skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a professional VR developer I'm unaware of this crisis. There's also about as many headsets sold as people thought there would be (and way more GearVR's than expected). I haven't gotten sick from a VR experience (that I wasn't half-way through building) in over a year. The headsets are good enough that they don't make you sick by default (like they used to) and to make somebody sick you have to go against best design practises.
I'd add another, something like "Be Aware of the Ramifications of Partial HTTP/S Implementations".

Because it's so easy to expose http/https in golang, I see a fair amount of code that takes the easy path of handling GETS and not doing much else. No support for HEAD, or compression, proper mime types in Content-type, or lacking Cache-Control headers, Etags, 304 responses, etc. Go can do all these, of course, but I see them missing often.

I've seen, for example, blogs, that (probably not on purpose) defeat browser caching. Not great for performance, or your egress bill.
Let's be honest - US/European car makers have countless billions invested in perfection of internal combustion and associated drivetrain tech, and electric flushes a huge amount of that competitive advantage down the toilet, so it doesn't exactly surprise me that they aren't marketing greener cars. And of course, the corruption (of morals) goes all the way to the top: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/28/angela-m...
Listening to 'extreme' music makes you calmer, not angrier
> The article argues "VR will also enable immersive concerts, reinvented museums, and live, court-side sporting events", but what is it doing now outside of games, which have been hit-or-miss?

It's literally doing all of the stuff you mentioned, if you look for it. The blocker is that most people don't have a headset to experience it.

The same thing could be (and was) said about the early internet.
This is correct in Texas. It's rooted in an issue in how the ATF defines weapons.
Maybe we need a word that is more powerful than harassment, that isn't physical violence.

I've heard people say things like "virtual rape". I think it's problematic to say that something that occurs in text can compare to having your body physically violated.
Right, as a boss I would love for my employees to work themselves to death to please me. God forbid they take a break once every couple of months.

Because please be real, your suggestion is absurd. Somebody is burned out so they should work on developer tooling for a few days? When somebody is burned out doing more work is not going to help.
I don't have a problem with Chromebooks as a pragmatic Linux user. Google has been very open in what it was for and who it was for. It wasn't marketed as a general purpose computer. It just was a better tool for certain instances where cloud computing could fill their needs. To be anti-Chrome OS is to be anti-cloud and to my pragmatic goofball thinking I LOVE the cloud even if I do own my own Linux server at home.

Chrome OS was a new system to basically be just a browser that made it easy for my mom and daughter who have serious issues keeping Windows or OS X systems stable. I hand them the Chromebook and tell them that if they need anything they can download it. It works for them and I don't have to save them from disasters all the time.

So I see it as a tool that works for these types of people and is much better then a tablet.
And we're surprised? Didn't we learn anything from the 90's? No amount of diligence sitting at a desk, carefully evaluating the implications of the placement/thoroughness of your user input sanitation, adjusting the settings in server configuration files, preventing your employees from using removable media and accessing outside sites... No threat model, seriously none.. ever.. will ever.. Stop a young Angelina Jolie on rollerblades from gaining access to your evil corporations's super computer and thwarting your carefully laid, super-villain plan.
Thanks, iterm2 did indeed work great!
Imagine what our country would look like if the guy who owns every bit of people's digital legacy and information is now running the country of people who depend on his services? Now imagine if someone like Trump, who appears just a bit upset anytime he is criticized, had access to everyone's Facebook account in this country and others?

Just my two cents but, would anyone truly believe that Zuck has the public's best interest in mind? If so, what if his interpretation of the public's best interest is built around a growing dependence on platforms he's created?
> Varoufakis, it seems, sincerely thought he would bring "enlightened" new ideas of successful software development management to a negotiation table of frustrated, advantaged, EU financial stalwarts.

What he thought (and later stated) was that people would be interested in solutions instead of blaming, finger pointing and political games.
He reminds me of a goal-oriented team member versus the team members who want so save their hides at all costs to the detriment of the company.
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I have written my own script which makes use of AqBanking-CLI. Postbank does support HBCI.
Cool - is MCC identifiable as part of the auth process, in the way my parent comment describes (conditional auth based on MCC)
Right, and forfeiture doesn't always involve a guilty conviction. Say a kid uses his mom's car to commit a crime. He could have taken it without her permission (stolen it) and now it becomes part of the crime. There was a real case posted on HN a few months back like this.

Now if someone had property taken and was later found innocent, would this immediately release the property taken in that particular forfeiture without a 2nd civil court case?
The 2017 Bolt is competitively priced: $37k MSRP. Still qualifies for ~$7k tax refund. Could potentially negotiate the price down a tad at a local dealership.
To truly master the art of failing, you'd have to end up dead
I've noticed that burnout tends to occur when I've been doing long stretches of "just get it done" work. While that type of work is great for your employer, it can be very unfulfilling for the employee.

Programming is a craft, and one that you can find meaning and fulfillment in. Mastering your craft is an exciting and motivating endeavor if you can take the time to do it well. But if you are forced to write "just get it done" code all day it will suck the energy from your soul.

If you are in a job where you simply cannot take the extra time to write elegant, interesting, well designed code... Then it may be worth looking for a new job. Find a company where the deadline isn't yesterday, and where you can foster a pattern of writing excellent code, and improving your craft.
So, I can lend money without worry and it always will be repaid?

And not only that, I will be morally right. What amazing times we live.
Shameless plug here. :-) I wrote an article about YouTube channels for entrepreneurs which did pretty well on Medium (50K reads).

https://blog.yalabot.com/i-got-sick-of-commoditized-content-...
One good example as of late is The Wave VR. http://thewavevr.com/

A crossover between game / social experience / musical fantasy. They have live shows once a week and have been gaining momentum within the VR community quite rapidly.

Important to remember we are quite literally still just beyond the one year mark since consumer VR devices hit the market. It will only get better.

I agree the Gear is not where VR is going in the future. You need full room-scale immersion to really "feel" like you are experiencing something truly new and exciting. 360 sports videos are NOT the future of VR.
As I said in my comments, it's not about not being at 100% capacity all of the time. No-one is, but there are honest ways to communicate that.

What's crazy to me is strategically lying to your employers IN ADVANCE, to set yourself up to not do any work. Especially given that you are posting it under your name.
No I'm talking about TRADE surplus.
Maybe gherkins may not have been the right English word for it. I was talking about Ivy Gourd [0], which is used in Konkan region/cuisine a lot.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinia_grandis
> But, when Apple does it, people like it, don't they?

No, some of us take the down votes and voice our opinion. :)
Can you prove that any of the optimizations in your docs aren't already done by V8? I agree with the other commenters in this thread-- V8 likely does these already. You have an extraordinary claim, which requires extraordinary proof.
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All of my local farmers markets are full of aliexpress crap. At least they're smart enough to remove tags. I've asked what kind of solder they used for a specific piece. "uhhh. just the normal stuff".
Indeed. The problem is that populist politicians in "paying" countries can use this as an argument for an EU exit. See Brexit. It's hard to sell to pay billions, especially if stuff like hours/week, retirement age etc. are often nicer in those countries that need the money.
Not sure if I'm more impressed if you'd already started work on it, or sketched up the page/TOC + mailchimp in response. :) But I signed up!
The majority of this post is about why you might want to get into it.
He would have to be extradited (they're still trying to fight that in NZ), be put on trial, and then win. Even then, this seems to only cover the legal fees. He'd still have to sue the State for the loss of all the servers, taken from him in a country he had never set foot in.
Looks pretty broad for me. I can't send email to friends inviting them to an even and asking them to invite their friends ?
I'm as big of a critic of the implications of social networking as anybody, but:

> news distribution

Increased people's ability to share news with their friends.

> privacy

Made changes to give users nearly complete control over it (outside of the very legitimate concerns around advertising targeting, but does anyone really think running a successful advertising company disqualifies someone to be president?)

> individual liberties

Hasn't yet formed a paramilitary group of SA-like jack booted thugs to hit opponents with billy clubs, confiscate their guns, and replace their health insurance with death panels.

> and mental health

Is working on hiring more staff to deal with suicide intervention issues, which they have to do either way because the police ultimately get involved and start issuing subpoenas, and it's illegal to not respond to valid subpoenas in a timely fashion.
That's part of our mission :)
The Github results were based on the assumed gender of submitters based on things like having female anime character avatars and "female sounding" usernames. I would posit that methodology as highly flawed.
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I don't wait for motivation in general, just cultivate discipline based on the thought that I will be dead in 0 to 50*365 days and there are many things that I can do to help everybody around. Often it requires mind-numbing work but that's what the life is on this planet.
Yeah I understood that part. I was only wondering if there is an explicit policy about sending chain emails.
Why can't we make statistical decisions about tools based on the sort of capabilities that they provide and the trade offs that come with those capabilities?
> I like my work, and I like tech, but if I loved it, I wouldn't need to be paid to do it. Cut off my funding for it, and I'll probably continue to do it, but at a totally different path and pace as to what I get paid to do.

Amen, I've often joked I'd program 40hrs a week if basic income was a reality I'd just work on open source/projects that benefited people directly instead.

I don't love what I'm working on (or even like it) but I love programming and so on balance I get to do something I love for money - not a bad deal most of the time.

I've done the minimum wage thing (did it for 8-9 years in my late teens-mid twenties) and the other side of the coin is pretty horrible.
I'm a 28 year old British man who is still regularly id'd. It's not all that relaxed in my experience...
Not any less professional than the boss expecting you to work unpaid overtime, so unless he's on an hourly (or time-based) contract, I don't see a single thing wrong here. Two sides of the same coin.
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I mean, did you click those links? All of those examples were things VR is doing now, not possibilities for the future.
So, the same way you ship any code: robust against errors, well tested, well instrumented.

Useless, ad ridden article, frankly.
Isn't we can just spin one more VM for each instance instead of paying 3k$?
We have paying customers for our VR surgical training - ossovr.com - I left the games industry in 2014 to work on non games VR applications because I believed (and still believe) that commercial applications of VR will be more profitable in the near term than games. Architecture is another field that is seeing rapid adoption of VR as a real business tool and not just a gimmick.
> Vanguard index ETFs, mostly.

Is it safe to have most of your money in funds handled by one company? Are there scenarios that are at least remotely plausible where one could lose most of one's money in a Vanguard index fund where a similar fund at, say, Fidelity would be fine, or vice versa?
I don't think it's moral judgment. The GP reads more like advice.
That and religious ceremony are the only two common ones I'm aware of.

Anything else and it can be used to throw the book at you in a lot of ways.

I had a friend kicked out of our high school graduation because a teacher disliked him, convinced an officer to breathalyze him, and he blew a ~.02 if I'm remembering correctly. He'd had a beer with his parents at dinner before the ceremony, but by the time that was all sorted it was well after the ceremony had ended. Kid didn't walk the stage at his own graduation because of a power hungry teacher and a (legal) beer his parents gave him.

In most states in the US having any alcohol at all in your system or being in possession of it is very much a crime and the burden of proof is on you that it was consumed legally.
Changing the color scheme of your text editor might be enough of a change to your job.

Going on a weekend trip might be enough of a vacation.
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What exactly is the problem with someone padding their estimates knowing there is a risk of being stuck creatively? When it happens, the estimates stand, when it doesn't, work is done faster than expected. If the parent is unfortunate enough to have to report their progress constantly, what are they supposed to do instead of bullshitting? To me that seems like a problem with their organization. What's important in terms of professionalism beyond getting work done in the time estimated?

I find it bewildering that anyone would consider a completely understandable, honest testimony shameful and unethical.

I'm quite happy the parent shared this as a lot of developers feel quite a bit of pressure when slumps happen, thinking that it's abnormal when it's really quite common (and really for any type of creative work).
Not entirely sure why you were downvoted. American banks are pretty horrible from a technology point of view. I've dealt with a couple of US banks, and they're still very much stuck in the "paper cheque"-era, with no desire to do anything about it.
God, I am so happy that I don't live in the US. Citizens having guns does not increase the security in your society. When will you understand that your high rate of people getting killed by guns, compared to other western countries, is caused by your way of thinking that more guns is the solution to all problems?
Say hi to Bill Lumbergh when you see him, if you feel like it ;).
>an advertiser can give FB a specific list of names of people they want to target.

This guy pranked his roommate with targeted Facebook ads - http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...
I meant in the demo video, which I didn't initially realize was asciinema.
It has 1969 pieces. Seriously? Who worked that one out? Kudos.
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Please, give me a break. It was the Greek media, and particularly TV shows, that launched Varoufakis to stardom. Even liberal-conservative stations invited him to spread his bs.

Just because some of us don't agree with defaulting it doesn't mean we're in the elite or we're serving some agenda. Please, you can do better than that.
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The capitalist America was just a tongue in cheek remark. In fact 99Ranch's offerings are actually result of capitalism toom.
My apologies, it was not in reply to your comment directly, I was talking about how the media and entire story about this is being framed as something it is not about at all. Your comment was on top and I did not articulate it well that the issue should be discussing something else entirely.

As another poster below summed it better than me, the framing is conflating forced bio-metric collection without any real use , security or benefit with some very real and needed restrictions on your rights over your body
Unfortunately, it kind of is becoming that way. Facebook is becoming a de-facto public utility.

The phone and telegraph companies started out as "optional" services. If you didn't like the telegraph company arbitrarily blocking journalists that criticized them, you were free to not use telegraphs.

Facebook is being tied to credit worthiness, and job applications, whether we like it or not.

And in some parts of the developing world, it is more important than a phone number. It is recognized as being so vital, that providing Facebook access is subsidized.

We can no longer pretend that Facebook is some sort of toy, and dismiss criticism by saying that if you don't like it you shouldn't use it.
Throwing this thing up in the air will have more chance of success in achieving orbit than anything you build in KSP for the first 30 hours of play time though.
Do you "have" to?

Not voting is a form of expression as valid as any other.

You really don't have to accept a very bad candidate and by doing so you signal future candidates the availability of "free" votes.

Now, I admit that voting NULL is a stronger message, but is it really an option?
With the important difference that getting on the early Internet only required a telephone line, which everybody already had, and a modem, an inexpensive piece of hardware you did not have to physically strap onto your face.
Walled Garden = How do you like the different browsers in Aoole's app store?

Steam isn't a walled garden, because you don't have to use Steam. You can use gog.com or humblebundle.com or gamersgate.com. Heck you can buy a game on Steam and gog.com will have the game for you on galaxy. You can buy humble bundles and get steam keys.

Steam is a store and you can buy the same exact products and use them on your computer. Windows 10 S you have one store and can only buy it from one place.
Just FYI: Capitec uses their mobile app for that (or you can also get a keychain with an authenticator).
@dennykane It's a shame seeing your comments are getting downvoted on here too. It really leaves me with a bad impression about how FB operates.

@rattray Even without access, downvotes don't just happen out of nowhere; you have to admit that this just looks too obvious to any reasonable person.

I'm curious what you thought was downvote-worthy of my original post pre-edit?

I get it, rules are rules, and this is a matter of principle.
> You have to use an editor where "copy" is called "Kill-ring-save" is invoked with "Meta-w"

You are misinformed. I'm using a GNU Emacs (-> Aquamacs) on the Mac and cut/paste/copy are invoked with the usual command keys. But usually I use the LispWorks editor, which is also in the Emacs family, and even there cut/copy/paste is the usual command sequence... Both editors are built with excellent Lisp support. One is written in C + Emacs Lisp and the other one in Common Lisp.

> mindblowingly archaic

You haven't even understood the old part, how would you be able to deal with the futuristic part?
but it's short-term convenience, for a developer mostly familiar with web-tech.
Again, I said there is nothing wrong with taking a break. To me working on developer tooling is taking a break. Maybe to you it isn't, so going to someone's desk for a chat would work for you, or going to play ping-pong in the lounge.

My one and only point is that lying to your employer, to set yourself up so that you can somehow get through your low-points, means you are either in the wrong job or in the wrong profession. Be a professional and do your honest best, that's all.
Bandwidth is going to be a major cost driver; this is more a marketing fluff piece than a product offering. No numbers I can find about data transfer, lifecycle operations, multi-region approaches, data durability, or any of the things that AWS handles for us.

I'm highly skeptical for two reasons. The first is that this stuff is hard, and AWS hasn't been particularly gouging people with their pricing model for storage.

The second is looking at the historic on-prem storage market. Generally if you didn't go with the top 3-5 storage vendors, you could expect your vendor to get acquired by one of them, and then immediately EOL whatever you had bought from them, as a few of their features were integrated into the acquirer's offering.

We'll see how it goes, but storage is one of those areas where I'm very slow to adopt new technologies or vendors; mistakes here generally show up catastrophically.
My niece set her language to German when she played (and beat) Pokemon X. She was probably 6 or 7 at the time, and didn't know a lick of German.
Meccano seems like a better choice for learning about mechanisms. (Sorry in advance if you're about to drop a few grand on those...)
With a post like that, hopefully it's fake!
Why are most of you people shitty human beings with no interests?
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It still gets stuck in my head: My Bird of Paradise...
I am wary of picking an argument with Gil Tene, who certainly knows his stuff, but I wonder about the AVX2 example.

The post makes it sound like Intel only contributes patches for new instruction sets to LLVM. But they are also active HotSpot contributors.

For instance, here's a post from an Intel employee contributing optimisations to use AVX512:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/...

I have no idea if HotSpot optimises the specific loop Gil posted, but I've seen Intel contribute a lot of upgrades to use AVX2 and AVX512, like optimised compression intrinsics. And as noted, LLVM is not really designed for Java and they had to spend three years putting in optimisations that Java-specific JITCs have had for a long time. How many contributions to LLVM will be directly applicable to Java, given that all the other contributors are focused on C++-style languages? Use of new instructions, sure, in some cases, but they aren't going to contribute intrinsics for the Java APIs.

ReadyNow and C4 are very cool. Java has needed these for a long time and Zing users have been benefiting for a long time. However, Java 9 gets AOT compilation for some cases, which gives at least some of the benefit of ReadyNow (there is still warmup time, as HotSpot AOT does not cache profiles and re-profiles each time, but you get a lot closer to peak performance a lot faster). And Shenandoah is driving down pause times for huge heaps, which is where C4 shines.

That said, Java 9 has not yet shipped, and Zing has. So congrats to Gil Tene and his team. The competition between Zing and HotSpot only helps.
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