skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 8 year old son knows more about the Rift from watching his youtube buddies than I did. That's when I realized its gonna stick this time. He had a chance to use it at his summer camp and now he's saving his allowance so he can ask Santa for one and buy a Kinect to make VR experiences at home (Luckily his superhero dad is a PHP and C# programmer by day)

Little kids love even the simplest buggy broken demos. They go wild for it.
That changes very quickly if you create distributed systems that tend to either have underdimensioned external IO (networks) and/or be excessively expensive. It's not unusual for systems to balloon up to several times the original size the moment you have to cross the boundary to communicating over the network. Even if it's a LAN.
Arch uses its own homegrown package manager, called Pacman.

Link for ungoogleable name: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman
Maybe if people went to work to work and not sexually harass other people we would all be in a better place.

I did not say at all that one should stay silent in the face of adversity.
I absolutely love Fedora now, however I recently got a Macbook Air and had problems with hardware support on Fedora 23. Is 24 any better?

Congrats to the team! Fedora is probably my favorite OS now.
Chaos is the inevitable result when any centralized system attempts to bite off more than it can chew. Top-down governance only works for what the central entity can perceive, understand, and control. Thanks to technology expanding the scope of perception and control, our modern society has devolved into totalitarianism. Yet without superintelligence god-king AI, complete understanding cannot be achieved. Nor would we, as sentient humans, ever want it to be.

Unfortunately, it will never be a popular idea to let go of this centralized control. The same technological trends have given us individuals similar perception. The belief that any action of any person is subject to popular judgment is now deeply embedded in our psyche. Everybody fashions themselves a mini dictator, deciding between whether any given activity should be prohibited or mandatory. Occam's razor, "live and let live", and "good fences make good neighbors" have gone out the window.

Sure, we all still long to be left alone ourselves. But our desire for freedom is played to by demagogues promising freedom through this top-down structure that they'd like to steer. Our frustrations are then channeled toward the people of the "opposing team" rather than properly on the system that has bound us all in this suicide pact.
Hard to believe Schneier would say something like that, are you sure that's what he said?
So far I've been a happy user of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It "just works" for the most part, and allows me to focus on other stuff. But sadly I can't say the same for the latest Ubuntu LTS (16.04). Showstopper bugs prevented me from booting the DVD in the first place. Once that was worked around, the Live system failed to even establish a standard DSL connection. Instead of spending another day working around that one too, I'm back with 14.04 for now. Ubuntu stability seems to be slowly worsening, which is sad because they are the only big player with a major focus on the desktop. Fedora is a testing ground for a server focused OS. Debian does it all but lacks that final 5% polish. OpenSUSE might be my next stop.
I dont think I would consider Ethereum a "concurrent system" in the same sense.

This functionality is there because it allows contracts to interact with each other. This allows a million different type of applications, e.g you could create a crowdfund using a gold token hold by a multisgn.

The contracts are usually trusted and their addresses set from beginning, so this is never an issue (unlike what the article implies). The DAO however allowed an arbitrary address to be used as the contract to talk to. This is flexible because it allows contracts to be update themselves, or update who they talk to, but if the contract is malicious and there is a reentrancy, then that's the issue, but again, it's the contracts fault, not the whole platform.
+ Gin. Because gin.
It's not that Wikipedia devs can't imagine it, it is the social pressures of the project that make it impossible for someone to realize a change of that scope.

Mediawiki plugins or Greasemonkey scripts pave the way for what takes years of "project work" to integrate.
As someone working on search products I know at first hand how hard relevance is. The best thing would be mind-reading, but we have little progress so far. Therefore we have to assume what is most relevant for our customers (luckily they help with that part)
The problem with 3D films has nothing to do with focus. It has to do with an incorrect projection method[0], inevitable IPD mismatch, narrow FOV, and the distortion inherent in sitting anywhere except the the exact center of the theater

As far a depth queues go, accommodation is a very weak one that your brain learns to ignore after a few seconds. If that wasn't the case, anyone wearing glasses would stumble into things constantly every time they put their glasses on or off. And this doesn't cause eye strain either, unless the focal plane is too close (perhaps less than 60 cm away), in which case it just feels like sitting too close to a computer monitor. The focal plane of the HTC Vive is approximately 75 cm away, which seems far enough. Obviously infinity would be better but compromises had to be made to keep the optics compact.

The real limiting factors on VR right now are the lack of full-body tracking[1] (you can see your hands but not your feet), the lack of simulated inertia[2] (virtual objects appear massless), and the lack of eye tracking[3] (convergence depth queue becomes incorrect as you move your eyes off center, avatars look dead). Solutions to all of these exist, it's just a matter of cost.

Keep in mind that VR is an extremely compelling experience right now. It's just that every feeling of presence is hard to hold on to for more than a few minutes at a time.

[0] http://doc-ok.org/?p=77

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldQDa-IMo7I

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=610iTKlYBVM

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRfthZaBBPY
Yes. Old animals are usually gamier and have worse flavor. An animal that died of old age probably tastes horrible. I mean, think about it; they're not dying because their flesh is in great condition.
In a community of related businesses, the bad workplaces are often better known than the good ones because there's less reason to leave a good job and it's harder to explain.

My random advice from the internet:

1. Don't burn bridges.
2. Don't stay in a place where there's
a bridge that ought to be burned.
3. Most companies are chaotic.
4. Most managers are not very good.

Good luck.
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> I hear you invoke the mighty LaTeX... but can you write correct LaTeX on-the-fly?

Actually, I used to do exactly this when I was studying physics. I'd use a pencil and paper to copy down figures, but copied down derivations and text notes in LaTeX. I slowly built a pile of macros for things I commonly did. I ended up being way faster with that than with just a pencil and paper, especially when we were working on derivations (copy & paste makes equation reuse super easy).

I'd pretty up the document after class and add in the figures. The process of doing that seemed to really solidify the stuff in my memory more than the actual transcription did.
Fair enough, and I think you're accurate regarding the correlatives with firearms to some extent. I think it's worth keeping in mind these FAA regulations aren't for hobbyist type people - which most gun owners would likely be classified as in the US, even with 'sport rifles' like the AR or AK type - so in this discussion it'd be more like regulating Armored Car drivers or Security Guards that are allowed to carry weapons as part of their job. No pass, no gun on the job. No pass, no commercial UAV license.
Hi Alan,

You've said here a few times here that maybe "data" (in quotes), is a bad idea. Clearly data itself isn't a bad idea, it's just data. What do you mean by the quotes? That the way we think about data in programming is bad? In what context?

I've been thinking & reading about Data Flow programming & languages - datalog, lucid, deadalus/bloom etc... in the context of big data & distributed systems and the work that Chris Granger has been doing on Eve, the BOOM lab at Berkeley, etc... - and that seems like a lot of really good ideas.

What's your opinion on data flow/temporal logic - and how does that square with "maybe data is a bad idea"?

Thanks!

Dunc
It's like saying the WEB and HTTP protocol have nothing do with a SQL injection on some website.
They are plentiful - for one example, see the article and comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11795913
I live by my grandpa motto, everything is poison, vary them and your diet to avoid be poisoned to fast by one single source.
This doesn't seem quite right either, though. People had been talking about 'virtual reality' for a long time, but only recently has there been so much activity in trying to make available to consumers. It's true that a non-trivial amount of people experience motion sickness, but I'd hardly call the people who use it without such issues the 'lucky few.'
> Have you missed the part where many of the people that have been abused by Appelbaum are also radicals that both distrust the criminal justice system AND think that it has overall negative effects that don't serve anyone?

I don't really care. For all its faults, due process in the West is still a whole lot better than the alternatives.

> There are ways of getting to accountability and rehabilitation and justice that don't have anything to do with filing charges in a court of law.

If these allegations are true, Appelbaum is clearly someone who needs to be locked away from society for decades in my opinion and no-one can arbitrarily claim that authority. The important word is 'if'.

> Start with looking up "restorative justice" and "restorative justice rape" for example, to read about approaches that have worked.

Great. Let's find out if a rape happened first. Because it didn't happen at Duke Lacrosse, it didn't happen to Emma Sulkowicz, it didn't happen at the University of Virginia, it didn't happen to Nicola Osborne, Elizabeth Coast, Katherine Bennett, Cassandra Kennedy or Linsey Attridge.
Pap and HPV are only two of several elements of well care.
Since GPs often don't do gyno, but gynos can do GP care, a gyno often serves as a woman's GP.

http://www.acog.org/About-ACOG/ACOG-Departments/Annual-Women...
Giving people resources means taking resources from people, passing it through enormously vast, complex and ever expanding bureaucracy and then giving whatever is left to the those that the bureaucracy deemed worthy.

This sounds more like the military industrial complex than the Social Security Administration. The SSA pays out something like $870 billion per year (2015) with fewer than 70 thousand employees. It's spending less than a percent of that amount on wages. That's way better than most private charities.

In terms of draining resources out of our society versus benefiting it, the right wing darling of the military industrial complex is far worse than the darling of FDR's New Deal.
You have heard of the concept of 'three felonies a day'.

Well, combine that with knowing almost everything about everybody, and you can use the threat of charges or actually having them charged to deal with dissidents.

I once knew a gun rights' activist in the US. He has friends who were targeted this way by the Federal gov't. It's not just a theoretical thing.
That's what standardized contracts are for. Tellers don't write the legalese on your credit card receipt. They just print it out.
Hackers sold access to 170,000 compromised servers, many in the U.S
Wine?
I find the way you argue very frustrating. I respond to "This is a great way to make sure you have an unjust community wherein no one has the opportunity to defend themselves and speaking ill of someone is enough to evict them." by saying "It's a community they lead, they get to decide who is welcome." but then you shift the goalposts.

You slide right past my assertion that the Tor community must be able to decide who is welcome in the Tor community and refer to a nebulous "privacy community" now. Is the "privacy community" even at issue? I don't know what that is. If there is a group called the "privacy community", then yes, I agree, they should decide who is welcome in their club.

As far as I know, he's not being prosecuted. The only rights he acquires from not being prosecuted are that he won't go to jail. Right? He doesn't have any automatic right to join my club, your club, or the Tor community's club.
I just finished reading Hamilton, all 700+ pages, and this article doesn't seem to address the viciousness that has been a documented part of American politics for over 200 years now. Really not all that much has changed? Jefferson was frequently called a "fanatic" who "pandered to the populace" and the age was marred by again, vicious personal slandering.
To add to this:

CentOS/RHEL: Aimed at enterprise use, so it's often slow to get package updates (but quick to get security updates), but is very very stable.
Of course you can make one exception. That's why it's called an exception. The law is chock-full of exceptions, often carefully written to delineate their scope.
If he is, then it should be a police matter. But that may be difficult to do in practice, if the person is outside the U.S. jurisdiction.

Another similar case comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski_sexual_abuse_ca...
Have you tried a headset yet? I think this time is different.

I thought it sounded like an early adopter money pit myself until I actually tried a Rift. It won me over even while underpowered (MB Air!) in very simple demos.
It's not an error by police to ask about drug use, because it's the police's job to control fact discovery while setting up a case for the prosecution. The prosecution cares about drug use because they're trying to evaluate the strength of defense narratives.

Imagine a situation where the government doesn't ask first, and instead defense asks first on their terms. That's incompetent.
I believe he is referring to something like expert systems explanations, which was the holy grail 20 years ago (I don't know if it has been achieved), and as opposed to neural networks which are more like black boxes (at least to me).
A link to the relevant blog post was posted here earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11946799
It is also teaching kids that there are more ways to do low level stuff and cool games than being forced into pure C culture.

Having a new generation being brought up in compiled safe languages like Swift will be a great improvement for the mainstream coding.
Sorry to be anal but Fedora is a 'distribution' of Linux. Linux is the OS.
Dangit. And I just got F23 right about where I want it. Took me ages to get my wifi drivers working properly, and I still haven't got the Nvidia official drivers working right yet.
Reasons vary and this is a long. You're best off understanding the main families too - Debian based (e.g. Ubuntu) and RedHat based (RHEL, Fedora, CentOS).

My personal feelings in short form:

Ubuntu - User friendly. Good workstation out the box particularly for media (I use it for an HTPC). Good for people newer to Linux.

Debian - Solidly reliable. Is the base underneath Ubuntu, and as such has a lot less stuff in by default, thereby giving you the flexibility to set it up how you want.

RHEL - Provides good corporate support, costs money.

Fedora - A cutting edge, free, RedHat. I now mostly use this. At work we end up having to use RedHat on some workstations (so makes sense to use Fedora for places where we can't), and some servers need securing with SELinux (which is only really feasibly on the RedHat family).

Arch - Gives you ultimate customisability at the cost of effort (think of it at one end of an axis with Ubuntu at the other and Debian in the middle).
What is funny is that energy drinks can be zero calories - no energy!
I highly doubt there will be such a checkbox. The "permission" to share will be buried in a EULA no one will ever read.
Paypal has lost tons of money to fraud, and with the margins they have it's not surprising they err on the side of caution.
Akin to "signals" / "event emitters"?
Arch is also fairly bleeding-edge in terms of packages.

Debian is pretty much the same as Ubuntu, without all the "weird unity bullshit and non-oss software".
It doesn't use S3, but you can do something similar with Coursier:

https://github.com/alexarchambault/coursier#launch
Heretic! Wine is far superior to beer.

And then there is milk. Does beer contain proteins and fats? No.
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I still consume energy drinks, right now I am drinking a rip it sugar free zero carb/calorie energy drink with 120% vitamin C, 100% vitamin B6 and 170% vitamin B12. Sure I can probably skip this and slug through the day, but I find it's a good balance for me, other than this all I drink is water and I only have a single serving a day.
True. That bullet was more of my opinion of disliking the memory usage the JVM uses as well as my personal preference of VM.

BEAM has many great advantages such as fault tolerance and multi-node distribution built in. This allows concurrency to be a first-class citizen for applications running on the BEAM. I'm not saying that concurrency can't be done on the JVM, but that I've found it to be much simpler using BEAM. On the other hand, the JVM excels at computational work compared to the BEAM. Both VMs have their place and can be better at different types of problems comparatively.
I remember showing some of my A.V. club buddies my Note 2 not long after it came out and getting laughed at. "It's like holding a magazine to your head!"

Without changing phone size, most of my friends now have bigger or equal sized phones, and I've gotten at least one 'you told me so' since then.
I was really bad for this at one time. Back in 2014 I was doing crazy shit like routinely working 14 hours a day or more, and in the evenings I would prop myself up by having a triple shot latte, followed by a Red Bull, and maybe a box or two of chocolate covered espresso beans. And I was doing this 5 or 6 days a week, for weeks on end. Not getting enough sleep, not watching my diet, not exercising, etc.

You can probably guess where this story leads... yep, onto the back of an ambulance, having a heart attack. :-(

Now anytime someone has a heart attack, there are probably a lot of factors involved. I can't sit here and say that energy drinks in particular caused mine. But in retrospect, the overall lifestyle I was living was not healthy and I paid for it.

So, long story short... don't be like me.
What is the status of autonomous flight? Is it allowed, as long as the aircraft is within line of sight of an operator who could take over?
Why did this get down voted ? Is it not true?
Along this line of logic, perhaps the future of AI is not "machine learning from big data" (a lot of buzz words) but computers that generate runtime interpreters for new contexts.
That is my initial reaction as well, but there isn't exactly a lot of evidence out there to definitively prove that they are bad for you.

We are also conditioned to accept massive doses of vitamins and minerals by the supplement market, to the point where 2000% B6 doesn't sound like it's a big deal. When you also consider personal variability in absorption rates, dose timing, and concurrent food intake, it's even harder to control for all the confounding variables when poor health manifests in an energy-drink consumer.
I mainly use Emacs, which explains that my notes are all text. I do also have a paper notebook on my desk. If I'm on the phone, I tend to use paper so I don't have to keep switching mute on and off. I've been saying for years that I want to get a digitizer. Probably will arrive for me soon in the form of an iPad Pro. Any suggestions for apps? I don't want proprietary save formats.
> and single malt whiskey

Ripper: Mandrake?

Mandrake: Yes, Jack?

Ripper: Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?

Mandrake: Well, I can't say I have.

Ripper: Vodka, that's what they drink, isn't it? Never water?

Mandrake: Well, I-I believe that's what they drink, Jack, yes.

Ripper: On no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.

Mandrake: Oh, eh, yes. I, uhm, can't quite see what you're getting at, Jack.

Ripper: Water, that's what I'm getting at, water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven-tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why, do you realize that seventy percent of you is water?

Mandrake: Uh, uh, Good Lord!

Ripper: And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.

Mandrake: Yes.

Ripper: Are you beginning to understand?

Mandrake: Yes.

Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure-grain alcohol?

Mandrake: Well, it did occur to me, Jack, yes.

Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?

Mandrake: Uh? Yes, I-I have heard of that, Jack, yes. Yes.

Ripper: Well, do you know what it is?

Mandrake: No, no I don't know what it is, no.

Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
> Wait until they find out how much faster in-process function calls are than RPCs.

2017 will be the year of the return of the monolith: "How We Replaced 946 Microservices With a Statically Linked 10kB Rust Binary and How It Ulimately Did Not Save Us From Our Complete Lack of Anything Resembling a Coherent Business Model".
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Agreed on the single malt. I have heard that no 'true' Scotsman would touch blended. Is that true?
> > Even a great team can be dysfunctional.

> By definition it can't.

Only if you assume that dysfunction is either a steady state and does not fluctuate, or that there exists two binary states of function and dysfunction, and nothing in between, or both.

If either of those are true, then it's possible to be on a great team (which is itself relative), and still either have aspects that are dysfunctional, or periods where it goes into dysfunction.

> Sure you can have disagreements. So then you all present your arguments figure out which way forward is the best with as little ego thrown in as possible and move on.

Sometimes, when that decision keeps coming back to bite you, and possibly you in particular, you feel the need to keep bringing it up, so others know it's an ongoing problem. That can be seen by others as someone not letting a decision go.

Does that engineering choice that resulted in a somewhat frail system keep coming back to bite you? Congratulations, now you're presented with keeping your mouth shut and just fixing it every time it breaks, or speaking up when it breaks so that people know it's a continual problem, and risk others thinking you are just complaining more, and promoting team dysfunction, or some happy medium, but where is that medium?
12% ? Oh wow... I will never visit a dentist again :(
Please stop posting uncivil and unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11941925 and marked it off-topic.
My solution to getting enough caffeine: a 50 cent 100 gramm bag of roasted robusta beans.

They also taste pretty nice, if you eat them singly. Much better than any coffee that can be brewed from such..
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