skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on the fence because I'm biased against something that requires changing user behavior, like wearing headgear.

With rehashing of 3D tv in the last few years, it was obvious that it was more of a product gimmick with manufacturers than real value.

With VR, you're seeing big companies pushing into the space from a spectrum of angles, ranging from re-imagining the workspace to 3D gaming. The bigger question is whether or not VR will become commonplace before augmented reality advances enough to replace it.
I don't think that's really a bad thing. If it's failing then the stock holders get nothing and assets get put on the market. If some piece is worth more then you can just sell that off. But, if company is public and profitable then what's the upside for society?
Django models and migrations are very nice to work with. The Django Rest Framework and new Channels (aka sockets) functionality are quite nice. Getting usable, free user accounts and admin is a pleasure. Why not use Django?
Or maybe you'll finally get around to writing in the first place :)
> I'm not very experienced in node.js development, but wouldn't automated deployment whenever a dependency changes be a really bad idea?

Presumably, you'd want to trigger testing and then a deploy, rather than just triggering a deploy, but if you have fully-automated testing, there's no reason not to include a deploy after testing as part of your triggered action.

You could, if you don't have fully automated testing, trigger a deploy to a non-production server automatically, and then after whatever manual validation you do on that server, manually deploy to production.

So, there's probably use cases for triggered deploys, but you don't want to do it willy-nilly.
Indeed. Anxiety pretty much == serotonin dysregulation. Depression could be inflammation, mindset, low brain serotonin, low noradrenaline, low dopamine, all of the above, or something else. Low brain serotonin would be a cause.
Yer I've looked into WebRTC before but the browser support isn't good enough yet :(
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we do have something called the registry follower (https://github.com/npm/concurrent-couch-follower) that can help you achieve a similar outcome, but hooks provides more specificity around certain events and is also significantly more user friendly
Even with an extensive test suite I would not be comfortable automating public dep updates.

But, I guess you could set up a whitelist for internal modules that your own org manages to propogate uptades up to deployment.
It sounds like they don't have to factor in the risk of others not doing their fiduciary duty, because the courts will enforce it.
Of course it's possible to achieve better uptime yourself. The question is not: is it theoretically possible to be more available than gmail. The question is is it cost-effective to do so, once all the relevant factors are considered.
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Yeah, I've been smelling NIH for quite a while.

And it generally seems that, when they say "composable modular tools", one should read "includes dependencies on the rest of our stack". This isn't intended as harshness. It is just that every time a tool from COS seems interesting enough to look in to, it turns out that I wouldn't be investing in a tool, it would be investing in an ecosystem that duplicates a ton of what I'm already managing.
https://greenkeeper.io/ serves that kind of function.
The ludicrous $700 Wi-Fi connected juicer
Hello,

I've looked at the Junior Developer position, not sure if it's me but the requirements are quite... something. http://www.pursuant.com/about-us/careers/junior-software-dev...

- Effectively manages deadlines and deliverables
- Accurately estimates timelines for projects
- Write clear, comprehensive test cases for QA
- 5+ years working with C based language, PHP preferred (plausible)

I'm not sure how a junior would accurately estimate timelines, but it's really off-putting looking, plus comparing it to the senior one doesn't make it any better, seems the same thing with two or three additional requirements.
I love this logic because it implies that if a private equity firm buys a company, the shareholders are automatically being screwed and should sue.
When my previous employer forced my team to implement storage of structured data as a serialized BLOB (on top of a system which used to store the data the "right" way), I turned in my resignation.

Background: we had been storing other, similar data in a structured way for years, so we had a system set up to do it right. I'm not sure what the rationale was for switching, but it was declared by fiat over the protests of a team of five experienced .NET developers and an experienced lead DBA. We began experiencing problems from it before we were even a month into the project, such as serialization output not agreeing between client apps (.NET serialization is NOT designed to be a shared archive format!!), implementation requiring breaking the separation of concerns between layers of our application, etc. And for what? When asked what we would do when the format changes, management cheerfully replied "oh we'll just write + run a conversion EXE to update the data in bulk. Why, we do that all the time in [other engineering team who cowboy-codes everything and operates with a level of technical debt that makes it suck to work on that codebase]."

Of course this wasn't the only reason I was resigning, but it made the decision easier!
Airplane Mode
Histories or It Didn't Happen
Why do you assume it has ever been any different? Rate of serotonine production for example is coded in two genes.

Don't forget that it's not necessarily an evolutionary disadvantage to be slightly depressed or anxious, because you tend to avoid risks. Same with low motivation and an easily distracted mind which can help to conserve energy by finding ways of avoiding tasks.
Forbes Lowers Estimate of Theranos' Holmes' Net Worth from $4.5B to $0
+1 for racer, I use it with atom and it makes writing rust so much nicer. can't comment on the comparison with YCM, though
Yes, I'm the author.
we're still playing around with how many hooks to give each account- and we're definitely open to increasing it. this is why we're releasing in beta.

as for it being paid, our registry is super expensive to run, so we're looking for ways to make money to support it. this is one way to encourage people to pay for their accounts. this also keeps our prices super low (we start at 7$ a month).
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Then you'd probably love to know why the OLE DATE epoch is 1899-12-30...

also the B in BSTR is for Basic!

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericlippert/2003/09/16/eric...
The main issue is with how Salesforce is running its multi-tenanted cloud infrastructure.

Modern techniques and solutions already exist to minimize these kinds of events from happening using a multi-cloud approach, containers, geo failover, etc.

So while this sucks for Salesforce, it doesn't mean every SaaS platform or cloud infrastructure provider suffers from the same legacy issues as Salesforce.

If anything the author should be arguing the flaws of multi-tenancy, not that SaaS is dead because of a power outage of a single SaaS provider data center.
This doesn't exactly seem like the healthiest (or most efficient) routine.

> A pattern emerged in my days during this period. Get up, get washed and dressed, wash down a couple of caffeine tablets with some strong coffee, pick up a red bull, a coke and some cereal bars on my way into the office. Once at work I’d be at my desk non-stop; all meals would be eaten at my desk, though sometimes I’d not eat at all. When I did eat, it would usually mean a sandwich from the supermarket for lunch. Work would often provide dinner, invariably takeout. Sugary caffeinated drinks and sweets would sustain me for the rest of the time.

Working 80 hour weeks is not okay, but working 40 hour weeks is also probably not okay when you're relying on this sort of sustenance.

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> this is still a hard problem

Which is why I'm rather surprised that these systems continue to be released without any formal specification or model checking. It's hard to get these things right... worth the effort, IMO, to create formal specifications.
ConsenSys and SingularDTV to Build Rights Management Platform for Film and TV [pdf]
greenkeeper uses the follower ^__^
I think this is a little bit sensationalized at the very least. This excerpt in particular caught me off guard.

"Abuse by young professionals is distressingly common—Wall Street traders, software engineers, dentists, nurses, and lawyers, all cracked out of their minds trying to keep up with the competition."

Yes, I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child, and yes I have an Adderall prescription. But I'd hardly call myself cracked out on drugs. I think the biggest issue is when people self-diagnose and self-medicate because they are more likely to take dosages that aren't suited for themselves, but that issue exists for many prescription drugs. This piece seems heavily biased towards scare tactics, so I am not inclined to take it terribly seriously.
Fun fact: Bungie was planning on releasing Halo (one of the genre-defining FPS games) for Mac, and even demoed it first on a Mac at MacWorld Expo in 1999... then Microsoft bought them out[1].

I remember a while back (in the G3/G4 era), there were a lot of fun and creative games that were either Mac-only or Mac/Windows... once consoles started taking over more serious gaming, and once DirectX started taking a stranglehold on game dev in the early 2000s, it seems the 'blockbuster' or 'hardcore' Mac gaming market really dried up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungie#Halo_and_buyout
This is disturbing and beautiful. My current Fiance and I followed a very similar pattern. All of my prior relationships would start out with all the "good" things. Chemistry, curiosity, etc. etc. but all eventually failed due to fundamental compatibility. It was never "I can't believe you, I'm walking out on you, drama drama" It was more I want A with my life and you want B. Full stop.

This one, we knew each other for a long time, so instead of doing all the fancy stuff, we just downloaded a spreadsheet with X questions to ask before getting married, blind answered and then merged them. The disturbing similarities between them gave us confidence. And then we built the passion, chemistry, curiosity on purpose. And it worked. Marriage used to be about utility. We no longer need it for survival, but it should definitely be practical.
It seems much easier to convince a court of a high stock price than it does an entire market. Therefore, sell at the price offered and spend your time on convincing the court, later.
>> The whole ecosystem of apps/services that can potentially be created on top of these new data streams.

I haven't seen any of that yet, just hype. Of course every company wants to collect more data on consumers and is hoping IoT will enable them. None has provided a compelling reason for a "consumer" to buy an IoT device. Look at how Nest was all hype and then had a thermostat fail at its primary function when it lost the net connection. That's a huge step backward, and it's not going to get any better when the data collection remains the priority.
New prototyping board being crowdfunded now
As long as Avenue Q continues to run, the Internet will always be really, really great.
Sun didn't fab the Sparc themselves and therefore it's unlikey that Oracle will. AFAIK they were fabbed in companies like TI. Source: TI's annual report from 2007 http://investor.ti.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-07-424...

Therefore, Intel's competitive advantage of running their own fabs could keep them ahead in the server space as well.
Soft-bodied robots: Actuators inspired by muscle
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How well would this work when the right opinion is far outside the popular consensus? For example, can a predictive mechanism like this pick stocks and beat the S&P 500?
How did PocketNC survive and thrive? A hardware startup that should have failed
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"Wisdom of the crowd" was exactly my thought, too. I didn't know it was 2004 today...
I guess my use of finding suggests I assume it is different. I am not sure it is. I think a lot of people in time past probably felt the exact same way. It is more that these conditions become a bottleneck to "quality of life" in modern times, now that survival is relatively trivial for most people.
Btw HN editors: The title is misleading. What it's actually saying is "Court shouldn't have ruled that Dell buyout paid too little".
Using Representations[1] in MPEG-DASH is a more native way within the manifest to scale the quality / bandwidth requirements. There is some preliminary work and an issue open on one of the module forks which seems to get a little more tlc (imho) - https://github.com/sergey-dryabzhinsky/nginx-rtmp-module/iss...

[1] https://www.brendanlong.com/the-structure-of-an-mpeg-dash-mp...
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I agree that there are some other usecases, and they might impact wireless standards and chips at the client, for example.

But do you think those usecases have a big impact when coming to evaluate how big of cloud the IOT will require ? if so, please share a bit, so we could grasp the scale of things.
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I wouldn't be surprised if most people don't even realise that they watch a video and not a gif. People are not known to understand interfaces intuitively.
Unemployment insurance (even if its not time limited, and the benefit isn't set by your income by previous employment -- which are typically the case with UI schemes) is not at all like BI, because unemployment insurance is lost when you are employed, whereas BI is not; avoiding the disincentive to work that comes with tailing off benefits rapidly with labor income is central to the concept of BI.
Curiosity is one hell of a disease.

Source: As a child, I wondered a lot about electricity. Growing up in Minnesota, during winter I would drag my feet on the carpet to build up a static charge so I could zap my mom. This wasn't enough, so I decided to stick a paperclip in an outlet. Twice, because once wasn't enough.

I was 6.
Why the World Is Drawing Battle Lines Against American Tech Giants
That sure is a list of things.
I would be shocked if this did not get reversed upon appeal for that very issue - the precedent that would be set by this would wreck havoc on the market.
It's like any time we take a step forward in one area we have to reinvent the last 50 years of computing to support it.

Persistent storage is a "hard problem" Really?