skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious how much of the change to allowing "standing experiences" was technical, and how much was legal. In previous Oculus demos, they would give standing demos yet all official interviews said that the Rift is a "seated experience." My guess was that they were always constrained by not only a limited tracking volume but also the potential for litigation if someone sues them for tripping and falling.

The fact that the Vive very openly was advertising a stand-and-walk-around experience may have helped convince Oculus that the risk of litigation was outweighed by the need to not be giving a sense of inferior hardware.
There's a small subreddit devoted to the idea of programming inside VR. Several examples there.

http://www.reddit.com/r/hmdprogramming
I have been living in NYC for ten years. I use cabs constantly. This has happened to be exactly one time. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I think the idea that this is common for NYC cabbies to do is really outdated.
Hey some of us believe that ipv6 is a good solution for containers. There are even products that support it (like Calico http://calicoproject.org/ ) and even a few cloud providers (not digital ocean who think that 16 ipv6 addresses is ipv6).

If you want a real ip/ipv6 stack for your container, try unikernels.
I thought the reason why the modern "flat" movement existed at all was because text doesn't appear on a "regular" surface; its on a computer screen. The idea was that designers should be honest in their use of computer designs rather than emulate the real world, thus the rejection of skuemorphic design. Putting your button on a brick-like background doesnt make the button any more "real", as the surface exists only in the computer screen and thus doesnt actually have the raised edges, the difference in texture from the mortar, the weathering of the brick work etc.

It has more to do with a harking back to the principles of the swiss international typographic style and the bauhaus principles; honesty in design, modernism.

blah blah blah I don't know what my point is.
Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide
This is easily solved by putting everything in a bash function and calling the function as the last thing in the script. If you look at the Cloud SDK setup script, that is exactly what it does.
That ringed a few bells...

Being an immigrant with both first and last names that people in US have hard time to pronounce let alone spell, I'd never turn the trick "My parents decided they wanted less traditional names for their children" on my children. In fact, I'm seriously thinking of legally changing my own name to look more American, because I'm tired of triple-checking my name spelling on each document and credit card, and responding to calls from people who cannot pronounce my name at all.
AFAIK, you are correct. In Clojure, square brackets are used for vector literals. Furthermore, Clojure uses vectors in some places (e.g. parameter lists in function definitions) that most Lisps use regular lists in order to help make those things more visually distinct.
Now factorising Ras 1536. Will post the results when done
Econtalk on interest rates are quite on topic, check out here: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/04/scott_sumner_on.htm...
Bigtable is the original Cassandra/HBase.
As a brand new Rails developer/web developer altogether, I'm an outsider looking. But it feels to me the chants of "Rails is doomed" mirror that of "PHP is doomed". Yet as you state (and show in your links) PHP is still very healthy and nowhere near death. Sure it might not be the hottest thing on the block, but really JS won't remain the hottest thing on the block in 20 years either, but JS won't die. Neither will Rails. Rails might not the new scorching hotness that it was in 2006, but it's still plenty hot. Rails has quite a bit of life left in it.
More and more, I'm finding I like what comes from the CoreOS group.
FinCEN Fines Ripple Labs for Bank Secrecy Act Violations
Nothing magic here. Be careful with the == comparison operator and its type juggling. If you want to match things precisely, use the === operator. Loose comparisons can have dangerous side-effects!

The MD5 examples are really just cloaked comparisons like this one, later in the list:

var_dump('0010e2' == '1e3');

((10 x 10^2) == (1 * 10^3))

http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php

http://php.net/manual/en/types.comparisons.php
Better stay on the backroads when you drive. And don't try crossing the street without help from a grown-up.
This is in fact the life of a video game tester, and everyone I know who's done it speaks of how quickly it becomes hell.
I bought a Syma X5C ($50 or so) and its AXIS for the motor is plastic and could not hold one of those 'spinning-fan', I had not put super glue to make it 'fixed-for-good' yet. So far it never worked.
from my experience, it uses the driver's phone gps + the place you asked to be picked + your phone's gps. and yeah, it could totally be gamed, but i think people should email uber whenever this happens since those drivers are scumbags.

i emailed them before regarding problems with drivers and the customer support team is always good (twice i had problems with drivers doing longer routes when smaller ones were better and once i had a problem with a driver that accepted my request but never showed up).

(btw, i'm not an uber employee, i just like the service and use at least twice a month)
It seems from the article that the best way to handle this is to uninstall all the trash that comes with a new computer (or hell, reinstall windows from scratch). Do I need Lenovo's power management tools? No. Do I need its Wifi connection manager? No. Windows has all this stuff already and it works really, really well.
Well, you want a reputation as a "go-to" person. The ability to get your fingers into all kinds of pies can be pretty interesting (as in: when layoffs have happened, you are more likely to survive because you can work on anything).

Some organizations don't like this. They want to pigeon-hole you as "the mouse driver guy" or whatever, and when your company stops making mice you're in trouble. Avoid these places if you can.
4-5 Gs.
> Anyone who has critical opinion of current system should first study [... the] general equilibrium theory of credit [...] macro- and microeconomic determinants of the demand for money, Baumol–Tobin transactions demand for money, portfolio selection, demand function stability, quantity theory, general equilibrium framework for money, yield curve, interest parity, AA–DD paradigm, etc. [... A]t least I know enough economics to know that I don't have simple technical solution

That's like saying you can't complain of a headache unless you're a neurosurgeon. Not even when the neurosurgeons have declared they have no solution for your headache. And heaven forbid you try to do something about it before studying graduate-level neurology.

(BTW, neurosurgeons have a much better diagnosis and treatment rate than economists.)
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More anecdata: this happens to me continually. I have successfully reported at least half a dozen drivers in as many months for refusing to go to bushwick.
Kansas City, MO and Uber have worked out their differences. I believe Uber will provide background check info to the city about their drivers, and pay a flat fee to cover all their drivers in the city.

http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2015/04/23/kansas...
One time I went to McDonalds and the pickles were all mixed up with the mustard. This industry really needs a regulatory overhaul.
I think I would be weeping for humanity if these checks and balances vanished. Yes it is onerous, but sometimes they serve a purpose. If it stops one unfortunate event it is worth it in my books. Also, I am tired of this disrupt everything meme.
Why should highly privileged blacks be favored over underprivileged Indians?

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/the-haves-and-t...

(Note: privileges the black Oaklandians were born with include the right to work in the US, a highly functional education system where teachers show up to work, 24/7 running water and power, etc.)
I'm more concerned with why uber/lyft/etc are so popular.

They wouldn't be as big as it was if the existing system wasn't literally awful, as someone in SF -- if I wanted a '''real''' taxi, it has a chance to not bother coming several hours later more than anything. And then intentionally taking roundabout routes just to fuck me out of even more fare.

And at Santa Ana Metrolink, I had 'taxi' drivers effectively try stealing my bags, throwing them into their vehicles, and trying to drag me along while I was waiting for uber/lyft. Maybe in cities where there is significantly more regulation, enough licences, and no corruption Uber would not be nearly as popular.
Time to rebalance into bonds?
Have you ever run "./configure" on some open source code you downloaded? That's no more safe. In this case, curl | bash is probably more safe because at least it came over HTTPS.
My wife is one of those people and one day I asked her why she goes for her phone instead of her tablet when she wants to look something up. It's because she is already on her phone most of the time, because after work she spends hours messaging with her friends. (I can't even sit near her when she's doing this because she doesn't turn off the buzzer and it's super annoying to be around.) She spends many, many hours looking at that little screen.

Personally, the less I have to interact with my limited phone, the better. I use it mainly for 4 things: calls, sms, maps and music. Once in a while, I use it to read the news when I'm not near an actual computer (or tablet). Occasionally, I use specialized apps like Amazon AWS Virtual MFA. Other than that, I just can't stand to use it for anything.
I spoke to the driver, as he was loading the suitcase. He clearly knew the destination, even before the ride had started.
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I believe if your are over 45 and not very specialized you will not get a job anymore.
Predictive of what? On what timescales? In which situations? And why?

If I'm trying to predict, say, the price of a currency over a day, I'm going to use a different model than if I'm trying to predict the price of a currency over a year, even though it's likely I could use the same models. I'd also pick different models if I knew that oil prices had just gone up 50% than I would if I knew that the S&P had downgraded the US credit rating.

Which model you choose comes from an understanding of the inputs of the model, the thinking behind the model, and the situations in which the model is suitable.

There's no shortcut here. In any sufficiently complex field, people without any understanding of the field don't even know what they don't know, and therefore can't form valid opinions on the field.

Intelligent people whose self-esteem is partially based on their intelligence are particularly susceptible to the Dunning-Kruger effect. Don't fall prey to that. Recognize when you don't know something, and admit it.
Done! We added a button to hide / show the chart. It will remember your settings for future sessions.
Scriptures4Us
Do you want to code a snowman?
"Sync is hard, use our API"

A few years later

"Nevermind, you'll need to build sync yourself. We believe in you!"

Is this a fair assessment?
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I usta do that, but there were occasional quirks. But then, I have occasional quirks and I'm still allowed out of the house.
> The medical doctor was at the peak of his career and in no danger of being fired. The university professor had the security of tenure and was looking forward to a defined benefit pension starting six years from now. The corporate attorney was finishing up a prosperous career.

I do think tech undervalues experience and overvalues familiarity with technological fads. That said, there are two sides to the coin. Those other fields the author mentions all aggressively put people into "tracks" early in their careers.

Take the corporate lawyer, for example. His job is secure because most of the competition for his job from his cohort was tracked-out in earlier filtering stages. If tech was like law, you'd have job ads for people with 10+ years' experience saying "top undergraduate school (MIT/CMU/Stanford/Caltech or the equivalent) and top company (Apple/Google/Facebook or the equivalent) required." That would certainly create a lot of insulation for people who went to MIT, interned at Google, then put in 3-5 years after graduation to earn a credential they could bank on the rest of their careers. I'm not sure we'd all prefer that to be the case.
Newbie here. Any thought on the reasons of these sudden change in trends?
> I do think they need some regulation, but not with regard to pricing,

Would you rather have a service which charges more to (say) black passengers than white? Or which charges more to go to a poorer part of town a rich part?

The regulation I'm talking about is not being able to discriminate based on the type of passenger or destination.
You forgot to add the fact that it relies on infinite growth.
Dozens of endangered cockatoos found crammed into plastic bottles
> a licensed cab cannot refuse to take you to your destination!

They "cannot" but they have done it to me many times in several cities. I also once had a cabbie try to strongarm me into giving a ridiculously huge tip (~100%) "because I won't be able to get a fare all the way back." Not to defend Uber here, but it's not like the cab regulation totally fixes this.
How the heck are you running containers without kernel access? Does your software not malloc or read files or you know... execute?
Anyone have a recommendation for a Datastore replacement that allows you to share records/datasets between users in the same way datastore does?
Seems plausible to me too .. they use antique diesel trucks on-site because they don't have spark plugs or onboard computers:

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/04/24/national-radio-astronomy-...
"I do believe there is often some bias against candidates who had extraordinarily long tenures at one company"

I think that's interesting, because I was recently involved in a hiring process where we had the opposite view - long tenure was a hint that if we could provide the right environment, that person was likely to stay with us for many years.
Dump her. You can find smarter girls in the industry.
Dragon abort test stats: 0 to 100 mph in 1.2 sec, top speed of 345 mph
If I didn't have a large suitcase, I would have definitely taken the BART. But getting to a BART station is a PITA if you have some luggage.
Where do you get the installation media? I haven't seen more than a "system recovery disk" shipped with a consumer machine in at least a decade.

And I don't know about Lenovo, but I know that on the Dell laptops I last dealt with could never get a stock Windows 7 install to be stable without downloading Dell's drivers for the video card at minimum.
Can the client-side python access the DOM?
Show HN: The Lazy Analyst's Guide to Faster SQL
It's not that they couldn't afford to do the additional background checks and insurance it's obviously a statement they are making and that statement fits right into the 'Randian' views that Travis Kalanick has already been accused of. He thinks that Kansas will come crawling back after Uber is gone but more likely competitors that are willing to deal with regulation (that is probably righteous) will fill the gap.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-uber-ceo-travis-kalanick-...
> Too bad the "worst areas" list didn't include the UI. I cannot recall the number of times I've spent looking through the docs, which flag was it again? -s? -S? -q? Every. Single. Time.

Complete agree. That's why I created HTTPie[1], a modern take on CLI HTTP to address those usability issues.

[1] http://httpie.org
Capability-based access control is fascinating. Here's an interesting article about capabilities vs. ACLs: http://www.erights.org/elib/capability/duals/myths.html

I'm also a fan of Macaroons for this purpose, which I was disappointed to see weren't being used here. But for an example of using macaroons as capabilities in practice, see: http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/11/23/macaroons-in-hyperd...
If we reverse the clock back to their 30's, the underlying math of these career choices isn't so kind...

- The academic is completing their PHD program, with it's associated vow of poverty and about to start a multi-year tenure cagefight, in low-wage contract instructor roles. Only a small fraction will make it to full tenure; the rest will drop out to pursue industry jobs, 10+ years behind the engineers who went directly into industry.

- The young doctor FINALLY completed their training, with a truckload of debt. In the horizon, they see many sources of downward pressure on medical pay (rising power of insurance companies, malpractice liability, lower reimbursement rates due to Medicare and Obamacare, etc.). In 20 years, will Medicine be a $300K/year job or a $125K/year job? Oh...and a bunch of their peers already dropped out, loaded with debt.

- Meanwhile, the 30 year old MIT engineer has good odds of making six figures as a senior tech or technical lead. They are young enough to start a business and bounce back when things don't work out. Young enough to start a big family. If their spouse is also a middle class professional, they have a decent chance of saving $1MM by age 45 for a solid start on retirement. Making enough to pay down their debt early.

Yeah...the back end of the engineering career has a shelf life; you get your money up front. Using it wisely is up to you.
This is exactly the pattern I've fallen into with the Apple Watch. It charges so fast, and my usage hasn't been that extreme. I charge it during showers and my son's bedtime, and I'm good to go.
It seems to be hardcoded natural scrolling - I'm getting it on a Windows desktop with a mouse wheel.
Flannel relies on etcd. I had stability issues with v1 of etcd which meant flannel couldn't route packets. Since then, the idea of using an immature SDN atop an immature distributed key value store fills me with dread.
That's probably because sports can't really be considered vocations except by those who play them professionally. Minor leagues aren't really professional level.
Luckily food supply is heavily regulated and regulators take cross contamination seriously. Contact your regulators.

If you're going to snark you should at least pick a good example.
ubuntu/trusty64 is the most popular box and is officially supported (whatever that means). Just install anything you need with apt-get - you can do it during the provisioning step on first run.
Why? Applebot is attempting to adhere to the spirit of robots.txt rather than the letter. If the site owner cares otherwise, don't just explicitly name one bot. Is `user-agent: *bot` valid?
Indeed, and they have been a source of some nasty security vulnerabilities in the past. If you're using libcurl, it's a very good idea to restrict redirects to HTTP and HTTPS only (with CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS), lest a malicious site redirect you to an imap or smtp URL.
If you want to win the lottery, first you have to buy a ticket.
Having seen this product evolve, I am excited to see that it is finally out! It is a great tool for fast and easy content creation of all kinds.
Out of interest, how does rancher's network offering compare to weave/flannel?
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On a Thinkpad T500, you do need Lenovos special power management tools. Otherwise, the cpu fan will never spin up and your processor will overheat.
What about the physical dimensions of the devices?
Background checks aren't demanded for a thousand other jobs. An evil person could be hiding almost anywhere. What makes cabs special?
"Oh look! Archaic municiple rules is attempting to block us! This must mean we are disrupting them, and the fact we have users shows that all these evil municipal rules should be ignored!"

--- AirBnB, Uber, Ripple, etc....
Exactly, you'd need a mood ring for that.
Your general point is sound, about the profit motive leading to riskier behavior, but the application to that specific case is questionable. Drivers have the right incentives on brake checks, regardless of profit, by virtue if the fact that they're in the car and would lose control!

It would be more correct to say that the incentive problem here lies in uncompensated danger to other drivers, which for-profit drivers may be willing to ignore when tempted by money.
> Uber is being punished for its bad behavior by the market.

I love it how libertarians believe everything will be fixed by a mythical "market". I'm sorry, but if we had left it to the "market", we'd still have separate "white" and "colored" toilets. We'd have no gay marriage. We'd have no voting rights act.

The regulation I'm talking about is not being able to discriminate based on the type of passenger or destination.
I'm 46 and on my 4th founding engineering team. Coding every day, learning new frameworks with each new role. Home for dinner every night with my kids. My coworkers and I are all in the same age range, we've circulated from one startup to the next, some quite lucrative, others flame out, but no one ever questions our abilities. Don't work for the man, especially when the man is just a boy.
Well, I'm assuming that someone can learn all the other parts on their own, whereas the best practices surrounding versioning, patch management, code review, etc are things you really only learn by working on a large team (usually in a real job).
I've had a bunch of Lenovo Thinkpads. Each time, the first thing I do is wipe it and install Linux.
Also:
"We want to replace you Hard drive"
Two years later
"Adoption less than expected, you have time to move to something else"
Their long term goal is to rely on self-driving cars, not drivers. So background checks for drivers and commercial insurance for drivers won't be an issue.
Zenefits: you are growing too fast! Scale up your customer service and improve your customer satisfaction rates before making big customer acquisition pushes, else you risk disappointing your existing customers. (Anecdote: I am a disappointed existing customer)