skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will that not be fatigue issues with this? Ignoring the actual weight of the headset, isn't it really bad/tiring on the eyes to be constantly focused at the same distance?
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Extensive discussion 2 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10967578

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10964902
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Reminds me of the guy who thought he cracked the mechanism behind anesthesia. Then he realized he did not. Crazy.
If you're interested in studying the closest thing to it, look at the rise in popularity of Kratom, a Southeast Asian plant containing opioid alkaloids. It's commonly used by opiate addicts as a replacement therapy, and also by others as self-medication for anxiety, depression, and pain.

I'm not recommending anyone try it... nobody's entirely sure if it's safe, or if it could function as a gateway drug to harder opiates. But it's worth considering the good it may be doing for some people.
Respect for elaborating.

> The state governments are hotbeds of corruption, ruled by minority interests because state elections have low voter turnout, and add an enormous administrative tax to pretty much every economic or legal transaction that happens in the U.S.

Maybe that needs to happen once in awhile for us to wake up and start exercising our rights again.

I don't think the world has gotten any easier to administrate. If anything it's gotten tougher. I like the idea of allowing smaller areas to administrate themselves outside the national constitution. The world is changing more quickly every day, states have worked well for 240 years at preventing dissolution, and if we consolidate more power we risk creating a majority who is unhappy enough to revolt, in my opinion.

Our goal is not to become all powerful and ignore citizens who aren't making use of their right to vote. Our goal is to be balanced, and in doing so we find strength as a byproduct. When you seek power as a goal, you have already started down the path to failure when someone inevitably usurps your authority. Sustainability is our goal, and balance is the way.
The way I have begun to term it to people not really familiar with technology is this:

Every time you buy a cellphone with an ARM chip, Amazon buys an Intel chip to process all the data, services, apps, and websites you access from your phone and all the data those services, apps, and websites collect from you.
It looks very useful. Name is really confusing. If the interaction is similar enough, maybe something like jvenv?
If you are a self-respecting programmer, you should ask yourself if someone has done a better job writing the same tool than you intend to do.
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I think it's just a logical and clear place to set a benchmark -- you can use as much safety equipment as you like to keep yourself safe, as long as you don't use it to help you to get to the top.

Historically, climbing safety equipment was very basic compared to what is used today -- a rope tied around your waist held by your mate at the bottom of the pitch might stop you tumbling down the mountain, but you don't really want to find out.

In the UK, climbing culture is pretty conservative compared to other places (there's very little sport climbing here), so the (extremely sensible) attitude that your safety gear is for accidents not for helping you climb harder routes is quite prevalent.
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Another possibility is a tailored-access type attack further upstream the supply chain. For example, Apple relies on Samsung or TSMC to fab chips. It's possible the chips could be modified before manufacture, or after, to contain a flaw. I've read about such attacks demonstrated in principle already. There was a worry about the Chinese government executing such attacks for example.

One of the downsides of the way global manufacturing works today that there's so many stages in which components can be intercepted.

You don't know that the device you bought actually consists of unmodified versions of the components that were part of the original design.

Could the NSA partner with the Korean government and Samsung to put a backdoor into components? I wouldn't rule it out.
Just to present another point that I just thought of:

Imagine if we take the downvote ability away from everyone. I believe there is still an "implicit" downvote in the form of every other comment getting upvoted. Under the current system, upvoted posts will be pushed to the top and downvoted posts will be on the bottom. Would this not cause the same effect as previous? Being ignored several times because your opinion does not conform the social norm will cause you to self sensor (or leave HN), would it not?

At the same time I think we recognize the value of upvotes, which in theory should allow for relevant and thoughtful content to be pushed to the top so more people can be exposed to it. Otherwise we'd have the traditional forums, which has widely variable SNR.

I'm not sure how to reconcile these points:

1. The wish to filter for "good" post and filter out the "bad" posts.

2. The subjective definition of "good" or "bad".

3. "Bad" (opposite) opinions gets buried because of point 2.

On the other hand I think education does work, as personally I refrain from downvoting when i disagree, only when it clearly does not add value (but even then, that is subjective). Although I'm not sure if this is obvious enough to HN users who first gained the ability to downvote.
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That's what I'm disagreeing with - some small but important parts of my work are, in fact, "reason through this code cause tools can't help you."

As another example, I ask people to set up numerical/statistical algos without worrying about specific numpy details. I trust people to translate a log likelihood formula to python, but I want to see them actually derive that formula. This isn't some hazing ritual - it's important to actually understand the statistics to avoid getting stuff wrong.

Again, the tools won't help you - if you set things up wrong, you just get a bunch of false positives.

I understand this isn't very important for the average dev writing CRUD or ETL apps. I'm just pointing out a particular use case where their constraints are reasonable.
Zapier has a published zap (I hate that name...) that supposedly does just that:

https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/39/share-new-blog-posts-to-y...

I offer no personal endorsement, and have no idea whether it would work for you.
Isn't much of the legal stuff just a way to cover their tails?

For example, the bit about owning content. Do they really want your content? Is content on the internet worth anything these days? If your content is worth something, it's likely the Google ranking which gives it value rather than the content itself.

I imagine that's just an attempt to keep people from suing over reproducing content to go over the pipes.

PEDRAGOSA V. GOOGLE SPAIN, S.L. - Google got sued for reproducing content in various ways in search results. The case went in Google's favor but the legal costs for this sort of thing is probably a killer for services which don't have that GOOG ticker symbol.

The "no competition" bit seems like it's meant to keep people from using IFTTT developer tools as part of their own competing service.

Why bother reading the legal stuff? It likely won't ever come up to affect you. There is some risk, but the opportunity cost of taking the time to go through it is probably greater. I imagine most of the world population doesn't have the comprehension ability to understand what they are reading anyways. You might as well just stop using the internet rather than trying to make sense of the legal stuff.
Then why don't you try and buy Yahoo core for a cent .

Microsoft and others don't seem to know what they are doing.
What does that have to do with early 2000s linux desktops?
Exception to the rule, much easier to paint the middle east or south American countries as 'the other' than your own neighbour. Also there are more types of war than just dropping bombs, maybe I should have clarified.
Woah. Where did you get it? Sounds cool. Do you run HP-UX on it or does some common Linux distro run well?
Here too we have data that borders on the anecdotal: he comes to conclusions first and then seems to look for data to backfill them. Should, as Garrett suggested, we adopt high water marks on magazines? Perhaps. Would this issue have addressed his situation? Unknown, because (once again) we have an issue that isn't being seen widely, represents suboptimal behavior (in contrast to fatal behavior), and lacks the hard data to be able to allow it to be definitively root-caused. Not a recipe for success, in any community.
- smart

- gets things done

- able to actively engage in discussion about software development

- works hard

- wants to work here doing this job

- loves to learn

- not overly dogmatic

The rest, meh.
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Such as? (Genuinely curious)

Canada also has the same language, can have the same time zone as any US location, is closer (no overseas flights) and has established trade relationships with the US.
If the quality was actually that stark of a difference, they wouldn't have paid for a sub-par search engine - the cost of a search engine is too large of a cost to find marginal savings.
I've had the exact opposite experience. Admittedly it's not a completely fair fight (Google has years of data to tailor results to me, and I know on some level what sort of queries work from experience), but it's common that if I use Bing (it is the default on my Windows Phone) the thing I'm looking for won't be on the first page of results. Using the exact same query on Google almost always has it in the top 3 results.

It's not useless by any stretch, but when (very roughly speaking) a quarter of my searches end up with me going to Google anyway, there isn't much value in trying Bing first.
If only everyone would make it so easy :)
The example that I really like is the drug Lyrica. It came from research at Northwestern. Made total sense, take a neurotransmitter (GABA) and modify it so it blocks the GABAase enzyme. Perfect! You get more GABA floating around.

The drug made it all the way to market until some folks realized, it doesn't work via GABA at all. It actually impacts the glutamate neurotransmitter.

So much for rational drug design!
Mass immigration is hard on everyone involved, it being a particular religion isnt really relevant. Just saying people will need to stop with the islamiphobia because its predominately Islamic people will become a major component of west/European populations when the PetroOil economy breaks down. What is the value of this post that you commented on? Value is subjective.
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Except that the WSJ forgot to mention that the research determined the incumbent results were just as irregular.
It's not like we embrace complexity for its own sake. The harsh reality is that things like file paths, dates and times, phone numbers and even people's names are already intrinsically complex; and you can either acknowledge this complexity in your code, or ignore it at your own peril. If you want to blame anyone anyone for the complexity, blame those who design file systems, or ISO-standardize date and time formats, or even humanity as a whole for coming up with all sorts of naming customs! A programmer (or any other given single person) has only so much control over the complexity of their environment.

Also, you seem to think typeful programming is just for those who either want to show off (“to your geek programmer friends”) or don't trust other programmers (“to the other [extreme] of "never trust the programmer"”). This plainly untrue. Typeful programming is for those who embrace code as a communication medium (“my data structure has these complex invariants, which I can communicate either with three lines of code, or with two long English paragraphs in comments than might even get out of sync”) and want to include the type checker in the conversation (“this code is rather tricky, and I made lots of changes to it, could you check for me if I missed anything?”). Of course, the effectiveness of code as a communication medium is contingent on your ability to understand code.
b-but isn't marketing purpose to generate sale?
The issue isn't policy, the issue is companies in Canada are not competitive enough with their salaries.
I think it's wrong-headed to sit here and say what decisions everyone should be making. If someone wants to risk life and limb on Everest, I don't see why all the hand-wringing. The wealth of the Google exec and poverty of the Sherpa are factors in their own decision making process, but in neither case is their freedom compromised.

I definitely think the Sherpas are getting screwed financially, and that they should get organized to negotiate and push their rates up. Also, having their safety compromised because of inexperienced and suicidal assholes with oversized egos is something that they should not have to put up with. Over time, even with the wealth disparity, it seems like they should have the clout and be able to develop the right leadership to start asserting these things.
I've personally demoed the Gear VR to about 70 to 80 people, and in my experience nausea/vr-sickness is a problem for a tiny minority of people (maybe 2 or 3 out of 70 or 80 for properly designed experiences). With the consumer version of the Oculus Rift, that should be even less of a problem, due to the higher specs.

Much more of a problem is physical comfort of the headset itself. After the novelty wears off, few but the most dedicated want to stay in VR for extended periods of time, or even bother with putting the headset on anymore. Headsets are just too bulky and uncomfortable. Even regular glasses are too much of a hassle for a lot of people. VR headsets have the uncomfort of regular glasses multiplied by a hundred.

I don't think VR will fully take off until you can experience VR with something as comfortable and unobtrusive as contact lenses. Until then, it will remain a novelty or used for purposes where it really does not have much competition, like tele-surgery. There are some other niches where people will likely use a headset, like to play an occasional game or for videoconferencing, but then they'll take off the headset and go back to monitors for more mundane tasks that don't benefit from immersion, like word processing, web surfing, etc. Even for movies, current headsets are a bit too much, when you could just as easily watch a movie unencumbered by the bulk.

That's not to say VR isn't impressive. It is. I was blown away by it when I first experienced it, despite being spoiled and knowing what to expect by watching videos and reading about it. There's nothing like the real thing, though. But eventually all that wears off, and then you have to deal with the day-to-day choice of whether to put on the headset again.. and that's where I think for now headsets are too uncomfortable for regular, casual use.
In principle, the two instructions could cross a page boundary. Its a narrow corner case, but it is there.
> This is good, because now I know I would never work for Asana.

I've actually used their product, and I'm in the same boat as you because of it.
If memory serves that's pretty much how pinboard.in got launched into the air a few years back, so it'd certainly be poetic. Nice of you to pass it on :)
I did the same. Interestingly you can always go back to grad school, get a PhD and even become a professor after you're rich.. Probably easier too.
That's definitely true for VR headsets like the Rift or Vive. I was thinking more along the lines of the Google Glass/Hololens form factor, which probably won't pose any problems with respect to weight.

In terms of focus, I don't think it will be much different compared to using stationary physical monitors since those usually stay at the same focal distance as well. The Glass/Hololens form factor only occupies a tiny part of your field of vision, allowing you to freely look elsewhere as you see fit (and AFAIK the Hololens, at least, has the ability to simulate different focal distances).

I'm picturing this as more of a supplement to physical monitors as opposed to a complete replacement in a typical workspace setting. What really excites me are the possible applications of something like this in mobile (an always-on, wireless second screen/HUD for your phone that takes voice commands or some other new control mechanism, for instance).
Most of your negative points are valid, except for this one: "VR will flounder"

Your sentiments echo detractors of revolutionary inventions such as automobiles (eg. there are no paved roads, it breaks down too often, there are no gas stations, ...) and even the iPhone (e.g. there are no apps, it's too slow, the keyboard has not tactile feedback, ...). What you have in common with them is that you treat temporary obstacles as permanent unsolvable problems while overlooking the long term potential.

As a counter argument for your omnidirectional treadmill point, this is much cheaper, takes up a lot less space, and has already been released: http://www.virtuix.com/
I have to send an email to create something? At least use something like https://formspree.io/
Awesome. Thanks to both of you for the explanation.

It's really an interesting take on the rules for sure.

I can't imagine my safety mechanism being a postage-stamp sized thingie shoved into a piece of rock and not being incredibly taxing on everything just by sheer stress of said thingie to break or slip or whatever and then tumble to my icy death.

I very much prefer to fall from an airplane and have a very thin thingie to keep me from making a hole in the ground...
Remember also that Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison and Bill Gates did not have computer science degrees. They need to keep people of that calibre out of their ranks - you know, the non achievers who don't understand computers.
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Looks like you meant to post that to another thread; possibly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11377847?
I love to support this guy. As great as the product is, his communication is even better.

https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/11/new_pricing_policy/ - "Should I be worried? -> Only in the broadest, existential sense."
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flight sim isn't really that great with VR HMD because you can't see the buttons which you need for more realistic controls. With a HMD you are limited to only the joystick + throttle combination which don't have enough buttons for a fully simulated cockpit.
Some limited info for other fields.

For the engineering PhD programs (chemical, biomedical, electrical, and mechanical) I'm familiar with at (what was once termed) Carnegie R1 universities, the split ends up being around 50/50 for academia vs industry track after graduation. For bio at the same schools, I saw the same as you, near unity for academia. Of my engineering PhD cohort, I was the only 1 of 14 who founded a startup.
There is major difference with being depressed and having clinical depression. I have been fighting the latter for the last few years and I can vouch for there being no cause.

Example: I was with my extended family members in mountains of coffee plantations enjoying a vacation. There was no internet connection and thus nothing to disturb me. We were all (over 20 of us) having a great time. We were playing a game of cricket, where during the game I had a depression attack and almost collapsed on the ground. There was nothing there to upset me at all.

This is just one example. I have faced many more in a similar manner.

There is one thing for sure. Community support helps you fight depression very well. I am a member of a Buddhist group and their encouragement and support has really help me fight it.
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> converted to normal stock, where you can sell on the market for cash?

With the smaller Google-specific "well but" limit that insider trading rules restrict employees from trading in the company stock except for narrow trading windows after the company's quarterly reports.
I didn't say no ads.

I'm talking about the clickbait, tabloid-quality reporting, sponsored content, etc. Aka the stuff directly embedded as an "article" on the site
That is simply not true.

For the past 12 months I've fruitlessly tried to obtain a work permit for a Toronto based company. The salary was quite competitive, but ultimately having 5 consecutive work permit applications fail just wasted too much time.
I've known quite a few skilled developers that have been unemployed up here in Canada for one small reason or another, there does seem like plenty of opportunity for Moneyball-style recruiting. I gather most companies won't open in other countries because of the tax advantage [1]. Hopefully the increased liquidity of the job market doesn't increase short term interests in the already expensive housing market.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-burgerking-idUSKBN...
I think it means they literally didn't know the words Islam or Muslim, it being previously known as Muhammadism or Mahometry and/or other words.
each year 19,000 americans die from prescription opioid overdoses and another 10,000 die from heroin overdoses which often start with prescription opioid use.

In my experience (as an anaesthesiologist), people who use opioids as a response to non-pain problems are some of the most miserable people there are. It might work for a couple of weeks, but soon you're tolerant, addicted, intermittently withdrawing and your life becomes a wreck. "The prevalence of suicide attempts among opioid addicts is reported to lie between 8% and 17%, with some studies reporting an even higher rate among special groups of addicts. "
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9018906

Using MDMA might be useful as it is non-addictive, but again habitual use leads to decreasing benefits and increasing problems.
> Isn't much of the legal stuff just a way to cover their tails?

Sure, but most of it puts your tail on the line instead. They've decided that they somehow have enough power to make you do their job, and make sure you do it in a way that protects their legal interests over yours. You'd be a fool to agree to it.

> Do they really want your content?

Yes. Their lawyer told them that it was a good idea to make sure their license agreement gave them (and I quote) all right, title, and interest (section 3) to any materials displayed or performed on the Service (definition of "Content" in section 1). They thought it was a good idea to follow said lawyers advice, because it was easier for them if they could just do whatever they wanted with your content. So, yes, they want it. That's probably not because they want to run off with it, but because it's easier (for them) that way and they don't care about you. It's much easier for a business to evolve and grow when they know that they can just do whatever they feel like and don't have to stick within the narrow terms of an existing agreement. Open "give me all your stuff" agreements are much simpler to use.

> Why bother reading the legal stuff?

Because they could be bothered writing it, so they obviously think it's important. And it gives them all the rights that they could possibly want for nothing in return.

If it's not important, then it didn't need to exist in the first place. If it needs to exist, then it's worth reading.

We're not talking about a simple end-user here, this is Maciej's company and full time job, and IFTTT seems to want to use this license for B2B integrations. Crazy!