skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I know that gaming will be huge there are several things that I personally can't wait for in VR:

1: social VR movie going experience. Where you put on a headset in the comfort of your own space to watch a movie on release day in VR along with N other people who are experiencing the movie as well for the first time - but you can change which vantage point to view the movie from - either from audience position, or from the perspective of your choosing within the movie; camera, villian, hero, victim, isometric drone etc. Each movie has a finite number greater than 2 vantage points to watch the movie from.

2: out on VR to attend class events as a viewer: lectures at MIT or a concert at Carnegie or Sydney Opera house. On the night of the concert, from the vantage point of a camera hanging about 15 feet above the heads of the IRL audience.

3: a camera stream from a vehicle: formula car, spaceX launch, ISS, airliner.
Applying Seccomp Filters at Runtime for Go Binaries
Ask HN: For repeat applicants to YC, how should you measure the progress?
There is a question in the application which talks about the progress you have made. What do you guys think is the best way to approach this?
Where I am confused is that the two major things almost all of us have worked on is 1/ Users and 2/ Product. When they are talking about progess, is it the work done/efforts put in, or the numbers/achievements? Or something else?

Any thoughts on how to best answer this would be really useful for all the applicants here.
It's almost like these companies implemented things in the shittiest way possible, to purposely sour your opinion on the law.
Was not expecting this to turn into a COM rant
For the most part it was done via datatypes library, so had that survived into an era of internet security most of the fixes would have been in the shared libraries.

Same went for a lot of shared common features. Update the OS and every program would update look and file requesters etc. None of the strange Windows mix of software that clearly looks of the previous release, or sometimes of the next. Or half a dozen legacy file requester dialogues.
Which can all be explained by the material that your brain is composed of. A soul is an outdated concept with religious significance and meaning. When we discover the mechanism behind consciousness, which is an inevitability, it will seem a lot less strange and alien, much like when Galileo peered through his telescope to see the stars and planets.
How do you identify a bad client?
Before going to Microsoft, I had used COM and OLE via VB, FoxPro, and probably a few other higher-level abstractions. Then I went to Microsoft and worked on OLE DB, using C. O...M...G. CreateObject() suddenly turned into (what seemed like) a 1000 lines of almost-boilerplate. That ADO AddRecord() that was so easy in classic VB? Ugh, if only you knew what was behind that. COM was a clever idea to solve a hard problem, but if one had to work under the covers it was some sausage you were definitely better off not knowing the ingredients of. I mean, COM mostly worked and wasn't bad once you got the hang of it, just like pig snout in your sausage isn't bad for you. It's just kind of unappealing at first.
The written word is still optimal for education and we will continue to teach it.

Even it it were feasible to get by without reading it would take 50 years for this change to happen and in between a and b the groups that allowed this would be out competed for resources by those less stupid.
> Which guidelines?

The "In Comments" section on this page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> They're blunt when I know people are not commenting in good faith

I think that may be where things start to spin out of control. From the guidelines:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

Even when we may believe that someone is not commenting in good faith, adopting the constraint that we assume good faith nevertheless leads to more invigorating, challenging exchanges. By grappling with the strongest plausible interpretation, we grow to understand the opposition better and become stronger ourselves.

I hope that you can engage under those terms, because if you can we'll all be enriched by your continued participation. But if that's not for you, I hope you'll find another venue. You write well and you're good at the harsh stuff (I'm reminded of Hunter from Daily Kos), but that's not what I come to HN for.

> lo and behold guess which one of us got dang's attention.

Here's someone who also thinks dang is biased, but in the opposite direction. :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17656115

Dan's an effective moderator. He can't police every transgression, but under his watch the forum stays more-or-less to the liking of those of us who value exchanges under the HN guidelines.

Anyway, thanks for giving a busybody like me a hearing. :) Happy trails.
It's sad on an individual level - and I'm sure it contributes to Japan's high suicide rate and people who choose to withdraw from society [0]. Many cultures have a similar concept of "putting your personal feelings aside" but to varying degrees. In the US you put on a "professional persona" and may set your personal feelings aside while at work. But if you're at a job where your personal and professional personas are at ends with one another - you're going to be very unhappy.

If your personal and public personas are at ends with one another, in a society where you're almost always required to put on your "public persona", you're going to be unhappy all the time. You can choose to withdraw from society so you no longer need to fake a public persona - but even that is very difficult and can make people unhappy (using the old "we're meant to be social animals" excuse).

I think the culture works for people who's personal and public personas are mostly in agreement with one another and people who have made peace with setting their own selves aside for "the greater good" (if "societal harmony" is an acceptable "greater good", which I personally feel it is).

All in my own opinion of course. I don't have data on hand to support any of my claims. :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori
New Orleans also serves as a very important agricultural port. A lot of the food grains we ship are being shipped from New Orleans. New Orleans is a large part of the reason that the American Midwest can feed the world.
> Yet I think a reasonable view to hold from the perspective of a user.

What someone thinks they're getting out of something, and what they're actually getting out of it can be very different, and when the differences are huge, the consequences can be deadly.

MLM participants THINK they're getting an independent business opportunity - and sure, that's a "reasonable view to hold from the perspective of a user" - right? They've got product, a market, a way to transact sales, a clear hierarchy to climb... But a broader perspective and closer inspection of the details reveals it is a terrible business position to be in that puts all the risk on you, the individual. But it's easy to see how someone who doesn't have the skills or training to examine such things might think the opportunity is "reasonable."

So yes, I wouldn't be surprised if most users were convinced of the utility they were getting out of their use of Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat etc... but like the person caught up in MLM, they can't see the real risks and side effects until they become overwhelming.
In the 1980s, books like How to win at Nintendo Games were published with strategies, cheats, maps, and so forth. That particular line of books were cheap black-and-white (well, yellowish, IIRC) paperbacks. But there were full-color glossy strategy books that included full maps for games.

I had a bunch of those books. I didn't even have an NES! (Though I desperately wanted one...) But I was so enamored with video games that I pored over them.
Do you have insider knowledge or are you just expressing cynicism?
Is anyone else kind of skeeved out by how an army of googlers descends on every HN post to defend google and their comments are always immediately upvoted to the top?

They certainly are efficient at controlling the conversation.
I can imagine a company where everyone is excited by the perspective of being bought by a major corporation for a huge sum. You join the megacorp (which is not easy to get hired to), and your options suddenly are worth a lot. Win-win!
I think it depends on when the record keeping of the event began. So in this case if they started keeping records 250 years ago and they haven't experienced this level of drought since then, then it is considered record breaking. It doesn't mean that there haven't been worse droughts say, 300 or 400 years ago. It just means that either the official record keeping doesn't go that far, or that there may not be scientific research available to show that worse drought did occur before the the record keeping began.
Perhaps if you are a buyer of this data you have similar, if smaller, databases. You could then say, here's ten thousand hashed credit card numbers from my collection. Give me the full data for ~1,000 of them. If their data lines up with yours that's a good sign.

This wouldn't be a perfect method, but if the seller could do it then it would increase my confidence a lot.
Ironically, we've gone backwards from COM/OLE. After all the object/component hype of the 1990s, that's seemed to have completely died out. I recently discovered that not only does Microsoft Edge bundle an incredibly shitty PDF viewer with broken text search (and a broken UI for it), but that it has no component model and can't embed a proper PDF viewer either! This is technology that worked fine for almost two decades!
Why doesn't the company provide a per diem for a legitimate business expense instead of trying to inject their (his? her?) morals into it? It is a needless intrusion on the part of the business. Ugh.
Agreed. Anger is a physical response, or rather a spectrum of physical responses and behavioral expressions. These are clearly quite natural, and presumably evolutionarily useful. However, anger basically comes at the cost of one's reasoning abilities, which is not usually a good tradeoff. Once one is angry, this does have to run its course. My experiences have been teaching me that this should be avoided in most cases.
Ask HN: Should I reprogram for NV memory
Somebody suggested I program my stack for NV using intels dev kit. I found lots of info on pmem.io. Seems all these options make our programs horribly non portable.
It might be helpful to identify what difference the medium makes, and one significant difference is that, as one cannot show, one has to tell. It turns out that this is a strength, not a weakness.
I am not sure it is reasonable for every article about the effects of climate change to start with the evidence that climate change is real. If you come to this article from the angle of "climate change is a myth", a single article from Bloomberg was never going to be the turning point in your belief anyway.
If you're looking for advertisers, all other things being equal, do you go with the advertiser who guarantees your ads will go to those most likely to have interest in your product, or do you go with the advertiser that will send your ads to random people?

Of course they _can_ serve ads randomly, but they're competing to provide the best value for those buying ads.
...but the rats realized the scientist were also being trained...
that realization is powerful...
...and yes sir, you can manipulate the data profileing machine...
Slamming on your breaks when you don't need to and forcing everyone behind you to slam on their brakes to avoid hitting you is a bad idea.

Smooth and predictable is safe.
Dopamine is a research framework for fast prototyping of reinforcement learning
Still working out how to read it (from just a glance at your link it looks like it ought to be investigated, or interpreted):

Caption:

"Fig. 2.
The feeling space. (Upper) Two-dimensional map of the feeling space based on the sorting task average distance matrix between items arranged by t-SNE and clustered with DBSCAN. Color coding indicates cluster structure; gray feelings do not belong clearly to any cluster. Colored items with black edge are DBSCAN border elements. To retain the information of the distance matrix the closest three items for each node are connected with lines. Thick dark lines are showing distances that belong to the top 33rd percentile of the visualized lines (i.e., the closest items). (Lower) Heatmaps showing how strongly each basic dimension of subjective experience is associated with each discrete feeling at each location of the feeling space. Color coding shows the relative intensity as median z-score (as in Fig. 1) from high (red) to low (blue)."

Edit: The second image you linked would be perfect for the refrigerator. Great observation. (I'm not sure if I'm feeling "sadness" or "laughing".)
It’s still the best predictive tool that we have as a species.
Why would we want other vehicles to follow speed limits? Then everyone would be stuck moving slowly.

On the other hand... if everyone were to obey all of the impractically-low speed limits at once - like a "work-to-rule" strike - perhaps that would create enough political pressure to get them raised up to a more reasonable level.
Typically insurance companies buy insurance against this, it's called reinsurance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsurance
I'm aware of that, and I read the generics proposal linked. I commented here because I wanted to respond to this:

> Should [be just libraries]? I think you are asserting facts that are not in evidence.

I tried to describe why I feel that go's collections should be libraries and not builtins, and hopefully understand why GP seemed like they were questioning that idea.
> If you come at this from the angle of "climate change is a myth"

Is it really a fair critique to insist that articles must be written to make sense to people who believe the moon is made of green cheese? And that every couple hundred words written for the general public must be fully-cited?
I took a "smart phone application development" class in 2005. Nokia donated a bunch of new devices to my University and we collectively implemented half a dozen or so prototype apps. Everybody knew smart phones would be big, and looking back now, the prototypes were highly predictive of where value would be created later (coupons, gaming, photo sharing). But it wasn't until the iPhone came out years later that the market was ready. I think VR is in the same boat. It's hard to know whether the breakthrough device is 2, 5, or 15 years away, but I'm confident we'll know it when we see it.
We shouldn't have unemployment, since people should just be saving enough money to make it through the hard times!

People as ends, not means. It's not ok to leave people starving in the streets as an example to others. Fight for laws to restrict building in flood plains, but don't abandon the forlorn.
> a ranking algorithm could be deployed to undervalue posts which lack credibility

I don't know how you can spin undervaluing something automatically in an algorithm as anything but suppressing it. And it's not 'ignoring' if the person never seem them in the first place because they've been 'undervalued' in the ranking.
No, but this service did also do the rounds in Japan. In this case it's most likely not very useful, but I think people can understand what the utility might be (and the social context in Japan in a little different).
Never mind that Win95 didn't need a GPU that could push millions of polygons just to draw its UI...
I'm always conflicted on how "correct" articles like this should be. I would prefer that they were more accurate when it comes to technology, but for the average reader (who might leave a password in git) it might be better to over simplify
No, another example of a feature that SQL server has had for a decade or more (in standard edition). Maybe you're thinking of online index creation?

There are lots of reasons to criticize MSSQL (ridiculous cost, poor syntax/language extensions, awful text search, painful process for adhoc (non ETL) imports, etc...) but my decade old 2008 edition is still superior to PG in many ways. Why can't we have honest comparisons?
So a VR startup might be a tough sell right now (tougher than usual) until they think that trend changes from fake to real (if ever) is how I understood what he was saying.
The rate of increase is increasing.

http://www.southeastfloridaclimatecompact.org/wp-content/upl...
Well, the headline is pretty awful. It's kind of personally offensive to see what is really, truly a well-intentioned act get spun in nasty ways.

Besides that, 2 people does not an army make...
Anti-Web-Design Manifesto
It’s been about 14 years so not entirely sure. The textbook was using a RISC architecture from what I remember. We also had a semester long project where we had to research and invent a new x86 instruction to speed up a program of our choice. It was... intense.
Since you asked: no I'm not. They read to me like important clarifications from a misleading headline.
> How many times has the national guard been called to quell an executive uprising? None because executives always hold the power and moneyed interests always run the government.

I think it's more because the national guard is only necessary to suppress large-scale riots, and there aren't enough executives all in the same place to make even a small-scale riot. Executives who are charged with crimes can be individually arrested.

But all of that is beside the point, because I'm comparing union leaders and organizers with executives.

> The only change in this in the US was the brief history after WW2 where FDR and Truman wielded outsize political power and the country saw the ills of the gilded age because of the enormous impact felt by the average person during the great depression.

This completely misses the more relevant fact that the US represented 50% of the global economy at the time (due to every other industrialized nation being absolutely devastated by the war) and reinvested much of their remaining wealth into rebuilding both their allies and their former adversaries, which led to an unsustainable period of "catch-up" economic growth that faded just as soon as the Germans and Japanese started doing a better job at manufacturing than the US did.

> To answer your question directly there are most definitely executives tied to organized crime.

Citation needed.
When you encounter THIS GUY on the way to work
For me, the motion sickness problem only happens in games where you're moving around freely on the ground like an FPS. If a teleporter is used to move, I'm fine, and for some reason flight sims don't bother me either. It seems like an inherent problem with the tech due to the disagreement between your inner ear and visual cues. Anyone have insight?
Ask HN: What do people pay for on a regular basis
In the last week I have signed up to medium and given €10 to wikipedia.
What do you consider worth subscribing or donating to?
Yep.

Do teenagers have unhealthy relationships with social media? Of course. They're teenagers. A lot of their relationships ARE unhealthy at that age anyway, and if disconnecting completely is the best way to rectify those issues, more power to them.

What gets me is grown adults on HN talking about "abhoring social media" and "no phone Sundays with my girlfriend" and "having a minimal social media presence because I hate what it's become" and "I believe social media time should be controlled" and "social media is a class A drug". Like, chill. Go follow a few meme pages and hide the posts of the people you genuinely detest. There are ways to avoid those unhealthy cycles without entirely disconnecting oneself from literally all one's peers and losing the immense utility that social media provides.
> There is no easy way of knowing what is inside a tablet

Chemical tests.

> but the “pure” crystallized products are easy to recognize mdma especially

Lots of the extended amphetamine family (including the various -drones) share very similar tastes, and crystallise very similarly. If you wash MDMA that contains these other substances you'll end up recrystallising those as well.

> And it would have to be a damn big tablet to contain too much mdma... by bet is on what else is inside.

Then your bet is factually wrong and likely dangerous.

Test your stuff. Know what you're getting, start low, and don't listen to people who 'know what the real stuff looks like'
> Keep going with this and we will run out of places (in the USA) where it’s ok to live.

plenty of places that don't see earthquakes, tornados, floods, hurricanes, or much of anything else.

blizzards might sound apocalyptic to a floridian, but generally just damage above-ground electrical, and maybe knock a few trees into a few roofs.
A friend who had a reaction to cipro (though not quite a severe as yours) asked her doc about ways to undo the damage, and he suggested PQQ and Coq10 daily.

Apparently cipro and other similar antibiotics can cause severe mitochondrial dysfunction due to damage to your mitochondria. PQQ and Coq10 can eventually undo the mitochondrial damage by killing off damaged mitochondria and triggering biogenesis in healthy mitochondria.
The planet isn't going to die if we irradiate ourselves into caves, but that doesn't mean irradiating the surface of the planet for shits and giggles is a good idea.
Might want to mention you work for a competitor before calling it a scam.

https://angel.co/sam-sperling
Very interesting but the story in that post is dated 1988, long before Windows 95. I'm calling it a "post" because I'm not sure what it is: Email? Message? File? The header:

File name: compus.txt
Date: 31-Aug-88 15:44 EDT
From: Sandy Trevor [70000,130]
Subj: PDP-10 History

TO: Joe Dempster
In my experience, the majority of contracts are offered 100% as a way to avoid having to pay benefits or make any sort of real commitment. The so-called lucrative contracts are the exception.

It's also going to depend on if you find a certain type of repetitive niche where you are just reusing the same speeches or libraries over and over again or where you really are engaged with unique problems.
- Be raised rich and or be surrounded by the rich/powerful(Elizabeth Holmes, Evan Speigel, etc...)

- Have rich & powerful friends directly or indirectly

- Impress & become friendly with the rich & powerful either through clear data that shows your worth an investment(your startup data shows traction) or lie your butt off; aka fake it before you make it. I always strive(d) for the former as darn my parents and the morality they instilled.
There's no 'CASE INSENSITIVE' option for unique indexes, but you can unique on lower(my_column) to achieve the safe effect.
I make <$15/hr doing grunt work. I've been working on a code portfolio, but I don't think it's good enough yet to let me start applying for tech jobs, and I'm not great at algorithms or JS frameworks anyway. So I haven't been.

I try to get at least one Git commit every day, but my job is pretty draining, so that doesn't happen. And sometimes all my projects get blocked on hard stuff that I don't have the energy to solve.

For all I know, I might look alright on paper. I've co-authored a paper in a respectable journal, written a few Rails apps, a few desktop apps, and a crappy interpreter for an old language - which doesn't really use any compiler theory stuff except a simple hand-rolled lexer/parser, so that's probably a strike against me more than anything else. I'd delete it except I want there to be something that lets me step through programs in this thing so when my Project Euler problem attempts in this language fail I can figure out why, which is why I wrote it in the first place. But I keep revising my goals downward. I've been thinking I ought to go get an A+ cert and become an IT grunt - the pay would be a little better than what I'm doing now, I'd be able to afford the occasional steak...