skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if this article was the social experiment. Did anyone verify any of the claims that he had even actually lied. Maybe he is fabricating a story about fabrication? I know I didn't verify. But don't fall into his sneaky trap again(or perhaps the first time).
I have an Oculus CV1, I had the DK2, and I've been making VR side-projects using their SDK for a couple years now. I'm really disillusioned about Oculus as a platform, though. I didn't even consider buying the HTC Vive because I've been riding the Oculus train for a while and had faith in them as the future of VR, but come on.

I really wish I could know how Carmack feels about this.

Sidenote: for what it's worth, I haven't used my Oculus since the first week I received it. It was supposed to work with glasses (the DK2 does) by shipping with different foam faceplates that can change how far off my face it is (my glasses fit in the Oculus, it's just that the lenses are so close to my eyes that my glasses scratch them) but they silently took that off the "What's in the box" months before shipping.
That article says nothing about the Heimlich maneuver for choking. Only that you shouldn't use it on a drowning victim. Most sources seem to recommend the Heimlich maneuver for choking victims, possibly in conjunction with blows to the back between the shoulder blades, but only in cases of complete airway obstruction.
and people wonder why schools get shot up.

you did this to yourselves.
The resemblance of Zuck to Ceasar is striking......
Among my friends at least Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has caught on big time. I tried a couple classes. While I enjoyed the workout, I had a feeling that if I did it regularly I would constantly be nursing an injury of one kind or another.
At this point the patent troll problem is so severe that I think any new law needs to not only fix the problem, but retroactively assess punitive damages to all patent troll companies. It should be relatively easy to prove which companies were created only to litigate (e.g. they have few employees and produce no products related to the patents that they own). The fines should be absolutely massive; to hell with these people.
Thiel Foundation (2013): Society Needs a Free Press, Without Fear of Reprisal
Yep. Well, that’s why I feel pretty good about using my own domains + Fastmail!
If it's been copied directly, that's what copyright is for.

Would you spend millions in developing something novel just to have some random with a capriciously granted "X, but on a computer" drag you through court?
Apple, Microsoft, and Google hold 23% of all U.S. corporate cash
Google did not take Java code. It wrote it's own software with exactly same API.

Any API that is "in the open" is free to be emulated. Especially Open Source ones!

What this mean for open source software is that if I write a GPL library, and someone can't use GPL software and writes it's own implementation to be a drop-in replacement, it's free to do so. Which I believe is OK with everyone, except Oracle corporate rent-seekers, that can't get over the fact, that they can't monetize SUN Microsystems corpse even more.
Consider if the host is black and the only caucasian people that inquire about the BnB are obviously hillbillies. Let's say he doesn't have a problem with caucasian people in general, but really doesn't like hillbillies. Let's say he promptly rejects them all. His rejection rate will make him look like he dislikes caucasians.
Peter Thiel: Gawker suit was 'one of my greater philanthropic things I’ve done'
I haven't read the specifics of this, but typically these kind of mandates come from funding bodies to cover the work they fund. So they're expecting that publication fees will be a budget item in grant applications.
It's actually not quite as crazy as it sounds. Malaria was used successfully to treat Neurosyphilis.
A New Chapter for Fair Use on YouTube [video]
I write on http://hkelkar.com mostly about being a Software Craftsman.
Question #1 is sorta ok if you're hiring a "full stack developer". And yes, everyone should have a basic understanding of how the internet works. But many modern frameworks/libraries take care of a lot of those details for you. If something breaks, you should be able to dive in and figure it out. But is it really important if you realize that your HTTP request is likely version 1.1 and not 1.0? Do you know how TCP works byte by byte?

Question #2 basically assumes you're a web developer (or desktop app developer). Lots of jobs do not involve writing webpages or desktop apps. Yes, even jobs that help create a "product". And an hour to turn json into a halfway decent webpage basically means you need a frontend specialist, and I'd guess even one of those would struggle to get it half done in an hour, especially if they're then adding tests and stuff.

#3 - Why do I want to work at your company? I can tell you, it's probably NOT for your product. It probably is for the processes, the team, the culture. Don't forget, the interview is a time for the candidate to figure out if the company is a right fit for her, too. If you only hire people passionate about your product for its own sake, you're probably never get past hiring a cofounder.

But just because I don't think your product is the best thing since sliced bread, doesn't mean I can't think critically about the product space and do my best to think about how to make the product better. But don't expect everyone to know everything about your product space before joining your team. There are infinite product spaces out there... hopefully you have some sort of onboarding process to help get new hires up to speed on your own product space.

#4 - Want to grab dinner with the team? Nope, sorry. Gotta get home to my family. Lunch? Sure. But even then, honestly, enjoying spending time with the person outside of the office should not be a prerequisite for hiring them. You're hiring them to work during office hours, to get along with other employees in the office. There's been a lot articles that explain why worrying about "culture fit" contributes to having companies of all young white American males. There should be process fit - having similar goals and methods for quality and productivity. And of course, they shouldn't be an outright jerk. Whether or not you'd want to have a beer with them is beside the point. You're hiring a developer, not a wingman.

I don't think these are awful questions, per se, but I also think that they could do with a lot of tweaking.
As AdrianN pointed out, the primary use case for Office for Mac is interoperability. If you don't care about interoperability, you probably would buy Pages. Or just use Google Docs. You buy Office for Mac because that's the format your office uses, or your professor expects, or whatever. You probably don't buy Office for Mac out of some longing for a Windows interface.

If "familiarity because I use it at work" is the primary criterion, you'd probably have bought a PC.
The biggest problem is that the patent system is flawed currently. They accept too many things that are quite vague and general. When this is the case it is up to determination by the courts which could vary based on when and where the case is being handled. I am all for patenting ideas and fostering innovation, but I think the system needs a little fixing.
> ...everything bad comes from people.

You forgot the Devil, he gets blamed every so often.
Or (3) they don't believe the research and trust their "instincts", right or wrong.
You linking to a Madonna video could be misogynistic. I don't know until you show me what you are talking about. For example, if you linked to a clip and wrote, "stop talking about female sexuality in tech promotion because Madonna had cones on her boobs first" then yes, it would be misogynistic and a very unsophisticated misdirection. But, sure go ahead and show me what discussion-ending hammer you want to drop
How can the Europeans even compete?
That's the 90% that didn't buy a Mac. Why does the 10% want a Windows-feeling app when they didn't buy a Windows device?
>If your story is true, then you were, as it appears, wrongfully and unlawfully imprisoned. I think you should at least try contacting press and some lawyers -- if what you are saying is a true story.

I was indeed wrongfully imprisoned, but by the Finnish government. I can and will receive compensation from them but at best that's going to be a few thousand euros per month, a nominal sum considering the time lost. It's hardly an irregular thing here, mostly because every single case where a person is taken into investigative custody and not given a prison sentence is treated as such. This has created a situation where these cases are so common that the justice system treats them as acceptable routine.
I didn't say that at all.
You want to be careful with the "produce no products" bit - you'd stomp on entities like ARM that don't actually fabricate chips, but create and license designs.

Problem is, coming up with a definition of "patent troll" that's 100% objective and can reliably differentiate between a benevolent NPE like ARM and a group of snakes like VirnetX is tricky. Too strict and you'll have some awful false positives. Too vague and you're reduced to arguing it in court, something prohibitively expensive.
> I was nearly expelled for "hacking". They placed me on "academic probation" and threatened that if I did so much as forget my school ID at home one day, I would be immediately expelled without question. I was removed from my elective classes that involved computers and was disallowed from touching any computers at school.

Makes me glad that my school was reasonable when I got dragged into some "hacking" accusations. We were just made to work with the IT staff for a week (instead of going to classes), and that was the end of it.

The IT staff were surprising fine with it all (I think they realised A) that we weren't malicious, just bored and curious, and B) that it was their mistakes that gave people access (VNC server installed on all PCs with the password "vnc"; domain admin. account having the password of "school" etc.)
That was incredibly interesting, thanks!
> And you don't think a consistent interface is part of that seamlessness?

No, not at all. I don't care that my UI is consistent with yours. I care that you can open the doc I sent you.
Ask HN: Some career worry questions
I was a mechanical engineer, and two years or so ago I decided it isn't something I want to spend my life doing. I had always an interest in programming so I took the necessary steps.

Currently, I'm doing a MSc in Computer and Systems Engineering in Estonia. Finished my first year and applied to internships to get some experience during the summer. I did okay with technical tasks etc, but I didn't get past interviews for some reason.

I had always worries about my age (30+) and resume becoming a problem, and maybe those were not the reasons, but not getting those internships kinda put me into a spin. I want to spend this summer as productive as possible.

I have a few questions and also I could use some advice in general.

1. Would doing personal projects during the summer be a good enough alternative to internship?

2. How do I make sure those projects are good enough to differentiate me from other graduates? I have a few ideas (CLI time logging tool, embedding messages in images, markdown like markup language and parser for it) but I worry they might not be good enough ideas.

3. Any general tips and advice?

Thanks.
> I completely agree. Manning was clearly well-intentioned, but she leaked information including diplomatic cables that was not relevant to war crimes or any such malfeasance.

Documents of illegal behavior were intermingled with the rest. It's not a whistleblower's responsibility to sort through the data, nor would we want it to be. They aren't qualified to know if those other files contribute to the understanding of the situation

Imagine if someone leaked documents of child molestation but didn't leak all of them, allowing the culprits to escape justice because of a weak case.

> The only effect of those leaks was to hurt the interests of the United States.

That's our fault for letting our soldiers break the law, and for not having any procedures in place to stop this before it got this far. (ie, a whistleblower hotline that actually got stuff done.)

Chelsea witnessed people in the US Armed Forces faking (and cooperating with external faking of) evidence, knowingly sending innocent people to US military prisons where we now know (and she and they knew at the time) they being were tortured and murdered. Any delay in whistleblowing to sort through thousands of files would simply get more people killed.

Delaying for even a minute would have been the morally irresponsible answer.
Also the "Mandela Effect".

For example I, as well as many others on the Internet, remember the James Bond Semi-Villain Jaws's romantic interest as being a blond, pig tailed, bespectacled girl with a large smile and a mouth full of braces. We're sure she had braces, that was the whole joke! Turns out, no record of her having braces whatsoever.

Weird that a memory could permeate society like that.

edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/3vzk53/my_ma...
How is what you described a defensible action? What are hillbillies?
There's some level of restriction, but copies still leak fairly often. Usually you're a few versions behind running pirated copies, rarely more than that.

Many people are however used to working with its output, not due to having purchased copies, but due to having pirated copies.
Fixing IT – IT as Concierge or General Contractor?
No, the Google Display Network doesn't let advertisers target search queries of users. If you want to access the search intent of users, you have to target the queries themselves with ads on the Google Search Network.

The Google Display Network has a lot of data because it is a large display network with lots of inventory, and it can follow cookies around the web.

I'm ignoring a couple of nuances with this answer, but it is not true that searching for something on Google will lead you to seeing ads for that thing on unrelated websites. If you click on a search result, and end up on someone's webpage, and then they add you to a remarketing list for the Google Display Network -- that's a different story, but that's independent of Google's network, because the same is true whether that website uses AdSense or a competitor.

In other words, we don't share your search queries with anyone. A nuance would be: if you click on an ad, the advertiser knows which keyword triggered their ad to show, so they can guess at the nature of your query that came before the ad click, and then they can intuit your intent. But that's not the same as your search queries, and we definitely don't let people advertise by saying "show my ads across the internet to people who search on Google for ____." So there's never search query sharing between Google Search and the Google Display Network, for a good reason: we want people to trust us when they enter queries, and if you got chased around the internet by ads related to what you were searching for, you might not search as often.

(I'm a PM on Google Search Ads, and I don't represent Google with my answer but rather giving some publicly available knowledge about how the networks work)
Interesting, that quote lead me to the article in Cincinatti Magazine (https://books.google.com/books?id=rcMqOFGzb_oC&lpg=PA92&ots=...) which is actually a bit mixed.

Reading the article it seems the author admits that it works, and the "new way" starts with back slaps and then goes into using "abdominal thrusts" (aka "The Heimlich maneuver") But between the original published idea and this article really it says more that it might not be the most effective technique, it never says it is "bunk"
Zero-warmup florescent fixtures do exist, but I've never seen them installed in a home. They work by continuously running a small current through the filaments to keep the bulbs warm, which requires a separate always-on power feed in addition to switched power. Normal (instant-start) florescents start producing light instantly, and in sufficiently hot weather don't need to warm up, but if it's below freezing expect less than half of rated brightness for the first five or ten minutes. It's worse for CFL bulbs than for straight tubes, and worse still for CFL bulbs installed upside-down because the mercury settles.
Several possible limiting factors:

1) Population - As of 2013 the U.S. Census Bureau estimated Santa Cruz's population at 62,864 [1], versus ~860,000, for San Francisco alone, as of 2015.[2]

2) Water - "The SCWD currently has four water supply sources: 1) surface water diversions from three creeks and one natural spring on the Santa Cruz Country Coast; 2) surface water diversions from San Lorenzo River; 3) surface water from Loch Lomond Reservoir; 4) groundwater extracted from the Purisima Formation by the Live Oak well system."[3] The recent drought represented a sobering reality for residents, regarding capacity of the existing system.

3) Geography - Perhaps someone more knowledgeable on this might weigh in, on this, but the area comprises a number of marine terraces; you go from ocean to hilly redwoods in about three miles, or less, with most people living primarily on the marine terrace plateaus. You could develop it, I guess (?)

It's a gem, for sure, and not saying it's impossible; I guess we'd have to define the characteristics of what a New SF would represent, for you. : o )

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_California

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco

[3] http://www.ucsc.edu/conserving-water/water-supply.html
Santa Cruz hates building housing. It's worse than SF in that regard.

Source: Lived here 10 years.
No, the end is not near for unlicensed remixes or any other sort of copyright infringement.
And why, exactly, should the homeowner's right to make superficial snap judgments about people be protected? Why does AirBnB have some obligation to protect his image, which he brings upon himself with his own choices? Why is his image more important than somebody else's ability to find basic services like lodging without being judged or excluded based on outward appearance?
I just went through this discussion in an EU funded project, and the consensus was that complying is up to the individual partners. In our case all academic partners decided to comply by posting preprints on their websites (contentwise identical to the accepted version), which is allowed by both ACM and IEEE.
Well executed analysis. It takes real commitment to follow through and track these results, then actually do something with the data. Better than a lot of TEDx talks I've seen lately.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas[1] I should have seen it coming but it was a freight train, never did a movie hit so hard like that. War though a child's eye is worse than the adult perspective of war.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/
Bitcoin jumps to one-year high
You're right of course, that whole image failed to load for me on the first visit. That's a beautiful visualization.
All ideas should be up for criticism, yes. But not all ideas should be criticized.

The difference being that some criticisms are productive (presumably fresh, creative takes on thinking about something) and some simply serve the purpose of making the critic feel good about himself.

In what way do we benefit to hear a criticism of religion for the umpteen-millionth time and on the internet of all places? No one is refining their thought processes, no one is benefiting.
Not in any legal sense - it applies to new, publicly funded research from 2020, not existing papers. Whether it legitimises Sci-hub in popular awareness is debatable.
I agree it's useful... however, it's far from a requirement if you're using React+Redux. Though there are some workflow changes if you are using Immutable.js with Redux. It's also the size (min+gz) of preact + redux combined. While still relatively small, depending on your needs it all adds up, and it really should depend on one's specific needs.
With recent events indicate strong links between the lords of professional wrestling and those of Silicon Valley, I have to give more credence to the idea than I would like.
Tim Harford's a good writer - he's got some books that I highly recommend as a gentle introduction to economic thinking:

* "The Undercover Economist" - http://amzn.to/1sCImVw

* "The Undercover Economist Strikes Back" http://amzn.to/24bIFT3 - this one's about macroeconomics.

As well as various others. One thing I like is that they're mostly fairly neutral - he's really trying to explain the thinking, rather than beating you over the head or espousing one position.
Creating a Professional Website – What You Need to Know
Yes. Send it!
Interesting, Snowman is also integrated into x64dbg.
Saw the trailer. It seems to be a blend of the incredibles, batman the animated series, and warcraft. I wanted to like it but it doesn't seem to be very original. And the hair modeling on some of the characters it's really bad. Like plastic wigs. It seems to be aimed at small kids. Thumbs down.
Google Photos: One year, 200M users, and a whole lot of selfies
Yet more evidence (as if we needed any) that racism is alive and well. I was going to try to be all superior by saying "in the US", but it's not really confined to the US[1]. It happens everywhere where there's any obvious way to do the whole "us" and "them" thing, whether that's skin color, gender, etc.

We humans can be terrible :(.

[1] Plus, I caught myself doing the exact thing I was lamenting. (Not "racism" per se, but still "us-vs-them".)
> It sounds like you weren't sufficiently brown to get media attention?

Or just didn't have a family with the right media instincts.

> "Public school bureaucracy run by bureaucrats" doesn't have the right mass appeal.

It has incredible mass appeal, which is frequently exploited politically -- by both sides of the political spectrum.

But for it to get media attention, someone's got to get it to the media's attention. Outside of people and institutions that are already high-probability news sources, the media isn't really actively monitoring what goes on to find potential stories, things become stories because someone involved brings it to the attention of the media.
Further, if it was found that they were executing this suit vexactiously, they might be liable for anti-SLAPP damages.
Yea AirBNB ultimately can try to mitigate, but cannot solve completely this problem. Even if they try to blind the profile, at some point the guest has to show up at the host's house. In a way, it's probably better to avoid the racist host before that occurs.

Of course, discriminating in this way is already illegal for normal rentals, but when you have rentals of rooms in people's houses I believe it actually is legal for hosts to discriminate in some cases.

I really can't see how any sort of effective enforcement method could exist other than waiting for the racist assholes to die, sadly.
Ruby's MRI never returns RAM to the kernel, yes. But if you use immutable data structures and release them relatively quickly, the GC will have much easier time releasing their memory back to the pool that MRI is using for allocating new ones. So the inevitable RAM bloat that MRI accumulates over time is still there, but is slowed down.

As far as my not-so-big experience with them goes, the immutability programming techniques in Ruby actually help a lot with its sticky RAM problem. Complex object hierarchies of mutable objects and references to them are a nightmare for the GC. Having structures/objects that are used and [quickly] thrown away without (or rarely) being attached to complex object graphs is making the GC work more reliably, and faster.
Never print anything for anonymous purpose. All printers have a watermark.
I wasn't joking, the site actually loads much better, faster and more readably in lynx than it did in my regular browser (safari with ABP)
Dr Henry Heimlich uses Heimlich manoeuvre for first time at 96