skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The relevant bits:

"Valve's work up to 2013 had made real-time tracking in VR a viable proposition. But although it had worked out the fundamentals, it wasn't about to build its own headset. And why would it? The public had already voted with its wallet, funding Oculus to the tune of $2.4 million. In Jan. 2014 Valve announced that it would collaborate with Oculus on tracking to "drive PC VR forward." It also said it had no plans to release its own VR hardware, although it noted that "this could change" in the future.

It's clear that at some point Oculus and Valve's cooperative spirit fell apart. It could be that Oculus and Valve disagreed on what VR should be: The Rift and Vive certainly offer different experiences. But it's also been suggested that communication from Oculus ground to a halt in the months after the Facebook acquisition, which forced Valve to explore other paths. It's unlikely that anyone will go on the record to confirm that for years. All we know is that in early January, Luckey was reportedly calling Valve's tech "the best virtual reality demo in the world," and by late spring, HTC and Valve were meeting to hammer out a deal."
I tried most of the ones on the list. I'm currently using [Spark](https://sparkmailapp.com/) not as buggy as Airmail, mailbox many of the features I liked from both.
I never made that connection. TIL. Thank you!
Fei Fei Li has some great quotes near the end (starting around 31:10):

"I find it very hard to convince women and underrepresented minorities to work in AI."

“We are not sending the right messages to attract people of all walks of life - we tend to just celebrate geekiness, nerdiness, but when you have an ambitious young woman coming into our department or into the AI lab... if we present ourselves just as geeks loving to do geeky things, we’re missing a huge demography..."

“We're missing a huge opportunity attracting diversity because we're not talking enough or thinking enough of humanistic missions in AI."

I have a little sister who often wonders whether she should keep studying engineering because of things like this.
Criminal Code: The Procedural Logic of Crime in Videogames
Huh. Avast, eh? The same company that sold almost uninstallable 3rd-party crapware in Germany, together with AVG, who're happy to MITM you to sell your data?

Do I remember that correctly?
Unequal City – Wealthy Tourists Gentrified Jackson Hole WY into a Housing Crisis
Yes. Any IMAP client should work and I'm using K9 and TB successfully.
>Why should the US put all that effort into cleaning up the air in China?

1) For altruistic reasons: help people who suffer.

2) For selfish reasons: block from markets industrial competitors who are gaining an advantage by applying much poorer environmental norms and therefore take market share.
My biggest gripe is that it doesn't integrate with their calendar app; which, I think is very silly.
A new standard for distributed tracing has emerged
Seems like every country is busy approving some of the most repressive laws in post-Soviet history. How do these laws compare with the legislation in other countries? Or even proposed legislation, that was either averted by civil society or is still being wrangled over.

For instance, Justifying terrorism on social media is also a crime in Germany (§ 282a StGB), although I can't comment on the exact conditions and the maximum penalty is two years, not seven. And data retention was reintroduced (after being abolished for constitutional reasons), but it only covers metadata and the retention length is much shorter (weeks, as opposed to years).
Russia have had SORM, SORM-2, SORM-3 for ages. New law force decryption of P2P communications to restore status quo.
Or is this the coming of the bee revolution?! Wake up sheeple!!! (Just kidding of course).

Seriously though, I've never heard of the last name "Pollen", is there any chance that it's pseudonym?
A fair point. I think HN should let these sites be published because it gives us all the knowledge that something exists. We can then freely make the choice of how we wish to interact with that site. Taking the position that something should be not be shared, disseminated, or indexed, simply because of the bad behavior by that link, brings to mind the delisting of material from search engines that may be offensive to others. Put the articles and websites out there and let people choose for themselves.
> [Russia] had democracy in 90s

Russia had elections in the 1990s. Elections are just one component of democracy [1]. Protecting the rights of the minority from the will of the majority and constraining the rulers within the law (i.e. the rule of law) were not features of Russia's heady days in the go-go 90s.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~ldiamond/iraq/WhaIsDemocracy012004...
The Canadian version is for dual citizens only. They're not leaving single citizenship Canadians stateless, like the proposed version of the Russian law does.
The layout engine is in this package:

https://godoc.org/e8vm.io/e8vm/dagvis

it is possible to layout any DAG (directed graph with no circles).

The dependency graph of golang programs are generated by this package:

https://godoc.org/e8vm.io/tools/godep

I have not very well packaged the drawing part (sorry), but the essentials are here:

https://github.com/e8vm/shanhu/blob/master/web/js/dag.js

it is using d3.
Research suggests many US parents will lie when saying kids made them happier
It's all fun and games until you mirror the IMAP folder structure (what you sync with server) with local folders, break your Mac, and then import them into a new Mac and have to keep it all straight.

Or you have to make a PST export on a Mac and do it on a PC? Given my job, I am relieved but terrified I have not even had to worry about it. I just looked it up and chuckled. Not a surprise this will screw you.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-m...

Again, I said this before in another thread and stood in the middle of a minor flame. All email clients suck more than mutt.

Do I love mutt? Not so much. But the developers have the serenity to accept that which they cannot change, and that the whole charade blows. (Does a day go by where we do not pounce on those who propose secure email, as a protocol and system? Forget the clients even.) That, and I have low self-esteem and relate to people who poke fun at themselves for sucking a little less since the beginning. [0]

To relate it to a real technical issue. Mutt tries to be as nothing as possible, in terms of feature set and use case, while Outlook/Thunderbird/fat clients try to be everything.

Someone likened Outlook to Emacs (which I love ironically), which I would say is true with a caveat. Something as intimate as correspondence and personal communication programming needs to be powerfully extensible and customizable, and none of the fat clients have good interfaces for that. Not even mutt does easily, and this is the core of the problem.

Show me a world where everyone uses the same ink, pen, and paper to draft dead tree letters in the exactly style and preference and we can find an email that does not suck.

(Hint: there never was one and never will be! Let the downvotes descend upon me!)

[0] http://www.mutt.org/ I pray they never change this beautiful site and its header.
Parent post is a pretty good example of propaganda that is being disseminated on full volume all over Russia for last 5 years. They got really good at shilling all over the internet with these kind of messages.
Ullage (the word) has terrestrial applications too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ullage_(wine)
TTIP is a valid EU-related concern if you live in a country that would reject TTIP if it wasn't part of the EU. This doesn't apply to the UK, where the current and probably future governments would happily sign it in normal times, and will be much weaker when negotiating now, so even a hypothetical anti-TTIP goverment would probably have it foisted upon them.

Everything is relative, so one persons's too-corporate EU is another person's too-socialist EU. Anyone in the UK who voted out of the EU because they were worried about corporations having too much influence is in for a rude awakening as the reality of brexit sinks in.
> Ruby seems to be quoted as an elegant language, and it certainly has its followers, and the number of Ends (vs. Begins in Pascal) are just as numerous, yet this is never cited.

Well, except that the cascade of ends is a frequent complaint about Ruby, rather than something "never cited".
Firstly as others noted you can use a transport-layer level compression mechanism like gzip.

The other bit sort of comes down to application level logic.

You can filter down to the unique items and store them in a json array (or object) and in the other places instead of repeating the item use a value to reference the items (like index in the array or a key in the object).
You lucky lucky dog. What kind of flowers do they have access to primarily?
10k? And who are these millions, supporting the man, who states that Putin's party and Putin himself are thieves?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_mayoral_election,_2013
Yes. I do for Google Apps now for years. Why I love it, server-side IMAP search, which means you use server-side search not the Gmail way, but as part of the IMAP protocol.

Is it as fast and perfect? No. But I do not have to store so much damn email or increase the efficiency of Gmail's real-time tracking of my butt all over the world.
A very restrained response, and very effective. I just wanted to add that I really enjoyed this article, and this is the first I've seen it.
> I could be wrong. But I think part of why they did it this way was so they could edit things on the fly

The AGC code was stored in ROM. Notably a specific kind of ROM called "rope memory".
> it ended with organized crime ruling the nation

That's still the case, except there's just one dominant family, which to be fair has its benefits for the country. No, liberal democracy isn't a panacea for everything, but at some point the security vs freedom tradeoff fails and further reductions in freedom produce no security benefits, or any benefits at all to society.
Nice. I would suggest to always use Atom instead of RSS, as it can do everything RSS can and more (e.g. multiple enclosures).
Not surprised. The last time I was in Delhi, 4 years ago, I couldn't breathe outside the home.
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I'm not sure the farmer should be getting in the way of data collection. Regional and global optimizations can be mined from a large enough set of ag data. Do we really want to nickel and dime research this way? Its a fair question.

I know; there's a sense of ownership. But farmers are just one participant in the chain of data management. They just happen to be the one person residing physically over the land. So they could charge rent on data. But should they?
Integrating Log Management into Your DevOps Workflow
Because any person who disagrees with official stance on anything can be conveniently labeled as a terrorist. It's been done million times.

Not so long ago we had "enemy of the people" term in Russia that was applied so broadly that significant portion of population was affected.

In US terrorist watch list grows out of proportion and no one knows who's in it and why.
> But, I think the key one is that doing something online securely will always be more difficult and expensive that doing it insecurely.

Yeah that is a good way to put it. There are periodic spikes for demand when there are large publicized security breaches -- Snowden, Sony, Target etc.

Most people out there are hard to convince to jump through extra hoops to get more security unless they see those around them or themselves being hurt by not having it.

There is market for silly "rfid wallet blockers" because the story is "it protects you against identity theft". It is mostly a scam, but the point is people relate to identity theft, it happened to someone they know probably.

> There's only a certain number of people that are deeply passionate enough

Yap. An additional observation, from talking to a few people at Silent Circle is that those working there are also deeply passionate about it (why would they hire anyone who isn't, right?). That is good of course, but is also bad, because it translates to rose colored glasses when it comes to market demand.

Everyone thinks there are many others out there, who are just as interested and passionate as themselves, so it is easy to overestimate demand. I think to a certain extent that the idea behind the lawsuit. Someone somewhere massively overestimated the market demand.
Source code for Lucasfilm '80s MMO Habitat released
Google Tests New Crypto in Chrome to Fend Off Quantum Attacks
Ah. When I used Pascal, it was back in the old days. The single most horrific problem was that the size of an array was part of the type of the array, so it was literally impossible to use variable-sized arrays. But I didn't whine about that one, because I knew that it was fixed as early as Turbo Pascal.

grumble grumble kids get off my lawn...
I'd update that to add H3VR
I strongly agree with you.

Since my source of income was built due to being in global cities and the only infrastructure I need is the Internet and my ability to think. My source of income is not disrupted due to being in the village.

But I think if your work doesn't allow you to do things remotely, yes there is a lack of opportunity in the village.

I was just thinking of the fact that my main income drain is rent in a global city. So moving to the village eliminates my biggest expense.
You're right that you cannot buy a house with $0 in the bank, pretty much regardless of what you make. No one is likely to give you a mortgage with $0 down, and if they do, it's going to be a bad deal for you.

Back on topic, we did go down an odd path specifically about the house. My initial point really boils down to what you want to do with the money. It could be very life-changing to save $500k in ten years and retire somewhere cheap. If you're just going to buy a house, it's really not that life-changing, both because you can do that without 500k in cash, and because owning a house is really not that different day-to-day from renting.

I'm not clear what you mean when you say "10% is not even close to cutting it". If your retirement goals depend on a >10% return, you're likely to be disappointed. The S&P 500 has only been ~5%/year for the past 10 years, and that's before accounting for inflation. It wasn't doing so hot before that, either, with ~4%/year over the last 20.
Yeah, right. 9/11, ISIS, crushed states and chaos in the Middle East... They all happened before the fall, obviously.
As a FLOSS supporter, I have been perturbed they charge money and let Thunderbird languish, just like I have been as an individual user all these years. Problem is I don't make a profit off it. Do they give back? I would like to stand corrected if I arrogantly assumed.
How about 2 tablets?
Eh. I feel like long variable names would obscure the algorithm. And bit shifting and array operations aren't interchangeable….

C just tends to look like line noise for numerical algorithms sometimes.
> This disregards a common use of the Makefile: compiling software from source, bypassing the use of a package manager in the first place.

Most of the executions (those actually used in the wild) of this strategy are
quite stupid. Add to that the fact that building packages with distribution's
tools is quite easy, and now on top of that add fpm, which produces terrible
packages and should be banned for upstream maintainers, but for a desktop
installation they're perfectly usable, and checkinstall, which is more than
fifteen years old.

> Yes, software devs should be providing a Makefile that is friendly for package managers to wrap.

After what I said to steveklabnik
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12014815): build script (whatever it is,
it doesn't need to be makefile) should never touch network when building the
project and should not expect libraries in any particular place (especially
not the directory with the sources nor $HOME/.whatever). This is enough for
build script to be friendly towards package managers and none of the package
managers expect anything more from the source tarball.

> But the best software provides a Makefile usable on all platforms it supports, without the expectation that a package manager will be involved.

Yes, of course. But package managers really don't expect anything more than
a good build script should provide: no network, no hardcoded library paths,
only building the artifacts from the locally accessible sources. And maybe
a target that puts the artifacts in appropriate places under $DESTDIR, but
this is often optional. There's nothing more than one could do by hand,
installing stuff into /opt/$someproject directory, so it can be safely removed
altogether, and add symlinks to /usr/local/bin, so they're in typical $PATH.

Package managers actually springed from automating what people did manually
just before.

> Whether performed accidentally or intentionally, installing to /usr/local/ prefix (/usr/local/bin/, etc.), should not result in having no way of automating an uninstall of those files.

Let's not make the users mentally disabled people. Do we really need to
protect them from all their mistakes? What would be next, adding a recycle bin
for files removed with `rm'?

OK, I'm somewhat exaggregating here. But where's the line of that protection?
Regarding the tangle barrier issue, there is a tool that helps: https://github.com/aryx/syncweb
It allows to modify both the original WEB document and code and keep them in sync.
On a commercial building?
sctb sometimes does some modding.
Maybe murdering the opposition has the effect of making people a little reluctant to speak out or attend demonstrations.
How does this work in winter?
Yeah in hindsight it's obvious I should've mentioned this category, but as I mentioned in the article, I strongly prefer my email apps to be unified (i.e. both Mac + iOS available) and there are fewer and less interesting (IMO) Mac-only apps than iOS-only apps. Postbox is great if you're just looking for a stable, no-frills client that's desktop-only. I also use Mailplane sometimes (it's basically just a tabbed wrapper around the Gmail web interface).
The 90s were a result of the same corrupt people refusing to let go of the power. The KGB just went in silent mode and took control of the country through economic means and agents in key positions in the media and judicial and LE systems.

Stasi had the same plans as did every other country in the Bloc. Some were fought off (Baltics, Czech), others are worked very well (Bulgaria).
> My kingdom for a unified inbox and a Mac app. I would never leave Google Inbox again. It’s almost perfect – stable, amazing Google-powered search, snoozing by time and location, all the bells and whistles.

I've used Fluid.app[1] to create 'standalone applications' of webpages. It's always worked great, and is almost what the OP is asking for for 'inbox'.

[1]http://fluidapp.com/
They're far beyond it for a few years now. Before this law there was another (in 2014 if I'm not mistaken) that stipulated that if you do anything with Russian data, you have to 1) store that data physically inside Russia, and 2) you have to give full access to that data to any law enforcement organization upon their request (no warrants, no reason, no appealing, etc.) If you don't, you pay a hefty fine and/or they just shut you down. Also if you have a website with over 3000 daily readers, you must use your real name when publishing anything and must register with a government agency.
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Check out our startup Pycno. We do a smart sensor for farmers, since getting the data out of the farm is the first problem. On the software side we have a lot of analytics and predictions that the farmer can benefit from. We are in HAX, here in Shenzhen!
Postbox isn't keeping their version of the PGP add on current. They are still offering version 1.2 while Enigmail is up to 1.9 now. That's a showstopper for me.
The Rise of the Lawnmower Parent
Not sure who is living in SF unless you have rent control and have been here for a bit.

I live in Fremont ( 45 minute BART ride ) and work in the city. I expect to leave the bay area when my lease is up because I expect the rent to climb to $STUPID

I could afford to live in the city if I was single. Single kids out of college don't make what I make nor would I spend that much on a place to live. Regardless of how much I like the City.

Edit : the rent I have paid in the last 6 years would have paid for a home... nice one in an HOA in most markets ... and my rent is 33% below market
> Anyone seen any alias of this and if there was any link between the fall in terrorist attacks globally and the fall of the USSR?

It wasn't exactly unknown at the time that much terrorism prior to the fall of the Cold War was funded (sometimes indirectly) by the superpowers as part of their geopolitical rivalry. The fall of the USSR resulted in a drop in that activity (on both sides.)
600k smth. Not even a million.
Bulgaria has democracy... Since the communist regime fell in the 90's, the country has been ruled exclusively by the offspring of former communist leaders, in a way that makes the Sicilian mafia look like amateurs. Everything of value in the country (assets, manufacturing, agriculture) has been looted and the money stashed in private accounts abroad. The majority of people who still live there are starving and living in miserable conditions - everyone with half a brain and some saved (or borrowed) money has long left the country (more than 30% of the native population, in my estimates) and is unlikely to ever come back. Those who remain are primarily from the Turkish and Gypsy (aka. "Roma") minorities - people who are consistently bribed at "democratic" elections with (wait for it...) cheap street food. Throw them a burger, they'll vote for whoever you want. As many times as you want :)

But, yea, it's a EU country... in NATO and all that.. modern, democratic.. Long live democracy.
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