skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a logical argument. It's more of a heuristic of human behavior, which tends to be right. Only rarely is there someone sitting behind a large desk making tent hands while laughing maniacally.

EDIT: On second thought, if it is a logical argument, it's a specific case of Occam's Razor. Which is more likely? Someone made a mistake, or there is a grand conspiracy?
It breaks my heart every time I see yet another VR Roller Coaster Demo, which seem to be all the rage with self-defeating VR evangelists trying to excite and educate ordinary people about its possibilities.

VR Roller Coaster Demos are the epitome of what VR is NOT about. It's the equivalent of setting a movie camera up in front of a stage to film a play. It's the antithesis of interactive simulation: No sidepaths. No exploration. No freedom. [1] It's literally railroading. [2] The worst thing that often happens after a VR roller coaster ride is that you take off the VR headset and say "thank God that's over!"

VR experiences with sidepaths, exploration, freedom, simulation, social interaction, and artistic content creation, gives you a much better impression and understanding of VR's capabilities.

You don't need to explore every place in GTA or Minecraft to realize that it's an open world. It's good VR if you walk away with the feeling that you haven't already been everywhere, done everything, there's more to see, things you still haven't tried, ways to create things, express yourself, interact with other people, and affect the outside world, so you want to come back later to see more.

It's not just about throwing in a bunch of navigable locations that are interconnected in a more interesting graph than a linear hallway. It's about simulation, where objects and characters in those places have rich interesting behaviors that interact with each other and the players, as opposed to a museum you can wander around but not touch or move anything or interact with anyone else.

The other sadly common VR demo that's the epitome of what VR is NOT about is literally the equivalent of setting a movie camera up in front of a stage to film a play, only worse: VR home movie theater simulations, like the Netflix app.

Sure, in some minor ways, watching a movie in VR might be better than watching it on a flat screen, but it's much worse in many other ways. How can you possibly win when you're using a VR headset to SIMULATE watching a movie on a flat screen? You can't see where your popcorn and soda are, you dip your chips in the ash tray, and you knock over your bong when reaching for your peppermint paddies!

[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoSidepathsNoExpl...

[2] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Railroading
Mildly related - whatever happened to Nodejitsu after Godaddy ate them?
Open APIs, open source, anyone? Epic tries to prevent anybody to integrate or upgrade their systems.
That's a similar idea to the Eddington number in cycling: http://triathlete-europe.competitor.com/2011/04/18/measuring...
Try an alternative ROM, such as CyanogenMod or OmniROM; they omit all the bloatware.
We know how the platforms work in general, but 386-era is when SMM appears for the first time and so it's unlikely that anybody has full knowledge of the entirety of a specific system.
Have you met poor people who care about vertical zoning laws in San Francisco or are you just assuming they exist and speaking for them?
How many end-users understand permissions and are able to manage them?
There's actually a built in Top Users page on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

Although it's by Karma rather than by front-page reaching skill, so it's a different metric really.

It's odd that it displays Karma for everyone outside the top ten.
This part of the article is particularly interesting:

"Meanwhile, Uber has been working to fulfill a promise to shareholders and employees that it would achieve profitability in North America by the second quarter of 2016, a milestone it says it has now reached in the U.S. and Canada."

The effects of this are being felt in engineering, there is a freeze on any new hardware purchases at the moment. You need a new server? Too bad, make do with what you've got. They've also reduced perks for new hires, and new hires are being stiffed in terms of compensation compared to what employees were getting just a few months ago, both in terms of stock and base salary and Uber credits.
Well spotted.

It'll be "Cash for clunkers" redux. Much amplified is my guess. Human-driven cars will be ilegal on public roads in very short order.
I switched to buying domains from Google (http://domains.google.com) two years ago. They give free private registration, let you use google for authoritative dns and setting up Google Apps is super simple.

Been a stellar choice so far!
Probably because NYC has strict limits to the number of licenced taxi's on the road creating a supper/demand imbalance, largely due to the medallion system, which is not found in most other medium sized cities resulting in a much greater supply.
I haven't had to deal with their tech support. I've only had to deal with their sales department, but never had a problem--everyone spoke english.

My problem is I got tired of the games by upper management. For years they have changed my settings. They changed the do not automatically renew, to renew. We all know what you are doing. I'm actually suprised someone haven't sued. Plus--the price game got old. They final straw was no coupons to renew.

I moved everything to g with free privacy. No hassles whatsoever.

I personally think this company is on its way out. If I had its stock, it would be sold on Monday.

If the big guy is reading this; we just want a price under 8 dollars a year, with free privacy. You know you could make still make a lot of money. Hell, at this point I question the need for advertising. No need for commercials? No need for all that noise?

Your customers will come back if you knock off the games. You just have too much completion to act the fool?

And I want go-daddy back. G is alwready too big.

(I'm sick with shingles this weekend. The pain is affecting my writing. I never knew shingles were so painful. It's more than just pain--I don't feel like myself? I hope I don't end up in the emergency room. I wish I got that antiviral drug. I'd watch the commercials, and thought shingles were basically just an aesthetic problem. They arn't. I think the virus is affecting my brain?)
> They basically were learning on the fly

I chuckled on this. Pun intended? :)
Switched careers and got my first gig as a junior developer at 41 years old. Now 43 years old and a 3/4 of the way through a CS degree as well, still working full time as a software developer (and loving it). Never too late.
Isn't permission overreach du rigueur on Android? Seriously, I thought that this was a preferred engineering pattern on Android due to platform weirdness or something.
First; I never finished a degree after High School. I got married instead and left school for the world of blue collar employment, which worked well enough for me for a long time, but now I find myself craving a career where I'm intellectually challenged.
Ask HN: Are big tech companies donating enough to politicians?
Political power comes through donations to political parties and by furthering the interests of individual politicians.

Are the big tech companies paying enough to get the politicians on their side?
> I still think drivers barely break even once you account for vehicle purchase and maintenance costs.

This is the case in most cities for brokered taxis with or without Uber/Lyft. It takes working long hours and good luck that your car doesn't break down to make a decent wage.
I worked at a place a handful of years ago that used SICStus (https://sicstus.sics.se/) because it was quite a bit faster than the other implementations.

I'd like to revisit prolog, I think it is an underused language in industry.
keep the big picture in mind here. If Ü can't tell what it looks like you're trying to do, they can't perfect clippy.
I'm also looking for good books on PCB design and Verilog. Could you please share the titles that were recommended to you?
> but does so sitting (for no good reason, really) on top of a regular filesystem

You don't like files? Files are great.

Running Core Data over SQLite instead of a "real database" gets you backups for free, the iOS file-based security model, lets you delete an app's data when it goes away, network mounted home directories… really, the filesystem abstraction is pretty good still.
Not exactly. The relevant lines in the BigQuery are:

[by] author, score, rank() over (partition by [by] order by score desc) item_rank
[...]
where score >= item_rank

The query uses a window function. What's happening is that it's counting the number of submissions with a score greater than or equal to the submissions rank relative to all other submissions by that user, descending.

For example, a user has four submissions with scores of 1, 2, 10, 3. Their h-index would be 2. (10 >= 1 true, 3 >= 2 true, 2 >= 3 false, 1 >= 4 false).

This is an odd way to calculate h-rank (as a measure of quality), however, the implementation appears to pass the test cases on Wikipedia.
D'oh - I'm blushing. What I meant was that you do much awesome work on it. My apologies to the other important contributors!

In any case, thanks! I've read your book (Beginning Android Games) and used libgdx (though nothing finished or published) and enjoyed both!
Drivers.
SMD passives are listed in both metric and imperial units. Most sizes are unambiguous, but 0402 and 0603 resistors exist in both series. There's also possibility for confusion between the imperial 01005 and the metric 1005. These parts are specified in metric, making the imperial sizes purely nominal.

http://www.newark.com/chip-smd-resistors/resistor-case-style...

The metric/imperial split is a constant nuisance. Most board houses and PTH packages use mils, but the vast majority of SMT IC packages are specified in millimetres. Board layouts almost always necessitate switching between imperial and metric units; Layout software includes features to manage this. Wire gauges are a total mess - AWG, SWG and mm are all in common use. Standard pin headers and derivative connectors are 0.1" pitch (2.54mm), but JST connectors are 2.5mm pitch. Conversion errors have caused countless production problems.
AIO does not require O_DIRECT. Most Linux file systems do not implement aio_fsync because they put the writes into the page cache and block until it is flushed to disk before signaling completion. That means aio_fsync can be implemented by no-op.
Agree! In my opinion your 20's should be for studying and exploring things on a higher level (university, etc.), your 30's for starting building your "systems" and master something so that in your 40's you should be well equipped to do real innovation.

Of course, some people may be faster and some slower..
I have the AT&T version of the Galaxy S6 Edge, with the locked bootloader. I can't even get root on it :(
It feels like a lack of perspective, brought on by spending a lot of time online. Unlike real life, disconnecting from online drama is always a button press away.

For starters, this is not true. Stuff that happens online has real world consequences. People get hired, fired, meet people they marry, get doxed and have their personal contact info put out there and on and on. The Internet is not disconnected from real life to the degree that your comment makes it sound.

I was a military wife for two decades. I lived in the High Desert where I dealt routinely with coyotes and large spiders and poisonous snakes, etc. I have spent time on health forums where deaths were so routinely reported that they had their own practices for how to deal with death, their own culture surrounding that so to speak. These experiences have left me somewhat thick skinned.

I read accident claims for over five years at an insurance company. Because of the aforementioned background, it was rare for me to be disturbed by the detailed medical and police reports that I read for up to 8 hours a day, five days a week. Many of my coworkers found the work far more stressful than I did.

But I would absolutely not want to have to moderate the photo and video stuff described in this article. And I would absolutely feel personally threatened by people making ugly threats of the sort that you dismiss with "That's cool, kid. Bye now. *Ban".

I'm pretty thick skinned, but I'm also a woman. Most of the people who are moderators are women. A lot of this nastiness is absolutely aimed at women. I think it hits a lot closer to home for most women than it does for most men. Women tend to routinely deal with genuine threats to their welfare, such as stalking, harassment and rape, that men tend to be largely exempt from.

When you recognize that your work impacts real people and how safe they are, that also can be a burden. When I read accident claims, in most cases, no lives hung in the balance. That is part of the reason it did not bother me to read them: I was not deciding whether or not to report anything to the police or otherwise take an action that impacted someone's personal safety. I was only deciding whether or not to cut someone a check and whether or not to refer the claim to the fraud department.

In a few cases, I was trying to get it paid rapidly because the customer was broke and facing having their power cut off and nothing to eat in the house. But, really, what I did mostly did not have a sense of "And if I do the wrong thing, someone could wind up killed, raped, fired from their job etc." What moderators do can have such impacts. That kind of responsibility can wear on a person. Perhaps not you, but plenty of people would find it wearing.

The Internet is something of a Pandora's box, it seems.
Woah, Ernie Hudson reprises his role as Winston??
Thank you. You do good work around here.
Hay muchos modos de hacer el dinero en línea
As an older person and an avid player of Ultima I - V this article is really interesting. Its fascinating to, some 30 years later, get a peek behind the curtain. My personal opinion is that Ultima IV was the pinnacle of computer gaming. Ultima III was supremely entertaining and Ultima V was more polished and still a very enjoyable game, but Ultima IV was absolutely groundbreaking in injecting ethos into an RPG. For any of the younger HN readers who don't mind archaic graphics, I highly recommend checking out Ultima IV.
Name.com refused to do DNS properly if you used their bundled DNS service. They'd resolve any hostname, but if you hadn't defined it, then they'd resolve it to some search or ad page?

That's why I stopped using them. Namecheap, despite the idiotic name, seems pretty good.
This page has more detail on Android's permissions model: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/security/permissio...

I don't really understand the point of having fine-grained permissions (like READ_CONTACTS), when the user only sees broader permission groups. Can someone shed light on this?
You should understand that VCs do not invest their own money but rather invest the money of "general partners" -- universities, pension funds, wealthy families, etc. Those investors are sophisticated and have very large portfolios relative to the amount of money they have allocated to VC (as an asset class). To gain access to their money, the VC had to both put on a song-and-dance about how they were going to get returns which were uncorrelated with the larger market (and huge) and then execute a series of contracts which constrains the VC's ability to do anything outside of the investment strategy which they've agreed upon.

It's not just a matter of "swinging for the fences makes me feel more fulfilled." It is "I have promised Yale that I will swing for the fences or I'll receive a call from their attorney asking politely for their $20 million back, and that call will be polite exactly once."
Kojima?
Multiple comments here parroting the "this is a non-issue on Lollipop or later" defense. Per Android's own statistics [1], that leaves 60% of users vulnerable to excessive permissions.

1: http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
I may continue on for my Master's after finishing my BS, haven't decided yet.
Would reduced housing costs put downward pressure on salaries? Or could some combination of growth/competition keep them where they are?
It's sourced from an executive vice president of Aerospace Corp. It would make sense that he might know about it from non public sources.
...and that's why Dallas was swallowed up by a great crack in the ground.
One of the happiest days of my life was when I finally migrated 100+ personal domains away from GoDaddy over to Namecheap and was able to close my GoDaddy account forever.
Elizabeth Warren thinks the IRS should fill out your tax returns
Hmm, now you got me worried. I use a dedicated device for podcasts that is still running Android 2.x. Prestissimo seems to be the new name, but itself deprecated in Android 6.0. I'll have to look into that before that device dies.
This is a great resource. As a junior developer I didn't have much experience or confidence in this area when interviewing for my current job. The big red flag for me should have been the way they answered my questions. "what is your development process?" "Oh, hmm, I dunno, I guess agile." asking about technical debt would have been a good one, too. Hint: there's lots.
I would say that the inventor's age is undoubtedly related to the "quality" or impact of the invention and you give the response on your last sentence. They have iterated and "invented" more..
The sewer system and fire department were vastly inferior in the segregated neighborhood of Five Points in Denver, CO. Source: http://www.nolegacylost.com

I'm surprised segregated/poorer neighborhoods having worse services is up for debate.

Segregation had racist origins. Segregation was by race. But I concede, not everything local has a racist origin, obviously.
There's a lot more space in the Bay Area. If we truly put our minds to it, we could expand from Novato to Gilroy, from Pacifica to Contra Costa.
If you live in SF and want to do something about the housing crisis, vote with us on May 10th: http://www.sfyimby.org/
They don't usually suddenly turn into people with children of school age, though.
Your valuable traits you've listed imply a lot about your potential to provide

I think this is an illustration of the phenomenon, but it's not the phenomenon you think. Half of the 4 sentences in my self description had nothing to do with my ability to provide. Also, the 1st two sentences had much to do with my socioeconomic status and implied level of education -- both of which are sub-cultural markers. Yet you project on me a preoccupation with providing.

Growing up as someone from this culture who just so happens to have this face, I know from both sides the distortion of this culture. We east asian men are supposedly useful economic and intellectual entities with inferior aesthetics or souls or something like that. Your projection fits this pattern.

The Bay Area is the same millieu where there was a widespread racist idea in the dot-com years, that south asians were somehow incapable of the deep thinking required for creating a disruptive startup. I didn't say that. It's from the self account of an Indian entrepreneur in a documentary about race in Silicon Valley. I don't really see this place as having changed.

If you are from the dominant culture, of course you are spinning this in terms of those complaining being somehow inferior. Not all those who complain are without reason. If you look at culture historically, this happens again and again, and it's quite hard to see from inside the dominant culture.
Makes sense. Before 25 it's unlikely you can even see what's happening. You're kind of flailing around blind trying to learn all the words and figure out which "facts" presented to you are actually just stories.

Once you can see what's happening, you can start trying to solve a problem. It takes 10 years for you to get good at the basic skills. It's not that likely that your pre existing skills are the ones you'll need. Then the world changes while you're watching and now you have all the ingredients:

1) vision

2) skill

3) a head start

So 35 is sort of a bottom limit for some kinds of invention.

Of course there are exceptions. If you have skills in the family you can start learning them at 5. And some people are just born in the middle of the kerfuffle and can see what's going on at a very early age. That's where someone like Bob Dylan or Fiona Apple comes from, doing world class work at 16-17 years old.

And the Internet makes the first step of "seeing what's going on" much more accessible, for both young people and everyone else. so I would expect the curve to expand out quite a bit this century.

The skill training is really just about hours though so I don't think the Internet accelerates that much.
I find The Verge extremely offensive. To pick a few bytes from
This article,

"Abusive men threaten spouses" (aka domestic violence is a man thing), "social media and mobile tech cause real harm to women". At least The verge are consistent. They have been sexist for as long as I have known them and their campaigns directed squarely at males (regardless of age).

When The Verge viciously attacked Matt Taylor, I felt ill for days. I could not believe that a media outlet was so callous in its aim to destroy a person and their career ... . Then, they posted an article about rape on campus. Rolling Stone pulled the referred article (the woman who wrote the Rolling Stone article had a history of lying and she wasn't a student where she said she was, the university acknowledged incidents but denied ever speaking to this woman, etc). The verge was infuriated as the media's suppression (regardless of the truth) because it matched a picture they were trying to paint.

This now explains why the media are so sexist - it's no accident that domestic violence is supposedly "men only". It's no surprise that boys are actively discriminated against in schools with STEM. It's linked to these moderators described in the article. It's not the moderation itself but the personal prejudices of the leaders of the moderators.

The sexism and manipulation I see today on the internet is unprecedented in my lifetime. In the 60s, I never saw a teacher ignore students based on gender - but today I hear about boys frequently being ignored "to level the playing field" because the media tell them it's ok and worse, necessary. I spoke with one teacher recently because he was directed to discriminate against boys and he refused to discriminate and resigned in protest. I've had other teachers (male and female) strongly hint this happens frequently. This ruins children's lives! I've essen these policies in action on my own children too.

The question I constantly asked myself was why. This article on moderation was my theory and now it confirms what I thought.

The question is how do you challenge these manipulative propagandists bent on gender wars who selectively filter the content that gets shown?

Decent people need to take an active stand. I'm glad to see there is some pushback against the feminist propaganda in the last few weeks. People are staring to question "supposed facts" and selective language such as "domestic violence" is a great example. This Verge article uses the same manipulative formulas that we continue to see (men:bad).

I implore everyone to raise the awareness of the extreme prejudice of feminism and to oppose it assertively without threats. People need to denounce prejudice by anyone (despite what political correctness says). Feminism doesn't deserve protection in the way that the KKK don't deserve it. You aren't born a feminist or KKK, but you sure can choose to propagate the intolerance. I took my stance when I saw that young boys are impacted by a gender war that never should have started.