skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh common, I have one semi "reddit-like" post about a real opinion and you can't put 2 and 2 together? Are my downvotes faith in Sony corp?
I usually don't like this kind of stuff. But I decided to try it for 30 seconds and ended up spending 10 minutes. Quite entertaining.
I wouldn't. I'm really not interested in the general public's opinion. And even if I was, I wouldn't think to go to a "database of polls" to find it.
Thanks. I didn't know /x/ existed until now.
Cooking is the same way.

A few, simple, fresh ingredients prepared quickly and correctly can be much more amazing than a complicated 20 ingredient recipe that takes 2 hours to prepare.
It also can show that billions of gmail accounts exist and there are so many middle reasons your mail can be down, besides the actual source. I bash google all the time, but the gmail is legit so far in my book.
I'm not him, but such ridicule, while perhaps not appropriate for HN, is often effective at getting the target to think before they speak in the future (at least concerning the particular topic being discussed).

People don't like being ridiculed, so ridicule often gets through to them when straightforward corrections do not.
The devs at Sony really like the matrix. Not very subtle.
I do believe there is a flow of Systems researchers towards Google, at least from academia, if not Microsoft Research. I

Microsoft Research is active in many more areas of research than Google. However, I'm not sure that implies they are better than Google in the specific area of distributed systems research. FWIW, it seems every now and then Google publishes incredible papers that surprises folks in that community.
Dear Marc:

Who gives a rats ass what Carl Icahn thinks? Stop paying so much damn attention to him.

You're leaving me the impression that what he is saying is actually applicable. If it is, get to the point. Otherwise, move on....this story is getting old.
European parliament report on the US NSA surveillance programme...
For the person who thinks "money" is a shallow, why would "celebrity" be any "more fulfilling"? This is like comparig the health of two kinds of junk food.
The hardware does matter. There will be VR games that don't induce motion sickness in anyone, because they don't involve movement at all (other than actual movement of your real head, reflected 1:1 in the virtual world). When people think of VR they naively imagine virtual Call of Duty, but that's not going to happen the way people imagine it. FPS is a genre designed for traditional screens; VR will require new genres. I doubt ports of traditional FPS games to VR will even be very popular.
I'm just questioning why one junk food (as you put it) is more valuable than the other. I am unconvinced that it is.
Love this jσb, since I've been bringing in $120 per hour in my spare time online, just for fun. I sit at home, music playing while all I do are fun & easy tasks from this one cool site. Open an account there and receive ur 1st check till the end of this week! јump32.сσm
I snatched up an @outlook.com address back when they were still rolling it out, mostly to use as another junk email account. It sat for a while; but over the past few months, I find myself using Outlook.com more (for business) and Gmail less. The Outlook interface is a pleasure to use.
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It's a good idea to set up a forward to another account just for redundancy. I forward all my email to Yahoo just in case Gmail has an extended outage, accidentally rm -rf's my account, etc.
because for interacting with web apps those default browser buttons are just as 'dangerous' as ads for the user accidentally tapping them and navigating away from the page
To be honest, I just spent a few minutes on it but it is not a site I would keep coming back to. There's no real value add, it is all the same content and has no draw to it. You need to read up on gamification, the art of rewarding people to draw them in and keep them coming like.

Foursquare has badges
Hacker News has karma
Reddit also has karma

Give people points, badges, etc for using the site and sticking around. Reward interaction and time spent and you'll find people will come back.
Actually... The image at the end reads "One does not simply... reimplement vim"

FWIW evil-mode for emacs has done just that, and IMHO, in most cases, actually is a better vim that vim itself. Its not just a shallow subset of a few vim keyboard shortcuts, but pretty much a complete reimplementation of vim, in elisp.

It rocks
But software also has an interface to the physical units in question, which ultimately makes it useful in the real world. Mathematical truths are not useful in the real world until there is an application of a truth to a particular scenario. It is this "application + scenario" that is patented, not the mathematical truth.

People are way too stuck on the "software is math" bit, it is not nearly as meaningful as people think. In fact, I think it is decidedly lacking in any meaning as everything in the universe can be abstracted to "math".
BTW, if you have a Jambox, you can demo binaural (3D) sound by installing this update:

https://jawbone.com/liveaudio
I want the watch from They Live so I can lift my wrist up to my head and summon the secret alien police.
How are they with spam? I'd just run my own mail, but I can't beat Google's spam filtering. (They have millions of email accounts, real time, as a data source.)
Though I'd probably still reserve that accolade for Erlang OTP/BEAM.

I would absolutely not. Erlang/OTP/BEAM might be the best distributed computing platform (though Akka is making huge inroads), but Erlang is actually a pretty terrible at single-box concurrency.

Erlang has one concurrency primitive - message passing. Which is great, but it's not always the right one.

Consider a a producer process which solves a PDE or does a big Bayesian computation (output is an Array[Float] or Array[Double]). You have consumer processes which read from the array and compute sums over subsets of the elements.

In Erlang you are just passing around copies of arrays. In the JVM, you'll probably have a single mutable array. You'll either wrap the appropriate calls in arr.synchronize {...}. Or you can use memory barriers and let the consumers freely read from the array, and invalidate their computation if the producer wrote to the array between the start and end of their read.
> then suddenly having the opportunity to open both eyes, and how surprising it would be to realize that you have depth perception

As someone who is stereoblind, I really wish opening both eyes leading to depth perception were true for all of us...
Hologram Leia Is Closer Than You Think
I agree. I've ran across a few obscure languages I thought would be barren, but found they had exciting new developments happening. It made me realized there's a big difference between the number of language contributors and the number of language users. Most are language users, like myself, who glue a few libraries together and write a little business logic and call myself a programmer. Whereas a language contributor (as I call them) create libraries, development tools, etc. I've wondered if the number of language contributors is roughly equal, within an order of magnitude, across most languages, even the obscure ones. Language contributors add quality to the language, language users (again, myself) don't.
Here you can view the MEPs who voted against it:

http://www.votewatch.eu/en/us-nsa-surveillance-programme-sur...

Notably UK dominated.
Gmail has definitely gotten... 'heavy'... over the years. I clocked it at about 6 seconds to load my inbox with just 8 messages in it (Firefox 28 on a decently fast machine on a 100MB/5MB connection with low latency). And that's before the pause and the load of the Hangouts widget. Loading the /h/ variant of email is under 2 seconds. My Rackspace mail webmail comes up in about 3.

All that said, I use Thunderbird with IMAP as my primary to all those accounts because a real email client is faster than webmail.
Android Wear Developer Preview now available for Xamarin developers
You are right that people don't choose to start profitable businesses. They aim for profitability. Perhaps I should have written "...choose to start businesses, a few of which will become successful, sustainable, and profitable." But this does not change the fact that the original comment by kashkhan is logically flawed. Starting a business with a family is not necessarily an act of desperation or true belief; it's often a part-time endeavor, completed in addition to familial and work duties with the hope of becoming something more. That one must quit one's day job and dedicate 90-hour-plus weeks to properly do a startup is a myth propagated by venture capitalists who want quick returns on their investments.
I'm sorry but there is a pronounced industry trend exactly against what you argue. Physically based rendering is winning out almost everywhere. A straightforward path tracer is capable of simulating nearly all the physics of light to any desired degree of fidelity. Part of why it's won out is that it's actually far simpler for artists to work in terms of real world material concepts vs tuning abstract parameters in fake models that can be coerced into to looking real. Eg "dusty metal with this albedo map" vs maps for parameters in some mutilated and extended phong shader.
Interesting. Certainly easy to waist a few minutes on there. But don't see real value. Don't anticipate returning to the site.
I have a feeling Sony is going to blow Oculus out of the water. Even more troubling if this headset makes its way to the PC which seems likely.
I think your conclusion is probably right on. You can do everything right and still fail in the startup world, because there's a large element of luck. In Sam/Loopt's case, I'm almost certain they were early - FourSquare/Latitude/Facebook-Check-Ins did okay just 4 years later. But then, didn't someone once say "Early is wrong as far as startups go." Perhaps that means you shouldn't listen to sama's advice on market-timing, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't listen to his advice on the other aspects of startups.

The more heartening way of looking at your conclusion is that if you do everything right - don't screw anyone over, take calculated prudent risks, seek out information, make sane decisions, and work hard - and if you make that visible to people, you can usually soft-land even if your startup fails. That was my experience with my own failed startup - once I folded it up and wrote a postmortem, I had a large number of job offers, and took one at Google. People judge you based on what you do, not for things out of your control.
if it's stored locally, it's probably stored on a server too.
The Oculus SDK is open-source, so it wouldn't be too hard.
I have a account on both gmail and fastmail. If we are just concerned about speed fastmail wins for me. And there is that whole tracking thing that bugs me so that is another win for fastmail. I just use gmail for signing up on websites I will most likely only visit one.
Your comment adds nothing to the discussion and thus a downvote. (my own comment does the same, but I hope people recognize `my attempt to educate` = `better community` = `more value to discussion`)
So if she perceives she is victimized because of her sex that qualifies it as sexism? On whose part?
slightly off topic but I'm looking to move away from Thunderbird as a mail client. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions. I use gmail but not online but without updates to tbird, thats becoming the bottleneck
Also important to note: Fastmail has been rock solid for me (and I should know - over 10 years there). Gmail outages seem frequent compared to the number of times I remember FM going down.
Yesterday's discussion on HN about Xamarin possibly getting purchased by Microsoft was mostly positive about what it meant for Microsoft. But if that were to pass I think Day 1 releases to C# developers of things like iOS 7.1 and Android Wear Preview would (probably) become a thing of the past.
This article is misleading on several accounts (as others of its type often are).

- Yes, initial payload size matters. But where's the true comparison about what each app is loading? How are the features and the UX? Would a power user be satisfied with Fastmail (e.g. search, filters, etc.)? (It looks nice, but none of this was discussed at all).

- The disparate email count comparison is excused way too quickly. Have you done a similar test with a brand new Gmail account?

- Anecdata. I've never had the page load problems as bad as described. 2-3 seconds, and I reload once every week or less. "Sluggish" is a weasel word -- what is sluggish? Searches return in ~1 second for me (~7000 emails, I'm not a saver.)

- You can turn off chat.

- Switching is never as simple as described, and forwarding is a fairly messy solution (and will only get messy as the author creates new login accounts and further forks his usage).

- Ugh, the "Google suggest" argument. For the record, the only suggestion for Fastmail is "Why is Fastmail down"

I clicked on "Goodbye Gmail" hoping for some substance or an interesting story but instead got feelings, anecdata and glossing over the problems of a real migration or search for a qualified alternative.
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Isn't map/flatMap and orElse enough, if only for Optional?
> Think about it. Thiel, Graham, etc. These guys evaluate the best of the best on a regular basis.

Do they? What's the YC business failure rate? As far as I see it they're in the business of making educated bets on what people will turn out to be, and they're often wrong. They are not choosing the "best of the best".
Okay -- Maybe I jumped to your conclusion erroneously. How is my business impacted?
Because it does not use JVM. The language is Java, but the virtual machine is Dalvik.
> I'd wager that the current rasterising pipeline is more flexible than one based on raytracing - capable of generating a range of styles, not just photorealistic ones

Nope. I'd say the "raytracing pipeline" really does replace only the rasterization step, and once the triangle to draw is "found", you do whatever shading/lighting/fx/fragshader you want to draw it with? Wouldn't this be the most sensible approach?

Rasterization in lay-man's terms really is just "figure out which triangle, if any, is 'hit' at this pixel", so a historically much faster and very neat hack to avoid the tracing of a ray..

But you don't get cheap soft-shadowing / ambient occlusion / reflect-refract and you'd need to do occlusion culling seperately for current-gen "complex" scenes to avoid a drawcall for all kinds of hidden objects. That's where at some point raytracing as it becomes more feasible also becomes much more attractive. Potentially also reducing geometry-LODing headaches etc..
I use Gmail via Fluid app on mac and it works great independently (doesn't slow down n stuff). But if I keep gmail open in chrome, it sucks up lot of memory over the time.
Still getting a 403 :(
My phone plan has 100 minutes included. I rarely go over that.

So I suppose it's all relative. I'm not anti-social, I just don't use the phone very often.
Ask HN: Let's list hair on fire problems
Don't worry about them being good startup ideas.
Not having a quick, cheap and healthy fast food place to go to.
He picked examples of industries that are protected heavily, and just exaggerated them a bit. So the laws about Uber fit into existing protectionist laws. E.g:

- The US postal office has a legal monopoly on mail, and loses money every year.

- Airbnb has faced many legal battles over laws that protect hotels.

- Hospitals often charge arbitrarily high amounts for even small things like a pill or bandage.

- Public schools have an almost complete monopoly on education.
I think the sample frames demonstrate that hybrid ray tracing is less realistic that pure path tracing. I hope that someone figures out how to make stuff like the Brigade 3 demos based just on feeding geometry and textures to hardware.
Thanks! I think it's new. That's the first I've seen regarding it.

Edit: come to find out, it's only supported on secondary logins, so the master account cannot have two-factor authentication.
Only after you find out they were getting filtered, usually because someone calls you to say "WhyTF aren't you responding to my emails?"
Or the god on whom the character is based.
Y Combinator Renews Calls For “Founders Visas”
Not being able to fall asleep at night.
Unfortunately the bug reports are still 'secret' - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982906
The Truthiness of Apple's Decline
No source. Only binaries.
Dying.
I use Sparrow. I get the benefits of Gmail, without any of the problems you cite.

(N.B. You don't have to use Sparrow; pick any IMAP client you like.)
I've always said: "With Java plus XML, you can have one language for the price of two."

With Java, you write a lot of syntax to get static typing, but it's worth it because static typing! Then you throw static typing away (because now it's to restrictive I suppose?) to use XML files which must be structured a certain unpredictable way or you'll cry at the traceback you receive, and pray your imminent Google search can make sense of it all.
You read my mind, that totally looks like anarchy mode applied to to the web :)
I would guess that it would imply that meshes are no longer static, and that they could bend, stretch, and fold based on their properties. In some ways, we already get this in modern games that try their best to simulate cloth in flags and such, but it's mostly still smoke and mirrors.
Not the parent, but I had no idea that existed myself. What's the actual cause if vision in either eye works fine otherwise? The wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoblindness) wasn't too helpful.
Having to buy a car when you really just need to get to work and go shopping every once in a while.
You might want to check out Groovy. It's built on the JVM, you can use all the standard library and third party Java packages including stuff off Maven, and you can even just run straight Java code through it. However, at any time you can also drop into Groovy land, and write in a much more concise and functional style. Closures are very common (just look at anything in Gradle), it was clearly influenced by Python/Ruby as far as syntax and type optionality, there's a REPL (groovysh), there's a modern web framework (Grails), all in all it's pretty nice.
Not having any useful startup related classes to take in college. (Business classes teach how to run big businesses. CS classes are often many levels of abstraction too low. And there aren't any classes that teach design)
Sure, I will fix it. Until this you can follow links in the README credits section.
Spotless. I've gotten maybe one false negative (i.e., the spam hit my inbox) and no false positives.
Trouble meeting cool new people. Most of it just happens by chance encounters.
Might be a good idea to brush up your C first. Make sure you really understand memory and pointers.
Not quite: for each eye, the screen aspect ratio is 8:9--not perfectly square and you can see in oculus videos on youtube that the distortion shader uses a scaling factor to make the screen just touch the left and right edges, but the top and bottom get somewhat cropped.

The diagonal is a bigger FOV than the horizontal FOV simply for that reason.

Most people can't see the edges of the screen when looking directly at them in the rift (but they can when looking indirectly, it is something to do with the eyeball moving around leaving the sweet spot).
I suppose I was mislead by the mozilla wiki link I posted which states at the top "The goal of the project is to run web content in a separate process from Firefox itself. The two major advantages of this model are security and performance. Security would improve because the content processes could be sandboxed"
I could not agree more. Let the user decide if they want fullscreen. We already have to put up with disabled zoom, mobile "optimized" site with missing content, and annoying animations.
Is there public data/or a spreadsheet/simulator for eye/relief:fov (I assume data for the A-C cups aren't relevant anymore) and accounting for binocular overlap?

Also is there technical documentation on the prewarp shader and pixel density/perceived resolution? I'm interested particularly in text rendering, so really looking forward to the low persistence displays!
Guido's got the right idea. "just do it already"
Pretty unlikely when a fund invests 1/6th of its total capital in a single deal, the namesake of the fund is not intimately involved. Most funds have a cap of 10% of total equity in a single deal to avoid concentration risk and even if this was 15% for a16z, they were still above this limit.

Note: since this $300MM fund, a16z has gone on to raise enormous funds many multiples of the size.
you seem to think that in 3 years there won't be 5" watches...
Good luck with that. Just look at home many crappy mobile "optimized" sites are out there.
Microsoft In Talks To Acquire Xamarin
Precisely. Simulation and piloting games will be the prime target for VR, which are coincidentally my favorite genres. I can't wait to try flight sims (e.g. DCS Warthog) and piloting games (e.g. Star Citizen). It will be a whole new experience, with no motion sickness potential whatsoever.
> Would humanity never ever have invented these technologies without war ?

Not all economic growth is good growth. There's bad growth too. Like anything else, war has costs:

(1) Price tag. For example, "The U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will cost taxpayers $4 trillion to $6 trillion, taking into account the medical care of wounded veterans and expensive repairs to a force depleted by more than a decade of fighting," quoted from The Washington Post (March 28, 2013): http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/study-...

(2) Harms/damages. For example, in the Afghan and Iraq wars, we have 6,600 dead Americans. Of the 1.6M veterans of these wars, 670,000 have been awarded disability, and another 100,000 are pending. Source: McClatchy DC (March 14, 2013): http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/03/14/185880/millions-went-t...

Harms inflicted on US troops include: amputations, traumatic brain injuries, mental illness, suicide, rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment.

Harms inflicted on Iraq include: 150,000 to 400,000 dead, 600,000 orphans living in the streets, 1.3 million internally displaced, 1 million displaced to Syria, 100,000 imprisoned and tortured with no due process, 25% without clean water, 30% unemployment, etc., etc.

(3) Opportunity costs: I think President Dwight D. Eisenhower said it best in 1953--

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.

"It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

"The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.

"It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.

"It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.

"We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

"We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

"This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.

"This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
Woah! Glad to know I'm not alone. I do this all the time. Never had a bad experience yet though.
I'm curious as to how they'll manage the resolution, frame rate and low latency required, on the PS4's modest hardware, for modern games.