skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you tried to focus on something that is under 1 foot from your eyes in VR? From my experience it is virtually impossible, and I think the cause is related to this problem (not 100% sure though).
I wasn't unhappy about new keyboard feel but rather quality of keyboard itself. Eventually I'll bring it for repair, I think that should be covered indeed.
Auth0 Extend: A new way to extend SaaS applications beyond Webhooks
The expense is already ungodly - "at least half a billion dollars" - one dirty bomb went off, and a whole lot more waiting.

What we should worry about is how critical systems go wrong in human hands - even in the stupidest of all possible ways - since there are more critical systems by the day. Genghis John's limit on maintenance and attention nears... yell it from the mountain tops!
Another terrible analogy. They are providing a service. Not giving something away that has monetary value. A 16 MB email service is nowhere near considered valuable when Gmail offers gigabytes.
Content aside, it feels odd that the banner image is bigger than the whole article.

What's driving the recent trend to put big images at the top of every webpage?
Great article...

Makes you wonder how ELF's brother (PE) and daughter (WASM) are doing.
Introducing Cape
I'm guessing this would also use data for time of day, and if anyone is at home
I think he meant exactly what he meant. Wasn't Manning still identifying as "he" when the leaks were done? Or was she already transitioned at that point?

I hate this whole walking on eggshells around gender/identity politics. It detracts from the discussion for no valid reason.
Does legalizing apartment buildings 'restrict' your ability to raise your kids in a home with a yard? Because it's illegal to build apartment buildings on the vast majority of land in nearly every American city— that's the exclusive reason why so much urban land consists of nothing but single-family homes in this country. Seattle is an example:
http://i1.wp.com/www.myballard.com/wp-content/uploads/seattl...

Do you think 70 years of federal subsidies and social engineering designed to put (initially white) middle class families in single-family homes is a state of nature?
It's hard in this case not to argue that he owns 33% of the 1.5mm company that the three have built until today. Diluting him out to effectively zero would be cause for criminal charges against the company. It's theft.

In the same vein, they can't raise the $500k and then immediately dilute the investors. That's also theft, called fraud.

He seems to have shown a lot of good faith in this matter so far.
It's more like concern that not having those skills (or something comparably advanced, but also with no immediate use in my work or life) will force me to slide down, rather than up, if/when competition from overseas finally hollows out the middle of the US developer market—though I'm not sure why this hasn't already happened, so maybe I'm wrong to worry about that at all. Not concern that ML programs will start writing other programs well enough to be a direct threat.
In essence, yes. Furthermore I guess that it could be a feature to not have the ability to write to the terminal and/or accompany recorded sessions with additional documentation.
> Do we not want the next generation to exclusively use safe languages?

Someone has to write (and maintain) the safe languages.
Where have you lived?

> Nowhere in the world does $55K a year before tax provide anywhere like 'good life'.

Are you defining 'good life' in relative terms or absolute? Because 55k a year would put you in the top 1% of earners in many parts of the world.
>>big name

>Bloomberg

I stand by my post. Bloomberg spams HN for traffic. They don't get inside scoops from Apple.
Occies are designed to be the reasonable solution for reducing symptoms caused by starting at screens. They filter out only the most dangerous wavelengths of the blue light spectrum and thus keep our lenses untinted, making them look like normal glasses.

In contrast to f.lux and other software services, Occies also reduce glare and flare. Streetlights/computers/car beams become flareless and is one of the most soothing experiences of wearing Occies.
>Because people who would be targets of political murders don't die at a statistically unusual rate.

They don't have to be well known people that you would identify as targets. In fact those would be the worst to target. They could be potential whistleblowers you never learned of, for example.

That said, sticking to well known people that could be targets, there's a large variety of those to e.g. MLK Jr, Malcom X, JFK, Robert Kennedy -- to name but a few in a single decade's span.
It's a wonderful example why people should be educated far beyond their pay grade. Any mildly trained chemist would know that combining nitric acid and organic material is setting oneself up for an explosion. They should have reached for the Andon cord right tbere.
(warning - not intellectually gratifying)
For selfish reasons I hope she sort of fades from public attention, just so I don't keep having Elvis Costello stuck in my head every time she's in the news.

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvRQDsH0Yho )
What about thousands of users that will not see this reply? The gymnastics that an average user needs to do in order to contact support are ridiculous, and according to many stories here, it mostly solves nothing. Your explanation is fair enough, but I assume you guys should make a solid plan for increasing support quality and make it more available.

As of wrongly billed resources - to be honest, you are half blamed for that. I often create apps and base on SAAS reporting to see if the script behaves as expected and uses as many resources as needed. You have misled developers to believe everything is alright and now you are punishing them. I would expect some credits for time being and "transition" period.
The big issue for a lot of people in my area is power. You get an impressive yield of it out of EVs and the cost savings is a no brainer, but the battery life gets absolutely destroyed when you work the motors the way you work a gas engine when doing things like pulling equipment or snow/earth moving.
Yikes. They did that?
Honor 8 recensione con Nougat dopo 5 mesi di utilizzo
Isn't he the guy from the hello internet podcast?
There are also accidental deaths, in which a person is killed, but it is not ruled unlawful.
There are no word games here. Malware means software designed to function in ways that mistreat or harm the user.

If storing my disk encryption keys on Microsoft servers isn't harmful to my privacy and security, I don't know what is.

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/28/recently-bought-a-window...
That seems like a minor issue in comparison to the issues with google discussed here. I mean, sure, they should honour the lifetime membership, but is it really worth losing sleep over something you paid $15 for 15 years ago (at the time of that message)?
> ... all a machine does is transfer value, unlike labour power it does not create value.

Here's a plane. A pilot uses the plane to fly 200 passengers from A to B. There's value created, at least for people who were at A and wanted to be at B. If I understand what you're saying correctly, you're ascribing all of that value to the pilot and none to the plane. True, without the pilot, the plane is just a very expensive paperweight. But without the plane, the pilot leading a walking expedition from A to B. Either one without the other doesn't work; ascribing all the value to one and not the other seems clearly mistaken.

If all the value is ascribed to the pilot, and none to the plane, then why would an airline spend millions of dollars to buy the plane? They can just hire the pilot, and save all that money. But it's pretty clear why that approach isn't going to work...

Am I completely misunderstanding your (and Marx's) position here?
That's a strong accusation to make without any kind of supporting anything.
Wow. It looks like a 16hr drive to the Oregon center. Given an 8hr break in between shifts it works out to almost 10 Tb/sec transfer rate.
99.9% of the time, none. They are stored in a bunker far from people.

A large part of why nuclear power is so expensive is because safety is considered so important. It's hard to get good numbers, but chances are more people have died constructing reactors and mining / refining ore etc. than from nuclear accidents. The difference is simply what people are less concerned when a heavy object falls on someone else.
Yep! Occies are designed to be completely clear. We want it to be the reasonable alternative that people would actually want to use. We distinguish ourselves from computer glasses that have the yellow tint.
I think there is a concern in forcing kids to learn how to program vs gatekeeping and self-taught developers.

With gatekeeping/a tightly knit community: modding, building a PC, and developing a game becomes an achievement that the kids do. It encourages them to succeed to become apart of the community.

With having training/classes apart of the curriculum: It removes the reward of solving the problem and removes a sense of pride in accomplishment.
the pricing model is also from the 1980s.
Show HN: Hotdog Twitter Bot Inspired by Silicon Valley
I wouldn't characterize it as pretty good. He's living day to day, and at any point Russia could change their minds. Snowden basically sacrificed his life and freedom for the rest of us.
"Crude oil prices will drop by half in eight years" seems like the kind of thing you go bet on and make a lot of money off of, not the kind of thing you publish in an article on the internet.
While the prevailing narrative is that Federal intervention in this sort of thing is beneficial, I think that if you adopt the view that morality is largely a function of economic progress, most of the moral progress enforced top-down is largely inevitable over a 5-10 year time horizon.

The same backward idea of causality that motivates neoconservative interventions in foreign governments motivates the aggressive use of Federal power to coerce lagging states into compliance.

Driving through impoverished areas of the US is like taking a time machine back 30 to 50 years. In my opinion it is fairly arrogant to assume that an impoverished region's morality ought to be in lockstep with an affluent region, when only a few decades earlier the affluent region was unabashedly worse.

The most harmful aspect of this is the idea that the average person in the affluent area is enlightened. By definition, the average person is never enlightened, he is simply average. Yet politically, the idea of a moral crusade is irresistable.
This Is an American Workday, by Occupation
If you're in Seattle or nearby and want something fun to do to celebrate this day, come join us at the Syttende Mai parade in Ballard. It is on 24th Ave NW between 62nd and Market, then turns to go south on Ballard Ave to 20th. The parade starts at 6pm and all are welcome. You'll see many different groups representing countries and their heritage from across Puget Sound.

(It is not recommended to drive to the event. Metro routes 40, 44, and RapidRide D serve the area. If you need a park and ride, park at Northgate TC and take route 40.)
>a new release of Atom with Git and GitHub Integration and the new GitHub Desktop Beta, completely redesigned on Electron.

So how many gigabytes of RAM does it take to run both of these at once?
Apple's Italian job for finding top talent
Can we load all XKCDs into a neural net (LSTM, or something), and train it to "dream" new ones?

Like the neural nets which generated non-sense, but realistic looking C++ code.
Agreed. As anyone exposed to the media in general knows, we do have a very strong preference for "clear but mistaken" and "false as stated" utterances. Any nuance is quickly labeled a "mixed message" and eliminated - as if the universe never contained a mix of anything that one might want to talk about.
Not like it requires C to implement a new language.
Does AWS (or I guess maybe Azure) offer a Firebase alternative?

For an IRC style public chat app (the popular Firebase use case), is there a simple-to-use AWS solution that doesn't involve setting up the software/configuring it?

If not, then is setting up DeepStream on an AWS the best answer?

Serious question. Is there something available that can scale as easily?
I found spacy's documentation lacking in details on how to train NER from scratch (at least I couldn't make sense of it). That's why I decided to stick with Stanford's NER.

Regarding disambiguation: People usually mention books with their respective authors, so it takes one query against the local database to check whether entity is indeed a particular book by a particular author. When no author is mentioned, I check parent comment (if any) to find if the given book is mentioned there. Well, and if comment turns out to be standalone then I query Goodreads / Google Books API. Given books with identical titles, these APIs return the most popular option.
Yikes, did it take locally modified repo state with it? I mean, even if not that's still horrible, but deleting changes you made is inexcusable

And did it delete the .git or the entire working directory?
We've move up the stack. Kernels are a lot more developed than they were when the author was a kid and in the present day there's a lot less to be gained by writing your own / hacking on an existing one. His kid will hack on something else even more interesting higher up the stack.
Er... I don't think that's universal, but sure, you'll find some programmers there.
How likely is your startup to get acquired at any stage
> I've been told I'm in fantastic shape (>90% in all http://strengthlevel.com/ measurements and under 10% body fat) at the moment

Sweet humble brag but considering

> As a side note, my metabolism is actually slower than average and I need to eat on average ~10% calories less than any macronutrient calculator says to stay in the shape (low bf + strong) that I enjoy being in.

You're either a genetic freak or full of it. 90% on all major lifts puts you in the category of amateur competition champion. Go back and run your numbers again, and this time be honest. You're not "strong" at those numbers. You're elite. Which less than 5% of the population fits into. Those kind of people don't browse hacker news. They model for M&F and train for the olympics.
Having a display that can support ocular accommodation (selective focus by the eye) is an important research development, though it will most likely not change the viewer's experience in a radical way.

Practical electronic 3D displays requires bandwidth reduction, both data bandwidth for transmission and optical bandwidth to create practical or lower-cost optical modulators. The goal is to use bandwidth reduction techniques that produce little or no visual artifacts. Some of the techniques used are the same as in 2D (spatial discretization, time multiplexing, compression), while others are unique to 3D (view discretization, limits on view angle, elimination of coherence).

Head-mounted displays are basically descendants of stereoscopes, the first 3D displays developed by Wheatstone in 1838. Wheatstone's amazing discovery was that you can throw a huge amount of information about the world away, provide just two images from two viewpoints, project them out to infinity in front of a viewer's two eyes using two lenses/light paths, and a vivid sense of 3D is evoked. That's an incredible amount of information reduction from real life.

In the traditional stereoscope, accommodation is thrown away, mostly because its really hard to recreate electro-mechanically, but also because we're generally fine with it. Accommodation isn't effective for distant objects (or for even larger depth ranges as we get older we lose our ability to accommodate), so we likely have neural circuitry to discount imperfect accommodation cues. One of the reasons we turn on bright lights when doing detailed work is to stop our eyes down and increase our depth of field, reducing the need for accommodation.

However, there have been perennial debates about the physiological impact of conflicting depth cues involving accommodation, and those debates are more interesting in VR where objects can be (virtually) very close to the viewer and the viewer can dynamically change their physical relationship with virtual objects.

Until you have a light modulator that can let you experiment with selectively modulating accommodation within a scene, you can't provide real data on how important accommodation (even approximate accommodation) is for a particular application. Can't wait to see the studies.

We did some similar focal plane manipulation in holographic video more than a decade ago, for related reasons (see Fig 7):

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255603167_Reconfigu...
Absolutely, YGM.
This. The whole reason I got into technology was because I needed to know it to make bigger and better games work. I started playing "electronic" games at a very, very early age (4 or 5) and at the time that meant pinball (with rotary dials for score)... then I saw the first video games appear next to my pinball machines... and then the very first home consoles appeared.

By that time I was old enough to bug my parents enough to get one (Fairchild Channel F)... and things escalated from there to a Vic-20 (and so forth). The first programming I did was to make a game in BASIC that a friend bought and was broken work (simple syntax error). I learned networking (when PC networking meant IPX, BNC connectors, etc) to get the first multiplayer games up and running.

I had no intent to be a professional technologists/developer. It was a means to an end. Much later, after I had entry level tech jobs, I honed the skills and knowledge to really be a professional... honestly, it came pretty easy once I realized I actually kinda liked the field in my mid-20s.
Well, it is what you have to actually buy unless you want to pay far more.
Pricing mistake 202: Relying on services that don't charge enough to be sustainable.

They will go bankrupt sooner or later, it's only a matter of when.
>When I was a teenager, around 15-16 years old, I started to learn C programming by reading the source code for the Linux kernel.

True story from a part of my life from around the time the author mentions: A Fields Medal winner (this is the highest prize in the field of mathematics, for solving hard open problems that puzzled people for centuries) I have known, by himself read the source of Unix (Sun OS) and learned C. He did it when a young PhD student presented him with code related to problems he discussed with this teacher.

This being said, my 9 year old surprised me this week when he showed me an online computer game that someone abandoned which he fixed by going into the code. A few thousands had played it and given it 4 or 5 stars by the time I saw this working. I had no clue that a kid could do something like this in a rather fancy 3D game. I'd say, lets leave the kids to themselves and try our best to help them keep out of trouble as they go along.
Who Pays?
That bubble's gonna pop eventually, I don't foresee it staying around for 10+ more years.
If i was an investor, i'd see it as a red flag indeed. I'd think: 'so this guy left the boat being a founder, giving up most of his share, so probably he knows that the company is going to tank and don't want to waste his time anymore, and he definitely knows a lot more about it than i could potentially know being an outside guy'.
You keep talking about how this is a uniquely American concept but I get the feeling that your only basis for comparison is Europe? Because just to take one example, Chinese parents complain even louder than American parents about anything "inappropriate" in the media and thus Westerners are often very surprised and disappointed to find that their Chinese acquaintances aren't interested in fighting government censorship.
The Final Days of Ringling Brothers
As a parent, appropriate is determined by my children's ability to yield the knowledge correctly.

Take swears for instance. Until they know better, there's more risk of them using swears at the wrong time.
That's the whole point of Electron period. Cut development costs. Meanwhile end-users (including developers) will suffer, because along with their chrome instances using hundreds of MB in ram, they will have electron apps open using similar (and in many cases more) amounts.
If it's significantly slower than equivalent C or C++, it's a bug. Please file them.
Are there orgs out there still running OS/2 ?
Symphony, a messaging app backed by Wall St, gets $63M at a $1B+ valuation
Big Data for Big Business? A Taxonomy of Data-Driven Business Models
Pricing is cheaper than or on par with most other closed source operating systems.
I've got a client that's wrangling their data into a place where I can do some targeting for upselling, end-to-end - I'm really looking forward to that. Lots of value on the table, IMO, and really interesting and unusual datasets.
22 Years of Yahoo Fireside Chat with CEO Marissa Mayer
Nice clickbait though. I remember seeing those headlines about flying cars - "In 2020 most cars will be flying!" a decade or so ago. Such a writers are detached from reality, or their reality is based on their very closed and hermetical environment.
Oh, so you can get gmail without surveillance and without advertisements without paying for it? Would you mind pointing me to the offer?
"Welll, we have this there chalkboard that we write what we think your price is. And some intern draws lines on a graph to match what we think it is. Oh, proof? Nahh, we dont do that. Oh, logs? Nope, you'll just have to trust us..."
Yeah but people don't want that! No one is going to invest in getting rid of roads or giving away bicycles. That serves no one but the poor. People will invest in an underground transport network that solidifies Tesla's advantage.

Think about what will actually work, what is actionable. Getting rid of cars is completely unactionable. Tunnels are. So Elon does tunnels.
Even mental exercises could use a purpose. What are you interested in? Try to keep an end goal in mind. If you want to learn more about machine learning, it might be an idea to start with a mathematical preliminaries chapter in a typical machine learning textbook and look up difficult topics in a probability/statistics textbook. If you want to learn more about databases, perhaps you could pick up a book on relational algebra, and explore it in the context of abstract algebra. There are many ways to get the job done.
Although the kernel is obviously more complex, I think there was never a time were people started programming in C with the Linux kernel. Most people start with "normal" user-space C before going into the kernel.

One has to gain fundamental knowledge about operating systems and low-level system programming to tackle problems like kernel development - I do not think it was much easier 25 years ago.
In search, Learning to Rank is a common application for ML ...

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

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Learning+To...
We use ml to identify users who might try to commit fraud when purchasing things from our site, as well as prevent identify fraud when users verify their ID with us. We are also looking into taking advantage of adaptive design to improve ux and conversion.
India’s Most Important SaaS Venture: Strategic Options Ahead of Freshdesk
Safeway Is the American Food Casino
My kid will never learn Z80 assembler on a Sinclair micro.
How a Bottom-Up Approach Can Help You Sell to the Big Guys
I'm still on Mavericks 10.9.5. Works great, I see no reason to update. It's a workhorse at its current state, no need to mess with what works so well.
Request Orient Collector Algorithm (2016)
If Manning had only leaked the video in an attempt to bring light on what she perceived as a war crime, she would've had a case as a whistleblower. Indiscriminately leaking thousands of documents where she had no idea of the contents, is not whistleblowing. That's why she ended up with the sentence that she did.