skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Xenix is not so much forgotten as it simply not spoken of because of it being tainted by association with SCO.
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You're not a cynic, that's literally their business.
This ignores that top management is also paid in large part with company stock and in the 5 years prior to this being discovered the stock doubled. One of the metrics that had investors excited was the increasing number of accounts which was publicly reported.
This demo was not any less childish than what we've already seen from Apple, Google and Microsoft the latest years. It seems to be a general trend.
I think you are shortsighted and unwilling to extrapolate today's VR potential into the (near-ish) future.
uh... We're easily on 3rd-4th gen hardware at this point.

1st gen: Those VR stations that used to be in malls
2nd gen: Shitty headsets you could attach to a genesis/snes
3rd gen: Occulus (you may be considering this first gen?)
4th gen: vive/fove/[Sony/Samsung/Google]VR
Thanks. It's an iteresting discussion that needs to be had. As I said, I often see things along the lines of 'It's just bad, m'kay' without any reason. Your explanation is reasoned and cogent. Again, Thanks!
Thermonuclear bomb the Mars ice caps. I think I read that in a scifi book.
A white man from Alaska and a white man from Rio de Jainero will have much more diverse experiences than a man and a woman from San Francisco.
Agreed, if anything, this story is interesting because it shows that Google will let brand new customers go from 0 to 100 k$ without any checking!

I really thought I had to add a credit card before I could use adwords,and that they charge at the end of the first month.

I feel like there's something missing from this story.
Just to add another view here: I'm currently a Data Scientist at Capital One and enjoy it quite a bit. I've found management to be open, supportive, and invested in my and my coworkers' success and development. They also allow and encourage people to change teams within the company, so if you find yourself in a situation that's not working out, you can move to another team.

I've also not seen anybody leave the company on bad terms. Of course I'm sure that happens, and I'm sure there are bad managers here as everywhere. I'm sorry that you had such a negative experience.
From what I've seen the performance review process in large companies allows you to mask a personal vendetta as a performance issue (and you'll get away with it).

Your manager can say "based on feedback everyone says you suck" and you can't really do a whole lot to look into it. You don't know where the feedback is coming from, or if it's even valid.

At a smaller company a manager seems more responsible to look at performance democratically. So if they have a personal vendetta and they fired someone for it, it's much easier for other employees and other managers to see what's going on and call it out (so they might not act on it to begin with).

Of course that's not universal, sometimes at a small company you might have one person with consolidated power so it doesn't really matter (and can be much worse). And of course, at a smaller company peer pressure can keep issues under wraps because you're worried about everyone knowing that you're the one bringing it up.

So yeah, a performance review process needs to exist at larger companies because it makes sense logistically... but criticism of that process doesn't mean it should be thrown out entirely, it just welcomes the discussion about how it can be improved. There are middle grounds between strict performance reviews and small-company democracy.
Publish to the world a “hello world” Laravel web page in about 10 minutes
Open Food Facts is a volunteer project, so you can help if you're a coder, a translator, if you have a fridge and a smartphone :-)

https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/open-food-facts/id588797948
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.openfoodfa...
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/openfoodfacts/5d...

http://world.openfoodfacts.org
The line you quote seems completely innocuous to me. If he actually asked teenagers if they like bebop or grime or chiptune, I imagine the answer would be something like, "Uh, noooo, I don't listen to anything weird" or "I don't know what those are." So he asks a safe question about rappers. The writer is explaining his thought process in a lighthearted way.

We both read the same thing, but I like the author and you dislike him. Which is really interesting, because this is a totally uncontroversial article. It's funny that subtle choice of words have hugely different effect on different people.
"reverse discrimination" What does that even mean? It really comes out as a bullshit term to be honest. How can you be reverse discriminated? It makes no sense! Its either discrimination or it is not.
Don't judge people of history based on today's principles. They are remembered in history for significant reasons and you'll miss out on learning from them. (Unless they are famous for just death, destruction and lack of morals and ethics AKA most Roman Emperors. In the case of Caligula he was insane. But the rest enjoy.
Not forgotten here. My second job had some TRS80 68000 systems running Xenix and 6-10 terminals.

> Slowly, Microsoft started losing interest in Xenix

It seemed more like they lost interest the moment it was released.
Probably because Craig'slist also have a sizable business in other areas not related.
OS are not the only use cases for system languages and developing a language to be tightly tied to an os (and viceversa) is a great way to condemn both to obscurity.
Google is offering financing plans for the unadulterated pixel:

"Some people buy devices from a carrier because they don't want to pay the full unlocked price up front, but this year Google is also offering financing plans that are identical to what a carrier would offer. The company also has a two-year "device protection" plan for $100 that is similar to the insurance carriers offer."
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/psa-if-you-like-updat...
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Right, but this is a moral argument. I'm uneasy with this because as much as I like the idea of sharing, I also respect peoples desires not to share.
AltspaceVR can do hands with LEAP Motion, yet weirdly feels way less natural than the type of control you get with VIVE controllers.

Purely optical tracking just doesn't seem do it for now, since there are all types of occlusions happening. Maybe something like LEAP with multiple sensors in the room that are able to reconstruct the whole skeletal model up to digits and facial expression (minus eyes, which obviously have to be captured in headset if needed). Currently that is possible with the perception neuron, which is not really fit for casual use based on price (+ USD 1500) and setup time.

http://altvr.com/full-body-mocap-in-vr/
Would it be safe to assume, then, that you're in favour of massive cookie-cutter layoffs of female nurses to level out the gender imbalance there?
I sort-of agree but the "data janitor" knowledge can be learned "on the job" ad-hoc and as-needed.

Mastering basic theory, on the other hand, needs a coherent and structured study-plan which requires extended focus and single-minded emphasis (at least for most folks).
You underestimate how alien "http://www.yahoo.com./" looked in 1995.
There's a giant center of rotation parked over the North Atlantic, just off Greenland. The wind speeds are only moderate but it's huge.
Doesn't hanging a carcass with open veins drain enough blood?
Ok lets call it a fad like Video Phones in the late 80s and early 90s?
This demo was literally "Skype on your face with cartoons". Where was the innovation? Pretty (pre-recorded) backgrounds?
I don't know. Probably not.

I suppose in a society where women were free of patriarchy and rape culture, and had full reproductive and sexual autonomy, then Dworkin's statement wouldn't even apply to women.

But that society is a fantasy, and I doubt any capitalist society could ever free women from economic exploitation of their bodies by others.
I love how all the lack of lisp adoption is due to everyone but the lisp "community" itself. Top post in this thread is a harangue about how this shouldn't be called new lisp and how that's against the "lisp spirit" nonsense. People make new languages and frameworks all the time with varying degrees of success. Someone tries to make a new lisp and it's immediatly a discussion about how the plebes ruined computing. Physician, heal thyself.
Anecdotally, I often think "just let me pay you directly!" for content that is shrouded in ads. I also actively avoid apps that use ads for revenue. I suppose that the infrastructure to do that is hard vs serving ads, and I suppose targeted ads generate more revenue...
Sure! It's pretty much just my perennial side project since at least 2004. Some information is available in publications (latest: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2491962), and there is some documentation in the wiki branch (https://github.com/titzer/virgil/tree/wiki).
How can you be fine with laying off persons based on their sex?

You come out as someone who has chucked the whole keg of coolaid.

"Discrimination against an otherwise unoppressed majority really fails to make me care." - You don't think that leads to oppression? When will you care? When white males are rounded up in death camps and ridden by BLM deathsquads, will you care then?

You don't think it is comparable to saying "Discrimination against islam - a religious majority really fails to make me care" ?
Big kudos to Luna for fusing both of these awesome projects - this was actually on our backlog too and helped a lot!
The story as reported on bbc radio 4 last night said his parents let him add some bank details - either their own or some other account like a trust fund that needed their consent.

I wasn't really listening enough to remember the exact details but it rang true enough for me not to question it. Other than his parents being very trusting or very naive, of course?

/More detail
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37571304/boy-racks-up-...

"A savings account had been opened in the boy's name and he used those details when signing up for AdWords."
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> So the real rule when looking for new jobs is to avoid places where they hire first and do allocations later, as your picture of what the company is at interview time might be completely different than what you'll find on day one.

Oh hey that's actually a whole lot of big corps ... most prominently Google, isn't it?
You can only buy food if someone made that food, no?
Did they spend $200M of their own money?

I mean, how much of that is government subsidies.
Right now I'm not really bothered about end-to-end encryption. If a government wants to track me, they will find a way. I'm more concerned about Facebook/Google/Microsoft/Apple tracking me, reading my private conversations, and selling my data to the highest bidder. I'd like an open source, decentralised messaging platform, that has good mobile apps.

Are suggestions?
If you standardize it, you legitimize it.

The most important difference between Sony malware and an open-source crypto library is not that the former is more difficult to reverse-engineer. It is that the former is illegal to reverse-engineer, at least in some parts of the world. This is what gives content owners the illusion that their DRM protects them. They are not looking for bulletproof technical protection. Social and legal high ground is good enough for them and their propaganda machine.

If DRM becomes standardized, it becomes much harder for the rest of us to make a convincing argument that this crap is not what the web was meant to be. The next thing you know, users of DRM-free browsers will be shown error pages telling them upgrade to a more standards-compliant alternative.
It wasn't a legend or a myth, but also there was no "Dark Age." It also wasn't preserving knowledge it was actually spreading and fusing knowledge during the "Islamic Golden Age." http://www.storyofmathematics.com/islamic.html
> what stops a user from removing the DRM components

I think inertia and convenience. Casual users won't hack around trying to rip Netflix when they have already paid for it.
Also since services like Netflix are in the cloud they allow for viewing from multiple devices and other benefits (remembering where you left off, etc).

Sure, there might be some savvy developers out there that might put out a custom build of Chromium with a stream ripper plugin. But that still means that some users have to pay for content.
I am Colombian.

This is a really difficult situation, and this Nobel prize was really unexpected. When the plebiscite results where announced last Sunday, the whole country was astonished, even those who where for the No vote, as polls predicted and overwhelming support for Sí. I was very dissapointed with the result, even ashamed, as it was barely a win for No, but shown mostly an abstention level not seen in two decades. I cannot understand that a majority of Colombians didn't want to take part in one of them is important decisions in a century. Unbelievable.

Regarding the No: I can understand that people feels this peace deal brings impunity to the victims, that will be difficult to support financially, and puts a handful of insurgents directly on the congress. It does, and I believe basically no one is happy with that. But we are negotiating with a 50-year old billionaire militar criminal enterprise with strong Marxist roots and an original mission to take the power by force. And maybe it's own existence is due to the government actions in what was called Operation Marquetalia, which doesn't help with trust. It is worth remembering that Colombia is one of the most unequal countries in the world, with a top ten Gini coefficient.

Regarding Alvaro Uribe: even if successful in weakening the guerrillas, has a complicated history with the paramilitary, which have been at least as vicious as the guerrillas itself. His brother has been convicted due to ties with this groups, and his government and way of thought is from the hard right, and his way of talk is based on populism and loaded language. He is the major proponent of the No, and as a I see it, only to get his name on the deal, and even more, to push for a constitutional reform so that he is able to become president, for a third time. I feel that's sabotage.

Regarding Juan Manuel Santos: I did not vote for Santos in 2010, but for Mockus. He is not without scandals, mainly due to his actions under Uribe, who is know his strongest opposition. But I did vote for him in 2014, because he is a outstanding negotiator: and I was right, he got the peace deal signed, which no one was ever able to do before. Sadly he is a very bad political leader for the people, lacking good rhetoric and sympathy, and was not ably to rally the masses for the Sí. I'm simply unable to judge at this point if this Nobel prize should have been given to him.

Regarding the Sí: This is not the best deal we could have dreamed, maybe not even the best we expected, but was what could be achieved at that table at that time. I don't think we can get a peace deal without high sacrifice, and coming out smiling from the negotiation. This is a matter of opportunity cost: what reality did you prefer, the one where we painfully finish this conflict throughout the next decade, or the one where we perpetuate the longest lasting conflict in the Americas. Those most affected by it chose the Sí. I did too.

I just hope that we find a way out of this, with peace as a final outcome.
You've fallen victim to Muphry's law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

"litterally" only has one t in it.
> ... dangerous if you aren't careful.
> Which is exactly what a good tool should be.

That's a really stupid requirement.
http://www.kylheku.com/cygnal/
HNLondon is probably the best tech meetup in Europe. It's hard to convey what makes it so special, and why other meetups can't seem to replicate its magic. I highly recommend going if you can.
IMO the majority of managers SUCK. Thankfully I've had some GREAT ones, so I can tell the difference now.

If they suck due to non-malicious ineptitude, it's usually pretty bearable, and you can self manage your way around them.. if they suck as a human being.. wooo buddy, time to bounce.

A good manager is both a buffer and a lubricant. They pave the runway, and get out of the way.. and then make you feel good about what you do, while understating their own contribution.. ( and hopefully get their fuzzies from the business stakeholders, who see the productivity and progress gains. )

Shout outs to all the good managers out there! :D
The NSA interviews is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtTi867iOlc
Good point. Appreciate your concern, but I wasn't being clear.

By time to "burn" I was referring to all the time I had in my twenties: when spending an evening or a day or a weekend doing nothing in particular didn't seem like much of a waste.

Whereas now, "me-time" comes in much smaller units (maybe an hour after the kids are in bed and before I get tired). And I'm very careful to invest it: I recently spent eight months studying UX on Coursera, and am getting back into electronics and Arduino after a break, for example. I just don't have big blocks of time any more. Certainly not whole weekends.
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This is nice. I've thinking about something like this for some time and finally someone made it. I know there have been a lot of similar solutions in the past, but no one is nearly as simple as this.

I'm not a potential customer, however, but I guess there will be many.
Kissinger was before that and much worse than Obama.
Anyone able to explain the Poundstretcher thing? Why are they scattering around the Seychelles on Google Maps?
> newLISP is LISP reborn as a scripting language: pragmatic and casual, simple to learn without requiring you to know advanced computer science concepts.

How is this different from LISP?
Though the runtime arc is built on does support call/cc.
You just gave me a good idea to save a lot of money in ads: Mechanical Turk for kids... just kidding!
What do you mean? No sellers got stiffed by this cancellation, if this happens it's Google that foots the bill (minus its own share).
The difference is that there _is_ meaning to be found in that URL once you learn which standard boilerplate is ignorable. And once you know how to parse them, most web addresses are easy enough to remember. Random alphanumeric strings contain no human-parseable meaning and have no patterns to aid in memorization.
how is that any different than Common Lisp?
Not the same thing. I was actually using the meaning of the word. (See 2.) [1]. Some people are fine with this usage of the word, some aren't.

[1] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/autistic?s=t
You should count those $200 millions as a sunk cost ... Sure you could buy index funds, but then, what do you have, more then a piece of paper ? If you have lots of money, it's much safer to buy "hardware".
Bingo! :)

I'm a 50+ developer who has increasingly felt that "life is too short" to spend all my time trying to keep on the latest fads.

That being said, I have found myself doing more "fun" programming in Go lately, precisely because, as you said, they hit the mark with how simple and clean the language is, with little of the baggage that comes along with a lot of languages and frameworks (I'm looking at you Rails and React) today.
Verizon is doing their due diligence and whatever transpires in public is done to negotiate the purchase price lower or to eliminate liabilities later down the road.
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Their latitude and longitude have been mistakenly switched around.
"that kind of privacy".
So which 'kind' of privacy does it try to improve on? I've been thinking of switching to a different application for messaging and Signal came by a few times but I don't know a lot about it. Would you care to elaborate?
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At some point encrypted data has to be decrypted, image data has to be displayed through a monitor and sound data has to be played through a speaker.

It's impossible. The only "good" DRM is Steam because it pretends to be strong DRM when in reality it's just talking to the steam client and decrypting an executable with a key that is stored locally. All you need to do to bypass it is find the original entry point, set a breakpoint there, dump the unencrypted data and modify the dumped executable to start at the now unencrypted entry point.
A study of the TLS ecosystem
Wow. Thank you.

The meetup has been running for about 5-6 years now and it's taken a huge amount of time and effort to get it to where it is today. We're incredibly fortunate that there's an amazing amount of interesting people willing to speak at and attend the event.
Kind of like how Hacker News was written with a Racket made language?
Imagine a Windows based on Unix, like OSX, instead of being a derivative of VMS. It could so easily have happened.
As a former "Thoughtworker" for a few years in the earlier part of my career, a cynical side of me is inclined to agree with you. A more generous interpretation however may be to compare him to a medieval bard, who sings us tales of battles fought in far away lands (aka design patterns? technology trends? shrug) so that we mere peasants can be more educated about the wider world?
Maybe but so are many other essential medications. Is the subsidisation by the Goverment the answer?
The term "child prostitution" is associated is a few countries with some severe failings of law enforcement to protect children from harm.

Notably, in the UK some police forces were saying that children could chose to become prostitutes, and these children were promiscuous.
Good to hear that they've contributed and that you're cool with it. It's inspiring to see that you're still putting your users first in spite of everything.
What about the monthly alimony every FARC combatant was to receive?

I would probably still have voted 'yes' but I have a hard time to denunciate people for thinking otherwise: that paying someone to not terrorize you anymore amounts to "extortion money".
The frequency with which "hot new things" appear isn't every week. I'd venture a guess and say one weekend every two months. I don't know where you live, but here the weather isn't perfect for 52 weekends of the year. Some weekends it's not even worth sitting in front of the computer - total laziness with the family is ideal.
Well they're not the only ones trying towards this. See what we're doing at Mimesys by using depth cams to stream people in 3D in the world. See the vision we have for Skype in AR in a few years : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37DVcPHGNY
I agree with you that the importance of physical space is something we realize more and more every day building Mimesys ; that would where VR could lead to new representations of information (see for instance Bret Victor's insights on the topic : https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F115...)
There will be ways to collaborate and share information, even remotely, that will go far beyond the casual whiteboard
Compare objects a and b, returning whether they are equal
I've been a private beta tester for an iOS client for Tox called 'Antidote', and I can speak for its quality. I will not pretend to be an encryption or security specialist of any form however.