skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know - 3D TV has broken the ice of getting everyone together wearing glasses to view content. I think the CastAR at the right price point could be a next logical step there - especially if they take the QR code alignment concept and add a bit of social logic to it (i.e. look at this target and say, your phone downloads prompts to download the relevant game and connect (or hunts for the right wi-fi video stream).

There's a lot of potential there.
Agree on this specially if your grid= typical 2 or 3 column layout. You must be really bad at css to fail on this.

Doing front end for 30-40 sites a year from many many diffent designers for a long time and projects with bootstrap included have cost me more time spent in the end to it look right. Also BS class names are more visual than component based that can end up with some retarded hacks when design needs an update
Real cyborg prototype built in 1958 in the USSR
Keep a Node.js server up with Forever – blog.nodejitsu.com
This does not handle concurrent inserts though unless you rerun the code on unique violation.
The goal of large organizations - the government is in on this racket too, indeed is the master of it.
Antenna is a no go in a lot of places.

I live in a town of about 100,000 people and as far as stations that have sports, I get ABC, and sometimes NBC (The transmitter is close, but they broadcast at a power of 100W (yes W, not kW). With a roof-mounted antenna I could certainly get NBC reliably).

We used to have a Fox station here, but the ABC affiliate bought it and shut it down.

I follow NFL and MLB, my wife follows NHL.

So I get Sunday night football. The good news is that MLB is very reasonably available live and online. You can even listen to your choice of home or away announcers.
Is is just me or is this site completely unreadable due to tiny size of text and unreadable images?
Haha, we actually have a rule of never using the 'coming soon' phrase :) We've done it in the past, and it always looks bad if you don't deliver on the promise.
Except when the customer is a business located outside your own country but in the EU, in which case reverse charge applies, so you are not allowed to charge VAT, but instead the buyer has to pay VAT in their country (well, "pay" as in "pay and immediately get it refunded" in most cases). Plus, if you are making more than some threshold in a particular country from sales to non-businesses, you might be required to pay VAT in that country, and charge your customers that country's rate. And it also depends on what you are actually selling. And I may well have confused some details, so don't rely on this as tax advice, other than the fact that it's somewhat complicated and difficult to get right.
I hear ya, but if that's the situation you irretrievably (in your own mind) find yourself in, make the best of it. Put in your solid, no-BS 20 hours of honest work and then when you're exhausted mentally, fill the time with web browsing related to your job, and even personal errands (shopping, travel booking, the online portion of socializing, whatever).

If you are genuinely good and the 20 hours represent genuine best-efforts, you're very unlikely to stand out negatively in terms of results produced.

But, you probably aren't as stuck to a 40-hour ass-in-seat job as you think. Find remote work; become a freelancer. Some of those have a higher risk profile than sitting down and shutting up 40 hours a week as an employee. No one said life would be trivially easy, but for those of us that can write code, our lot in life is already 2 or 3 standard deviations above the mean, IMO.
Know a few of these features already been mentioned, but after trying it out...

The upload proximitor gets stuck, so it's not possible to start another recording unless you restart recordit.

The player doesn't scale it to fit on screen, unless you use full screen.

The possibility to delete what you have uploaded would be great. And possibly password protect it.
If we get numerous requests for a certain integration, we'll see what we can do. Until now, there haven't really been much of this, so we've put our efforts into the developing the product itself.

As for the price, I guess it's higher than some, and cheaper than others. We've tried to set a price we thought was fair, and we continuously keep making the product better to make sure you'll get more bang for your buck.
It's not just you. It's one of the default tumblr themes and not really a good choice for text posts.
End of Startup Era: Chips Face Innovation Gap
> whereas you can implement multiple interfaces?

right, duh/derp.
What is up with that comment?
Show HN: R4: A SpriteKit in 3D
> These things can make you (or at least some people) sick as a dog without a good deal of practice. I'm not sure if it's the lag, or whether it is a fundamental property of having your brain yanked from the visual environment that it evolved in for the last 100+ million years. It was really bad.

It's primarily a matching failure between what you see and what your inner ear, proprioception, and sense of pressure are telling you is happening, as well as any other visual input if it's a mixed-vision system. Mostly inner ear, and vision if present.

Also it's mostly rotational motion that triggers it - but you'll easily hit that with just the small motions of your head and the looseness of the headset.

Which is ridiculously hard to compensate for since you have to get extremely precise, low-noise motion & environmental pose tracking, with extremely tight time limits - and then it has to be fed into the rendering engine, which has to react in time to fool the operator.

But the evolutionary rationale is also right. Your brain evolved to freak out in the event of persistent sensory mis-match because it's a pro-survival feature. The naturally occurring causes are things like severe food poisoning.

> I thought that I was going to have problems as a user of reading glasses, but that turned out to not be a problem.

IIRC, the reason is that VR stimuli are "focused at infinity." It also helps that you're trying to take in the image, not the pixels or other fine details.

Trying to read small text at a distance of ~ 20 cm requires relatively precise focus. A picture of a cat that's taking up your entire field of view does not.
You're right, if you consider only the monetary value of the gadgets in question, and ignore other results of fixing your own things (like personal satisfaction, added general knowledge of how things work, value of social interaction in groups like Restart, ability to build or fix higher value devices in the future, externalities in the replacement gadget's production not reflected in the price, etc.)

jwz's quote would be better restated: "Linux is only free if your time has no value, and you know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
What it takes to be a walker (or how comics should be)
It's the guy writing TempleOS. Google around, you're in for an interesting story.
it only supports a couple of editors, while RescueTime watches every window by title no matter what software you use. I can measure exactly how much time did I spent to server administration by simply looking at logged terminal titles!
'Transpiling' since it kind of converts to a scripting language not a native code.
Password generation and safe offline storage
Depends on what you mean by the old days. It is thought that hunter gathers had the most leisure time in history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society
Defunct Soviet reconnaissance satellite may hit Earth today
Some jQuery bugs
Just out of interest - related idea from over two years ago:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16503341
Perhaps because it had a funny video or animation, or because he could win an iPad by 'liking' it.
These techniques are in widespread use in Facebook advertising, and frequently targets younger people.
But that doesn't mean that slathering Facebook buttons everywhere is unhelpful.
It's certainly more believable, but I think the average Ivy-League graduate who doesn't make it in the financial industry is still doing fairly well.

I propose that the preparation for the majority of of high-pay fields yields an acceptable payoff even without winning the lottery, with perhaps professional athletes and entertainers being notable exceptions.
3D TV has broken the ice of getting everyone together wearing glasses to view content.

That was also true in the 1950s, 3d films were a success for a while back then.
XNA 5
Just curious, as human race, what makes us think 40-hour(or any numbers of hours) is the norm that everyone should stick to?

if we switch to 4-weekday in the future, we will then consider 4*8=32 hour per week is typical, and work 40+ hours a week will burn you out? where and how to draw the line?

I agree that there is no point to brag about your 60+ hour work style, but, what really decides the 'normal' work hours each week?
Yes, the body is amazingly adept at subliminalizing the motor-co-ordination of physical work. Truly creative, mental work actually takes a different approach. This is why traditional academic architecture is the way it is. And why even artists can suffer through periods of burnout and "creative block". This is not to diminsh the role of back-breaking labor in any way, but just to highlight the underlying issue. Its comparing apples and pine-apples.
Nice to see some information that is clearly from a security expert, who has real world experience of using such tools to try and break encryption.
I'm building a MVP at the moment and whilst I have a basic understanding of HTML and CSS, I am looking towards Bootstrap to get things going. We started with a simple LaunchRock landing page [1], but now we want to hook the site up to MailChimp, do a bit of A/B testing and also start building elements of our platform using RoR.

I don't want to deal with the nightmare of using Wordpress as the front-end for this, so Bootstrap seems like a lean way of going about this.

Forgive me if I'm asking a completely n00b front-end question. If you ask me why Bootstrap, it's basically because of its popularity, and how easy I've found it to set something up in a few minutes. I know Foundation is pretty powerful too, but since I've already started with Bootstrap, I figure I don't have a real reason to pivot to something else at the moment. Any reason I shouldn't be considering Bootstrap? Any pitfalls I'm unaware of?

[1] www.launchrock.com
Ehh.. that's some serious XSS vulnerability there.
I've been very (very!) impressed by how natural CastAR feels to use. But I fear they'll go the way of the Wii - great tech, but no one really takes it seriously enough to build out on the platform. My fingers are crossed for them though :)
Thanks for the kind words and thorough feedback!

You can export to both CSV and PDF. So you can still get reports for your clients, although you'll have to do it manually. We have a pretty limited API right now, built mostly to support our iOS app. As the API grows you should be able to get the reports from it.

Money earned let's you see how much you can bill in a given period, so you can quickly see if you're reaching your goal. We think it's useful despite not accounting for taxes and expenses, and it's a nice moral boost to see the money coming in.

You can filter on projects, clients, date etc. on the Overview page. It's really fast to get filter out exactly the data you need.
>It's not really that hard. I only know the situation when selling from Germany, but it should be similar in other countries.

Basically, you don't have to pay taxes in other countries, you only pay taxes in the country your company resides in (of course there are some exceptions, you should get a lawyer etc., but this is what I've heard in a couple of cases).

This is so anecdotal it's useless. "This is what I've heard" doesn't really cut it. Case in point:

>If you make less then a certain amount, I believe 17500 € / year, you count as a "small entrepreneur" and are not treated like a business, but as a private person. You can sell and buy what you like and don't pay additional sales tax to the state.

That's maybe true for Germany, but sure as hell is not true in other EU countries (I know, I have business in one).
Agreed. A little more information on what you do and how it can benefit me would be great.
although the two aren't mutually exclusive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorator_pattern
You could make some approximations. That's pretty much the core of the argument. It's somewhat implicit that the true nature of the containing universe is not granular like ours.
Hmm, on Mac, my dev kit is plug and play. While DK1 has very low pixel density, these numbers increase fast as resolution scales. CV1 will be at least 1080p, and more likely 1440p, which increases PPI from ~14 w/ DK1 to 19 or 26, respectively. Samsung is scheduled to release 4K mobile panels in 2015 (and hence directly portable to the Oculus devices), which will gets you to regular monitor PPI. At that point, you can basically have infinite virtual screens, which is very interesting for developers.

Here's a little resolution/density chart I made that might be useful: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AgAh7-k-pFfVdFZ...

Farsightedness is fine - the Rift focuses at infinity. It's probably a lot healthier than staring at close screens in terms of eye stress/focusing.

Simulator sickness is mostly caused by excess latency and confusion of the vestibular system. The latest word is that these are taken care of with 1) accurate positional tracking (DK1 only has rotational tracking), 2) sub-20ms motion-to-photon display, and 3) low persistence.

Jeff links to Abrash's talks, which are well worth the time to go through if you have an interest.

I also have been keeping a doc that's a good resource and includes a fair amount of more technical references: https://randomfoo.hackpad.com/Virtual-Reality-7LTycEgSyp9

I think to some degree, the most interesting thing about DK1 isn't how "rough" it is, but more as a data point showing just how far things will have come in such a short period of time.
Learning is Never a Waste of Time
The title suggests there is a new virus for Linux, but I see a wiki listing features from the malware and even linking to source code on Github. Was this thing engineered as some sort of demonstration? Or how else did they get the source code?
This article is missing the solution brought by MVCC.

Namely, invalidating any query that comes after the update and asking to redo the transaction. This is done without lock.
It's the same way for us (by about a dollar, I think). It used to be cheaper by almost $3/mo, but last year they raised the cost of "ridiculously basic" cable.

We don't even watch the cable TV that we "pay" (-$1) for, as our actual programming comes in via (free) over-the-air antenna mounted in the attic and recorded onto 2 TiVos.
They're good friends of mine, and are an absolutely awesome team!

Congratulations!
This has been done dozens of times. Not sure why it hasn't taken off. I think some people crush everyone then claim they were joking, thereby burning the other side. There should be a limit on the number of crushes allowed.
Yes € :)
The great 1928 flood of London
FWIW, no web browser uses native platform controls to render HTML form controls. Shadow DOM just gives developers a way to encapsulate what they're already doing on the web.
>What I don't understand is how they apply this to digital goods, where there are no borders to police? How do they even find out that digital goods are being imported? If neither the buyer nor seller pay the VAT, how do they stop the transaction?

Well, this mostly applies to places they have treaties with (which is most part of the world one would care to do business with). If they find out they sell digital stuff without handling the proper tax, the company gets fined. It's a simple as that.

They don't have to police every sale, nor every country. Just the more popular countries and sellers. You know the 80/20 rule.
At current rates you can do it in under 20 years with just US debt; of course that's not taxed as capital gains.
This is pretty crazy impressive! The performance gain particularly. Is that much of a gain expected?
The Magic of Luxor 2013
"Asking to redo the transaction" pushes complexity into the client. Armin did mention that: "Unfortunately this problem does not go away if you tell the client to solve it."
I remember around the the start of the consumer DSL era this being a thing. At some point the Telcos just started undercutting all the competition and/or deprioritizing installs for non-telco purchasers.
That's some great tips. Thanks!

1) Agreed. This has been up for discussion several times, and it's high on the list. We'll post these kind of smaller tweaks on Twitter, so if you stick to using Ding, keep an eye out there [0].

2) We've tried to get the most essential stats within the statistics panel on the top, and let you quickly tab through these. The hours of the day is usually pretty visible within the top of the activity feed, but I guess it is less clear if there's several short intervals rather than two-three big ones. I'll take a close look at it and see if there's a way to tweak this.

3) Another great idea – we'll see if we can move it further up the list.

We really appreciate all the great input, so thanks again. Our biggest challenge is time as we're a small team, but we'll keep on truckin' :)

[0] https://twitter.com/ding_io
It has been as high as around 90%:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Historical_Mariginal_Tax_R...
Practical flying cars, at least as they are seen in films, requires a method of flying that does not rely on aerodynamics or reaction mass and has an energy store that is far better than petrol.

Today we have experiments that bring limited sight to the blind and cochlear implants that bypass the ear are routine operations. I would say that gaming implants are a lot closer than you might think and are almost certainly closer than practical flying cars.

Solving world hunger isn't really on the tech tree, given there is already surplus food. It is firmly on the politics tree.
Of course not, but it is unsightly and often unneeded.

I think apps should allow one to individually turn on and off social services.
>It starts to sound a little bit ridiculous when you apply it that way.

That's because it wasn't meant to be applied that way. Not all ideas are meant to be carried out in their extreme. For example:

― "Your french fries will taste better with salt".

― "Well, I poored 20 pounds of salt on them, and they're not tasting nice anymore".

The difference between Google and Amazon, and the logic between the different treatmeant is simple. When you visit Amazon, you visit a STORE, and you go there specifically to shop from them. Whereas when you visit Google you visit a SEARCH ENGINE, and you go there to find results about sellers and products in general.
The "sick as a dog" problem rapidly diminishes with practice. I can cheerfully spend an hour in a high-movement VR environment now with no ill effects, and I don't use my Rift all that often.

Also, even a bit of positional tracking helps a whole lot. MineCrift (Minecraft in the Rift) becomes a lot easier to play once you've got a Razer Hydra enabled with positional tracking.

The trick is to use it frequently for short periods when you're first getting used to it.
Valve Anti Cheat Engine reads all the domains you have visited and sends it back
Google has fooled the media and markets, but hasn't bested Tim Cook's Apple
How I earned my first money while learning to code
Similar: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/32/intensive-purposes/
Honestly you frequently pay 'more' when you decline services. In my area Comcast at one point was charging more for just internet than it was for Internet+Cable+phone. It seemed that they were just looking to make sure that you were 'locked in' to all of their services.
The plus in Google plus? It's mostly for Google.
No, nothing like that.

For one, Amazon is not that dominant in the first place (Google has 80% of the world's searches, Amazon has nowhere near 80% of e-commerce -- estimated to get to around 20% in 2016).

Second, they can't really use their (non)dominance in Shopping to sell kindle fires. At most, they can promote them to their users. Most of which haven't bought one, and wont buy one, according to number of Amazon users vs estimated Kindle Fire sales numbers.
Someone needs to learn survivorship bias. The reason a tiny fraction of successful experimentalists are older than a tiny fraction of successful theoreticians is the theory guys can implement the monkeys on typewriters and the one who writes Shakespeare accidentally can be anointed as genius. However the experimentalist has to actually make something work, which takes a lot longer to learn how to do.

Also money. Doesn't take long to fundraise for printer toner cartridges, but some physics experiments require a long fundraising stage.
Interestingly, there's a "removal" section in the article, with only the instructions to delete ld_preload.so. Was that meant as a joke?
In part, this is a confusion caused by semantics and inherent difficulties with any kind of abstraction. The notion of a 'team' in real life is a very flexible one, and as soon as we try to represent it using a concrete data structure, we're bound to run into problems. The questioner shouldn't be blamed for thinking a team and a list of players are one and the same - there are many real life examples in which the two are used interchangeably. If anything, this highlights the challenge of OOP: real life objects and their relationships are just really difficult to model in a deterministic way.
An analogous situation with Amazon would be if they wrote and published their own books and started putting those at the top of all the search results.
Pretty normal for the police to alert a company before they find out, unfortunately.
Someone made a rough resolution simulator for the Oculus Rift (make sure you check low persistence, which has been available with the latest prototypes):

http://vr.mkeblx.net/oculus-sim/

You can see there's a pretty huge difference between the 800p one and the 1440p one (~4x more pixels), which will probably be what the consumer version will have. With 1440p you will still notice the screen door, especially in the distance (the sky), and it looks like we'll only solve this with the 4k resolution, when the resolution seems to become "normal", and without easily noticeable pixel lines, but it will probably be at 8k when we'll have "retina"-like quality.

All of that being said, I think 95+ percent of consumers buying the 1440p version won't even notice the small pixel lines in the distance, because they'll be so "present" in those VR worlds. Most "normal" people trying it out quickly forget about the screen door even with the 800p developer kit, because they've never experienced something in VR before, and to them it feels very real already. Personally, I do hope they can use the 4k resolution in the second consumer version as soon as possible, but I think the 1440p one will do just fine with all the early adopters.
I guess many people think it’s too expensive, but I have found the price for 1Password (~USD 20 IIRC) to be very reasonable for all the value it provides.
There is also an English version (without autotranslation):
http://www.dailymichael.be/tomorrowland-2014-ticket-sale-how...
He told us unequivocally that his generation was noticeably shorter. Some searching turned up lots of mentions of malnutrition on pacific islands when local diets were disrupted, though it's not so easy to find mentions of Yap specifically. Here's one mentioning the Marshalls.

http://books.google.com/books?id=p3liL6fAjrcC&pg=PA83&lpg=PA...

I suspect you are protecting some cherished preconceived notions.
Agreed. This person sounds like an egomaniac.

http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/14/to-avoid-regret-put-ro...
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