skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read? I'm just here for the pictures.
Yes this is why there is no nighttime lighting on my farm. I know the place well, so I have no trouble walking about and doing whatever I need. Recently a mare and foal were delivered by semi van at the front gate (our hill is too steep for this vehicle) at 1:30 AM. It was no trouble for me to lead these animals the half mile to their pasture, down the hill, across several other pastures and a creek, in the pitch-black darkness of a moonless cloudy night. Someone unfamiliar with the property would have broken several ankles.
> and there is a risk of Elsevier buying it to shut it down

Yup. I'm still stung by Mendeley's sale to Elsevier.
Those kind of comments are so sexist makes me want to throw up.
That website seems to assume nobody uses a mouse's scroll wheel. Kind of frustrating.
I had this done and my girlfriend got one implanted the day I got mine removed. Her's is rejecting and should be removed too.

It was neat, but it sucks if you're physically active at all. It was always sensitive / sore to touch. To the point that if I was doing pushups I had to keep that finger off the ground. Overall, would not recommend.
Uh. Eastern, Mountain, Atlantic, etc. are actual official time zones. America/Detroit does not appear to be such.
Exactly. Just as Uber only hires human drivers as a means of bootstrapping to self-driving Teslas, Facebook only expands Internet access as a means of bootstrapping to more of itself.
"I disagree, I think VR is going to be the next big thing but it will take a few generations of HW and SW to get there".

I would say, based solely on this statement, that VR is not the next big thing according to your own narrative (as the next big thing will likely be within one to two hardware generations).
acre vai pra globo?
Apparently it didn't have to be C or blazing fast.
Typically offsites (for me, as a senior level engineer) happen during the work week, not during a weekend. I feel that people are more productive and creative at offsites during regular work hours because they're not thinking about what they could be doing instead (like going on a camping trip with friends, for example).

I agree that my weekends are mine, and there needs to be a work/life balance no matter what position you are in.
It's also shocking how simple pipes and redirection are. You just use the dup2 syscall to arrange file descriptors.
Can Trust-Based Private Blockchains Be Trusted?
MD-Wiki[0] kind of does this already doesn't it?

http://dynalon.github.io/mdwiki/#!index.md

Though there may be differences to this approach I'm unaware of.

Edit:

One notable difference between the GitHub SPA page is the URLs are SEO friendlier than MDWiki seems to be.
I'm in love with the hypothetical browser that has the security features of xombrero and lacks GTK.
> So what's the next step for achieving maximum immersion?

Do we need to go further? The classical suspension of disbelief already works pretty well with television and video games. The most important requirement is to keep distractions away - especially other people. That's personally why I personally tend to watch movies and play storyline-heavy video games only late at night.

The brain is very good at recognizing and telling apart patterns, but it's also very good at accepting them - including whole invented realities, as long as they're consistent and don't constantly mix with the "real" one.
Diablo II Save File Format (Work in Progress)
Granted. The question stands.
Well I'm happy that it's a while ago that Google could attribute anything as belonging to me, from a privacy perspective.
FYI, DigitalOcean is rolling out expandable block storage summer 2016 (so any day now), so that might be a good way to go. Not a lot of information, but keep an eye on https://www.digitalocean.com/features/storage/. You may be able to ask support to manually add you to the beta if you need it right now. DigitalOcean is really good about going out of their way to win your business. Full disclosure: I have no relationship to DO other than being a happy customer.

If you're looking at mostly static assets though, why not just upload them to S3 and serve them directly from there (or via a Cloudfront distribution)? EC2 boxes are fairly inexpensive as well, and there's all kind of automation tools for provisioning your AWS resources + configuring them.
The car comment is people see 0% interest loans for a car and think they are not paying interest. However, if you have cash for the car out of pocket you can pay a lower purchase price. Because it's money saved you don't pay taxes on your 'earnings'. Which means it can be a very high ROI investment vs. that loan. Not that you should be buying a car but sometime over 10 years a new / used car is reasonable.

Also, I am basically assuming your going to get raises over time. So your initial 100k salary might be 150k in 10 years. Thus ~35k savings in your first year + 4% net interest (inducing things like that car loan) and cost dollar averaging etc and 4% more savings next year = 500k at the end.

As to housing prices, they might go up or stall. But, because your not in the market you can time things to buy when the market dips. Further, rent control means renting is divorced from increasing housing price changes so you gain a lot of the upside with fixed payments even if prices increase without the downside. Further, if prices fall you can rent somewhere else.

The truth is people are rarely going to do this, but people are also rarely going to hit big money from a startup.
Eastern Standard Time is an offset -5:00, not a time zone. Eastern Daylight Time is a different offset -4:00 that is used in many of the same time zones as EST, at different times of year.
Honest question: why can't TP-Link use internal domain names [1][2] for their router configurations? Since internal domain names are reserved/deprecated from public internet, they should be safe and it should avoid the hassle of public domain name renewals.

[1]: https://cabforum.org/internal-names/

[2]: https://support.comodo.com/index.php?/Default/Knowledgebase/...
Computerphile did an excellent overview of time zones and all their complexities in the context of programming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

I was quite surprised by some of the stranger rules out there, especially the regions that chose to skip a day for whatever reason. Timezones are complex! Far, far more complex than simple offsets.
Aka /r/teenagers
Things I thought were interesting from the article:

* ...all my code is for work and all my hardware stuff is for fun. The code stuff is just basic contract work — code monkey stuff. So I don’t get to be very creative. The hardware is where I get to do what I like. Using OpenSCAD is kind of fun though (in moderation) since it’s pretty much coding a physical object.*

* Our firewall issues here in China are making writing decent code pretty tough these days. It’s hard to stay up-to-date and hard to have any sort of a workflow when VPNs are so flaky right now. Even the best coders use Google — a lot. Mostly I prefer to open-source all my designs as a sort of statement to other Chinese about giving back to the online communities that have given us so much. If I could do that and still earn a living it would be great. *

* As far as functional, I know someone with an NFC implant. It’s fun, but it seems pretty silly to poke holes in myself for under 1kb when I have 1600cc of empty space just sitting there. Enough for 1000 terabytes or so, assuming 128gb micro SD density. Maybe if they increase the NFC implant memory size a bit, or deal with the battery and charging problems of powered implants. Maybe something for audio in the mastoid bone with an SDR? Seems pretty far off.

Good magnetic implants would be awesome for fashion and wearables. Safe coated magnets should be a done deal by now. I have no idea why we have not solved this or what the hold-up is. I could keep thigh-high socks in place without clips or needing to pull them up; pubic and tailbone magnets would mean stringless bikini designs. Maybe something near the collar bone for a top or magnetic pasties. Polymagnets would deal with a lot of the issues around power. Rotate to release or hold at a fixed distance without compressing the skin. But we can’t get any of that without safe, well-tested, and durable coatings for the magnets. *

and finally...

* Like most Chinese, I led a pretty sheltered life until I was eighteen or so. Fortunately my English is okay and I had access to VPNs, so I was able to learn more about the world than most, although I have never been to the West so I’m certainly not worldly or anything. *

As zaphar mentioned, the PenTesting shoes /w lockpick kit: http://imgur.com/a/c4WNF
How to Turn Your Android Phone into Wi-Fi
Devney mentions that she is focusing only on IANA timezones. See a list here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

America/Detroit is a valid IANA timezone. Eastern is not.

Edit:
Etzos has pointed out that US/Eastern is on the list. Thanks for correction.
The sickness comes from the disconnect between what you see and what you feel.

When you're running on a treadmill you see that you're standing (relatively) still, just moving your limbs. Your inner ear corroborates this when it doesn't feel any horizontal acceleration. Everything agrees; no sickness.

In VR, you see that you were stopped and then the gun went off and you started running. But your inner ear disagrees: you're not accelerating at all, you're still standing still. Disconnect, sickness.
Yes, there were a few commits recently, but doesn't look like it's suddenly awesome again.

That said, I really have to try it again.

I used to use it extensively (1-2 years ago) as one of my off-browsers (prefer that to profiles) but at some point most bigger websites (like Facebook) were wonky.
He is sharing his personal experience. Why are you generalizing it?
Did the author just collect a bunch of random bits of information from Wikipedia and attempt to construct a thesis around it, or is there a point to this article that I'm missing?
Italian banking is the next shoe to drop
I can +1 that. It's definitely not an A->B->C, but it's enough to get you 95% of the way there.
What I would like to have is a condensed summary of the whole transcript. I believe most meetings could be summed up in a few short sentences. Think about the time saved!

Nowadays I'm watching alot of tutorials on youtube. What I like to do is downloading all that stuff with youtube-dlg (https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui) and watch them with increased speed on vlc (factor 1.5 to 2.0 works reasonably well). It always feels very satisfying to think about the time saved. Like that brain-learning interface in Matrix.

Would love to have something like this for everything. meetings, school, conferences, news, etc..
There's certainly a lot of factors at play here, but guessing from your post and comments, I believe you are looking for a place that would cater to your skillset (Software Engineering) as well as a place where you and your family may be able to adjust (environment, weather, urban lifestyle, etc.).

The technology scene in Canada is diverse, with a lot of startups in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. A lot of Canadian companies, as I would say are what you would consider more of a corporate type environment, with very little regard for technology but more on established practices and processes.

Do note that there are places in Canada which are extremely cold during the winters (Prairie Provinces such as Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) and adjusting to such is one big hurdle especially if you are coming from a place where the climate year round is generally good.

I would certainly advise for you to start reaching out to some companies, find out where you could offer your talent, as well as providing the avenue for your wife to earn certification and practice her profession as well. Moving to another country (Canada in this case) is a huge undertaking (even if you're coming just down under) and essentially it all boils down to which place you would be able to live comfortably and provide well for your family.

Best of luck.
100% open (there is no mirror repo that I'm aware of). There's certainly internal discussion, particularly when some members of the team don't want to be "seen in public", but this isn't like other projects where it's sync'ed from a hidden internal repo.

Disclaimer: while I work at Google on Cloud, and know the K8s folks, I've never even committed any changes.
Email vs. Time Management Systems
I've used in a production android app that was initially java only and we introduced kotlin before the language was 1.0. Language was a bit unstable back then and it was getting updated often but since 1.0 it's been stable.

Definitely makes android development more pleasant as you have more tools and language features. It feels like a modern typesafe language.

The things I like the most is that you can mix and match the 2 language with little effort and that JetBrains has done an amazing work integrating the language in the IDE (Android Studio) which is based on the IntelliJ platform.

Our team was comprised of polyglot devs (java/obj-c/swift) so kotlin felt more like swift in some ways so working both on ios and android made it pleasant and porting was easier.

I wouldn't recommend you convert your java project to 100% kotlin to start but the excellent interop (better than obj-c/swift) between java-kotlin makes it easy to try some stuff out and see if you like it. They have a very helpful slack channel where all the kotlin devs and language designers hang out so they are always responsive to questions. The community is still small but very helpful and the folk are nice and inclusive.

So to answer you question it is ready for production and tools are excellent as well as the language is very pragmatic and has evolved pre-1.0 based on real life developer feedback not from academics who are not coding every day.
>Jeff Duntemann is writing new intro books and releasing then under a Creative Commons license iirc.

I remember his name as a computer book author from older PC days and mags/books, but have forgotten what he used to write about. Did he write about C or Pascal, say Turbo Pascal, earlier too? Just saw his site (http://www.duntemann.com/) and it seems to show only assembly language books (on a quick look). Not that it matters, of course he could write books on Pascal now, but just wondering whethere he wrote any Pascal books before.

>It's a great language and a killer environment.

Agreed. Was a Turbo Pascal user for some years, great language and lightning fast dev env. Done smaller amounts of Delphi work too, and loved it. Too bad about the corp. issues that have happened, and about no current low-cost edition. They discontinued Turbo Delphi Explorer, or rather the Turbo Explorer series (existed in around 2006) which included Turbo C++ Explorer too, IIRC. And the TD Explorer at the time was available in two versions, for Win 32 and .NET.
When you select your "timezone" in a web application, you usually get a list of offsets instead. If you live in a town which falls in an offset but the timezone isn't consistent, then your time will not be correct at certain parts of the year.

It is important to understand the difference so you can build a time system that works for everyone, not just the majority.
Can you share anything about them?
Yes, all of my offsites have happened during the work week, as they should. The idea that senior engineers should ever be expected to work 12 days straight (5+2+5) is absurd. Yes, it's still a work day if it's an "offsite".
The article is making the point that the proxy wars we've seen are peanuts compared to "real" war. What you're describing is a proxy war situation; which is the current status quo.

The future probably looks a lot more like Russia's takeover of Crimea (say, China decides its military is big enough to take over Taiwan). Until eventually one of the big powers decides that enough is enough and it becomes a shooting war. That's how both world wars started and how the next one will likely start as well.
Yeah, um, I am going to pass on that whole thing.
I prefer to stay away from ERs.

I think this story teaches us that DIY surgery is not
a good idea.
the pythonic way of doing this is: https://docs.python.org/3/library/cmd.html
Seems like the opposite surely? We should be developing languages that more succinctly address the problems we humans are trying to solve not book keeping for the computer's hardware (that should be the computers job!).
You're right on the law as it stands today, but the current law exists precisely because of a case about Jehovah's Witnesses being compelled to salute the flag in school.

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/compell...
If what you're saying is, "this is how it works", then yes I agree.
Technically true, but I don't think it matters. Sure, the brain can easily tell reality from our electronic media apart, but very frequently it choses not to. We don't need super photorealistic graphics for that - I've personally been sucked into games and movies with anime characters, and my brain didn't care. As long as the virtual reality is somewhat consistent and doesn't mix with the "real reality"[0], the brain can accept it as real - especially if you distract the player with a good story.

[0] - keeping out the "real reality" from showing up involves obvious points like keeping distractions (especially other people) away, but also some meta-points; if your product has glitches or even simply keeps "breaking the fourth wall", it may be just enough to prevent any kind of immersion from happening
Thanks for the heads up. Will do.
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"to discard the blockchain technology outright"

I didn't dismiss 'blockchain' outright, I dismissed Bitcoin.

Again, people keep talking about 'technology', failing to grasp the financial aspect. Currency is not technology.
It applies if you record. Whether you keep it or for what reasons you record are irrelevant.

The legal question is whether text-to-speech qualifies as a "recording" when the audio itself is not stored.
I'm increasingly becoming convinced that there is no reasonable way to build a time system that works everywhere. It's ridiculously complicated.
My mind was blown a while back when I learned that there are timezones with offsets that are not whole hours. E.g. Kathmandu is +05:45.
Why decisions matter
Let's be real. The article is utter shit, and the only reason it's made it to the front page was because it had a woman in tech featured in it.
Yes, I had read maybe around a year ago on their site that Embarcadero had plans to bring out a Delphi version with Linux support. Not sure what happened to that, and also now that they have been bought by Idera (which I only saw from the recent thread here about Modern Object Pascal).
> Replacing all your monitors and work environment with a virtual space of unlimited scope.

I don't even like wearing ear buds or headphones all day. There's no way I would last all day wearing a visor. I think for specific tasks it's pretty useful, but not for all day everyday.
The instruction that I needed to run 'Docker Quickstart' (as Administrator) was not obvious.

I guess it is difficult to describe the steps when there is a major difference between platform methods (windows 7 and Docker Toolbox vs win 10 with Docker).

After that I am up and running. Thanks for the pointer.
It's how they've structured their audio for ASR. When you have a single track for all channels, the signals get garbled and it's hard to segment each out.

The key is using a conference call system which captures each track separately. Polycom, Tropo, and others do it. Then when you run ASR, you can feed in each channel and have a "unified" transcript.

And yes, I've worked on this problem at my last startup where we did all of that and took things further by adding search. Here's a demo: http://clarify.io/try-it-now/?id=20f5e8c4f1ef4f8c91160839b48...
Also going deeper into this, one of the common trends is huge liquidity events which allow there to be a huge emergence of venture capital funds. The growth of tech stocks in the late 90's gave people tons of money to blow, and since they had trust in the tech economy since had made them tons of money, they further invested into tech.

Notice how massive growth of companies such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon over the past 5 years. Additionally notice how many of the big VC's of today were early investors in companies such as FB. This gave them the capital and trust they needed to invest in all these random startups.

I bet that an Uber IPO will give VCs the money they need in order to continue to invest in more and more companies. The success of silicon valley is that every 8-10 years, there is a new company that reaches unprecedented valuations, and in turn people reinvest that money into the next generation of companies who will reach those same levels.
This is sort of true, but also not.

Besides, I really enjoy playing 2D games in VR through Steam in that giant theatre room.
Habitat: The First Graphical MMO Now on GitHub
Fond memories of Travian games here. Log into enemy account via a super dodgy sitting arrangement, send a confusing message about the time of an attack and watch chaos unfold as other players in the alliance screw up the offset they were aiming for and leaning early or late. Even when no shenanigans were played there was a 50/50 chance that someone would mess it up.
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Going Agile When You Have No Authority
Related and previously discussed: Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11515125
Huh, it's almost as if the foundation of all the devices we use on a daily basis are written in some language that apparently isn't possible to write correctly.
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You'll notice that list includes US/Eastern which links to America/New_York as the correct "standard" for that timezone.

Edit: Just want to clarify that "Eastern" and others are indeed on that list and everywhere I've needed them have worked in place of the physical location equivalent. The physical locations, however, are the standard for the respective timezones--I am not commenting on the correctness of the GP post.
How does one implement logical connectives? (&&, ||)
I've got two 27" monitors, plus the display on my laptop.

Still prefer physical reference books.
​Nextcloud adds enterprise support and iOS app
I, for one, have enjoyed seeing this piece of content marketing on top of HN, and will be buying this company's products and services. Good to see something other than the Macro up here.
Obligatory video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5AZhjhbxf8 (NSFW. strong language)
Rather than a solid magnet, I wonder if a ferrofluid tattooed into the skin would have a similar effect.
Wow, genius!

Though I wonder, why most of the VR games I see now keep showing tools you handle "floating in the air"? It's a pretty immersion-breaking element, I think.
You may use Go all day every day, but that doesn't mean you have the skill to implement or extend a GC. If you have experience in that area you almost certainly know C like the back of your hand.
Some people theorize that suicides can be prevented by inconvenience, and perhaps some very marginal percentage can, but I agree with you. In general, those who jump from fourth floor windows are attempting something different than those who take half a bottle of sleeping pills. It is of course disconcerting to see the residue of suicide, so that might justify some efforts made to discourage suicides in particular locations, but only so long as those efforts don't render those locations less aesthetically suited to their purpose.
The power goes out frequently in VZ. Bitcoin wouldn't be as reliable as dollars there.
This Is the Last Thing Japan's Lost Black Hole Satellite Saw Before It Died
As a brazilian this makes me sad and amused at the same time.
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