skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very interesting to read. I personally had an experience that increased my anxiety by using the video app Whirligig. It has a cinema mode that puts you in a room, but off to the left there's just a dark, open space. After reading House of Leaves I found myself really creeped out by the dark, open void that existed to my left, and found that feeling followed me for several hours after leaving virtual reality. It seems like in VR it's very important to have control of your surroundings, because a game/app developer could easily cause trauma or scare people who aren't expecting it. The immersion and its effect on your subconscious is really shocking to people who haven't tried it.
Confirmation bias much?

Why don't we focus on the actual data? Sun activity is not a major driver of warming, according to data. Yet, this position paper names sun activity as a cause to dismiss atmosphere.
Why is that, do you think?
I don't know that this is VR-specific.

I remember feeling like this after:

- Playing with MS Paint on Windows 3.1 for hours on end until my eyes burned when i was 8.

- Inhaling Lord of the Rings in about a week when i was 10.

- Playing Ocarina of Time for 12 hours a day as a young teen.

- Playing WoW in 100-hour weeks as an undergrad on summer break.
Very true but I think SE does a poor job incentivizing upkeep. Its very little Karma compared to new contributions. Honestly the only thing I with they would change.
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WoW runs fine under Wine. Most games worth bothering with do, and/or have a native port available.
The Lenna image that is drawn is originally from a nude image in Playboy [1]. It causes me to associate your work with sexism and pornography. I'm sure not everyone makes this association, but why not use a free stock image or a great work of art for the demo?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna#Controversy
I really like this, thank you. I have a nearly 3 year old boy, and we have a fairly standard set of places we take him around the small European city where we live. Your site actually showed me a couple of new places we haven't been before (only been in this city for about 3 years). I also really liked that almost all the suggestions were outdoor activities or locations.

Having said that, there are also a few places on our standard list of destinations which aren't shown on the map. How can I contribute them?

I will certainly bookmark the site for ideas when we travel too.
Here's a fun thought that is really more of a science-fiction writing prompt: The author talks about his instinct to interact with the real world in the same way he interacted with the VR world. What if, as humans develop more and more realistic and immersive VR systems, it gives their bodies a real evolutionary incentive to develop telekinetic abilities?
They came up with an ingeniously simple way to tell if the plane was at the correct altitude over the water

http://www.thedambusters.org.uk/height.html
"Scientists that evaluate climate models, develop physical process parameterizations, and utilize climate model results are convinced (at least to some degree) of the usefulness of climate models for their research. They are convinced because of the model’s relation to theory and physical understanding of the processes involved, consistency of the simulated responses among different models and different model versions, and the ability of the model and model components to simulate historical observations."

Anyone can create a model that behaves consistently when it is trained on historical data to predict historical data.

How do they overcome the problem of overfitting and why should anyone have any confidence in it until it shows accuracy going forward?
Very tempted to order that - do you mind telling me a little more if you have the time? Thanks, either way.
I'm not aware of PC manufacturers making a SFF PC with an internal power supply (look at the Dell Optiplex GX620, and Steam machine).

Pretty much any PC small enough to be VESA mountable will have an external power supply.

Apple has made the power supply on the Mac Mini internal since 2010, but previous models had an external power supply. I can't find exact numbers, but I'd be very surprised if the power supply in the current Mac Mini model is rated for more than 60 or 80W output.

But besides, it doesn't really matter if the power supply is internal or external, other than it would be a feat of engineering to fit a 135W power supply and a PC in such a small space. The fact is, that volume is quite small to fit the components and a heat sink which can handle a 60-80W TDP (CPU+GPU) without having a lot of airflow over it to keep temperatures under control.
+1 for scrolljacking. It would randomly pick a direction independent of my actual scroll direction.
A reminder that you don't need to use the latest or fanciest tech stack to achieve success in business. In the case of SO, boring wins, it's proven and seems like it allows them to focus on their product and to create new value for users.
I still use http://seductiveequations.com/2015/11/09/water-meter.html rather often to casually see how much water I've been using.
Helped me to discover when a new water timer I installed outside got stuck open. Similarly, I've been able to see through actual data how much water my new low-flow showerhead just saved me right after I step out of the shower.
Wish I had more time to improve it, but despite that, it's still remained quite useful.
Really cool stuff :)
Fusors perform nuclear fusion, Hahn was experimenting with nuclear fission.

The important differences are:

- The fuels used. Fusion uses the lightest elements like hydrogen and helium, which can be non-toxic and non-radioactive (although it depends on the exact process being used). Fission uses the heaviest elements like uranium, which are very toxic and very radioactive.

- Control of the reaction. Fusion reactions typically fizzle out if the device isn't powered up and controlled very precisely (this is what makes fusion difficult); they're nothing like hydrogen bombs. Fission reactions are typically spontaneous, caused by the radioactivity and arrangement of the materials in the reactor; control systems regulate this reaction, which would otherwise be pretty similar to an atom bomb.
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Which Lenna image are you referring to? I can't see any picture that resembles a naked or otherwise exposed woman.
readthedocs.org -- A site that automatically builds documentation for you when you commit to your VCS repo. It's been widely used in the Python ecosystem for a few years now, and started off as a 48 hour hack day project.
I'm making some inquiries. It looks like the old code just ended up setting "position" to 0 when an object was assigned, while the new code (correctly per spec) throws. The real bug is assigning an object to a non-object-valued property...
Not sure if this warrants inclusion in this list, but I'll share it anyway.

I made a simple firefox/chrome extension for people that horde tabs as temp bookmarks. You might find it useful to find tabs and quickly navigate to them by clicking on the link in the list. It's free and open source. The github page has a gif showing usage. You can also type cmd-shift-e or ctrl-shift-e to switch to it.

Chrome Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog...

Firefox Extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/

source code: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist

Let me know if you find it useful or have any suggestions.
> Almost all of the informational input to a Dedekind cut for a randomly chosen real couldn't be written, remembered, or specified in any way by a human being.

Well, yes. The reals are uncountable.
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Why your friends dont want to support your business or download your app
Entrepreneurs get offended when people close to them don’t support their business financially. A lot of startup founders don’t get why their friends use their apps once and never open them again.
The only people whose opinions and money matter to your business are those who fit your ideal client characteristics. Maybe your friends are not your ideal customers.
To be honest the average lifetime value of a friend who isn’t your ideal customer is very low. You are actually doing yourself a disservice if all you want is the initial sale.
This usually happens when you build something before thinking about who wants it.

Your focus should be on the few people who absolutely love what you are offering.
Everyone else may end up being a distraction. Think about it for a second.
Every successful business has a core group of die-hard users who will use the product repeatedly and tell everyone about it. Why would you focus on anyone else?

The real problem here is that most entrepreneurs have no idea who their ideal client or user is. Not knowing this of course leads to trying to please everyone and un-targeted lead generation.
Find out who wants what you have and grow your customer base from there.

This is what I've noticed from working with founders. Does anyone have a different view?
Ng2 and ES6 = Love. Updated docs are finally here
I've been saying this for a while now.

In fact I said this five days ago:

"It is not actually about what they report. It is all about what they don't report. Left wing and right wing propaganda are not the same. Right wing propaganda tells you what you must believe. Left wing propaganda simply leaves out the truth. Either way you have distortion but the methods are very different. NPR is not better than Fox News. Once you realize this, thou shalt be enlightened."
Why do people keep repeating this? Reactors don't go 'boom'. They aren't thermonuclear weapons. The worst you'll get is a bunch of heat when the cooling system fails and a possible steam explosion.
“I’m outraged I’m going to write an app about this!”
> So it's not a terribly bad thing, unless other people's standards are just being ignored.

It's actually an unfair advantage.

"Oh, let's standardize what Chrome already has implemented and Google is using". This immediately sets Firefox behind the new "standard", and website that don't work on FF technically "follow current standards".
Yes, here is an example:

Xn = exp(-1/(2^(n+2)))

∏Xn -> exp(-1/2)
Heck, just a raid rebuild takes days nowadays if you dare use RAID5 still or, less risky, RAID6.

The smart move is to keep several smaller arrays instead of one big one. This lowers risk as well. I dont put in anything bigger than 7 disks into production. Past that I'm just asking for trouble. Its better to have 4 7 disk arrays than one 28 disk array. A drive fail means a quick rebuild and a restore is going to be 1/4 the time.
There's a Stephen King novel called The Lawnmower Man that's basically this premise exactly. The film version is decent too and kind of fun in a 90s cyberpunk throwback sense too. Stay away from the sequels since as usual they are terrible.
You can't upload subdirectories, so it quickly becomes painful to upload an entire directory of files if it has multiple folders within.
After switching to GTK3 version (Arch) I noticed it is much more sluggish and feels slower than previous versions. There are also some inconsistencies or just breaks in interface (I assume it is related to theming).
Flour: http://ricardo.cc/cake-flour/

A build tool predating js modules, grunt, ES6. While it hasn't been touched for years, I still go back to it from time to time because it's so simple to use.
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Maybe it's my history with all but becoming a journalist, but I find NPR's reporting to be really obviously biased, and quite shoddy as well. I think your overall point is spot on, but only holds true for people with similar political leanings as the outlet. The trick is to get your news from outlets that are decent that will link to their sources (assuming it's online).

While Breitbart gets a lot of flak, one of the things I like is that they link to their sources and quote large blocks of text. I frequently disagree with them, but I respect the fact that they make it easy for me to build a case for doing so. I find a lot of other, seemingly more credibly outlets, will make claims or cite data without providing links. This makes me suspicious.

Alternatively, get somebody of an opposing ideological persuasion to read / listen to the same articles you do and then listen to them bitch about how poorly done it was. That would probably serve as a free bias detector. Offer the same service in kind.
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I've always been a bit concerned about VR being highly addictive, especially for people who want something to 'escape'. This seems to bolster this concern.

Of course people can and will get addicted to almost anything. VR may be healthier than heavy drinking, heroin, meth, etc.
That was my thinking as well.

I do INFOSEC for a living and needed to make sure I wasn't bringing back any compromised devices when I returned. So far, the two phones have remained powered down while I come up with a plan to examine them.

It would be interesting to see if they are loaded with malware out of the box or if there is something going on when they are used in country.
Or, after they leave the VR experience, the people find they can still do the same things/have the same powers, leaving them questioning if they ever left. Kind of like what happens to Neo in the Matrix.
Are you browsing with Firefox for Android? If you click the "Android" tab, it still links to the 49.0.2 release notes.
VR will probably be THE solution to overpopulation. Slow, but painless.
I don't understand your claim.

Interacting with something in a superposition creates entanglement. In practice most of you is in contact with most of the rest of you, so any superposition quickly spreads to your whole body and more generally the wider universe. At that point we can call it "decoherence" but there's no collapse. Just your wavefunction becomes cleanly separable into distinct pieces. But the subjective experience of being in either component would feel, well, normal.
It is not like princess Leah. The diagram shows the image projected into the fustrum between the screen and the viewer rather than hanging in space and viewed perpendicular to the light beam. To do that you'd need to make the photons turn sideways in the air or originate new photons by sparking the air to draw videos.
On windows, Firefox is the main supplier of binaries. I would hazard that on most Linux/BSD systems, the distribution is the main supplier of binaries. The distributions can easily build it as GTK2 if they want, or provide a GTK2 variant (and as pointed out above, some distributions seem to, or at least make it easy to build it yourself).

If you are on Linux and your distribution provides Firefox, this is a complaint to be leveled at your distribution, not Mozilla (who apparently already makes it easy to build the variant). I'm not sure how we got to a position where people feel justified in criticizing a company providing an open source product that's updated often and provides umpteen different binaries for different platforms and different build for those platforms for not building one more special configuration for what it likely a very small group of people, who can easily do so for themselves.
So you claim, but anyone who opens up the "discussion" with "So, [misrepresentation of parent opinion], huh?"[0] is clearly not seeking a discussion and is instead seeking a clownfight. You had every opportunity to prove me wrong.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12958354
DisplayPort supports chaining (only two monitors, as master/slave, but hey, it's there).
I don't think you're going to have any effect simply due to the 1. complexity of the image, as it's a real photograph, and 2. the complexity of colors and hues in the image.

there's a reason why it's seen as a "standard test image", and not as some fodder for sexism. it's the above plus historical baggage.
tldr: Display Ads and Talent.

> We help companies build their brand and source technical talent through our business products: Display Ads and Talent.
After many years of being part of the Stack Exchange community I have come to the conclusion that folks will do whatever they can to avoid actually reading that page.

I've seen folks post questions on meta about how to get out of the ban (used to be a very regular occurrence, a bunch a day). I've seen folks post on other stack exchange sites asking how to get out. People even get emailed for this. All to ask questions which are answered perfectly well by the page they were linked to in the ban.

I've seen this so often that I can still remember the goo.gl URL that the old FAQ used to be behind (http://goo.gl/C1Kwu).
Apples and oranges. Intel's mobile Skylake processors don't support more than 16GB of low-power RAM; Apple didn't have anything to do with that limitation.

This is a boxy desktop, not a mobile machine.
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Do you happen to know what card that is? I couldn't find it in TFA. I'm not sure about getting the full read/write performance with 4 960s, since I think you'll saturate the bus with 2 or 3.

Edit: tweaktown was able to get 9.2GB/3.8GB read/write on a non-bootable array: http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/7553/samsung-950-pro-pcie-...
>humans have an innate capacity for reason, which they fail to use

They use it as children; with adults explicit reason is mostly confined to their work.

The rest of the time adults use reason covertly: to rationalise doing what they think high status people expect of them.
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Check out Colfax International. They have some nice workstations that are relatively easy to configure.
A one-line APL program like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4, is it really one-line?
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I agree, and would like to see a change like that in Q&A, but it would be a pretty big deal at this point in the site's life. However, the new Documentation section does a much better job with this. Each edit is worth +2, and upvotes give points to all significant contributors (+5 or +1 depending on size of contribution), not just the author!

This system has had some issues and may still be adjusted, but I think it's a lot closer to the mark. I've probably gained close to 1000 rep so far from documentation I contributed to but did not author.
That is true but in Trigonometry Sine the function one studies and so using this result in a trigonometry course is nice.
Excellent, thanks a lot! If I find a fix I'll PR it
That's also what I'm wondering. For my primary work PC it's: Either it's really portable and has a screen - then it should be small. Or it's not portable - then I don't care as long as it fits on or under the desk.

For some environments however small or invisible hardware and the associated clean look is definitely a bonus: E.g. if it's a PC in your living room (I bought a NUC for that), or maybe for publicly exposed working places (receptionist, ...). But that's not really what is targeted with that hardware.
Can't the same be said about other forms of media? You go to the movies to escape, but on the drive home you feel sad that your life isn't as fantastical as the movies. Similar things can be said about the way we use our smartphones.

I'm sure after you have the time to become "normalized" to VR, the real world will seem less depressing. perhaps even refreshing.
It's because of religion.

The Christians "won" the war in the Middle East and Africa, and so they rewrote history to not focus as much on any of the great empires of the region. To add to your examples, the Ethiopian Empire and the Ottoman Empire are also constantly glossed over in history classes.

The latter is basically summarized to: imperial concubines, Armenian genocide, fought with the Axis powers in WWI, lost WWI, joined the light by shedding the religion and culture we don't like. The 800 years before that are simply irrelevant, I guess?

Let's not even mention the "gap" - the jump from the Greek/Romans to the Renaissance - in philosophy and science when Europe (i.e., Christians) was stuck in the dark ages. It's logical I guess; if the Christians weren't inventing shit, who else was?

I am not against Christians or Christianity - on the contrary, I deeply respect the religion. But this is the unfortunate reality of how religion has functioned throughout history. And please don't attempt the "no religion = no problems" spiel.
IronWorker is more classic job processing whereas IronFunctions is AWS Lambda-style sync service. We'll follow up with a longer blog post on the differences.
Too bad this doesn't have a built in hires display and a keyboard so we could compare orange to oranges.
So, thermal radiation slowed the Pioneer spacecrafts. 'Thermal' is a type of Electromagnetic (EM) radiation, right?

Doesn't that make it an EM Drive?

Why the cone apparatus? What is preventing the intentional design of a spacecraft that uses thermal radiation (or Thermal Recoil Force) similar to the Pioneer spacecraft?

e: The replies indicate the answer is that this could be built but the effect is to weak to be practical. Which I find to be a completely acceptable answer, thanks.
Looks like that discussion talks about the same issue.

joekrie 51 days ago [-]

I find it to be a great resource if someone has already answered your question, especially if I find it via Google. As for asking questions, it's a bit off-putting to be immediately downvoted without explanation, and to not get a single answer.

Point is, it's good resource to free-ride but not actively participate.

city41 51 days ago [-]

That's basically the point of the site. I think SO's owners are ok with this trade off.

FWIW it wasn't always like this. I have a lot of points on SO mostly acquired about 5 years ago. Back then SO was a much friendlier, and much more interesting place to participate in. I haven't actively participated in about 3 years or so.

CaptSpify 51 days ago [-]

I've always thought this described it best: SO is a great place to find answers to your questions, but SO is a terrible place to ask questions.
Probably coupled with some pills to "make you feel more immersed", like those drugs in the Inception movie.

Netflix' CEO seems to already be thinking about this:

http://www.ibtimes.com/simulation-hypothesis-matrix-possible...
One thing you don't do is release changes to production in a hurry on Friday afternoon. Often that leads to working through the weekend thus not being refreshed on Monday.
This is fair. I think it's +2 for an accepted edit vs +10*n upvotes +15 for accepted. Another approach is to just make a new answer on the original question later. I see that a lot for Python 2/3 stuff too.
This problem existed before facebook or google.

The problem in question existed in the form of e-mail forwards, usenet groups, and most likely existed in other forms before the internet.

You can't change the discourse without altering what people say or what people hear.. and nobody wants that.

The only solution is a better educated population. People that are able to determine fact from fiction, or at least the common sense to do their own research.

This is not a problem for a piece of software, this is a problem for those tasked with the education of future generations.
It has 3 displayports: http://store.hp.com/wcsstore/hpusstore/Treatment/HP_Zmini_q1...
That thing doesn't look compact to me.
> and upvotes give points to all significant contributors (+5 or +1 depending on size of contribution), not just the author

That's interesting. I wasn't aware of the trickle down karma like that.
http://rsync.net/products/aws.html

This is already addressed on the site.
Just the combination of the headline and the image below it are enough to get me to close the tab on this one. I'm getting really tired of the constant accusations of racism, and this immediately set off my 'upcoming bullshit' detector.