skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>"we’re committed to making VR a positive place for all".

Please ... they can't even do that for simple 2d enviroments. VR isn't some magic that'll fix that.

I won't have anything to do with FB in it's current incarnation.
I would hope that any Labour MPs who want the Tories to win rather than a Corbyn-led Labour Party would have the integrity to resign their seats and stand as Tories, instead of undermining the party from within.

Theresa May's just taking advantage of her huge poll lead, which is mostly down to a divided official opposition.
> Take, for example, the awesome 404 page over at Disqus. They use a random animated GIF from popular TV and film,

An excellent idea! As if we didn't have other ways of wasting bandwidth…
Node occasionally gives multiple files/folders the same inode
Please don't do this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I like the UI. Also, like the fact that it does not store passwords in the cloud. Ive had it with governments stealing my data.
Show HN: Prim's algorithm
And if that's not good enough, there's the one whose game basically opens with 'Losing is fun!': http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Losing
Is Your Phone Bugged?
Is there a list of CPU architectures / SoCs supported?
Last year, we applied the week after final decisions for S16 were made. 10 days after, a partner messaged us via HN with some follow-up questions. A week later, we had a Skype call with another partner. We were ultimately rejected 3 days after that call via their standard email template.
anyone else? Rejects or Interviews?
I want to know more about those shotgun tattoos...
That seems sensible. For our meetup we assumed 50% no-show, and that 10-30% would RSVP within 24 hours of the event. We only showed the location if you RSVPed just to get better estimates, but ultimately we did the math and calibrated from there.
I wonder if they have plans to add other emulation features, most importantly the ability to passthrough USB devices (or even graphic cards?).

I don't need or want the Linux graphical interface of my VM, it's pretty much redundant, but I do need to make devices available to the Linux software. Otherwise it's a bit like emulating a microcontroller - sure, Turing says the thing can compute everything, but in a very practical sense it can do absolutely nothing without it's outside inputs and periphery. I need the damn side-effects!
Verizon's CEO Is Open to Deal Talks, from Comcast to Disney
Very sad to read that. This is one of the best part of Saigon's identity that would be erased.
Author here (https://twitter.com/svensauleau), sorry for the delay. Contributor.ninja uses a predefined list of open-source projects and fetch the beginner-friendly issues.

Currently the projects are from the JavaScript community (just added PHP btw) which I know well.
There was a Washington Post article and arXiv paper on this topic several months ago. [1][2] The problem boils down to the definition of bias. Northpointe, the company that owns COMPAS, says the algorithm treats black and white defendants equally, which is true. Others claim that its predictions for blacks are wrong more often than for whites, which is also true. The main point of the paper is that you can't have your cake and eat it too. If you don't want to consider race, then the predictions will be wrong more often for blacks. If you don't want the predictions to be wrong more often for blacks, the algorithm has to consider race. (I'd recommend the articles for a better explanation.)

In my mind, the ownership of the software is what's troubling. First, it's not public, so nobody can look at the guts. And second, the Loomis decision constructs even more walls around the software. It's hard for people to critically examine and change something they can't see.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/10/1...
[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.05807.pdf
It sounds dramatically parodying but the reality is that it is pretty much the liberal line for the gender pay gap. As the article suggests there might be many explanations for the married man pay gap that may not involve discrimination. However for the gender gap most large companies have made up their mind. And where I work I am being asked at the end of the year in my appraisal, what have I done to reduce this discrimination. That pretty much qualifies as forced thinking in my book. Agree or do not get paid or promoted.

This thinking only looks outrageaous if you replace "gender" by "married man".
I’m sure Rust smart pointers are implemented using traditional C pointers.

Regardless of how you call them, you still can’t use them to compose data structures into higher-level structures in Rust.

In C++ with raw pointers, I can combine a hashmap with an existing collection of values to speed up lookups, without duplicating values. I can combine hash map with linked list to create an efficient LRU cache, with a few lines of my own code.

C++ can do that because collections, std::unordered_map, std::list and the rest of them, expose raw pointers at their API boundaries. It’s possible to store these pointers in other collections, encapsulating one or more simple data structures into a higher-level specialized data structure, with the performance characteristics suitable for the job.
"Children raised in families that own a home reach higher levels of achievement"

"Let's promote home ownership..."
The learning curve for Apollo is a bit shallower for two reasons: (1) they have GraphQL libraries that allow you to implement a Relay-like client on top of an existing GraphQL end point (Relay requires some custom fields); and (2) better documentation.

We went with Relay, however, because it is, in my experience, more robust and more polished. The way that Relay handles fragment composition and defers component rendering, along with data masking, is much nicer and more... holistically considered(again, in my opinion). Using Apollo can feel a bit like patchwork sometimes.

Plus, ultimately, Relay is backed by Facebook and used in Facebook applications, in production, so it's not going anywhere.
Authorities turn to technology to help locate Facebook killer, Steve Stephens
Does this mean something for someone starting in React Native or the changes in that regard are just under the hood?
Depending on the estimate, the most recent census data might not be fully incorporated into the model until several years following the census?

I can't look at your link at the moment because the corporate firewall is currently blocking the domain.

But there really isn't any way to get around the fact that real census data are only collected once every 10 years (and the 1890 census was burned, so that point is missing).
No, not really. You can't quit at certain stages of the green card process or you start all over. No matter how much you hate your current job you can't just quit. Pick the wrong company and they lay you off, that sucks leave the country now.
The industry is doing fine without the old workers with outdated skillsets. Correctness does not matter as much as velocity to release.
They don't have to click to monetize, but yes, some click.

Enough so that you can offset the cost of the hobby in many cases, and make a living in that rarest, most desirable of cases.
Connecting a Film SLR Camera to Google Cardboard
Caffe2: A New, Open-Source Deep Learning Framework from Facebook
It's made my life infinitely easier writing front end apps that need to keep state and update when the data changes. Remember the old days of backbone and marrionette? Remember even older, having horrible jquery sprinkled around everywhere?
This falls under the Explanation #2: Human capital. By the way, the post does not mention whether the study controlled for wives staying at home.
We'll all have Carolina parakeets in cages and locally sourced Buffalo rugs while we terraform mars.
The stalls around Nana are much more annoying than the street food. And loud motorbikes are about 10x times more annoying than any stalls. (Lived in town for few years)
I think you are referring to the "Pitch Limit Indicator". This is not exactly a light, it's two yellow bars superimposed on the artificial horizon.

The PLI is capped at 30 degrees pitch, but that does not mean that the plane would stall at 30 degrees. You could climb much steeper than that if you had enough speed:

> However, the PLI also is limited to 30 deg of pitch attitude, regardless of AOA. If AOA or AOA margin to stick shaker were to be used as the first and primary focus of the flight crew during windshear escape or terrain avoidance procedures, extremely high pitch attitudes could be reached before stall warning if the maneuver is entered with sufficient speed. Therefore, the PLI shows the lesser of either margin to stick shaker, or 30 deg of pitch. (http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/aero_12/attack...)

Nevertheless, at least according to some Wired article, one of these steep takeoffs was done at a little under 30 degrees. (https://www.wired.com/2014/07/watch-test-pilots-push-the-new...) I guess the pilots use the PLI to judge their pitch attitude.
An early election can be called if 2/3 of MPs support it, OR if there's a vote of no confidence in the Government. Labour should say that they won't support it, but will support a no-confidence vote. That will only be carried if enough Tories also vote no-confidence.
Salvia is much more effective and only lasts ten minutes.
I'll believe a perfectly reasonable explanation over a conspiracy theory any day.
Your comment seems to be a bit of a non-sequitur.

Application development is complex, period. Posix development is complicated. Qt is big and complicated. Makefiles are complicated. Autotools is complicated. Big Java server apps are complicated. C++ is complicated. We've just hit the point where people are trying to do the same thing in a browser.

Would you prefer to build your application using Make, Scons, Waf, CMake, QMake, Tup, Bash scripts, Maven, Gradle, Ant, Buck, or something else? The build tool question is _totally_ solved, right? :)

Yes, the JS community has been reinventing a number of wheels. Yes, the browser environment and JS standard lib have weaknesses. On the other hand, it's also allowed developers to build useful applications that are immediately distributable to pretty much anyone who has an internet connection.
> Somebody forgot to fact-check his article. That's for sure.

I think that's just called "research," and it's usually step #1 for this kind of article...
Retry Network Requests on Android with RetroFit 2 and Okhttp 3 Interceptor
I thought everybody moved over to Visual Studio Code by now.
Follow-up (didn't see the updated docs). Looks like there is some support for client-side state through "Client Schema Extensions" — excited to play with this.

I do also hope that this iteration brings with it better docs — that's the one area where I've looked over at Apollo longingly. On many occasions I've discovered unknown patterns in stack overflow answers that aren't documented anywhere (credit where it's due: the answers are often by members of the Relay team).

And one final tangent: the day when Facebook gives up on flow and adopts Typescript will be a glorious, glorious day.

More here:
https://facebook.github.io/relay/docs/new-in-relay-modern.ht...
So basically you hate Seattle so you are going to keep pushing this narrative?
I agree, Docker is in a real pickle. Kubernetes has the momentum and it is decoupling from Docker rapidly.

Docker's biggest asset right now is that everyone has written Dockerfiles already, but unfortunately, Dockerfiles are terrible and people can't wait to get off of them.

Long-term, I expect the platform to be k8s + CoreOS + rkt. Docker's future, if anything, will be in hosting the image repository.
I have to agree - I think the benefits described for all these AR scenarios really don't sound worth the cost, at least to me.

In exchange for replacing all the plain simple switches in my house with a complex tower of software, hardware, and internet services I gain: the ability to turn the lights on and off without getting up, and in this scenario I lose: the ability to find the lightswitch when my AR glasses are broken / flat battery / in another room / running a firmware update.

This trade really is marginal in comparison to the things which have driven other technology adoptions, like shopping without going to the shops, or sending letters without walking to a postbox, or allowing one person to do the work of several others in the same time.

There may be other AR / VR functions which are more compelling, but so long as they are all "use this complicated and expensive new system to get this marginal benefit over something already honed to its niche" it ain't gonna fly.
> If a single developer can create ST from scratch for Windows, OS X and Linux,

One of the reasons why some people are switching from ST to Atom/VSCode is the former's tortured development schedule, which has seen months or years go by without an update. Contrast VSC, which reliably delivers a heap of improvements every month. JavaScript is probably responsible for a big portion of this. Again, it's a tradeoff.

> then surely GitHub or Microsoft (for VSCode) can create a cross platform native set of UI components in C or C++,

Maybe they can. Or maybe they can't, and if they tried then they'd have the same slow pace as ST. You don't know.
I don't know about others but I tire of these comments chiding the "out of control" front-end ecosystem. The situation has already changed years ago. We aren't going to get off of your lawn while you continue to beat a dead horse. The web is built on open standards and there are billions of pages and apps out there. To expect web development to be a perfect monoculture is a failure of your imagination and ability to adapt rather than a failure of the ecosystem.
At least you can use the Docker environment type and deploy your own image with Python+your code.
Why not just wear a pair of blue blocker sunglasses?
I'm reading some negativity into your take.

I see an incredibly complicated problem space- presentation of multimedia content and execution of code on billions of 'fragmented' devices over which the content creator has no control- and the minds of humanity iterating on approaches to the problem.
Don't worry. 4chan has already prepared their opposing-British-Orwellian-government outfits.
90% of all scientists that ever lived are alive today
Or uplyfting insights.

Hey, we've got company: in the MS blog's comments, there's a fellow who archly informs the peasants that "I usually archive & star (bookmark) articles that have an amazingly interesting or peculiar technical aspects. With this one, I’ll gladly make an exception."

Dammit, Raymond Chen is out of pocket for a refund on that guy's subscription.
Thank you. Hahaha. Thats the point of not storing sensitive data in the cloud.
I'm glad you're being complete :)

But, can you see why it'd be good to study this? Which one of the three is it? Or if it a mix, and what is the mix?
I'm speaking from experience here, I have ad revenue and Patreon.

If my ad revenue tanks, Patreon does not automatically go up, I'm just out my ad revenue for the month. For some artists this is the difference between being able to pay rent or not.
My reference to "awesome" was in the sense of being fun.

You could, of course, use a highly-compressed video instead, as some other sites do. Further, Disqus puts this animated GIF on their 404 page, which should, if everything goes well, be infrequently visited by users -- and bandwidth not sprayed needlessly across the web.

In any case, the technique is equally useful for still images and was originally designed for the JPEG background on my homepage. That background also makes use of the new responsive img "srcset", which makes it further optimized for mobile users than using one JPEG for all.
> the browser is a bad app platform and javascript is a bad language

Yeah, and we're finally making real progress towards making it better. I used to do web development because nobody else wanted to, now I do because it's really fun. This is a forum for hackers -- we should be excited about the unsolved problems instead of complaining that things are changing.
WiFi is not exactly ubiquitous and it requires an infrastrucutre which is short range by definition. It's also power hungry. If your use case is to place several sensors in a vineyard without having to replace batteries every day you want something like sigfox. Your arguments works if you're a hobbyist hacking together a diy solution (i.e. you value your time 0 dollars) but if you're a company or a more professional user you might value the fact that this works out of the box, is well supported and manufactured to last in the field.
thanks a lot m8!
Except for the detail that the article entirely credits the man with being more productive and in no way whatsoever suggests that his wife's work in any way whatsoever contributes to it:

Maybe marriage makes men work more hours; maybe it makes them work harder per hour; maybe it makes them control their tempers better; maybe all of these and more.

It gives zero credit to the wife somehow genuinely enhancing his life by cooking, cleaning, having sex with him, etc. It just suggests that married men choose to be more virtuous. Done.
tesekkurler! thanks!
Audi just revealed a stunning all-electric SUV that's primed to take on Tesla
I agree that Linux on the desktop is not a mass market consumer product in 2017, but are you saying that we should just accept that and move on? What about innovative disruption and building the future we want?
Can you go into more details please? How's your experience with kdb+?
And on the flip side "You avoid meat? That's unAmerican. You some pansy vegeunamerican?" As if their blood is anymore red white and blue.

See how easy it was to flip your reasoning. Which probably means it's BS. Ego masturbation is not restricted to one side of the political divide.

Suspect, as usual, the answer lies more in advertising a cultural wide meat fetish. Ham on every table, rare steak on every working mans plate, than people being offended at all those pretentious vegans they deal with all day every day
She could also focus specifically on YC companies and their success and/or failure stories.
Netflix Is Playing the Long Game, Even If Wall Street Isn’t
exactly 28 days ago :)
I'm just starting to flirt with the US craft beer scene now that the 'mouthful of hops' trend is subsiding. It seems like hot sauce: once people get acclimated to it, seems they have a hard time properly judging the presence in something they're consuming. It's not the bitterness, it's the nose which totally blows away all of the other ingredients in a beer. I just hope that people won't go barrelling full-speed-ahead into a sourness competition. Maybe I'm just too biased towards evenly balanced flavors from my chef years, but I just can't stand when something is so one-note. (3 different types of hops are the same note on 3 different octaves... I don't care how many subtle aromatic compounds differ between them.)
I get around 500,000 views a month. No way would I ever invest my career in YouTube not just due to shifting algorithms but the fact that there is no competition makes it next to impossible to invest heavy amounts of time.
Bala: World's Firs Yoga Weight
This saved my time, very well explained. Thanks.
It's quite possible to use react with nothing else: no build tools, no transpilers, no fancy JSX, so in terms of tooling complexity, it can be as simple as you want or as complex as you want.

Regarding the complexity of the underlying system, I think this is not a concern of the typical frontend developer. It has nothing to do with JavaScript or the web. If you are writing a "simple" C program on Linux, would you be concerned about the complexity of the underlying C library (yes glibc is rather big and complex) or the Linux kernel? You won't. This is the point of abstractions. If you want, you don't have to learn about any of these; treat the implementation as a black box and start writing actual frontend code.
That's like telling Google to turn off all ads on Youtube tomorrow, and only rely on people who use Youtube Red to make a profit.

Or maybe Youtube is just not worth it?
No I think in this case my comment was in the line as it was about silencing diverging opinions which I think the downvoting illustrates. I wouldn't dare violating the guideline but your fervent vigilance is much appreciated!
IIRC women have to start before men for their records to hold, as otherwise women could gain from the faster men's slip stream. Of course, there are still pace makers so even men can take advantage of that, and men can run behind each other and their records would still hold. I think the reasoning is that at least they're running behind/ahead of racers who are competing with them, whereas if women and men started together, the front runners of the women's race would be able to run behind men with whom they are not really competing, and who would thus be less careful about giving them a lift.
The biggest takeaway from Theranos is that investigative Journalism is not dead. John Careryu (sp?) single handedly dug up the truth in a non disparaging factual manner and went up against a team of ruthless lawyers threatening to utterly destroy him, the Journal, and his source. That source was a 24 year old hero whose parents put up their house as collateral just to help their son do the right thing when he had no monetary gain from it. After learning so much about the bullshit Theranos did, every nail that pushes it further into the ground has given me a justice euphoria high. I'll be following this until it's end
You'll need a lawyer to define what these 'techniques' are and how far they fall into intellectual property category.

If, in the middle of a project, you suddenly change brace style in your code? Nobody will care.

If you invent something like map-reduce? You can be sure the customer will own that invention.

There's a huge spectrum here. Lawyer up.
What is it you find suspicious about the story? Feel free to ask the interviewee directly in the comments.
In the context of public spending data available anywhere, perhaps. As commentary on someone who just took $10M of their own money and created availability of data that didn't exist before? Not as useful.

In re-reading both the USAFacts.org page and dandare's comment I really don't see how dandare's criticisms of what data USAFacts made available, what reports they made out of as _demonstrators_ of the data set, and its lack of data outside the US (it is 'USAfacts.org' not 'WorldFacts.org' after all) to be at all helpful or relevant to the USAFacts.org announcement.

That said, I would love to see a 'Show HN:' page where the Wikibudgets folks took the USAFacts.org data and added wonderful visualizations and tools to provide additional insights into the data set.
Discriminatory sure. I'm not arguing it's right, but I'm just not seeing anything classist about it.
Polls were accurate in both those cases. Media coverage of them was wrong, but the polls were right.
Phuket is awesome, go to south (nai harn/rawai), for sure you need a scooter.
Changing the OS is fine, but there's only one way to do it: via constitutional amendment. Merely wanting it to say something different is not sufficient. The users have to follow the official enhancement process.
IBM Registers 20th Straight Quarterly Revenue Decline
It is unacceptable.
Tim Schafer on making Full Throttle and remastering it for a new generation
I much prefer Chalice (https://github.com/awslabs/chalice) which just got a synchronized release supporting Python 3 as well.