skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What good would that do when the customers of the service do not pay for it nor can they even evaluate differences in quality?

Consider eg, the cost of higher education in the US. Tuition is listed up front and students may trivially price compare... yet prices continually go up all the same.
In the real world, rising to and functioning at the 'top' implies recognizing that a different set of rules applies.

How you deal with this reality is up to you.
What was Nimble America anyway, and why the outrage?

The Daily Beast article isn't much help, talking about Pepe the Frog and "shitposting", with the banner picture, presumably the most egregious example they could publish, being Hillary's face with the caption "Too Big to Jail". Partisan, sure, but well within the realm of normal politics these days.
Connect is an interesting thing. Much like MTurk, Amazon is turning humans into auto-scalable infrastructure. It's up the stack, but it's still very much lego pieces as someone else was saying elsewhere in the thread.
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One thing really stands out here:

"with enough support, poor Muslims from rural Syria could adapt, belong and eventually prosper and contribute in Canada"

I'm fearful of allowing huge numbers of refuges into another country as the number of social problems could overwhelm the host country. But absolutely with enough support this could work. Not talking financial support, but as this article mentions people taking time to help these people adjust to the new country. I'm surprised in this modern age it happened. Community seems to be uncommon in the age of individualism. It's heart warming to see a counter example.
> A deal where we reduce immigration but ask people to sponsor as some sort of civic duty.

How about you can have all the immigration you want if you sponsor it?

> I think it might reduce anti-immigrant sentiment if Americans were in close contact with the struggles immigrants face.

I think it might reduce the pro-immigrant sentiment if (certain) Americans were in close contact with the struggles immigrants bring.
Oh come the fuck on, if that's the position you're going to take at least own up to it.

I asked why his continued employment ought to be predicated on never giving the impression that he holds beliefs that people like you find offensive.

You say "It's not." But it obviously was. We can all see that it was, that's what TFA (as well as all the other press about Lucky in the last 12 months) is about: His perceived beliefs, how unacceptable they are to you, and whether or not he ought to be cast out as a consequence.

What you meant to say was "He should have known better than to give the impression that he believes things that I, and people like me, disapprove of."
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Great point, I hadn't considered that. Of course it was only recently we learned of the Netprospex leak which was likely this very scenario.
I remember getting locked out of our grade book one evening around 5:30-6. When I chatted with the IT guy the following day he said the edtech company didn't think teachers worked after 3 p.m. so some unannounced maintenance should be A-OK!
So, this person's male-specific slurs are sexist against women because it fails to insult them as well?
you clearly are not well informed about VR if you think it is dead in the water. Have you even bothered to look at the Playstation VR? It has sold more units than Occulus and Vive combined, and has been out for way way way less time.
Ha, I also use that alias. Simple operations can be done directly in gitk (moving branches etc.) but a real solution that'd make `git lg` editable would be an incredible boon.
Glad to see @patio11 thinks the same way. Look at his answer to this:

Q: Why are you bothering with BCC when consulting is so much more lucrative?
(I can think of a few good reasons, but I'd like to hear what your reasons are.)

A: I really enjoy being a product guy. BCC has a very desirable property in that it mostly works in my sleep. Consulting is quite lucrative and intellectually engaging, but it often disrupts my life in ways that BCC does not: for example, flying off to $BIG_CITY_ACROSS_OCEAN for a few weeks is wonderful once or twice a year but would get tiresome if I were doing it every month. I very rarely get tired of BCC, and with the exception of a trivial amount of support all of my work for it is at my absolute discretion to schedule. I mean, my little brother is graduating college this spring and, without even looking at the calendar, I can say "Sure, no problem, I'll be there. Tell me the day sometime."

Money is also not a huge motivator for me. I like it, don't get me wrong, but after I've got the rent and necessities covered (oh look, bingo) money generally has to be the icing on the cake to motivate me to do something. (Shh, no telling the consulting clients.)

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018936
I'm still working under the old incarnation of E, e16 (a.k.a. Enlightenment
0.16) and it still rocks. Some of that could be muscle memory and habits that
survived fifteen years already, though.

Still, I've never seen a window manager that would allow me to set up virtual
desktops so I could move in three dimensions (2x2 in three layers).
In a few decades, all the municipal budgets like that will be underwater...not unlike the rest of South Florida.
Computer tech in education is a con. It is completely unnecessary.

There's a reason Steve Jobs limited his kids access to technology:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...

In fact, it has opposite effect to what is intended. It gives the child an avalanche of distraction, when what they need is simplicity. I would say the same about mobile phones.
I'll live. Hell, I was never big into VR anyway, this could even be good for me.
> people's actual words and actions

* He said he used a pro trump account and then said he didn't. Both can't be true so we know he is a liar\lying about this incident.

* He donated money to a pro trump org

* His girlfriend is\was a trump supporter

* His 'like'ing pattern seems to fall in line with what a Trump supporter may do

Maybe he is a libertarian now. Maybe not. It is very difficult to tell because he seems to have an issue with honesty and his actions are not aligning with his words.
Can you elaborate on why/how did you find Oculus more polished?

Note : I have a Vive, which I bought after researching both (so I might be biased)
Someone who studies VR interactions for a living recently posted this: Yoga for Building VR Tolerance http://elevr.com/yoga-for-building-vr-tolerance/
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> There is a very direct analogy to this in the early history of Islam: where the Muslims who fled persecution in Mecca were set up with sponsor families in Medina

Then the sponsor families were conquered, along with the rest of Medina...
"Demagoguic populism" vs. "Progressivist populism" might be a more useful axis.

The socialism vs. market capitalism division has been dominant since the 19th century, but isn't the only such division. I found the introductory chapter of A.H.M. Jones, Augustus, to be a particularly telling parallel of the interests and divisions of politics, this being Rome, ~40 BCE, and the optimates vs. the populares, the former being the propertied oligarchs, and hangers-on, the latter the larger (and generally disenfranchised) population.

(I've posted exerpts at G+ and Ello, search under my handles there.)

The Chartist movement and general populist reforms of 19th century Europe (especially in the Year of Revolutions, 1848) are also telling.

Increased electoral franchsie, judicial reform, and a number of other rights were key among issues raised. Unionisation as well.
+1. If anyone has tried both, please share your experience!
Can someone explain why float is "better" than numeric in this example?

pg1:joel=#* select 1/7::numeric7;
?column?
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0.99999999999999999998
(1 row)

pg1:joel=# select 1/7::float*7;
?column?
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1
(1 row)
An enlightening read. I would like to offer my own definition for success.

Failure is easy to define, deviation from expected outcomes, suffering, etc.

Success is not the absence of failure. In this case success is a bright future with many options for the children. Success is integrating the children in to the culture of the new host country; this does not require forsaking their heritage, but it may mean becoming more or slightly different than it.
I'm not sure how I feel about this - ambivalent, I guess - pretty much how I felt after the FB acquisition.

I was a KS supporter - but I had followed Luckey for a while before on the MTBS3D forums, when he was just playing around, modding classic HMDs - mixing up the parts. He was one of only a handful of people that I could see who still played around with VR in that mid-to-late 1990s way. At the time, I thought that if there were anybody who could bring back VR, it was him.

I've played with DIY "homebrew" VR off and on since the mid-90s. I have a collection of old HMDs and other gear from the era. I've modded a powerglove, and at one time hooked it up to my Amiga and messed around with AMOS3D for fun with it. Later, Rend386...in short, I was disappointed to see VR die - so when the Kickstarter was announced, I was - to put it mildly - stoked.

That KS was the first one I backed (and not the last!) - I had high hopes, especially because Luckey had made a huge deal out of there being Linux support. With the FB deal, that was dropped, and that's when for me at least, the gilding rubbed off revealing a more base interior to the whole thing. Still, I had hoped that it would all lead somewhere.

In a way, I guess it did. More people than ever before got to play around with VR and such, and experience it all in ways that in the mid-90s I could only dream about (the tech just didn't exist at a price any normal person could afford). It was, though, a disappointment to hear that people were still having the same usage problems with this new tech that were the bane of VR back then.

Now it seems that once again, interest is waning. The hardware is still way too expensive for most people to come on board. People are still skeptical about what it is, whether it really works, or worried about side effects and other problems. Others simply don't understand the concept of immersion - or if they do, they can't seem to grasp why that would be such a great thing (I find it odd that some can't understand the idea of being -inside- a virtual world - a world of make believe, a world of dreams? One would think that would be something everyone would be gung-ho about, but I guess not).

Then to find out Palmer's true side, which - at least to me - wasn't apparent before; conservative, a seeming "I've got mine" attitude (and I don't begrudge his newfound wealth - in fact, I kinda proud for him on that mark), and bro-dude, let's support our favorite cheeto-in-chief...

And then the whole Zenimax thing.

For me, his reputation has been horribly tarnished. I'm glad he gave the whole VR thing another boost, but at the same time, it looks likely that this is the last great "hoorah" for the technology, and it will likely never get another chance again - at least not in the "gloves and goggles" classic form we've come to associate the term "VR" with.

Perhaps that's for the best.
> How about you can have all the immigration you want if you sponsor it?

Pretty much all immigrant visa categories (and certainly the vast majority of actual visas granted) are sponsored, either employer or family, so, sure, just uncap all those categories and be done?
>the benefit of the EU was that it was an effective way to bypass the people's democratic representatives //

The EU is democratically representative too, in a very similar way to the UK parliament. They have the same shortfalls. It just happens that across the EU there is more support for solving the energy crisis than there is in UK Conservative government. In part that's because IMO the EU looks more long term whilst the UK government appears only to be concerned about getting through the next one election. In part it's because the liberal and green elements that aren't properly represented in the UK, because we lack proportional representation, don't get to pressure our government locally but do get to represent the demos in the EU. It's the EU's better, ie more representative, democracy that causes the leap-frogging.

>They did get 1.66M from the UK government. //

Not really, sure the UK provided their part share of that, but they were forced to by the elected EU layer of government. The major share came from the other EU countries. Germany pays around twice the contribution of the UK and with France, Italy, and Spain we pay about 50% of the contribution. So the money is about 0.83M from these 5, perhaps about 0.2M from the UK government.

>involuntarily via the middleman //

The UK voluntarily, through a democratic process, joined the EU. The nation chose to put itself in the position where it would contribute the 0.2M and the other countries would add their 1.5M to enable projects such as this all across Europe.
If you're a small team or solo developer, fossil just works. Highly recommended.
Write blogs / books for marketing.

Becoming one? Out of necessity and interest. Otherwise you'll burn out and not like the future path you're on.
You can now help buy congress's data
If you include international magazines and newspapers, then yes.
Totally agree!

Once we were very close to implement a very similar scenario (stream of events, some lightweight processing, kafka for distribution, hbase/solr for storage). If you go for such thing, better be sure that your business analysts are on the same page as you. Otherwise, instead of a clean event sourcing model, you may end up with some sort of message protocol that spans across the schema/data format/business logic/weird requirements. It is just that this thing will become your new "model".
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Yup, for having tried both, the Vive is far superior to the Oculus.
It's not completely true, you can easily lose data in Git by accident. Here's an example. Suppose we have a single "master" branch, pointing to commit A. You create a new "feature" branch, making commits B, and then C. You realize that B and C are actually unrelated, so you want each of them to have separate branches. You git rebase --interactive onto master, picking only commit C. This way feature branch has commit C with parent A. Now, you git checkout commit B, which should put you into detached HEAD state, from which you plan to create a second feature branch. Alas, something has triggered git gc in the meantime, and commit B has been garbage collected, as it was no longer pointed to by anything.

Something like this happened to me, breaking the whole Chromium repo for half an hour. Definitely not fun.
There is nothing like this little teaspoon of hate to brighten your day.
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It feels like amazon's fundamental strength is dealing with price sensitive customers and running margin business with extremely thin margins.
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^Yep. When I was sponsored, the US government basically told us that if we try and claim any public benefits for the next 5 years, they'd come after my sponsor for reimbursement. Sponsor had to show adequate financial resources to sponsor our family.

This probably does not apply for refugees, but definitely does for family-based sponsorships.
Apple also has a Windows client for iCloud Drive, and you can use standard Word/Excel/PowerPoint files and still edit them through Pages/Numbers/Keynote on a different Mac.
I am certainly biased, despite having huge issues with Oculus. My experience is Vive demos and second hand.

Setup was just placing cameras on a desk. I don't need external headphones. Store is curated, which is good and bad. I like trusting games won't give me nausea, or turn off people to VR. In my experience all it takes is one experience for some people to continue repeating "VR causes nausea" for literally 1+ year. My boss is this person, and it's hard to get him to try rift again.

Touch, and seeing my fingers closely mirrored in VR, I find extremely polished and wonderful. Grabbing the first object in VR made me laugh in excitement, first time I did that since seeing Tuscany in CV1.
> This brings very important addition to the table — ability to explicitly checkout STAGED version. Git’s index won’t allow you that.

Of course it will. In fact, that's very much what `git checkout` does if you don't give a revision but give a path, e.g. `git checkout .`. (but then you lose any unstaged changes)
Google App Engine is a product, not just a collection of APIs or even an application. The closest thing Amazon has to that is Elastic Beanstalk, which resembles Heroku closely.
> For one, I try to keep my commits as "atomic units of functionality", not just state snapshots. I often have three or four commits' worth of changes in my working copy, and sort through them carefully when one is complete to create a commit of only that small piece of functionality.

Given that this is not a universal working model, your explication of your working model, and why it makes the proposed interface not appropriate for you, seems like a much more useful comment than "That… silly. No. That doesn't make any sense at all."
Here's an old riddle. Say "silk" five times in quick succession. Now spell "silk". What does the cow drink?

A surprising majority of people says "milk", when the correct answer is "water". This is obviously because of some sort of bias against water. Any other explanation is absolutely inconceivable.
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Question: If you're a rank and file employee who has exercised options, and are therefore a (very small) shareholder, does this apply to you?
It's a broken tool if you think of it as an evolution of traditional revision control system (rcs/cvs and svn).

Once you realize that git is a beast of a different taxonomy class - file system with history awareness (or more precisely, a content addressable storage), then all of a sudden things could make sense.

I highly recommend starting with Git From The Bottom Up or Git From The Inside Out early while learning git. Even better if you can spare the time - Pro Git (https://git-scm.com/book).
Per state is the key here, If we were able to compare a highly paid (relatively to COL) teacher school to a lower paid one it would be obvious if it is helpful to pay more. We need a large enough sample size of schools on both sides of the spectrum and a single state won't provide enough data or enough variance.
I'm as fiscally liberal as they come, but holy shit, the arguments presented here are bad.

Besides the obvious and tired appeal to some arbitrary notion of morality, a good portion of the article is just tautology.
It's hard to fathom how no one at any point just presses the pause button and says, guys, everybody STOP! Let's take a step back and make this damn thing profitable in one city before we scale it.

Sheer VC-fueled insanity.
> How do you propose to measure outcomes of education without testing for ability to recall and utilize the knowledge and skills taught?

I'm not.

But you have the burden of evidence backward! If you want to use metrics like standardized tests in this manner, then it's your job to prove to me that standardized tests are reasonably good metrics.

Why? Because forcing schools to optimize for counter-productive metrics is actively harmful! Better to have no idea how to measure than to measure the wrong thing, use that metric to make high-stakes decisions, and thereby actively harm true outcomes.

> I don't know anyone who did so for dislike of standardized testing

I mean parents who send their kids to private schools or home-school. Lots of them loathe standardized tests. Google will help you find the manifestos.

> Why not double pilots salaries in order to prevent plane crashes? Double doctors salaries to prevent mistakes?

Eventually you hit a saturation point where the return on investment becomes too low to justify the additional expense.

20k aint that point.

> Instead most found the value of that education to be low compared to work experience.

Well sure, if you happen to work in a trade where formal education isn't necessary. Nothing wrong with that of course! Most parents want to give their children the option to do something else, at least in their early formative years. I've no problem with my kid going to a tech school or even dropping out for on-the-job training, but I don't want to lock them into never being a doctor/lawayer/scientist before they hit puberty.

> thus lowering the take home pay of the parents of those children. Thus worsening the home life of those children and worsening outcomes

Do you have any evidence for this claim? Sounds extremely unlikely to me.
Many event rooms can be reserved simply by guaranteeing a minimum bar spend - if your attendees spend a few hundred pounds, you needn't pay anything at all.

Of course, if you want to bring your own booze, openly use illegal drugs, invite guests who are under the legal drinking age, or have access to beds, you might choose to rent an apartment anyway.
Oculus got kickstarted by a lot of backers.
The cooking analogy is tempting, but it overlooks the hardware/software distinction.

In the classroom, you have (1) the teacher's skills, (2) the computer hardware purchased, (3) and the computer software purchased.

In the kitchen, you have (1) the chef's skills and (2) the hardware purchased.

If it's true that "software is eating the world", then a good analogy wouldn't skip over it. Software could be like the recipe, which of course makes a big difference in cooking outcomes.
How does this make any sense whatsoever? "We want to stop anti-immigration sentiment, so let's force people to take these people into their homes."

Insanity - this would only make it worse.
> Interestingly enough I asked him specifically on an AMA if he planned on staying at Oculus, his answer was an emphatic yes

A year ago he said "I don't have plans to do anything else, so no real lamentations!", that seems like less than emphatic yes to me.
I've been building some bits of this although with I think much simpler components -- our event pipeline is nginx+lua -> nsq -> python consumer (transform, etc) -> bigquery I also have nsq_to_file hanging off of here to archive both event formats - raw+bigquery It is surprisingly little code and I'm happy with its performance although we are at a smaller scale. I've never been happy with the hadoop ecosystem or java tooling around it -- it's all designed to be scalable and fault tolerant, but it seems like it's always broken if you actually run one of these things.

Regarding the ETL, the thing I haven't figured out yet is what to do with the data that's not events. We do daily/hourly exports of those tables in-bulk, but it's not real-time in the data warehouse. This is mostly ok, but I'd love a magic bullet that let me stream these updates into BigQuery as well.

In any case -- nice blog post -- nice to see how others are doing it.
But surely "your workflow can be re-implemented in this different interface" is merely an argument that the different interface has not lost power, rather than necessarily that it is as good as (or even better than) the existing interface?
No they weren't? There was no conquest on Medina. I have no idea what you're trying to say.
I've been using GraphQL with Apollo and Absinthe/Phoenix for a civic data gerrymandering project. Fantastic combo and everything plays well together. Certainly looking forward to using this stack on something big and bad in the near future.
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