skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Times article was interesting (http://time.com/39577/facebook-oculus-vr-inside-story/ I know, I know, paywall), and I observed some pretty nifty psychological dynamic. It was written by someone who wasn't much of a gamer, so I got a chance to see his epiphany through his writing.

His mind was totally blown away. He kept talking about the aversion to wear something so ridiculous on there. He had never experienced what it felt like to step into another reality.

He said that there "is no edge". The screens wrapped around the peripheral vision. The lag is below the threshold that many would get that sense of "this is not quite real". It goes with the "VR-induced existential crisis" that has been reported with the Rift, and not with any previous technology. You start to forget you're wearing something.

I had not experienced that existential crisis when I used the Rift back in Oct, since my astigmatism distorted the viewscreens enough that I can see the edge. But more importantly, I have had a lot of psychedelic experiences and dream experiences where, now, shifting from one seemingly reality to another is not a big deal. The way these folks describe that existential crisis, about how there is no edge reminds me of what everyone says after coming down on their first trip.

From my perspective, this technology has the potential to bring to the mainstream what meditators and psychonauts have known about for a long, long time. I've seen an interpretation of the Matrix movie, about how the movie was about a virtual reality that is real; but it misses the main point, that this reality that you are in right now is not as real as you think it is. You're making an interpretation based on sensory data. It is no wonder that this tech induces existential crises :-) And it is in that experience of the existential crisis that something wakes up in the experiencer.

You ask some good, specific questions about adoption, and how Facebook will help with that. But that is also looking at it without a sense of how groundbreaking this tech is. It's the kind of tech that someone in the mainstream -- and not gamers who have these expectations in their head -- puts it on, tries it for the first time, and will get it. The game mechanics and the interactions are completely secondary to that experience of the existential crisis, and that alone, I think, will mean some form of the Rift technology, whether it is by FB or not, will emerge. It solves a problem people did not know they have, did not even realize they needed. The demand will be too great for there to be a vacuum.
Fancy private schools with lots of Ivy have pretty good financial aid. If your family has a relatively low income level it might even be cheaper to attend an Ivy league university than a state university.
Finally. WestJet switches to Metric Time.
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Our NLP technology is being used by some high-profile customers and is in demand by even more. As we work with ever increasing amounts of data, we particularly need someone with the expertise to design the right ways to handle all that data with high availability, whether the data arrives in batches or in live streams.

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Thanks; tip for next month (to head off some of the questions):

> Please lead with the location of the position and include
> the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA
Would one get new stuff when the old gets outdated?
If yes, what would you do with the old hardware? Who want's the old stuff then?
If not, is there any point other than your support for the consumer?
Doctors have been suggesting that people eat more fruits and vegetables for a lot more than 10 years.
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You are objecting to semantics, not substance.
I searched on the Internet and couldn't find it either. I also don't have access to this paper so I can't check. Can anyone clarify why they don't use something standard like grams? Nobody else seems to have the question so I assume it's just something standard that we aren't understanding.
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Forward-merge sounds useful, but can't you just fetch from the remote and then merge the remote -- e.g. git merge origin/shared-branch ?

Cascade, on the other hand, sounds way too risky for me to want to use. The few seconds of time you're saving are an investment into not fucking up something huge.

In general, I'm not a fan of anything that's designed specifically to make it easier for you to skirt a version control/deployment workflow you've established. That just puts unnecessary effort into treating the symptoms of a bad workflow (or an unrealistic stakeholder) when you should be working to address the root cause instead.
The creators of 'Elite' had this problem way back in the 1980's when they had to squeeze 8 galaxies complete with planet data into 32K of RAM. They solved the problem by 'procedurally generating' all of the required data from a seed number. Therefore, it isn't a question of cutting and pasting from Wikipedia etc., it is more a matter of getting the right 'seed number' for earth, updating the procedure for generating content and that should be it.

Anyway, here is something cut 'n' pasted from Wikipedia:

The Elite universe contains eight galaxies, each with 256 planets to explore. Due to the limited capabilities of 8-bit computers, these worlds are procedurally generated. A single seed number is run through a fixed algorithm the appropriate number of times and creates a sequence of numbers determining each planet's complete composition (position in the galaxy, prices of commodities, and even name and local details— text strings are chosen numerically from a lookup table and assembled to produce unique descriptions for each planet). This means that no extra memory is needed to store the characteristics of each planet, yet each is unique and has fixed properties. Each galaxy is also procedurally generated from the first.

However, the use of procedural generation created a few problems. There are a number of poorly located systems that can be reached only by galactic hyperspace— these are more than 7 light years from their nearest neighbour, thus trapping the traveller. Braben and Bell also checked that none of the system names were profane - removing an entire galaxy after finding a planet named "Arse".[9]

[9] Procedurally generated by unicorns.
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Thanks. Can you give me an example of using LC to prove a simple function can (or can't) be calculated? Is f(x){return 1/0} an example of a program that "can't be calculated" or is that just an error (does LC even have a concept of "error")? What about f(x){assert(false)}? Also, f(x){f(x)} clearly won't ever terminate; but how does LC "prove" this?
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This website is brilliant. I am looking forward to contributing to Coding Style Guide.
Interesting. I assume the pictures are all predone? Or is he typing away like crazy?
you, sir, appear have the chubby fingers of a five year-old
> It prepares you for one of the most fundamental of skills for white collar jobs: critical thinking

Right, because they certainly don't teach that in engineering school.
I've been using Circa for the past few months (maybe even up to a year?), and I much prefer it to email.

I've come to associate email with either personal correspondence, technical support, or spam.

The thing about a website or an app is that it's segmented. I have to actively decide, "Now's the time for this activity" instead of an email deciding for me.

Also, I didn't know theSkimm was a young-women's thing. My girlfriend (a young woman) gets it, but I didn't think it was specifically "for" her.
I took "Show HN" out of the title. "Show HN" is for products and projects that readers can play with now, not just sign up for.

Edit: That's the principle, but it didn't apply to this case. I reverted the change.

I'm posting comments like this for two reasons: for greater transparency, and so you all can tell me when I get it wrong. There is too much material on HN for anyone to evaluate it all accurately, so we're relying on you. Our goal is to have the best stories on the front page.
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Having a wiki-page regarding a matter of contentious opinion just results in edit wars, because at any time only one point-of-view can be presented as the "accepted" one.

Whereas, on a Q&A-type site, you can have "idiomatic way to do X in Y" as the question, each person's point-of-view as a possible answer, and then the community can just vote the most popularly-agreed answer to the top, instead of editing a single answer back-and-forth.
Didnt you run Iraqi ministry of information back in the day?
I personally like email because I don't usually have to deal with the worst of it, but the argument that it's useful because we all use it seems... incomplete. We all have addresses, should we be sending more mail? We all have pens, should we switch to longhand? Email is good for some stuff but not other stuff, no need to oversell it as a platform it was never meant to be and never will be.
Both Harvey Mudd and CalTech are private. :)
The annual % ROI on my degree is basically infinite, since the state of Florida paid for my entire BS. Sure, Florida Atlantic is not a place most people have heard of, but I still managed a Fortune 500 EE job right out of school, in late 2002 no less.
My experience as CEO was that my job was to keep everyone focused and pulling in the same direction. The best way to do this was to communicate clearly and on multiple levels the reasons for doing something and also outline the opportunities the expected outcomes will create.

A good CEO is one that needs to play the CEO card as little as possible due to a mastery of the referent, expert and reward power. If you have to use the threat of punishment to get someone to do something it's already too late.
Is it really that strange an idea to build a startup focused on email? Sendgrid, mailchimp etc seem to do fine. Not to mention the various tools and services for email migration, backup, hosting etc.

If anything email seems like a much safer bet than building something for twitter, considering the number of businesses that rely on it and the fact that you're less likely to be screwed over by some policy decision.
I know this is an April Fools joke, I think this actually isn't such a bad idea for small companies that need tech support and don't have an internal IT department. (I guess GeekSquad basically does this already, but they're GeekSquad).
GeoIP databases, HTTP headers, HTML tags, TLDs, heuristics based on the language and links from other sites...
I've found that once I proved myself as a programmer, I've become a highly sought after engineer due to my extremely high ceiling - my education is heavy in math & physics (math & physics undergrad, math grad education).

It does take some self-investment, but you have a flexibility not afforded by most disciplines - math & physics best prepares you more generally if you apply the lessons. I feel confident innovating/performing in many other aspects as well, but I chose software engineering & the developer crunch chose me.
Actually. It's - unfortunately for me - partly true. She was able to figure out that you're able to use the number keys before me, and actually hitting 1A... I was fiddling around with my mouse up to that moment :|

(Semi off topic: I don't know how far developed your offspring is, but my four days shy of two years old is only able to count up to three and recognize her own name when written down sufficiently large ;)

Edit: she's also able to mash key's like a perl programmer)
Try to use Google's DNS: 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4
In regards to (1), they can lease/finance them. As long as the $60 includes enough gross margin, and as long as they have enough borrowing capacity, they don't need $2000 * X laptops to start up.

Seems like a good relationship with their financing partner would be key.
Have you put any thought in to enabling CORS?
No that's not right. Both TCP and UDP are single source single destination formats. Eg, they both have a definite IP/port specified in their headers. A packet sent directly to your friend cannot get to you or vice versa. So what you experienced was simply the Everquest server sending the same duplicate information to both you and your friends, which could be done with both UDP and TCP.
He said in a comment that he looked at the code so I assume he really figured out that the thing is build on top of BoonEx Dolphin Smart Community Builder, probably a version from around 2007, and looked at it. But lets stop here, we are assuming way to much.
Yup that's what I thought as well. After looking into it some more, I think HTTP/S implies you are using one of the transport layers; conversely, you can directly access the transport layer without using one of the traditional application layers. But that doesn't completely mesh with the parts about modifying TCP or UDP.
Stay classy, Harvard.
Hotmail and Yahoo Mail did that many years earlier....
It depends on what you are using the carousel for.

For example if you are showing let say showing a set of different products, carousel is a bad choice. Because it is dependent on interaction by user or the possibility the user stays on the page long enough for carousal to change image.

But if you are on the product page and viewing different angles of the same product. The bigger the image better the conversion. In this case we have found carousal can help. You still can not use carousal without thumbnails. Thumbnails create 3 times more interaction compared to Carousal. So to summarize for us at Bryght following is true.

Carousal Only < Thumbnails Only < Both Carousal + Thumbnails

Here is the example of product page we are currently experimenting:

http://www.bryght.com/product/854/long-island-brown-leather-...
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+1. he's been extremely supportive of our Python & node.js efforts in visual studio. a while back i gave him a demo of PTVS and he strongly encouraged & supported us in putting Python on Azure. it was the renaissance of Python at microsoft in a way.

http://pytools.codeplex.com

http://nodejstools.codeplex.com

https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-for-python
I believe, on the other hand, that that kind of thinking defines a very different kind of site than StackOverflow.

It might be a different kind of site that you would prefer to StackOverflow, but that's a different question.
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and that's what makes /r/ so popular.
I was a chemistry major at Caltech but got the opportunity to learn about mutual exclusion by taking the CS department's operating systems course.
CS isn't the same as software engineering, but the companies recruiting from Harvey Mudd CS majors tend to be fairly engineering-heavy in their outlook, even when hiring for CS positions. There's a lot of attention from places like Lockheed, Aerospace Corporation, even the oil & gas sector. Those kinds of companies typically require a STEM degree, unlike tech startups. Which specific degree varies based on the job: sometimes CS, sometimes engineering, sometimes math, sometimes it can be flexible.

You can get a loose idea of who's interested in recruiting there by looking at who sponsors senior clinic projects, and what areas they're in, e.g.: http://www.cs.hmc.edu/clinic/projects/
As a dad who would love their kids to go to Harvard caliber schools, this is very scary.

I know deep down that all those administrators are not bad people.

Without knowing the other side of the story, I'm still willing to go out on a limb and say they are bad.
And by the way, I'm pretty sure you meant $2.3 trillion.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/06/16/1149964738204.html

But I don't really mind that you were off by an order of magnitude, because I honestly think it's a valid criticism. Sometimes governments spend a lot of money with nothing to show for it, or end up making things worse. That does happen.

So, you either believe that there's some standard a government should have to reach before it decides to spend money on things... what standard?

Or you believe government should never get involved.

But, if you believe government shouldn't get involved, I bet you think there's a valid way for people to organize themselves about issues they care about...

And what would you recommend to them, if they care about Climate Change, think it's a real threat, and want to do something?

And, again, what metric should they use, to determine that scientists should be listened to, when they describe threats?
The name is an optional field, so no one is being forced here. If you don't fill out your name, this oh-so-clever "hack" doesn't work.
I think what the parent meant was that, in business, you have customers, and customers want things. You don't have to do exactly what your customers say--allowing opinion-based questions directly on StackOverflow would be dumb--but every demand does represents some kind of unmet need that you could profit by satisfying, whether by adding features to your current service, or by creating a new companion service.
I have no problem concentrating / focusing given there are no constant conversations / noise, people moving around, music, sales guy on the phone 8 hours a day, etc.

It's absurd to expect human beings, especially software engineers--who tend to be quieter, more introverted, and loner-types--to be herded like cattle into a crowded, noisy open-plan office and expect them to have the razor-sharp focus needed for high quality software development.

If you only hire people who thrive in noisy / distracting environments, I won't be surprised if you end up hiring the wrong people for actually getting the job done-because often times, the people who take on the most work, resolve the most difficult problems, and carry the most weight are those people who can't stand working in a place like that.
That's awful.

Unfortunately, it's not really related to entrepreneurship or hacking, nor to things that effect our industry as a whole, so it shouldn't be here. Flagged.
That's my point. Without FB, this tech remains as a gaming tech, not a mainstream tech. The latter is vastly bigger.
Single page view:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/3/31/Harvard-sexual-a...
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The HTTP service sends by responding to a client request. For psuedo-streaming, usually just client polling.
She didn't pay anything. She stopped/cancelled the wire transfer
That should already be supported. Are you having issues?
This is great. However I have one bone to pick(or rather know if its been taken care of)
Scrapy uses xpaths or equivalent representations to scrape. However there are many alternate xpaths to represent the same div.
For e.g. Suppose data is to be extracted from the fifth div in a sequence of divs. So it would use that as the xpath. But now say it also has a meaningful class or id attribute. An xpath based on this attribute might be a better choice because this content may not be in the fifth div across all the pages in a site I want to scrape.
Is this taken care of by taking the common denominator from many sample pages?
It was a broad statement against higher education in the US. There are exceptions, CS being a very notable one as this article points out.
"it screams for a public API"

But many content owners would never provide their data in this format even if doing-so would be trivial.
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