skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who would be interested in "Unityify", an adaptation of Browserify that supports Unity3D's dialect of JavaScript? It would package npm modules so they ran in Unity, and include some shims to wrap the native Unity3D classes in node APIs.
If you are using GCC and Linux, you might find "Programming from the Ground Up" to be a useful resource: ftp://gnu.mirrors.pair.com/savannah/pgubook/ProgrammingGroundUp-1-0-booksize.pdf

You may find Agner Fog's Optimization series helpful too:
http://www.agner.org/optimize/

Check out every volume, as each has very useful information tucked away. For example, "Calling Conventions" is great for understanding how C++ and assembly interfaces should work.
Ah, so there are! I don't know how I missed those. Still, that's three out of 45.
You are more likely, much more in fact, to die from auto crashes or health problems then a terrorist attack, or even crime in general.

We should spend money on the things that will prevent the most deaths. Yet compare the budget that goes towards counter terrorism vs. Funding for health research, or vehicle safety.
If you're significantly rich, the thing is you don't want to become publicly known. It's a pain in the ass and delivers almost no benefit to you unless you have some plan for what to do with your newfound fame.
Paypal passes a first and last name with purchases, and some customers provide theirs in Settings (it's not a requirement), so I have about 5,000 or so lying around.
reads like an informercial.
I may have spent an hour on phone/facetime/skype/whatever calls in the past two months. Half of that to my credit card company assuring them that yes, I really am the one using my credit card in Taiwan, and the other half with family.

That's an abnormally large amount of time for me. Usually I can go days or weeks between phone calls, and when they arrive, they're nobody I want to talk to. They're almost never work related unless something has gone horribly, horribly wrong in production, and even then I try hard to get whoever I'm talking to off the damn phone quickly so I can focus on the problem.
Don't even attempt the Mama Shark app until you master Baby Shark
Yeah I switched to Fastmail about a year ago for myself + my family members (using the Family plan with custom domain). Have had absolutely zero regrets.
Real-time raytracing isn't something we've had on mobile. Which is kind of the point of this article...
Not everyone leaves their browsers open when they're at the computer. I don't, and on a 100/100 connection, from click to inbox open it takes me almost 7 seconds. I tried it twice on all 3 of my gmail accounts with varying results, but none faster than 5.
This article may be a little biased but as a user of Gmail and Outlook I can agree that Gmail is sluggish to a certain extent. Outlook's interface made managing my email much simpler and straight to the point. I have not come across issues about Microsoft's server not playing nice with email clients. Yes Outlook may not have as many features as compared to Gmail but it does what it says on the tin, and does it well in my case.

I am going to have a look at Fastmail as an alternative to Gmail and Outlook.
But again, you are proposing that all power be given to the larger, more powerful entity. And I totally disagree about the usefulness of "what ifs". Without "what ifs" we would all be stuck wandering around waiting for food to fall from a tree in front of us.

We only have the luxury of observing one "version" of events (unless you can hop between multiverses). Therefore, the only way we have to evaluate past events is by asking "what if" questions.

What if TechCrunch hadn't picked up the story? Basically no one would have heard about it and Github quite possibly wouldn't have felt the need to respond or investigate (maybe they still would have, another "what if", but they wouldn't have been under as much pressure).

Something went down. I'm not saying we should just lynch the accused parties and move on. But I am saying that often the only way for a small actor to get attention is for a news outlet to pick up his or her story. And if they refuse to publish without some kind of official confirmation, then very few such stories will be printed, because the larger, more powerful entity will quash them with silence.
Lucky he didn't do a "why is fastmail" search :).
pg had an interesting take on "hackers radar" wrt Java. worth a read. http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html
News! http://techwatching.com/page.php?i=22780

IIRC the big differentiator of Occulus Rift was lag - i.e.: to be truly immersive and "real" the system has to process and respond incredibly quickly. No mention of that anywhere from Sony.
gmail: free

fastmail: paid
Not to be confused with the Gremlin graph traversal language (https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki) or the JavaScript version of Gremlin.
I would love to see a comparasion with knockoutjs/durandal too...
The golang folks did a nice write-up on profiling Go code: http://blog.golang.org/profiling-go-programs and it covers both CPU and heap profiling. They've incorporated Google's perftools directly with Go which makes the whole process very pleasant compared to what you'd need to do for many other languages.
Haha - I just did one "why is fastmail down". Gmail has that as the #2 spot so I consider it a tie =)
You have no idea how the USPTO works.

They will never have the ability to spend more time with software patents. Especially if you ask that filing fees go down and the volume of filings goes up.

On top of that, there is a conceptual problem with software patents. There is no clear line between the trivial and the non-trivial.

The question you should ask is, what fucking benefits do we get from this shit? Look at the fucking costs levied on our society by this system. 26 year old patent attorneys make 200,000 dollars a year, after three years of practice STANDARD! Half of them don't know Javascript from Java (I'm not fucking kidding you). How the fuck are they gonna know what is trivial and what is not. The USPTO is staffed with people from foreign countries who can barely speak English ... much less understand a patent document. And they are only given like two hours to search and understand a patent document. And Patent Attorneys do their best to fill a patent document with utter rubbish legalese.

The only people in support of this system are people that have never read a patent document, who have never been involved in a patent suit, and who have never talked to a USPTO examiner.

Everyone else ... EVERYONE ELSE ... knows this system is garbage.

These fucking patent kangaroo courts, and these fucking lawyers are parasitic upon Silicon Valley and the world software technology industries. That's the only way to look at it. And we might never get rid of them, because of this rhetoric and the power of the lobby.

Its no more just than the fucking car dealerships and their stranglehold on car distribution. Or the sugar lobby and their subsidies.

Just another garbage, rent-seeking group of assholes.
> motion sickness

The hardware doesn't matter; some people just cannot stand certain forms of stimulation-without-movement that occurs with virtual reality. I can't play FPS or watch videos containing lots of movement on large screens for this reason, and I doubt the experience would be any different for VR; if anything, making the graphics more realistic would exacerbate the situation.
That was more of a fun thing to add - the actual performance is noticeably slower for me. Both loading and navigating take a longer amount of time in Gmail. Probably should have just left that out since everyone seems to be drawn to disproving that particular point.
* "In statistics, σ refers to an area under the normal distribution defined in terms of standard deviations*
that's the default definition in a statistical context

No, you're quite wrong about that. greycat is correct in his/her corrections of what you're saying. In statistics sigma is used to represent one of two things:

- a parameter of a probability distribution, typically one which influences the spread of the distribution

- a measure of dispersion in an actual data set, which may be an estimator of a parameter in a probability distribution

Neither of those things necessarily involve the Gaussian density.

In physics it seems that "sigma values" are used as a scale to measure p-values, so that instead of saying 0.0000003, they can just say 5σ. But the critical point here, which your comments seem to be missing, is that there is no distributional assumption being made; there is no implication that the Normal distribution describes any data-generating process, merely that the probability of an equal or more extreme value of a test statistic under some model, is the same as the probability of observing a value more than 5 standard deviations from the mean under a Gaussian model.
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"Should Vulfpeck’s brilliant stunt materialize into a completely free tour for fans, it could change the way independent artists regard streaming services and fan engagement."

How? If more bands make albums like these, services like Spotify will refuse to carry them. This is a one time deal. Regardless, any band could ask its listeners to stream its music on mute.
Maybe I don't get it, and maybe that is why I'm not in the valley at a start up, but I don't really inherently trust that people are good. I don't believe that renting my house to strangers is a smart idea. I don't believe that someone who feels like driving people around should take me 35 miles to the airport. There are bad people out there folks. The formality around hotel and cab businesses and the barriers to entry serve to "protect" the consumer somewhat. Since it's hard to start a profitable hotel, you want to provide good service to customers and keep things bed bug free. If you paid good money for your cab token you probably wouldn't want to rape one of your fares and destroy that investment. Now these are kind of a straw man arguments, but the point I'm making is just because you can do things doesn't mean that you should. I also just think that business models like uber and airbnb can let people into the market that really should not or have no business being there. Of course the odds of something bad happening in a hotel vs airbnb or someone trashing your airbnb are likely very slim. Same goes with über vs cabs. However I would venture to say it's a safe bet that in most cases you are more likely to have a bad experience with the "disrupt" businesses than an established and bureaucratic one.

I think that it should probably be decided by the market, and I would love to be wrong about this. I just don't think that I am. Maybe if I were 10 years younger and didn't have kids, but at my current place in life, I'm calling a cab to take me to a hotel, and I don't have house guests that aren't really or like family to me.
i'd have to guess the hardware to some extent, and at least the algorithms applied on top of it, can make a difference in many cases.

that is to say, you can probably not eliminate motion sickness entirely in all cases, but without care it's probably not hard to catalyze either.
Spam filtering in Gmail is a killer feature, now as much as when it first appeared.

These rants always skip that detail, the primary reason I stick with gmail.
outsource the page flipping
Be brutally honest, would you use this site?
Ask HN: Exitround.com, anyone have a good experience.
Good/Bad/Otherwise?
I've actually found Fastmail is better at spam filtering. I had a problem with many false positives on Gmail, but Fastmail is doing alright.

You can configure the spam filter to be more aggressive as well.
Bah. The real Project Morpheus features hovering rockets. Real ones. http://www.youtube.com/user/MorpheusLander
>That isn't a far comparison to make because the British government taking my stuff deprives me of that very stuff.

That is not the reason the restrictions exist at all. It's to prevent abuse of power, not just the police stealing your stuff.

Searching your house is, in general, far less abusive than stealing your digital information. You may not keep records of your private activities, you might not have any incriminating physical items. It also takes far more effort for the police to do.

Your digital information includes everywhere you've ever been, much of your conversations, the crazy things you Googled because you were curious, the porn you've looked at, everything you've ever bought, etc. Eventually it may even include recordings from microphone and cameras as they become ubiquitous. And all this becomes a permanent record of your life. It will be stored on some computer forever, never going away.

Oh ya, and it happens without your knowledge.
Not reliable, it hasn't worked me for the past month or two.
"It seems kind of ironic that a company whose motto is “Don’t Be Evil” has a flagship product that believes virtually every demographic group should be murdered en masse. I don’t know if this is a weird quirk of the search algorithm or if pretty much everyone who makes should-statements on the Internet is recommending genocide."

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/04/lies-damned-lies-and-fa...
Funnily the spam filter is what finally got me off Gmail. It developed a serious false positive problem with a couple of mailing lists I'm subscribed to - and yes the address was in my address book and all the other usual 'fixes'.

I can handle false negatives occasionally, but false positives are much harder to spot.

Fastmail's filter (SpamAssassin for the most part) is configurable in how aggressive it is.
I looked into this because I design optics. Too bad I can't use graphics oriented ray tracing to analyze designs!
The image is from a 2012 base layer, it's not new news or a new image.

http://www.3news.co.nz/Scientist-debunks-missing-plane-satel...
The stack doesn't have to be in the heap to make things better for recursion* , the JVM just needs to support tail-call optimisation.

See my blog post: http://blog.richdougherty.com/2009/04/tail-calls-tailrec-and...

I'm excited to see tail-call optimisation ("proper tail calls") coming to JavaScript. Hopefully a bit of competition will encourage the JVM to clean up its act too.

http://bbenvie.com/articles/2013-01-06/JavaScript-ES6-Has-Ta...

(* Heap-allocated frames can help with other things though, e.g continuations.)
I have used Fastmail for as long time (Yikes, at least 6 years at this point?), and have never had any issues with their spam filtering. For context I get about 800-1000 ham emails a day.
Why does Android requires obsolete JDK 6 and not the latest stable version? Android should probably be the biggest project that uses JVM.
That is ugly as heck - for some of the complaints that some people have with Angular's templating, it doesn't force you into tying your view so heavily to JS. That is far more of a travesty.
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check out https://www.spaceglasses.com/

they are essentially a full screen Google Glass with "touch" based UI. i am excited for the opportunity to use something like this as an IDE.
I use it at http://hn.premii.com/

I can't believe they didn't tested orientation change with minimal-ui.

Also, in landscape mode, you loose top ~30px area. If you tap there, it will show safari chrome, and your app won't receive tap.
Another vote here that Fastmail is fantastic.

I hope Google never buys them. The whole Opera period was scary, but they managed to stay independent.
>The hardware doesn't matter; some people just cannot stand certain forms of stimulation-without-movement that occurs with virtual reality

While it won't help every case, for the vast majority the motion sickness is alleviated when the head tracking is better (accurate positional tracking and low latency).

You can make pretty much anyone feel sick if you add enough lag to the display.
U.S. Patent #6,895,557: Web-based media submission tool
And how much net current/future amortized cost (time + maintenance + pain) / benefit there is between DIY & using "off-the-shelf" + learning/configuring/donkey-punching
Am I the only person who thinks that nearly every feature added in iOS 7 and iOS 7.1 is pretty terrible?

This is just another example. It's great in theory, but this should not be something that is left up to the content creators to decide.

It provides an inconsistent user experience for the person USING the browser. Imagine if you were using Chrome or Safari on desktop and you had to guess if the url bar and back button would be there every time you clicked a link to go to a new page. I suppose it is fine if you want people to feel like they are trapped on your page.

Awful.
That's really great.
Did you use emscripten or is the renderer programmed in Javascript?
Why does Android requires obsolete JDK 6 and not the latest stable version? Android should be probably the biggest project that uses JVM.
They already started to write some code: https://github.com/carlhuda/cargo
This is some pretty amazing code, actually. An MVC in 400 lines? Awesome. I could learn from this for days, lack of semicolons and one-line loops notwithstanding.
They should focus on getting the regular Android working and looking good before diverting attention to wearables.
Which is arguably what they'd say no matter what they thought. Not that Oculus doesn't have a lot going for it, but as a startup I'd be nervous to see a much larger company that makes both a game console and display technology push their own alternative.

But I guess there is not much lock-in effect - except for the current Oculus SDK, so hopefully games will start using a platform neutral one soon - and the market is potentially huge, so competition can also have a lot of pros.
Firstly: you can't fit all those notifications on a watch sized display. So you'd have to interact with the display.

Secondly: To interact with something strapped to your risk, involves both hands.

To interact with your phone requires 1 hand.

There's also a mild security element - notifications and information are essentially constantly being displayed to anyone looking at you, projected outwards from the body.

Add in all the other unsolved issues - i.e. no improvement in battery energy density for a couple of years now, and the whole thing is a non-starter. It can only provide less information, less conveniently.

The only benefit a watch brings to the table is when for whatever reason you can't carry something in your pocket.
No thanks, I'll wait for Oculus to release something that is guaranteed to work on my PC and not get locked into a Sony product - especially not after the rootkit debacle, and retroactively disabling linux on the PS3.
Ok, maybe I'm misunderstanding, but from [1]:

"CIDER (formerly nrepl.el) is the Clojure IDE and REPL for Emacs, built on top of nREPL, the Clojure networked REPL server."

That and the availability of the packages on melpa:

cider 20140318.... available Clojure Integrated Development Environment and REPL

And the fact that technomancy's git repository for nrepl.el hasn't been touched in 2 years leads me to believe that cider is the better nREPL choice ;) Be happy to hear that nrepl.el is still maintained and is better in some way than cider, but I don't see cider as being that heavy (at least as compared to SLIME).

[1] -- https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider
Sorry, I'm not totally clear on what you're looking for. My specialties are analyzing and optimizing conversion funnels (aka, user acquisition).

There are also startups that solve a specific marketing need. For example, Sverve (http://www.sverve.com) helps you find and work with female bloggers who will promote your content for a fee.
One, who the hell cares? Just because something is natural doesn't make it good. If you want natural, go live in a cave and risk dying whenever you get a cut or a tooth infection. There's nothing wrong with improving things.

Two, again, it's a real condition that seriously affects quality of life. Your argument is about as reasonable as telling crippled people they shouldn't have wheel chairs, or depressed people they shouldn't take anti-depressants, or otherwise blind people have glasses, etc. It's absurd and offensive.
That is a very good point, this might not have been explicitly said (or I just didn't read about it yet) but I just kind of assumed it works this way. We spy on your people we spy on our people and then we share if we find something interesting.

Other countries also might not have the same supposed privacy guarantees in their constitution so it doesn't even have to be symmetric (say Australians somehow spy both on us and their citizens).
Funny, I switched from Fastmail to Gmail a couple years ago. I was used to having IMAP access from my time in college, so Fastmail made sense at the time, but I came to prefer having a uniform mail experience--wherever I was connecting from--via a robust web client.

Gmail's filtering, spam detection, and labeling features are much better and Gmail integrates well with my calendar and file storage workflows.
iOS 7.1 fixes major regressions in Safari from 7.0
For most apps, I've found that slowness is not a problem with Angular. You can do some nasty things though if you're not careful though, definitely agree with that. If you have flaws elsewhere in your codebase, including the backend, it may be possible that in practice, the effects may trickle down to your frontend code with Angular - it has happened in an app I've worked on with a couple of other developers, in which flaws with the api performance caused us to implement some subpar workarounds that triggered many $digests & forced us to spend a day or two on just optimization.

Angular can be quite fast compared to jQuery in an app of substance. It is not constantly reading/writing to the DOM in most cases, which saves a lot on the performance front. It is also a smaller library than jQuery, and you're not naively applying global or complicated selectors. Plugins rewritten to be pure javascript + Angular also can have a much smaller footprint & be more powerful to boot, such as the Angular UI Bootstrap project (5 KB minified & gzipped as opposed to 15-35 KB? I forget Bootstrap's js size) & contains all of the power of Angular to modify your functionality with them & more.
Off the top of my head, there's at least one Turing Award winner at Google: Ken Thompson.

They have certainly successfully poached a bunch of awesome systems people from their positions in academia. I'm not sure how many from MS Research though.
You could have created a filter to avoid marking these mails as spam.
Flatten a list of lists with a list comprehension
The field of view on the first Rift Development Kit is difficult to quantify because it varies depending on the eye relief from the lens to the specific user's eye. This is part of why there is a visual calibration procedure for the kit.

In any case, the field of view on that hardware is generally lens limited and the lenses are round, so the monocular field of view for most users is circular. The diagonal field of view is then equal to the vertical and horizontal field of view.
Not everyone, but I would wager that most do: Many office desktops went from having an instance of Outlook.exe open 24 hours a day, to a couple of tabs in Chrome. Which is exactly why Google made it a rich, all-encompassing platform (calendars, contacts, instant messaging) -- it's a conversation dashboard that is intended to sit resident.

This whole discussion sounds like some sort of Fastmail astroturfing campaign. I mean when people complain about Google+ (which in gmail is wholly materialized as a +YourName up in the corner), it sounds like rote talking points.
Baker, the person DannyBee is talking about, is the person that Connor (the author of the article) is mocking.
Twitter recently got sued by a patent troll claiming infringement of this patent: http://www.summit6.com/summit6_feb_2014.pdf.
Erik Meijer and Leslie Lamport: Mathematical Reasoning and Distributed Systems