skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's hoping they fix the issue for those of us with wide heads. I've spent a fair amount of time tinkering with my DK2 to get a good experience with my wide IPD of 73mm. I bought some 3D printed lens holders that widen the lenses, and they helped quite a bit. Without them, my view was blurry in one eye which caused a fair amount of discomfort.

I'm wholly onboard for the headset, the DK2 is a fantastic experience (barring the experience of setting it up and launching applications, which is totally fixable.) Can't wait to see the consumer edition.
I'm guessing quick transients are the issue here?

Long-lived ones can be ruled out by looking for some characteristic strength curve as the antenna (earth) sweeps across the sky onto and off of the presumed source. A terrestrial source, including satellites and planes, would have a different curve. SETI has software to filter on this.
Would have been interesting to compare http://www.projectcalico.org/.
In a similar vein, I can't wait until the world of music creation software appears in VR. Imagine a virtual studio in which expensive vintage hardware is emulated along side imaginative new instruments. Control mechanisms like step sequencers could be expanded to fill the space around you.

Audio synthesis itself, with it's raw waveforms and various modulations, filters and distortions could be brought to life in space around the users. Imagine being able to surround yourself with the signal path. To examine the shape of a sound in 3D space and track it's progression from, for example, a raw sine wave into a layered deep bass line.

Considering how much audio professionals already spend for high quality production environments and the IOS's popularization of unique, small team created software synths... I can't wait.

Korg's mock up of their IOS software Gadget as real objects really gets my imagination going.
http://macprovid.vo.llnwd.net/o43/hub/media/1087/8774/korgGa...
> I don't know what they consider their largest hurdle

It seems like there are still plenty of challenges to solve with VR devices. John Carmack recently spoke [1] at the University of Texas at Dallas and mentioned that designing for VR is all about tradeoffs--hardware just isn't powerful enough to reach the ideal combination of resolution, framerate, etc.

He also talked about how to design media to work well with the current generation of VR devices. For example he said to avoid accelerating the user, because this commonly causes users to feel sick (due to mismatch between what your eyes and inner ear are telling your brain). Moving at a constant velocity is fine.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBtXMtUNpdE
Any chance for MongoDB support?
Catj: cat for JSON files
I didn't mean to be rude to economists. I actually like them and their field quite a lot. I compared it to the eugenics program because

- Most (not enough) people today have become aghast at it.

- Its biological underpinnings are actually quite sound. Intelligence has a genetic component. So does aggression. They also have a strong social component. However, eugenics is fundamentally a social theory, arriving at social conclusions. It is not a scientific theory, arriving at scientific conclusions (that would be biology and the theory of evolution)

- Opposition to it at the time was large and strong (the T4 program driven underground by religious opposition; the US' program, which survived well into the 70s, was very low key). However, while opposition to a social theory was based on moral and social grounds, ignorance of largely irrelevant scientific points was used to deny standing.

I feel that the OP's Turing test, while interesting and important, ultimately denies standing to most Americans. Therefore, it must be treated with caution.
"IT" is particularly bad here because our ruling class has a national consensus that we need to import hundreds of thousands of foreign workers each year to satisfy the demand (for talent on the cheap). E.g. in an area I'm watching, the the serious Republican 2016 contenders are entirely bad, with the most "restrictive" of them, Ted Cruz, wanting to up the H-1B cap to 300K per year.

Yeah, most of these people are slated for "drone" level jobs, but plenty of the very best also get in and do good work. Your ideology might thing this is great, but that doesn't pay your living expenses, especially if you want a family, or a retirement of any quality.
> Really, though, it was no mind-blowing affair.

> There didn’t seem to be any knockout winners

> I don’t think there’s a big winner in this bunch either.

Teespring and Zenefits were in that batch.
Try _The Help Timer._ Wait an hour to ask for help. No more, no less
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
I'm 58. I started with Fortran in the 80's, C/C++/Perl/SQL in the 90's, Java/SQL in the 00's, and Python/JavaScript/a bit of Scala/SQL more recently.

I'd credit my interest and persistence, rather than skill, to whatever meager success I've managed to eke out.
A fantastic idea Carl Sagan showed J. Carson in 1976 is about to become reality
Very handy indeed - thank you.
It's been clear for a while that overall traffic from mobile is going to eclipse traditional PC's.

I'm interested in seeing stats on whether or not traffic from native apps is increasing over mobile websites. I'm sure traffic from google's "Search" app is minuscule compared to browser requests, but could a similar app come along and start to chip away at Google with the right native experience?
Point of clarification - this isn't the Page Speed testing, but their "optimizing proxy" that you'd route your site through (like Cloudflare).
This is a really bad answer to a concern about customer service, just a heads up. We want to be reassured that you value your customers and will be working to make things better no matter what, not given paragraphs on why it's actually someone else's fault.
So what are the decades old solutions to these problems?
This type of hyped up placeholder is _exactly_ an example of political correctness gone too far. It's exaggeration. My argument is not even against purposefully using words that are offense. It's about how there are so many words that are deemed offensive today that I can't even keep track of what they are.

For example, calling one of my own non-homosexual friends a "faggot" or "gay" is offensive. Even though I'm not homophobic and personally find it to be a funny, playful insult.

I may or may not be factually correct about this, but in general (I use the word general here in the sense of more than 50%) of those offended seem to be minority groups. I.e. homosexual, African Americans (this is easily to confirm by census results in a country), Semitic groups, etc.

The issue seems to be whether we should give up the ideal of not offending people as there exists no such fundamental right not to be offended.
If you want an open source full featured alternative (with native libraries for most mobile platforms), we've put decades of engineer time into Couchbase Mobile.

http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile/

Basic feature set: local storage and query, binary attachments, background sync, fine grained access control. Also goodies like webhooks and p2p capabilities.
Varnish Goes Upstack with Varnish Modules and Varnish Configuration Language
Yes, this is 100% true! My main point was not about the cost of the plans, so much as getting access to better plans. E.g. with Trinet we were able to get access to PPOs that had some out of network coverage. With Zenefits, as a standalone company of our size we only had access to EPOs (i.e. no coverage if a blood test or something got accidentally sent to an out of network provider.)
The problem with DPDK is (as I understand it) that it doesn't handle multiplexing the connection between multiple cores/processes/containers (i.e. lack of polling makes scheduling hard/impossible). The nice thing about using the Linux kernel as your data plane is that you can still have all your bog standard routing, in addition to this fun VXLAN/GRE/etc stuff. That said, I haven't ever implemented anything using DPDK, so I may be talking out my arse.

You are correct however that userspace networking is awesome, and I look forward to it becoming more and more prevalent in applications that can benefit from it.
Generating a number range with normal spacing density
Of course JSON is encoded in Unicode, making it "text," but when it is said that text is the universal protocol of Unix, it means that the only guarantee a well-behaving Unix utility can make is that it will output ASCII. You cannot leverage the further structure of JSON or any other protocol because utilities that interpret JSON do not compose with those many Unix utilities which emit non-JSON data.

Only entropic bits are truly "unstructured data." The question is one of how much semantic structure you can rely on in the data you are processing, which is a continuum.
As a side note, it's great that the CEO and cofounder of Zenefits still visits and replies on HN.
One point he admits in the beginning... There was a slight selection bias in that all those present were people whom an on-campus group was hoping to get donations from.

This doesn't include doctors who quit medical school, academics who got pushed out of the funnel, and lawyers who couldn't get good law jobs. The engineers also may have already been victims of age discrimination by the first dot com bubble.
I tried this and when I reinstalled I got all the bloatware back. It was pretty frustrating because I don't know what I did incorrectly.

I ended up putting a Microsoft Windows 8.1 iso on a flash drive using rufus. https://rufus.akeo.ie/

I don't understand why Microsoft won't just make the latest build of its operating system publicly accessible in ISO format for anyone to download. I mean I still have to enter a serial number and activate. Why not just let me download from a trusted source without jumping through a bunch of hoops?
Here's the Nasdaq chart, '73 to Feb 2015: http://i.imgur.com/gyyQtae.png
It is an historical accident that C == OS ABI, as mainstream OSes copied UNIX model.

This wasn't true in other OSes.

Windows is currently moving to COM as the main OS ABI, specially with the WinRT focus.

Android also has little support for C ABI, beyond wrapping .so in JNI wrappers.

Another example are mainframe systems like OS/400, where the ABI is bytecode based (TIMI).
Show HN: WatchPops is Watch swag - great for app icons
This is really cool. One thing - I'm on a work laptop, so a not particularly impressive Dell, and I get some mouse slowdown in the demo.
Sure, but I have personally never found need to use it instead of the stdlib http2.
I would love to see/experiment with light version of this.
Hezbollah owns some cell networks in S. Lebanon, they use these networks to both provide services to the public and for wartime communications. They apparently offer better prices and service than other corporate players in Lebanon, which has angered the government since many of these competing companies are owned by family members of the government officials. In addition Hezbollah has a fairly advanced fibre backbone and decent information security protections.

There is a bunch of information on Hezbollah communication networks and COMSEC on wikileaks:

>"This is a secondary communication system to be used in the event of war and to guide officials, commanders and partisans to their point of duty, which Hizbullah does not determine in advance."

- https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/91/91224_-insight-insight...

>"The government has no real means of dismantling Hezbollah's communication network, which is critical to the group's defense. Much of Hezbollah's communication network is strategically intertwined with Lebanon's national networks. It heavily exploits the existing infrastructure of fiber-optic cables and standard telephone wires.
Simultaneously, the organization maintains its own independent networks. The most important of these is it mobile phone network which was instrumental in its combat operations against Israeli forces in the summer of 2006."

- https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/91/911136_lebanon-violenc...

See also word doc: "Hezbollah’s Tactical Communications Network" at https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/16/167079_final-draft-.ht...
Honestly I think 99% of the reason people use Uber and Lyft are the phone apps. If "real" cab companies had an app, I seriously doubt Uber and Lyft would've made such headway. (At least in most cities - I realize there's occasionally specific, localized issues with existing "real" cab companies.)
Still wrong. The scrolling direction is the opposite of your system settings.

I have my mac set to "natural" scrolling and for me the demo scrolls conventionally.
Isn't this about scale?

Sure, the market isn't all that large, but the means, methods, process required to serve it are the same ones that will absolutely be needed to cope with all the different markets, rules, and authorities out there.

A billion dollar level company can and should be doing this.
Using Rust to generate Mercurial short-hash collisions
All tenured MIT professors must be taken with a grain of salt on career advice. They got tenure by being #1 or #2 in their sub-field, as well as a number of other things like being adequate teachers, so the selection bias is extremely strong.

In general Professor Rose is generally right, but there are a lot of exceptions, and he's also much older than us, his experiences might not hold for the America/world of today and the future.
the input and scrolling is handled by GLFW, I'll look into the issue.
also it's specific to the web version which is weird
I had to turn down numerous sliders, including the Oculus Quality slider which made screen door pronounced, but I was able to play Elite at 70fps (you want 70 on the DK2) on a Retina iMac bootcamped into Windows. It tore or jerked occasionally, like in Lave, but it's not nearly as demanding as you say. Minecrift did even better.

My experience was very smooth and playable for hours. On a Mac. With laptop graphics. I'd definitely build a machine around a 980 next, but the tech is perfectly accessible.
It's like no one remembers the reasons we switched away from fixed format records. The biggest of which is that text based logging is a lot more future proof. Sure I might have to change a regex when time stamps improve their resolution to milliseconds, but at least I won't have to rebuild my entire suite and deal with two incompatible binary files on disk.
What is happening to Agrobiodiversity? (2004)
Thanks for the clarification. I didn't even realize they offered this - CloudFlare really seems to dominate the narrative in this area.
I signed up just to reply to this post and say THIS is exactly how our development team (which write in Go) feels. This post could not be more accurate in terms of trying to deal with the outdated documentation.

#1 The documentation is often months and many versions old.

#2 is the fact that app engine instances have to connect to back end compute engine instances using a public IP is unbelievable. The solution for an app engine instance to communicate with your compute engine app is to use their PubSub api system. To get the PubSub api system to work, see #1. The examples are months outdated and you no longer use the appengine.Context to create your OAuth token, but instead now use context.Context which you learn by going through github issue comments.

Google needs to recognize their great deficiency in documentation to be considered in the same tier as AWS.
one of the critical bugs I know of is in the multiline text, was that the culprit ?
Journalists make terrible VCs as a general rule.
In the case of the IRC-like channels (public etc), the fact that you can ask something + close the browser, and when people reply to you buy mentioning your name you get an email follow up with the answer make it an ideal Q/A platform too, not needing to lurk after asking your question or scroll for a while to find if anyone answered you is an immense value.
Can't wait for this experience! Good luck towards E3.
Of course it could. But that would defeat the point, because support wouldn't be widespread enough for any real use (unless you're just using it for an intranet site or something).
This is something that people like to spew, but the DJIA has two nice properties that make it worth referencing sometimes.

(1) Its correlation with the S&P 500 is insanely high. So, just using it as a proxy for the S&P is fine.

(2) We've tracked the DJIA going back over a hundred years, so that data is readily available.

Overall, the S&P 500 is a better index, but criticizing someone for using it in their analysis isn't worth the distraction from their actual thesis.
TIL: Google doesn't know where its own bug database is.
Chinese Drone Maker DJI Raises $75M from Accel Partners
A bit one-sided, but the article does bring up some interesting points about police touch and "holding the uniform together". I'd call it a decent summary of the state of police along with good points and things that need to change (although as I said it's a bit one sided, not in favor of the police)
Always use an OEM Windows Disc. For Business Laptops they make it very easy. For Thinkpad, Latitude, and Precision laptops it's only a couple clicks.

Then install ThinkVantage System Update http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/ht080136

or

Dell Command Update http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/...

Be careful of The ThinkVantage System Update, you dont need all the suggested installations.
Yes, you are correct, there is 21 people now. Most of them work on web and mobile development.
We are not printing and framing company. Finic is a software which will change the way people decorates their walls.
Firstly, every CLI HTTP client I've used outputs a status to console, even when it detects standard out is being redirected / piped. It can be very annoying at times, but isn't a curl specific thing. And it's hardly a great ordeal to remember --silent (or quickly curl -h | grep silent / do a find inside man, should you need a memory jog). Perhaps a little tip here is to force yourself to use the longer flags as they're much more memorable?

Secondly, have you ever considered that there are just as many people who might not want curl to automatically follow redirects? Personally I happen to use curl a lot to check that redirects work (eg sending the right HTTP status code) so I'd find your preference more annoying than intuitive.

Lastly, I get that you might not like some of curls default behaviours, but given curl's command structure follows the same idioms as most POSIX / GNU command line programs do, it's a bit far reached to say curls UI is bad or "unfortunate". Particularly when where's other people that do prefer the default behaviour you dislike. And since curl does follow POSIX idioms, you can just create that alias you discussed to force curl into your preferred default behaviour (you don't get much more user friendly than a tool you can customise the default behaviour of).

This is why I say that curl follows the standard CLI UI pretty well - it doesn't throw much in the way of unexpected behaviour and anything specific that you may dislike can easily be tuned via the usual methods.
Killing all disk partitions and starting over gives you a clean MS Windows install with no junk.

For those who don't know how, buy only "Signature Edition" PCs.

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/category...
What's less readable, a ToS that you have to accept or a GNU autotools configure script?

Example: expat's autoconf script is over twenty two thousand lines long.
All right. Well I wish you the best, but be careful. If someone has served their time in prison then that should be the end of the punishment. Common sense restrictions are fine, but they should be eligible for most jobs. It's utterly cruel to pretend someone's punishment is over, then throw them onto the streets with no assistance and near-zero chance of having a life again. By all means keep people locked up if a crime is truly bad enough, but if they've served their time then they've served their time.
Thank you for answering. After reading that, it sounds very cool and is a great vision. Please take it as constructive criticism that I had no idea based on the homepage that the product was anything like what is described in the blog. I get that it's not necessarily easy to describe a new paradigm in a few tag lines, but there's probably room for improvement.
> That will usually "restore" the crap as well.

Depends. Some ship drivers and such on a separate disc, others don't.
this is so cool! new theme everyday :)
Foxconn’s Robot Army yet to Prove Match for Humans
What's with his weird divorce thing? Did I miss some drama?
We're working on some major changes to how banning and flagged/dead comments work, so please put a mental asterisk alongside all of this. Assuming our changes hold up in testing, the community will soon be managing most of it.
it's sad? really?

no, it's sad that ww2 happened. it's sad that there's still starving people in the world. it's sad that there's human trafficking in 2015.

what's not sad is someone crying over the fact that some people are prejudiced against certain names when the easy solution is to just change your fuckin' name if you deem it to be a problem.
I wasn't expecting such a simple color-scheme change to evoke such a strong reminiscence of each theme's brand/name (most strongly with Spotify, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix).

It's funny how the color-schemes of well-known UIs are so embedded in our memory!
Details here: http://anoopdixith.com/constitution/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moritz

Michael Arrington's prowess has not yet been actually assessed.

I'd say I know a few journos who aren't that bad, but a lot of tech press who are horrible.
Skyline was a bit too much overhead, but we took the concept and adapted it to our needs.

When I say too much overhead, I'm referring to the carbon proxy and redis requirements. We found that just using the json output from graphite was sufficient to feed a trend monitoring system.

The output is pretty sensitive, moreso than Icinga2 (Nagios) expects, so we had to turn down a few of the "is this really down" re-checks, since it would silence legitimate trend alerts.
I use this https://hn.algolia.com/
Does anyone know what this means for 1Password?

Don't they use the sync api?
there's basically two kinds of people in the world.

those that will sit around and mope and moan about how unfair the world is, and invent terms like 'victim blaming'.

and those who take concrete, actionable steps to overcome or work around the problem.

don't fucking fool yourself, nothing will erase the prejudice against certain names in the next 50 years. just ask any american who isn't white. they've had to deal with this shit from the very beginning, it's not an abstract textbook concept to them.
Why did you post a question posed to a specific person on a public forum?
Vertical Farm Tech; Sell Ideas, Not Lettuce
Going extremely fast at an extremely high speed also frequently results in a fatal accident.
I'm curious, is there a way to see the top voted comments for a given article? A lot of times I'm just curious to see if there are any really good comments, and not read through 200.
Have you looked at the S&P 500 chart for the time period in question?
Agreed, and it's a running theme in most customer service interactions with Zenefits (Aetna's fault, Intuit's fault, etc.). There's also tends to be long delays in response times because of the back and forth between Zenefits and the provider, and sometimes conflicting responses which make things really frustrating.
Disagree. He's transparently articulating the causes of the error.
But why? Because of the Dostoevsky leitmotif?
Actually MVP
In terms of alternatives: I've worked with Firebase before, which is pretty reasonable after you wrap your head around the learning curve.

https://www.firebase.com/