skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean to sound so pessimistic there, and I could have worded it better. I agree we have learned a lot. I think things have gotten much better. My day-to-day life is amazing compared to most of history.

But I stand by the statement in the area of: In many ways, we are just large tribes, fighting each other for stupid, selfish reasons. If you abstract things away enough, we may be different, but we still act the same.
> Of course, most of the old-gen GC work in G1 is also done in parallel with the application, too.

Did you want to write concurrently? If so that would be wrong because evacuation can't be done concurrently with the application in G1, only initial marking.
- Question everything, specially conventional wisdom.
- Don't try to be smart or intelligent rather try to be curious.
- Don't get awed when you meet "smart people" rather try to focus on learning from them as much as possible.
I am saying that 3D products have a history of creating a "wow, this is so amazing" effect that creates a lot of excitement but no lasting value. My concern isn't really with 3D, but mistaking novelty for utility.

People also thought stereoscopic photos were the "new medium going forward", so linking to somebody amazed about a novel experience doesn't change my mind. It's another example of exactly how I think people shouldn't make this decision.

What will make the difference for me is not yet another person being amazed, but people using VR gear on a daily basis for something after the novelty wears off. At this point I have asked an awful lot of VR partisans for examples of that sort of usage, but so far nobody has offered anything substantial.

I hope one day it will get there, but until it does, I personally wouldn't bet much on it.
Thanks, I presumed it was in reference to something, but I didn't know what:

Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M. 1993
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

[Hook]
Cash rules everything around me:
CREAM, get the money
Dollar, dollar bill y'all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBwAxmrE194
They do also have a vested interest in bringing internet to developed regions in a way - where else are you supposed to get the low-cost H1B labour?
Another Tesla crash in autopilot mode
Sometimes these work:

http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf#page177

or

http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf#177
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the cruisers don't have catapults. This is why they aren't aircraft carriers and thus allowed through the straits.
I usually like warisboring, but they've gone off the deep end lately on Russia.

If they weren't so busy hyperventilating, they'd notice the obvious fact that this is a Mig-29/35 training mission. The Mig-35 evolution on the '29 is being rolled out, and the Miyokan design bureau is in something of a bind, as they haven't have been as successful as Sukhoi. So, this is an opportunity for Miyokan to show off some of its unique capabilities.

These gizmos can be (have been) sold to China and India for their own aircraft carrier ambitions.
> The argument seems to be that the cost of phone base stations is holding back development in 3rd world countries

I'd say not quite: Since most of the first world dollars go into cutting edge technology, there is low-hanging fruit in the now-miniaturized, super-inexpensive chips that make it orders of magnitude cheaper/simpler to create reliable 2G infrastructure. So much cheaper that using second hand gear is not a better option at scale.

> You can now buy a 2G Chinese base station surprisingly cheaply.

I imagine FB engineered its own version of similar technology, but with a product focus that is aligned with the company's goals.

> Just the expense of running power to the top of the hill

It seems to be designed to be mounted on a building, so I'm guessing it's not intended to replace a massive tower installation, but instead to offer a very cheap and useful, easy-to-install access point that happens to do 2G in addition to (or instead of) wifi.

> Just setting up the billing arrangements, etc, will be a huge job.

Since the users are the product, I think it will likely be free to the end user, at least at first.

> but because of the non-existence of basic infrastructure, eg a national phone network to connect to.

I think FB has plans to offer bandwidth, both as a carrot to convince local regulators to license it, and also to incentivize various service providers to help with the rollout.

Of course, this could this could be a feint: http://vita.mcafee.cc/PDF/feint.pdf
I was trying to install this .deb package with ubuntu software center. My system warns with the below message.

"This package is of bad quality:

The installation of a package which violates the quality standards isn't allowed. This could cause serious problems on your computer. Please contact the person or organisation who provided this package file and include the details beneath.

The package doesn't provide a valid Installed-Size control field. See Debian Policy 5.6.20."
That's kind of the essence of political science though, right? You have different people, with different desires....how can their differences be reconciled? There is no right or wrong here, just different preferences.
Did the Star-Spangled Banner Land Stravinsky in Jail?
No, they have nuclear submarines, so it's not a question of technology. More likely just the fact that nuclear ships are dramatically more expensive.
"The crash report filed by the Pennsylvania State Police stated that the Tesla Model X driven by Albert Scaglione was traveling east (on the Pennsylvania Turnpike) near the town of Bedford, Pa, about 5 p.m. last Friday when it hit a guardrail off the right side of the roadway. It then crossed over the eastbound lanes and hit the concrete median. After that, the Tesla Model X rolled onto its roof and came to rest in the middle eastbound lane. A 2013 Infiniti G37 driven in the westbound lane by Thomas Hess of West Chester, Pa., was struck by debris from the Scaglione car, but neither he nor his passenger was hurt."

The driver survived, was hospitalized, and is now out of the hospital. “My attorneys will be releasing a statement shortly,” he said.

The car ceased reporting to Tesla HQ after the rollover, so Tesla doesn't have any data yet.

The NHTSA is investigating.[1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/07/business/us-safety-agency-...
That's pretty much what fuel tanks do.
How is this relevant? Are you trying to cry hypocrisy or something? Well, a hypocrite may be hypocritical, but that doesn't make him wrong, just a hypocrite. This sounds like an attempt to change the subject.
Google was down?
Cops like that one either lack control of their own bodies, or they are mobbed up.

Any man would be completely justified in drawing a weapon on such an officer, when the officer made the first hostile move. A uniform does not exclude you from being shot in self-defense, especially in states which respect stand-your-ground laws. I'm not saying kill cops, I'm saying cops that can't control their firearms cause increased tensions and likelihood for violence.

He should have been fired. The video is enough evidence to fire him.
I wish it was easier to create games so that there were more games that could teach you specific lessons. The trick is, they have to be immersive enough that they're not merely the narrative equivalent of fables, or parables; they need to be more substantial, so the emotion and lessons take root. A great game should be like a great novel--expansive, teaching multiple lessons over time, not a trifle.

Yet with the rate of technological change, it's virtually impossible for someone to take, say, 10 years and write the Great American Game (formerly: Novel) that thematically covers the same breadth.
Melinda Gates wishes for more women in AI
There are lots of online communities where we all gather - often you can join them and post what kind of person you're looking for.

#SMChat is a Twitter hashtag based discussion where you'd be able to see a lot of us for example.

LinkedIn also has a bunch of networking groups too.

I'm from Australia, so SEEK.com.au exists as our primary job search site and allows people to not set salaries etc, but you may go through a lot of applications once you explain it is equity only.

In my experience being approached by people such as yourself, you'd probably need to find a freelancer who is willing to do it part time as for most of us equity only doesn't pay the bills :)

Good luck finding someone, and good luck with your project!
I wonder how many Google staff can view these data for arbitrary user foo. Is LOVEINT an issue, as with NSA?
I just got done apartment hunting recently, and there's walkable virtual tours of just about every apartment, at least in my region on apartments.com.

Basically a bunch of 360 panoramic shots with spaces you can click on the ground to traverse to the next spot that gives you another view, and it fades between the two, kind of like moving down the street in Street View with Google Maps.

It did a pretty damn good job of giving you a feel for the apartment (we toured many of them afterwards).

Obviously actual VR would be better, but what they've got now is pretty darn good already, and definitely a lot better than pictures.

That being said, I think most home listings still rely on low-res still pictures, which is a shame.
Perhaps you noticed that they open sourced their Apple Pay JavaScript code, which was demonstrated a few weeks ago at WWDC: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/703/.
I think that the ViewMaster is a very successful novelty-based toy. But as far as a serious display device, I'm comfortable calling it marginal. That nobody can name their nearest competitor is a sign that it's not a big market.

If the desire for a 3D TV experience can be overcome by casual viewing habits, then that's a sign to me that the value delivered is quite low.

That certainly matches my experience. I found 3D movies a pleasant novelty, but after a couple times it wasn't something I would pay extra for. That's in sharp contrast with, say, color. Or theater-quality sound, which I went out of the way to get for my home setup and make sure is properly working whenever I watch something I care about.
Facebook can't sell itself as a new live media platform and then just remove videos that are politically disturbing.

As an aside, this is the 559th person killed by police in the United States this year. His name was Philando Castile‬. They were pulled over for a broken tail light. He was shot with a 4 year old child in the backseat of the car.

(you can find the video on youtube, twitter, and elsewhere, but be forewarned, it is disturbing)
> Please, let's not pretend we'd not benefit massively from richer tooling here.

Absolutely nothing about this project or the way they went about building it shows any tendency towards richer tooling. A web interface also does not inherently enable richer tooling. You could implement this non-line oriented protocol entirely without 500+ MB of JS and the interpretation of that data could obviously be done without it too.

Edit:

While I understand your rants all over these threads (it doesn't inherently have to be inefficient and bloated), you've picked a strange submission to take these fights in. The software in question is in fact bloated, not compliant and is really only an interface to aliases.

Also, I would add: The proof is in the pudding. You seem to have made this a personal crusade, so I would urge you to make a decent PoC with these ideas to show the world.
This just happened an hour ago and she is reportedly still in custody.
Not available on desktops and laptops, supposedly because of "licensing restrictions".. sounds legit </sarcasm>
Money is a very lagging metric. Young users left (13-17yo often do not even have facebook, and certainly do not post), and more and more of older people are dropping out. It used to be cool to post on FB, now it's cool not to post there.
Aircraft carriers are specifically excluded from the "capital ship" category, and said category does not have the tonnage limit for Black Sea states. Hence why USSR created this thing - because it is a missile cruiser (that just happens to double as a carrier), it's a capital ship, so it can be as large as it needs to be.
It appears someone posted it to YouTube

Pretty grim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wuyXayGMB8
This is very cool! I remember Portia from Peter Watts' Echopraxia.
That was a fun read :)
The problem is, to gain traction these days, you target the developers, give them enough resources to work on something in their spare time, and hope they have enough influence to make their company switch from language A to language B.

Charging the developer, before they even have a chance to try the language out, when there are other free options available, means they'll never even give the language a chance.
Why'd they need to arrest her?
I also kick puppies and write one word commit messages.
Tech needs to stamp out anti-blackness
Buying AAA batteries is a great experience. You can even order by voice via Alexa. What experience are you actually looking for? Who does it best?

This result is perfect after a few key presses of the a key:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s_ss_i_0_3?k=aaa+batte...
A fellow by the name of Claude Shannon wrote a book about it.

Ultra-Wideband doesn't create new bandwidth. It just re-uses the existing spectrum in a different way.

And by raising the general background noise it steals bandwidth from all the other users, so everybody is worse off.

Or to put it another way "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch".
Although they didn't come from the romantic depths of a basement,based on today, if I had to guess, Niantic seems poised to make that leap.
Zillow and done.
Universities that offer MS in distributed computing around the world
About me : I am working as developer since last 6 years. I am currently working in core platform team in a SAAS company. I have growing interest in distributed computing and want to learn and have more formal education.

HN is a wonderful community, so if some of you can mention good universities i am eligible to apply in. Will my work exp help me in getting admission.

PS: I have bachelors in Electrical Engg from an University in India.
Probably for the dastardly crime of filming the police. She'll be thankful that she had the foresight to upload the video as it was being recorded.
Because Russia/USSR had less need to project power on the sea, being a continental empire on the largest landmass on the globe, rather than an isolated oceanic one (like UK and US).

Basically, if you have lots of land borders and not that much useful shoreline (and remember, both Black Sea and Baltic Sea are easily contained), spending money on land armies is a wiser investment. There are some exceptions to this rule - e.g. nuclear subs, as MAD deterrent - but overall, Russia never had, and will likely never have, a particularly strong navy.

For the same reason, while Russia has marines (naval infantry), they are not the "more elite" fighting forces the way USMC is treated in US, at least as far as public perception/mythology goes. Instead, VDV - the paratroopers - holds that role.
You're right, I don't consider it as a viable option, unless I find a french investor.
Data Transfer Object (DTO) Is a Shame
> I found 3D movies a pleasant novelty, but after a couple times it wasn't something I would pay extra for.

I think this sums it up nicely. I'll sometimes pay the couple of dollars extra if I'm already seeing an action film at the cinema, because I think it does add some value, but it's in no way indispensable.
I'm worried about the lack of camera on the Rift. Seem like Room Scale would be very hard without it. Seeing the borders if you started walking too far feels like a necessity to me.
Paywalled content is one thing. Most people - including, I expect, Blow - would agree that DLC and unlockable items are fair ways to monetize a game. In most cases, anyway.

Wait timers are completely different. It's hard to overstate how horribly offensive they are to any self-respecting gamer. The only people who tolerate them are the ones that have never experienced a game that didn't try to extort money out of them.
How do you imagine scrollback/ history on such thing? Genuinely curious. Have seen a few projects attempting this, but having all of the output searchable is a very central feature of terminal, for me.
Some of the most insightful games I ever played were the Civ series... Favorite being Alpha Centauri.

As I learned more about history and read more scifi I started to see more of the inspirations for the characters but at that time it was new and inspirational to me.
If you want a deep dive on SMAC: https://paeantosmac.wordpress.com/
> You seem to be familiar with Elixir. May I ask you some questions?

Sure, np. I am mainly an Erlang developer but the same properties apply to Elixir, because both share the same battle tested VM -- BEAM.

> I'm asking what kind of web apps or scenarios do you think Elixir is particularly well suited for?

I am not currently working on building web app directly. But in general Elixir/Erlang would be good for a scenario where they'd be multiple connected clients at the same time. Think maybe something like a car sharing service where map updates in realtime as cars move through the city. Lots of users chatting together, or playing a game. Maybe they are bidding on ads, or tagging posts with "likes" and so on.

But there might be a significant improvemtent even in the plain old request-goes-to-database scenario, simply because the VM (BEAM) is better equipped at handling multiple connected sockets, all streaming data in and out. For example, it knows how to take advantage of multiple CPU cores, it handles GC better and so on. Not sure how deeply you want this explanation to go, so will stop here.

But, yes, if it all goes to a single MySQL instance running in another datacenter, that might be the bottleneck so there might not be a speedup seen by using something else. So you have to measure. In that case maybe a cache in front of it will work just as well to speed things up.

> he was doing away with the db completely.

Haven't seen the video. But with Erlang can think of those processes as in-memory storage of state. Can spawn hundreds of thousands of them, and they can live as long as the node stays up. Then can also connect multiple BEAM VM instances on different machines, create a cluster and so can refer to these processes as if they are local, in a rather transparrent manner. Or maybe they mean they used Erlang's built-in database (Mnesia), that had some limitations, but recently in a new release (19.0) it has the ability to scale much better as it can handle a pluggable storage such as LevelDB for example. The advantage there is the database is integrated into the langauge. So queries are not in a different query language, via a driver, so some other process, but queries looks like list comprehensions and transactions are just function closures. That can simplify things immensly in some cases.

> how do you architect your application in Elixir to keep application state though multiple requests (sessions) on multiple boxes without using something like memcached or redis (or a network disk)?

Can create a cluster so can keep state on another node that doesn't go down? (as mentioned), or can still use a database (say Postgres), so it really depends. Hard to give a general advice here.
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Very nice!

This looks very close to the ideal CI infrastructure. I'm used to waiting on queues and long VM or container boots and configuration on other services.

We can almost certainly count on Lambda getting longer execution times and higher memory limits. We can also count on containerization solving the root problem.

We should also be building software with the goal of tests that run within reasonable limits like this.

`time make test` takes 39 seconds on my businesses Go projects. I'd consider a 5m test suite serious tech debt. The time that developers wait for feedback on tests and deployment is becoming a business bottleneck in the continuous delivery age.
I believe it still comes with a version of Kylix. But sadly, yes, "no linux support" is pretty accurate, mostly because it sucks badly.
Anything that involves social integration does not thrive when created in NA and marketed in Asia.
I agree. From my point of view, games as an art form is in its infancy period. It has so much potential because it is interactive and immersive (even more so now with VR), but games often get caught in a core game mechanic and rinse and repeat.

Same thing happened with movies too, right? People said that they were just toys and nothing profound could be told with them. In the end is like everything, there are good and bad sculptures, books, movies and games.

I am optimistic that we will see the medium evolve dramatically. As you said, with this pace of innovation everything can happen :)
I thought your first language was Polish. Which would make your comment other-than-first-person?
Towards a Unified Theory of Operational Transformation and CRDT
IMO, it makes no sense.
> it's not the companies being anti-social... it's the government being anti-social.

It's both.
Germany played similar games heading into WWII to build battleships and otherwise circumvent Treaty of Versailles / WWI treaty obligations on maximum size of navy / ships / numbers, etc.
Note that the author is also the author of Xi Editor[1]. There's some discussion happening over at /r/xi_editor[2].

[1]: https://github.com/google/xi-editor

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/xi_editor
For those who haven't played it, the original game is here:

http://www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com/narbaculardrop.html
where do you store build caches? npm/gems ect?
Hmm, characters are square and have fixed width. The fonts are automatically fixed width when printed or even handwritten (well enough). With pinyin, you know, like any other phonetic languages, even Japanese, you can hardly match line width with syllables so perfectly. And that's why the Chinese classic poetry, in my biased opinion, is a level higher than, say, its English counterpart, as it requires more effort to not only rhyme the lines, but also match the length of each line.
Touche. Abandoned shopping malls might be a step up from garages.
The history of R's predecessor, S, from co-creator Rick Becker [video]
Something tells me if my business emails were subpoenaed I wouldn't get a chance to sort through all of them and decide which ones I wanted to turn over.
This reminds me of an old joke. A guy travels to the USSR for the first time. He arrives to the airport, takes a taxi to the hotel and, as he walks from the taxi, falls into an open manhole. In hospital he tries to complain about this. "What do you want us to do?" somebody asks, "Well, put something around it, maybe some red flags?", "Did you get here by plane?", "Sure", "So you have been to the airport, right?", "Of course", "Did you notice a giant red flag flying over the gate?", "You mean the USSR's official banner?", "Here you are, that was your red flag".

The point is that you need to research the company. There are sites like glassdoor, there are forums and blog posts, news about layoffs, acquisitions, contracts etc.
Will we ever be able to scan the wiring of this spider's neurons and "run it" on a computer? That would be amazing, I think. Then we could create virtual worlds for these virtual spiders and let them evolve, supposedly much faster than "normal" evolution.
I think you touched a key characteristic for a good hire. When you can find someone that is humble, and of course talented, in my opinion the rest will follow.

When you hire some senior people, you may run into issues because how successful they have been in the past. When they get stuck, problems arise. It is natural, they were really successful in the past doing X. Now, you want them to do Y but they think X is they way to go because it has worked before. Who can blame them?