skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't play many games either, but one thing I'd really like to use the Rift for is a big virtual desktop. Not a 3D desktop like in the movies, just a regular 2D desktop.

I could have the equivalent of six 30'' screens in front of me; I could switch between them just by turning to look at them - all whilst actually only using a laptop on the sofa (or on the train, but I might look a little odd doing it).

To be good this would require the Rift to have reached a resolution where I can't see the individual pixels - the '4k resolutions' mentioned in the article perhaps. Even if such a device cost $1000 it would still be cheaper than all of those screens.

I can honestly see such a thing being tremendously useful for people who do CAD, deal with big architecture diagrams etc... People who generally like to use a lot of monitors for day to day work.
> I hope and kinda suspect that what you really mean is that if someone doesn't say something that indicates their orientation, it's no one else's business. That's certainly a necessary attitude.

Yes, I think we can leave at here.
Awesome information.
I wonder: Why are smaller businesses becoming more and more successful? Is it their sleek technology & push for establishing a meaninful/ longer-lasting and larger, loyal customer relationship with existing customers? or a combination of the two, alongside broader cultural trends, that is allowing these busineses to thrive?
Most of the time comedians are performing at open mics. Unless you're in LA or NYC, this will be in front of the same people every time (other comics who are notoriously difficult to make laugh) and maybe 1 or 2 "civilians" (non-comedians). This is the place to experiment. You can think of it as a code kata or a prototype or something. It always sucks to bomb, but it's better to do in front of a few peers than a crowd of 300 civilians. Plus, no harm done, you have another chance tomorrow. It's not like you screwed up a system in production. The open mics are where you practice and figure out what works and what doesn't and what can work better.

Once you figure that out, then you go to booked shows (shows where you are specifically selected to perform) in front of big audiences like at the Improv or the Comedy Store. This is where you use your best jokes. But you can't know your best jokes before you try them out. You never know if something will be funny until you try it.

These are the fuzzy rules. Some people use improvisation at booked shows and some people perform the same jokes over and over again at open mics without experimenting but I'd say this is the standard path to take.
> would crash for sure at the 49.7 day mark.

That's not so bad. So long as they have the option to skip this week's reboot, this shouldn't be a problem in combat. (They should've randomized the reboot schedule so that an enemy couldn't exploit it.)
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Even Linux was a 'hobby weekend project' at one point.
It was almost identical to his
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I am sorry you feel that way, and that was certainly not the intent. I didn't intend for it to be any more misleading than, say, a chart comparing the performance of one company's stock versus an index or set of indices. I tried to explain that this is a unit-vis-a-vis-indices comparison in the text, but the chart could have been clearer in visualizing that point. A bar chart was probably not the best chart to go with.

Anyhow, thanks for the feedback. I very much appreciate it.
Shareholders don't have voting rights, how can they pressure Google to do anything? I don't know if they should be paying a dividend at the moment, but their stock conveys no power to the stockholder. It's like paying taxes without getting to vote.

Their stock price might go up for the next decade for all I know, and it's not like they don't make money or something. I just don't want to invest my money without getting something in return other than the ability to convey my investment to someone else.
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Always glad to see people doing stuff at a young age. Keep learning and keep up the good work!
Most European cities will make you carry your bike from time to time or make huge detours. But, like you, I'm not the target customer for this so maybe people in general are more careful with route planning.
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I think that submitters should edit titles if they think the original titles are unreasonable. If moderators think that the edited title is unreasonable, they could revert or otherwise change it. Basically, everyone should operate as the rules claim they should operate.

The problem is that moderators semi-regularly edit titles that really didn't have editorial twist to be completely uninformative. As far as I am concerned, there isn't a policy problem, there is a moderator problem.
OP, u still have not answered me. Why C# search is failing on u r site?
You also get YouTube results in a similar fashion for several 2 character repetitions. This is not always the case such as with 'qmqmqmqmqmqmqm'

If I had a guess, Knowledge Graph fails to identify any sort of context so you end up with results across multiple mediums.
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> By delegating editing to the publishers, he provides a defence against PRs astroturfing HN

Maybe I misunderstand the use case you are referring to, but isn't the PR always the publisher (or in cohorts with the publisher)? In other words, you can't use original titles to prevent astroturfing because the original title/content itself is tainted.
For 60 dollars, I'm not sure if a book is worth that price.
I read a post earlier today about an Oculus Rift application built on the Unity 3D engine that can be used to let people virtually explore houses or offices before construction has been started. The post had some architect quoted as saying that pitching to customers was a lot easier when they can see what it will look like first hand.

I can't find the exact post now, but this link shows the same technology.

http://archvirtual.com/2013/08/20/arch-virtual-releases-arch...
There is also their aggressive anti-union tactics. They have a anti-union response team that flies in on a corporate jet to deal with any stores that are threatening to organize.
BS. You do not need "raw undiluted talent" to create stuff like Instagram. Most successful games today are light years behind 20 years old counterparts.
I think these simulations are after post-processing. That us exactly why the human vision picture is sharp past 6 degrees from center - the picture portrays what we see after our brains stitch together a visual field.
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yeah. the walls have ears here.

Also, isn't it strange that some company PR is taking time to reply to it's CEO's shenanigans?
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It is easy to misidentify something ordinary when it is somewhere you don't expect it:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/lone-cow-hikes-blo...

For a few weeks, Park officers were getting calls about a black bear in Blomidon Provincial Park but it turns out that what the people saw was an escaped cow.

It's not that those people were necessarily stupid (though some might be), but it doesn't mean they've seen anything peculiar just that they believed they had.
Now this, I have to admit, sounds awesome to me.
Boy, does that bring back memories. Turbo Pascal was just plain wonderful software. As for Pascal, I never got over the array length being part of the array's type.
I don't care how many women are in tech. Likewise I don't care how many straight men are in fashion or Mexicans in the NBA.

There - I said it.
Ha, on that picture Carmack looks like an ugly step sister of Kevin Bacon :)
Agreed. The kindle edition is $16.50 tho: http://www.amazon.com/OpenStack-Computing-Cookbook-Second-eb...
Safer driving tests that don't require a car on the road?
I remember that differently: on Z80 CPU machines, UCSD Pascal was slow. It compiled to the p-code (it was both an "operating system and compiler" and they wanted it portable). On the first PC's (8088 CPU), Microsoft's Pascal was slow. It produced obj files. Turbo Pascal was lightning fast on both. It had to be implemented contrary to beliefs common then: it was itself written in asm, it was never just a compiler but the editor and compiler at once, kept everything in memory if it could, produced the pure native code processor specific and never produced obj files.
Really, no willing owners in NYC?
Ran the link through Lynx and the results seemed more accurate:

[BED] [BED] [SCRATCHING POST] [BED] [POTTY] [BED] [BED] [BED]
didn't he started that for university credits?
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Thanks Scott. Please advice how to create network blocks. I run a affiliate site and need to do this for my site too!
A 1997 interview with Jeff Bezos
Sure, let's go down the analogy rabbit-hole.

It's more like PG agreeing to do your laundry, but under the condition that he will put all colors together, regardless of your wishes, instructions or special sorting of laundry before you give it to him. He's willing to do some work for you, just not as much as you would like. It may even seem like he does more work, when clothes that were pre-sorted into single load sized chunks end up mixed together, but that's his process. If you want sorted laundry, use a different service.

I guess what I should be saying is that this laundry service is ripe for disruption by a more flexible newcomer. But I wouldn't say that, because that would be a low, cheap joke that would prevent me from looking too long at myself in the mirror.
>>Yet international rankings now put the country’s students well ahead of America’s in science and maths (the strongest predictor of future earnings), even as the country spends far less per pupil.<<

This sentence is exemplary of most, if not all, of the discussion about education reform. Another cue are the explicit goals of the Common Core standards, expressly designed to further economic competitiveness of America's youth.

But what about our children's ability to make informed decisions using qualified evidence?

This is different from so-called 'critical thinking', which is so vaguely defined whenever it comes up, or 'creativity', which lacks a rigorous method to appreciate its application.

These informed decisions I'm talking about not only affect our youth's ability to make decisions about their own lives (because no matter your education system, practical experience is other than doing well in school), but also their ability to make decisions about the state we live in collectively. There's little out there teaching people how to make informed decisions about areas they have no expertise in, and yet, must make a decision.

Politicians are voted in for dubious populism rather than the sensibility of their policy programme. Most responses to social issues continue to spiral around ideology and prejudice. America needs a lot more than just an effective STEM education regime.
It's $40 for print plus ebook on the publisher's site, or $24 for just the ebook:

http://www.packtpub.com/openstack-cloud-computing-cookbook-s...
The Oculus itself will not change the world that much, but VR certainly will. The Oculus is simply a step towards real VR. Try to imagine a world in which you can actually lose track of, or be mistaken about exactly which level of simulation you're currently experiencing. Think long term.
To avoid paying livable wages?
Even in the world outside of "hipster palo alto", 70% of active Android users are on 4.0+: http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
It seems to be growing 5% per month, so already by the end of the year 2.3 market share might fall below 10%.

Starting from 4.0, many APIs were cleaned up, many bugs were fixed, and it seems that many carriers/manufacturers have stopped shipping bizarrely broken custom modifications.

Unless you have a large development team and absolutely must reach every possible customer, targeting 4.0 and upwards seems to be the most efficient choice.
as someone who paid google $600 for a nexus one that can only run 2.3 (2.3.3 with CM), i'm very offended. Even more so because they could have easily ported all the features such as browser rendering engine to the device.
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Oh, I see. I've always known "hand waving" to be a Star Wars reference. i.e. "These are not the droids you're looking for."
This is a great analogy, I will be stealing it and using it regularly. Seriously, well said.
I don't know what kind of VR you have tried, but the experience of being "in" a rift is fundamentally different to watching a movie. The dev kit is extremely low res, has ghosting issues etc. Still it seems to have a visceral impact on most people who've tried it, much more than a 4k/96hz 3d movie. It feels like you're in another world, not like you're watching 3d graphics on a screen in front of your eyes.
Spaceship, submarine car... has anyone heard anything about Musk planning orbital laser weapons, by any chance? It would be the next logical super villain move.
Apple's iPad problem
Ideas may be easy, but good ideas are incredibly hard to find.

If implementation is so difficult, outsource to me! Give me your executive summary, 20 grand, and a 20% stake, and my team and I can have your project implemented in under 6 months. I'll call it the HN 20/20/6 deal. (I'll do it for 10 grand if I think the idea really has potential.)
Because it gives him positive press. Plain and simple.
Share price is hardly meaningless. Most people (correctly, i might add) think in term of relative movement of the share price, since that is the easiest one to track. In fact, as the second line of the article says:
"Shares in the giant online search and ads company rose more than 13% to $1,006, and are now up 41% since the start of 2013."
Such a big jump in a big company is what makes this really newsworthy.
Quantum computing traps in Minecraft
As someone already called out, by email, about this... i think a more effective solution would be to, you know, SAY that on the submission screen.

if all you give me is a TITLE field which cancels the text field, i may feel inclined to replace one with another.
That is really cool, thank you for sharing! I also fully agree with the guy that said that the Autolayout support in IB is a nightmare to work with. Plus, IB does _not_ show you exactly what your UI will look like: You have to Build & Run anyway to really see what things will look like, esp. with autolayout.
Interesting tone. I would have flipped it to the opposite: "He's advocating dropping support for the 30% least valuable users, who are in reality your least likely customers. Some large developers might be able to support such a cost, like Facebook, but for most developers its probably not worth the cost.

People with older phones that they paid only a few hundred bucks for two years ago should not have the expectation for it to keep working. It is not punishment, they can continue to use their devices as is perfectly fine."
Yes, agreed </BB10>
That's a shame, it looked like a really cool service and I've been wanting to sign up for a while. It seemed to be dormant, left out to rot.
Have the system automatically populate the title, but allow it to be overridden. Make overriding this default painful (e.g. after submission you have to open the thread, click edit, enter the new title, and give a reason for the change - then 5 community members with over 1K kudos need to vote yes to approve this change). Most people will fall into line in not changing the titles, but you have the flexibility and take the pain in the rare cases when it's needed.
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Very surprising, I figured they would go right to the consumer version. It's good to hear that Oculus is taking their time and getting things right.
system packages and maintainers in current day are not used to support mixing multiple software with an easy separation like RVM does, they put everything in one prefix like /usr and change only application suffix, it works well with alternatives-update - but it’s static switching of ruby, what developers need is runtime switching and clear separation of libraries per language, the lack of clean separation also is bad when deploying servers that run multiple versions of given language (not limiting to ruby)

also check the update with schedule - https://www.bountysource.com/fundraisers/489-rvm-2-0 - "2 months: Work on building packages using RVM 2 (so it deprecates itself)"
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To be clear, my issue is not the HN policy (as far as I understand it). I am 100% A-Okay with HN moderators reverting editorialized titles.

My issue is with the HN moderator[s] who are not using common sense while executing this policy. When an informative title gets changed to an information-free title, it is detrimental to the site. The point of using moderators to do this instead of auto-reverting all titles is so that the moderators can use some judgement. That is great, so long as they actually do that.
Yet another reason to openly share, or at least to not hold back
I see the smiling along with wagging their tail, and I know the difference between what I see as a dog smile (mouth open, ears back, tail wagging, eyes squinting) and baring their teeth.
This. There is only one Limbo, Gish, Fez, Galcon, Voxatron etc.
Just a little python script: https://gist.github.com/danbirken/7047504

Apache Logs --> Python script --> CSV --> Google spreadsheets --> Manual labor --> Blog post
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maybe they just don't want him writing version 2.0 on the clock.

On the other hand maybe writing resume presentations is his favorite home hobby.

That would certainly be an interesting parallel with startup employers' expectations of programmers, who are supposed to craft github repos at home in their spare time to get hired. Really, this is the design equivalent.
Yes I understand that foo() won't be called if you defined NDEBUG. But when compiling lthread, NDEBUG is not defined anywhere in the code / makefiles so it's guaranteed to be called and I want to assert the returned value.
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It's powered by two Rolls-Royce gas turbines, actually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Marine_Trent
Unless you have some extra cash to burn, it's usually a bad idea to buy development hardware, unless you're interested in developing for it (or at least hacking on it).
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The only language listed that was actually a programming language was Javascript (the rest being HTML, CSS, and JQuery).
I'd probably put it down to mathematics and comedy writing both being high-IQ activities.
The easy way to solve this problem would be to add a sub-title field on the submission page. For many submission it could be left blank, but for the ones where the submitter wants to draw attention to something special or non-obvious, like a bug in the submitted page, he could fill out the sub-title.
That's not unavoidable, and when I see editorializing like that it's very obvious that it's axe-grindey editorializing which I can flag and/or comment upon.
I agree. I felt it was a terrible (excerpt of an) interview, in so far as the word and analogy choices made the questions seem like they were plucked from a professor's profile in comp lit journal. Whether or not Mr. Watterson found it hard or work-intensive to comprehend and answer these questions is beside the point. The questions should have been more simply phrased. I feel like their content challenged the precedence of the answers, instead supporting or motivating them.
I will grant that it is a bad comparison. But, not for percentage based reasons. I initially wrote the comment that abandoning <14 now is like abandoning ie6 back in 2010, when google dropped support[1], but percentage wise, that's not fair either.

Since Android API 14 is just celebrating its 14th birthday, I'd guess (nothing to back this up) that you're going to see a sharp dropoff of Android 2.3 marketshare as people replace their old phones. Between developing for the future, and incentivising people to switch away from old technology (people don't want to buy an old phone that can't run the latest goodies), I think this is still the correct path to choose.

Kill it with fire. I don't take much issue with making Android 2.3 a second-class citizen at this point.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201001...
"Enforcing a low ceiling" is a very bias conclusion, with no logical support provided here.

The school system as we know it is a mass education "factory" system. There is and always will be cracks for students to fall through. Furthermore, it is not clear that the system ever served top students very well -- I emphasize issues around the "ceiling" is not actually new.

How to deal with those cracks in the system is a complex topic. But that hardly matters for purposes of this discussion because...

The school system is under intense pressure to produce results in the form of standardized test scores. What are they supposed to do? They focus on inching up the scores of those below the median, of course.

That has exactly nothing to do with "enforcing a low ceiling". The school system simply no longer cares about the brightest students, while the taxpaying voters are clamoring for those average test scores to climb. Individual teachers would love to care, but they are generally not allowed to until those scores go up first.
Very nice indeed.

It was a pity that C took over the PC world as it did, Turbo Pascal could do everything better than it, including being safe by default, modules, OO.

Why Borland, why!
I can just imagine the posts in a few years:
"Look at my JavaScript GPU emulator!"
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You're not considering opportunity cost. My time involvement dilutes my other ventures.
Holy shit! Now look at this thread! The whole point is, this isn't an important enough issue to worry about. We all have real work to do. And we have people writing their asses off to a reply to a reply...
It still isn't working for me an hour later.
It just isn't that big of a deal. Either way.
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He probably does have a RESUME.DOC file. The point here is that his interactive resume is very likely to reach people who would not otherwise see his generic *.DOC file. It looks like he got some job interviews simply by doing this work, so whether it adhered to your platonic ideal of the perfect resume or not, it succeeded. That's all that matters.

A+ for a solid advertisement for himself.

The point of the hiring process is not to compare paper candidates, but to compare human beings.
I'll agree with Carlsednaoui, but add a few resources to the list:

ONLINE VIDEO LECTURES

Let's Code Test Driven JavaScript: http://www.letscodejavascript.com/

One Month Rails: https://onemonthrails.com/

Learnable: https://learnable.com/

Code School: http://www.codeschool.com/

Treehouse: http://teamtreehouse.com/

CodeHS: http://codehs.com/ - "Computer science class in a box" for k-12 schools

Learn Street: http://www.learnstreet.com/

CODE CHALLENGES

Top Coders: http://www.topcoder.com/

Hacker Rank: https://www.hackerrank.com/

Interview Street: https://www.interviewstreet.com/

OTHER

CodeCombat: http://codecombat.com - online game that teaches Javascript

Codecademy: http://codecademy.com/

CodeAvengers: http://www.codeavengers.com/ - Pay-per-module coding game

Hakitzu: http://www.kuatostudios.com/games/hakitzu/ - Paid iPad game that teaches coding

Kodable: http://www.surfscore.com/ - iPad game that teaches coding

Full disclosure, I run CodeCombat.
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