skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i have a feeling you are going to come to regret this comment. google has made the right move here. they've introduced VR capabilities to the android platform in a way that, unlike cardboard, will set a baseline good experience for users (performance, frame rate, thermal, etc.) they've introduced a low price point, casual piece of hardware that will get good VR into as many consumers' hands as possible. the have made it so 3rd party vendors can compete in the ecosystem. they are providing an open platform for building and distributing VR software. they have included a controller peripheral as part of the standard which radically increases the surface area of applications.

basically, to me this is the path that seems the most likely vector for mass market VR adoption. the high end PC VR is too expensive in 2016, and the console based VR, while definitely compelling, still has at least one order of magnitude less addressable market.

iterating from here to more standalone devices like those shared already by qualcomm is an obvious transition on this platform and I'd imagine most VR devices sold in 2017-2018 will be portable standalone HMDs running android.
I'm surprised nobody here has yet questioned the wisdom of allowing Google access to literally all of your internet traffic. This is actually a commercial product that you pay money for, so maybe they're all aboveboard here, but with Google's history of trying to get as much personal data as possible about everybody makes me unwilling to trust them with something like this.

On a different note, is there any reason why someone should prefer this to Ubiquiti's AmpliFi? Unlike Google, Ubiquiti has a long history of making networking gear. The only obvious benefit I see right now is Google Wifi starts at $129 for one unit whereas AmpliFi starts at $199, but that $199 includes 2 "mesh points" and presumably to get the same effect with Google Wifi you'd have to shell out $299 for the 3-pack.
there are perfectly valid reasons for believing that she committed perjury to avoid being charged with destruction of evidence and violating the FOIA.

Yes! I will not vote for either major party candidate, but I think our nation would be better off with a more thorough finding of guilt or innocence. Perhaps this data dump will provide that.
After a local tech demo with some CSS3 stuff included, I was amazed by how much could be left out of javascript entirely. My goal with my next project is to learn when to use React vs. jQuery vs. CSS3 for various events that will occur on screen.

I'm excited about it, and I appreciate your explanation. I've never been a front end guy (all devops/scripts and some crud type stuff), so this helps me greatly.
I didn't say "always". But apart from that, people do not always choose the most optimal solution for a problem. There are many reasons people might be using cars in a city although they are not the optimal way of transportation. They could be lazy, want to show off their new BMW, don't like sit close to strangers, have a broken feet, do have to transport something heavy, ...
It's not like it's just fine and dandy to discriminate against poor people unless it's being done with the underhanded intent that most of those poor people will also be minorities, is it?

I totally agree that minorities should be upset at these policies, but so should the non-minorities that are being affected by them, too, and hopefully those "kind-hearted people" you talk about, too.
Well, TC is probably trying to carve itself out as an "edgy" news source" with edgy reporters, so they can play loosey goosey with language.

And it's a shame because there definitely is an issue with police aggressiveness and violence and espousing a shoot first ask questions later philosophy for policing.

On the other hand, we have too many people with guns who should not own guns. I'm ambivalent about the second amendment but so long as we have it, strictly test owners yearly and anyone possessing one illegally has to do massive community work and pay prohibitive fines.
There is also elfeed for Emacs: https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed As good as butter-on-toast. It has a big list of news items with good support for (multi-)tagging and can use curl to fetch quite fast (2.0 feature, set `url-queue-parallel-processes' as high as you can, I've it set to 20).

There's also newsticker.el but I never could get it to work.
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I assume that's because they want page views, to sell adverts.

Plenty of feeds I subscribe to have the full article in the feed, but they're either non-profit organizations or personal blogs. Just one example: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-us/cancer-news/rss.xml
Not only this, but apparently you can be charged with resisting arrest by refusing to go along with the out-of-uniform off-duty cop-cum-security-guard.
Facebook takes on Craigslist and eBay with new classified ad service
I don't think it's just being a hater. Google's marketing campaign leading up to this event is a classic case of over-promising. They really built up expectations so I'm not surprised that people are disappointed.
A few of Bryan Cantrill's talks have already been mentioned here, but this one about DTrace, from 2007, is a gem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgmA48fILq8

I especially like the part in the middle where he tells the story of how a an awful GNOME applet was killing a Sun Ray server, and how he tracked down the culprit with DTrace.
>Won't the others just replace 4chan in user share?

Due to its position as the nexus of "internet culture" for at least a few years in the late 2000s, 4chan is very special. It is one of two major general purpose chans (the other being 8chan). All other chans, including 8chan, define themselves along the lines of "4chan but...", "4chan without...", "4chan with...", or similar. And if they don't now, they started that way.

8chan is the only one that has gained and kept a large enough dedicated userbase for significant content and memes with broad appeal to originate from there. This is a unique consequence of its origin.

Most living alt chans are specialized supplements to 4chan (the "4chan with..." category), and make no apologies for it. Many 4chan regulars frequent one or two: I enjoy cyberpunk literature and content, there's a chan for that. Some people hate the lack of a board dedicated to drugs, there's a chan for that. But most still go to 4chan, at least nostalgically, often in search of a long-gone "board culture" that we loved years ago. And 4chan remains the single point where chan culture blends, posting style is standardized, and memes catch fire.

8chan was not born as a supplement to 4chan. Like many failed chans, it was created when 4chan moderators did, or were perceived to be doing or planning, something to anger users. But 8chan and the controversy that popularized it were different. Usually moot's missteps become jokes. GamerGate convinced a significant number of people (more precisely, a subset of white male teenagers, henceforth "gators") that there really was a vast conspiracy to indoctrinate the youth using video games. 4chan's moderators were judged to be part of the media element of that conspiracy. From that point, 4chan permanently lost the trust and loyalty of gators. They went to 8chan, closely followed by far-right goons who take /pol/ very seriously and would become inconsolable when moot did routine pranks like background music or wacky CSS. Somehow this was a diverse enough group (in interests, not background) to put 8chan in direct competition with 4chan.

If 4chan folds, I predict 8chan alone will get the bulk of the users unless a direct spiritual successor emerges. Board closures probably wouldn't matter to users, neither would ads or upload limits. It's more a question of whether those measures would actually solve the money problem.
I've only used my original Cardboard probably about a dozen times, but it definitely looks more like a dirty pizza box than I'd like.
Poe's law.
Until we control volcano's & the sun then climate change will do what climate change does......remember global warming...global cooling...each generation has this bull shoved down their throats.

People should be more concerned with all the air traffic we have,the pollution of our rivers & sea's,the forests in all our land's that are getting smaller every year,the radiation spewing out of fukushima,the debt our kids will be paying back to the corporate scum that are looking to own our water.
While you are all looking up at climate change,your anus's are being scrapped with a rusty spanner.
With higher profile assassinations, the results seem to be less predictable. But I think we tend to ignore all the smaller assassinations that gave just the right edge to the opposition since those people just fade into the background noise.
How so, exactly? I have a 5x myself and have never felt this to be the case.
Yeah, IANAL but my understanding in the US is that a cop is always a cop, even if they are off duty and wearing a bathrobe they can still arrest you, question you, etc.
I believe that all official records should be preserved. There are regulatory standards that apply to corporations regarding the retention of records -- including emails. One example is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. These kinds of rules were put in place in an attempt to combat fraud. Why should the federal government be exempt from retaining emails?
The police, ie the R.U.C, rode around in precisely that kind of vehicles in the part of the UK called "Northern Ireland", didn't they?
No, because the () just ends up being a no-op as grouping parentheses in the expression in Python 2.

What the import from __future__ does is make the original non-parens version illegal syntax in Python 2. You have to treat it like a function call with that import.
To be honest, that's the only thing that makes sense in the long run.
Node.js HTTP Request Smuggling
I love the Ted Nelson "Computers For Cynics" series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk

He is kinda awesome in Herzog's recent 'Lo and Behold' too.
Does that really detract from my point that the PS VR is probably the most mainstream way of introducing VR we'll have for a while that isn't heavily constrained and doesn't require thousands of dollars of hardware?

Yes all gamers (including phones) is a bigger group than console gamers, but there are still a TON of console gaming households who have proven willing to throw down real money to buy hardware to play specific games.
That is quite honestly the exact three reasons I use Siri. I do, however, open Google fairly often to search for complicated answers. The Google voice dictation engine is so incredibly accurate.
One of the interesting aspects of Gabriel's Horn is that the volume of the rotation of the curve x → 1/x is finite, even though the area under the curve itself (restricted to single plane) is infinite. Which isn't deeply surprising, but can seem a bit strange if you're new to 3D geometry and calculus.

So being able to quickly navigate relations (and apparent contradictions) like these without pausing to turn the crank and do the integral calculus -- "yeah, the volume is basically the integral of the square of 1/x, therefore it's bounded" -- is really quite crucial.
Closure, by @steveklabnik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaWHVceDbFo

So many lessons in short, beautiful piece.
It entirely depends on whether or not the person lives selfishly for those 500 years. If they continue gaining and using experience they could be exceedingly productive.

If they sit around doing nothing but eating and playing video games, that would be a waste.
I'm not a heavy iOS user, and I hadn't considered that sort of thing, but I can see your point.
Of course podcasting still needs RSS. I don't use itunes, stitcher, nor any app for a specific platform (soundcloud).
How well would you say modern "liberals" handle facts in the domains of:

- IQ testing

- Evolutionary psychology

- GMOs

- Child development

- Economics
Apple manufactures fashion items which also facilitate communication. You can't threaten a fashion item. It doesn't work that way. Technological comparisons also don't apply. Only some truly epic fail on Apple's end would threaten them.
Well, part of the problem is a lack of consistent prosecution, so it's not a surprise that there have been little in the way of murder charges or convictions.

We've seen video of an officer shooting someone and then going back to his squad car and appearing to remove a gun from his bag and plant it on the victim. Carrying around a "burner" gun (in case you might need it) seems premeditated to me, but IANAL.
> I just don't see how we can do without software build tools. They are so common in almost every language/platform I've used.

All depends on your use case. Honestly if you're working on a web app you actually don't need any build tools if you really didn't want to.

But ultimately I wasn't advocating for zero build tools. The way JavaScript works you can write your own scripts (I wrote my own, barely one page of code for minifying, packing, versioning, testing, etc) or use any of the systems if you want to. It's all not that hard. But I don't think only one (or small handful) of people should know how to use them and I think we can vastly simplify what some of them do today (looking at you, babel and webpack).
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition
torcache.net doesn't resolve, site seems down.

EDIT: working now!
>if you go to Reddit or Imgur and other sites, you can see the people from Stormfront, /pol/ and the rest are by no means sitting in those chambers without going "abroad".

Yes but reddit is just a series of echo chambers where dissenting views are rapidly downvoted, hidden and removed by moderators.

I think you're right though. While the ban wave was a turning point for 4chan and image boards. The trend of increasing insularity and xenophobia is seen across all social media and political leanings. Making it too large to pin on any single event on a particular board or website.

I think it's the direct result of having too many choices, so people naturally gravitate toward the communities with the most like minded views and then groupthink dominates.

It's really a shame that instead of opening people up and exposing them to different perspectives the internet has had the opposite effect.
>In the coming days there will be reams written on these laureates in the scientific press, much of which will be more enlightening, informative and contextually relevant than the dedicated encyclopaedia article.

In my experience, the scientific press usually does not know what they are talking about, and relying on them for enlightenment or information is dangerous.
> the lens limits the camera

IMO it's just the opposite. It's L-quality glass, and the IS makes it a decent performer for low-light and video as well. With the exception of pixel peeping, I'd feel far more limited with a single fast prime in most situations.
This is great work.
FYI spacex uses LabView http://www.ni.com/labview/ (amongst other stuff)

I wonder if you could use annotations to manage the visuals e.g http://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/folder-night.png
You'd have an inline annotation to separate the code blocks and generate the visuals so you don't have to maintain/update two places.
Any tool that does that?

Also, integrating different level of complexity using system 1,2,3 (from https://www.amazon.ca/Software-Requirements-3rd-Karl-Wiegers...) to represent user flow diagram in addition to flow charts.

Flow charts get confusing after some complexity. Useless if you want to represent multiple actors + messages. Systems/sub-systems view.

There is a tendency to think of visual programming as an all or nothing. Either we have all text or all visual. As long as it is "Write once, update everywhere", visual tools can be useful in navigating new code bases, obtaining insights and quickly understanding a piece of code.

The problem though is they often require maitenance and get out of date with reality (even if it is comments/annotations)
THANK YOU! We are mostly techy folks here, and I don't understand how anyone could say to the average user "just install a ROM and it's a big improvement on the software that ships with it." As correct as that is in my experience, you seriously expect grandma or even just your average non-techie user to even give a shit? My wife can't be bothered to turn wifi on when she gets home because she doesn't even think about it, and you want me to have her unlock her bootloader and flash something? hah. Perspective folks.
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Apples declining trajectory
How to talk to your deaf friend
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-... is by far my favorite technical talk right now.

Sussman goes over some interesting ideas on the provenance of calculations and asserts that "exact" computation is possibly not worth the cost.
Plus the IS (mostly) makes up for the f/4 and makes a difference for video as well.
Super/sub scripts are markup, not characters. There shouldn't be any in Unicode.
ISTM a great deal of trouble and complication could have been prevented by three special types of NBSP that meant "sub", "super", and "back to normal". It's true that some glyphs will be special-cased by some fonts, but in general the glyph is just shrunk and translated when sub- or super-scripted.
This shit needs to stop. Immediately.

Like most people, I have no problem with the government using probable cause to get warrants that are in search of something specific (none of these grab-all bullshit orders). If you have a legitimate reason to be looking at someone, then there should be no problem getting a warrant.

These secret FISA court orders are a serious violation to the rights of Americans in many cases. At minimum, if we really do need these secret courts to prevent people from finding out they are the subject of surveillance, then there needs to be an expiration on those gag orders. This crap about never being able to mention it FOREVER has to go. There should be a limit, say 5 years, which is well beyond the length of time most investigations take. At that time, those orders should expire so that these government actions can be brought to light if there is any question of wrong-doing on the part of our overzealous law enforcement.

"Former NSA General Counsel Stewart Baker said email providers 'have the power to encrypt it all, and with that comes added responsibility to do some of the work that had been done by the intelligence agencies.'" Sorry, but no. That's not how it works. There is no obligation to do the work of government unless it is actually written into law (i.e. record-keeping laws). And it currently is not. This is precisely why everyone should be encrypting all communications on the CLIENT side themselves. It should never leave your device (PC, phone, whatever) unencrypted. That way, if the government wants to go on a fishing expedition or has an actual legitimate reason to look at you, they will have to get a warrant for the device itself, which will at least give you a head's up that they are trying to put you in the clink with a bunkmate named Bubba.

The NSA, and the government in general, has completely blown any goodwill they once had with the public. Under no circumstance will I ever advocate for anything that makes their job easier. And it is for no other reason than simply because they have proven time and again they cannot be trusted.

Honestly, I'm still not even clear why every employee of project PRISM isn't rotting a jail cell right now after Snowden shed some light on the program for the rest of us peasants. Every single employee of that program had to know the clear violations of the constitution they were helping to partake in. Keep in mind the constitution protects against unreasonable SEIZURE as well as search. Gobbling up communications in the manner they did clearly counts as seizure because they would not have had them otherwise - whether or not they actually search the records is immaterial.

I'm not an Apple fan, but when they told the government to go pound sand regarding that terrorist phone encryption case, that was the first time that I can recall I actually approved of Apple's political position on something.
Just for clarification, blacks being shot by police at a rate of 2.5 times that of whites per capita is only evidence of racism if the shootings are random across the entire population.

If the shootings are correlated to, say, the demographics of murderers (which is probably more representative than the population at large), it might actually be evidence of racism against whites -- the number of murders committed per 10,000 people in blacks is about 8 times that of whites, which means if they're dying at only 2.5 times the rate per 10,000 people and the deaths are correlated to the murder rate, the police are killing white people disproportionately often.

I think that a lot of people, such as yourself, are being very dishonest when analyzing the police data because they're analyzing it against total population numbers while ignoring the correlations to crime demographics. Such as the Guardian numbers you cited.

I also think you're being racist. Against white people.
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I heard about you guys from listening to changelog. Glad to know more languages will be supported soon!
Also see this for Asterix, Opos, VP8 and patents: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2013-May/0604...
The biggest issue I see with this data is that it gives me a snapshot of which camera systems have been most popular with photographers in the past, which doesn't necessarily reflect what photographers want to buy today.

For example, many mirrorless camera systems are gaining market share but are badly under-represented on this website.[1]

It would be more useful to see how the figures have changed over time.

[1] For example, right now, five out of the top 10 best-selling cameras at B&H Photo & Video are mirrorless.
>The idea that we allow people to hire off-duty cops who are allowed to carry firearms and arrest people is, to put it mildly, an incredibly bad idea.

Anyone can make an arrest, the major difference being that as a normal citizen, you don't get immunity for wrongful arrest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen%27s_arrest