skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is your head accelerating while you're on the treadmill? I've never seen a treadmill where that happens, the whole idea of a treadmill is running in-place.

The most common VR treadmill-ish device I'm aware of is the Virtuix Omni: http://www.virtuix.com/, where your head is clearly not accelerating.

What are you picturing when you claim your head (and hence inner ear) is accelerating on a treadmill?
Why is the 2000 election a disingenuous example? Bush lost the overall popular vote and it is almost certain that a majority of people tried to vote for Gore in Florida.
Having wealthy, well-connected parents.
> And on Windows it's "potentially ill-formed UTF-16"

On Windows, and in many Windows APIs, the return value is a "sequence of UTF-16 code units" (which is essentially a fancy way of saying "a sequence of 16-bit words"). This goes back to Windows originally using UCS-2, where any sequence of 16-bit words is valid (because there wasn't any concept of a surrogate, yet alone a lone surrogate), given its support predates the Unicode consortium extending Unicode to 21-bits and along with it UTF-16's existence (1996).
Segregated witness and other changes seem like positive news for bitcoin scaling.

https://bitcoincore.org/en/2015/12/23/capacity-increases-faq...
Isn't that the Yelp business model? They're notorious for calling up businesses (mainly restaurants) and then offering the business a way to pay to remove negative comments on Yelp (there was a case where some were entered by a Yelp employee!)

It's essentially the "protection/promotion" model.
Sigh, more marketing. Sorry, but at the end of the day any company that does technical interviews evaluates candidates the same ways and asks the same type of questions, having an interview guide that says things like "Instead, let’s open a dialogue. Let’s solve problems together and see what we can learn in the process. Let’s have fun!" is just trying to get more people to apply.

And I'm not slamming algorithms or technical interviews, but its time companies stop trying to dress themselves and say it how it is.
That reminds me of my first time racking some servers. Actual admins laughed at me for using all the screws / mounts. On one hand side, I did a good job. On the other, those boxes were unscrewed and moved again at 2 times that year...
Ad blockers block most native ads because they get loaded dynamically and have trackers associated with them to provide accurate billing and accountability to advertisers. So that part of the article is at least wrong. Every native ad that I'm aware of loads almost exactly like a banner ad.

Most people don't particularly want or need objective news. If they want it straight, they can pay premium prices for it through outlets like Consumer Reports or from specialty newsletters. When they don't want it, they pay by renting part of their attention to advertisers, marketers, and salespeople.
I'm not sure what version it was. This was at NASA JPL earlier this month and someone was showing me their work. However my understanding is that the final version is 1080x1200 per eye. Your 2160x1200 is adding the two together. My monitor is 2560x1440 per eye, at 72hz each (144hz total). What I don't get is why the existing fantastic 3D technology is barely used at all.
No, I don't think it's a straw man at all, I think it's absolutely correct in the sense that severe depression at a clinical level virtually precludes people just "figuring out what they're missing" or excising the things that suck from it - it will feel literally the same as when people assert that those suffering depression need to "buck up and face life." I'm saying that your assertion that it might be a strawman is indicative of a deep, insidious skew to your worldview on the matter - seriously.

I think this is all excellent advice for healthy people who have NOT fallen into clinical-level depression, but once depression has asserted itself, this immediately becomes horrible advice that, similar to "just get over it," encourages those who are depressed to take the most direct route to relief of their symptoms (suicide).
If you put even a basic effort into posting quality content and avoid trolling you will have positive karma. This is always true. You may take a hit from time to time, but in the long run your total score will be overwhelmingly positive. This is true of every forum. You only need to worry about karma if you like to start arguments or shitpost.
> Sometimes the majority is wrong

s/sometimes/most of the time
It's also great that even though certain boards have heavy biases (e.g., /pol/ is overwhelmingly right wing, /o/ mostly hates American cars, etc.), you can still walk into the proverbial lion's den with an opinion that goes against the prevailing narrative and have an interesting discussion about it. There's no instant censorship through downvoting, and, as you hinted at, there's no upvoting just because people like the username that posted.

Quote from the current owner of 4chan: "All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work."
As I understand it, one is not allowed to sue the government unless the government gives you permission first. I don't know if there are any limitations around this other than public opinion.

But I suspect if Apple attempted this, the FBI would just say they're not allowed to sue.
>>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? What makes you think most consumers will care that the government cracked an iPhone?
> People differ on whether or not universal reference counting is a form of garbage collection with weak guarantees or a form of manual memory manage with flexible semantics.

Which is pretty unfortunate, because the memory management field has always treated reference counting as a form of garbage collection—because it is [1] [2]. The idea that reference counting is somehow not GC is as far as I can tell a recent one (popularized, I think, by Cocoa and iOS?)

This is not just a semantic quibble, because there are successful garbage collection techniques that combine tracing with reference counting (e.g. ulterior reference counting [3]) to achieve GC, so treating tracing as the only way to do GC makes no sense. In fact, David Bacon observed in 2004 that reference counting and tracing garbage collection are best viewed as just two extremes of a continuum [4], and many "optimizations" that you apply to one scheme or the other are really just moving the scheme you choose toward the opposite pole.

[1]: http://www.memorymanagement.org/glossary/g.html#term-garbage...

[2]: http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-bacon/B...

[3]: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/papers/urc-oopsla-20...

[4]: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/bacon-garbage.pdf
If Sherpas are on the whole choosing to guide expeditions in preference to other choices, who are we to tell them they're making the wrong choice in life? Is it because we know more about the risks of mountain climbing, and the compensation they receive for taking that risk, than they themselves do?

Is it moral for me to analyse your life of bad habits, of my own judgement, and plan a better life, also of my own judgement, for you?
Yes! I'd prefer to be governed by ordinary people rather than an intelligent and wealthy adversary intentionally working against my interests.
The American government is not supposed to be a direct representation of the will of the people, but let's go through this anyway.

On the PATRIOT Act, the link you provided shows that 63% of Americans either want to keep the entire thing or make minor changes.

Citizens United came from the Supreme Court, an institution that is explicitly designed to be shielded from the will of the people as much as possible.

The 2000 election was a clusterfuck, but it has happened exactly once since 1888. Besides, if a few hundred votes go the other way in Florida then we wouldn't even be talking about it.

On bankers, 60% isn't overwhelming, and the government decided to go against the will of the people because they thought it was the best course of action. Most experts agree that it was the lesser of two evils.

You can go read the TPP for yourself. It's been out for three months. [1]

Americans are divided in their opinions on NSA surveillance. [2]

None of this matters though because the will of the people is not supposed to be the final say in government action. There founding fathers did not believe in direct democracy.

[1] https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/tran...

[2] http://www.people-press.org/2013/06/10/majority-views-nsa-ph...
But drugs are awesome :D

Completely depends on the drug, person and context.

The painkillers when I dislocated my shoulder and they had to reset it? Wonderful.

The antidepressants that after several weeks (so once they'd started "working properly"), made me feel "not unhappy" but like a robot and then also gave me vivid, real nightmares in which I died horribly over and over again? Not so great...

I'd never touch antidepressants ever again. For some people they do work, but for others they don't. Yet we still push them on everyone.
What we need is a common interchange protocol, not a specific service.
> Newspapers are selling their reputations in a fire sale.

This is the logical business outcome because most newspapers are running out of money faster than they're running out of reputation.
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I think they expected it to "learn", and for that it needs interaction.
It's even worse than requiring Algebra I. A typical college here, Oregon State University, has this high school requirement:[1]

Mathematics
3 years
Culminating at the Algebra II level or higher

Algebra II, viewed in isolation, is truly useless for 99% of people. Who needs to factor 5th degree polynomials in real life?[2] The only purpose of teaching that sort of math in high school is to hope it generalizes to other problem solving skills.

But if that's the goal, why not make it more explicit by changing the curriculum?

Having said that, nobody is getting into a "good" school without good SAT or ACT scores, and those do require more than a modicum of math.

[1] http://oregonstate.edu/admissions/main/admission-requirement...
[2] when I was helping my daughter with Algebra II, Wolfram Alpha made it very easy to check our work.
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The global water crisis in pictures
> My experience with SSRI's has been that taking away that mechanism is taking away creativity, emotional range, and introspective ability.

I'm not talking about SSRI's, I mean a theoretical way of removing only depression and the similar kinds of chronic anxiety. You can be very creative and introspective without being actively depressed.

> Reality distortion is reality distortion.

It's depression that distorts reality, even to the point of making you feel negative emotions that you know aren't true but can't stop.

> I reject procrustean medicine that fits humans to the mold of what is best for society, which is the primary environment in which anxiety/depression originate.

That's great. Me too. But that's really a different issue. You could fix that entirely, and you'd still have people hurt by depression.
> It is not "just karma". On here, low karma means you can't downvote (while higher-karma people can, so they can use that to suppress the opinions of the low-karma people)

It is "just karma". Without karma, you can't negatively effect other people's karma, which is also just karma. This is the default state everyone started in. Moreover, you can still suppress opinions while having low karma - simply upvote everything else.

I'm of the opinion that the style of disagreement matters a lot more than the opinion itself, for karma impact. I have seen - in another community, granted - serious arguments in favor of cannibalism gain more upvotes than down, because it was done in a well reasoned and constructive manner.

As for communities where this isn't the case? Well, I'm interested in proper conversation and dialog on topics. One that prefers unity of thought, instead, is an echo chamber of parrots I want no part in - voting/karma system or not. I have left communities over smaller issues, and lived a happier life for it. In that case, it's not even "just karma" - it's "just karma in a community I've left."

> Even worse, if the mods disagree strongly with your post, they'll happily detach it (so no one else can see it) and threaten to ban you.

That can happen regardless of your karma - speaking from the perspective of a 'karma' 1%er in another community who's eaten temp-bans.
I do find it odd that Safari's update cycle is tied to the OS updates. Seems to me like they should be separate.

Example: a few months ago Safari had a bug where it was still using apple's old WWDR certificate, preventing anyone from packaging their safari extensions. The fix came out months later in the next OS release.
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I comment a lot less on HN than I used to, and a lot of that I think has to do with the change in the community, the tone, something like that. For me I don't care about internet points, but upvotes and downvotes affect how visible your comments end up being in a thread. It seems as though there's a lot less substantive discussion on HN than there used to be. The front page moves faster and people aren't interested in having discussions. It's not a matter of going through the effort of making a post and then being disappointed in being downvoted, or not being upvoted. It's a matter of writing something and then having it ignored, which makes you wonder why you even bothered in the first place. Are you just shouting into the void?
> Are you saying DNA is more private than your house, computer, phone converations, etc? Or that all those things should be off limits to police with a warrant?

I can live with the police gaining access to my house but my computer and phone conversations are just as off limits to them as I want my DNA to be. Every device I own that can store data is fully encrypted so the police have no access to that regardless of their wishes. Same goes for most of my phone conversations.

I draw the limits at two things: my body (DNA) and my mind (communications, data).
Thanks for a dose of sanity. After a round of SV interviews this past week, I've vowed to never put myself through something like that ever again.
what is this crap and why does it have so many votes?

If you've worked a ton with these machines, you'll know they are pieces of crap and theres a reason why technology has moved on.
Yes.. I can generally read smaller and further print than others around me. I can also see the pixels on that 2560 x 1440 monitor, but for me the difference with the Rift was that I felt like I could see the dark spaces between the pixels... felt like looking through a window screen. I did just get my first 4K monitor though and it's the first time I don't see pixels when I'm working. It's lovely.
Great speaker, but he needs to learn not to do the powerpoint karaoke. The audience sees the slides, we see the slides, no reason to read them verbatim.
Further, look into the concept of the resource curse. It's quite interesting, although it's by no means a conclusive theory.
The silence... is deafening.
You can encrypt the user data, let's say files or photos, with a user key and store the key in the user record in your database database. Even if the backup is on tape (hard to delete just one file) deleting the encryption key from the database renders it useless.
Hey -- I work at Asana.

Great idea! Took a task to add more resources to learn from to the doc.

> I feel very confident in doing day-to-day software development. I do not feel as confident speaking about abstract hypotheticals in front of a whiteboard.

Hmm, the way we framed that is confusing. Thanks for the feedback! To be sure, our goal is to accurately assess what your day-to-day contributions would be like, and simulation is a really good way of eliminating accidental bias in that process. To that end, we do have every engineer submit actual code during the interview process, and we generally avoid white-board programming in favor of higher-level discussions (that may also use the whiteboard). But perfect simulation is possible (and time-consuming), so we've tried to focus on the higher order bits.
You're defining "democracy" more narrowly than is reasonable. The 2nd definition at Merriam-Webster, for example [0], is "a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections". "Republic" and "democracy" are not mutually exclusive.

[0] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democracy
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I don't see a lot of value in what you are saying, which amounts to:

A certain country that is rich as anything might get poor 50 or 100 years from now, and the majority of people in that country are of a certain religion and so a lot of people of that religion may decide to relocate and when to hey do, they may come to Europe. And if they do ... so what?
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Thanks for the feedback! What did you learn from those that yo u didn't see in the Asana one?

- Jack from asana
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1) That isn't a statement of a value proposition. So far, really the only things people brought up are rewards & better results [which is largely subjective as you are paying for both of these things].

2) Windows is using shady tactics to push Windows 10. They are doing this due to using it as a conduit to increase Bing results [among other reasons]. They've been smacked for similar tactics before for reasonable sums. [1] [2]

3) The reason Google and later other parties funded Firefox is because the default search engine on a browser is a relatively sticky proposition as many people don't change it.

4) Desktop is more profitable than mobile which is why Google's CPC numbers are eroding. [3]

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/22/bing-is-profitable/
> However, while all that is nice, it’s the second bullet point that matters more than the first. Microsoft derived one out of every five dollars it made in search from Windows 10 devices. Windows 10 has a far smaller footprint than the larger Windows world, due in no small part to its relative age.

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01...
> The court fined Microsoft more than $600 million and ordered it to offer a version of Windows in Europe without the Media Player software and to share communications code with rivals.

[3] http://www.rimmkaufman.com/blog/google-mobile-cpc/11032011/
> We found that mobile CPCs are a median 41% lower than desktop CPCs for the same term with the same bid, copy, matchtype, network targeting and landing page. These results were quite consistent across a sample of clients with the standard deviation at 5%.
Some web services I use have zero information about who provides the service. It's not necessary to have. The site needs to have only enough pages and no clutter.
Works fine for me (Firefox on Android and Windows)—I think your browser doesn't handle Unicode combining characters properly. (Chrome gets a little funky with them on Android, haven't used Windows Chrome in a while).

The reason is it's two codepoints but one "grapheme", and some software doesn't handle grapheme clusters well.
The word "sort" isn't free of alternate associations either, and "kind" seems less likely to confuse people, seeing as Rust doesn't have any concept called "kinds" right now and won't have HKT for years, if ever.
My mistake, sorry.
I wish it wasn't so easy for you to just pass off what James Clapper did as if it was something of little consequence.

It should have been something of consequence.
I followed the Everest Avalanche episode in 2014 with great despair. I was following Natgeo's account on Instagram where they had updates every hour it seemed. It was heartbreaking.

Donations: http://everestavalanchetragedy.com/sherpa-fund.html

Sherpas earning way below what they deserve is an open secret, yet they are better paid than rest of the country. Nepalese government support after the avalanche hit was telling. There's no formal support structure whatsoever. The members of the British Expedition that first summited the Everest opened up schools and charities for the Sherpas there [0]. The Government needs to get its act together too, and tighten regulations.

Climbing Everest has long become a mis-placed adventure. A notorious incident where a solo Spanish climber was left for dead whilst other climbers on-trail just watched him die, comes to mind... there's nothing they could have done though, to help him... how can an experience like that amount to an "adventure"? [1] A Chinese business-woman, I think, summited Everest right after the disaster struck. She flew across the icefall in a heli, what many "climbers" consider "cheating" [2].

Sherpas, in addition to their favourable genetic make-up custom built for high-altitude are known for their bravery too. There are recored instances of Sherpas putting their life in danger to save their client's life. It is almost a given that the Sherpa wouldn't abandon you, even if the chances of survival were really grim. An unfortunate incident that happened at K2 in '08 serves as a reminder and a proof of this. It fills me with extreme sadness, every time I read it. The perils of high-altitude climbing are many-- HAPE, HACE, Blindness, Oxygen starvation (this has the most dire consequence imaginable, it takes away one's ability to act rationally), and most of the climbers don't worry too much, because the Sherpas got their back.

Mt. Godwin Austin (K2) is considered to be the deadliest and toughest of the 8000'ers to climb. It isn't as commercialized. Speaking of K2... the history of the first-ever expedition (from Italy) to successfully summit the K2 is fraught with fraud, spite, and hubris [4]. High-altitude climbing is one of those things that is hard to understand for people not emotionally invested in it.

[0] http://himalayantrust.org/

[1] http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151008-the-graveyard-in-th...

[2] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140805-mount...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_K2_disaster

[4] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28696985
I don't think the case is being made for genetic evolution but instead for neuroplasticity.

The visual cortex in humans is capable of very significant adaptations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1-TaR5ToKw
Loved that he offered to give out the root password to anyone that wanted to experiment on it. He said something like "burn it down, I have backups". This kid is going to go far with that kind of passion and attitude. He's a true honest to goodness hacker. I love it.
Yes. The same week that the fourth amendment -- which is what provides us with strong protection against unreasonable search and seizure -- was approved by Congress.

Or do you refer to that as a stale 200 year old law, too?
> I find it funny that startups only implement these ridiculous hiring practices after they start to grow

Hmm, I'm curious what you're assuming! At Asana, at least, our first hires went through many of the same questions that interviewers today go through, but we were just a lot less systematic about our evaluation and less scrupulous about accidentally testing for knowledge/context rather than ability. The intention of this guide was to make the interview /less/ bullshit-y, by giving people enough grounding to not be thrown off by unexpressed expectations.
Thank you! I have RSS feeds set to private by default, so I assumed this wouldn't work. However, I did discover "Private RSS feeds" in the reddit preferences. I can likely feed these into Zapier.
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