skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tl;dr: look at a 3D tv, move your head to the side. It doesn't work right and your brain knows it. That is the reason they are not going to succeed.

I still don't think the technology is there. Current stereoscopic offerings don't (can't, perhaps) produce an acceptable simulation of a 3D space.

Stereo sound can be faithfully reproduced by multiple speaker setups or even perfectly reproduced by headphones. It's acceptance didn't just hinge on tasteful, realistic usage of the technology but also the fact that it's "close enough" that our brains can fill in the details.

Current 3D technology (at least what I've seen in movie theaters) cannot represent a HUGELY important sensory feedback loop at all in that if you move your head the picture doesn't shift.

Consider any object in your office. Attempt to investigate and understand it's shape and position with respect to yourself. You, I nearly promise, just wiggled your head back and forth to scan the object and make fuller use of our inherent depth perception machinery. Until that can be accurately simulated with a 3D tv, I don't believe in it. Until that can be accurately simulated for multiple observers with a 3D tv, I don't believe in their use beyond a few first person shooters.

There are of course people doing cool stuff with that kind of technology. Cue the obligatory movies of that guy who uses Wiimotes to track head motion. Totally amazing stuff! I believe his tech can get so much closer to truly deceiving my brain into believing the 3D experience than Avatar did and it makes use of a normal TV.

As a final coffinnail, even if Wiimote headtracking tech does get into everyone's homes, that stuff depends on having a complete model of the space you're viewing. It'd make for fantastic gaming, but the hurdle to making a movie or TV show like that is another huge technological/economic/social holdup.
The language in the popup pretty much makes me not interested to actually proceed with reading the article.
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You needn't choose "==" and "!=" for your equality and inequality operators!
How so? It seems that he is making a point that requires acknowledgement of the existence of racism and the impact it may play in shaping social policy. Hopefully we are mature enough to be able to discuss this on it's merits.
These coins were sold for 5 million a piece, so quite a large markup.
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What company are you with? I live in Milwaukee and I'm not actively looking for a job right now, but I like to keep an eye on what kind of work is around.
The U.S. has always had a ~10X higher crime rate than the western European countries, going back over a hundred years. The best explanation of why comes from a writer in 1920, Raymond Fosdick who spent years studying both the American and various European systems. Read his book online for free: http://books.google.com/books?id=NGBLAAAAMAAJ&printsec=f... His arguments are backed up by almost everything else I've read on the matter, and they still remain as true today as they were in the 1910's.
People who speak bad english are considered normal. Bad english is accepted all over the world

An interesting point.
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I wonder whether HN, the NY Times, the Economist, etc.haven't any unproductive fascination with Higher Ed stories. I find it a much more interesting fascination than (say) the NY Times's fascination with parochial NY (and usually) Manhattan fads, but not necessarily of wider interest.
Whenever I've opened up a DoD website to several users, my hard drive tends to get wiped long before I discover performance issues.
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The problem with AI translation isn't that the AI isn't working, it's that humans don't express their thoughts as clearly and consistently as they'd like to think they do. Even a human can't create a 100% accurate translation of a text without knowing exactly what the author was thinking, and language is a very poor mechanism of conveying thoughts, based on the author's expectations of what different words correspond to in other people's minds.

I do expect language to become obsolete, i.e. showing someone an illustration of something instead of describing it to them. English might be the last language in use, but its vocabulary is only going to decrease.
Ah yes, that seems to fix it. If I allow Chrome to access my location, then refresh the page, it works as expected.
You're just an employee, if you feel your company is going under, find other employment. Once you find another offer, they'll either offer you a share of the company to stay, or you can leave.
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You're correct. But it's easier to enforce those things at a campsite than at home.
Is there a word for letting the world know how great you are by not-so-cleverly disguising your greatness as a shortcoming? There should be. I need it every day.

(Sorry to bother you with this, I actually am quite verbally adept, but English is my twenty-sixth foreign language and even after weeks of practice sometimes the correct word escapes me.)
The answers people give include, but are not limited to, 0, 1 and 2. I find people's reasoning interesting, and after the discussion on the item about the weights and the pulleys (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1659326) I'll be interested to see what people say about this, if anything.

There is a one-off experiment hidden under this submission - email me if you want to know more, or have concerns and I'll answer them. Alternatively I'll post more in a day or so.

Thanks.
That's true, but does it change my point?

Let me clarify. Consider if I instead chose equal and not equal as my operators. Now a "small change" probably won't even be a valid program (not wqual). Any small change that does result in a valid program is unlikely to result in an equally small behavior change for any interesting input. Changing a strictly-less-than to a less-than-or-equal-to is a small change that results in what seems like a small behavior change when viewed locally. But my own experience with programming is that a local change such as that will have huge consequences later on - often to the point that the program crashes.

Consider it this way: the space of valid programs is infinite. The space of valid programs that solve a particular problem is much smaller (in the physics << sense) than the space of valid programs. Any perturbation from a valid program that solves the problem is much more likely (>>) to land you on a valid program that does not solve your problem than one that does.
When you're in business class.
Why does a company with only one programmer have a CFO and a COO? Also, why wouldn't you be the CTO and have a share if they are all about titles... I'd say it seems like maybe you are being taken advantage of and it might be time to jump ship. Good luck!
Can castling and/or en passant be squeezed into 10 bytes?
Her opening argument seems seriously flawed. I've seen scenes similar to the one she described here in Sweden on several occasions. And by all accounts Sweden has at least as good a "safety net" as Germany.

The really interesting part for me was that two people actually stepped forward to help the crazy man. That is something I don't think I've ever seen here. So the generalized point to take away I guess is Americans are far friendlier and more helpful than Europeans.
If you feel like things are not going well and you have other offers, jump. It's always easier to find work while you're employed than it is once you're unemployed, especially with the state of the economy. You feel that you owe them something, but they do not appear to share that view (that they owe you something). Go to greener pastures while the going is good.
I agree in general terms, but here the idea is that for the "Redis way" it is paradoxically better to have a logo obtained in this way that may not be so super cool from the point of view of a professional designed, than something that will be very professional and well conceived based on the target and so forth.

Also note that the first entries we got were the one done by programmers in five minutes :) The best entires will get more time I bet, but will be more interesting.

UPDATE: anyway I put a few design guidelines in the logo contest site, so that the professional designer can have some inspiration and background.
I think it's understood that by these rules you ensure the minimal time spent with the important people.
Neither the 4 minutes a day, nor the 1 week a quarter are adequate, they just build the low threshhold in stressful times.
My favorite is still Peter Jennings' Micro-Chess, from 1976, which ran on a KIM-1 (6502) machine and used 1.1K of RAM.

http://users.telenet.be/kim1-6502/microchess/microchess.html

I had the PET 2001 version (which ran in 7K) and played pretty competent chess, all things considered-- disassembling that, back in the day, was a major boost to my software development education.
Well when you put it like that...

All kidding aside, I think that I've been stuck in a forest for the trees mode. From the outside, I think you're able to see whats going on a lot better than I. Thanks for that.
...only 672 bytes. source code:

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~uzdm0006/scans/1kchess/

and ZX-81 emulator to play the game:

http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/emulate.php?tzx=0/1KZXChess...
You'd be amazed ... when I first started I reported to the (then) COO who reported to the CEO. But we all sit in the same room, so I'd ask the COO my question, and then he would turn and ask the CEO, who would turn and answer the COO who would then turn and answer me.

But your point about being taken advantage of has been in the forefront of my mind. Thanks for giving that some credence.
I have the oauth stuff already working in my app (different app, using php and ruby). I can help get this done (or a similar idea) very quickly. Get in touch with me if interested (email in profile).
This seems to be a fairly common theme over here in europe when discussing American resistance to social health care. And any nation doing well with socialist policies seem to get tagged by Americans as "homogeneous". Whether that makes it true or not is a different matter, but it's bigger than one random article and might be worth addressing even (particularly?) if you think it's a false impression.
No surprises that NSScroller is #1. I'm convinced whoever wrote it was either drunk or 12. Most of its methods sound dirty in some way

-rectForPart:
-checkSpaceForParts
-drawKnob

I particularly like buf_dirtyend().

I'm at a complete loss at how -autorelease is dirty, however.
It depends on how 'natural' are the conditions outside. Light and sound pollution over the night can make it uncomfortable to sleep with curtains or windows open.
Normalization minimizes the chance of update anomalies. Removing inconsistencies doesn't sound very devlish.
I agree with your intuition, but computer science is a mathematically founded discipline, so the kinds of claim Dijkstra was making about "robustness" require formalisation and mathematical proof if they are to be taken seriously.

Like you I find it very difficult to even envisage what a "robust" language would be in this sense. What I'd like is for someone to define the properties that one would have and then show that it can't exist :)

NB he is demonstrably incorrect on this point:

Like all digitally encoded information, it has unavoidably the uncomfortable property that the smallest possible perturbations —i.e. changes of a single bit— can have the most drastic consequences.

Error correcting codes do exist!
"This app requires access to the internet to work..."

Seems a nice app, but the connection requirement is a bit too restrictive for me.
The educational social systems we have train us to become better used to reading words in sentence case. I'm yet to see a study on little kids struggling to read in all caps before anything else. Give us something on this before concluding...
I've been running debian sid daily on a macbook for 5 years now, and I'm happy with it. Even debian sid seems more stable than the original osx, I don't need the eye-candy. as for the hardware, it keeps being rock-solid, so not only a aesthetics issue. Under same intensive use, i've seen some dells seriously failing around in the same time.

The only serious annoyance is that, after completely wiping off your efi partition, grub has its troubles to detect keyboard on early stages.
My theory is more primitive: a critical mass of white Americans would rather not have something than see black and Latino Americans get it too.

A good rule of thumb: any time you see some white liberal accusing others of racism or complaining about the plight of minorities, that person invariably lives in a white neighborhood and--if they have children--sends their children to a white private school or to a "good" public school in their white neighborhood.

While I couldn't pin down her current place of residence, in the article she mentions returning to New York, and according to an old article[1], at one point she lived on the Upper-West Side of Manhattan. I don't know if she still lives there, but where ever she lives now, you can be certain it's not on Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard or anywhere else where the minorities she pines for predominate.

tl;dr version: hypocritical white liberal accuses others of racism.

[1] http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-01-08/features/1995008...
But none are useful without DatePicker
I'm Nokia's complete lack of taste. She is old.
The web is dead (and mobile killed it)
Wouldn't it trap heat like crazy in summer?
How do you reconcile "Nothing interesting happens in the office" with startup CEOs who are often founders and involved in the day to day?
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Nice design!

How it renders on iPhone/iPod Touch smaller screen?
Apple is not Big Brother: they don't use their technology to spy on and track users. They don't opt users into new privacy-violating features, like Buzz. The surveillance is the KEY reason why Orwell set it in the future--it's a technology that he can take advantage of to make the society seem that much more terrifying. If you're trying to find a random dictator whose rules oppress us, you have a feast of other dictators to choose from. If you're going to use Big Brother, if you don't have an analogy to draw with his omniscience and omnipresence, then you aren't making a good analogy. Unless you're in 10th grade and Big Brother is just a proxy for dictatorship.

You know, while we're on the topic, Google aren't exactly rushing full speed ahead to make the best app experience on a phone. It's not their incentive to work towards the best native app user experience, because that takes away from the web traffic that makes them the real money. And they can't track us in apps. But who cares, right? It's free. Another social contract of sorts.
Maybe some font problem? How do you see chess symbols in Wikipedia page?

It's possible to have missing or corrupted Unicode font (once my Arial got broken and I had to get it somewhere from the web).
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Why do they only want to give you a share when they're revenue-neutral?

A limited company, their liability is extremely limited, I'm assuming it's not a partnership. There's no reason for them not to give you equity right now.
It should be re-named Customer Plan!

Imagine yourself in a room full of potential customers. Describe the product to them and why they may need it making sure to anticipate their questions before they are asked , etc.

That is the first part. The second part is imagine the same room full of investors. Now expand the first part by describing how the business model to bring it into the world works.

Do not think of it was along plan made by some 500 fortune company. Think of it as a conversation about how your business works and will work.

The hardest part will be the model if there are very few competitors or no competitors. Its not a daunting challenge but a chance for you to take control and write the story.
I've been an early employee / only programmer in a startup in the past, in which the founder said the exact same thing -- once we get to "revenue neutral," you'll get "a big share of equity."

It won't happen. They only said that to keep a carrot in front of you for a little while longer. If the company ever gets to revenue neutral, their idea of a "big share" will suddenly change. After all, why give a programmer a significant chunk of equity once the company is making money? That equity is suddenly worth something!

If you don't already have equity, you're not likely to get any. And it sure sounds like you deserve a significant amount of equity given how early you are and the risks you're taking; if you wait to negotiate how much equity you get until after the risk has gone down, you'll get a lot less equity. And that's if you get any at all.
Ask HN: Can a foreign company have an US Tax ID?
How can a foreign company get an US Tax ID?

Thanks.
I was really moved the first time I heard him talk about his and Apple's commitment to beautiful typography, it was really evident in early projects. But lately (with the exception of Retina display) Apple has ignored great typography and made lots of n00b errors that aren't even sen on other mobile platforms. If Steve isn't keeping an eye on that sort of thing, who will after he's gone? In a company with such a strong focus on minimalist design, screwing around with something as essential as text has a very big effect on the visual bottom line.
The hardest part of doing Agile is to change the mindset of the people. They're used to working in an iterative/mini-waterfall schedule and used to be bounded by "processes".

With Agile, suddenly there are less "processes" even though there are still some things that they should follow (TDD, Continuous Integration, always have test automation in many levels, etc).
I can't claim to have read Fosdick, but I see an immediate problem in that demographics have changed through out Europe. Take for example London has a foreign population now of greater than 30%. At the same time there are areas in the north of England which remain overwhelmingly white which have deep social issues.
Credit cards are in existence now, but what percentage of people own one and use it regularly? The credit limits they give you are laughable - like 80$ US. Like everything else you need to prepay to use it.

I think you are discussing the fringe edge of China. Don't forget that there are a billion people there. A few rich folks are starting to get credit cards over the last YEAR. But imagine if 200 million middle class new customers get them this decade.

The difficulty moving money out of the country is an interesting problem. It is no doubt feeding the bubble, as you suggest almost everyone of modest means manages to get a substantial amount of money out of the country regularly.

It is also interesting to see the speed at which China develops. They build entire blocks of condo towers at once. They moved the steel factory of how many hundred thousand workers completely out of the city. Nowhere else has the liberty of wiping the old out and moving forward in the same way they do. It does seem that it does come with the perils of moving too fast and wiping out historical and natural progressions.
Well done, but no castling support and the the AI seems pseudo-random :-)

Not to take credit from this achievement though, it's a commendable hack!
The devil you know is better than the devil you don't.

Every un-normalized database I've inherited has been a colossal mess and practically unusable -- especially if there are important relations. A de-normalized database is a thoughtful process which I rarely see a developer do -- they just want to get programming and don't think about long-term issues.
From what they said was that to give out shares at this point would require additional lawyer fees. They are already formed as an S corp (I believe), so I'm not sure how much lawyer fees would be required, but nevertheless, I was young and naive when I first started (this is my first startup) and probably should have pushed a bit harder.
Article headline is misleading, but so are the comments on here.

Repressed memories, by definition, are memories that you block. As the article states, the research showed it's simple to overcome so-called "repressed memories" and therefore the traumas associated with them.

The solution assumes that all people block the memories, because of their adult-perspective on the events and what that event means to them now that they're adults.

I think we should take away one thing and one thing only: Majority of the population can be coerced into changing how they perceive a situation, depending on how it's explained to them.

Exxageration--

DR: Oh Sally, you're saying that because you were raped as a little girl, that's why you sleep around so much? Well, you're an adult now. What happened when you were little no longer matters. What matters is how you respond to what happened to you.

Sally: Oh. That's a good way of putting it, doc.
Why did you state that your hypothetical Roma lady only "pretends" to fall? Seems an odd detail that separates the article's mentally ill person from your deceptive one and the appropriate responses.
Is the structure of this game isomorphic to some other real-world problem they're interested in?
Bah. What kind of article did Jarvis expect the Times to write when Craigslist refuses to give a statement or any explanation? Yes, Virginia, when a website suddenly makes a change and uses a hot-button word like "Censored" and then refuses to discuss it, that is a ploy.
What amazed me most about it is that Tipp-Ex still seems to be in business.

Also I didn't know that YouTube has user-controlled forms. Or is that a special deal for Tipp-Ex?

Edit: I only just checked - the form is part of the flash movie. So can any flash content go to YouTube?
Thanks for the experience based insight. I've had that nagging worry all along.

Part of me has wanted to be a bit more trustworthy as they've shown themselves to be very friendly people -- I regularly go to bars with the CEO outside of work, the COO and I share interests and talk about them/engage in them (being vague here), etc. But I think your point is pretty clear and well thought out. And pretty much not arguable. Thanks for that.
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Agreed. The original Redis logo is badass!
I feel a little bit sick.
Don't have a bad design and be hypocritical
This is probably true -- though I've been in situations like that before (swap shares for money) and never take them as I just don't think that type of very passive "threat" (for lack of a better term) is ever fruitful. But, on the other hand, I don't have a ton of business experience, so maybe it would work out. Do you have any experience in those situations? Staying after discussing leaving?
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Yep. No big slice of the pie for you. Actually, what they'll do is give you a crumb that fell off the pie and make you wait 4 years before you can eat it.

Tomorrow never happens.
1024 bytes... and a 60 meg browser.
http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/

Insertion, Selection, Bubble, Shell, Merge, Heap, Quick and Quick3 sort compared and visualized.
What is Rupert Murdoch if not a modern Hearst?
it's easy to defeat but definitely not random, it will win most of the times against people that just know the rules but rarely played.
>If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.

Of course the real secret is to build something that satisfies both. That is why Microsoft was so successful, their products were used by individuals, families, and businesses.