skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is such a strange article. It shackles Joss Wheadon with this additional moral failing for cheating on his wife as if his feminist ideal should stop him from falling for the trappings that all rich powerful people go through.

Somehow because he has particular views of the equality of men and women, it should give him an above average amount of will power to stop himself from temptation?

Feminism is a political stance not a moral super-power. The great majority of people with access to something will not hold themselves back. Men in positions of power will have women throwing themselves at them. Most men will succumb to that temptation the same way the majority of the population with access to food will eventually succumb to the temptation to overeat.

At some point almost all people will get fat as they get comfortable and older. From all accounts I've heard, nearly all professional atheletes and musicans cheat. If you had beautiful women throwing themselves at you, you would probably succumb to it eventually. Most men do. Women's sex drive and biochemistry is different and most attractive women have had men throwing themselves (or at least have 2nd hand experience through a friend) and thus it isn't equivalent. Most women don't know what it's like to have what you were chasing your whole life, chasing you. It's like being a lion and have gazelles trying to leap into your mouth all the time.

When you add the fact that his casting someone (and he was known for casting relatively unknown actors) could change the course of their entire career and thus life, and most of those who could benefit the most are literally a self-selected group of the most beautiful women in the world, it's no wonder why he cheated.

So, to take all of that and heap some kinda extra moral failure on him is unfair. If she cheated, it wouldn't be some failure of her feminist stance. She would just be someone who cheated.

It was merely a betrayal of a loved one but, doesn't mean that all of a sudden he hates women because he cheated.
The fish philosophy is that instead of "!!" you can use the up arrow to bring up the last command from history and then edit it directly.

And the up arrow already does something similar to ctrl-R by default. No need to have a separate hotkey for that behavior.
Yes, you could game the application, but yes it wouldn't take you far, maybe an interview to tell them what I did. Which I wouldn't do.
Thanks for the clarifications. I was ready to purchase the Oculus Rift, but now I think I will go for the Vive.
I would say you are arguing against quite a contrived point. The article speaks about the methodologies for holding fair lotteries in the context of doing this year after year. You are technically correct that allowing trading once wouldn't harm other students, but that is quite beside the point. The judge made this decision primarily on the basis that subsequent lotteries have to be held.
would add some people that master css:
- http://simurai.com/
- https://csswizardry.com/
I'm the owner of a Note 4 GearVR. I've tried it, the Note 5 GearVR, and the Vive.

I prefer the Note 4 GearVR to the Note 5 GearVR because the former has a larger viewing area than the latter, and that makes a big difference in the sense of presence you get from experiencing VR.

I prefer both GearVRs to the Vive, because the Vive has a much shallower depth to it. When using the Vive, it kind of looks like you're standing in a relatively small theater with a wall about 10 or 20 feet away from you on which the background is projected. In the GearVR, by contrast, the "end" of the viewing area is much, much further away, and often can't even be distinguished (except in certain apps/games). So the feeling of being in a real space and not in a fake environment is much greater in the GearVR for me than in the Vive.

Also, because of the above, I get a much, much greater sense of scale in the GearVR than in the Vive when looking at huge objects like a mountain or looking down from the air in to a valley. I've had no experiences in the Vive that get anywhere near that. It really always feels like a very small space. For some apps or games (particularly ones where the VR environment is itself a room or other small space) that doesn't matter, but for others the Vive's deficiency in this respect breaks the 4th wall for me and reminds me that it's fake.

Another reason I prefer the GearVR is because it's completely portable and wireless, and doesn't require a beefy desktop to run it. I've taken the GearVR with me on airplane trips, and used it to watch movies on the plane (movies that look pretty amazing when you have almost a whole IMAX screen in front of you, while everyone else on the plane is staring at little 4" monitors in their seats), and I've demoed it to many dozens of people all over the place, including at a beach. You can't do that with the Vive.

These advantages of the GearVR are somewhat counterbalanced by the full-body motion sensors in the Vive. That's pretty nice, but I haven't really played any games or used any apps on the Vive where it made enough of a difference to be way better than the motion detection built in to the GearVR, which can already sense the motion of your head. Often, what you're mostly doing is turning around and looking around, and that can be done well enough on the GearVR.

I haven't tried the Rift, but I've heard that it's significantly better than the GearVR, so if I was going to get a tethered VR headset, it would probably be that. But I think I'm going to skip at least a generation or two of VR headsets until they get much more comfortable, and until the apps and games available for them graduate from being mostly technology demos to being competitive with full-featured non-VR apps and games. The comfort issue is an especially big one for me, as after the novelty wore off, I really didn't want to wear the headset for long as it grew increasingly uncomfortable and just wan't worth the trouble. I've you've never tried VR, though, it is mindblowing (or at least it was for me and 99% of the people I demoed it to), so it's well worth trying, if not buying.
Get over where the decimal point is. The objective is to hold wealth in places that grow as fast as possible or at the very least, don't go backwards.
This is more just blaming the media for everything. How is reporting on a police helicopter crash related to the event not newsworthy? Trump himself tweeted about it, and by the way, we still haven't heard anything on the cause.

Let's focus our upset feelings on the things that actually matter, like neo-Nazis in our streets, rather than on nit-picking journalistic investigations into them.
The initial scenarios IIRC for the known reserves of the USA, Saudi Arabia and Russia were to run out in about 50 years, at that point if we haven't found a better power source our grandkids could use coal to make petroleum like Germany in WW2.

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

On the otherhand fracking probably changed that timeline for Canada and the USA with the tradeoff of freshwater for oil so we'll have to wait and see how that turns out and moves the end date for our estimated petroleum reserves.
Who has a VR ready PC and doesn't have headphones?

IQ wise, I've used both, and I found that optically the Vive was better.
Nice post! I will be using it as a reference.
I don't think the env thing is that big of a problem with Fish. For me, the most annoying thing is that it doesn't interoperate well with programs that output POSIX shell strings that you are expected to eval. One particularly annoying example is pkg-config.
Many thanks.

I also found "Michelson: a Statically Typed Stack Based Language for Smart-Contract Execution - BPASE ’17" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oG4Ead74xA
That's one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me. Cheers!
Identity Thieves Hijack Cellphone Accounts to Go After Virtual Currency
Little too late. But definitely the right direction.
Microsoft Azure Stack: Consistent Application Development
I believe the feature you're talking about is "Heads Up Notifications" introduced in Lollipop (5.0). Go into Settings > Notifications, find and turn off Heads up. Then you'll just see the icon in the top bar, but no drop down.
I am not a Facebook fan, but it was successful at connecting communications around the world and increasing overall adoption of the the internet.

I truly mean it, it's an unanswerable question, educated guesses or not. Too subjective.

For instance... is it better for Earth to have 1 Billion people on it, or is it better to have 25 Billion? If a "tragic" disaster drastically reduced the population levels for 100 years, but also allowed our species to evolve at a more sustainable pace in the long-term, was the disaster good or bad?
Nearest neighbor support in Postgres expanded to over 100 vectors
Not a news river exactly, but I also learn a lot from the Stack Overflow sites:

https://quant.stackexchange.com/

https://stats.stackexchange.com/

The NYC FinTech Meetup is also usually a good place to network:

https://www.meetup.com/NY-FinTech/
If you want to dev, Vive will be better, since it can support 2 controllers and 4 tracked pucks.
Very nice writeup! A nice, detailed read that was easy to understand.

It seems to focus more on raw infrastructure (EC2 vs GCE) instead of each company's PaaS offerings. Obviously AWS has the front runner lead here, but would be super curious in a comparison of RDS vs. Cloud Spanner for instance.
(pun unintentional, but then realized, and left in there)
> I know nothing about Google's internal culture, but I'd assume everyone would be against using someone else's product.

Your expectations make it sound like you've only worked at companies with terribly unhealthy workplace cultures. When I joined Google, I remember noticing that probably 50%+ of my coworkers used iPhones. That changed with all the free phones they gave out, but any place that would "culturally oust" you for not drinking the Kool-Aid sounds like a nightmare to work at.
You seem to reading yourself into the parents post: they say adhoc reasoning and hand waving are the reasons, and don't suggest family significantly.
Are there two separate issues? Couldn't it be argued the term Google is generic, so therefore the trademark is redundant, but the use in a domain is confusing to people?

kleenex in a domain would be likewise confusing.
Looks like some people wanted Rod Vagg removed (I don't know the reason why ATM) but the TSC voted against it.

Well, governance issues were certainly the big reason iojs came about, but it had more to do with node's lack of progress as a shipping software project. If this new project is really going to turn out better than what node is doing, great. Othwerwise, who knows!
Let’s hear it for the four-hour working day
If you told someone to google "foo" and instead they search for it on DuckDuckGo did they do something wrong?
There is this thing that I keep noticing. Some kind of 'faux balance', where two things that are totally not at all on the same level are given equal billing. Nazi's and counter protesters, killers and their victims, Intelligent Design and science.

Highly annoying development, as if if there are two sides to some story they both automatically deserve equal weighing.

If Madsen did all this - and there is no evidence so far that the did not - then he definitely does not deserve compassion. To coldly claim he dropped the woman off knowing full well that she was dead is utterly despicable.
It seems odd that he keeps emphasising what a good person he is, like that will somehow help or even matters if your definition of good differs from who's deciding it.

In any case, thinking of corporations (which are amoral) as a person is silly, although this is a heartbreaking way to learn this lesson.
I'll email you sometime and I appreciate the response.

Just to set my example, how many staff at YC are black or Hispanic in the list below? I find it odd considering the amount of population of these groups in the USA alone. Not many startups cater to this demographic, if they aren't being accepted.

http://www.ycombinator.com/people/
It's sad to see the technology plateau at the current level, with bulky helmets and clumsy controllers as the state of the art for the forseeable future. If only they could route the optics more effectively, using fiber or another medium.
It is, in lots of languages. It is usually called "compile time macros" or "macros".

In lots of languages the macros run in the language itself, for example in Lisp, Scala or Nim.

In C++, compile time macros are run in two separate languages: 1 the "pre-processor" and 2 "C++ templates"
The Nexus line are the phones that are manufactured by various other device makers. I think the Pixel is actually made directly by Google.
Sat in my front yard with my wife and kids. Got a little over a minute of totality, which was far more impressive than I anticipated. It looked just like the pictures, with the white corona all around...but seeing it with my own naked eyes was a major "holy shit" moment. Very surreal.
Is That IaaS or Just Really Good Virtualization?
more effective than the kronen-zeitung?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronen_Zeitung
In the talk he says he cured 5 diseases in 12 months. Not bad.
Yea, I use Firefox + uBlock Origin on Android, which doesn't require root, so I'm covered there either way. (Annoyingly, the regular Firefox on iOS doesn't yet support adblocking, but I think that will be changing soon.)
The big news here is that Voodoopad isn't dead.
Coal has plenty of uses. It can be used to make precursors for everything from plastics to carbon fiber. In fact in the 19th century it was the original source of chemicals and materials from dyes to aspirin to tarmac.

In the beginning of 20th century it started to be displaced by the cheap and abundant oil.

Coal's major role in electric power generation is relatively recent. Although coal continued to be a major source of important petrochemicals such as benzene into the 60s, the coal industry underwent a major crisis in the beginning of the 20th century and in the US in particular was saved by the country's electrification.

I expect that this pendulum will swing the other way. Coal is posed to become a major source of materials and chemicals once again.

Some helpful links:

https://web.anl.gov/PCS/acsfuel/preprint%20archive/Files/37_...

https://web.anl.gov/PCS/acsfuel/preprint%20archive/Files/39_...

http://www.ogc.co.jp/e/products/carbon-f/

https://eic.rsc.org/section/feature/feture-pain-relief-from-...
I read it as 'Berlin and (boring Cologne)'.
Depends on your preferences. I lived/did part of university in Berlin and live in Zürich now.

Party scene in Berlin is great, but Zürich is more about house parties with friends. Live music was a hair better in Berlin, but we still get interesting acts here.

The nature and outdoor activities rival Berlin any day. The water is clean, warm, and smells nice. Plenty of hills for mountain biking and running, etc. Public transit just works. I could count Zugausfälle on a single hand here; whereas I would have needed a whole accountant book to have inventoried Berlin's and DB.

There is a lot of weird stuff here, too, art- and culture-wise. When H.R. Giger (art designer for Alien) died, I went to his funeral service at the Peterskirche. Brought a strange collection of people out of the woodwork: Swiss Hells Angels (ha!) and a bunch of other freaks. People here small talk a bunch here out in public, so I've gotten to meet a bunch of random folks more informally than I have elsewhere.

If you like craft or international beer or cocktails, Zürich probably beats Berlin. The market is more globalized here, so you can find beer from anywhere in the world (pedestrian German beer is still better than in CH, though the microbreweries here are outstanding). That was a challenge in Berlin: only one or two places to find Belgian beer. A good cocktail in Berlin cost € 18 (my benchmark was an unlabeled speakeasy near Rosenthaler Platz whose name I forget; it was the only proper cocktail bar I found in months of searching/trial), which is a lot of cash on a Berlin salary. A similar quality cocktail in Zürich costs the same, but that is cheap on local salary.

As a parent (not one who sequesters himself and child like so many others do — at least in the U.S.), the day-to-day here is priceless and frictionless. So many fun things to do with a little one. In Berlin, I would constantly worry about broken glass on the sidewalks, which isn't a problem here. Try keeping an eye to ensure the little one doesn't fall into it; it's a challenge.

Street food was better in Berlin, to be sure, but sit-down restaurants between both cities are a toss-up. The Indian is certainly better in Zürich, and the same can be said for the Vietnamese. Fewer of the foreign restaurants here do the whole Pan-Asian do-everything-but-nothing-well than in Berlin. The slow food festival as well as some of the pop up restaurants are a nice addition to the scene — actually really nice. We (slow food group) did a large potluck at an old slaughter house by Letzigrund a year back. Someone caught a monster of a fish from Lake Zürich and smoked it there on premise: some two meter long thing that was wider than my torso.

I don't know. Both are great. I keep very busy and don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.
The hosting provider will probably put whatever you want in the whois.
Working through a new programming book?

Answering questions on Stack Exchange?

Watching marginally related recorded talks at conventions?

Focusing on the thing for an extended period of time while exploring new territory?

The muscles you're wanted to exercise are pattern recognition and lateral thinking, all in the problem solving family.

So, find a problem, them solve it.
I'd read up on the other factors if I were you. I've also heard that Oculus is lighter weight and more comfortable, but that Facebook/Oculus have made some unpopular moves on platform openness and pushing for Oculus-exclusive titles.

Overall I have a more positive impression of Vive, but I haven't used either company's retail hardware so I don't have a strong opinion on them.
I'm not a lawyer and I wouldn't bet on how the court case would go, considering that the MPAA will hire very expensive lawyers and you probably will not. Most likely, it won't get that far and you'll settle out of court to avoid the court costs, so you'll pay regardless of whether it was actually illegal.

However, yes, my understanding of copyright law is that it only limits those who currently own a copy from making and distributing more. The relevant US Law is actually very short, take a look at Section 106: https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106

(Edit: 106 lists what it is against the law to do, as you can see from 501 which talks about punishment etc. https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html )
The thing is that Java -> Kotlin is almost entirely frictionless while also adding a lot of value. I can see people preferring Kotlin to Java as a teaching tool if Kotlin gets a little more traction, because of its relative simplicity.
(I say this as a long time Java programmer, now trying out Kotlin and enjoying it)
>...Forced Online Platforms to Reveal Their True Nature

The article seems argue that it's just been revealed that Facebook, Twitter, Reddit et al are, shock horror, "profit-driven entities, free to do as they please." As if we didn't know that already. It also kind of paints them as faceless corporations with shady agendas but in the case of Facebook and Reddit they are both still basically run by the programmers that wrote the first code and try run them in a common sense sort of way. Here they are chatting about these kind of things

Zuck http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/zuckerberg-investigating-facebook-c...

Huffman https://youtu.be/CbGxKKJb7vk?t=12m14s

Edit - changed the Zuck link...
Mine is 1.3, it takes images at a VGA resolution. A single image at full res practically fills up the floppy disk, I've got to shoot at a lower quality if I want to take more images.

I'm positively spoiled by my Sony A6000.
> Who has a VR ready PC and doesn't have headphones?
More weight. More cables. More hassle. Most people I talk to like having a solid pair of built in headphones. Except when the wiring goes...

> IQ wise, I've used both, and I found that optically the Vive was better.
I've used both and like the Rift better. Not everyone has the same experience. Best advice to give people is try both and buy the one that looks better to you or pick one and be happy because they are both pretty good.
What are these apps doing in the background? I've always assumed they're collecting/streaming device and user metrics. Running apps, location, WiFi SSIDs, etc. If that's the case, then a reduction in data collection could mean a reduction in metrics/income.
> As with many NP-hard problems (e.g. SAT, TSP), there are very good solvers these days that are much faster than anything you could ever hope to write yourself – and they produce fully optimal solutions.

And if it's not fast enough, you can use one of a number of relaxations to a standard LP and call it a day.
Hmm, well they did say at the end...

Nearly everyone he talked to (many Nobel Laureates among them) said their greatest achievement was raising a family or something in personal life.

So I think it's a relevant question if truncated in spirit for brevity.
> The left is very much [...] anti-Israel.

That's funny, someone should tell that to המחנה הציוני
When you make statements like

"The more I pay attention in the Bay Area the more I’m noticing that it’s a place of absolute poverty."

"Much of the East Bay is extremely poor."

You really need to quantify absolute poverty and extremely poor. Without some numbers to back it up the article comes off as out of touch.

Also with you living in San Francisco when you write all these things about large areas of the Bay Area as being extremely poor the article feels a little like you are looking down your nose at the "rest of the people". Sorry but that's what it comes across as.
I accept the basis of your argument - that point scoring is unhelpful.

However, I feel you're missing the point when discussing censorship.

If censorship is to be justly applied, there must be some objective measure of what is offensive - which then must be applied equally regardless of political alignment. This is definitely not happening at the moment.

Personally, I think a better perspective is to reduce and/or avoid censorship altogether, especially as far as internet infrastructure is concerned. Corporate entities shouldn't be enforcing the views of their stakeholders on the individual.

Free speech is free speech, even if I don't like what you're saying.
Why is that not a good experience? Now I need to dig through Settings to find all these background services. If they're important enough to be running constantly they're important enough to take up some space to prominently show me that they're running.
Then don't. I couldn't think of two more different languages.
It looks like, and is often accused of reinventing wheels. Forgetting that it's not about the wheels but what the designers learned from going through the motions. Writing code that you've never written before on a daily basis is a good start. The key is to keep raising the bar, keep questioning tools, frameworks and best practices; to never get stuck on auto-pilot. Solve problems you care deeply about; or if that isn't possible yet; practice on the road-blocks, divide and conquer. At least that's what it's like for me.