skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that fighting fascism is a bigger overall concern, but I think there's a time for these practical concerns as well. Especially given that it most affects non-US citizens, who may or may not be able to have an impact on the larger issue.
Supposing all this is true, and you leave your phone/laptop at home, what stops the the border control agent from demanding that you log in to your email and social media accounts on a device they provide before allowing entry?
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Onward is a fairly intense multiplayer military sim. Unfortunately, that's just not for everyone. I don't enjoy that sort of game in VR or not.

I agree though that I unfairly overlooked Onward due to my personal lack of interest in it.
> I'm curious why people don't prefer Chez Scheme to Racket if it is so fast and can make real binaries (I think anyway).

Just a FYI for those following along at home, racket comes with built-in support for bundling programs as executables - but as I understand it those are really archives with a vm and (byte?)code.

I recently tried on Windows, and a "hello world" graphical app was a ~11mb - not bad IMNHO - but bigger than the equivalent Lazarus / free pascal app.
I've had something stolen from TSA-inspected checked luggage. If you pack your phone, keep that possibility in mind.
The translation is: my computer cannot grow your food today. It is not that i\we don't care, is that there is a mismatch in tools to solve the current problems.

My longview is pretty simple: We can do both. Just because some of us are working for a longer term goal doesn't give you any moral authority to demonize us. It is foolish and arrogant.
Ah yes, crystal doesn't have compiler plugins, which simplifies things a bit. Say, if you specified that you had to be able to build rust master with the latest nightly release, could you use only 2 stages (latest nightly, built master)?

I'm currently working on crystal's CI infrastructure so that we can have nightly crystal builds (+ CI) for all architectures we support. Currently we release features incrementally such that the compiler can always be built with the latest release, and I'm wondering how much effect relaxing that constraint to the latest nighty would have on development speed.
It would be nice to have a guide to developed world countries with easy paths to permanent residence and/or citizenship.
Also check out: R for Data Science: http://r4ds.had.co.nz/

It's got a lot of good intro materials for R. Though having some understanding of another programming language would be pretty helpful.
Why would it need to take up a monitor sized area of view? The screen for sharing could easily be projector sized.
Well, you've stated the solution. Don't have a gmail account. Don't have a facebook account. Don't use centralized services. It's not that hard once you start.
Sorry for not having mentioned this explicit (it is in my profile) but this is from first-hand experience from being a founder and having going through YC with Bitnami
I mean, this whole thing sucks, but I can't think of any apps that I'd actually go through the inconvenience of uninstalling just so someone at border patrol can't see them, including "treasure troves" like Gmail/Drive. I'll just unlock my phone, let them look for whatever they're looking for, and carry on with my life.

It's an invasion of privacy (to what extent is debatable, but I'd rather not make a stance there), but so is going through my luggage, x-rays, etc. I understand why they're there, and I have a tiny twinge of "what if they find something weird" every time I go through the airport, but I also trust the system (again, to some extent) and recognize why these processes exist.

Fun fact: I've accidentally tried to go through security post-9/11 with a half-dozen hunting knives in my carry-on (after a camping trip) and they were very concerned at first, but just asked some questions, told me to throw them out, and let me through.

Saying "if you've got nothing to hide, why worry?" is a trope by now, but I'm clearly not the person they're looking for and I'm not too worried about a mild, temporary inconvenience if they mistake me for a Bad Guy.
«Apple hasn't been able to crack the code to get live TV channels yet, but neither has most anyone else.»

There's two reasons I don't think anyone has cracked live TV. The obvious one is technical: cable companies don't want to give away the keys to that kingdom because they make a ton of money in equipment rental still. (With the change of guard in the FCC, it doesn't look like that will change, now.)

But the other problem is more social. Even when the cable companies had a mandated technical solution (CableCard), "no one" used it. There are plenty of reasons given for this, but I think the main one is that "live TV" is probably a red herring. Outside of sports, certain types of "events" like award shows, and maybe news, no one actually seems to want Live TV. We'd all much rather have the option to pause, to rewind, to skip fast forward. Cable companies aren't differentiating themselves on how live their content is, they are competing for who offers the best DVR and/or On Demand platforms.

Of course, they'd be doomed to be easily beat by the cable cutters and the smarter software solutions of Netflix, Hulu, et al, if they weren't also gatekeepers to internet access at all on the one side and ancient content contracts on the other side. Which is why, as you point out, the real problem is the cable business model and the fact that we let the cable companies conglomerate into just a few monopolistic megacorporations that own giant vertical slices of content and internet access.

Cynicism suggests the cable companies aren't going to fracture or break: they will need to be regulated or destroyed.
Thanks for the link. I've read the first few pages: it's a really good read! Will definitely be reading this on the weekend.

On the paradoxical reaction to benadryl, and this is completely amateur speculation on my part, I wonder if it's because of benadryls anticholinergic effects (combined with a greater sensitivity, lower threshold etc.) resulting in a pseudo-anticholineric toxicity? And thereby outweighing the more typical effects of H1 anti-histamines? (disclaimer: I am very not a doctor, and this stuff is mostly beyond me)
Hmmm, indeed. I didn't thought about using react server side rendering and intercepting it to check which status to provide. Good idea, thanks!

No, I'll have to think about whether it's worth it adding a whole SSR stack just for that, in my app behind auth :)
Both of these are under active development

Robotic insects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboBee

Robotic horses: http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_bigdog.html
VoIP granddaddy now says current Net Neutrality Sux
Note that there are two versions, the Netscape one and the Microsoft one. The Netscape one used renegotiation, the Microsoft one just sends a new ClientHello after the Certificate message. I think SChannel supported both of them and looked at the certificate to determine which one to use, while NSS supported only the Netscape one.
Also R is 1 indexed instead of 0 indexed. (Arrays are numbered [1,2,3] instead of [0,1,2] for the beginner).

I forget that probably every 5 minutes when working in R.
For a number of reasons, VR arguably works best today (and maybe tomorrow) if you're basically sitting in a chair and looking around. (Otherwise, you need a lot of space and still lack the sort of physical feedback that a fully immersive experience would ideally have.) But then, are you really improving much over a good multi-monitor setup?
Now I'm wondering about pressure-cooking tea...
Another option is decoy operating systems
Call me cynical, but I believe that those concerns are totally unfounded because the "evil government" doesn't need your FB login for that, IMHO they most likely can access that information directly without your consent. I would be really surprised if they really had to do this mass harvesting of profiles based on a series of one-time access to individual profiles of a small fraction of population; They had much more effective ways to do mass harvesting many years ago (as illustrated by various leaks) and probably do them now, having to involve thousands of immigration agents would be simply counterproductive.

I do believe that immigration services look at your account exclusively for their goals of evaluating immigration. They ask you to unlock your account because for them it's objectively simpler to ask that information from you than to get it from the other government agencies that have that information but won't disclose it because formally they shouldn't have it. There's no "the government", it is an amalgamation of many organizations that have conflicting goals and don't coordinate, so it's reasonable to expect that "the government" has some information and at the same time "the government" (i.e. other parts of it) don't have it and need to request it from you or do without.
From what I can tell you have a few things going against you.

1) You haven't worked anywhere I've heard of. Means I don't know if you've got "new-hire issues" around showing up on time, writing professional emails, etc.

2) You seem suited for a UX Designer position, but you're aiming for a more senior product role. If I were you, I'd go for a UX Design job at an agency or company that people have heard of (or with clients people have heard of) so you can add those to your resume. (It's not bad to know some code to do UX Design, just like it's not bad to know some design if you want to be a developer -- but understand that most teams are split so people can specialize and thrive at what they are each good at. College is about learning broad topics, but for work you'll have an easier time finding a job if you pick something with high demand and specialize in it.)

3) You're looking for jobs in NYC when you are in Paris. General rule, you have to be where you want to find a job. Your search will be 10x harder at least doing it from another city.

4) I don't see any links to LinkedIn -- always nice when new-hires have recs posted so I can read what others say. Get a LinkedIn page and get some recs. There's nothing about your education even on your web page...

Good luck finding a job, it takes time and patience. If you aren't applying "right" you'll end up spinning your wheels going after things you won't land. In time you narrow down what you are good at, how to sell your skills... it does get easier.
By 2? Because dividing 10 or 100 by 2 is harder than 12 by 2?

Three, I'll give you.

Useful amounts of precision is a nothing, if you ask me. We start teaching decimals in third grade, and the only real issue with decimals is weather, for which the difference is saying "80F vs 81F", or "26.7 versus 27.2", whose utility is ... limited.

For distance, the metric system has finer grained units for precision (come on, break down inches: 1/16, 1/8, 3/16, 1/4, 5/16, 3/8, 1/2, etc... are you going to argue that is better than 25.7cm or 257mm?).

I'm not really buying it, as someone who has lived in both worlds.
100% yes.

I started with Elements of Computing: creating a half-adder and then a full-adder chip. But, I couldn't understand how I reached my solution—I was relying on my intuition. Then, I started reading "Code", which takes the reader on a journey from shining flash lights to communicate with your neighbor, all the way to bridging the gap between boolean algebra and building a relay.
I'm pretty sceptical that the phrase isn't a bit of marketing to some extent, but one thing (among many) that earns YC a ton of respect in my mind is YC Research. The research projects truly seem geared toward working for a better world as their first goal.
Trying to play the devil's advocate.

1) Security is just more important than privacy.

2) Individual freedom is about not restricting your actions, not about defending you from others.

3) Privacy is something of the past anyway. In a 100 years we will know every word you say, every thing you buy, every breath you take. You're defending the right to spit tobacco on the street.

4) In a few years when something happens everybody is gonna turn around and blame the government about not knowing enough. It is good for PR for that reason. "We tried, you didn't want to."
Actually, go routing is not the problem, it's react routing that is : go router only knows about API endpoints, and have a catch all route to serve the web client, which then manage its routing by itself. The advantage in that is that the backend only needs to know about API routes, and the client is totally free to implement whatever routes it wants.
Misread this as "A Regretable C Compiler" -- likely what would happen to me without a text like this!
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I think this is not quite correct for what the controversy is. My understanding is that Fukaya wrote a paper with brilliant ideas, no one could understand them for sixteen years, and then the controversial part is the brashness with which McDuff and Wehrheim engaged with Fukaya. It seems like most people agree that it was a net good for the field of symplectic geometry, because now other people can employ Fukaya's ideas for other problems because they can hope to understand them, but where people are divided is whether this was the best way to get Fukaya to elaborate them.
Kudos for using Kill Bill analogy!
The Blackphone is supposed to have profiles that are separated from each other so that data isn't accessible across profiles at the hardware level. If that were obfuscated, then that might help. Of course, just having a Blackphone will probably get you targeted anyway and they will already know about its capabilities.
If I could afford it, I'd hire you.

Sorry I can't afford it.
Geo-Clash: Falling Triangles. A simple android game made with UE4
> The US is rich enough to where, yes, we could raise taxes and fund infrastructure better.

It isn't necessary to raise taxes; reducing military spending would more than suffice.
This will bite you if your code depends on int being 32 bit (for example if you depend on overflows or use asm). If your code explicitly uses an int32, this will always be true.

Silently increasing the size of an int is more likely to break things than it'll be helpful. If you really want an int to be 32 bit on a 32 bit machine and 64 bit on a 64 bit machine, make it explicit (e.g. intptr_t for pointers)
Sorry that happened to you, but that is just not good advice. Trying to fool them at all isn't advisable, and your suggested scheme involves multiple levels of deception - lying both about what you did and what your intent was, trying to appear eager to help when you're not. Most normal people are not such skilled liars, whereas border agents are always on the lookout for deception.

Also "just say that's what you normally do when entering border control" goes against the image you're trying to create.
I don't remember the source, but apparently one of the many analyses of Stradivarius violins concluded that one of his red pigments was from the Americas.
one problem: you're wearing a headset, masking your face from being filmed.

the headset would need to capture your expressions somehow and translate into your avatar doing the same. if not, you'll get Second Life level crap.

it will take a while.
At a greater risk of losing a server in your cluster due to automatic shutdown after too much clock-drift, right?
So sad that the best answer we have currently is to take the same technology that aids us in navigating unfamiliar cities, helps us translate other languages and connects us to our family, friends and colleagues in a myriad of ways, and just leave it at home.
Hii Olivier,

I am assuming I was in a similar place like you 8-10 years back. In retrospect, I have found that the following reasons affected my applications.

1. I was from an unknown college in an unknown place. Yahoo! or Microsoft wouldn't even look at my resume. Too much of unknown.

2. Startups wouldn't hire me as relocation is expensive and 8-10 years back the good startups were scrappy. Btw, aren't the best ones always scrappy? And you might have been applying to them as you want to work with the best.

3. I listed a lot of expertise which I had. But its hard to believe especially for HRs who get 100s of candidate everyday advertising they know everything only to be told by the interviewer that the candidate wasn't good. I am not doubting your skills but the problem is the noise. Most 23 year olds don't know how to read code.

How I overcame it and got a job.

1. I did my Masters so an MNC would hire me. I knew this hack/entry.

2. After getting into the MNC, I worked my ass off and kept applying to jobs focusing on the work I did at the MNC.

3. I got a job at an awesome startup!

And things started changing. Now I get replies to most of my applications.

And automated or copy paste resumes do work but HN crowd might not agree. But most of the industry is still very non HN.

Hope it helps. All the best and keep applying!
They can't deny entry to US citizens.
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The thing about valve, and I don't mean this as a criticism, but I have to imagine Steam is basically their business now. The games and the VR stuff are fun side projects that hopefully turn out well, but they're pretty much just printing money by being the publisher of almost every game.
Oh, I'll never use Mongo again. I think they believe their own PR, and I feel duped by the people who pushed it into our project against the reservations of more than half of the team. In fact I'd rather not work with anyone involved in that whole thing.

But I didn't want to turn the Cockroach scalability discussion into another roast of Mongo so I very purposefully only talked about the horizontal scaling vis a vis 'immediately have to scale' versus 'very capable of scaling' horizontally.

If you gave me a DB that always had to be clustered but I could run it as two or three processes on a single machine without exhausting memory, I would be fine with that as long as the tooling was pretty good. As a dev I need to simulate production environments, not model them exactly.

But if the whole thing only performs when it's effectively an in-memory DHT, there are other tools that already do that for me and don't bullshit me about their purpose.
the level of bikeshedding on the name is crazy. I think it is a good name btw.
What about using SHA512? /s
I would love to see how many of those are lurkers. I've been reading hacker news for almost 3 years now but made my very first comment less than a month ago (fat thumb logged out on my iPhone and couldn't remember my password so this is account #2).

I have over 8 years of daily Reddit use with 0 comments made as well. Just a personality thing.
I wonder how common is RFC 7366 currently BTW.
That was really hard for me at Estes Park, higher in the mountains near Denver. Growing up in Indiana, humidity tolerance is practically baked into my genome.
Ah.. weave has built in encryption, so you would probably use that by itself.
Yes, and I think this same principle is roughly true for a lot of programming language implementations. It's one of the reasons it pays off to know some details about your implementation -- People should always keep this in mind.

Designers and implementors are traditionally under a very different set of constraints than "average users" (who in this case are programmers), though their goals do align. But this leads to very different set of assumptions, optimizations, and tools being available. Things that would generally be overkill are suddenly very viable and worthwhile goals to achieve (e.g. micro-optimizations add up repeatedly so they're very worth it, vendoring is much more useful to control dependencies/scope of bugs), and vice versa.

So I wouldn't be extremely miffed if you look at libstdc++ or libcxx or <whatever> and find it somewhat unkempt or gross compared to average code. It's often very much not-average. In fact it's likely given careful understanding of the constraints that code exists under -- you'd come up with similar results.
Thanks for the comment! There's lots of challenges to be solved in this space, and I'm sure there's room for all of us. Excited to see what you guys are up to. I will look forward to your beta release "real soon" :)
Am I the only one who assumes that they have access to all this stuff anyway. I guessed that they just want to tie the imei to you to make tracking easier.
Neither do most Americans. It's the authoritarians in charge of this shit show that have the fascination.
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I have lived almost all of my childhood in Muscat, Oman. I went to visit Oman some years back which was very nostalgic. I still felt very welcomed there, met shopkeepers & my neighbors who instantly recognized the grow up me.

PS: I am not an American nor European.
The military and other industries that rely on expensive training simulators are where the market for this stuff is at right now. Going for the consumers first is / was a mistake. VR will make it, but it's going to take longer than the "next big thing" crowd anticipated (like most hings do).
> We can far surpass some of their capabilities

We could far surpass many of the human brain's capabilities from the moment computers were invented. That's what computers are for. But it doesn't mean we've come close to human intelligence, and we're not very close to insect intelligence now. As others have commented, getting to insect intelligence may be quite useful. In any event, that would at least likely put us on the path. Right now, the fact that computers can do more and more things that only humans could does not mean those approaches are getting us close to human intelligence. It just means that we've discovered more useful algorithms, but those algorithms are not necessarily on the path to human intelligence any more than the AI of the 1950s.
My take is that people in the market for a development board don't want a slide show of hero images and don't care about animated images. They care about the numbers: capability, price, and lead time. All of those moving pictures are noise, not signal.

You're competing with the information density of this: http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Texas-Instruments/MSP-EX... and probably not winning with your approach. Because people buying prototype boards are looking to buy from a source that understands their business.

Good luck.
Anyone work with mparticle?
Change the password to something you cannot recall. A long randomly generated password that you leave at home.

Works best if you are a citizen of the country you try to enter.
Packer + Docker + custom cloud elastic stuff.

You can use docker compose and swarm but at some point you need to interface with how the cloud offering does elastic scaling (for example google has instance groups and deploy templates).

I haven't seen a good resource on this last part other than PaaS/IaaS doc itself. So I am curious as well.

There sort of needs to be a packer of deployment + composition but I suppose that is what chef and puppet are sort of for (I despise those tools).
Xbox One has built-in Miracast support, too. There's a free Miracast app on the Xbox One to receive Miracast and stream it to your TV. (The app is called something like "Wireless Streaming", published by Microsoft themselves. I don't think they currently bundle it onto the Xbox out of the box, but they should.)
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I think sports are likely a better starting point. You could watch the Superbowl kind of in VR already http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/31/14451246/fox-sports-vr-liv...
I really, really, really hope VR doesn't fail if only for the artistic applications of it. I used to play Tilt Brush for hours every day, but don't have the space for the equipment anymore so I just watch people play Tilt Brush on YouTube. IMO, it's a legitimate "next generation" for artists that's still almost entirely undiscovered (and unfortunately out of reach from most).