skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems reasonable, seeing as age is a protected class.
I think you're talking about a lot of features here that don't even amount to a percentage point of Steam users. Go look at the Steam Hardware and Software Survey results. SteamOS doesn't even show up in the top five Linux distros that Valve reports. There may be Windows users who are using the Big Picture Mode, but I'd guess not a whole lot of them. There may be Windows users who are using the Steam Controller, but I'd guess it's smaller than the ones using Big Picture Mode. Those are not the reasons Steam is beating Origin.
I live in Santa Cruz and have for over 25 years, visiting for longer, friends with people who have been here generations. I live on the east side of town near where Hwy 1 and 17 meet. For years, I have various DSL offerings (sonic.net was one), through one of the local trunks I was able to get 6Mbps down, 768kbps up. It was...yeah, no.

A couple of years back, Cruzio started putting up point to point Wifi. They started on the North (west) side of town at the old Wrigley Building. A former colleague was one of the early residential customers. 20Mbps/sec @ $99/year. Real speeds, a bit higher (using speediest).

I was the first to sign up in my neighborhood when they eventually lit up the 911 center. Their network engineer lives a few blocks from me, he was the first over here :)

20Mbps/sec allows me to work well from home. Fiber would be a good thing. It will take awhile for Fiber to be fully deployed, so I suspect I will stay on the direct Wifi for a few years.

Do I see this changing the economic development outlook for Santa Cruz? No. The University is the biggest employer, has a great deal of real estate around town and pays no property taxes and hasn't built enough housing to keep up with enrollment. The growth of administrators to staff/students is another issue.

Santa Cruz is mostly built out. There are a lot of infill projects going in Santa Cruz, but the uptick in actual tech isn't where it was 2000s. There aren't really any large employers like there were then. Amazon has a small presence, Full Power has been here awhile, Imprivata has a presence, Looker, Cruzio and Next Space have incubators. Apple and Google have shuttles -- yeah, no.

Santa Cruz has serious social ills as well. It has had a tolerance for "alternative lifestyles", but the weather, the tolerance, and a blind eye being turned have made things a cesspool too. Prior to the 89 quake and even into the 90s, most of the homeless here were the older drunks, maybe a vet, who were down on their luck. Meth and heroin have taken over, gang issues, the local police blotter is a revolving door of many of the same names -- several (many homeless) arrive here from other areas. Private residents are having to invest in alarms and camera systems. Local hotels are telling people not to leave their bikes on their cars even when parked in a monitored lot.

Where things go, I don't know. Personally, I see my days here as being on the decline.
My point is, whether or not you pay a fair amount doesn't depend on how many times you pay. Let's say your fair share is $10; $3 goes via taxes and $7 via the other mechanism. Here's a couple of scenarios where it's a good choice:

1) The new road is 60% in the public interest and 40% in the interest of its users, so 60% is paid with taxes and 40% via tolls.

2) Society feels it's reasonable that all children, regardless of family income, should have educational resources. 90% of school is funded by taxes and 10% funded by fees paid by students' families (lunch, field trips, books, etc.).
I have just met you...and I love you.
I didn't mean to imply that you weren't taking it seriously. I didn't even "not like it". But in comparison to the quality of the things that normally make it to the top spot, it didn't even seem close to possible that it got there naturally. It was also not a new service - according to the site, it has been up since 2010. It's rare that a service offering that is 6 years old suddenly becomes really popular on HN. Possible, certainly, but unlikely.

I could be wrong, but I believe I've flagged exactly one post in my ~5 years of daily use on HN - this one - and have publicly made the observation that someone may have gamed the voting system maybe two or three times in that time. So I'm not prone to making accusations based upon "cognitive bias," and looking at the comments, I'm not the only one that thought something odd had happened here. I also assume it took more than just my flag to have flagged the article off the home page.

It just seemed very out of place, to myself and others. If my assumption was wrong, I apologize to OP.
Life expectancy for rich people has changed very little. We mostly increased the average by improving things for poor people. Now everyone's at "rich person" level, there's no low hanging fruit left to pick - we'll have to crack some very fundamental biological problems to get further increases.
> OSVR is the real shining light of hope in this ecosystem but as of now it just provides a layer on top of SteamVR/OpenVR/Oculus/etc requiring you to run those services in the background.

Yes, unless someone will implement OpenVR and whatever Rift is using (OculusVR?) in a fashion that won't be tied to using either Steam or Oculus services, the hardware will be tied to them. And it still didn't happen yet. It's the reason I didn't buy either of them yet. I find such concept of hardware tied to a service to be completely bizarre.
isnt age a protected class?
My thoughts are for those that are not with us anymore that helped make this slowly happen... I say thank you, but if I could choose I'd rather have them back and get to this results a bit later.

It's nothing new that in this field sometimes people have a tendency to put their ideals of progress before their own life.

No matter how strong is your love for your world changing ideas, YOU as a person come first.

Unless (but you could also argue about that) without your sacrifice the whole world population would be at immediate risk of extinction..
> No people should not be forced to let anyone in their homes. This is unreasonable.

The Fair Housing Act says otherwise (with respect to race and a few other categories), owner occupied rentals and small time single-family landlords excepted. No one is forcing you to rent out your property for profit, so if you don't want to let certain people in your house, don't rent it out on Airbnb.
FWIW, this has been in the React documents from near the beginning:

https://github.com/facebook/react/commit/a0ecf472421937545ff...

I've frequently referred to it when I need to refresh my memory on how to start in React from scratch.
Only if this money yields 0% in the meantime. Even with a 3% tax, it's probably still better to reinvest through your offshore entity than to repatriate.
I'm curious to see if this will result in the general public getting some info to suggest that Magic Leap isn't vaporware.
Also a bearded male, a combat veteran, etc... I cry on the regular, and always have. Do you show those emotions around larger audiences? I'm very openly emotional, like you're describing, around my wife and immediate family members but, quite naturally now that I think about it, keep it from bubbling up around friends, etc...
They should be blamed simply for putting beta software in cars on public roads.
The wastefulness is a designed feature, not a bug. The IOC is a corrupt organization, working hand-in-hand with corrupt governments, to put public money into private pockets in a plausibly deniable way.

As such, any proposal based upon rational analysis and sound engineering must be rejected out of hand, because it does not account for kickbacks, baksheesh, palm-greasing, boondoggles, junkets, tribute, or straight bribery.

Once you adopt this view, the Olympics work perfectly, year after year, without fail. The public still benefits, because ordinarily corruption and profiteering of that magnitude requires a war, which can at times get out of hand.
> I agree and if the government was attempting to pass a law mandating this I would support you

The government already passed the law mandating this, way back in 1968: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Housing_Act

Yes, it applies to Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/898/ada-and-fha-complian...
Why don't you have insurance? It's mandatory now.
I must not be 100% up on my acronyms: what is ARC? it's not "Arc" as in "Lisp like language written by Paul Graham et al" of course.
i'm not a reddit user. my mail is info [at] wprapido [dot] com . thank you
4200K - nice sunset/sunrise kind of light.

And yeah, from what i heard it's the blue light that have the most effect in light therapy.
At the CRS-8 post-launch presser Musk said "sometime in June", though lately I've seen them describe it as "later this year". That sort of implies after June.
F# is too good to replace it with Scala/JVM.
> January 7, 2014

This is years old. Am I missing why this is newly relevant?
They plan on launching one of the re-used boosters this fall.
Can I just buy my own password? I forgot it ages ago and the email address I registered with no longer exists.
The App Store should have your previous version under "Purchases". I have Mountain Lion and on in my list.
Ask HN: VR Apps not related to gaming and movies
Are there any VR apps for Oculus/Vive that are not related to gaming and movies? Just curious, as I was thinking of getting Oculus or Vive but have no interest in gaming or movies. What else could I use VR for?
Automatic Reference Counting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Reference_Counting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
Is there a short summary of the features/value prop for each? The slides/video are a bit long and detailed.

A simple overview and link to Github makes a good pitch.

Curious how it compares to [1] bspwm and [2] sxchd? Which offers a minimal tiling window manager and daemon controlling keyboard shortcuts. Each has a small C codebase that's simple and easy to understand, unlike most other tiling WM.

The config is excellent too and integrates well with [3] xmobar for a very clean and lightweight desktop, well suited for ArchLinux.

[1] https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm

[2] https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd

[3] https://github.com/jaor/xmobar
Who owns the poles?

If not the municipality, what is the cost to the city to use the utility poles?
I'm not saying Airbnb discrimination is illegal, I'm saying that anti-racist restrictions on landlords are reasonable in principle, and therefore Airbnb should apply them.

As for the law, while you note some exceptions to the federal housing laws, states may supplement. For example it is illegal to discriminate in California even if you're renting a small home.
To talk to programs on the users computer of course.
I nominate a portion of the Midwestern United States. It'd be great for the economies of that area to have business every 4 years.
> In what way is it "doing harm" to the patent system?

Well here's a study showing that the user of the term "troll" had become widely used by media without any evidence to support their negative views. This has led to judges forbidding the use of that term at trials as it is unfairly prejudicial.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2768939

If it is improper in the court of law, one can reasonably assume it is improper in the court of public opinion as well. The effects of this bias can be seen in the usual comments on patent-related threads here and other forums, where the USPTO is regularly derided by people who don't know the first thing about patents. These people know only what the media tells them, and as the paper shows, media is highly biased. This bias is being spread to a large audience and is also being used to push for reform that may not necessarily be balanced. I'd say, yes, such rhetoric is hurting the patent system.
> I recommend big companies buy out the firms with foundational patents like this from back in the day.

Would that be Nortel / Rockster Consortium approach? Sadly, big companies will be tempted to 'monetize' the patents and/or use them as a competitive advantage: and both are enforced via litigation. I supposed being sued by a big tech company rather than a patent troll is better?

The worst case is when a tech company buys patents, sells them to an NPE and then sics it on competitors, it's a good thing that'll never happen.
This is the first time I've seen someone refer to this tech as "artificial reality" -- interesting!
I don't know that Oracle Solaris supports the Linux ABI. The revival of Linux ABI support in zones (containers) is a SmartOS (and illumos) thing, and we've diverged significantly from Solaris at this point.
> Elsevier can blow a goat

I'm into the history of logic at the moment. As in not the filtered oh-so-neat version that is presented at third-level but the nitty-gritty twists and turns from Ancient Greece (go team Aristotle!), Indian, Arabic, Scholastic, Medieval, Pre-modern, the rise of symbolic/algebraic logic, Kant/Hegel/Trendelenburg, on to Frege and then the multiplication of logics (modal/tense/deontic, …) in the 20th century ending with type theory.

Recently Elsevier contracted top logicians to produce a Handbook in the History of Logic. It runs to 11 volumes, each volume north of $300. So folks, if you want to get acquainted with the complete history of what is supposed to be a formalisation of rational thought it can be yours for $3,300 or thereabouts. There is no reason this should not be in the public domain, it's too fundamental and central to history of ideas. I could buy two cheap second-hand cars for that price. (Personally I have used SciHub to have a look and I don't mind saying so.)

Now I would like to think that top logicians are not complicit in this scam, but I fear they are. I have a burning desire to crowd-source a website that provides the same information. >95% of the papers/texts are out of copyright. These academics already have very lucrative salaries and grants. I don't think we can point the finger exclusively at the Elseviers of this world, they have had a little bit of help along the way. Here in HN we have a bit of an open-access echo chamber. Some academics are very happy with the status quo, and who wouldn't be with those prices? I think it's _insane_.

I'll post names and links of the details if people are interested.
Digital Ocean Introduces Block Storage
I prefer mocha to qunit and I'm a fan of coffeescript (ES6 can wait. I love the existential operator). My company had made a few decisions before ember-cli that weren't on the Ember Happy Path. I've tried to stick to those decisions to avoid making people learn a different stack. It's not that easy to rip and replace pieces of Ember.
For those heading into the comments to know what this is about: W^X is a protection policy on memory with the effect that every page in memory can either be written or executed but not both simultaneously (Write XOR eXecute). It can prevent, for example, some buffer overflow attacks.
If your position is at a public university, you probably work at a publicly-funded building, using publicly-funded electricity and heating, and publicly-funded office material. So I'd say it should be covered.
What's with 'Artificial Reality' ?
This is particularly interesting since Gary Bradski is also a Co-Founder of Industrial Perception Inc., a robotics company that Google acquired in 2013.

Reportedly Bradski walked away from Google right after the deal to join early Magic Leap, leaving lots of cash on the table and Google stock unvested.
Introducing doctl: The Command Line Interface to DigitalOcean
http://uploadvr.com/magic-leap-alleges-former-executives-mis...

contains a copy of the actual filing:

http://cdn.uploadvr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/complaint...
And also relatively "young" parents whose families wish they were still around.
Having a kid did that to me, too. I've always been a bit of a crybaby, but now I kinda lose it when children-related kidnappings or deaths happen in movies or TV shows or the news.

Tycho, from Penny Arcade, said it best: "When I was younger, I would have resented some of this stuff - it would have seemed ham-handed. Manipulative. I could have discern what they wanted me to feel and valiantly refused, or (if it were executed especially well) felt a version of it which might have been similar in color or shape. I would feel it in deference to their craft.

That’s not really how it works now. Children carve something out of you, a place for themselves; people can twist the knife in that spot, and it just bleeds and bleeds."
Judging by those last few comments, he decided to stop participating in the community after he made a snarky comment, followed by the community snarking right back with a blow-by-blow and sourced list of broken promises and backtracks [1].

(And then he insults the guy who tries to defend him as an "insufferable fanboy".. ouch!)

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4gfpjk/palmer_lucke...
Ping-pong tables.

In enough numbers to make the graph deflect.
I know :/ Wish we would have built it already
One of the biggest hurdles for me is the inability to have arrays of structs. You have to have multiple arrays of atomic types, and keep the indexes in synch. Maybe that's not a problem here. I collect old basic books and enjoy the nostalgia as you seem to :)
It is grossly deceptive to say that Steam has a monopoly on games distribution when a vast number of the games on Steam are also distributed by other channels. I can't name any "Steam exclusives," which is more than I can say for Origin etc.

Frankly it's absurd to psychoanalyze Steam, saying that it wants to do what other companies are doing, and not to recognize that if it wanted to do those things it could easily do so.
I'm only saying this because it's so absurdly prevalent in the media and the author of the article makes NO mention of reviews.
Here's the github link: https://github.com/letoram/arcan
Experts say a lot of things but that does not mean we gotta listen to them. American public education system is run by Experts remember ?
http://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/632851/child-mugger...
Truck driver: Knowledge of the travelling salesman problem. Algorithms in general to find optimal routes. A little programming knowledge to help with automating their excel sheets to record expenses.

The companies for which truckers work already have people and computers and software to route them from delivery to delivery and from pick-up to pick-up efficiently. The trucker himself or herself wouldn't benefit one bit from familiarity with the Traveling Salesman Problem or from rudimentary computer programming experience.

In addition, recording expenses via some overly complex solution such as a computer spreadsheet is ridiculous. It's much more efficient for them to write down their expenses with paper and pen and submit their receipts. It takes literally seconds.

I won't comment on your other examples, but they look equally weak.

That being said, a rudimentary class or two in grade school/junior high/high school seems like a good idea so that people with a natural aptitude for programming and who derive enjoyment from it can discover that fact.

Source: Father was a truck driver.
A lot of the fun of the Plan 9 compiler and source organization is that it doesn't optimize; instead, it compiles fast. Like the whole OS in about a minute (on a Raspberry PI). Or maybe it's 2 minutes, I don't recall.

The Go folks have adopted some of the same ideas (minimal optimization and no nested include files), and they build on the experience of the Plan 9 compiler to better divide the work between the "compiler" and "linker", so we gain more from parallel make.
Has Magic Leap shared any public timeline for when they might launch something to market?
Our code base has grown organically and its internal dependencies are very complex.

So instead of cleaning up the internal dependencies, they decided to rewrite Mercurial. That is the kind of thing Facebook likes to do: for example, when PHP got too slow, they wrote a PHP compiler....
Not the OP, but I don't have insurance because I can't afford it. Furthermore, attempts to use Healthcare.gov to try and even start an application process did and continue to fail because I don't have a credit history and therefore do not exist in their system and hit a roadblock. I cannot sign up for Medicaid in my state either for the same reason.

And while it may be technically mandatory, I have so far fallen below the income level that requires it and so haven't yet been fined for being unable to afford it. I almost did this year, but managed to request an exemption because there were no plans in my area below the necessary price threshold. And even if I were fined, paying the fine is easier and cheaper than dealing with actually getting a (very shitty) plan.
Such as London and Tokyo?
When driving emergency vehicles, the course you take that serves amongst other things as an exemption for having a CDL used to be called EVAP - Emergency Vehicle Accident Prevention, and is now called EVIP, Emergency Vehicle Incident Prevention.
Of course, you can do that in science too. I believe the intent of that quoted text is not to indicate that all questions in scientific fields represented on arxiv, or even most, are answered. The only purpose is that language easily belies who does not "belong"
The concern isn't for the spectators or competitors but for the rest of the world as both return home and accelerate the spread of the Zika virus.
It's strange, though, because Facebook wasn't in the games business like this before, so they did have a choice of what approach they were going to take. There's no real reason they couldn't have come out swinging for open standards, for example.
Or something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

They already hosted sports events (see the "sport" section of that wikipedia page).
> I suspect legally most airbnb landlords are in the clear.

Watch it on this - despite the exceptions in the FHA, exceptions never apply to racial discrimination. IANAL, but the discrimination outlined in the article is unlawful, regardless of any exceptions. Plus, state law often supplements the FHA to close off many of the exceptions.
Has there been some suggested Roadmap when we can expect some unveiling? It's fun to see that people can get sued over unannounced tech, but I'd really like to know what we are talking about here.
Gah! You're right. I thought that we were still talking about the headline on this page.
I'd like to know how reliable the data on Rio is. Are there more Zika infections than in the poor north eastern part of Brazil or are (suspected) cases just much more like to be reported due to easier access to qualified medical care? Is distribution in Rio uniform or does it mostly concern very poor areas which are very unlikely to be visited by tourists anyway?

NB: The dengue data they refer to[1] shows a sharp decline in infections from May on, at the end of the wet season (obviously inferring from 2015 data).

[1] http://www.rio.rj.gov.br/dlstatic/10112/5880996/4153672/deng...
More like vacant white elephants that continue to suck down millions in maintenance fees for years later. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/aug/22/birds-nes...
>as far as I can tell it only exists to lock people into a particular ecosystem.

sounds like a certain parent company..
Does this mean to successfully exploit a program I need to write to an area in memory that the program will later turn the page in memory to "Execute"?
Damn that's crazy!
I guess I've never understood this. The W^X is a response to one of the classic Multics paper attacks, but doesn't actually work well in a world where JavaScript, JVM byte code, and other non-native code is "sort-of executable". Why not put the effort into a great MMU so that every allocation is its own "page" for the purpose of triggering page faults on overruns?