skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always found Skype/Facetime/etc. to be off-putting - if only because by looking at the person I'm talking to forces me to appear to look under them (looking at the screen vs looking the camera). During interviews, I make the conscious effort to look at the camera so as to present a more normal eye contact for my viewer, but this undercuts my ability to read their physical responses. If I had true-to-size representation of a person, either in VR or with a 2D screen, that allowed me to use natural eye contact and body language I would use it far more often.
I think you're grasping when you claim that PDF is a "very problematic format":

* full text search works fine; much better than on your site. Try searching "hospital" in both and see which gets better results (spoiler: its the PDF)
* Yes, a comprehensive report is impossible to scan-read. That is kind of the point of a comprehensive resource, don't you think? At best, scan reading your site (an opaque javascript visualization) leads to an incomplete understanding; scan reading is rubbish for understanding.
* If you want to do Excel-style data analysis, neither your site nor the PDf is the best choice; you should be looking at original sources, just like the USA Facts team did.

Giving people a pile of facts from which to cherry-pick for arguments isn't helpful. Promoting a deeper understanding of the government and its workings does. USA Fact's visualizations, tied back to the Constitution (perhaps the most underappreciated document of our time), promotes deep understanding.

USA Facts ultimately does a much better job serving two audiences: 1) the people who need a better understanding of the big picture of government (on the main site) 2) the people who want to dig in and understand the nitty-gritty - the PDF.

You have a good product, and I normally wouldn't be so harsh in my criticism, but the arrogance in your statements demands correction.
While this probably is the future some day, I suspect that it will flop in the interim—creating a sort of Google Glass effect that turns people off to VR.

I'm sure they don't have many choices from a technical perspective, but the cartoon avatars are kind of creepy if not cringe-inducing.
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Not so much more prone to quakes, but there is more chance of slips and liquefaction. If you're moving to Chch, I'd say keep to the western half, where everything's been basically fine.
Very interesting. At this point, there may be many smaller startups that are more innovative or have higher quality VR apps, but if they are competing against FB's massive hold on all aspects of everyday life, there isn't much doubt who the winner will be.

More experienced peers, who lived in times when IBM or Microsoft seemed to be all-pervasive (like FB/Google are today): Do you think these companies will fade away in the next few decades? Or they will go on to be 100-year old companies, like today's car/oil companies.
It might have to do something with efficiency.
This would be a great way for people with mobility issues to be included in activities.
time is not ticking at all.
Yep - if you are interested in learning more technical details, check out https://github.com/acdlite/react-fiber-architecture .
Clever people taking advantage of dumb people has always been a problem.
Facebook is an advertising platform, their main goal is to get new accounts and usage. They are going to get a lot of mileage with this via the API.

Developers will create useful and unexpected applications with this and in order to use the new apps you will need a facebook login.

It generates new users for them and helps to prevent someone else from stealing their user base.
Nice in theory but in reality, top Google result for 'no nag sublime' would be a snippet of how to git clone and patch out the nag, widely distributed from day one.

At least with current ST the 'tutorials' for this tend to involve hex editors or scripts that can be quietly subverted by the author.
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> Under that meaning, a flat tax is the border between progressive and regressive taxation.

That depends entirely how you measure. If you measure by total income, then yes. If you measure by income after necessities for living are accounted for, then a very simple progressive tax that takes that into consideration might be considered the baseline, and a flat tax that doesn't take that into consideration could be considered regressive. On the other end of the spectrum, if you make people account for all subsidized government services used and count that as income, then a flat tax is progressive. Without an agreement on the baseline for measurement (which I believe is where a lot of people start disagreeing), you can't even necessarily agree on what is progressive and regressive.
Open source distributed federated VR spaces? Yes.
Young people don't use Skype anymore.
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/living-with-robots

Interesting discussion re: the uncanny valley.
Aah fancy word, thanks. That number seems smaller than I expected.
With good programming you can get many 8bit microcontrollers into the micro and nano amp range.
I don't even understand the argument you've made. From your original comment, it appears that you dove into a site full of graphs, came up with "405 billion shortfall", and declared the program imperiled. I can't find that number on the site (I may have spent less time looking than you did) and it doesn't square with the Trustees report or, for that matter, with the conventional wisdom that Social Security is probably not our big problem --- relatively small, long-overdue fixes to SSDI will more or less resolve budget concerns there --- but instead Medicare.

Your comment at the top of this thread is sort of a perfect illustration of the problems of sites like these.
Unless you're going to be doing pretty much entirely sequential reads of entire files, I don't think this is likely to work well for you. B2 (and other cloud storage) isn't just priced by bandwidth but by "transactions" (requests).
If you've actually tried a social/multiplayer VR experience, you would know the presence that being "physically with" the other person is much more impactful than a video chat. The avatars don't even need to look good, as long as they have a head and hands + voice communication, having a virtual environment that is much more human-like than talking to a flat screen is MILES better.

I'd rather hang out with long-distance friends in VR than in video chat, which I've always found to be awkward and uncomfortable personally.
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I think this is key and hidden in the comments. Reading this comment, I can easily picture kids and tweens hanging out sharing videos and pics in private VR rooms.
I think you can use both:

Start with the lead feature, so that the potential customer has a simple idea to kick around in their head.

Then, describe the benefits, giving them a fuller story for why they should use the product.
It's an everyday occurrence during the development of our app (Infinite Flight).

We often get customers complaining about a misplaced sticker on a livery, a missing exit door in a particular variant of a the 737-900... That type of stuff is easily verifiable. But for things like the airplane not behaving in a way they expect in certain conditions, or perhaps a wrong approach speed or angle, discussions usually start with:
"We tuned the airplane based on information available to us at the time we built the airplane. We are happy to make any changes based on an actual report from one or more pilots flying on this airplane, or better yet, the aircraft manual if you can get your hands on one."

The discussion usually ends there :)

One we get often is about why it's possible to do a barrel roll in a jet liner in Infinite Flight. We simply point them to the video of that test pilot who did one in a 707 ;-)
> Just to put things in simple terms, this $200B does not include money Apple made by selling iPhones in the US, right? It only includes money Apple made by selling iPhones in other countries? I don't get why we obsess so much over it. US economy is large enough. If they want to bring this money back to the US or they want to give money to their owners/stock holders, they can pay the tax at that time? I don't have a horse in this race. I am just trying to understand the premise as an outsider.

As an American citizen, I'm still subject to federal income tax, even on income earned while I'm residing outside the country, for work done entirely outside the country, for a non-American employer. That being the case, I see no reason why similar rules shouldn't apply to American corporations. If we say an individual still derives services and value from their citizenship even when outside the country, and thus needs to pay in to support that, why not also American businesses?

I don't know enough about business structures and tax code to say _how_ to make it happen, but from a sense of fairness, I think that roughly equitable rules for business and individual entities is a good thing.
> It's not well known, but GPL more or less protects nag screens

What provision of the GPL, specifically, provides this supposed protection?
Wifi has an incredibly limited range compared to these technologies. You'd need a repeater every dozen meters or so, which means running power to all of those repeaters. Meanwhile SigFox can run up to 50km. That's a huge reason to run SigFox instead of wifi.

With your reasoning, we might as well take down all the cell phone towers and just make calls over wifi, wifi is everywhere right?
Furthermore, the older FRBs were not seen to repeat, though given how short the signal is, it could have been missed in followup observations. It is quite possible that although these events all seem to be similar, they may have different origins or mechanisms.
To be fair, which side companies take on international disputes (in this case a border) sometimes matters. e.g. all the craziness over Taiwan being part of China or not.
React Fiber was beautifully described by Lin on the last reactconf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCuYPiUIONs Congratulations to the release.
There is humor in the disparity between the resources and people marshalled to resolve the issue (including Bill Gates himself) and the humble origin of the issue, a shower curtain.
That's hysterical. Flight Simulator was an incredible product back in the day. My father was a weather, IFR[0] certified small plane pilot.

He used MS Flight Simulator to train to get his license back after several years of having let it lapse and to train for his IFR certification. To this day, other than watching him play Pac Man at K-Mart in the 80s, I had not before, nor since, seen him play any video game on his home PC.

[0] Most small plane pilots have basic licenses - VFR - or Visual Flight Rules. IFR is for pilots who have instrument ratings. It's not all-together rare, but not necessarily common and is usually reserved for pilots who fly in a more professional capacity, as my father did. He was certified to fly a single engine aircraft (he flew a Cherokee -- 6?) and had more hours on him some years than some commercial pilots.
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What's even more annoying about this is it requires specifically Google Chrome, I'm on Chromium on Linux, where you'd think it works, but it doesn't. It doesn't even fail nicely.
They "announced" this ages ago, didn't they?
> The company hasn’t previously talked about React Fiber

Except, you know, the entire presentation on it at React Conf back in March.
Yes, but my point is, there are already many different launch sites around the world, many of them outside the US. The US does not have anything approaching a monopoly on space launches.
This was done in Seattle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_khhzuFlE
I didn't mean that literally, although it was originally announced as "Second Life 2".
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I wouldn't be surprised if they have. Their proprietary CUDA gimmicks are much worse. But with AMD supporting the OpenCL open platform, there is some hope of do-no-evil. But they keep disappointing.
> the language lacks raw pointers.

This is incorrect, Rust has raw pointers. Those reference-counted pointers that you mention are all just standard library types implemented using raw pointers under the hood.
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The executives who are famous for e-mail (Bill Gates, Gabe Newell, Steve Jobs) are famous because they know exactly to whom to forward the mail.
Not to me or to your average taxpayer though. And, if it's truly not a big deal to the feds, this is data they should compile themselves.
Read old TV Guide plot summaries, e.g. Mr Ed, Season 1 Busy Wife: Carol gets wrapped up in a woman's club and completely ignores Wilbur. It's up to Ed to try and help her overcome the obsession.
Good idea, thank you!
If you want to try it out, but have a Vive... apparently ReVive works.
Dying to know which part of that whole debacle was lawful.
I feel like an incubator increases responsibilities and risks, and potential rewards, but some people see it as the "where they want to end up".
Smalltalk is said, by people who probably know, to be one of Ruby's points of inspiration [1]. Whether Hickey studied it or not when designing Clojure is a matter of speculation, on the other hand, avoiding Smalltalk when designing a language smells a bit like professional incompetence and that's not something I would assume about Hickey...since I assume he thought many magnitudes more about Clojure's design than I have.

My interest in Smalltalk is sort of as background for Ruby just as some of my interest in Common Lisp relates to Clojure...things like Leinigen and namespaces make much more sense after ASDF and (in-namespace...) because ASDF and (in-namespace...) are more in the RTFM tradition their counterparts in the Clojure world and so the abstractions are more explicitly documented. Probably because Common Lisp comes from a time when there weren't blogs and documentation was pretty much all there was.

[1]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/about/
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Then they sold it, and the new owner is now pulling a Train Simulator and going for thousands of dollars of DLC on Steam, which will likely kill the entire modding community that kept FSX alive once they realize they can sell it on Steam. Kind of sad to watch such a historical product be squeezed for the last dollars in slow motion.

X-Plane 11 looks absolutely fantastic, thankfully. Might be about time to pay FSX a final salute, and nice to support X-Plane as a reward for standing up to patent trolls.
No Alpine is mostly used as a guest OS, and this is meant to be used as the host OS.
> unless you're practiced in this realm, you can't know.

I disagree, because...

> there's no empirical proof.

We have been trying very hard for centuries to contact any kind of afterlife, spirits or gods, and failed. Even if we cannot perfectly rule it out in principal we can rule out anything we have conceived and tested thus far.

That and Ouija boards are made by Parker Bros [1]. Unless you believe that a group of people with a reliable channel to the afterlife chose to keep making Scrabble and Monopoly games with their super powers, then we really should just discount it as an obvious money grab, because it is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Parker_Brothers_games
Is this as big a change as Angular 2 for you react devs?
It's the tip of the iceberg: https://hn.algolia.com/?utm_source=opensearch&utm_medium=sea...
> I haven't seen any evidence of 'academic dishonesty'.

How about one of the authors Tweeting out that 80% of the Monero transactions have been deanonymized (https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/852918816455655425), a claim that is neither true nor remotely correct?

This paper is akin to me publishing a paper noting how insecure Windows for Workgroups 3.11 is, providing advice for securing it, and then Tweeting out that that the paper found that "Windows is trivially insecure out the box". Sure, the paper would technically be correct, and my Tweet might even technically be correct, but it would be irrelevant since nobody uses Windows for Workgroups 3.11.

Nobody CAN use mixin-0 transactions in Monero, because they've been banned since a March 2016 hard fork that took over a year for them to plan and roll out. Nobody can be affected by down-chain use of those mixin-0 transactions because RingCT doesn't allow you to create ring sigs form them, which was added in the December 2016 hard fork.

It's no wonder, then, that the paper, and accompanying website, only go up to the end of 2016 - they have no valid data from the beginning of 2017 onwards, and have published the paper seemingly only as a 'hit piece'.
Just got the invite! Best of luck guys!!
Yes, this presentation is so good.
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> Range and airspace issues notwithstanding

Those are precisely the reasons satellites will remain relevant. Satellites are the reason the SR-71 fell out of service. Russia can and will shoot down US aircraft or drones in their airspace.
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> For some reason, my machine seems to be getting slower and slower no matter how much I upgrade.

I've been feeling this way for years, and I've mostly ascribed it to my faulty perception. I figured that if things simply aren't getting faster (i.e., they're not changing at all), I'm probably just imagining them getting slower.

But then I start wondering why aren't things getting faster...
same here. We are not international and we had a video call last week.
Brian from Backblaze here.

> what colo facilities have max bandwidth to you

Our primary colo is SunGard in Rancho Cordova, California. I believe we are currently provisioned for about 220 Gbits/sec (in this one facility alone). I'm not completely sure what this would top out at if we asked for more, but it is a colocation facility with a bunch of network providers such as Cogent, GTT, Century Link, etc. I kind of expect they can provide anything we ask for?

> what is my likely MB/s at the top-performing location

I have three answers, you can choose one. :-)

1) If you want to download a file once after a very long time of not accessing it (meaning it is not in the "B2 cache"), and with one thread, it must be fetched from the vaults to the "caching layer". Spooling a single file off of the vaults with one thread is relatively slow at about 15 Mbits/sec.

2) If the file is already in the caching layer, then it is fetched from local SSDs already inside the caching servers. Each individual caching server has a 10 Gbit/sec network card so if you only have one thread then you are absolutely limited to 10 Gbit/sec (and realistically the caching servers are not completely idle so a realistic number might be only 3 or 4 Gbit/sec).

3) If you want to fetch many files with many threads, fetch one file at a time with each thread. I'm not sure how many HTTPS threads an EC2 node can handle, maybe 200 safely? If it isn't in the cache then you get 200 * 15 Mbits/sec = 3,000 Mbits/sec = 375 MBytes/sec. If it is coming out the cache even faster?

Hope that helps!
The performance is tolerable on the Pine64. It would run much smoother if it had better driver support on Linux.

Sadly, I'd only recommend the Pine64 if you're going to run Android on it, or use it as a server/something to tinker with on Linux.
How do you think an IDE "does all the work" for you? Somebody working on the editor wrote some code in C++ or Java or whatever that makes it do that, and that code is baked into the IDE.

In emacs, the only missing part is that perhaps nobody has already written the elisp that makes it do whatever task you are asking for.

emacs is a smallish program written mostly in C that defers to a scripting language for nearly everything, and it ships a bunch of code in that scripting language that does all the work of being an editor. You can look at that code using the editor itself, and you can change that code using the editor itself. It's insanely flexible and extensible; see e.g. advice [0], and most modules provide meaningful hooks for you to add your own code.

All the IDE/editor behavior is just code. If it's compiled and baked into your IDE, fixed, unchanging, then if there is any behavior you don't like, you better hope the dev included a knob that lets you tweak it, or you have a lot higher barrier to making your editor work the way you want it to.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Ad...
No, this is mostly an internal change, the API is not changing.
I'm curious what the easiest way to read emails on a kindle or other e-reader is.
Thanks Brian. I don't see the mention of authorize "can be used for weeks" in the docs. I see "at most 24 hours". Please see https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/b2_authorize_account.html
I believe it is the number, in thousands, of US persons aged 25 and over having an 8th grade education or higher.

As scraped from this web site ...

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_104.30.a...
It is 1200 noon in Mountain view. No email yet.
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Edit. We cool?
I'll repeat the comment I made in the "React 15.5" thread a couple weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14063818):

For those who are interested in some of the details of the work that's going on, Lin Clark's recent talk on "A Cartoon Intro to Fiber" at ReactConf 2017 is excellent [0]. There's a number of other existing writeups and resources on how Fiber works [1] as well. The roadmap for 15.5 and 16.0 migration is at [2], and the follow-up issue discussing the plan for the "addons" packages is at [3].

I'll also toss out my usual reminder that I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem, as well as a solid source of good info on more advanced topics. Finally, the Reactiflux chat channels on Discord are a great place to hang out, ask questions, and learn. The invite link is at https://www.reactiflux.com .

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCuYPiUIONs

[1] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...

[2] https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/8854

[3] https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/9207
It's one idea, but how will it push consumers over the threshold to switch? The answer is it won't, less than 10% of the US population uses the IoT.[0]

I'll restate this again. We can keep going on and on about the cool things AR can do and features it'll have, but none of that matters if there's no consumer adoption. There is absolutely no way people are going to ditch their perfectly fine smartphones for a mildly more utilitarian device.

What is AR's unique selling proposition? How will it push consumers to switch?

Until this question is answered, all speculations on the future scope of AR use are moot.

[0] http://www.economist.com/news/business/21700380-connected-ho...
Let's not forget that, many historical (political, war,...) moments in mankind, were heavily influenced by alcohol, or other influencing attributes.

I just want to say that it's more part of life then one assumes.
If someone is on Prozac (hey is that okay then?) or someone has a hangover? Or someone who hasn't slept much? Or someone who is on a fast?

There is no normality. The norms of society is the goal, or the barometer, but basically we're all just trying to get by.
Not in terms of it being a breaking change. It's meant to be a big speed improvement but the API is largely the same I believe.