skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, I had an Oculus Rift Dk2 and while the technology was truly impressive, plugging the thousand cables needed to make it work and trying to make it fit comfortably was never worth it.

The first thing they need for this to work is think of it like a game controller. To play a game with a controller you only need to plug it in, and it will just work. The same needs to be done with VR headsets. You should not have to worry about display resolution and placement, cable management, sound devices, etc, just to play with a VR headset.

The ideal would be plugging your headset into a single USB type-c port with a technology allowing it to act as a display, sound card and controller all at once. Or at least have a kind of dock where you plug in the VR controller and this dock is plugged into your computer in various ways.

Still, I think they should work on this before resolution and accuracy for VR to really work.
And the source: https://github.com/unchartedsoftware/torflow
'All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' -Tolstoy

It seems that many people are unhappy with Meteor in its own way. It takes 375 factors to make a 'Rails' and Meteor has 370 for each person, but each person is missing a different five.
Being government funded does not mean you don't have to sell yourself. It just means the target audience for the sales job is different.
Same here, though we did it with FreeBSD, not Linux.

If you've never tried to "make buildworld" on FreeBSD on a Pentium 75, you can try it next time you have a spare couple days.
Give me a box of boards and nails any day. All my ikea furniture is rickety and much of it is starting to look dated.

I just spent a good amount of time over the last few months building a prototype for an application in Meteor and it has been a joy.

Out of the box I got happy, grokable app/server communication, I got sane user account tools and I got a build process that works well enough that I haven't thought about it at all. I almost never need to look at documentation, I just build features. I've only needed a few community packages, and the ones I have used have been working pretty well for me.

I feel like I've been living the dream. So much ceremony and overhead just melted away.

I'd be curious to hear what kind of issues people have hit with blaze/meteor package management/etc that make them want to swap in react/npm/etc. (I spent the better part of 2015 with react/flux and it would take a lot to get me to switch back).
Yes. Each spider in Scrapy has a "start_urls" parameter/method, so you'd just need to fill that up with all your domains and make sure the spider has freedom to crawl across domains. Each URL would be accessed, you'd do whatever you want to do and when the spider has visited them all, it would quit.
I am certain nearly everyone gets it. Their parents went along to get along and so will their children.

People apparently need a written sign in the washroom to remind them to wash their hands. Keep that in mind.
its not that uncommon to find VS solution files consisting of 100+ projects, especially in finance. The most I've worked on was 132 projects in a single solution (roughly a third were test projects). It was slow and sluggish at times but still workable nevertheless...
Not to mention -- each of the five players are entrenched because they all solved much huger problems for consumers. As a result, they now have the ability to tackle new problems, whose own industry titans are woefully inept at fixing themselves.

Video in particular is a problem that the content creators, nor the video technology manufacturers, seem to have any interest in fixing, and it is frankly an industry ripe with idiotic flaws, infighting, and stagnation. I am quite happy that all of the listed companies are finally looking to help tackle problems such as those faced in the digital video realm.
They most likely aren't ATA cables, as in, they aren't used to connect hard drives -- so it's not obvious that whatever purpose they serve could be served by a serial alternative.

If you look at the photo of the back of the unit, you see a lot of very wide D-Sub sockets that these ribbon cables seem to connect to, so the unit is meant to connect to a bunch of other things. Actually, the need for these sockets seem to account for most of the size of the unit, the box appears pretty empty.
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Here's something I've been using recently:

$ jq .scripts package.json
{
"start": "npm-run-all --parallel client server live",
"client": "beefy client/index.coffee:index.js $npm_package_config_beefy_port --cwd client -- --transform coffeeify --extension '.coffee'",
"server": "BEEFY_PORT=$npm_package_config_beefy_port LIVE_PORT=$npm_package_config_live_port PORT=$npm_package_config_port nodemon --watch server --watch template --ext coffee,jade server/app.coffee",
"live": "live-reload --port=$npm_package_config_live_port --delay=3000 client server template"
}

No sass in there, but one can see it could easily be added.
"Project Foo: The Greatest Thing Ever". What is that? I should look into that.

A year or two later. "Project Foo: Total Crap". Glad I didn't look into that.
And then losing the advantage of ControlPersist; the ideal would be to have an always-on ControlMaster, but that would also be restarted once ServerAliveInterval*ServerAliveCountMax expires.
>I feel like the web programming world doesn't really need new frameworks, does it? Rails or Django got mainstream adoption because there was a need at the time

Of course we do. Those frameworks appeared because what was available at the time wasn't perfect. Rails/ Django addressed a number of pain points and made more rapid development possible. But development still takes time and creates bugs, so there's still room to improve.

Plus coders are always going to reinvent the wheel, so frameworks will continue to appear.
Hey, great to see Matias's tag analytics work linked! It is really interesting to see how the tags on OpenStreetMap evolve.

For some context, read his blog post here about the analysis and tools used:
http://matiasdahl.iki.fi/2015/finding-related-amenity-tags-o...
It's articles like these that make me wonder how many ridiculous laws there are that are not in the public consciousness. How can this possibly help make our lives better?
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If you're using any of those tools above just because they're en vogue, you're doing it wrong. You use those tools because they solve specific problems that you're facing and to make your job easier and not because the "cool kids" on the block are using them.

I'd say that nearly all the tools listed in your comment serve a purpose and solve specific problems and ease certain pain points that I deem them useful and assets in my workflow.
Those look like custom digital connectors moving data to and from the codec boxes. They're not connecting hard drives here.

If you had to connect 40 low-speed signal pins from one board to another, you'd do it as simply and cheaply as possible. Serializing them doesn't gain you much of anything, other than complexity.
>Also do you really think criminals will use a protocol authored by GCHQ? //

Criminals use Facebook. Not all criminals are intelligent.

But the sort of criminals that GCHQ is after, probably not.

That said Tor is used by criminals and that was developed by DARPA I gather.
Perhaps the title-writer has been infected by the BBC news editorial policy. They seem to be turning clickbait titles into a fine art, combined with renaming articles so you think it's a new piece on the same story, but turns out you've already read it. (If you read BBC News at all that is: my wife still does, I gave it up years ago and haven't looked back.)

I love many aspects of the BBC but sadly not their news output anymore.

(Sorry I realise this has very little to do with the R&D article.)
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Interesting analysis from my perspective as definitely not a good writer. One comment though:

"But science is no longer done in monasteries. Competition, pride, ego, greed, and politics play all too great a role in determining who gets credit, who wins the prizes, and who gets into the textbooks."

This really was never any different.
Fun fact: as @ziburski has acknowledged, he got some inspiration from Clayton Miller's 10/GUI (2009), and if anyone watches the video

https://vimeo.com/6712657

he will see how the organization in panels and not windows was called "con10uum" (min 3:30). I wonder if some Microsoft designer/VP/exec saw this and get the idea to put "Continuum" as one of the most important features of Windows 10.

Besides from that, great work, congratulations @ziburski. Like many others I miss shortcuts on a productivity environment, but this really could work.
I work for a startup that has grown our team and product over the past two years, building a major application on Meteor. It's been great seeing the platform grow, and we've been able to benefit from many of Meteor's components from the very beginning. We can add new features very quickly because of the base Meteor provides.

If Meteor is a fit for your project, definitely use it. Real-time, isomorphism, and more can be of big benefits to rapid development.
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I can't even use this site... The ads are horribly invasive. They also do that thing where they make you click to see every person so they can get more ad views, and page reloads.
That's because your thinking of the manufacturing model of low skilled, ignored workers cranking out widgets in big batches.

Lean, and Japanese manufacturing the worker has a lot power(They can stop the line) and have final say in quality.
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They aren't using PATA or SATA. They are using ribbon cables to connect boards to each other and to backplate connectors.

Some of those ribbon cables could be carrying serial signaling on some lines but to get it all on one smaller cable with fewer signaling lines like SATA you'd need to mux/demux the data on each end which would add expensive chips to save money on cheap cables.
> Why would anyone bust an Apple store!?

To steal laptops, which you then sell on Craigslist.

Laptops don't have IMEI.
A disproportionate amount of traffic seems to be passing through Monrovia, Liberia compared to the rest of African continent and even more developed places like Australia. Can anybody shed some light on this ?
"It's already the most expensive liquid most people will buy, and you want to let the printer order it for you?"

Beats running out of ink at 10pm when I need a printout by tomorrow morning.
Are you talking about something that would map out the API? The closest analogy to what I understood from your text was http://nodered.org/ in terms of design, I haven't seen anything like this for scraping yet. Definitely an interesting product to be made here if it doesn't exist yet.
My assumption is that the burglars are pretty unaware of remote tracking/disabling/serial number recording and/or the Apple demo devices on the tables aren't set up with an iCloud "Find My Device" profiles, especially the non-iPhone machines.

One Apple Store out in the suburbs has been hit multiple times. Three times in one year. Seems like the glass they damage is worth more than the machines they manage to steal:

http://patch.com/illinois/naperville/masked-burglars-strike-...
They almost certainly are not moving ATA commands over those ribbons, so SATA wouldn't be much use.
Hm, that's probably the point: there is no threat (to the utility provider) in that model. Worst thing you could do is make someone's appliances run with a more expensive rate; hardly a likely event or one worth preventing.

(As for power cutting, that seems unlikely - the system is in place to provide larger power consumption when base production exceeds the load. Around here, the basic low/high rate info is provided by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_management#Ripple_control , which needs a not-really-smart power meter, but runs on top of the power line, obviating the need for a side channel)
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I can echo your positives regarding using the platform. It's been mostly a joy and learning it has been fun.

We've used npm for a server-only component of our architecture built in Meteor, but happily mix npm and atmosphere packages together with ease.
Get someone to configure a VPS for you and give you web-based control tools/panel.

Insist on having backups, you can get them from your Host (for a fee) or you can get the one person to configure something for you (requires manual restore process).

VPS prices are reasonable now, and you should not be paying over 10$ a month.

EDIT: As some people said, you server going down and mail delivery success/failure are 2 different things.
Developing for multiple platforms makes you and your product better
The wikipedia article only lists the countries that used it with PAL and SECAM, meaning that the lists is only in regards to TV broadcast, not radio.
Because if they don't have clickbaity headlines the UK government will scrap the license fee?
Steam on Linux Hits 1800 Games Available
It was LORD. Not sure why I wrote LOTD.
Cost of Living vs. Wage Stagnation in the United States, 1979-2015
Social Credit – Obedience to the state gamified
This hasn't appeared very high, probably due to the fact that HN hates links to vids with no context, so here it is, China is implementing a social credit system that will be mandatory in 2020, that gives you a social score based on what the state deems are "good" and "bad" actions. What you share on social media, your friends, your purchases etc. This is scarily Orwellian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
Absolutely! I had a USRobotics 16.8k Dual-Standard modem that I bought in 1992 under the discounted Sysop program and that thing made the coolest noises of any modem I ever owned.
OS X is not cheap, and definitely not free. The price is factored into the laptop.

This is not some pedantic arm-chair econ101 argument; they are able to charge a higher price due to having OS X as part of the product, and they do.

Arch is actually for free.
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Don't be too dismayed by that. When I made my first software sale I also sent a similar message to the customer. In retrospect, while not a rookie mistake, it was rookie over-enthusiasm :)

Looking at some of my old stats, it's probably realistic to expect at most 10% of people to respond to that kind of email.
I can see from the photos that it's using this board: http://zedboard.org/product/zedboard

I'm surprised BBC is not only willing to make custom hardware, but custom RTL design as well.

I'm curious what the failure rate of the FPGA will be, I mean they are more susceptible to soft errors than CPUs or ASICs. Maybe BBC will fund making a custom ASIC :-) Well I see two systems, maybe they are redundant that way.

Why not make the project open source? Put it up on github.
I've always been impressed by the BBC tech people I met, doing a high-quality job in an extremely bureaucratic neophobic environment.

As part of making the unit, we had to ensure it complied with all the relevant European directives so that it could be CE marked. We had the Codec tested for both safety and EMC.

Interesting, I thought this wasn't required for internal use; probably the BBC corporate structure means it no longer counts as "internal".

On "Radio Teleswitch":

[Droitwich] transmitter uses a pair of obsolete metre-long valves which are no longer manufactured anywhere in the world.[1]

In October 2011, the BBC admitted that the Droitwich transmitter, including Radio 4's longwave service and Radio Teleswitch, will cease to operate when one of the last two valves breaks, and no effort would be made to manufacture more nor to install a replacement longwave transmitter.

This is like the Domesday Book (1980s interactive multimedia system on Laserdisc): high-tech and sui generis at the time it was built, but eventually uniquely obsolete.

The BBC itself is very much a valve-and-laserdisc organisation in a Google world. We huddle round the warm glow, concerned that eventually some vital element will give out due to lack of money and the whole enterprise will give up.

Periodically someone comes up with the idea of shutting down analog FM radio. This is politically inconceivable as half the country has ancient radios that were tuned to Radio 4 in 1967 and have never played any other station (an exaggeration, but only a small one).
Clearly you haven't read the religious tracts from the free software believers.
> potentially existential threat to the industry

I wonder if it really is a threat. Serving anything related to ads from same domain as content will make it much harder to create reliable blocking rules[1]. If ad blocking requires heuristics like the ones in Readability extension it won't be as popular.

[1] as a bonus it instantly kills simplistic host file method
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The intended use doesn't matter. That's a huge potential exploit. I would never deploy an application based on a framework where database access from the browser is baked in.
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I'm surprised, you don't Google everyday? Not even once?
BBC engineering is indeed pretty good. I hope they make more than half the german wage as is usual for british engineering jobs.
Huh? Who would the parents be liable to? What would they be liable for?

Mojang ABs customers aren't magically going to become liable for their violations by using their software.
From the article: "...most ad servers (not just Google-owned DFP) will be able to send ads in AMP pages. Some work remains to be done on the formats that will be deemed acceptable in AMP pages." Deemed acceptable by who, and doesn't this indicate it will become another walled garden?
That's a good point I hadn't thought of - and you're right. I probably do unintentionally, inadvertently, or, I'm not sure how to say it, but I don't mind, I'm just not conscious of it.

So still, it just doesn't seem like "domination" to me. Yeah, so some of the services I use use AWS. They probably could choose one of a bucket load of web service services out there. Sure seems like there is a lot of choice in that market.
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make it available:

chrome --app=http://google.com
I would be lying if I pretended that I know. In my case, it happened over time. When I think back, I can clearly see the trigger, but did I knew at that time it would change my path? Absolutely not. Would I change a single thing? No.
Running tons and tons of VS instances while debugging broken, memory hogging programs, modifying the XML for weird project types for third party plugins poorly, etc. Things that MS really can't do anything about.
it's possible (really) to help with F# support, no need to wait ms.

That said, vb is same as F#, every language it's ok in some context.

The whole dotnetcli/coreclr/aspnet is a new bootstrap, so it's ok only one language it's supported at the beginning.

Discussing now of other languages help make it language agnostic.

The dotnet cli and aspnet team are really friendly if someone want to help.
There was a discussion a couple of years ago around how ACH works. ACH is the dominant system of money transfer in the US and takes 2-5 business days on average for a transfer, compared to the real-time systems in many other countries.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7636066
Visualizing CNN architectures side by side
Dell XPS 13 review: Skylake and Thunderbolt 3 make the best PC laptop better
i'm probably missing something here but how about just saving a bookmark on the desktop?
I am not particularly frightened. I'm not even clear why I should be.
The simplest definition of turing completeness is: a system capable of manipulating symbols with no restrictions on recursive depth.

Basically, if you can write "while (true) { doStuff(); }" (or an equivalent TCO version), your system is turing complete.

So, all the "deep learning" fads aren't even turing complete (if we don't consider RNNs "deep learning") because they are feedforward/backprop networks of explicitly limited depth.

Humans are turing complete, but only for limited time spans. Humans get tied up in a version of the halting problem called "this is dumb let's do something else." It's difficult for humans to execute "find the highest prime number" without other needs derailing the process over time (boredom, bathroom breaks, biological death).
Aside from Falcor, this is exactly my current stack and my preferred as well. React + Redux + Webpack + Immutablejs + Bootstrap/Less. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on Falcor or Relay/GraphQL and see what it can offer. For my backend I run some minimal node webservices. I've recently started making all my stuff "pre-rendered" by statically generating my files (react renderToString -> Mustache -> create a file) , with all my needed data in a json file, and only access the webservices when absolutely needed.
German high court rules Facebook “Friend Finder” is unlawful
When I saw MongoDB, Meteor got put on a "check back some day" list. Phoenix is way more interesting: it's built on some very solid foundations.
Can we really build streets that are unbiased to cars? (Strongtowns.org)
:) LOL so much at this. Don't try any more heists though
It could be a very small number of transitions. The most typical change to something tagged "amenity=swimming_pool" will be to "leisure=swimming_pool", which looking at http://matiasdahl.github.io/osm-tag-dynamics/index.html?amen... are not included in the analysis.

Such are the joys of folksonomy, it was "decided" that leisure was a meaningfully different and better namespace for swimming pools.
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I'm wondering if this might because Australia has less traffic per node, so most of the Australian nodes aren't reaching the display threshold (top 500 or whatever nodes).
Well, application programs? ;)
Why I'm done with Twitter
Same for "MobilePay" in Denmark -- everybody has it, you can use it to pay in supermarkets or transfer money to friends. I suspect it is really good for things like flea markets because people like myself who never carry cash can suddenly pay there.
I believe this uses Electron under the hood.
I was actually discussing this the other day with friends. I use duckduckgo.com for searching, Firefox for a browser 95% of the time, I don't use my Gmail or G+ hardly at all anymore, and the one thing I really like from Google, the Picassa desktop app, I don't use every day, more like every couple of weeks (or longer) when I update my website.

It's not a conscious decision (well, except for the searching part - I like the no tracking on DDG) - Google just doesn't offer things I need.