCP, but there's some new Amlogic chips coming out that should be capable of 4k@60hz [1]. Things are getting interesting in the embedded space.

[1]: http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/01/12/amlogic-s905x-process...
Seconded, and I like this talk at Google by the creator of org-mode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM
On the other hand every single person of the richest 90% owns at least as much as the whole poorest one-third does.

Heck, even i do. So i own as much as 2 400 000 000 people do in total.
https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachm...

At least a court helped the poorest person on earth last year:
"In March 2014, a French high court upheld Kerviel's prison sentence but ruled he would not have to repay €4.9bn"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Kerviel
So there is still hope left.
I am thinking there is likely a massive infrastructure behind Linux running on your device. And thanks to all those that support it.
Flight experiences are really just anecdotal if you're talking about the same "class" of flight. I know people who fly regularly and are perfectly fine with Delta while they'd never fly American. At the same time, its always felt like the "national" domestic airlines have had very poor service - I liken it to GM and Chrysler vehicles.
GitLab could differentiate their service by offering IPv6 support, which GitHub has so far declined to do.
Not really, but I put the org mode files in Dropbox and then I can at least read them on the mobile Dropbox app
NASA asteroid initiative: Earth is in the middle of a 'shooting gallery'
OpenTrons: Open Source Robotic Liquid Handling
Try a more traditional (non-software) engineering company. I get to work on hard problems with smart people (from several different technical backgrounds), work closely with academia and researchers, get a lot of autonomy as to how I approach projects, get a reasonable amount of money and get to go home after 7-8 hours every day.
This is a specific XFS behaviour. In this case, the slab was using up 4GB of RAM on a 8GB machine, and all of the normal tools were telling us that we were running out of free space in RAM. No such problems on other file systems.
What is odd is that even the cheapest budget airlines of Asia, and there are many, many of them, nearly all provide not just free snacks, but free hot meals.
I do not think that's the correct conclusion.
The conclusion should be that when venture into new areas, be sure to understand the market first.
I'd expect that such growth seldom allows the realloc to remain in-place (unless it's the last thing allocated before and already in a big preallocated chunk of the allocator)? Have you observed what you then get in your program? Which allocator is used underneath?
I'm writing this from a Samsung device that never had a supported lollipop release. If I'd be on stock, I'd be vulnerable to many vulnerabilities including stagefright.

But I'm using an open source ROM called cyanogenmod, currently on Android 5.1 (cm 12.1). I upgraded to a newer nightly after patches were made to fix stagefright, and now I'm not vulnerable. I could also have installed a version of cyanogenmod from KitKat that back ported the patch.

So yes, open source can and has addressed this. If your device is supported by cyanogenmod, you can fix it.

Note that marshmallow cm builds are expected to be released soon, and afaik my device (S3) will still be supported: this would make my device upgradable 2 entire major releases after the manufacturer dropped support.
The airline industry needs to be disrupted. Lets hope for a day when building safe and reliable planes is cheap and fueling them even cheaper.
all this is is a forwarding page to a vanity site, not even the site itself.
Before looking ahead, it's well-worth looking back to see how far we've come. Things have changed a lot over the last 30 years, and I'll be very disappointed if they don't change much over the next 30. In 1986, C++, Java, C#, Perl, Python, and JavaScript didn't exist. The web was a small project unheard of outside of CERN. Much of computing was done in COBOL on mainframes. Garbage collected languages weren't used much. Things haven't progressed uniformly, and in some areas have actually regressed (I miss Lisp Machines), but mainstream computing is well ahead of where it was then.

I also don't think you can simply graft supercomputing onto mainstream (i.e. Algol-descended) languages and expect to keep all your cores equally busy. You might get away with some SIMD parallelism, but MIMD parallelism, and quantum computing, require completely different approaches, and completely different programming mindsets.
Except for Air Asia
I think taking the conservative approach of not re-writing history (--no-ff) is appropriate for a service like github. It is easy to ff merge PRs from the command line.
My diabetic fiance has a similar experience. If she speaks gibberish in the middle of the night, I use it as a good indicator that she has low blood sugar.