skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But really it is faster and smarter :)

First two words on the page after the "Introducing.." title say so.

Which makes me look cynical at everything else.
While I'm not sure I'd say I'm qualified to be an expert on all of these subjects, and thus not a 'polymath', I've at least understood enough to teach software development, game design, and writing to others, and have worked professionally in each of those fields, and I've consumed a good amount of articles, podcasts, and books on each as well.

I've actually found myself drawing from each of these fields as well as other subjects I have a cursory knowledge in (linguistics, philosophy, psychology, etc) to come up with new ideas for the other subjects, so I personally think having a decent amount of knowledge in multiple fields and cross-pollinating between them is very useful.

Scott Adams even suggests becoming very good at two or more things in his blog about career advice.

>Capitalism rewards things that are both rare and valuable. You make yourself rare by combining two or more “pretty goods” until no one else has your mix.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/care...
Full Disclosure: I, Manik Taneja, am the Product Manager for all the open source efforts at Docker and work on the Moby Project.

As suggested here, the blog post only talks about installing the Docker Community Edition (CE) that is published under Apache 2.0 License. This is the official incarnation of the Docker Product and is provided to have:

- a consistent user experience across different linux distributions
- strong security guarantees
- regular bug fixes and updates

Moby Project serves as the upstream for the entire Docker Product and includes all open source components that make up Docker, such as runc, containerd, notary, moby, infrakit, linuxkit, libnetwork, hyperkit, vpnkit, datakit, etc.
"What prevents your domain name registrar from shutting you down arbitrarily?"

I did say "even with the events of last week". It's the biggest stick you can get right now. It doesn't make you invincible.

"If you mean your own server on a Comcast line, then your IP is leaked to everyone you email, which is also a privacy hole since it ties your IP directly to your identity."

I don't email out much. Everyone I email is pretty much already going to know I'm me. Comcast already has arbitrarily large amounts of surveillance they can perform on me, sitting here worrying about my "outbound email hole" is a waste of time.
Let's say there is a lotto for concert tickets. If I pay 1,000 people to take part in that lotto who don't want the tickets then I get an 'unfair' advantage.

The logic is similar for the school lotto as people would target schools based on their ability to trade not necessarily their actual preference. This would lower the odds of people who otherwise had fewer options.

AKA, if only bob or sam want a spot sam's odds are 50/50%. But, of ted joins but would always give his spot to bob then sam's odds are 1/3 and bob's odds are 2/3.
Coal is used to make synthetic graphite and that's about it- coal is basically used to make more coal. And that's only extremely high quality coal that isn't far off from natural graphite already. Even carbon fiber is made from propene and ammonia instead of coal.

Hell, (char)coal can be made from regular organic material, with the bonus that the process of driving off non-carbon atoms produces flammable energy-containing gases.
Yes, but we can make some educated guesses.

For instance, what "good" has Facebook brought us so far? After we have determined this, is it not reasonable to extrapolate a little into the future? Also, entertainment is not unimportant, but everyone would agree it certainly does not belong anywhere near the top of the list, yet I see a lot of effort going in that direction lately, also on HN. It seems out of balance if you ask me.
Any division of a country is going to be arbitrary to some extent, but east/west was due to the Berlin Wall-- an artificial border-- while north south is due to culture, a difference more of choice than edict.
They don't rant against immigrants, they rant against the bourgeois. And it's not a theoretical boogeyman, my wife's parents suffered greatly in China by having their property taken from them, a small factory they had worked hard for decades to build. To this day she cannot talk about it publicly for fear of what would happen to her parents.
I'm curious if you could make trades automatic if all students involved benefited as per their preferences in such a way that it would be impossible to game.

I think though that it would still be possible to game for any variant I can think up.
I'm curious what people on HN would consider "important things".

Well I'm n=1 but for me important is making concrete steps toward creating AGI.
First they came for the damn commies, but McCarthy was before my time.
> Isn't what's important the return on investment?

Well, that depends on who you are. If you are a partner in YC, yes, ROI is your metric. If you are a founder, no, the long-term median value of all YC companies is a far more meaningful metric than YC's ROI. In particular, how much of that value comes back to the founders vs. the investors.
I'm not sure how trying things makes a person dumb. Either way, that doesn't answer the question of what is stopping you from using the tools you prefer rather than the ones you despise.
If you go all the way to W. Then check out Peter Watts and Blindsight. Contemporary, interesting/challenging, fun and good.
"Where do you live that you see people marching in the street waving flags of communist dictatorships"

Happens in Berkeley on a weekly basis, dude. Maybe more often that that -- I don't live there, but I've seen plenty of pictures of people marching with communist flags, etc.

Of course, t-shirts of Che Guevara are everywhere.
Quick question: Can you watch Netflix on the Oculus, with the VR making it feel like you are in a Theater? I have always wondered about this use case, and would buy one if the answer is yes.
Reducing coal usage is a goal of environmentalists. Government inaction, creating uncertainty, is achieving that goal. Why do we need to tax the industry and raise rates on consumers when coal usage is falling and renewables are on the rise without it?
I don't know about current cameras, but most of my old cameras have the SD card slot on the inside of the battery compartment or somewhere else kinda inconvenient (and forget about it on most phones - if it's accessible at all).

The thing about the Mavica was that the floppy just popped in and out on the side, just like a floppy drive. Nothing difficult about swapping in a new floppy.

Now - if your world of cheap SDs in 10 packs came about, hopefully the manufacturers would put the card slot in an easy/intuitively accessible areas (and make it easy to pop one in and out - likely using one of the auto-locking push in to release mechanisms).

At this point, though, it doesn't really matter - your phone backs the pics up to the cloud, it's easy to share them from there (or just click on the pic(s) and "share" via umpteen billion options).

It's a nice thought, and I know you don't mean it seriously - the world's moved on, I guess...
I haven't followed too closely but IIRC the tracking hardware is the big difference between the two. Vive has passive beacons and the headset and controllers can locate themselves within the room based on the time of sweeps of IR laser beams. This is very fast and doesn't add CPU load.

Oculus does it with computer vision and (for room scale) 2-3 1080p 60Hz cameras. I've read reports of USB 3 bandwidth problems; you have to be careful about what gets hooked up where and some people went as far as adding a PCIe USB card to handle them.

EDIT: Oculus has published official notes on this, see link below. They recommend two sensors on your USB 3 ports and the third on USB 2 to get it on a different USB controller.

https://www.oculus.com/blog/oculus-roomscale-balancing-bandw...
If you truly believe this than I am sorry. If you are interested - feel free to email me: michael@ycombinator.com
But other students are affected, namely next year's (and later) students, and especially those who are not so good at strategy. You must consider them too to evaluate the fairness of the rule.
That's not really true on Laptops. Apple, Lenovo, and Dell all make sturdy high-end upgradable repairable laptops. Not the kinds of products you'll see at your local West Fry though.
it's rare for the phrase "google it" to actually mean "search the internet for it _using google_".

This is the only way I ever use the phrase "google it". I don't say I "googled" someone when I search for them on Facebook. I say it when I search on Google.
That's pretty debatable. In many ways they are very close and have gotten closer since launch. Vive was better for the brief period where Touch was unavailable simply because you either have tracked controllers or you don't.

Post Touch it comes down a bunch of other things because you can get either and not regret it.

* The Vive tracking system has more usable range, but that doesn't mean anything for > 80% of spaces.

* Touch controllers are much better than the Vive wands (pick your reasons).

* Oculus USB requirements are a disaster as is the USB extension situation.

* Oculus can run four sensors with fewer occlusion issues, and yes I still have occlusion with 4 sensors.

* Optically you find people on either side in terms of which is better. Without double blind testing several samples of each I wouldn't assume anything.

* I'm not sure if they have parity for reprojection performance

* Vive has the passthrough camera which seems to be poorly utilized.

* Oculus comes with built-in headphones, that's 100$ add on for the Vive.

* Rift doesn't come with a third camera that's a 60$ add on.

* Rift was lighter, but newer Vive units have gone on a diet bringing them closer.

* Vive has a longer cable and if you have a primo space like mine it's a big deal. You need a biiig space though.

The Vive is more expensive right now. Optically I think the Rift is better, and it's dirt cheap to add prescription lenses to (<30$). The Rift works with Oculus Home without hacks, but the reverse is not true of the Vive.
USB yes; but many SD slots have the "press in to lock", "press in again to unlock and remove" (even micro-sd). Only when it's something cheaper (like a reader dongle) are they generally just a friction fit.
>There are arbitrary, unambiguous, agreed upon standards of politeness. You don't curse people out. You don't sexually harass women (or men, for that matter). You don't show up for work late every day, smelling like a brewery.

...

>This isn't a gray area.

Argument from extremes.

Whenever the topic of "Well, what do they mean by professionalism?" you'll invariably get a response stating something really obvious, and pointing out people who violated those obvious norms.

Since I didn't, and don't expect to, violate them, this kind of comment is almost useless. Why? Because in no place where I've worked is the use of the word "professionalism" limited to those domains.

You will get people who do everything you said still be called unprofessional. Which is why the question becomes "Well, what does professional mean?" and invariably someone will give your response and we get nowhere.

I worked for a tutoring agency once. Our boss was trying to tell us that we should be careful not to make the student feel like a moron because they couldn't solve a problem we tutors found easy. What does that mean? He demonstrated it to us by saying "Well, when someone asks you an easy question, don't say 'Wow! You really can't do such a simple question?!'"

That demonstration was really helpful. We all went back and occasionally said to a student "Sure I can help you solve this trivial problem".

(No, of course we didn't. The point was to someone who wasn't aware, this approach would be totally appropriate for a tutor to do because he's not making explicit fun of the student).

People who leave with 2 week's notice have been called unprofessional.

People who don't reply to pointless emails have been called unprofessional.

Just open up an "Ask HN" thread and ask people what crazy things have been called "unprofessional" in their work place.

Sorry, but I have to agree with the others. Saying "Be professional" is as useless as "Be cool" or "Be good".

If a company doesn't have proper guidelines and training on what they expect their employees to do, then that company doesn't value professionalism. Not providing guidance and then pointing fingers is pretty low.
So, you've never heard of Nimble America? Or the Internet Research Agency? Or the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment?

But yeah, all of these things are fake news. Nowhere near as reliable of 4chan or KIA.
Not new. But better. More effective. Which is worse.
For both, the resolution isn't nearly as good as you'd hope when looking for the theater experience. That's not to say the experience isn't theater-like, but I would recommend trying some theater VR out before you commit to it. Either platform would do, they're about the same in this respect.
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I would contend that the genre has moved on in a stylistic sense, but is still pretty robust:

Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach trilogy, Finch);
Ann Leckie (The Imperial Radch trilogy);
China Miéville (Embassytown)

are three I can think of immediately.
It's more comfortable out of the box, and they have a $100 band that makes it even better. However the PSVR uses a completely different style that is much better.
Appears to be: pro free-speech and against the moves of censorship by companies like Facebook and Cloudflare.
What is the motivation here for the plaintiff? Isn't it rather expensive to appeal a case all the way up to the Supreme court? Is there really that much money in owning sites like GoogleDonaldTrump.com? I can't imagine it draws that many visitors. I would also think the only serious buyer would be Google and I doubt they would be open to a settlement that might damage the strength of their trademark in the future.
I do wonder how this disagrees with the popular argument in favor of net neutrality? The point being that limiting who can distribute and therefore create access to information is generally agreed upon as unacceptable.

Would it be different if service providers (your ISP) made some content they select inaccessible (not net neutral) rather than Google et al?
+1 on SMACSS. It seems like you are comfortable with CSS but unsure of the architecture and scaling behind its usage.
Sweden implemented a carbon tax in the early 90's at $150/T that seems to have worked pretty well. The goal was a bit different and our attitude towards taxes are different then yours but if you're interested..

https://www.carbontax.org/where-carbon-is-taxed/#Sweden
Because coal isn't the only problem, carbon in general is one of coal's problems. Coal also causes tons of premature deaths from other non-CO2 emissions as well, but the long term problem is the CO2.

An economic system is more efficient and overall wealth increases if externalities are priced closer to their costs.
Honestly, I've never actually written a makefile to compile a C or C++ program. In fact, I haven't written any C of my own since university.

My makefiles are usually just a way to record a data pipeline. Get these files, shove them through these scripts here and those programs there. Launch a web server to show the output.
> They don't rant against immigrants, they rant against the bourgeois.

In America, the "bourgeois" is usually called "The American Dream". Most Americans idealize the middle class income and middle-class lifestyle and middle-class families and middle-class values. Ranting against that is usually a non-starter.

> my wife's parents suffered greatly in China by having their property taken from them

Many people were killed in China, of starvation, political punishment, etc. It should be an object lesson to the world, don't turn your government over to a corrupt dictatorship, even if they promise you communism.
Antifa may not have the same explicit political program as the "mainstream" left but when street fighting happens, they defend the left, not the right.
As a gay man, "Hey ladies" or "Hey girls" is common in our group. :)

Hate is visceral and emotional and I think it's going to be difficult for AI to track it accurately. People will also find creative ways to trick it while still being very clear that they're being hateful. It's like that saying about the difference between art and pornography - you know it when you see it.
Consider what you're paid in Zürich. That salary buys you far more here than anywhere else — especially when you compare tax efficiency to its neighboring countries. It's clean, society functions well, and people are kind, etc. You don't find this Goldilocks Zone everywhere.

Compared to the U.S., where I am originally from, I couldn't pay any amount of money to get what I have here.
The C4 model for software architecture
Why the hell is this about forming teams, one on the left, and one the right, and why are Stalin and Hitler on opposing teams? They formed a fucking alliance, fer crissakes, until one of them decided to betray the other. No honour amongst thieves.

A mass murderer is a mass murderer, regardless what they say they are. Hell, Hitler said he was forming a socialist worker's party, which sounds a lot like a dictatorship of the proletariat. It sounds like the left. Why aren't we saying that Hitler is "extreme left" just like Stalin?

There's something different between the political speech I grew up with in Mexico and what I hear now. Pretty much every Mexican distrusts the government, it's widely acknowledged that all politicians are corrupt, because we see corruption in the police force as a routine, daily thing, and we draw our team lines differently: the government versus the people. Not left vs right, but those with power versus those without. El pueblo unido jamás será vencido; no pasarán; these are our slogans.

There's something weird and pernicious about the way this left-vs-right discourse is unfolding in the English internet, and I see it leaking into other places. I don't like this game where the goal is to find how the opposite side is totally equal to this side and we have to tally the score to see who is more extreme.
> Swift moves, behind the scenes

Seriously?
The leftist-version of antisemitism is antisemitism. In a study [1] done by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) this becomes clear. On page 29 a graph shows the answers to the following question:

"Thinking about the incident in which somebody attacked or threatened you in a way that frightened you because you are Jewish – who did this to you?"

The answers are, to some, surprising. There are 7 countries listed (Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Sweden and the UK). In only one those countries (Hungary) "right-wing" political views played a majority role. In two countries (Hungary and Germany) "right-wing" political views were a bigger threat than "left-wing" views. In three countries (France, Sweden and the UK) "left-wing" political views were a bigger threat than "right-wing" views. In one country (Italy) they are identical threats.

Less surprising is that the biggest threat overall is neither "left-wing" nor "right-wing": in five out of seven countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden and the UK) "muslim-extremist" views were the biggest threat factor, usually by a very large margin. The lowest threat came from those with "christian-extremist" views, only in one country (Hungary) were these a bigger threat that those with "muslim-extremist" views.

[1] http://www.jpr.org.uk/documents/JPR_2017._Different_Antisemi...
Wasn't it something like 1 or 2 megapixels? For many purposes, that's not bad at all.

I still keep around a few old Kodak DC3200 cameras, which have a 1.3 mp resolution for use in my shop. One of those was my second digital camera (well, as long as you don't count the various video digitizers I've owned over the years - starting with a DS-69B on my TRS-80 Color Computer); my first real digital camera was this el-cheapo something-or-another that took grainy 320x240 images.

I keep and use the DC3200s in my shop because I don't care if I handle them while my hands are grimy or whatnot, while they still take a decent picture. Their only downside is that they use CF cards, but I still have a ton of those anyhow.
Are We Alone? Interview with SETI Astronomer Jill Tarter
YC Demo Day S17 Takeaways
For anyone doing most of their development on a MacBook Pro, you can get the External Graphics Development Kit[1] announced at WWDC. The kit costs 599.00, but that is better than building or purchasing a new PC rig.

It includes a promo code for 100.00 toward the purchase of a Vive. With this price cut, that brings the Vive purchase down to 499.00.

Apple is partnering with Valve and Steam VR is supported. They have also partnered with Unreal and Unity for VR development on Mac OS X High Sierra.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/development-kit/external-graphic...
> I think there's room for compassion towards all involved

Compassion? Seriously? I can only assume you are a close friend.

He is putting the family of Kim Wall through hell by giving them hopes she is still alive. He sinks the submarine on purpose so they never find out what really happened.

Her body is found with no head, arms or legs.

He deserves no compassion at all. A fair trial yes. But no compassion whatsoever.
> have been exerting their control to further their agendas since long before Google existed?

It's an old idea that corporations control discourse to further their political agendas, but previously those agendas were hard to discern.

The new information that has become clear in the last few months, at least to me, is that their political agendas tend to be that of the Democratic party.
This is some serious level concern trolling going on. They're both equally repugnant regardless of any "history of white supremacy" and none should be tolerated.

That's where it should sit. Remove the extremism from the media e.g. antifa and nazis, who really share the same kinds of hatred, bigotry, and intolerance they just don't realize it.

What you're left with is sports, the weather, and the occasional crime. But that doesn't sell airtime, does it?
It's not that they reject them for being black or Hispanic, but look at the numbers, not just recent classes.

It's a hot topic for companies to do the right thing now, its then they start to care.

I don't think its done on purpose or with a hatred, but its an issue, look around.
Oh, I thought you were recommending this for consumer usage. Yeah, if you have a company then there's probably nothing to keep private.
That should be higher tco...
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Why do you think the 74LS189 was being counterfeited?
It was the touch tone chip being counterfeited, and disguised as a 74LS189. The buyer knew the ruse.
> but east/west was due to the Berlin Wall--

No, East-West was because of the border running North-South through Germany intersecting with the main motorway from Hannover to Berlin at Helmstedt.

The Berlin Wall was an interior division separating two parts of Berlin, 'West Berlin' and 'East Berlin', but to get to West Berlin by road you had to cross through a large chunk of East Germany first, and then you'd enter West-Berlin through yet another border crossing. The road from Helmstedt to West-Berlin was known as the 'corridor'.

West Berlin was best thought of as an island within East Germany with the Berlin wall circling West Berlin.
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It's super easy to get Occulus content running on a Vive.

IF you're going to invest in VR, AND you've waited this long, you might as well wait for gen-2 hardware--with the hope they are wireless headsets.

If you want to try it out, just get Google Cardboard or Google Dream.