skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elastic Search is many times better than Postgre in search, especially with unicode character or CJK index. Integration is easy, and it is battle tested, I would actually think not using Elastic would be the wrong approach.

Something even better would be using Vesper, the search engine from Yahoo, that would definitely be overkill.
State propaganda in Syria: From war crimes to pipelines
As someone who develops VR on a daily basis, I'm skeptical that 3D over 2D is the key. When I first tried on a headset, and watched a video from up high, my fear of heights kicked in. Now I'm almost completely immune to that effect, but I still routinely do things like try to set a tool down on a virtual table. I suspect VR will be good for hands-on training (where it's more about the sequence than the "feel" of it) and psychological training (how to deal with an angry customer), but maybe the psychological benefit wears off like my body's reaction to being up high in VR.
A few weeks ago I tried to find the cheapest phone I could on amazon. I think it was $14, including shipping.

I can only assume the battery life and reception are terrible. It got bad reviews. But if you’re someone who burns through burner phones, or might do in a pinch.
I wonder whether they have planned for VR-induced nausea. With such a large number of headset, the absolute number of affected people will be at least in the hundreds. Some people just can't use VR at its current stage.
"to train its employees"...

They could simultaneously capture training data for a coming workforce of robots. What are the chances they aren't doing this?
In which cases is functional programming the wrong tool for the business logic core?
> There isn't exactly an appetite for disruption here.

Apple has already begun doing it in baby-steps, doing it well so far and is lauded for it.
When I read what you wrote, it appears to me that you are confused as to what we were talking about. You asked for proof of a thing that was stated. I gave it. We were talking about proof of the rocket being more than just a render, with some parts having been under construction and testing. Please re-read the thread context.
> VR maybe the future of education.

This implies having children using these headsets for extended periods of time. I hope the (auto?) calibration of future headsets gets real good, otherwise I fear there are some risks, messing with the eyesight of children.

Potentially awesome, sure. Just, not too fast.
You're making it sound like the C language has changed - it hasn't. I think this operation has been undefined in C as long as Linux has existed. They should not have written that code in the first place - it was never correct.
This has very little to do with the legal system[1] and much more to do with voluntary exchange. Investors voluntarily gave money to Uber in return for equity. Drivers voluntarily signed up and started driving in return for cash. Either of those exchanges could have been negotiated differently by either side but they chose not to.

Such is the world we live in.

1. Obviously not zero, as this AirBnB request makes clear, but for the most part these sorts of restrictions can be dealt with if both sides really want it.
This is a little confused. A theist could easily say that the 'universe arises from causality and physical law', but that God set in motion those laws (deism). A popular form of proto-biology in the early nineteenth century, 'natural theology', committed itself to studying the natural world because it believed that God's divine genius was manifest in its splendour, intricacy, and so on. Also, one could say that the 'universe arises from casuality and physical law', and observes a teleological direction. Most Enlightenment philosophers in the eighteenth century believed that both were true.
Do you realize you're talking about killing people? Evolution happens when the less fit die or otherwise fail to reproduce. If you want to evolve more nocturnal teenagers, the least unpleasant implication is that you want late sleepers to stay sleep-deprived so they'll die in accidents.
You lost thousands of pounds already? How did you manage that?

The UK economy has grown strongly since the vote. If you look at the GDP data you'll see there's hardly any difference in the last few years:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/gdp-growth

Note that Q1 GDP growth is usually revised upwards some time after publication, so I'd expect Q1 2018 to come into alignment with the other years after enough time has passed.

May I suggest that if you managed to lose large sums of money in an environment where the economy is growing and GBP is behaving as it normally does (and not "collapsing" as you put it, unless you think USD is also "collapsing"), then maybe the fault lies with you instead of Brexit?

As for where I live, that's got no relevance to the correctness of my arguments, has it? But I'll give you a hint - GBPCHF shows a similar pattern as GBPUSD. At the start of this year, the currency pair was at the same place it was in April 2016.

Your belief that the UK economy is doing badly just isn't grounded in anything concrete. At best you can say the Eurozone may be recovering somewhat. You clearly want to believe leaving the EU = sky falling, but it's just not - as evidenced by the fact that people are still moving to the UK in huge numbers!
> and Jungle came from the 1980's ragga scene.

Not really, it heavily sampled the dub basslines and ragga vocals from that scene, but it grew out of the hardcore/rave scene. The hardcore scene had already been heavily using the dub basslines, it was just the vocal element and the more two-step oriented and heavily 'chopped up' Amen breaks that distinguished jungle from the sound of rave which was a more straight break-beat, with lots of analogue synth stab lead riffs.

The hardcore/rave scene grew directly out of the Belgian techno and acid-house scenes.

> Classic Trance came from High Energy and Italo Disco..

That's a real stretch too. Trance and techno were almost the same thing in the early 90s, with the likes of Jam & Spoon - Stella. They clearly share the same origins. The shite that came later (Euro trance) is not what I would call the 'original' trance.

> Here is a source

Inskur's guide is well known to be full of errors, I wouldn't use that as a source.
History shows two ways cultures change for the better: Top-down, by force; Bottom-up, by social pressure.

Top-down:

- U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction

- U.S. Civil Rights Act, enforced by National Guard troops

Bottom-up:

- women's suffrage protest movements of early 20th century

- educational reformist movements e.g. U.S. 19th century

- religious heresies -- Lutheranism

The weakness of "top-down" is that the dysfunction re-emerges when the top-down force is relieved -- if the Civil War and subsequent Reconstruction had fully succeeded, the National Guard would have had no need to walk the streets of Alabama with rifles in hand.

The weakness of "bottom-up" is that lasting, visible improvement takes years, and is therefore uninteresting to politicians chiefly looking to get re-elected, say, next month.
If you have got Flash:

http://thedesignersrepublic.com/

Note how awful the design actually is from a 'user experience' point of view.

Most record sleeves of 'Warp Records' were from the 'Designers Republic', with both companies being Sheffield Based. Every one of the creations from Designer's Republic was awesome and cool. Just seeing the Warp logo going round at 33 RPM had some statement value.

I do find it funny that looked at objectively the web version of the Designer Republic legacy is so far off the mark of 'good design'.

By the time their work made it to WipeOut they had already become a pastiche of themselves, all of the best work was probably to be found on Warp Records from the early nineties.
Need an update for 2018...
Have you tried to test your fear of height in real conditions recently? I'm wondering if the desensitization you experienced in VR have effects in real life.
> the students admitted before 1969 were more open to radical ideas

Perhaps this reflected a broader social trend, rather than a change in admissions preferences? The 1970s marked a growing desire for stability and conformity, as symbolized by the transition from Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat) to Richard Nixon (Republican).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_modern_American_co...
What about the photons that penetrate your clothes and then bounce off your skin? Am I free to capture those and do with them what I wish? What about applying the same to the photons bouncing off your child?
Thanks! The estuary package started in Java[1] back in 2011, but after years of learning from mistakes, several attempts in Clojure & endless refactoring has now morphed in this TS package[2], which I'm slowly getting more happy with...

That demo will need to be refactored too and the plan is to extract those SVG components into their own package sometime during the winter break...

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/toxi/albums/72157627351329656

[2] https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/blob/master/packages/rstr...
The trip to the moon is great, but it's 2 launches.
Building a Life in Someone Else’s Ghost Town
I’ve been diagnosed with Delusional Disorder after a long term infection with the Epistein Barr Virus. I spent a period of time in a deep psychosis. What it seems like now is my brain trying to make meaning out of something traumatic. I believed I was one of the most important people in the world when I was in a state of shock. The delusion still persists despite heavy doses of psychiatric drugs.
For building a house it should then also include the role playing aspect of dealing with building departments, inspectors, and contractors that don't show up or drill into wires that electrician had just installed. ;-)
Replace asteroid mining with oil, and it doesn’t seem too far off..
hehe... just not an accomplished documenter of his works. those "websites" are all ancient. don't bother visiting!
Universal childcare costs a lot more than 50 billion a year.
A ball of iron the size of Earth. I'll show myself out now.
Amazon pulled an Apple on the smart home
It's remarkable how ancient life is in general. Stromatolites have been identified in basically the oldest rocks you can find at ~3.7 Gy and this requires full-fledged bacteria. This implies that the very earliest beginnings of self-organizing and propagating biological systems are much older than that, and somehow evolved on an Earth being regularly struck by Chixculub-sized impactors and much more active volcanism. Either the process of evolving life is easier than it seems, or life on Earth has rolled the hard six an awful lot.
40% of cases of schizophrenia are from the immune system attacking synapses in the brain.
Popular Myths about IITs
> It isn't ridiculous to question whether eighteenth century political and cultural standards should always apply to a 21st century state. The Constitution isn't holy writ.

The appeal to the text and original meaning of the Constitution is not about giving deference to 18th century attitudes over 21st century ones, it’s about resolving a dispute amongst two contemporary views. If everyone agreed that the framers were out to lunch on the 2A, it would be trivial to change it. But people don’t agree that the 2A is obsolete.

If you saw the word “arms” in a contract, would you think it was limited to a particular type of gun. If someone sells just automatic weapons, are they not an “arms dealer?” Like in a contract, if both sides agreed to change the word “arms” to something narrower, they could do it. But just like a contract, where the sides don’t agree, one is entitled to have the contract enforced as written.
Forgotten camera cover on streetview
How is it different than a traditional ESOP?
I've heard this said many times and believed it, but read to day that the leap from single-cell to multi-cellular organisms happened a dozen or so times independent of each other. That makes it an order of magnitude less improbable, if true.
See also "1000 True Fans": https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
FYI the "Mouse gesture analysis" example has performance issues after 300~ samples (e.g. keep drawing big circles continuously)

Win10/Chrome/i7 4790k/GTX 970
You don't have to pay 60% taxes to get these.

Exactly. Poor Western Europeans are robbed by their corrupted governments, IMHO. In Ukraine programmers pay only 5% tax, when everyone else - around 40%. So, come to us! : )
> we've always talked about Gilbert Strang as the best math professor who never actually worked at the university we went to.

I very much relate to this. I've never attended the same school of any of my favorite professors.
The Government should guarantee the creation informative news, or what people usually call "hot news" (a tsunami, who's new president, a new law that changed, anything that is essential to keep the community informed).

It already happens in Portugal for eg. LUSA News Agency is a funded by the Government in order to guarantee exactly what I just described. LUSA is not perfect but it's role should be treated as a public good.
Yes. Feedseer's qualifiers can do much more than regex filtering, like use AI to analyze the sentiment of a toot. The implementation details of a qualifier (regex, AI or other) are up to its creator and happen outside of Feedseer. Independently, a Feedseer user has the freedom to not use a qualifier (the default), or use it to take action (categorize/filter).
For me generally too, but I was afraid of the typical counter example: Perl oneliners, size coding in general...

I think there's fine line between aiming to be lightweight and aiming for smallest whatever by sacrificing all other aspects . I'm definitely in the former camp...
FWIW, Ctrl-[ is ESC's equivalent.

Ctrl-C escapes insert mode, and does not check for abbreviations. It has a different behavior.

<Esc> or CTRL-[ End insert or Replace mode, go back to Normal mode. Finish
abbreviation.
Note: If your <Esc> key is hard to hit on your keyboard, train
yourself to use CTRL-[.
If Esc doesn't work and you are using a Mac, try CTRL-Esc.
Or disable Listening under Accessibility preferences.
i_CTRL-C
CTRL-C Quit insert mode, go back to Normal mode. Do not check for
abbreviations. Does not trigger the InsertLeave autocommand
event.

https://vimhelp.appspot.com/insert.txt.html
If you search AliExpress for "mini phone" you'll find plenty. Looks like the price hasn't changed much:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-Arrival-Ultra-Thin-AIEK-...

It's amusing to see some of them advertised as being "low radiation", presumably to appeal to the health quacks, but all that phrase connotes in my mind is "bad reception".

Edit: a look inside reveals not much has changed from the one in the article, only the casing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h8Ca-yzKuc
Interesting to see how employees that get motion sickness from VR will be impacted
Casio have produced some. This old one: http://www.voidware.com/calcs/images/fx451m-1.jpg There's been others since with the same basic design. They all seem to fail at the fold because there is no hinge or much protection at the fold.

There was a pocket computer from a slightly earlier era http://pocket.free.fr/html/casio/fx-5200p_e.html

Trying to find an image of those I stumbled across the fx-9860G Slim that seems to be current: https://www.casio.com/resource/images/press/fx-9860gslim_pre...
That question is way too broad to be answerable. VR won't be better at teaching you about writing than a book. If you want to teach biology or woodworking VR can be significantly better than a book.
I get horribly nauseous after 15 minutes in VR, but I've never tried the Oculus Go.

Is this more of a PR stunt, or has the Go somehow solved nausea issues enough that widespread workplace deployment is now considered feasible?
It may be less verbose but it fails completely to render anything if javascript is not enabled (in the browser) on the domain the scripts are to be loaded from. Bad accessibility, bad degredation, bad practice for the web.

I'm sure it's fine for commercial JS web apps, but those are bad for the web too.

HTML is the web. All this pure es6/dom stuff is a cancer.
What do you do throughout the year as sunrise and sunset vary? For most of us there is a 4-5 hour difference in sunset between June and December.
Something that comes up moderately often in low-level stuff is:

You have a bunch of objects, defined in different files, and no code is aware of what the complete list of objects is. You want to iterate over an array of all these objects. How to make the array, with minimal overhead?

A common technique is for each file defining on the these objects to to tell the linker to put it in a special section. The result of this is that there's then an "array" of objects, which according to the C language could be anywhere in memory, but because of how the linker has been told to lay them out, we know that actually they're all consecutive. So any code which wants to iterate over then can do so easily.

Except... this is isn't actually a valid C program, and is actually undefined behaviour, so the compiler might "optimise" things in a way which breaks it. Hence the RELOC_HIDE macro which obscures things from the compiler and prevents it from applying "optimisations" we don't want.
Thank you I think you explained it really well.

>The whole young earth thing is strangely popular in America but not really strongly held in general mainstream Christianity or (I believe) in mainstream Judaism.

I’m not American, so it has always been weird to me how the early earth thing is widely associated with Christianity, I mean, I have no doubt there must be people really believing on it. But from a non American and non Protestant Christian point of view it is just weird. But my guess is that it must be associated with “Sola Scriptura” and the free and individual interpretation of the Bible some Protestants believe in.
I just went on a zip line for the first time, and climbing their tallest ladder was pretty unnerving. I don't have a great fear to begin with, but my the wow-I'm-really-hear effect has definitely gone down. Maybe if I had done that exact zip line in VR, it would have helped? I do believe VR can help with phobias and PTSD (http://www.virtuallybetter.com/), but I wonder if its benefit goes down with exposure (complete speculation!).
Merci beaucoup & please see my other comment about this...
Quite probably something similar to this, yes.
That is just the absolute price. You still have the price increase of the inflation but it is off set by the decline in price form the production efficiency.

So you absolutely have to take in inflation calculations to any comparison.
I think there might be a limit as to how much you can borrow.
Safety training is there for a reason... anything that helps employees pay attention to that could save their lives or the lives of others, so in that narrow application it feels like a good idea from everyone's point of view.
Is it? The mission profile shown during the presentation makes no mention of that. It also shows only 30 minutes in orbit before the lunar injection burn, which wouldn’t be enough to refuel from a tanker.
Thank you very much for that first link. It seems to be severely under-publicised considering the huge amount of exposure that the topic gets.

Do you happen to know if rs1229984 is linked to any particular group that could make this result problematic? I noticed that the paper mentions that "There was also some evidence for a difference in years of education, and, while the size of the effect was small, this requires further investigation." That sounds like a decent-sized red flag.
Of course with built-in detection that checks that the user has their eyes open.
> Now they are gluing the screen to your eyeballs so that it's pretty much impossible to look away and not pay attention

You could wire a video signal straight into my optic nerves and I'l still tune out if it wasn't minimally engaging. I daydream about things random things, such as a programming puzzle I'm trying to solve, while I'm watching TV shows I love (looking at you Game of Thrones). Does anyone else experience this? Maybe it's an ADHD thing, which I have.
I have to guess ... because you submitted the same question from another account two weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17949299

For an oficial answer from the mods, send them an email.
Thank you!

- "The big short" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596363/?ref_=nv_sr_1):

Good actors, nice style, sometimes funny, interesting. Again some good explanations and examples about how short selling works, recap about the US housing bubble, rating agencies and the whole finance industry in general.

I can think that probably the point of this film is to make people get rid of their naive view of the financial market/industry? E.g. in my case I always tended to think that it involved cause&effect / action&reaction but this does not seem to be always true.
It triggers indirectly a lot of thoughts about many other themes (e.g. is self-regulation effective, impact of governments getting rid of existing regulations, complexity and interconnections in the financial markets, risk analysis, etc...).

- "Active measures" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8135494/?ref_=nv_sr_1): pending... (cannot hear about this stuff anymore, but the documentary has a high rating, so I'll give it a try)
> The first expert systems were created in the 1970s and then proliferated in the 1980s. Expert systems were among the first truly successful forms of artificial intelligence (AI) software.

~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system

Applications include diagnosis and some systems are listed: CADUCEUS, MYCIN, PUFF, Mistral, Eydenet, Kaleidos.
To each their own, but I think there is value in seeing them multiple ways. The rows can be looked at as a system of equations. The columns can be vectors to be combined. The matrix as a whole can represent the covariance of a Kalman filter or describing a confidence ellipsoid. They can be an adjacency matrix describing the edges of a graph. They can be your entire data set, and so on. Some of these uses feel more like operands than operators.
I wonder if something like exercises for the concept of psychological flexibility could help. In reality we're all equally important, as we are one - so within this context, your belief isn't wrong. The important part then becomes in how you treat yourself and other people, being kind, and practicing non-violence (towards yourself and others). I wonder if any shamanic traditions like Ayahuasca ceremonies or one more potent like Iboga could be beneficial of "flushing the brain out" as a sort of ego mind reset, dissolution. I haven't looked into or nor had personal benefit or experience related to a Delusional Dis-order, however if you feel called to it, you can find organizers or shamans to see if ceremony would be safe for you; you can't be on certain medications as it wouldn't make the ceremony safe, though some shamans have different requirements or understand than others.
Dmesg under the hood
You are on the right side of this discussion.

I have experienced the same, and it is ugly.

There are many constructive ways to have discussions like that. Mocking, suggesting, psych are not among them.
Do you have any links to research or papers on this? Thanks.
I'm not sure what you mean by VR but if you have not tried HTC Vive or Oculus Go, I suggest giving it a try. Everyone I know who has issues with motion sickness or traditional VR can play many games comfortably in modern VR.
And your solution is to ask someone in the first half of their life to spend time writing a tldr for you?

This is so funny when people procrastinating on hn write how valuable their time is.
Are you being deliberately obtuse? The cycle of light and dark is of the essence here.
> CBP spokesperson Jennifer Gabris said that only US citizens can opt out, and will have their documents checked manually.

Why do I need my documents check to leave the country?