skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think its a naive view to expect two or more people to work on something without conflicts. How do these get solved in real life? Do people just keep pushing and pulling until one side cedes? Perhaps, but the more effective and optimal solution is to actually discuss it instead of creating a tug-of-war. [0] This way the results reflect a consensus, even if its a compromise, and this way Wikipedia can be host to multiple opinions. There's a really good reason every article is paired with a talk page. Just because it's called "The Encyclopedia Anyone Can Edit", it doesn't mean that its obligated to take anyones edits or that all that hard work won't be entirely rewritten in the future. [1][2]

Lastly, what makes a "good edit". I've seen someone write paragraphs for a film on their personal interpretations of the protagonist's feelings. No doubt they thought this was essential information for someone to understand the film, but this went completely against Wikipedia's rule prohibiting original research. [3]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD,_revert,_discus...
[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Competence_is_requir...
[2]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_content
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research

Edit: I said nothing about time in my comment, but addressed conflict resolution and the parent's comment about good edits. If taking the time and effort to discuss something is too much for you, maybe it's better that you don't try to work on a collaborative encyclopedia project.
That's not the point of tokenadult though. He's pointing out that if higher incomes and book reading are both caused by some third factor, encouraging more reading might not have the desired effect on income.
"The technology is still not as advanced as its American counterparts, said Singer" ... why isn't the fact that the U.S.A has even more lethal weapons troubling? (actually the real trouble is that attack weapons are starting to be much better than defense weapons, which is a good indicator for having a world war :( )
not just stop at learning - happens to me quite a lot as well :(
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> Tax is unethical by its very nature (it is theft, regardless of justifications).

This is incorrect. Taxation is neither unethical, nor "theft".
You are trying to dress up your genocidal thoughts of the German people as something politically correct and inclusive.

Try to make the same exercise with the Aboriginal Australians: It doesn't matter if they don't reproduce; there's plenty of whites around to take their place.

Why do you hate diversity?
The issue is rather that others identify them as Turks and so it gets part of their identity.
If you're putting ethics aside, you attack with a droid army, use a third party to sell clones to the opposing army to fight the droids, have the clones prove themselves in battle to get placed in all the strategic locations, then have the clones turn on them.
> Cyberduck is written in Java, yet nobody seems to be complaining about how slow and bloated it is.

Lol I just double checked that after you said it, it never felt "Javaish" even the interface is really sane.

Actually they are using JNA for a lot of stuff and they written foundation bindings... (https://g.iterate.ch/projects/ITERATE/repos/cyberduck/browse...) cool stuff I keep that for reference. However he should put the bindings stuff under something like LGPL since most stuff will fall under fair use anyway (simple class Names which you would use anyway even without looking at the Source when making a JNA binding to Cocoa)
I don't think the neural remap is that hard - i mean, you can type, and it doesn't work through a pen and text interpretation.

Having used the controllers and leap motion, the controllers I prefer, as grasping nothing is less immersive than grasping a controller - in my view, anyway.

Now, gloves with feedback, those will be interesting - but are a way off.

I was recently thinking about 3d printing trackable objects to get around the whole topic, and allow leap motion/manus/whatever to be that much more real.
Wikipedia is a toxic mess. If you try to contribute anything even slightly controversial and one of the page patrollers decide you are obnoxious, or wrong, then your work will be eviscerated.

The funny thing is, even when you know the policies and follow them, it's irrelevant. For example, I was told by several people that primary sources are entirely verboten. I did a search to verify the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) company ownership of a number of companies, which is entirely non-controversial, I was told this was violating WP:OR, or more specifically [[WP:PRIMARY]] as this disallows primary sources. This, however, is a shortcut to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research...

This reads:

Policy: Unless restricted by another policy, primary sources that have been reputably published may be used in Wikipedia; but only with care, because it is easy to misuse them. Any interpretation of primary source material requires a reliable secondary source for that interpretation. A primary source may only be used on Wikipedia to make straightforward, descriptive statements of facts that can be verified by any educated person with access to the primary source but without further, specialized knowledge.

When I pointed this out, there was silence and my work was removed.

The project is now completely impossible to contribute to in any meaningful way. There are literally users who do nothing but watch the incoming edit stream and revert or tweak edits as soon as they get made. Often they make mistakes or make it impossible for an editor to do any sort of extensive contributions. One editor I interacted with did this to me, and when I reviewed what happened after I found I couldn't go on further I realised they have made over 98,000 edits since 2009, yet there is literally no article they contributed to in any significant way whatsoever! It's all reverts, page moves, typo fixes, wiki link changed or the creation of small article stubs (they claimed to have created 500 articles, but when I checked they created over 500 pages, but about 450 are redirects or pages moves, and nothing else. Of the rest, about 25 article are 1 sentence stubs, albeit with a reference, and the rest are still very basic and not deeply researched articles - not really much better than stubs.

It's really a lost cause now. I certainly know the quality is degrading very rapidly. Unless practices are drastically changed, it will degrade to the point where traditional sources will come back into fashion.

Jimmy Wales once stated the grand vision of Wikipedia was summed up by asking people to "imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." [1]

That was the goal, and for years that was what I and many others worked towards. For whatever reason, the project has now stagnated and that is no longer occurring consistently. This grand vision has been lost, and I don't see that there are any moves to bring it back.

1. http://m.slashdot.org/story/48267
Can anyone explain how this works from a tax perspective? As far as I know, goods in free ports are basically "in transit between two countries" for tax purposes. I.e. they left their origin, but have not entered their destination yet. I can see how that temporarily avoids sales tax (or VAT). That's also the tax mentioned in the newspaper. However, as soon as you bring that artwork to its destination, you have to pay that tax. And by that time, it will probably be much higher than now. First, the tax will most likely have increased (VAT rates never seem to go down). Second, the art will have appreciated in value, increasing the taxes due on import even more. All that considered, this does not seem like a very good strategy to me, at least tax-wise.
there's no 'mario' or 'angry birds' of VR yet, that opportunity is wide open for the right company
Our bar for achieving true Artificial Intelligence is set way to high in my opinion. This talk from CCC 2015 is very relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DATQKB7656E
The 0.1% can fund a lawsuit because you published a sex tape.

>We're now officially owned by the 300!

That's a steep slope.
> ford still uses 40 year old IBM mainframes with COBOL,

What are they using it for?
This. Hideous and awful.
> someone secretly using money to manipulate a case in which he is not a direct participant.

What manipulation was there?

3rd parties funding lawsuits is not a new, it's been happening for centuries.
I'm pretty sure the Virtuality 1000 is the VR machine I played once back in the early 90s. It was absolutely awful.

Edit: This comment sounds a bit negative. It's great that someone is maintaining these ultra rare bits of history.
Obviously you missed out on the action at Nazare in Portugal the last few years. Yes, there is a 100ft wave that has been surfed in 2013. Was big news at the time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtVQJCq2cCM
How to support multi-version apps like a king
It depends on whom you write the code for and why.

If I write code so that other people can use it I strive for coming out with the best API possible (for whatever definition of "best" makes sense for the project) if I write for experiment or fun I just want to get thing done and see if it works so I write in the most fastest way possible, if there is some change that I need to work again with the code I try to write it in the most maintainable way possible.
Seems like your problem is with the legal system, not Thiel.
Which is completely fair. "Don't hate the player, hate the game."
So? The article you created lives on, it simply had a note about "dubious notability" for a year. That is a prompt to you - or anyone else that cares - to add references to reliable sources that demonstrate that it is notable.
The average American watches three hours of TV a day. They are not lacking for free time to read books if they wanted to.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/average-american-watch...
What problem did you come across where suffix trees were the optimal tool for the job?
Then you have the opposite problem: anyone can add spam and hoaxes with impunity because it takes more effort to remove than add. Then in response you add the same rule for adding information. Voila, you just recreated Wikipedia except you now made citations mandatory and now everyone has to do tons of research to ever fix or modify anything. So much for a wiki. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wikiwiki#Hawaiian
Zfsd(8), the ZFS fault management daemon lands in FreeBSD
Blockchains: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Hyperledger, Ripple,
This stinks of a lack of awareness on par with "let them eat cake".
Check out https://discordapp.com/
There was a port of Dactyl Nightmare for the Oculus, I played it on the DK2.

It wasn't as mind blowing as it was when I was 12 but a nice nostalgic trip none the less.
There are different types of amplifiers, you can look it up on wikipedia. All those amplifiers introduce way less than 28 micro of latency. I would attribute those 4100 micros mostly to landing sites.
Maybe today, but not 20 years ago. Remember that Germany was in a deep economic recession in the 90s.
The wikipedia article is quite good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_amplifier

Basically, the repeater is another laser, but the emmission of new photons is stimulated by low-energy photons exciting the partially-excited atoms in the amplifier.
That's not consistent with the Libertarian ideology that I'm familiar with, or the views of most of the Libertarians I know.
Thank your for the article! Really helpful and easy to read. As a novice in assembly, got a few tricks.
Wikipedia should get rid of the policy of notability. Anything should be written about, so long as it has truth. A Wikipedia article about the bench at the end of your road, a Wikipedia article about your first English teacher. The policing of notability implies that only those things that appear worthwhile to the police get admitted. Given that storage appears insanely cheap, perhaps the requirements should only include that the article has good sources.
I had a dk2, and the nausea was real. Had to put it down and sit there pale and sweaty many times.

In the vive, at 90fps and all the other bells and whistles - none, even dogfighting in elite, even stick-moving in minecraft.

That said, a gtx 670 would be marginal at best - a 970 is the official min spec, and the new generation of pascal cards are essentially built for vr.
Good for you. I didn't want to pick on you or your colleges so much, I just think your local "genius" has weaknesses like everybody, but in reality your company is at fault.

They should not mystify him, they should have made sure he shares knowledge with others and brings other up to speed. And as he is gone, they should make sure the code is refactored to suit the documentation level and code style the remaining devs are used to.
Sorry, what's the purpose of this post? Really? Come on spend some real time with your family and friends and stop writing useless post like this one.

Yeah your right : and people writing on walls in Stone Age were the precursors of Facebook! Damn.
Although it's not open sourced, you should check out discord (https://discordapp.com/). Although our niche is gamers, lots of people use Discord for tons of other things. We've got all those things except search (but we're working on it!)

(disclosure: i work there)
It's a required condition for me. She knows and has known for a long time.
>Do you believe that the patriotic affinity between Canadians is somehow lesser than that between Germans, because we don't share a well-defined genetic heritage?

Lesser patriotic affinity for minorities? Absolutely.
(I am Canadian)

There's even a study[1] showing that with increasing diversity, you get:

Lower confidence in local government, local leaders and the local news media.

Lower political efficacy – that is, confidence in one's own influence.

Lower frequency of registering to vote, but more interest and knowledge about politics and more participation in protest marches and social reform groups.

Higher political advocacy, but lower expectations that it will bring about a desirable result.

Less expectation that others will cooperate to solve dilemmas of collective action (e.g., voluntary conservation to ease a water or energy shortage).

Less likelihood of working on a community project.

Less likelihood of giving to charity or volunteering.

Fewer close friends and confidants.

Less happiness and lower perceived quality of life.

More time spent watching television and more agreement that "television is my most important form of entertainment".

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2007....
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Something similar was done by some Pakistani students a few years ago. Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CfaxbVvi80 (sorry, no english translation)
Oh please. It's a handful of backports and bugfixes. Actually read the commits.
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
Much (most?) of this art is being purchased without any direct intent to ever exhibit it anywhere (even privately). If the purchaser sells the art in the future, the entire transaction can take place within the freeport and no transaction tax applies.
Germany and Austria are similar genetically, but native North Germans are more similar genetically to the Dutch, Danish, and Swedish.

Differences among all those groups can be teased out when comparing them among themselves, but when comparing to Arabs, Africans, or Afghans, the differences among Europeans effectively vanish.

That was the point.

For Europe as we know it to continue to exist it's population must be Europeans.

Consider the types of societies one finds across the Arab world and Africa to the societies one finds in Europe.

neo-Nazi reference

I didn't even know about the "neo-Nazi reference" thing until someone pointed it out before(you?).

The truth is there are a series of account that were made when the number of saved stories was limited. i.e. cb1 ... 18

I just happened to stop on 18.

It's really absurd if every time you see the number 18 you shriek and go Nazi!!!

Do you watch sports where they wear numbers? Do you ever see prices in stores that say 18? There must be nazis hiding everywhere huh?
> (which isn't even a quality commanded to a significant degree by genetics)

Evidence?
What? That's pessimistic. I can't think of any rule governing the universe that mandates "industrial scale" to be "insustainable." Improvements in science and technology have changed the course of human history, making what seemed previously impossible to be now common place, and taken for granted.
> I'm surprised the OP uses North American cities as examples of airport connectors

I'd do the same thing because (well, I assume,) North America has a unique level of motorisation and city density. It makes sense that people who regularly drive to work will choose drive to the airport as well.
It doesn't violate W^X, because the same virtual memory address isn't writable and executable at the same time.
Someone who buys a $50 million painting at auction in New York, for example, is staring at a $4.4 million sales tax bill. Ship it to a free port, and the bill disappears, at least until you decide to bring it back to New York.

and

Despite enhanced Swiss efforts to track inventory and ownership, the free ports there remain an opaque preserve (though more transparent these days than counterparts in places like Singapore), filled with objects whose ownership can be confoundingly convoluted.

You keep it there until the value appreciates substantially, the item can stay there are long as you need it to. As the article mentions, the problem with these warehouses has been that there's been very little visibility of what is actually being stored as they become black holes into which these treasures disappear. I suspect many of these objects aren't directly owned by the super-rich individuals themselves, but are owned by offshore companies with hugely obfuscated paper trails that detach any tax liability from their human owners.

Also:

Collectors and dealers choose to store art in the free ports for more pedestrian reasons than tax avoidance. Some simply have no more room in their homes, said Georgina Hepburne Scott, who advises collectors. And in a free port, their property is protected in climate-controlled environments, often under video surveillance and behind fire-resistant walls.
"half as fast as C and 2.5x the memory on average" is a stupendously good result for any managed runtime. Most don't get anywhere near it while providing more than acceptable performance in practice.
I strive for simplicity: Producing a maintainable and extendable solution being the simplest possible solution to the problem.

Simple means both easy to understand APIs, healthy internals and judicious use of abstractions (no overkill).

Producing a complex solution for a complex problem is by my standards mediocre engineering.

When you focus on simplicity everything follows (and your technical skills skyrocket because it requires to be extremely skilled to make things simple).
ahh, good ol' ageism. At least you're straightforward and honest
Not just that, but you will often be summarily blocked from editing by a determined and experienced editor, no matter how good your edit.

Admins now largely make their decisions without much consideration for the issue that is in dispute. It's actually often worse than this: often they claim you are violating even core policies, but they have completely not understood the policy on which they base their claim, and sometimes they even show little evidence they have read the policy at all!

The great irony of all if this is that the policy and guidelines are solid. If they were actually followed then I don't think there would be much of a problem. But if you can be blocked indefinitely for not violating a policy but for being accused of violating a core policy alone, regardless of the basis of the accusation - well, then it's hardly worthwhile making the necessary effort to contribute quality material that conforms to Wikipedia norms and requirements!
So it appears to confirm that editing a new wikipedia article means expending lots of time, making long and well though out difficult decisions and spending lots in ones personal life.

Without an investment of time and effort to understand the culture and rules, it appears (as the anecdotes in this thread suggest) new editors get discouraged and existing editors become more secure.
Except it does suffer from link rot, and often citations are to inaccessible sources.
Right. Slavery. Comical.

No..
My main argument is that reading books is the hard part. Leisure time is an example I gave of a contributing factor. There are other contributing factors, such as cultural ones, which I alluded to.

Beyond that, though, it's not merely the case of an individual having time to read. A parent who does not read to their child is raising a child to be less literate or even illiterate.
Or if not vandalism, you are accused of violating some other policy the accuser doesn't understand. Or uses the catch all violation that can get you blocked indefinitely: you violated WP:BLP, even when you have not.
> the African pygmies are one example

can you expand on this?
Wikipedia is written by amateurs and enthusiasts, credentials don't hold any weight compared to published sources. [0] You can't verify what's in someone's head, but you can do that for published information. Every now and then you'll hear about how "experts are scum" [1] on Wikipedia, but that comes from a lack of understanding of how it functions. Experts are more than welcome to contribute, as long as they back up their statements with sources. (One would expect academics to embrace this the most)

About notability, Wikipedia's concept of notability [2] is quite different from what the average person might think it to be. Notability has nothing to do with popularity or usefulness, but rather significant coverage in multiple reliable sources. This way, you know you can write a verifiable [3] and comprehensive article on something without resorting to original research. [4] (To put it another way: pulling things out of your ass) While to you as a programmer, Chocately might seem to be one of the most essential things on the planet, to nearly every other person and publisher, it's nothing special. Have books been written on it? Has it received widespread coverage in the news? Would you expect to see it in a real encyclopedia? What is its actual impact and userbase? That is what notability is about, not because you personally find something important. Lastly, you often hear people complaining about other articles of the same type or more esoteric existing,[5] like Homebrew having an article [6] while Chocolatey doesn't. That doesn't mean those articles won't be deleted either, Wikipedia is entirely run by volunteers and the process focuses on an individual article's merits at a time.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_credentia...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SCUM

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Other_stuff_exists

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_(package_management_s...
This is an instance of the fallacy

A implies B

I don't like B

therefore (not A)
This looks like a total ripoff of Shout, down to the website and everything.

http://shout-irc.com/

EDIT: Maybe you should've said on your website that it is a FORK of Shout and not only on Github...
I think there will be more relevant applications of VR. Today there is very few software that is VR specific
http://www.vice.com/read/german-prisons-are-kinder-gentler-a...