skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've too been very enthusiastic about VR (supported the original kickstarter in the 1st hour it went live) and have had a little bit of an awakening after the initial enthusiasm. When Team Fortress 2 came out with Rift DK1 support I installed it and immediately realized that would NOT work. It was instant nausea, and it was not fun in any way.

But other people realized the same. Since then, indie and amateur developers (as well as some professional ones) started properly exploring the medium, instead of just trying to re-purpose content. There's many new subgenres better fit to VR that are emerging and, I believe, will get more visibility. The vast majority of those are "seating" experiences, but still ones that can easily blow people away, and continue to amaze me to this day. Which is just as well - getting a new blockbuster FPSs every month was starting to get boring.

VR won't be for everything or everyone but it'll be great for what it does well.
This is bizarre. Insofar as this is solving a "problem", it's essentially solved by a Coravin, and I never thought I'd say this about the Coravin, but cheaper given that anyone who wants to do this will want to do with multiple wines (aside from overenthusiastic hobbyists, Coravins are mostly used to serve very expensive wines by the glass).

EDIT: I think I misread initially -- you can use it for multiple bottles, but only their prepackaged wines? No one with this money to burn on wine accessories is going to want the narrow range of wines they're going to be able to offer.
KV would be stored in DDR memory in this case, which on an FPGA you can have many channels all working in parallel. In fact you could design a system that could saturate a 10Gbps network link and give you deterministic, 1ms or less, I/O latency.

That is difficult to match for a regular CPU system. You'll find that a lot of high-throughput CPU systems end up using FPGAs on PCIe cards to the same thing in order to achieve the needed performance.
FBI has accessed San Bernardino shooter's phone; U.S. drops demand of Apple
Feds break through seized iPhone, stand down in legal battle with Apple
Hooray! now 6 more months until the "VR flopped" articles and then no more about this nonsense.
One thing I haven't found how to do is telling a template to insert itself into a parent template, e.g. (pseudotemplate code)

<extends main_with_feature_x>

<define title {{something}}/>

<define body>
... body goes here...
</define>

etc etc

Including everything in every template just reeks of old school php. (Yes, I defend modern php : )
I shied away from the word "kind" simply because that has a specific meaning in type theory that doesn't fit here. Higher-kinded types are a must-requested feature for Rust, and I didn't want to confuse readers into thinking this has some connection to Rust's string types.
I came looking for some new or interesting way of doing tech interviews, but it's the same typical SV bullshit. Lol: "Hashes, sets, heaps, binary trees, linked lists, all the usual suspects." Yeah, I spend most of my time fiddling with binary trees and hashes at the office, said no one ever. I'm a strong believer that there are two primary ways of testing someone's coding ability:

1) Open-source, or otherwise public, contributions.

2) Real-world take-home assignments.

I've opted out of interviewing people because it's such a miserable experience. I guess I'm just not a sadist that enjoys watching some poor 22-year old squirm in his chair because he can't remember what the upper bound on the insert operation of a red-black tree is.

What a joke.
It was always known that the 5c, which is the device the FBI accessed, was less secure because it does not contain a Secure Enclave like later iPhones.
This is possibly the worst outcome. The tide of public opinion was turning towards Apple and privacy, and away from the FBI; for it to enter the court under this pretence there was a strong argument to be made against the latter. With this announcement, for the many, this matter will now be "resolved". When it inevitably rears its ugly head again, the same pretence may no longer be true.
U.S. Withdraws Apple Case, Saying It Has Unlocked iPhone
In what way does the article treat depression as the fault of the individual?

Seems more like a failing of our society to recognize the importance of relationships. I'd argue this is especially true in the US where we obsess over careers and monetary wealth much more than we emphasize the importance of friendships, family, and romance.

Considering how little we understand about the brain and psychological disorders, it seems premature to dismiss the article so easily, especially when the author is a practicing psychologist and presumably has had some level of success with his methods.
Yes. AAPL has averred to the judge that they in fact accessed the phone. I was skeptical over the last 72 hrs whether that was a ruse or not. I now think it is not.

"The government has now successfully accessed the data stored on Farook's iPhone and therefore no longer requires the assistance from Apple Inc. mandated by Court's Order Compelling Apple Inc. to Assist Agents in Search dated February 16, 2016."

The government also gets to use the same logic regarding the power of the court to compel at some time in the future, when this assuredly comes up again.
Meteor 1.3 Released: ES2015 & npm Support, App Testing, Mobile Improvements
I feel like cases shouldn't be droppable unless both parties mutually agree, and the courts also must first agree.the courts should not agree if it's a case that could set a precedent that can have far reaching implications.

What if next time, a smaller player than Apple was caught in this sort of case, and they can't fight back as easily? Then it'd be easier to setup a precedent favourable to one party. This seems like a way to legally manipulate the common laws, and I think courts should put in place measures to prevent such manipulation.
> The one thing that I think has the potential to make VR popular is monitor replacement.

Does this include watching a sports match from a perfect spot within the stadium?

Anyway, I sure hope they will increase the resolution so that I can have a virtual monitor on a virtual beach in my office.
Is there anything state actors can't break into? There will always be vulnerabilities to fix. Apple's and other companies' hope is not to fall too many steps behind the state actors.
except that it can get you banned or harassed. I had deng(dang?) follow me around, and he (she?) was obviously prepping for a ban.

At one point he wholesale deleted a comment of mine because it was widely misinterpreted in a sexist way (I clarified to multiple people, but it wasn't enough apparently). The sad part is the only ones being sexist were the ones interpreting it that way, I was personally shocked that so many people thought I was being sexist.

And that was just the last time he stepped in, he had been threatening me repeatedly, and why? My best guess is either

a) because I was having a conversation with another poster in which he came in and bitched at them, only I defended that poster, or
b) after I was "flag bombed" (I think that's the term?) for having an opinion many didn't like [1].

I'm not sure which because they were both a part of the same thread, but immediately after I started seeing deng everywhere, threatening me repeatedly. I've been online long enough to know what being targetted by a mod looks like.

This idea that you shouldn't be self censoring on HN is naive. It means you haven't attracted deng's ire (or one of the other mods) or said something that was truly an "unsafe" minority opinion.

There's apparently another person who won't allow linking from HN I believe? I don't know the full story behind that, but I can absolutely understand that person's opinion of HN.

HN is honestly one of the oppressive environments for actual discourse I've seen and that's not a joke. The only site I can think of off the top of my head that's unequivocally worse is hubski.com.

The poster who spoke about 4chan is spot on. You can optimize for good discussion or you can optimize for feel good politeness, but you can't optimize for both. Most communities attempt to balance it, but HN leans far to the side of feel good politeness. You don't actually come to HN for discussion, you come to HN to make comments on random things that pop up. Unfortunately, some mistake that for discussion, but I'm of the opinion those folks don't actually understand what a good discussion is.

To end this post, I'm just going to say I find your opinion to be horrifically naive. Even now I know the reaction is going to be folks piling on to tell me how great a person deng is, and I'll find myself taking another multi-month long hiatus from HN until deng (once again) forgets about me.

I've been online for entirely too long.

[1] The poster I defended took issue with my opinion and we were going round and round about it and deng apparently thought he was getting too heated. I was the recipient of said "heat" and I disagreed.
This claim seems dubious at best. There's no proof that they got access, and it's in their best interest to claim they did. On one hand, I'm not totally sure we should assume that they're not capable of gaining access to iPhones willy-nilly. On the other hand, I'm re-evaluating my security posture...
I've had 9.3 version 13E233 on my iPhone and I have just received the chance to upgrade again to 9.3. After upgrade the version is 13E237 (as seen in the Settings General About) but the problem remains.

Still no change, https links to other sites dead in Safari, or the right click on the same link makes Safari blocks.

So if you have chance to upgrade to the newer 9.3, better wait, until some newer version than 13E237 appears?

I believe that in "Privacy / Diagnostics & Usage / .. Data / stacks + MobileSafari...." should theoretically contain the stack of the killed Safari at that moment and be sent to Apple?

(Anyway, before I've upgraded to 13E237 I've already deleted booking.com and yelp apps. I've also then installed the new version of booking.com app and then deleted it, all with the suggested "Airplane" mode. Didn't work)

Edit: the 13E237 is apparently

http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/28/apple-re-releases-ios-9-3-for-...

"for users affected by an activation bug"

not for this now.
> And the expert claimed that it is known that psychotherapy, e.g., as suggested in the OP, doesn't work for anxiety or some of its other symptoms, obsessive-compulsive disorder, social phobia, paranoia,

That's an interesting bit of advice. English NICE recommends psychotherapy for front line treatment of anxiety. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs53
There are objective and subjective things.
Philosophically speaking, you can say that the definition of a kilogram is not 100% accurate, if you want to argue for the sake of arguing. But for practical purposes we can agree what a kilogram is, and we can agree on other things as well. We agree that fork is fork, and spoon is spoon, and that a cat is a cat and a dog is a dog... despite the fact every person have a different brain and synaptic plasticity and life experiences and motivations and ways of learning, and things that make them different... Our entire civilization is based on this.

There are many KPIs that can be extracted from engineering processes. Cyclomatic complexity, statement length, function length, number of arguments, when seen as cost, can help you compare code that does the same thing and have a rational discussion beyond "that's your opinion". Budget is not always an opinion, cost is not always an opinion, especially if each participant have well established rates.

The Lion King, an animation film, has dozens of frames per second, each one hand drawn by multiple people. But it is consistent, and that consistency holds the film together. We can also say that if that consistency didn't exit, the film would probably not be as successful.

If animators and illustrators, people considered creative/artists can be consistent, then why can't an engineer, someone with an engineering background not have the same level of consistency and attention to detail. That's not an opinion, that's a fact.
Trying to convince people to spend $200 + markup on each cartridge to save money on spoilage seems like a challenging proposition, especially when some (such as myself) would see this as a worse user experience.

E-readers such as the Kindle seem to have succeeded at convincing a large consumer segment to make a small capital investment, but only by offering some additional features and reducing incremental costs (i.e. book prices).
> I'm in favour of this arrangement, since I think it's the only way to get updates to work reliably,

How is Maemo unreliable in that respect? I was disappointed to find Touch doesn't work like it does.

> But don't expect a traditional Linux-based desktop but on a tablet, since that's not what you'll get.

I thought the whole point was that you can switch. That's what Canonical says, and what's demonstrated in some videos floating around.
Ah, got to love the subscription pop-up with a close button that doesn't work. A timeless web design principle.

Aside from that, when will we get past the requirement for data structure knowledge for positions that center around web design? Data structure knowledge is available at my fingertips throughout the work day. Why must I memorize implementation boilerplate for an interview?
FBI breaks into San Bernardino gunman's iPhone without Apple's help
I am with you all the way except for the cork. Here in Australia we have almost 100% converted over to the far superior Stelvin screw tops [1]. The only time I have to get out my corkscrew is when I drink European wine.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_cap_(wine)
I would hope the media follows up with "so what did you find out from it?" and don't just leave it to "trust us, we unlocked it".
I would treat this claim with a great deal of skepticism. However, this is by far the smartest play for the government. Had they gone to court and lost (probably after an appeal), they would have set a precedent that would be very problematic for them going forward. By claiming this, falsely or otherwise, they hurt Apple's security reputation (most consumers will not understand or care that this happens to be an old iPhone with an old version of iOS - they will just hear or read that an iPhone was cracked), and they avoided a potentially problematic legal outcome.

The DOJ came out on top here, whether they are lying or not.
Still, it's extremely easy to take an article and create a legal replica of it. And since most users care about articles, not about magazines, And a lot of content isn't that time sensitive for most users, it's hard to see how competition will decrease.
> very well grounded kid

This is important when working with ESD-sensitive electronics.
Suture looks very good, and as you said earlier it doesn't try to do a 1-1 translation of Erlang's supervisor. However you touched on live (re)load and multi-machine clustering in Erlang with no word about it with suture; I guess it's not supposed to do it ?
There are a huge number of side effects that would have to be dealt with, but this case has made me think that Apple should have the option to say, "changed your mind? Nooo, that ship (which you, the FBI, built and christened) has sailed, buddy, and you're on board. This is going before a judge, like it or not, and we're doing it now."
A Panoramic Tour of Factor (2015)
While there's truth to this, it's a generalization. Twin studies show that there's a moderate genetic factor in depression, and a strong one for manic depression

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/558030

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16390897
I agree. Plus, the Coravin argon cannisters are very inexpensive compared to what these will sell for.
IMO if any of those things happens, then either the Officer or the IT staff need to be fired. If a piece of equipment fails its either the provisioner or users fault. One of them must be accountable.
It looks like once the database is corrupted, swcd keeps crashing and there's no way out.
IRC client written entirely in Bash (no external binary calls)
Offloading seems interesting. I'm thinking this for crowded events
Well for a start, if it's an FPGA that the end user can download a bitstream to configure it is really easy to burn the chip and then Amazon has to replace it.

If you sandbox it you lose some flexibility.

Also, as you said, demand and cost are the problems I think of. The regular FPGA developer usually has no idea of how to interact with the cloud.

I worked with FPGA for five years before going to python / backend. Most of FPGA people develop in windows and don't know web at all in the application layer.

I think FPGA as a service can be something really interesting. But it's really hard to find the customers. GPU programmers are software developers, whereas FPGA people aren't.
HackerNews is a marketing channel for a technology investment firm.

Why should they care about balanced conversation? What if those balanced conversations somehow promote criticism of companies that they are involved with?
I talked about .net micro
Ask HN: Will biopharma advance as aggressively without inflated US drug prices?
Xtandi(Enzalutamide), a prostate cancer drug is under congressional inquiry as of today. It's a big deal. It could be a move to change the way drugs are priced moving forward.

A few politicians just signed an agreement to trying to lower the cost of the drug by enabling the 1980 Bay-Dohle act, which gives the right to the NIH to auto-license a patent if the drug isn't accessible at a "reasonable" price.

The patent for Xtandi, a prostate cancer drug, is owned by Astellas, a Japanese company. The research came out of UCLA from US Army & NIH Grants.

The Japanese Pharma is price gouging Americans:
America $127,000.00
Canada $30,000.00
Sweden $29,000.00

The uncomfortable question is whether biopharma will advance without inflated US drug prices.
PGP worked well enough for Snowden, right?
Try the new kinder friendlier SJW reddit. I'd been on there since 2005. They can go sit on a rusty nail.
Found on Reddit[1], seems to have been created by https://www.reddit.com/u/LinuxVersion

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/4cb0ru/i_wrote...
Ask HN: What random things do you do while you wait for the build?
I read BBC, HN, and random wikipedia articles. I just read that the song Asereje by Las Ketchup has demonic lyrics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ketchup_Song_(Aserej%C3%A9)#Controversy_and_supposed_Satanic_references

I also double/triple check my phone for whatsapp messages.

PS I'm waiting for the build
HIPAA 101 for Software Development Teams
If you think the quality of journalism is only going to get worse, and the path for journalism is only in sponsored content, you need to spend less time with dystopian scifi and more time with history.

Okay, but how can it change? Where will the money come from?

I'm on the side of the dystopians (is that a word?) until someone can answer those questions for me. But I'm a techie, not a student of history, and I honestly don't know.
There would be if the wine were decent. Typically, smaller bottles are from rubbish brands and cater mostly to alcoholists. Same in Italy.

I guess the main costs for wine producers are not the bottle nor the wine, so there would be little price differentiation (which is essential) and moving larger quantities of 1 format is better than moving smaller quantities of 2. A lot of producers struggle as it is, so supporting another format is hard. Still, if a cartel of producers agreed on a secondary format, pooled costs and launched a "tasting" line, maybe it would be viable.
Islam versus Christianity has been used to motivate war for centuries. People do need to be aware of propaganda and research real history.
When I first opened up the racks in the machine and all of those industrial electronics boards... Initially I thought I was way over my head. It took a bit of time, but now it's all clear and now I see the ingenuity of it. It's a very elegant machine and works like a charm. I had to replace a few of the things, installed new lamps, cleaned up everything and it's as good as new!

I have two signals coming out. I have a HD 1080p link coming from its HD serializers (actually four outputs via two serializers) which I laid out to several inputs (Tricaster, custom built PC with 10-bit input, monitors, etc..). For when I need full 2K/10-bit, machine works at 6fps, not realtime. Currently, machine has a HIPPI output and with that I have limited options. Well, one option to be specific. An SGI machine with HIPPI card and Phantom Transfer Engine on it which then transfers DPX files to a SAN. I would like BONES, or anything else for that matter, but that would require me to get a GSN instead of HIPPI and BONES, of course. I'm still looking for options out there to see if there are any. Preferably if there's an option for PC based solution and HIPPI. If not, GSN/BONES is what I'm considering. Price of that is a bit steep though (around $30k I think), but it's still an option that is considered.
Can't wait for the "The Last Muslims in England" article.
For anyone who wants to get into Ethereum or buy Ethers, here is some great info on getting started: http://www.blockgram.com
Can Apple counter sue for them to reveal how they accessed the phone? Surely, there must be a loophole in there somehow...
Is there a way to get Jupyter-style layout as well? I'm intrigued by the idea of completely different style of writing code where, essentially, comments become first-class citizen and include markup (markdown rendered immediately when the cursor leaves the comment or even rich-text editing), diagrams, links etc.

I tried to implement it but Atom just wasn't there at the time. The new block-level decorators should make it possible.
The problem is that the content that's "free and free of advertising" probably won't be very good, or very well researched, or independent.

High quality content often depends on access (which can be hard or impossible to get even if you're a real journalist), a lot of time, and quite a lot of input from support staff (editors, subeditors, researchers, picture editors etc).

> So now the question is do enough people actually put enough value on real news to employ journalists to do their work. Right now it looks bleak.

Agreed.
There is z/PDT for hobbyists although it will cost $4k for a basic setup. It's a emulator that runs on PC and have 3x OSS hercules-390 performance.
This is a legally naive question, but how does this not run afoul of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?

Particularly, how isn't this some violation of section a2 ("intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access," the same thing that got Aaron Swartz indicted)? Is it basically, since the feds had a warrant, they can do whatever they want? (And if they don't have a warrant, is it still legal?)
Perhaps the question isn't binary, but rather have a whole range of answers. Heavy classes was probably better than the procedural code that came before it, but light classes end up more easy to reason about in the long run. I know for a fact that I have made that progression as I gained experience.
They'll just say "can't comment on an active investigation" if they don't find anything to make the whole thing seem worthwhile.
The coverage of the last world championship between Carlsen and Anand in 2014 was excellent. GM Peter Svidler and Sopiko Guramishvili provided live commentary, it struck a good balance between light hearted and serious. I'm not a hardcore Chess fan but I do like to watch the larger tournaments when I have the chance.
Reservoirs are but one source of California's water. Groundwater is another. Whether recent rain has had time to percolate and recharge aquifers instead of running off remains to be seen.
Those are reports. They merely show things as they are, without conveying a message. Therefore, they are not art.