skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure showing 2D videos in WebVR is actually useful or better than a standard Google Hangout. I love having a web browser open while in a video call so I can look up references, share content and other things.

Thus this feels like it is trendy (wohoo VR!), but not actually useful.
>If Emacs sponsored a language

Emacs does sponsor a language (elisp), and it's most people's reason for using it.
Wow, this is just fascinating. I don't really know Reddit, so this is the first time I heard of r/place. It reminds me of a couple of earlier experiments in emergent social organisation. Loren Carpenter's 1991 Pong, which is documented in Kevin Kelley's book Out of Control[1]. Also, DARPA's 2009 Network Challenge[2] (weather balloons)

[1] http://kk.org/mt-files/books-mt/ooc-mf.pdf (page 11)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Network_Challenge

If Reddit releases the pixel placement timings and researchers can go back over the boards to investigate communication about r/place, I believe this should be a very rich trove of data for sociologists.
ECG data at the signal level.
At my current place of employment, we modified and extended Django Admin with the Suit[0] theme to become what was basically a CRM that drove the sales and administration of a business with >$1 million revenue.

Eventually we built an actual operations/management/sales interface because Django's admin had too much extra stuff and lacked certain things we wanted to implement, but it wasn't that difficult to put together and it worked well for several months.

[0] http://djangosuit.com/
Miserable fail to cert for requiring a https-less registration for a document on security.
Sun NeWS should have been that GUI standard, thirty years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

There was a simplicity and purity in its approach to front-end interactivity and rendering that completely eludes the HTML+CSS+JS stack we're now stuck with. As the Wikipedia article states...

"NeWS was architecturally similar to what is now called AJAX, except that NeWS coherently:
used PostScript code instead of JavaScript for programming;
used PostScript graphics instead of DHTML and CSS for rendering;
used PostScript data instead of XML and JSON for data representation."

PostScript is basically a graphics-oriented Forth, so it's kind of a weird language to write directly... But it would have been great as a target for all sorts of interesting compilers and GUI tools.
Proliferation of touchscreen interfaces
I cannot imagine running a business with those rules
Yes: https://github.com/nodejs/nodejs.org/issues/1191
Nice. I have a GBA Micro and a development cartridge taking dust in a box, I might very well jump into this. Do you have a tutorial where you explain how to set up the development environment? Anyway I skimmed your tutorial here and it looks clear and fun!
Calling him Berners-Lee sounds like you would rather not use titles at all, which seems like a defensible position. Calling him Mr Berners-Lee sounds like you're going out of your way to deliberately use the wrong title, which just seems rude.
One thing objectively wrong on this post -- you do not pay tax on the preferred price unless you got preferred shares (exceptionally unlikely). Common is worth less so you pay less tax.
Thank you! Of course I read it, just (as it is a new thing) still guessing what is a good fit, and what isn't.

(For some reason I though that this t-SNE article was published elsewhere. Now I see that it was on Distill, but just before its big start.)
Being publicly critical of a former employer like this, unless you're talking about major ethical issues, seems like a bad move. There's just no way to do it without it coming across as sour grapes.

If you have constructive criticism because you believe in a company and want them to do better, give it directly to the people involved. Otherwise I just have to wonder what the real motive is behind making a public statement like this.
NLP will take over. "Alexa make the page 'pop' more".

Nevermind.
See also: http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/30/questions-im-asking-in-interv...
Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections on F1 [1] is a great watch for some of the technical details.

It is however a bit dated; there have been changes to the rules and the cars themselves since the video was made. The Reddit guide [2] to F1 is more up to date.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC_gpr2xAjk

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/wiki/newtof1
Yes. a few years back I had the good fortune of participating as an embedded member of an IDEO design team when a former employer hired them. They spent an entire month exclusively on researching the specific problem area we were tackling, conducting in-home interviews with customers and even casually observing them browsing relevant aisles at retail stores.

Actual design work didn't even get started until well over halfway through the engagement, after the extensive research revealed where the big opportunities were for a new product.
Pixel starts at over $900 in Europe.
> The question is which order of costs it is

It seems like you have entirely missed the point of my posts. If they want to do indexing that is perfectly fine. But they must do so while being a good citizen, i.e. be spec-compliant and contribute resources (storage, stable routing information) to the network within the same order of magnitude as they consume. There is no reason to justify a net-drain implementation when they could take zero-sum or positive-contribution approaches.
GitLab shouldn't be using GitHub then.
The game knows, but the game is not the AI. It's an adjudicator, making sure that everything happens according to the rules. The AI is a component of the game (viewed as a whole) in the same way the player is.
I have sometimes asked the hiring manager to describe when and why he gave a report a negative review about something. This usually causes a long pause.

It isn't at the end, but a few times I've asked mid-interview for one of the team members to give me feedback as though it were for a peer review.

I've been known to ask what an interviewer's favorite NPR show is. It's great if the interview is at a location I'd have to relocate to and they answer with a show carried locally I've never heard. That's how I learned about "Says You" (which is the correct answer to my question, with points for effort if it's "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" or "Prairie Home Companion").
funny enough, the service i'm building is to help people with such problems of nothing getting finished.

I believe in you, indeed in everyone, a great potential of skill and creativity that is waiting to be unleashed with the right words at the right time. I think a lot of people could use just a little help, and it can unblock them in huge, life changing ways.
There are lots of issues with UX as a field right now, but there's zero question in my mind this is the biggest one. There are incentives that are to some degree not aligned with the interests of users.

It doesn't even end at the profit interests of business owners -- career development is another one. UX workers in the field have incentives to demonstrate currency in design fashions (whether or not those fashions work well with a given application or problem domain), and the more changes you can stake a claim to, the more credit you can take.

There isn't a solution to this. The one mitigating factor is that there are limits to how badly you can misalign user incentives before many decide to go elsewhere (though there's also such a thing as monopoly power and other forms of captive audience, and there's a long tail of users who are sticky even when they technically have the ability to go elsewhere).
Near infinite complexity has no meaning as a descriptor of complexity. Infinity isn't something you can describe approaching without convergence.
IoT garage door opener maker disables customer’s service after bad review
That's my point. Debt is not an achievement.
the point here is that if you view 2D video in a 3D environment with a plain old web browser on a smartphone or tablet etc, it can feel way more immersive when you hook up the accelerometers so you can look around the scene and tilt the device to look from person to person and zoom to whoever's talking etc. Obviously it makes no sense if they have goggles on, but in practice we've found it a huge win over boring 2D VC. (disclaimer, i worked on this :)
When I run the command ssh -R 80:localhost:8080 -p 2222 ssh.localhost.run, it is asking for the password on Windows with git bash.
> These 15,000, or 0.0833% of the company, were available to him at $0.27/share, or $4,050 total. So he had the opportunity to buy 0.0833% of the company at a $4.8MM valuation. Given that they recently raised $20MM at an undefined valuation it really says something that he chose not to exercise the options.

I normally don't comment on HN without having read TFA, but this one is way too long and I just skimmed over it. I think OP not exercising their options is more about getting feelings in the way of a financial decision. A 4.8MM valuation is really cheap. And it's not like exercising would incur a huge amount of taxes.
> The cherry on top of this disastrous situation was that throughout the entire process I only heard good things from my manager. In total I had 3 1-on-1's with him, and even though we discussed the situation and what was wrong multiple times, he never, for one moment, gave me the impression that my job could be in jeopardy. A few weeks later I was fired.

This doesn't look like a company that takes direct criticism seriously enough.
Also Table of Contents 2 [1] is useful, since it can numerate headings and subheadings in a natural way.

Jupyter extensions are incredibly powerful, and I don't know how I used to do data analysis before finding them.

[1] http://jupyter-contrib-nbextensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest...
It does mention that all iPhones since iPhone 4 are vulnerable. Historically, depending on the patch, Apple has also failed to produce a patch within the 90-day deadline.
Just a heads up, archive.fo seems to ban (some) VPNs.

> The owner of this website (archive.fo) has banned the autonomous system number (ASN) your IP address is in (20473) from accessing this website.
Thanks for your insightful comment! Is Lectr still available anywhere? Nothing showed up on a Google search.

> between 1.5x and 2.0x is the sweet spot for me, and almost no apps provide that.

Agreed, this is super frustrating and is some evidence that the market isn't that interested. (Why would they pay for advanced compression if no one bothers with trivial stuff like finer gradation?)

Fwiw, on Android I use Audible, PocketCasts, and Audipo for audiobooks, podcasts, and general audio, respectively. They are all serviceable and have 0.1x or finer granularity.
Influx has a framework[1] we are looking at utilizing, while adding other queries that they do not support (e.g., more complex predicates, non-time-based ordering, JOINs). We hope this will give a more accurate set of benchmarks for time-series workloads.

Definitely agree that sometimes its hard to take numbers from a company at face value. As you said, we don't necessarily expect to show that we are the best at all types of queries (and will include query patterns where we may not be the best), but for those who need more SQL features and richer queries we expect Timescale to perform well. Additionally, working with people's existing stack and database is another key win.

[1] https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-comparisons
I'm not an expert on anything covered in the article but we have a similar physics based model at my work (complex non-linear equations) we use a technique called Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) to find an optimal solution. My understanding is that this gives better results than using gradient descent but will only work if the functions are continuous.

This could be worth looking into for you.
Improving on Tor .onion Address Usability
Two problems: the ocean and the Hudson river. The sea approaches NYC from two directions. To the south is the passage between Long Island and Staten Island, and to the east is the passage between the mainland and Long Island.

If your goal is to protect all five boroughs of NYC, you have to protect Brooklyn, which faces the open sea directly. So a huge seawall south of of Brooklyn, crossing over to Sandy Hook. That looks to be closer to 10 km straight across.

The east is also tricky, because the Bronx reaches so far north and east. Your best bet is probably a dam at Sands Point, but it will have to be a good 4 km long. That should be fun.

Finally there is the Hudson river, which flows north to south. You are going to have to divert that somewhere, or it will just pool up in New York harbor until it finds a way to the sea. A Yonkers-New Rochelle canal perhaps?

If this is your plan, you will have the gratitude of an entire generation of civil engineers, construction workers, and financiers. Your taxpayers may be less enthusiastic.
Other Calorie Counters - Set your diet targets once based on a generic formula.

Poundaweek - Uses Artificial Intelligence to update your nutrition targets EVERY week.

Other Calorie Counters - Don't provide any coaching. If you get stuck before reaching your weight goal you are on your own.

Poundaweek - Learns from you and provides personalized weekly reports, so you continue making progress towards your weight goal.
Genesis vs. New Moon vs. Advantage Series for Redman Homes
It is rude. You can say "I don't consider this benchmarking; benchmarking would be XXX" etc. Just to say "you failed" says more about you than this article (which does need work).
SF is in SV insofar sometime between the inception of the dot-com bubble and the great recession it became the place for many, many tech startups to relocate to. But culturally there's still a difference between the two.
That's your opinion, not mine.
A key to democratizing urban solutions is building better models
I'm shocked GitLab mustered the courage to tell an employee they "do not have the company's best interests in mind" after said employee moved to a new city, with its coworkers, and agrees to put in +10h/day of work. That's all assuming it is true, which honestly sounds like it is. I have seen that happen.

Pretty disappointed.
I'm part of the Model team at Sidewalk Labs. Happy to answer questions
It would be neat if you could extract the desired data (text) from the page and hash it so that you could later fix the link (by pointing to a new valid link).
Cool, thanks for the link! Looks like a great way to explore new cities.

I'm hoping my site will be more helpful for smaller, less tech savvy, organisations who want to create their own tours. Many of these sites create tours in house or charge a pretty penny to create your own app.
Sometimes I joke it's only a matter of time before there are startups in Richmond and Vallejo property prices start rising.
Use dejure.org for German cases and law.
The wind shadow from a traditional wind turbine is actually very significant. For example, at the London Array, a very modern wind farm, they have 175 wind 3.6 MW rated turbines over 90 square kilometres, so about two per square kilometre.

Some scholars believe that kite energy can best this by a wide margin. For example, you can put the kite systems at alternating heights to combat the problem with wind shadow, and there is no reason why you wouldn't be able to have a significant overlap in the circles, since the wind will be blowing in close to the same direction throughout the wind farm.
> This allows your to figure out how up-to-date the firm is with technology. Up-to-date here is entirely your definition :)

It could be that final bit was meant literally:

If your definition of "up to date" is "patched to the latest security levels throughout the stack" - then that's what your questions should drive towards.

If you care about experiencing the latest toys, then your questions should get you that information instead.

So if it was intended literally (smiley-face instead of winking one...?) , he has a good point.
> I pull out the real scripting languages for real jobs. I only use shells for quick things.

It's my experience that the latter eventually morphs into the former "without question".

And go figure, the build server doesn't have python installed. Or only has python 2. Or only python 3. Ditto for a coworker - this being game development, a lot of those coworkers aren't programmers, and won't be able to debug "hey python is missing" on their own - sucking up IT and developer time.

> It has a deeper understanding than bash/zsh/whatever, but it also requires more typing.

Aliases, tab completion... you're not wrong, but I've not found it an issue in practice. In fact, rather the opposite: I have to do a lot more reading of documentation to decode bash/zsh scripts and whatever melange of implementation specific single letter flags they happen to be using. This is perhaps because I'll script anything that gets annoying. I don't spend a huge amount of time doing bespoke commands in a shell, though.

> "Get-Item"

gi

EDIT: "Get-Alias" (or gal) will share a lot of shorthands. TIL %{...} is just using % as an alias, and that ?{...} is another option.

> nor do I want to ever worry that using redirection (e.g. "something > log.txt") will mess up because PS defaults are the way they are.

I've done a lot of redirection without problems - if there's a footgun I should know to avoid, please share!
Why does a graph define a "benchmark"? A table of data is equivalent to a graph. He only has four datapoints anyway, and the deltas are so small that a graph would be deceptive.

BTW a literal mark on a bench is just that.
Godel's technique is a constructive proof that depends on two things to work. One, the logic needs to be at least strong enough to express the Peano axioms. Two, it needs a finite formalism of the logic to construct the proof out of.

If you have those two things, Godel's technique works. The details vary greatly based on the formal logic in use, but part of the process is encoding the formalism in Peano arithmetic.

So no, adding more things doesn't break it, because the construction takes those additional things into account.

Unless you want your logic to be infinite, of course. In that case, the method would break down. But it has to be infinite in the sense of having no finite representation, rather than the much weaker sense of having some infinite representation.
I find that's the trouble with alot of good ideas I have. They work great if you can get to scale but that's easier said then done!

Is your site still up? I would be interested to see it.
What do UI dev tools have to do with UX design?
Summary of reading: January – March 2017
That's so random though. If our last team lunch was the Monday after the super bowl, we probably talked about the ridiculous come from behind win, even though we're not a particularly sports-crazed team.

If it was the week after Re-invent, we probably talked about AWS. If it was the week after Switch came out, it was probably about Zelda... If it was the week after a major internal announcement, it was probably about that...
Then don't waste your time. The point is, a public post like this reads badly.
tracking user engagement on a federated social network. its an interesting problem, because there isn't a central database i can ask for basic information like: login time, recent activity timestamps, or even usernames. i built a proof of concept using a bunch of huginn[1] agents, but i want to build a more robust system using a gnu/social server and a statistics bot.

the goal is to have real-time statistics for the entire federated network, tracking update volume, user activity, and user acquisition. i should also be able to determine how much time people spend on the network per day.

[1]: https://github.com/cantino/huginn

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14023396
https://source.heropunch.io/bbnet/fedstats
https://loadaverage.org/fedstats
https://social.heldscal.la/xj9
Palettizing your design language. Losing individuality for a greater purpose
On a remote machine or on your local machine?
Anytime I see something that looks like Excel on the web, I cringe.

Unless you are Microsoft or Google and you are putting spreadsheets on a website (SoW), you are almost certainly doing something wrong.

---

Case 1: A co-worker (or yourself) previously wrote an excel-based app and now it's time to put it on the web for wider distribution. You implement the app with a custom gridview/spreadsheet.

Error in Case 1: The UI was copied, but what is almost always needed is an input wizard with validations and workflow along with a reporting backend.

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Case 2: You have a database that you need to share in a human readable format.

Error in Case 2: Implement export functionality instead, you will never be able to implement all the features of Excel, and at some point someone will need that feature.

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Case 3: You have a very small and well defined case that actually calls for SoW!

Error in Case 3: Your very small SoW app will grow and grow and strangle you.

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Case 4: You want to challenge the stranglehold of Google Sheets and MS Office 365.

Error in Case 4: There is no error here, only madness.
Seriously? I haven't experienced any issues like that with Ubuntu. I have mine hooked up to a macbook pro running Ubuntu through a DVI cable.

Why are you still using windows 7?
At Scale, Rare Events Aren’t Rare
MantisVPN – Chicago Startup
Interesting area to work in.

There's huge interest in renewables here in China and a great deal of windy Himalayan mountain peaks that have been covered with wind generators here in Yunnan province (far southwest China) in the recent past. Also solar and hydro is everywhere. Lots of e-vehicles too, everything from golf buggies to cop cars to buses to taxis to bicycles to cars to old-person mobiles to tractors.

Also coming from Australia with Scottish heritage, I wonder if you could use this to power long distance autonomous e-vehicular trucking through remote high wind land areas?

We also have awesome high altitude lakes for kite surfing (Fuxian in particular), I used to sail Weta trimarans there, but sold them last year. Motor boats are banned. You guys should come visit!

+Wiener's Eighth and Final Law: You can never be too careful about what you put into a digital flight-guidance system.
Pervasive bitmapped displays.
so this is actually a relatively large market for adult themed material based on this idea and there are several different versions out there, each with its own focus.

I think the biggest one is http://www.bearchive.com/~addventure/

which is a better version of the original addventure http://www.addventure.com/

there are other, non-adult, versions as well but they don't see as much traffic.

*i just realized i definitely went to that site to check that the link was working on my work computer, so thats going to show up as a flagged site in my history now. great :/
If I had to guess, I imagine auto manufacturers allocate some amount of the sales price towards future recalls as well. A little googling seems to indicate I'm at least partially correct:

A major recall that affects a large number of cars can create huge expenses in the aggregate. According to Toyota's Q3 conference call, they have set aside 100 billion yen (approximately $1.12 billion) for these "quality-related expenses" which will be allocated between the third and fourth quarters. (Some products were announced with great hype, only to be pulled from shelves. Find out more in A Year In Product Recalls.)[1]

I suspect that legally required recalls are viewed differently than security updated mainly because they are legally required. I wouldn't mind a consumer law requiring companies to provide at least a minimum period of security updates from the time it's officially available from the manufacturer. I also wouldn't mind if that period was longer for "appliance-like" IoT devices...

It probablt can even use the same justification. Unsafe vehicles on the road are a danger to us all, and so are unsafe devices on our networks.

1: http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0210/the-cost-of-...