skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Do you not feel like the medium of VR gives you presence and adds something that no other medium does?

Absolutely not. I feel like I have a pair of very low resolution monitors strapped to my face. The whole rig needs to be an order of magnitude lighter and and order of magnitude higher resolution before it actually approaches "virtual reality". It's pretty impossible with the current generation of devices to forget that the device is there, which I see as a key requirement of credible virtual reality.
That's one of the things the court decides. The plaintiff is saying that what Mr Doig said has caused him five million dollars in damages. One of the things that the jurors will determine is what the actual value of those damages are. They could decide $5 million, or they could decide $5.
He is only proving the invalidity of evaluating the price of a painting based on the name of the artist.
Necessity is certainly is the mother of invention. The question that downsizers, minimalists and KonMari would ask though is: do you even _need_ that box of souvenirs? ;-)

But good on you for living lean. It is admirable. I isn't that I think North Americans CANNOT do it... I think the post-war culture has made us forget that it IS possible and we can be perfectly happy living small. There needs to be a cultural change beyond the bachelor apartments of NYC. But I might be taking this conversation off track... so I will just stop here.
The syntax doesn't make too much difference.

With a dynamic or duck type system, though, you can avoid a lot of writing out interfaces or making class hierarchies. You end up with something less structurally uniform, but with a much shorter time to get results.

If you care about type mismatches, use a statically typed language. If you just want to get something working, use a dynamically typed one.
Repudiability is a feature of some systems, difficult with others.

PGP-signed messages, for example, are not only authenticated and of proven integrity, but they are nonrepudiable, at least cryptographically.

(Bad key management or other factors might affect any of these, but generally these are characteristics of the system.)

Designing a system which does allow for encryption and authentication but also provides for repudiability would be interesting.
You would be a huge fan of 'Onement VI' or 'The Voice of Fire' by Barnett Newman.

I think the man is a genius. I think his paintings are...well...the paintings speak for themselves, like Mr. Newman says.
The Supreme Court tells politicians how to take bribes without going to jail
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British Duchess of Cambridge-Kate Middleton looks sexy in this outfit
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Once a place becomes part of the tour packages, it apparently becomes a fixture and people ask for it. At least that's what I've been told by tourists about my current hometown Heidelberg, which is about as nice as a hundred other similar places in Germany and yet receives almost every Asian tourist in the country on a 10-day Europe package tour. Apparently the location is convenient too.
When you pull back and look at this and other announcements holistically, the writing on the wall becomes very clear:

Reddit is moving towards more concrete, less anonymous identification of its users, a more advertiser-friendly environment, and a ramp-up in monetization.

Not that people should be surprised. Reddit started as some magical place that got really fun as it reached critical mass. But the business realities of that in terms of funding and everything else eventually will ruin that party. Taking outside investment was one of the final nails in the coffin in that regard because that investment doesn't happen without a significant expected return.

The question is, how quickly can they boil all the frogs in the pot without the majority of them jumping out, and how quickly can they keep filling the pot with new frogs once it is already boiling.
Tribes: Ascend was also fine, even with the free-to-play parts, until they pushed the monetization just a little too far. I think I have something like 200 hours in it playing the basic classes with most of the essential unlocks, and it was a great game. And then they released way too much paid DLC and things got a bit too ridiculous for me.
What would you call Google's billion dollar payout to Apple to be the default search engine?

Or Google's other traffic buying programs.

Last acts of a dying company?

Google is light years ahead of Yahoo in PR.
The point I was trying to make is that it seems like people don't want to make actual services or servers, but rather depend on some sort of closed loop or ecosystem elsewhere, and if you happen to not use that, you can't use the nice stuff they put up on GitHub.
That's a good start.

It looks like the link here on HN was changed to an expanded story.

The one I read this morning was: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36706591
Your original comment seems very much to suggest anything but that you believe it is the wrong person. That is the source of my confusion and I think possibly the others that replied.
> Rust is implemented in Rust, which means that to build a copy of Rust, you need a copy of Rust. This is commonly referred to as ‘bootstrapping’. Historically, we would do this by “snapshotting” a specific version of the compiler, and always bootstrapping from that

So, does that mean that Rust (has/will have) issues regarding binary blobs in pure free software Linux distributions?
I could do this - I don't need much more than a laptop, pen, paper and a cellphone to work, albeit not ideally - but I have 10.000-plus books, I don't think there is a fix for that (relying on public libraries isn't logistically feasible). Yes, the idea of moving is very worrisome.
Check out Agrible. agrible.com and morning farm report which is our flagship delivery platform. Instead of focusing on data collection/organization (a digital farm notebook) we are focused on predictive analytics which is essentially decision support for the grower. We combine high res weather / soil / field info and have a built a model that literally is growing virtual crops and we are using our model to predict yields at the end of the growing season!
Could be either of these folks:

http://www.datto.com/

http://www.a-dato.com/
Kill All Feeds
There are entire classes of goods which serve as assets or stores of wealth rather than as goods in their own right.

These require some (though not necessarily all) of the features of money: utility/value, portability, indestructibility, homogeneity, divisibility, stability, cognizability.

What fine arts offer is (relative) indestructabilty (they don't simply fall apart hanging on a wall), they have a high creation cost -- workfactor, and particularly if of a dead artist, cannot be created again, though that depends on being able to detect forgeries. Art lacks homogeneity and divisibility, but with auctions it is relatively liquid and can be recognized ("cognizability") as a thing having value.

These aren't wealth themselves -- the value is imbued by the market. But they are vehicles for moving wealth.

Say, like stock options or Bitcoin.
I don't know where you got C++ from.

In any case, I assume they stayed with Java as their entire code base was Java with the exception of what ever they program their FPGAs with.
Skiing was a bug in Starsiege:Tribes - it was a feature in Tribes 2 and arguably made the whole series into what it is.

The community eagerly awaits a reboot that can even come close to challenging the technical & operational superiority of T1 & T2. What masterpieces they were.
(10 days later...)

It does. Thank you.
Am I misunderstanding this line:

"So far, the numbers are small enough. Of the 35 billion pounds, or $45 billion, invested in these funds, just under £20 billion has been affected."

What? More than half? And that's considered insignificantly small?
If you have the cash, the story may be the most interesting part. Art collecting is at least a tiny bit more complex than just a race to own the most X by Y.
Realism is something we're concerned with! Unfortunately there isn't a well-defined way to say how realistic a synthetic bug is, so we had to come up with our own. The ultimate test of whether the bugs are useful is whether they can be used to improve bug detectors, and that remains to be seen.

We attempted in the paper to make an argument based, effectively, on whether the modified program looks like a normal program from the point of view of a bug-finding tool. From that perspective, the control flow in the program is unmodified, and the data flow is exactly the same as in the original program except for a small portion where data from the input file flows through a global variable to the crash site. We show that this section of data flow is usually short (in terms of number of instructions in a dynamic trace); we're also working now on extending it so that the data flow is more "natural" (i.e., it goes through return values and function parameters, rather than through global data). Additionally, we showed that the bugs are distributed throughout the execution lifetime of the programs we tested.

I definitely agree that they do not look like bugs humans most often write. However, to be effective, we just need them to look enough like the kind of bugs we want to catch that bug-finding software will have to reason about the program in the same way.
No, it seems relativity free of cheaters. Once they brought out the ban hammer (as well as perma bans), the amount of cheaters seems to have dropped quite a lot.
I’m not that comfortable with Xcode, but I just built two versions of this tool, one direct from GitHub, one (called lzfse2) that calls the Compression library on Mac OS X. Typical timings on my system are:

> time ./lzfse -encode -i webster -o webster.lzfse

real 0m0.945s
user 0m0.864s
sys 0m0.062s

> time ./lzfse2 -encode -i webster -o webster.lzfse2

real 0m0.803s
user 0m0.715s
sys 0m0.072s

> time ./lzfse -decode -i webster.lzfse -o /dev/null

real 0m0.133s
user 0m0.091s
sys 0m0.036s

> time ./lzfse2 -decode -i webster.lzfse2 -o /dev/null

real 0m0.083s
user 0m0.053s
sys 0m0.025s

So, the version that ships on Mac OS X seems to be faster (10% at encoding, 35% at decoding) than what this source and makefile produce. I don’t think that has to do with my way of building them, as I used the makefile (which uses -Os) to build the original tool, and any compiler flags will not have much effect on the one using the Mac OS X library.

Worryingly, the two versions also produce different files (12,209,496 bytes for the GitHub code, 12,234,159 bytes for the library on Mac OS X 10.11.5), but they can decompress each others files and produce the original file.
"These types of direct property funds — where the fund itself owns the building or property outright — represent a small piece of the mutual fund world.

Yet they have accounted for a growing share of investment in commercial real estate in Britain in recent years. According to a recent Bank of England report, these funds have about $46 billion in assets under management, representing 7 percent of investment in the British market." http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/07/business/dealbook/3-more-p... the linked article.

So it seems this is maybe 3 percent of the overall British mutual fund market, and a fairly exotic part.
Can you go a day without your phone?
Does the fine print say they are allowed to do this?
It's possible that the first part is a typo and should be trillion?
This would make for a fantastic book
Or Klein's monochrome.

Actually I am less appaled by modern art than by the exercise of using random painting as a form of commodity to store value. Like keeping some paintings in a safe like if it was a gold bar.

In a way everyone likes going shopping. What people like is spending too much money, not so much that they ruin themselves but enough that it still hurts. That's why people who cannot afford luxury products will still buy something small in a luxury shop.

But how do you get that satisfaction when you have a billion in your bank account?

Comes Mr Artist, or often Mr Art Dealer (or both) who will create a new rare commodity for you. Art is good, you don't have to justify it. In fact any critic of art is an uneducated idiot who lacks imagination and sensitivity.

So Mr Art Dealer will sell you a painting for a few dozen millions, just enough that it still hurts you and provides you with the satisfaction to do shopping.

I am not a socialist but it does feel like there is too much money in the system...
The amount of work required to fold and put away laundry is absolutely insane. Especially in a household of 5. It's more efficient to just stuff everything into any drawer that has space, and rifle through all your drawers and closets when you want to get dressed.
No. If you're asking this question, you don't remember how bad developing for IE was for a while. Safari doesn't have newer features like WebRTC or Service Workers, but the things that it does support, it supports well in a standards-compliant way.
...and here's one with Neil Armstrong talking us through it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfj2jqpst_Q&feature=youtu.be...
They changed the article, and removed the link to the paper: http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2016/papers/0824a110.pdf
That's just plain terrible. But a good reminder that all the talk about nanoseconds is just that.
> I dunno, the fact that I have to sell my soul to finance to find a decent tech job doesn't speak particularly well to its health.

As opposed to selling your soul to the advertising industry. At the end of the end of the day, unless you are independently wealthy or live in a very low cost area, you're gonna have to make peace with Adam Smith's invisible hand.
I looked at that, and eventually found a reference to the Launchpad bug in this 500KB patch[0]. It says:

+ * Fixes included in the 4.2.4 upstream release (compared to 4.2.3-3ubuntu7):
+ - Fix LP: #256797, wrong-code on ia32, taken from the gcc-4_2-branch.

Which makes it sound like the problem was in GCC, not the Ubuntu package. I was under the impression that the bug was caused by an Ubuntu-specific patch, from dikaiosune's comment. Am I missing something?

Edit: Ah, so the fix was added in 4.2.4-1ubuntu1, not 4.2.4-1ubuntu3. Which narrows the actual source changes to something inside this other 500KB patch[1]. From here I looked at the upstream changes using GitHub compare[2] (warning, big page). I ran a one liner in the JS console to expand all the "…" buttons next to the commit messages so I could search for relevant text, which lead me to this commit[3], which seems to be the actual code changes to fix that particular bug. That finally lead me to the bug in GCC's bug tracker[4].

I don't know if I have just been very lucky with the open source projects I've collaborated with, but this journey to find where a bug was actually fixed seems completely insane to me. Is all this info passed down from maintainer to maintainer just via folklore? Crazy.

Oh, I almost forgot about what I actually wanted to know. This looks like a GCC bug that wasn't caused by Ubuntu specific patches, so I don't know what dikaiosune wanted to say.

[0] https://launchpadlibrarian.net/18364478/gcc-4.2_4.2.4-1ubunt...

[1] https://launchpadlibrarian.net/17472542/gcc-4.2_4.2.3-2ubunt...

[2] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/compare/gcc-4_2_3-release....

[3] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/80cacf54c3d410d5552...

[4] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35163
Big update, absence of Tabs was killing me almost.
The article mentions that the managers are allowed to block withdrawals under 'exceptional circumstances' to protect those with a longer term investment outlook.
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This reminds me of London's Great Smog of 1952 (Dec). It finally pushed the country and city to deal with the air pollution. Hopefully this does the same for the millions living each day in this current mess.
> If you want cache friendly operations and predictable performance you're not going to find it in any JVM or language that has a GC.

I don't know you and it's always dangerous to argue with people on HN due to who might be reading but I'd very strongly disagree with your above quote.

Predictable performance can be obtained on a very low latency, I've seen it:)

Cache friendly can be tougher and I won't argue the point as I think it will end up being a "no true Scotsman" argument where I claim Java can be cache efficient and you counter that C can do better so therefor Java isn't truly cache efficient
I used to buy a load of physical books but my useage has mostly been replaced by ebooks and similar electronic sources. The paper books are still around but not used so much.
I think Zed Shaw should get off of his high horse. He knows a little about statistics, and think he knows plenty.

A distribution that cannot go negative (a real world system), cannot be a normal distribution because normal distributions must extend infinitely in both directions. If your standard deviation is small enough though, a normal distribution can be a fitting model.

> Almost all of the queries performed great, except one query that had sub-second response on average, but a 60 second standard deviation!

If the average response is < 1 sec than a 60 second standard deviation means that many responses are being made before the query is sent.

Moving from just using averages and thinking about properly measuring is a good start, but assuming that all distributions are normal is nearly as bad.
Worth mentioning the two just won the 2015 Turing Award:

http://amturing.acm.org/

I actually just recently spoke with Hellman for an interview. He's focusing on educating people about the risk of maintaining nuclear deterrents. Also has a new book out that might not be what you expect:

https://anewmap.com/
In a certain sense, yes. But in reality, no. There's both rustc and cargo packages in Debian unstable, for example. In my understanding, distros are willing to accept a single initial blob. They use that to build the initial package, and then build their own packages from that forever after.
"sporadically covered by permafrost" - I think you're confused as to the permanency of permafrost.
https://www.noredink.com/ uses it

https://circuithub.com/ uses it

Futureice uses it, here they talk about their experiences with it: http://futurice.com/blog/elm-in-the-real-world

Here's a presentation by Richard Feldman of NoRedInk on their experience: https://presentate.com/rtfeldman/talks/shipping-a-production...

I think new technologies are best evaluated by a careful subjective evaluation of their future promise (something to grow with) instead of looking at how many people are using said technology already... but I'm a startup guy with Shiny-Thing Bias (STB). :) (and I'm already an Elixir fan, and Elixir is chummy with Elm!)
What kind of BS case is this? Why wasn't it thrown out at the first chance by the judge?

5 millions for damage? So if Peter Doig was forced to admit ownership, he would have to pay 5 millions? And if he won, he would still have to pay 5 millions because his word caused the evaporation of the presumed value of the fake?
Why would it?
This is the same situation as a C compiler requiring another C compiler to build it.
This study went into some of the changes in depth perception experienced by people going through hormonal therapy for gender reassignment operations: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10341369

This paper talks about some observations and some of the issues that still need to be covered: http://www.danah.org/papers/transtech.pdf

And a further paper from Dr. Boyd going into more detail on virtual reality more specifically: http://www.danah.org/papers/sexvision.pdf
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But there is something intrinsic in gold. Because of its physical properties (it doesn't oxidise, it's sort of eternal), and it is rare. A painting is more like fiat money. The painter can pull more paintings out of his ass (and some litterally do). And if the painter is dead, we'll find another fashionable genius. Feels more like tulips than gold.
CloudFlare has DNSSEC and a REST API (https://api.cloudflare.com/) but not SSHFP at this time, that's likely coming in the not too distant future though.

I believe Rage4 https://rage4.com/ checks all the boxes you're looking for.

Disclaimer: I work at CloudFlare.
LucasArts’ long lost, 30-year-old MMO is now preserved on GitHub
> You are making the mistake of assuming that DV is only represented by homicide counts.

I'm just going to quote myself here. You're both arguing from outliers and arguing from emotion.

Hell, fuck it. You win. The anti-DV campaign should stop because it's not completely even-handed. Fuck those infants beaten to death because their dads can't hear the footy. We should close down all the battered women's shelters as well. Those beaten humans with broken bones in their face are clearly benefitting at the expense of us males. Never mind that we can use success with anti-DV for women as a springboard for anti-DV for men, getting it into the public dialogue.

After all, if we can't help everyone, then we shouldn't help anyone. Absolutely no step of the way shouldn't ever be even-handed. That would be unfair.
India currently has sufficient electricity but the distribution system remains broken.

> why isn't the market for electricity working in India?

Electricity in India is a government monopoly. Even using a generator is illegal if you produce electricity above certain level. In very few cities government has allowed private players like Tata and Reliance to produce electricity and yet given them a complete monopoly over certain parts of the city.

Land acquisition in India is a big mess. People dont have proper property rights, clear land titles etc. It is illegal for a private company to buy land for commercial purposes if the land is not under particular zone. For example let us say I want to build my own power-lines over 100miles. I cant erect a pole in a farmland because erecting a poll is a commercial activity and the land is meant for farming only.

So the companies have to ask government to acquire land. It is a huge corrupt mess.
I don't think that's what "too big to fail" means. It doesn't mean that you are so big that failing is impossible, it's that you are so big that if you fail you'll take the whole industry with you, thus it's politically untenable to allow you to fail. (Mind you I don't subscribe to the view that these things should be bailed out, I'm just explaining the phrase.) I don't think Facebook fits in that category.
They won't eat it. Too gamey. Folks are used to mild chicken and turkey. Geese are more like duck.
Voat.co

It's full of racism and bigotry and it's not nearly as active as Reddit, but it's something.
We do not currently have good options for small Post Quantum signatures.

Hash Based signatures in a web of trust would result in enormous amounts of signature data for each public key.

A stateful hash based signing protocol like XMSS might be more suitable.

Hopefully a Post Quantum small signature alternative appears.
Where's this money go? I thought many developers were doing it for free. Yet they can't support thunderbird or persona
The book/movie "The Big Short" dramatizes this really nicely.
I find pandas documentation verbose but ultimately not real world. Every one of them generates random values which aren't visually distinct. Makes it hard to follow operations.