skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great for you and all. And should you ever publish open source software, slap on any license you wish.

Calling other people bigots because you don't think their idea of free is free enough, however, is very bad taste.
One can imagine that. I can also imagine that it would involve a lot of effort to create it, that it would be a lot of effort to use and that it would still be very limiting for all the reasons you mention.

Currently you can't even really walk around in a room without being incredibly restricted in terms of room layout, furniture and let's not forget you the headset with cables attached.

Last but not least even this hypothetical virtual reality is still just that: virtual. Simply the knowledge that something is merely virtual will always be somewhat of a disappointment, the same way a copy, no matter how perfect, is not quite as appealing as the original.

The concept of Westworld has an authenticity to it, that virtual reality can never hope to reach. As humans we are just weird that way.
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Games. It's what got me into tech in the first place - developing MUDs, building games in QBASIC when I was a kid, playing board games like Hero Quest. It's the only thing that really excites me. I especially love roguelikes these days.
PoI really suffered from being on network television with their really long seasons. Had it been done with only 10 episodes a season and all the filler removed it would have been much stronger.
Stallman doesn't really have a coherent ideology. If you start pulling at the thread of logic for a bit, it comes apart like a knit sweater.

People make a name for themselves by taking a strong stand on something, no matter how unpragmatic or unrealistic (and therefore, in my view 'wrong'). I don't doubt that he is intelligent, principled and abides mostly by his dogma (or at least thinks he does), or that he is isn't sincere. Obviously he's made some good contributions as well and so has kind of earned the right to have an outsized opinion. Nor do I doubt that it's important to have a variety of voices on such matters, and that often points raised by these types of people are important for us to consider.

BUT - it's best not to engage these types on ideas because it's really about dogma. It's best to grapple with the psychology of such people, why they chose to be who they are, the self-identity they derive out of having such positions etc..

In a way, these types often serve as good 'devil's advocates'.

If they were even in charge of anything it would be mostly destructive, but they can contribute a lot by challenging accepted norms.

You have to take these guys with a few grains of salt.

In much the same way, in politics, you see some opposition antagonists with some good ideas, representing underserved groups. Though they would make terrible leaders, their opinions should be noted, I think.

For example, I'm not worried about Skype at all - but I was not aware of some of those finer points, and they are worth knowing about.
Note the backticks, I was referring to the `go doc` command built into the standard tooling. There are many generated HTML documentation generation tools for every language. It's Golang's general approach to documentation which many find appealing, not the fact they can output to HTML.
Ask HN: How do you reduce eye strain during long computing bouts?
I've been having to work 15 hour days the past week due to a project about to be put into production, and my eyes are killing me. I'm a religious flux utilizer, but I'm curious what other people do to reduce the headache/feeling of 'bulging eyes'/strain after staring at the computer screen for a long time. I've been searching for special glasses to help reduce the eye strain, but know nothing about them.
What are the other use cases for it?
Faraday Future FF 91 – CES 2017 Reveal – Key Moments
Seems premature to announce like this before you even have a new version to show. I would think you would make the fork version and say "Here is our alternative. We have done X, Y and Z. Join us." when you announce.

Anyway best of luck to you.
Hi Zebra, I might be getting old, but your request seems very strange to me.

I have subscribed many mailing lists during my life and there is no single one that I could define in any way as "commercial".

On the other side, Gitter is a commercial platform that depends on one of two other commercial platforms (Twitter or Github).

I wonder if I should revide my opinion on the usage of Gitter for free software projects...
In case you didn't know, you can already share your Amazon wish lists with people. You don't need Factbook integration.
I mean, a lot of the "older" brain is control circuitry that keeps everything running and regulated without our conscious thought. Everything will have that -- at some level. It might just be actual control circuitry and not anything tied to the "brain" (e.g. a PSU in a computer), but the function would need to be performed, and if it's not part of the brain, the feedback we get (e.g. about stress or pleasure) might be lost?
"adoption is very low"

Based on what numbers?
Had to laugh at the opening paragraph of that thread:

> I think it is high time that we address the elephant in the room. I am not saying to stop what we are doing, but we need to band together and get wikileaks to prove themselves, or we need to take everything read with a grain of salt.

Surely we should be taking everything we read with a grain of salt?
Is linkedin being singled out or is this start of something bigger?
Ah. I think it got lost in editing, but the problem is that the same doesn't apply to your potential losses - if any of the games backed by Fig fails badly enough, or if Fig itself fails, you can lose your entire investment as a result, even though you won't see a penny of the returns from the other games if they succeed.
Thinking along these lines I also found this: http://reversedictionary.org/
5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Use DIY Explainer Video Tools
That's been my takeaway as well. If I could talk to the next bullying victim considering murder before the act I would point exactly this out. Society will then label you the problem when your bullies were the actual problem.
Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color?
No, he doesn't say that if he could he would limit you and that he won't permit his software to be compatible.
10.000 lux for this version from philips: https://www.fonq.de/p/philips-hf3419-02-up-energy-light-tage...
You know, this is a question I frequently ponder. I don't know if I have a good answer.

Interestingly, I think coming from a software background, where things are (generally) predictable and orderly, can help establish some of the most important foundations of practicing medicine. In writing software, we generally have a good idea about what's going to happen when we run our code. In medicine, we follow the same blueprint when approaching every patient. This ensures that we're both better able to recognize patterns when they are present, as well as making sure we are consistently thorough in collecting all the information necessary for a diagnosis.

There are also tremendous differences - probably the biggest is what could generally be called variability. In software, we generally want the product to run identically for every user - it is quite frustrating when it works differently on every computer. In medicine, we don't end up with much choice on the matter - everyone is different. And so we need to take those differences into account when we are formulating our diagnoses and are when we decide to prescribe (or not prescribe) a medication for a patient. I enjoy the challenge that this variability brings to the practice of medicine.

As a paramedic for many years now, I've had the pleasure of practicing (albeit in a very limited manner) medicine. I think what I most look forward to in becoming a physician is being at the top, directing patient care on a larger level. I also look forward to seeing more of a patient, rather than just the hour or so that it takes me to treat them and transport them to the hospital (unfortunately, paramedics in the USA are not yet look upon as definitive care). I hope to stay involved in prehospital medicine as a physician and help it grow to be considered a true career and as a source of definitive medicine.
THANK YOU! I keep having to tell people I don't even enjoy my views, I radicalize to mediate all to the center. It unnerves people. Haha.

I think a fundamental portion of civil society is owning the notion that you must strive for the rights of those you like and love least. One day you might be on their side of the railroad tracks and finally get their angst.
Nope, Putin, that won't make the LinkedIn requests stop.

Fun aside I can understand that authorities would try new approaches on smaller players first. The quality of the administrative insight isn't necessarily tied to the scale of the targeted platform.
Thanks for this. I enjoyed your writing style.
Theory of relativity would say that there are many 'nows', which one you're in depends on which frame of reference you're in :)

To a photon traveling at c, the birth, growth, and death of the universe happen simultaneously; so to a photon, there is no now. From its perspective, it dies just as quickly as it comes into existence.

> Is there not just one ever present now in which all thing change?

Sure there may be; but going by the hypothetical possibility I raised, there really isn't a now. The passage of time could be an illusion due to your memory being in a particular unchanging state that has existed 'forever'. Who's to say the 'now' that has just passed wasn't just you remembering it?
I feel Skype is abandoned by Microsoft, but I do not have other option. Same with Google Voice.
I have a BFA.

I taught myself programming (C++) when I was 15 (1995). I made simple puzzle games on my Mac.

The internet got big and I got into HTML and JS.

I didn't go to college for Computer Science b/c it sounded like I'd end up wearing a white coat and working at IBM.

I went to Art School b/c it was the closest thing to programming. Programming and Art are the same in that you create something from nothing.

When coding became "cool" (2004 ish) I picked it up again.
Im am interested in that acting school approach. What makes it different or do you just pick someone from the audience and let them do exercises?
> Lists of most influential or most powerful people are also based on data available and possibly some subjective assessment

The measure of "power" and "influence" has always been a subjective assessment, whether it's PageRank or the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
My tooling does this too and I don't even need to remember a terminal command: http://i.imgur.com/YmAkBPG.png

I get what your saying but it's apples to oranges. They are in effect similar though.
Though in Germany, products sold to children not meeting the criteria (i.e. being bought without the approval of their parents) can be returned, since law places the fault with the seller.

As well as the fact that any product bought online can be returned within 2 weeks without explanation.

So there's an incentive for the seller there to limit accidental purchases, since those will likely cost the seller more than the disgruntled parent, who at most has to pay for shipping the product back and forth.
It'd only be a key question if one assumes the technology isn't going to radically improve over the next 5 or 10 years. It's going to. Deploying to consumers and dealing with such problems, learning from how millions of people use something, is a requirement of that process of improvement. It's similar to people questioning the GUI in the very early days of the PC, because working directly with text operating systems was still superior. It was extremely widely argued that GUIs were junk, were never going to catch on, were too slow, too glitchy, didn't add enough value etc - it's an obvious and common failure to look beyond the tip of one's own nose.
hey! you got me ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph_Bitmap_Distribution_Form...
Mumble is a better choice since it's open source.
I remember going on vacation as a child (lets say I was 7, not sure) to Spain with my parents and friends of us. We travelled by car using the Route du Soleil. Besides the highway there were parking stations where one could park the car for a break. There was also a building reminiscent of a large public bathroom. It contained toilets for men, toilets for females / doing a large delivery (duty), and even showers. I found the showers peculiar given it was on a highway. It was nowhere near as odd as my experience on the toilet though.

The toilets where one could go for a large delivery required a coin (IIRC 20 French Franc), and were on a timer. So as a child I was pressured to do my duty swiftly. While I was doing my duty, the door unlocked, because my time was apparently up. I found this very intimidating to my privacy, and it increased the stress I already had to quickly do my duty. I'm not sure if I did finish or not, but I do remember feeling very upset, and I also found the system ridiculous. Especially given nobody was waiting for me to finish my turn, and the toilets weren't clean either because the place smelled horrendous.

Nowadays, if I pay for a toilet, I want it to be clean. (Although as a man at least peeing is already free if you really have to. Without the need for additional tools.)

I did read a story on HN about German cities providing free (formerly paid) toilets. This increases happiness of tourists, increasing the chance tourists come (back) to these cities. The money is paid for by the local businesses. But this increases their profits because they sell more due to more/happier tourists.
> I currently hold a position in an academic lab, where we blend design, research and engineering to study social sciences-related question within large data sets.

That sounds very interesting! Care to elaborate?
Understood. I'll post a "Request For Package" to Debian, per their standard request process. We'll see what happens.
Since it's a TV series, there are a lot of generic filler episodes that are just like Law & Order whodunnits + AI. But the high points, which eventually take center stage in latter seasons, are indeed the best depiction of AI and the issues surrounding it that I've ever seen on a screen.
My main beef with SpiderOak is that I have no way of verifying these claims, so why should I use it over, say, Crashplan, which actually does do a better job of backup. I'll just use a tool like Veracrypt when I need the extra layer of protection, and Crashplan does a better job of incremental backup of these files, too, while SpiderOak uploads the entire file each time.
Why would someone like the DoD prefer to use its own Root Certificate(s)?
Do you think we need to be in specific kind of cities (smaller vs bigger) to earn a living doing such a job?
Or do you think doing solely this is not enough to earn a living?
Why chatbots will not kill apps or websites
I don't, but my co-founder does (VC backed startup). In many ways, he made me realize true design talent is one of the rarest and most valuable skills in tech, more than engineering. Everything we create looks awesome solely because of him, whether that's branding, marketing, web and web app design, or mobile UI. It's had a huge impact on our value as a company. This might be a relatively recent phenomenon, so timing seems really good for you and the field as a whole.

The downside for people in this field is that we need just one for a team of 25, whereas we have nearly 18 engineers. Competition could be fierce for these jobs, but I'll never start another company without a design co-founder.
Interestingly, Japan actually has a homicide rate on par with the US if you include suicides (with the delta between the Japanese and US rates being filled by our murder rate).
Also obligatory xkcd : https://www.xkcd.com/743/

> If you think he's crazy about a topic just wait 5 years, you'll admit he's right.

2012 → 2017 : yep after Snowden leaks in 2013 that confirmed Microsoft joined PRISM in 2007, the fear of eavesdropping in Skype does not seem unfunded anymore.
TBH since the IOT part is removable you might just buy a new panel every 10 or so years.
After 20 years it's unlikely that you'll be able to connect it to anything anyhow, most Wifi 802.11a cards do not work anymore with modern routers.
You can't connect a 20 year old cellphone to modern networks, and even 15 year old DSL modems can very well not work anymore in many countries, same goes for cable modems if you have a DOCSIS 1.1 modem you likely not going to be able to hook it up to a modern cable network since most of them run DOCSIS 2.0 or higher.

So security updates should be mandated for the 7-10 years or so warranty period for large appliances, ideally you'll want more than that sure, but I don't think that connectivity would be common at that point.
Ask HN: Would like some advice for doing a CS or IT graduate program.
Hey Everyone,

I’m a long time lurker and really quite enjoy the helpful community here. I was hoping that I’d be able to get some feedback on my current career/educational experience and if my future plans would be realistic to landing a development position.

My academic background is in International Relations for undergrad and I’ve about 6 years of IT experience ranging from Help Desk to Sys Admin type positions. Currently I find myself as a tester for a system like SAP. I’ve gone ahead and began doing some Java programming classes through a local online university and plan to take the second level next semester, which is equivalent to Oracle’s Java Junior Associate certification (based on the curriculum from this community college). The reason for taking these two classes is that it’d be enough for the pre-requisites for a Master of Science in Information Technology [1]. I feel at this point in time (late 20’s) that it’d be wise to move forward with a Masters instead of attempting a second Bachelor in computer science. I’ve also explored attempting to do substantially more pre-requisite classes for a Master in Computer Science at the same university, but the math looks to be quite a challenge (CALC 1/2 + Discrete Math). My rationale for going back to school is that many dev positions require a STEM type degree to even be considered.

Financially I have no debts, 60k in savings and in state tuition would be very low at 7k a year. I’ve been familiarizing myself with SQL, Java, Powershell to the point of being able to complete assigned low complexity tasks and delivering them quickly with good feedback. This current job just doesn’t have any dev positions I could expect to move into unfortunately. Any advice or clarification needed on my part would be very helpful.

Thanks HN!

[1] http://catalog.utsa.edu/graduate/business/informationsystemscybersecurity/#msit

[2] http://www.cs.utsa.edu/graduate/ms#admission
> Should we give up on programs with millions of threads because someone in the 1970's never foresaw that use case?

It's not that simple. I think there's a reasonable first-principles argument to be made that scheduling belongs in the kernel, which has a global view of the system and is better equipped to make those decisions.
I don't get it. I clicked through the article to see the "justification" since LinkedIn is extremely tame. For example, imagine if LinkedIn were banned from the United States - why would that happen? Well it could happen if a court ordered it to stop impersonating its users, it didn't stop and kept impersonating then, and then the court ordered it to be shut down as punishment. Kind of far-fetched, but not that far-fetched. Everyone knows LinkedIn illegally impersonated its users.

So I was wondering what the justification would be here. So I clicked through. I didn't see the full article, but this is what I found "a court blocked the professional networking service for flouting local laws that require internet firms to store data on Russian citizens within the nation’s borders."

So question: why didn't it store data on its citizens within the nation's borders?

It doesn't seem that far-fetched of a requirement to me. Doesn't Germany have the same requirement?

I didn't Google in-depth but found this language (about Germany) "20. What rules regulate the transfer of data outside your jurisdiction?
The Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) differentiates between transfer of personal data within the EU/EEA and outside the EU/EEA."[1]

Isn't this more or less the same thing?

While I'm not defending Russia's actions (according to a Reddit user journalists are jailed, Putin's opposition opponent is in a Russian graveyard with 5 bullets in him, etc etc), but this seems like something that Linkedin could have complied on?

Or is there more to the story?

[1] http://uk.practicallaw.com/3-502-4080
I thought that is just the dismissive term for people that are believed to be destructivly committed to a specific idea.

You are right in implying that it is rude. What would be the socially acceptable term for this phenomenon?
Dropped (2014)
I recall about a week after the Snowden disclosures some people saying the Snowden leaks were deliberate and that NSA has kept up this tradition of false flag disclosures. If anything, the whole web is certainly more secure now, and Snowden is even quoted as saying: "I still work for the NSA" after the leaks. I don't buy the rhetoric that NSA is simply all about slurping up plaintext. They have a duty to secure the web too. It's a weird paradox that they both want more security and want all the plaintext they can salvage.
Couldn't the assistants (google, alexa, siri) be improved to do voice fingerprinting for specific commands (like purchases, unlock the front door, ...) where only certain voices are allowed to execute them?
your second paragraph is exactly my point: which is why it's an absurd claim that anyone is saying "we're almost certainly" living in a simulated environment. there's no way to know.
Nope. This touchbar Mac is actually the best machine I've ever had.
Show HN: Awsm.css 2.0 “Charmander” – Simple CSS library for semantic HTML markup
I'm a graphic design minor - it would be major, but after being rejected from my program, I decided to reevaluate my life instaed of reapplying for the program. That was one of the best decisions I've made.

I realized that it is more important to have width than depth in many circumstances. That is to say, knowing a little about a lot of things instead of knowing a lot about one thing.

For example, in my web dev work, I need to be able to cooperate with the graphic designers who provide the designs for the product to me. Being able to talk their language and understand the tools they use is tremendously helpful. I'm also able to apply the principles of visual design in my own projects instead of needing a designer to review all my work.

And I still try to do art on the side. After I changed my major, I took a printmaking class and discovered my favorite kind of art. I'm planning on doing more of that after I graduate.
It's a (slightly excessive) reaction to the EU cookie law.

IANAL but as far as I can tell, it's only required when you have cookies from third parties outside your control like Google Analytics.

If you only use Cookies to login it should not be necessary.
Minor in art history undergrad, and BFA/MFA studio art. After moving to New York in 2000 I eventually realized that the people with the greatest autonomy and creative freedom were coders. I bought a Teach Yourself LAMP in 24 hours book. Probably the best decision I ever made was to stop trying to sell myself off as a designer (probably because I was not one) and selling myself off as a coder instead. My art background is related to my product (prefer to stay anon on this) and am happy with my decision to attend art school instead of studying computer science. Been self-employed seven years.