skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time Zones Aren’t Offsets – Offsets Aren’t Time Zones
Gaming raid AWESOMENESS
Sorry, I don't agree. It's a gimmick only if you don't appreciate the immersion.

I can't imagine playing Xortex (a game in Valve's 'The Lab') on a 2D monitor. It just wouldn't be possible to even come close to replicating the experience.

Valve also has a new product called "Destinations" which is basically creation tools and a viewer for photogrammetry scenes. One of their examples is Mars, with a realistically rendered model of Curiosity on the surface (which itself is based on photos from Curiosity). It's the closest I'll ever get to walking on Mars. And being able to walk around an actual-sized Curiosity is quite something in itself.
Just ran into this and was about to post it - Wow. Looks really good. It seems like he embedded an IL interpreter to get around the AppStore limitations. Amazing work.
Considering her current position as a presidential nominee, I don't think a petition is going to be particularly fair.
Well, then, don't! And kindly oblige the rest of us by declining to do so a little less loudly.

also i said exactly what i meant
In 2014 I bought a ~50$ Android while traveling Latin America. I didn't expect much more of the browsing experience than reading mostly text based articles. But I didn't even get that. Literally half the linked articles I clicked on hacker news led to sites which where close to or impossible to navigate because of JS shenanigans and the assumption of an least a 4G internet connection.

It is especially annoying if one claims to target a world audience, but expects them to have a +500$ phones and vast data subscriptions.
Exbox – A configurable sandbox library for Elixir
How about a warning that this is a PDF?
>Bitcoin has no real use or value.

Its a system of information, to discard the blockchain technology outright on perceived downsides is foolish. I'm not a huge fan, but it does have real world usage.
Neurons Gone Wild
At least forty people disagree with you. You seem very sure they're all wrong.
If you were in Venezuela and everywhere accepted bitcoin, would you rather have bitcoin or Venezuelan bolivars?
"This is really an opportunity for Facebook to show that they are serious with their efforts to bring Internet to developing regions."

Facebook is not interested in bringing Internet to developing regions.

Facebook is interested in bringing facebook to developing regions.
I finished my schooling 15-ish years ago, and will never go back, but I'm 100% in favor of my tax money going towards free university tuition.
A lot of the issues described here seem like they stem from a lack of good project management. Requirement docs should never go straight from sales / marketing to engineering.
Yeah, it's things like that which make the dynamics entirely different. If someone flooded the market with IP addressees there wouldn't be people losing their minds about the collapsing value of their holdings, they'd be celebrating.
Why I hate (strict) access modifiers
Riot.js 2.5.0 released
It's about very long-lived projects (and at least partly about compile time).

Fundamentally, Go was aimed at huge code bases (think ten million lines) that live for decades. C++ code of that size takes a long time to compile (45 minutes to a few hours). If you have 30 people working on a project, and they each compile a few times a day, over 20 years that adds up to a huge amount of time.

One of the issues with C++-style includes is that they slow down compile times, because you see the same file over and over, and only process it the first time, and the rest of the time you import the text but don't do anything with it. But the compiler has to wade through all that unused text. So Go said, not just that you can only have the imports that you need, but also that you can't have cycles in the imports.

Now, from where I sit, the "no cycles" is much more clearly related to compile times than "no unused" is. But I think that they both come out of the same philosophy: "We're not going to permit less-than-optimal stuff to accumulate in the imports, because over the long run of a project, it bites you". It bites you in that, as time goes on, it becomes harder and harder to fix, and because it makes the compiles slower and slower.
Ah, thanks. Apparently, mhd knew and forgot :-)

The problem of discriminating between csv and SYLK files is unsolvable, as every file with only ASCII characters and no commas or quotes is a valid csv file (with one column) and there are valid SYLK files in that set.
Tangential: please stop abusing ellipses, it makes your (otherwise fine) writing unduly difficult to read.

http://writing-skills.com/five-annoying-ways-use-ellipsis

http://www.holyfuckingshityouredumb.com/2010/02/02/the-dread...
Looks like you need to set up `docker-machine`, or use the new Docker for Windows distribution [1], which abstractly includes it.

1: https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/windows/
Try steno: https://s10o.com
I use and recommend both OVH and Hetzner.
Dear AndreyErmakov,

I agree with a lot of what you say but I won't upvote a comment that compares bad practices in academia to child abuse.

For the kids that are beaten, burned, neglected, abused etc: please change that.
Neither would it hold up anywhere in continental Europe but I've heard some inconclusive things about UK in this regard. Well that's common law for you. As much as lawmaker is incompetent he is no competition to a brain dead judge.

Still the behaviour of the company after she raised concern clearly shows she is better off not working there.
There are plenty of locomotion solutions in VR. Simple teleportation works the best. The best implementation of teleportation that I've seen is in the game Budget Cuts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwtEw2ggPnA
This covers some general information about Digital Nomad in an Airstream (with kids)

http://bootstrappedweb.com/80-brecht-palombo-on-longterm-tra...
Forty people??? Then it must be me who is wrong as it has been decided by plebiscite
Oooo sarcasm. You're probably right though, the old system seems to be working out pretty well. Besides, science is all about never questioning existing institutions right?
That's great. You should never take a senior position at a startup. Or, for that matter, probably a senior position at most any company. Which is fine. Different strokes for different folks. But some people prioritize career advancement over free time on the weekends.
Imagine going to a friends house to play Doom because his house is actually more fun.

That reminds me of the days when kids could make maps of their friends' houses and schools in various 3D games without being labeled as a psycho killer.
I'm not suggesting you should post this comment, or that you should not post this comment, I'm just saying it's not interesting to read. There are literally 3.52 billion people on the internet that could comment here but I don't feel obligated to listen to any one of them.
The market fixes this, though. If your websites don't load on a low-end Android over 3G, you won't attract the sort of audience that uses that setup. Conversely, if you know what a large portion of your audience uses specs like that, you'll go through great lengths to ensure your sites are performant and usable.

It seems that most 'western' sites have decided focus on people with desktops or +500$ phones and vast data subscriptions.
When they support the "journalist's" view point. I put journalist in quotes because true journalists are extinct. All we have now are activists masquerading as journalists.
What matters isn't how much pollution is released. What matters is the harm and suffering it causes. Nuclear has a long, long way to go to catch up with carbon-based fuels in that regard.

I disagree that nuclear waste is a problem. To the extent that it is a problem, the solution is stupidly simple: store it in Antarctica where no technologically-illiterate humans can possibly come into contact with it, and where we can reclaim it later if/when we need it.

Also, nobody said coal and nuclear are the only possible technologies for creating electricity.

They're what we have to work with. Renewable sources should be aggressively explored and developed, but they are currently not sufficient by themselves.
Even a constant could be a Kálmán filter. ;-)
koo-ber-net-ees [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/brendandburns/status/585479466648018944
Seriously. Having almost any book that has been printed in the past 100 years available from somewhere beats the stuffing out of scouring yard sales, used-book stores, library divestments, etc, etc
You might also be interested in Nim, see for example: http://goran.krampe.se/2014/10/29/nim-and-oo/

(Static types, basic OO, syntax, fast compilation)
It would be worth a try. My bet is that the user vomits or falls down.
An Effective Day
Correct, fast, and maintainable C code is a very tall order. Good luck finding ANYONE who can do that consistently for a reasonable paycheck.
I'd seen the occasional bit about her on Reddit before, but I didn't know she was as deeply interested in technology. Her observations about the 'hacker scene' in China are really heart-breaking. So much potential, and it's all being largely ignored since it doesn't fit with the cultural expectations.
uber being not profitable doesn't really tell us anything. They are not profitable by design.. if they cut their growth budget today, I am sure they are insanely profitable, they just prefer to spend all the money in growth.. Even in SF they try to launch new products all the time, Pool, UberEats, delivery API.. it costs money to grow these businesses. Hopefully they did the math so when the time comes, they can turn the switch and basically print money
(and they probably spend a ton of money on driverless car R&D)
If you had me on an IRC server that had to service the numbers that Twitch is talking about; I would use every single server coding practice I am aware of. Someone else comes along. Maybe his first refactor would be to remove the buffer pooling. Maybe he'd change a data structure specifically designed to prevent false sharing, cutting throughput.

Good code doesn't always mean approachable code, writing a decent socket server in C assumes a ton of advanced knowledge.

If Sally had to write, say, a C logging library it would be a masterpiece of simplicity. These days your code has an audience, and those audiences can vary quite greatly.
You're overthinking newsletters. Most newsletter providers, e.g. mailchimp, offer forms you can integrate with a couple of lines of HTML/Javascript/CSS. They take care of all opt-in, unsubscribe, user management (including API, you can download all data for later) for you. No need to create your own database.

http://kb.mailchimp.com/lists/signup-forms/create-signup-for...
I guess I don't understand why there is "later stage startup advice" on the internet.

Ostensibly if you are later stage you have a bevy of advisers, investors, mentors, peers etc... that would be in a much better position to give you advice about your specific - end even general - issues. Who is this advice really for?
> Maybe we could call this "depository" of money to conduct research something like, hmmm, what's a good word… a grant?

Nah, that word is already in use for stagnant allocations of academic welfare to work on bullshit instead of transformative techniques (e.g. CAR T-cells, which NIH refused to fund for years). Need a new word to signify "money that is actually intended to produce results" instead of "a pension for irrelevant tenured senior PIs to pay non-English-speakers below-minimum-wage to work on topics that became irrelevant a decade ago".

> Maybe they could call it something like… amount of impact or maybe just impact factor for short. I think this could work really well.

Ah yes, impact factor is such an amazing tool. It allows "executive" "leadership" types to predict (very poorly, but who cares?) how many citations a paper might receive if it survives the months or years between submission and publication in a major journal. Trouble is, JIF is massively massaged and the COI that Thompson Reuters has in equitably enforcing it is ridiculous.

WARNING: Non-peer-reviewed work ahead! If you're not careful, you might have to apply critical thinking to it!

http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/07/05/062109

> Maybe a general fund should be created to support science!

That's a great theory. Perhaps it can be as well executed as the CIHR fund (where study section has given way to "ignore everyone who doesn't suck my dick directly") or NSF (whose yearly funding is dwarfed by the R&D funding at a single company). This approach is working out very well!

You know, if I didn't know better, I might think you were the sort of researcher that fails to look at the details and just submits your most fashionable bullshit to whateve journal at which your pals happen to be editors. I might get the impression that you're the cancer which is killing grant-funded science, which prizes large labs over large numbers of R01 projects, which believes that O&A is an entitlement to take out mortgages on new buildings instead of to pay for the costs of disbursing and administering a grant. But, since the evidence isn't before me, I won't.

It would be nice if you thought a little more carefully about what you wrote. The devil is in the details.
The Bash for Loop, the First Step in Automation on Linux
"At the base, the slugs will be transferred into a fermentation chamber where bacteria convert them into bio-gas, which is used to load a fuel cell to produce the electricity to power SlugBot's batteries for its next foray."
We tend to use the term Web APIs to capture the space - we should have used that in the title to keep the discussion focused on the Monitoring topic!
> Imagine remote working - where one moment you could be typing away on a sunny beach, the next you're in a scheduled meeting room with all your colleagues, without having to move an inch.

I'm actually eagerly looking forward to what I guess would be called Fantasy Tourism.

VR apps that let you explore or even live in fully fleshed-out fictional locales. Of course it would probably just start off as Virtual Tourism, where you can remotely visit real-world cities and landmarks and interact with other visitors there, before adding beautiful, bizarre or surreal places that don't exist (or can't exist) out there.

I grew up and live in a fairly squalid corner of the world, and seeing pictures like [1] [2] [3] [4] fills me with a wistful longing. I'd totally spend most of my waking hours in these if I could.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/F13RGuh.jpg (courtesy of 防人 on pixiv)

[2]: http://i.imgur.com/AKV5QkR.jpg (Raphael Lacoste from DeviantArt)

[3]: http://i.imgur.com/jlbAXdq.png (三登 on pixiv)

[4]: http://i.imgur.com/I6psL2j.jpg (by Ford Nostalgia)

No doubt popular brands will jump in sooner or later and start offering tickets to say Tatooine or the Shire.

They don't need to have any "gameplay" per se, but they should still have realistic physics (more than most proper games), be "staffed" by real people (running the in-world shops etc.) and of course offer lots of character/cosmetic customization features.

Whoever makes the first killer application of that idea will probably become THE social hangout for the kids of tomorrow to spend their time in, maybe killing Facebook and the like. That is, if Facebook doesn't come up with something like that themselves.
Very different. The EU has a legal method of succession (article 50), the US was brought together under a strict constitution, creating a single federal government. Compared to the original Articles of Confederation:

> In dramatic contrast to Article VII–whose unanimity rule that no state can bind another confirms the sovereignty of each state prior to 1787 –Article V does not permit a single state convention to modify the federal Constitution for itself. Moreover, it makes clear that a state may be bound by a federal constitutional amendment even if that state votes against the amendment in a properly convened state convention. And this rule is flatly inconsistent with the idea that states remain sovereign after joining the Constitution, even if they were sovereign before joining it. Thus, ratification of the Constitution itself marked the moment when previously sovereign states gave up their sovereignty and legal independence
PR that brings in v8_inspector support to Node.js
In the mid-late 90s, when I started writing C++, I had a gut instinct that methods and data shouldn't be encapsulated together. I couldn't explain why though.

Rich Hickey started clarifying it for me a little though. I can't dig up the interview he did, but he talked about classes being mini-DSLs and hindering reuse. That makes sense to me.

I much prefer generic functions and multi-dispatch in Common Lisp's CLOS and the new language Stanza - it just seems more flexible.

But generally, I want to think about data transformations and not little "machines" (objects) doing things things to their state internally.
"I think it's a reasonable assumption that the set-top boxes that Comcast provides are loaded with at least some proprietary Comcast code that takes care of the various functions the TV box provides (scheduling/channel guide, on-demand, authorization, DRM-handling etc)"

In other words a web app? Why does that require dedicated and proprietary hardware? What am I missing?
You can use the epoch time in the url for the filtering. That is lot easier than using a picker.
After Zenefits reprice, A16Z will make 1800% return while employees take 50% cut
My obnoxious opinion is just as loud as your obnoxious opinion. I'm not shouting at you, it's easy to ignore. I'm not insulting anyone, I'm claiming this isn't interesting "news" and doesn't really belong here.
Let's hope the author never needs an MRI.
You can map a spoken language to a random set of symbols.

long A sound = vr in language 1.
Z sound = vr in language 2.

But, unless each language also has a different spelling you can only have one language end up even vaguely phonetic, the other is just going to have random symbols mapping to words. As in "Krithnotrix" -> "Bob" because in L1 "Krithnotrix" translates to a short word.

This means if you have 10 languages then ideograms are easier in 9/10 of them.
I was doing work for a startup that had an amazing solution to this problem, but unfortunately they ran out of money just before launching.
There have been similar pieces by The Verge in the past ([1] and [2]).

People talk about the added perception that having an embedded magnet gives them, but honestly while my hearing/sight isn't great I've been able to sometimes get rather similar perceptions just through regular living. I think one use case I've read about was walking on the street and feeling a subway train below the ground. I've walked on a street before and felt the vibration of the grinding tracks, heard the scratch and screech of hard wheels on rail, and seen sparks or electric bolts when subway cars (at least Muni in SF) temporarily lose power via their rooftop cables.

I've had those perceptions without any kind of body mods. Is the issue that people nowadays are too stubborn to ignore the senses they already have, or grow so tired and bored of them that they need to add a completely new one?

I'm not sure that it makes any real sense to have an implanted magnet in a finger.

But hey, whatever floats people's boats; if there exist some people who absolutely need to change their own perceptions then I suppose all the power to them for making that decision and being capable of enduring the stress and pain from the procedure.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/8/3177438/cyborg-america-bioh...

[2] http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/31/5952647/cyborg-conversion-...
I add the site to No-Script and I can see it in Chrome on OS X
Yeah I'd say feature. Emails are easy to delete, hard to get back a domain you have lost.

I thought it was annoying as well, then I lost one. Luckily it was something I could change easily.

In my case, make stupid decisions, get stupid prizes.
Tips for Finding Housing in San Francisco
No code == no sale.

I don't like the eventual promise of opensourceness. Just make it FOSS out the gate.
Multiply the placeholder times with the estimates of your choice, of course :)
I'm glad Notes app in new iOS 10 offers very basic sharing feature, so that I can move 80% of my En usage (share short notes with family/friends) to Notes, while the rest(keep long text for work) to Quip, Dropbox or iCloud.
Thanks, I would have missed that otherwise :-)
The author had the magnet removed after it became infected.
> [...] because the meaning is disambiguated by context.

Until it's not disambiguated, especially that API and service implementing the
API are in quite close domains and they will cause trouble in understanding.
Really, no need to pollute our already difficult jargon with "API" meaning
"service" ("API service", if you feel that "service" is overloaded).
I think the parent meant Delphi
I would recommend the book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages [0] by scholar Carlotta Perez.
She studies longer cycles though (~50 years) but the mechanism she describes seems pretty sound for the matter at hand.

It goes more or less like this:

- capital in search for long term returns goes to early moves of a big technological shift

- as successes from the new technology get more and more apparent, it attracts a much larger slice of capital available, and eventually gets over-funded (the real opportunity of this technology is limited)

- a bubble forms, most capital is in for a quick speculative return

- back to square one with a new technology (and former bubble bursts)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Technological-Revolutions-Financial-C...
>I didn't realize Chrome was becoming the default testing environment. I find it weird, given its terrible font rendering. I tried using Chrome but just couldn't. Smaller size fonts render weak, pale, bleak, like drawn with a dull pencil.

I find the opposite: never could stand Firefox's font rendering -- and I've used the thing for years back in early 00s.
How It Feels to Take Summer Classes as Told by Kourtney Kardashian