skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook has no experience whatsoever in that domain, and the only way I see Oculus benefiting from this is the huge cash reserves they'll have access to once acquired.

There's a lot of infrastructure that a gaming company needs in 2014 that doesn't have that much to do with Oculus's core gaming focus and that Facebook has very direct experience with. Look at how long it took Sony to get remotely competitive with the Xbox's interface; look at powerhouses like EA and Nintendo embarrass themselves year after year. System UX, payments, network scaling, "social", building a customer friendly game marketplace. I don't think these are the areas Luckey, Carmack and company can't wait to work on in the morning, but they're perfectly suited to Facebook.

In a better case scenario, I can see Facebook (or Apple or Google, to be fair) helping Oculus build another Steam competitor years sooner than otherwise imaginable. Imagine if there were two brilliant companies competing to push the envelope on Linux gaming.
No you saw something that you interpret as a lion. Thats a very different thing.
If anything this really hurts Kickstarter. Not Facebook, nor Oculus Rift.

It's a denunciation of crowd funding. It should be a wake up call.
I would compare Angular more to Symfony as far as PHP frameworks go - complicated & arguably overengineered solutions, but extremely powerful and conducive to good organization & modularity.
That page has web buttons that overlap my scrollbar.... how is that even a thing? please make it stop.
Given your description, I wonder if perhaps you're burning out due to over-committing to your work. Caring about the work one does is laudable, but if it's the only thing one cares about, it will never completely satisfy, and a passion-then-quit cycle like you describe seems to be a familiar result.

There are plenty of suggestions online for ways to avoid burnout, but it seems like it's even harder to diagnose than prevent, and usually involves a lot of soul searching. I unfortunately don't have any good recommendations for either diagnosis or prevention, but it might be worth considering as a possibility.

If you're not familiar with the patterns of burnout, I found this article to be a good introduction: http://nymag.com/news/features/24757/
Yeah that's what i thought too... But it's harder to find one than using a existing term that sucks :)
Agree with this- my handwriting has drastically declined in quality since my high school days, where I would still have to hand write all assignments, mostly with fountain pens.

I use one now, but don't write stuff by hand very much on a daily basis. Which is kind of sad, because I agree- it is a an act of craftsmanship.

To start with, I'd recommend buying one of the cheaper Lamy Safari pens with a Fine nib, a plunger (not refills) and some Noodlers black ink.
WebTorrent: Torrents in the browser
Is Google overreaching by forcing me to use TLS?
I am not sure what exactly they mean by "real time" in a JS context. Not what my previous understanding of it would be.
I don't get it, this app was clearly doomed and he says so:

"Two weeks after our re-launch we only had 1100 total users, 1079 of whom I’m sure were people I personally invited, bribed or guilt tripped into downloading the app."

"Prior to the child porn incident we were seeing significant drops in user acquisition and usage"

So how did a single incident with a perv (or more likely a troll) "kill" it?
When you're ready to go the next step, a safety razor will go a long ways towards a better, less irritating shave as well. 6¢ blades mean you're not as inclined to use them past getting dull, less plastic waste, and a stupidly close shave.
I have a fantasy that birthrates continue to fall in the developed world, while urbanization continues to rise. Then we can demolish the empty suburbs and turn them into national parks.

A guy can dream, can't he?
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Understand that you are drinking plain water when you take a "homeopathic medicine". It is indistinguishable from the stuff that comes out of your tap.
See the OpenStreetMap ecosystem.

Admittedly it's not quite the same vein as most Open Data, as the majority of Open Data implies it coming from closed sources.

I'd also include other geospatial companies who provide visualisation and analyses tools which are using other things apart from OSM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing is pretty good.

Think "stuff that controls your car" or some components of a mars rover, or some medical devices. It needs to respond within hard time limits or Bad Things can happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

along the lines of: responses are guaranteed within a certain time
>I have no idea on how they do those clinical studies which say that there is no difference between a placebo and actual homeopathic medicines.

So read up on them. Here's a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy it is very well researched and you can review the papers yourself.

Also:

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeo.html

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6860/has-most-pe...

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1915/has-there-e...

>I have doubts that these studies are really done by independent personnel and not by those who get directly/indirectly paid by companies like Merck, J&J, etc.

Oh come on!! Do you really think the National Science Foundation[1] is a Merck shill? or the scientific journal Bioethics?[2]

[1] http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind02/c7/c7s5.htm#c7s5l2

[2] http://www.dcscience.net/Smith-response.pdf

>have seen improvement in my physical condition every time

Please note, the types of things homeopathy is prescribed for are self limiting. Your body will heal over time without intervention, so yes! You will feel an improvement! The remedy you took has nothing to do with it though.
With a name like yours, I'd think you'd realize that your statement applies to pretty much every corner of the globe minus a few countries.
503 Service Temporarily Unavailable.

Just seconds before I was to send very clever real time message:

Such RealTime, Wow.
Chromecast is first and foremost, a great product. It is very simple to use and setup is a breeze. Then, it makes use as simple as using the YouTube/Netflix/Play app on your phone/tablet. There isn't any new learning curve associated with it.

Then, the price point is just great. $35 is a steal for what it does.

It is also very thought out. It is very small and was the first product that I can think of that is just an hdmi dongle. Also, if your TV allows it, Chromecast can turn on your TV and switch the input to itself. Way too easy.
In our town we have a new Open Data hub website which I getting government support. So that's one angle.

On the other side of town we have an Open Data Institute - and these (again centrally funded) run a number of corporate level training days around open data. The idea is to make a little ecosystem around it.
well - web chat with a minified js source.

What did you want to show us?
Where is the documented source, where is regression test, where even is the license file?
Buddhists write a lot more logically than scientists on the subject. As they point out, "you can not observe an experience", and science relies on observing subjects.
They're also building a replica EDSAC. http://www.tnmoc.org/special-projects/edsac
Yes, I hooked it up to my Win7 gaming rig, and had to turn interface scaling to 125% and zoom in on most web pages. It works well, and font rendering is drastically improved.
No wonder Songs is an app to download pirated Bollywood songs.
Not sure if this is what you're looking for but I just found it an interesting read: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_...
My two major complaints with generics in Java is lack of type aliases and the whole issue with primitive types support.
And... it's gone down under the eager weight of HN.
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Jobs had a relatively benign cancer that has something like a 90% survival rate. Jobs's case was not unusually deadly, and there is every reason to think he would have been cured if he had received proper treatment reasonably soon after being diagnosed.

It goes beyond simply wishing he hadn't died, too. He managed to finagle a healthy liver transplant in the process, which might have gone to someone with a better chance of surviving with it longer.
OK, Django ORM, conditional aggregates - these were not possible last time I checked. You can do it at the application level, but say you want to keep the performance up, you need to drop into SQL.
You mean it filters out people with too much self respect to jump through hoops to get a shitty start up job.
The details I was expecting are more in the line of what measures they put in place to mitigate the issue, more than "Our mitigation strategy included filtering through a single provider and working with them to remove bogus traffic." which sounds like "our hosting provider enabled the DDoS mitigation service they've got in place". Again, that's not what I expect from a post-mortem but I guess this is me being a geek and not a Basecamp customer :)

Cheers
There is a german startup around my corner that already delivers unsucky webinar tech: http://www.slidepresenter.com/en/

@alex_ka - maybe you should have a talk with them …
Minority Report has live feed of future non-natural deaths.
Don't look at it as an "earthquake", look at it as a buying opportunity! ;-D
Post docs in UC schools are unionized (as well as elsewhere).
I don't have a scrollbar for some reason (Chrome 33.0.1750.152 on OSX 10.9.2)
Oculus CEO Palmer Lucky responds to Notch's "cancellation" of Minecraft for Rift
I can't rave about my Shure 535 IEMs enough. I'm even about to spend the $2-300 to get custom molded fittings for them Near-reference quality sound (a little too warm, though it hasn't been an issue so far), great isolation (about 25db), and they are hard to have randomly pulled out of your ears.

Granted, this is well out of the $100 ballpark, but they're still fantastic.

If you're looking for reference quality sound at under $100, look into the Etymotic in-ear headphones. Ridiculously good, though they are a bit weak on the low end of the spectrum (not enough that you won't feel bass on real punchy songs, but enough that they don't sound like any other headphone on the market).
> Real Time does not mean "happening as fast as possible"

That's not the meaning that's being used here. Here it means "events are shown at the time when they occur". Which is a very common meaning of the expression "real time".
I want to replace every computer in the world with this.
Seems a little similar to http://dweet.io
Apple has (or had) Dell and HP servers to power its data centres.
So a bunch of Americans are suing a Japanese company in US courts? Let me know how that works out.
In you want more:

http://zeptobars.ru/en/

The nice thing is they decap old/common devices.
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Amazon (non-AWS) is infamous for being vulnerable to social engineering attacks. I don't know if they've changed their polices more recently but they are (or were) often the first attack vector for social engineering. If you can get access to an Amazon account you can get the last 4 digits of the user's credit card number(s). You can then use that info to reset accounts over the phone with other companies.
Do you use a jquery plugin to make the scroll feel smooth or CSS?
While in the UK over Christmas that was a plan though because of all the flooding and bad weather my partner and I decided against it since we didn't want to lose our last day in bad transit.

If I can recall it's something like a 45 minute train ride from Euston station to Bletchley.
weather is just a blank black screen on my Mac...doesn't even seem worth pulling out a mobile to try
I agree in general, but when it comes to medicine then people absolutely need to make the time to research the stuff.

I mean, I can't fathom this question:

> While purchasing medicine, do you turn over the bottle, examine each ingredient, then look up the science behind them?

Who says "no" to this?! Is that really a thing?

I swear, there is no hope for humanity.
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ Is the website too.

Like has been said it's easy to get to and worth the trip if you're into the history of computer science.

I went a year ago and it was very inspirational and the perfect antidote to startup BS and all that NSA stuff. Around the time i went i was reading a book about the history of cryptography and it was great linking everything together!

It's just a shame Alan was treated the way he was although the letter from Gordon Brown PM in the main museum is definitely worth a look for any LGBT history guru!
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Absolutely not, with where the SDK is currently at.

I've tried quite a few games and demos with the current SDK (the one that is publicly available,) and several of them included text in menus et cetera. It was always an absolute eyestrain and pain to read anything. Maybe it'll get better once the new version is released, which supposedly has a much higher resolution.

But I suspect even then, it'll be impractical; not being able to see your keyboard/mouse from your peripheral vision, having to move your head around to bring different parts of the document into focus, not being able to see a book/document you have sitting next to your keyboard for reference, the added strain over time, ... as well as the added complication that most people who code probably have to look at other peoples screens occasionally, talk to other people, et cetera, which will involve a lot of switching back-and-forth, which can be quite disturbing.

See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqZZKi4UHuo this video for some experience from the owlchemy lab guys, who have been using the rift extensively during development for testing their game.
Bitcoin is like cash. It's far more valuable than credit card data.
Actually, if most buildings get destroyed without insurance, prices will rise as offer shrinks.

Unless you're trying to buy terrains for construction.
It definitely clicks on the bottom part where a button would have been. The top / middle don't.
Wait, so are they actually trying to take a picture of the boot ROM used by the 3DS?
I wouldn't buy a $50 table from Ikea with a hole in it.

You spill anything in that hole and the wood will start to warp.

OP could use a cheap filler and hope nobody notices.
The public beta starts on April 9th (they sent an announcement yesterday).
I wonder what the compilers would be like. If these guys contribute, say, an LLVM backend, that would make it so much easier to support.
There is a (First person, 3D) game, Antichamber, that has some elements of this. The room/corridor around you can change by looking, such as:

Walk up to dead end.
Turn around.
Corridor is no longer there, a dead end instead.
Turn around again.
There is now a brand new corridor in fron of you.
(These changes never visibly happen, but happen when they are out of view)

Another (more maze like) example can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4JxhiNz8ec

(first video I found, there a probably better examples)
Can you, pedantic neckbeards, stop whining about people shortening "soft realtime" to "realtime."
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So what? They also have non-Apple made workstations. Just like Microsoft developers use Macs.
This, on the other hand, is much more ambitious:

https://github.com/feross/webtorrent
$3 for a micro controller as powerful as the Pro is absolutely insane. I remember paying 10x that price for some components for an early generation Arduino back in college 5 years ago. Eventually I'm sure that $3 will be the normal retail price for these boards, at which point I think we will start to see some amazingly disruptive disposable electronics emerge.

Isn't it great to live in the future?
This guy will probably avoid traveling to any country where people want to prosecute him.
Yes! Also, placebo has been shown to be more efficient if more expensive, so they can't just be giving them away.
At the higher wage you seem to want me to pay, I can hire a more qualified developer, so now I won't pay the original developer at all. Exploitation eliminated FTW!
Bzzzt. Web "real time" isn't even soft real time, really, in the traditional sense.

It mostly just means "web sockets" so that you're not polling the web server to get updates. And honestly that's a pretty nice development in web development, and something to celebrate. Just that it's not the same thing that a lot of us think of when we think "real time software".
I don't see that paragraph as implying that people of the 19th century are inferior to us. Rather, I see it as stating in a cute and short way that people figured out that homeopathy was bogus long ago, and it should have stopped then.

In other words, it's not "this from the 19th century and therefore stupid," but rather, "this was debunked a very long time ago and it's ridiculous that anybody continues to use it."
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That's nothing. Standard Italian layout lacks tilde and backtick completely… and one needs three fingers to type “{” or “}”. I use only US layout for programming.

Actually, I switch between three layouts on my machine (the third one is for my mother tongue), and I also use AltGr for typographic characters.
(Mill team)

We are in fact working on an LLVM backend right now.

This will generate Mill IR, which will be 'specialised' on-target so will run on all Mill family members.
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How viable are "clever" ccTLDs outside .com and .org? I've always wondered how usable those domains are to people outside our small tech bubble.

Especially back when the .ly domains were all the rage, but also now that .io have the same SEO as .com domains.
Great beat poem. Here is the live performance: http://youtu.be/KtYkyB35zkk
Famo.us demos famous mobile applications.
Bizarrely, their first example app - http://www.paddleover.com - gives us this message:

We currently only support OS X Lion.
Enter your email below and we'll let you know when
support is available.

Could there be a more user-hostile useragent detect script?

In any case; it's not a JS app, it's a plugin.
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Is Karpelès a US citizen? I don't see it anywhere, I think he's French (born and raised in France).
You might fins some help here:
http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/sfgeo/liquefaction/susceptibility...
Any recommendations for what to get if you're looking to get into developing on the Arduino?
1930s immigrants who Americanized their names earned more
Math doesn't check out for me: plane flies at ~700mph or 0.2 miles per second. Satellite speed is on the order of 5 miles per second. Sensors separation is on the order of a few inches. It would take about 15 microseconds between first and last sensor passing over the same spot. The plane can only move around 5 millimeters in this amount of time. It looks like it's moved several hundred feet.

What am I missing?
None of these demos are for desktop, famo.us was built mobile first
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I would love to stop using webinar. It reminds me of those web 2.0 buzzwords crap we all had to endure.

Unfortunately the markets for webinars understands the term, therefor it remains alive.
The issue wasn't that simple. The Army marched in and pretty much went rogue -- they came in and started blowing up buildings to create firebreaks and caused more fires in the process.

The city was also particularly vulnerable to destruction from fire. Lots of unstable landfill, the water used for fire fighting was in underground cisterns that were damaged, and key firefighting personnel were killed.

There's a recent book "San Francisco is Burning" that is a really good account.
Does he have US citizenship? His Wikipedia page says he was born in France and moved to Japan in 2009, and makes no mention whatsoever of the US aside from Gox's bankruptcy filing.
He's French according to Wikipedia and it doesn't mention anything about US citizenship [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Karpelès
Acupunture is as BS as homeopathy. Here is a great overview.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/reference/acupuncture/
Uno R3 is your best bet. Simple to use and is the basis for most projects. Plus, it has USB for communication while some other boards don't.
Not sure you actually want to know, but it’s not the page that has the scrollbar here but an inner div with overflow-y:scroll;
You have no expectation of privacy while in public.
Yep, I tried it last week. It still requires Ubuntu 10.04 and from what I can see isn't very portable to other distributions.
2 years ago, it was cool.

Today #GSAP is the state of art, if you want futuristic UX, spend a few minutes exploring this site UX:
http://intothearctic.gp (get past 'start exploring')

Today it is a solution looking for a problem and no market.
I'd grab an uno. Great starter board.
Also local imports, and being able to treat any object as a module.
He isn't American, he's French, there is nothing to renounce or have both ways.
if you research the history of famo.us that was the app they were originally funded to build, and took a ton of hacks and workarounds to achieve good HTML5 perf. Thats when they realised the opportunity for a famo.us-like framework was necessary.
Mentioned in Rust's rationale for abandoning segmented stacks:

"when out of stack a function call will force an allocation of a new segment, which is later freed upon return. This is expensive even when the new stack segmented is cached."

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-November/00...
The thing I first paid attention to was that there is no longer a mad dash to sign up in the first 10 seconds, but they pick people at random from those who apply in the first 2 days. I might actually make it for once!
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One thing I always wondered about is why are we using floating point arithmetic at all, instead of fixed point math with explicitly specified ranges (say, "here I need 20 bits for the integer part and 44 for the fractional part")? What is the practical value of having a floating point that would justify dealing with all that complexity and conceptual problems they introduce?
> they decided not to act on the findings.

Hey, how typical. Let's not imagine a kind of collusion between politicians and homeopathic drugs makers, let's not.
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As a US citizen, if I lived outside the US and was summoned back for "questioning" by adverse parties, there's almost no reason I can imagine going. If that's truly all they want, then there's no reason it needs to be done in person. Depositions can be conducted remotely in many (though not all) jurisdictions.
MtGox has an entity incorporated in Delaware.
In Firefox at least, you can open the post from the RSS feed and read it without Javascript:

http://gaasedelen.blogspot.co.uk/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss...
Check out The Haskell Cast:

http://www.haskellcast.com
You probably redirect based on the first found locale. Most Dutch users browser with an accept language similar to "nl,en-GB;q=0.8,en;q=0.6,en-US;q=0.4".

If you only match on the first ("full") locale and not paying attention to the lower q-valued locales, you might think English is not accepted and you will redirect to your (default?) German site. It's a pretty common bug in locale detection systems (as I designed a few ones myself) :)
You can already get Chinese-made clones of the Pro Mini for less than $3, it's probably a good way to embed microcontrollers permanently in one-off projects.
sometimes I think there is a very fine line between math visualizations and art.

I keep thinking it would be interesting to take an image (like a face) and let it show through the maze instead of colorizing it.