skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take this in the spirit of fun facts, but the liger largeness phenomenon is not well described by the analogy "Maybe those particular genes are fine in Neandertals, but combined with some Cro-Magnon genes leads to depression".

Liger largeness (and the word "liger") is specific to the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger; the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion (a "tiglon" or "tigon") doesn't grow so large. What's going on is that lions rely on their mates being other lions -- male lions imprint their sperm in a way that promotes growth of the cub (which is a drain on the lioness's milk production) and female lions imprint their eggs so as to inhibit growth. It's not an interaction between lion genes and tiger genes that produces excessive growth, it is the male-imprinted lion genes failing to meet the female-imprinted genes they've evolved to rely on.

The same phenomenon (in terms of genetic arms race between the sexes -- it's phenotypically different) occurs in humans under the names Prader-Willi syndrome (maternal genes fail to meet paternal resistance) and Angelman Syndrome (other way around).
I don't mean for it to come off as a negative outlook, so apologies since it apparently did.

I just don't see an embedded magnet as being the same kind of assistive device as headphones or GPS. Neither of those examples provide a new sense (which was my original comment's example of what an implanted magnet does). They don't replace senses or add completely new ones. Unless someone is capable of storing an entire region's map to memory and locating themselves within that region precisely (maybe some people can to an extent, but not entirely the same).
also fun is to append `osascript -e 'say "all done!"'` or somesuch if you're within decent earshot. you can even pipe in context-specific info.
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FTA: "As far as we can tell, there is no actual hardware yet, so any claims of ease of programming and performance advantages are based on simulations and perhaps the enthusiasm of the researchers."

Take it for what it's worth.
Ask HN: Determine permissions requested by ios apps?
Is there a service that has determined permissions requested by all or top iOS apps? Or, is there a way to do this without manually downloading apps one by one?
Yes, because UTC itself is a non-arrogant, sane default. Clearly the Royal Observatory in Greenwich is the center of the Earth and always will be.~
The article mentions both aspects. Boston's retracted bid was spearheaded by the construction and hospitality industries before being retracted after public outcry. Autocratic regimes are more likely to subvert the overall good and ignore or suppress this outcry for their own private good.

And as far as the winner's curse goes:

> it is possible to ascribe a portion of the economic failings of the Olympics
to the “winner’s curse,” the result in auction theory that when parties are bidding
on an asset of uncertain value (like rights to offshore oil leasing tracts), the winner
will tend to be the bidder who is most prone to overestimating the value of the
asset—which means that the winner is likely to be systematically disappointed (for an
overview of the “winner’s curse,” see Thaler 1988).

Or see Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner%27s_curse

To state it differently, the winner of a contracting project which was awarded to the lowest quote, assuming equal labor costs, is the one who most underestimated its difficulty and scope creep. That helps me understand a few projects I have been involved in.
This seems a lot safer, it's also really close to the microchipping we do on a daily basis to pets and livestock.

Having the unit sterilized in a preloaded syringe has to be a lot better than a DIY solution.
The true tl;dr is this: hours are meta-information. Just like 5am is very early in every time zone, 11pm is late. We expect businesses to be open from 8-11 to 16-19, just like we expect everybody to be awake between 11-21.

Now, remove that bit of metadata and we need to figure out how to encode/transmit it again. At the end of the day, we just recreate time zones, with the added downside of removing a common language we have while traveling - Visit SF from the UK and not only are you jetlagged, but you need to remember that every time of the day you're used to needs to be shifted by 8 hours. - and just... talking to people in other time zones.

Right now, if you post a story on HN about needing to get up for work at 4:30am, everybody will understand: this person gets up for work really early! Move to UTC and it means nothing.
You can change playback speed on YouTube.
Yeah, Witcher 3 is one of the best games I've ever played and has some of the best graphics too. The characters are simply amazing and the general look and feel is superb.

But... look at the ground and you'll just see a flat greenish noise texture. They try to cover it with clumps of grass and vegetation, which works to a degree, but not completely.

Look at the water flowing - particularly on any kind of whitewater rapids/waterfall - compared to the character textures and the buildings, it's really quite disappointing.

You need a fairly complete simulation to really fool the human eye and we're a long way from that.
I was mainly talking about the logging and monitoring facilities, not speed. Though those projects are all quite fast. It's not 1996 anymore.
https://github.com/magcius/xplain/issues/15
How good is the timewise resolution of the feeling? Up to what frequencys can you feel?

Sounds like becoming half a conjoiner out of science fiction, to be honest.
Someone is on the right track, but to emphasize its ubiquitous nature when its too cheap to meter.

Not, "there's my workstation and the giant LCD monitor is no longer a status symbol" but more like "well of course the wall next to my bed is a star trek style all-walls-are-misterhouse interface to everything"

Not, "there's my solar panels which cost more than the roof they're sitting on although they are quite profitable" but more like "well of course every surface exposed to the sun charges a battery or sells electricity to the local power co-op".

Think of the weird stuff that'll happen culturally. Campaigns to save the topsoil because people who want $$$ more than they want grass lawns will kill their lawn by shading it with cells. Endless arguments on HN about if you're better off selling solar power to buy hot pockets or using the sunlight directly to grow lettuce. All battery powered rechargeable devices will charge when sitting in the sun, so you'll have interesting social patterns about not stepping on or running over people's devices. When sunlight equals money you'll have people chopping down their neighbors trees illegally on a regular basis. They'll be a short term "vegas" effect where every surface of the world will have to be covered with gaudy advertisements. People will wear clothes that are computer display fabric and download new patterns more often than they wash, probably. And they'll be viruses that eat your electricity until you pay them off, throw spam on your epaper, and upload nude texture packs to your ecloth clothing (although, who knows, maybe people will intentionally like that?)

I'm old enough to have lived thru long distance voice communication going from "too expensive for regular folks per minute" to too cheap to meter. I can see something coming for at least low power electricity and computer display tech.
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Background: 100+ hours in Vive, hobbyist VR dev, and 20 demos or so

I see two kinds of VR "sickness".

1. There is sickness caused by locomotion implementations. Testing seems to indicate there are some people who will just never adjust to these. I really don't think FOV and eye tracking will fix it. I've experienced locomotion sickness in some games, and in all of them I've been able to completely adjust in 1 to 2 hours. That adjustment seems to be relatively permanent as well. I don't think it is a rare trait, but it seems that not everyone can do that.

2. There is this sort of initial "VR Fatigue" where the eye tracking issues might fit in. I've noticed a trend the first or second time people use VR for a real session (1 hour +), it is somewhat common (50%?) they get a little nauseous. I've really just been chalking that up to "new stuff is weird" and the heat the headset puts out. This sort of sickness seems to universally fade quite quickly for people, and could have to do with the head on a pivot thing. From what I've seen, most people find the sweet spot/head pivoting natural almost immediately.

TL;DR I spend a lot of time in VR and with people in VR. Eye tracking or larger sweet spots is near the bottom of the list of problems/discomforts.
You should have a look at Hypergiant library for Chicken Scheme. It compiles to C as well. https://github.com/AlexCharlton/Hypergiant
A Few Useful Mental Tools from Richard Feynman
maybe I am missing something..I just assumed that people were using tiddlywiki which a single app in form of a webpage itself
This comes up every time someone posts one of these articles. A ring at the base of your finger will not provide the same sensation as a magnet under your fingertip. The nerves are far more sensitive in your fingertips and the transmission of vibration is far more effective when the magnet is trapped between layers of skin vs sitting loosely at the base of a finger.

I expect you could get a similar sensitivity from gluing a small rare earth magnet to your fingertip.
The good news is it's just a text document, which appears to have been generated in LaTeX, and it weighs in at 256 kB. That's less than most HTML pages!

So if you clicked it on mobile, and your device didn't handle it gracefully for some reason (are there still some which don't?), you didn't waste much data.
Interesting theory. I could see the main idea, individuality of brain segments, to be extended to cover other dimensions than just the spatial. Especially with schizophrenia, time perception and illusions are quite common, so a temporal schism of brain as a process could be an alternative approach. The combinatorial or additive emergence of agency is not as given as the article implies it is, though.
Understanding Tesla Autopilot
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The most profound defense of Hillary Clinton I have ever seen
My comment is more about backing up this point from the OP:

> IMO, sama is wrong to suggest founders take their eye off the product ball at all (even just a little) until they are 1000% sure they've built a machine that will scale, and now all they have to do is scale it.

Founders are adults and part of being a founder is knowing what advice to take. That said, I think someone at YC may agree that this advice is generally bad for a lot of early founders to follow. The reason I was backing up the OP is that he/she was stating that you should be 1000% sure you have product/market fit before following any of the advice in the post. Simply having the right number of employees or making some revenue are not enough.

My point is kind of nuanced. In general, I think YC puts out the best information for founders of all early stage companies/startups.
My history is refreshingly empty.

Or should I say "histories" -- there are multiple Google accounts involved, few having any variant of the names I'm known by in meatspace.

Still, for some reason, there's a bunch of Google Shit I Don't Use which I cannot simply get rid of or turn off. Instead I've got to laboriously go through each one (for each Google profile), and ensure that all tracking and history are disabled.

It'd be rather nice to have that fixed. After all, linking G+ and YouTube accounts just went so well, right?

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/y0ss_vplsmhsagqvf23fiq

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6746731
We already have "before sunrise" and "middle of the night" and "after dark" and sunrise and sunset and so on. Most of the time, there's little or no gain from attaching a number instead of using one of those.

(I'm not arguing in favor of switching, just pointing out that we already have the descriptions for times of day)
I have a little trouble understanding what you're trying to say here but I don't think it's really accurate. Positionally tracked headsets like the Vive and Rift do not model vision as if our eyes are permanently stuck forward. They are very much intended to be used with normal eye movement within the field of view of the headset while the head is stationary.

Both are low persistence displays with a 90Hz refresh rate. Low persistence was an innovation from Valve explicitly designed to reduce blur and ghosting resulting from eye motion relative to the display as you get when fixated on a stationary virtual object while turning or moving your head or when trying to track a moving virtual object with your eyes while keeping your head still.

In an ideal world we would have even lower latency head tracking and higher refresh rates but current headsets already allow for legible text when moving your head thanks to low persistence.

I'm not familiar with the Minecraft hack you mention but approaches to snapping view changes are generally designed to address issues with using a controller rather than actual 1:1 head motion to change view orientation. View rotation independent of head movement tends to produce nausea due to the disconnect between visual cues and cues from the inner ear but really has nothing to do with any supposed assumption of eyes being stuck forward relative to head orientation.

Issues with convergence, accommodation and depth of field raised in other replies do still exist with current display technologies but they are again not particularly tied to any assumptions of fixed eye orientation.
There's a pink eye problem with HMDs? This is the first I've heard of it, but I suppose it makes sense.
Just check Maxime or JikesRVM, two examples of meta-circular JVMs.
>It could also have been Tim Ferriss

Ha! Yeah, especially not that guy. He's one person who helped me to get over the whole "seeking advice" thing, with his highly specific "worked for me, so everyone else should do it too" schtick.

The advice that's funniest is that wherein if everyone actually followed it, then it could not possibly be effective. Yeah, let's all 1.35 million people who bought the book relocate to a small country where the exchange rate is favorable, start a niche business, and test our products by putting up phony websites with "buy" buttons that don't actually work so we can measure demand. That should work out well for all of us.

>tends to kill critical thinking

Indeed. In fact, the act of seeking advice can be a creativity killer. It's a mindset of "let me replicate this other person" vs using my unique experience and knowledge to innovate.

None of this is to say never learn from others or take advice. Just that there is a culture of hero worship and elevation of others over self that I believe is counterproductive for many.

But, you know, don't take my advice. :)
The glyphs look amusingly like circuits.
Unfortunately, the program lacks even for shader programming.

There's currently no way of exporting the shader you've created whatsoever.. I've tried.

I have used this program during my dsp classes to model certain signals however, having a direct manipulation interface for sine-waves proved very helpful. I wish someone took the time to study these research samples and build reliable next-generation software around the concepts cdglabs and friends put out. There's so much potential here!

Heck, if no-one does it, I might when I'm done with my study.
Researchers find over 100 spying Tor nodes
So much unnecessary negativity on Pascal

Much of what exists in contemporary dev tools can trace some DNA back to Turbo Pascal and Delphi 1.0

Anders Hejlsberg is a footnote in the story of a few tools - but was as instrumental as DHH in changing perception of how software could be developed, how the tools look/feel and how objects are interacted with at design time

I see a lot of current work on the DOM, I see a lot of companies wanting portable desktop apps and looking at the DOM as the platform for that, then I look at what Anders did in early 90s and think there is so much that can be applied to current problems
The interactivity of this series is just amazingly helpful in visualizing what the heck is going on. Honestly, for me that makes this one of the few links on HN that I might actually read all the way through. And may even use it as a homeschool lesson for our kids, if it seems written simply enough (which at first glance it is).
What are the system dynamics for that?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/03/student_counterstrik...
If that's a problem, a simple 301 is the answer.
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I am really only willing to continue a conversation with someone that says VR is a gimmick if they have actually played through a number of room-scale titles. Mostly Budget-Cuts, The Gallery, Minecraft in VR, Audioshield, or something like that.

There is still a large sentiment that compares this technology to the Wii style motion controls, and they really aren't even close... at all.
(OP) Forwarding to caramelpibot2@gmail.com kicks off automatic email sending and parsing to schedule a 30 minute block of time in your Google calendar for a phone call or meeting. Caramel sends emails from your address, so the person you are scheduling with should not be able to notice. We are working on this to help our friends who work as recruiters, but we think it could be used for any scheduling use case.
Yes, the X1 platform is internally developed.
I was only familiar with the original, and enjoyed finding out about these "better" and "best" variants. But I'll note:

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ is really quite good, and it's a single 4KB request

http://thebestmotherfuckingwebsite.co/ is 19 requests, 1.37MB, and the appearance and functionality are terrible

Yeah it's what everyone does these days, but it's everything I hate about the "modern" websites:

* it shows no content without scrolling
* full background photos with no relationship to the content
* gratuitous transitions and layout changes
with only the most tenuous relationship to the content

There's also a link to http://evenbettermotherfucking.website/ which cuts the contrast too far, but otherwise is fine, and only 5KB.

So really, the "best" variant is not "a bit further", it's a full hop/skip/jump into the deep-end of "modern" anti-patterns
Yes, which is great. But note that they require Location history for it! So to get saved (and synced) previous searches you need to let your phone upload your location constantly to Google.
Piercings and tattoos are performed by non-medical professionals. Circumcisions are often performed by a doctor (unless you're Jewish? in which case it may be a mohel who is trained, albeit not always an MD, excuse any ignorance in this area) but I'm forced to imagine the hospital offers this service both based on cultural norms in the US at least, and perhaps out of an abundance of caution, considering it can at least offer sterile conditions and a trained hand for the procedure.
Data are liability.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22data+are+liability%22&t=ftas&ia...

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22data%20are%20...

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hn4r5/on_the_...
Have you worked at a small startup before?

> If that contract is what made the business viable, then the company must be completely fucked without you and be on their way to failure.

In any startup with <5 employees if an early employee leaves it's a huge risk to the company that may result in bankruptcy or failure of the company. Engineer #1 is as important as a founder in the startups I've worked at.

If there are 3 founders and 2 non-founder employees, then typically each employee is doing (approximately) 20% of the work. Not many small companies can just shrug off losing 20% of their workforce.

> This is what every self-respecting capitalist believes and knows in their heart. Employees are resources. If a founder doesn't know that they will fail.

I hate to be rude but WTF are you talking about? I've known several successful startup CEOs and they keep good employees close and well taken care of. For one thing, startups usually fail, so you're going to have to keep your good employees open to working with you on your next attempt, and if you keep treating them like slaves/resources they won't come with you to your next venture. Second, how are you going to recruit new talent if your reputation as a founder is that you treat your employees like interchangeable "resources"?
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Depending on the latitude sunset might be when people just start to get off work, or it might be well after dinner. Times have more semantic meaning than just the position of the sun.
OT: why is an IRC server I/O bound? That really piqued my interest.
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DST is an issue, as is the political selection of time zones. There's a great map[1] that shows how arbitrary time zone shifts are.

Even in the EU, the eastern edge of Finland is over an hour east of the center of CET, while western Spain is two hours west of it. That means that during the spring and autumn solstice, even though we have 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night, the sun over western Spain sets three hours after eastern Norway. For Norway it makes sense, most of its people live smack in CET, but for Spain it's a purely political gesture.

[1] http://blog.poormansmath.net/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-t...
I believe we are largely moving from a situation where any single technology or idea can have big impact to where the ones who can organize, standardize and connect things will be the winners. A lot of the problems startups have been trying to avoid by essentially ignoring are now becoming worth solving.

Of course things like automatic subways, industrial robots and vision processing already exists and are probably more of an evolving hing than the next big thing.
The spectrum is a public good, and it is scarce. License fees benefit the public.

Of course, content providers and infrastructure providers do not buy licenses altruistically.

I think we're seeing Facebook being willing to invest in tech and potentially license fees because the ROI of having Facebook in a village can be estimated and offering this hardware looks like a worthwhile investment.

While this sounds like a cynical perspective, it is not. Suppose a typical company would analyze the ROI and conclude that if the payout doesn't happen in 2 years it is not worth it.

Facebook may be considering a 10 year ROI and thus may be acting both selfishly and also taking on infrastructure risk that has suffered from market failure until 2016 since no providers of first world infrastructure have opted to invest.

In a capitalist utopia, anything with positive ROI would receive investment, and all risks could be accurately hedged, allowing all available capital to be fully utilized.
It's not. You can use it with any server that can serve a custom 404 page. I use it locally with http-server to work on react single pages apps that don't have a backend.
This worked for me on Ubuntu 15.10 x64