skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Placing a video call from the outside world into VR is pretty amazing.

Besides that, you can do many of the things demoed even now on AltspaceVR. I tested it out for a few nights, and turns out hanging around in an interactive VR space with random strangers is ruined by trolls and people constantly quitting and joining. We never got successfully through an entire game of "Cards Against Humanity".

Another interesting one was vTime, which focuses more on chatting. You can move your head around and sit around virtual spaces with others, but you cannot move. That felt much like grabbing coffee in real life with someone and we got into deeper conversations this way. I would rate it as perhaps the most interesting experience I had before selling my Oculus to wait another year or two to see things improve.
Point taken. For engineers, I can see this being the case.
There's a difference between "This survey is anonymous"/"Hey, Bob ranked his satisfaction with his manager as 1/5", and "This survey is anonymous"/"Here's a list of complaints from your team"/"Oh, this one is a complaint about how X impacts Y - I know Bob's the only one who's expressed interest in that in the past, I bet it's from him".

If my employer told me a survey was anonymous, I would expect anonymity on the Rank/Rate/True-False type questions, but assume that any freeform comments would be identifiable to someone as being from me based on style, content or something else.
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What is update path/policy for iPhones? Do Verizon sell iPhones too? Do they control it's update too? Or iPhones gets their update directly from Apple? (I am only aware of noncontract iphones, which do get update regularly from Apple itself.)

P.S. I do not live in USA. I am asking because this is huge mistake for Google. With their new branding I hoped they will deliver updates to pixel line as smooth as Chromebooks. But it seems nothing changed in regard to Android update problem.
Could this be used like a piezoelectric in a clock except powered by time rather then a charge applied to a quartz crystal?
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Thank you for introducing this notion to me! I struggle with accusations of "sarcasm" when I am not intending to "mock or convey contempt", merely expressing an idea as its more accessible inverse!
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There is a nice one built into the Solr admin UI. Solr cloud also has a decent SQL interface as well.
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Yup this is true when defined narrowly enough, but impossible in practice. Plus you'd have to address the argument that cutting short a happy life is a moral harm.

If we were a society that was capable of doing this at scale, there would certainly be far less of a reason to be vegan, but I hesitate to say there would be no reason at all.
Doesn't even use any function. Looks dimmed on non-active windows, and won't conflict with plugins that set their own status line.
CSS unicode-range has that covered: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face/... Pretty good browser support, too.
Solr has excellent documentation. The query documentation and examples could use some work, but a lot of basic functionality is quite intuitive. The pivoting engine is also really good and scalable.
Apple has 100% control over all updates to their phones.
Verizon does sell iPhones. They do not control iOS updates on them.
At least at Google, "front end dev" extended down to the webserver tier, written in C++/Java. You were expected to make any changes necessary inside the webserver to complete your feature. That's part of what made hiring so hard: the number of devs who know Javascript and C++ and have their algorithms down cold is relatively low.

I imagine it's fairly similar at Facebook.
> If an excellent candidate doesn't get an offer, it's probable that something went wrong in the interview process

Google sees about half of their employees come from at least a second interview attempt, implying that qualified people fail at least 1/2 the time. Maybe you're claiming that their process is terrible? Or that most companies are significantly better at hiring than them? As the only data point I can find, though, it seems pretty damning.

> And if there are only three examples of rejections

It's unclear to me why only rejections count. 7 for 7 is a lot more concerning than 3 for 3.

FTR, out of the 6 interview processes I've gone through I can think of 2 that don't correlate in this way (one in each direction). So I think I have some basis for suspicion.
I seem to intend to destroy it seriously.

http://michinarinukazawa.github.io/TofuFont/html/index_en_US...
He may mean the cash is burning in that there are employees that need things to do at Google.
You're missing a small word ("it") in your quote.

There's another small word ("is") missing in your last sentence.

Call me old fashioned, but even small words matter. To quote Ernest Cline, "People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up."

I apologize for the profanity, but it's just such a great quote, and so appropriate in this case.
It will when we all have driver-less cars. Which is sneaking up faster then I thought it would.
This would be awesome for Israel!

And if they could only fix their political problems (to put it mildly) Gaza as well. It could make a real difference in their future.
Only in two professions pro athletics and computer programming is forty years old.

Also, forty is old in the oldest profession that those two most resemble in their degree of exploitation and social stigma.
I recently found that every programmer has to discover what it is like to create a new exciting thing and watch it fades into obscurity.

i.e. Life is all about reinventing your own wheel.
Doesn't say much for the ability of government run health care to control costs.
Here in Australia, we trade tomatoes by the kilogram.
Not exactly "new" but:
Being able to spend ~$30 on a system powerful enough do everything faster than you could years ago for thousands of yesterday dollars. The feeling of not being limited by computing power for every thing is incredible. Vice versa, feeling like you aren't imaginative enough to utilize modern day power available, it's a great time to push your mind harder to take advantage of it.
Oh, yeah, I'd expect a junior employee to not figure it out right away. I'd just be looking to see what they noticed in retrospect. And senior employees can have their own legitimate reasons for saying. I'm not saying I wouldn't hire them. I'm just saying I'd ask.

For me it's similar to having worked for a failed startup. I have no problem with it, but I'm definitely going to ask. The difference between a bad failure and a good one is how much you learn.
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Yeah, they really warned the pants off those folks. Y'know, if they hadn't pulled a Shkreli and flown too close to the sun, this would have never come out.

What has to happen before regulation is more consistently applied here in the US?
That's not how it really works for regular people either. Virginia sent me a letter last year stating "we think you were required to file a 2012 Virginia return." Several months later they decide "we think you owe us X." No Department of Revenue agents seizing my assets. A few months later I had my CPA call, gave them my W2s showing I lived in New York at the time, and the revenue agent was like "our bad, you didn't owe us anything after all."

The government really doesn't go full bore after "you should have checked Box A instead of Box B" situations unless something really egregious happens, and that's true for little people too. When there is a big corp, involved in something like this, it's almost always true that there is ambiguity about which Box should've been checked. All these things get the blessing of some tax lawyer who doesn't want to go to jail.

Here there doesn't look like there has been an adjudication (a decision in a lawsuit proving Mylan owes something). Until then, it's just some official's statement.
I've had the opposite experience, and I'd anticipate clicking on ever fewer non-amp links over time.
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I work on navigation software (http://project-osrm.org/).

Many of the algorithms we're implementing (or at least considering) only exist in recently published papers, or sit behind unpublished APIs. There have been huge improvements in graph route-finding algorithms in the last decade, so much of it is new, interesting and it's far from run-of-the-mill implementation.

I'm 38 - I spent the first many years of my career doing CRUD development, first in Perl (late 90's), then Java/PHP (2000's). I skipped the JS craze, and now I'm enjoying my work more than ever improving my C++ skills (last time I touched C++ was 98, modern C++14 is a huge improvement) and working on backend, specialized algorithm implementation. It's great!

Experience is the best teacher. Kids don't listen to their parents, new developers don't listen to the greybeards until it's too late. This is the way things are :-)
For the international part, you might need a lawyer not a CPA. There might even be aussie expats in NYC practicing law, and those are the ones I would look for.

Most of all make sure you find someone you have no issue speaking/communicating with on a personal and social level. It will probably make the process much easier!
Paper at http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6308/99
DOI: 10.1126/science.aah4698
Old guy here too. When I was a younger guy and first saw the web, after making a few web pages I naturally wondered "how can I program this?" At the time, the old guy programmers were old mainframe / terminal architecture guys, where a dumb terminal (teletype or monochrome) sent text to and from a smart "central processing unit". It was natural for them to follow server-side patterns, and invent PHP, NetObjects, ColdFusion etc. But as I'd started out in the eighties with BASIC, Pascal, Delphi, VB etc. writing stuff that ran on these "personal computers" I tended to think more about writing UIs that ran where the user actually is. Although I dabbled with various server techs, my real interest was on the front end, with Applets, ActiveX, DHTML, WebClients ... all ultimately flops of course. Then Flex RIAs, which ruled for a couple of years but were killed by mobile.

I mainly work with Angular now, React didn't quite float my boat, functional approach without a proper functional language. Elm is much more interesting, but the work they're doing on pairing React with oCaml / Reason could change that.

In short, I don't have a problem with keeping up with the new stuff - I'm glad it's finally catching up with where I was years ago:)
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https://www.ampproject.org/
Which Google has made exactly zero progress towards. Google Now has access to a lot more data and is a lot more useful than Siri, but if you curse at Siri for doing something wrong, she (it? they should really gender AI's.. helps with bonding) says she was only trying to help. Ask her if she watches GoT.. she gives you a quip about Lannisters. If I ask her what track is playing, she says 'let me have a listen'. Google Now just gives a beep and displays a bouncy colored wave. I can ask Siri 'do I need to wear a jacket tommorow' and it'll give me the forecast. Google just displays a search result with that particular sentence.
What is the sell point of this? Real-time lip sync???
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Is it heading up to Virginia? Wondering if AWS us-east problems might be on the cards
It makes sense. Yahoo's last assets were its fantasy sports league, its email service, maybe Yahoo finance, its brand, and its massive user base.

Within the last couple of weeks, they've tarnished both their brand and their email service. I doubt very much that their fantasy leagues and Yahoo finance really bring as much revenue as ads from email and ads targeted to its massive user base.

What exactly is Verizon bidding on now?
Of course, you can just buy your pixel from Google
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Nobody in government wants to apply rules uniformly; they create broad, ambiguous rules, then apply them selectively to achieve their preferred outcomes. The people who have regulatory or legislative power want and/or need this arbitrariness to gain, maintain, and sustain themselves, their organizations, and their power.
> My wife ended up not wanting to eat goat, so I ate a fair bit of goat after that. ...and she learned never to name or play with the livestock.

So treat the animals like objects to make it easier to kill them? That also works for humans:

https://www.amazon.com/Eternal-Treblinka-Treatment-Animals-H...

> I had a dissociative event the first time I did this.

Dissociation happens for a reason. Slaughterhouse workers get PTSD.

> I think that killing and eating animals is fundamental to who we are (and I don't mean "we've evolved incisors"; I mean "the rituals and process are encoded in our minds". The hand shapes the tool and the tool shapes the hand).

The same argument could have been made for cannibalism, but somehow we managed to get over that.
The new version is out, seems to be getting much better.

https://github.com/uTox/uTox/releases
Given how hamstrung regulators are these days thanks to a pro-corporate Congress, it doesn't say much other than that the government we've elected has chosen not to control costs.
Including Bayes in the standard library is cool, but newLISP must be one of the slowest LISP interpreters out there.

Its certainly useable - usually on par with Python... But picolisp, Gambit, SBCL are more on par with D or Rebol.

So when newLISP claims to be great for embedding, I feel cautious.
The SIL Open Font License restricts subsetting, so you do need to be careful when doing this (the license requires that you change the font name if you reduce the font's display quality). Google has gotten waivers to allow them to alter the fonts without changing their names.

The repository with the fonts and tools is here: https://github.com/google/fonts
a bit cleaner: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort...

I presume it works off the same source data.
Yep, we're all equal partners. Figured it's a lot easier that way.

But I've seen a couple situations where one partner brings the asset and the other brings sweat and they've been quite fruitful. One in particular I'm thinking of turned a 120k arr business into a 1m arr (and growing) business. So it's possible.
Exactly.

I've definitely interviewed female candidates for a small startup where they decided not to proceed once they found out they'd be the first woman on the team. I certainly don't hold it against them, but it really does make increasing diversity a lot harder if nobody is willing to be the first one.

It's a great example of how hard it can be to change the trajectory of systems even when everyone earnestly works towards change.
> So Facebook's take on VR is that it is going to be all about people.

Seing how chat apps are used so much, I think this is brilliant. They really do get social.
You are wrong in some respects. Where the fire does not affect structures it is allowed to burn. See the Beaver Creek Fire.
Am I missing something here? That's like an asthma drug whose side effect is shortness of breath.
Oh don't even get me started on front end development. A few times I've actually had the opportunity to make some really brilliant JavaScript optimizations only to have any performance gain made totally irrelevant by business loading up the page with a ton of totally non-performant ads.
So it's basically a desalination process in a greenhouse powered by solar? I'm not sure why this is better than leveraging existing infrastructure to get freshwater and electricity. Also, farming somewhere other than a desert, then transporting the food to the population (if they live in a desert).
That's an unfortunate license choice. No one will use it.
As a man, this would make me extremely uncomfortable for a lot of reasons. Not the least of which because it implies to me that you think all men are scummy creeps and that you need extra money to deal with us.
I thought I wanted this for a long time, but `kube-lego` gets me very similar results... without needing to inject credentials for my DNS provider to my cluster.

I'm curious if others have thoughts on this vs kube-lego. (I would agree that I like the approach of this project quite a bit more than kelseyhightower's. This feels more complete, works with far more providers, etc)
I don't think we were even in danger of losing the deal because we always moved when the seller said no to terms they didn't like. We never stood firm and forced the seller to move on their position.
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When was the last time a regulator (or government agency) admitted to failing because of incompetence, stupidity, or bad luck? It seems they are eternally underfunded and understaffed, and never make mistakes. I consider myself and my associates to be quite diligent and intelligent, yet every one of us is sometimes at fault when we fail.
Good point about "super valuable" maintenance skills. Some well paid COBOL programmers still, I hear.
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Found this similar project a couple days ago: https://github.com/tazjin/kubernetes-letsencrypt

Doesn't seem quite as configurable but looks a bit simpler to implement.
And Glagolitic, an alphabet I'd never heard of before

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_alphabet
Back when I had a Windows Mobile smartphone the carrier I had controlled the updates. Upgrading from winmo 6 to 6.1 took months. I think allowing carriers to control updates will negatively impact user experience.
Men conceived through IVF may inherit father's fertility problems
This reminds me once again to re-watch "Thank You For Smoking".
Of course there is age discrimination in tech. But most of it is somewhat warranted.

People want more money the longer they stay in a role... older people cost more. Salaries, vacation time, maternity / paternity leave... we are more demanding than recent college grads.

Also older people are more prone to being nay-sayers. Which is shit for us to do, but yeah... we do it. We don't want to see others make mistakes like we made... and really we just need to let others try their ideas and see what sticks. But... realize we've been burned and aren't keen on staying up until 4 AM to get something out on time, or living off pizza and beer, or hanging with co-workers when we could be spending our evenings with family or real friends (who we met at previous jobs by going to happy hours and staying up until 4 AM to get things out on time).
They're not calling Unix a programming environment instead of an operating system. The title of the book refers to the programming environment of the Unix operating system.
To be honest vi and vim are different enough that as someone who was taught on vim, I get lost when I have to do anything beyond opening a file in vi.
"but there's no real technical challenge in front end stuff."

oh boy, you are so wrong! as an old fart having spent a number of years building UIs, can tell you, this is hard! information layout, controls, flow - it can be tangled into a total CF, or it can be seamless. you are not pasting libs on top of libs - that is the job of a monkey, front or back end alike. normal devs start their day with talking to end users and listening to their pain. then they spend rest of the day trying to alleviate it. monkeys spend their days thinking how they can add to user's pain by pasting more layers of crap.

engineering is an important part in back end, front end or in cleaning the toilets. it is not what you do, it is how you do it.
That's an interesting take. Thank you. Yeah, there are definitely plenty of "inside the box" routes that often seem like a known quantity but that doesn't mean they aren't worth discussing and exploring.
Depends where you work, some will help you gradually learn new stuff. But if you are a contractor, you'd need to learn to keep up. That's why hey are paid more
That's true of the federal IRS. I guess it might be true of VA. It's not generally true of the states. My CPA applied my refund 2 years ago to the next year's taxes. IL passed a law saying you can't do that anymore, and quietly mailed me a check for the refund (which I wasn't looking for). When I didn't remit a tax payment the following year, they sent me directly to collections without notification, adding a 4-figure fee to my tax bill.
That's nice. Not here though. Equating the technical complexity of learning a UI framework and designing back end systems is just silly and you know it.

This is also not a form of reductio ad absurdum which fits the definition; it's just a silly linguistic reduction which excludes many important details.
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I agree as far as likes, status updates and so on go. For photos though, especially profile pictures, Facebook serves as a timeline of somebody's life. I've been going to school with young people lately and I'm blown away that their profile picture album can trace back to childhood.

It's freaky, I'm grateful to have been able to slide through my youth without public photographic evidence.
It requires force to stop. But you can output energy as you do so. Not so with these. They have 'no' energy despite movement.
Buy an FPGA and have loads of fun :)

Implement your own hardware, make a compiler for your own CPU , memory controller, and so on...

VHDL/Verilog and KIT goes a long way. I would vouch for de0 nano from altera.
There was no conspiracy mentioned. Just people disagreeing about a hard subject.
Uhm, that's EXACTLY how insurance policies are calculated..

Local insurance claims gears the local premiums, obviously.

If you live in the city with the worst drivers in the country, your premiums will be high.
How much has the data center growth curve been dampened by Amz/Msft/Goog offerings?
KDB is not really a database as much as it is an RPN calculator with a lot of memory.
I am writing a queue system for vfx.
On another note, I don't know why the Bay Area is so obsessed with cheesy. I mean, they do the most cliche, cheesy, predictable things in this regard, then try to poorly hype it as "profound and visionary thinking." They keep trying to recreate the magic that happened with Steve Jobs in 1997, for example. And they keep failing.

They probably aren't even really trying to recreate the magic, just trying to associate themselves with it and use that to take credit for what happened in that case. This is the kind of twisted backward stupid logic that was prevalent in the area while I was there (2008 - 2011). It was just more BS every time.

I mean, if you are trying to recreate the magic or emulate what's been done in the past, then do that, rather than do the dumbest things, then try to poorly and illogically spin it (in the most tired, played out, and "has never been successful" way) to look like something else.

Add to that the overrepresented judger (MBTI) population, and you have a recipe for the shht of everything past constantly repeating in the worst way, as arrogant egotistical self-centered know-nothing idiots use it to try to credit themselves with being something other than the dumbest shht.
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Combine with this and we're golden

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/japanese-plant-exp...
> Why does nobody seem to have any introspection on why RethinkDB failed?

Because nobody used it.