skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"it's better to not be wrong than to be right"

My limited experience in that world was that there often wasn't a really good way of identifying when something was in fact 'right', only that it wasn't broken (whenever it was reviewed/inspected). New info could always come along which would call in to question previous decisions, and new people would come in with different (or no) understanding of previous stages.

Couple that with organizations in which everyone is free to say 'no' to things, or they're free to chime in with demands without having to actually commit resources for dev or support, and you get weird situations (I've got a few war stories, as I'm sure many people here do too).
I think the problem is that they have "blockers" that aren't quick to solve, and in the meantime other areas of the company are doing all of what you said.

Perceived blockers for a mainstream release:

* Wireless headset with feature parity of the current wired headset

* A large amount of VR content that doesn't require hacking configuration files or video drivers to work

* Minimal-to-no hardware upgrades for consumers after the purchase

I'm with you that I would rather see a release sooner than later, but I'm not a normal consumer. You aren't going to attract users if they need to spend more money or spend time changing their machines to make VR work.
Yeah, you're right. But if you look at the really big companies, nearly all were started by young founders (Facebook, Google, etc.) And that's what kids (and the media) focus in on.

IMO experienced founders are great for building a cash cow business worth $1 billion or so. That takes hard work and a billion dollars is a fucking lot of money, so it's nothing to scoff at. But it's not primarily what VCs are interested in: the VC model is built off of small equity stakes in $10 billion+ IPOs.

To have a $10 billion+ IPO, you need to invent a market, and young kids are great at that because they don't see the limitations the market has placed on us. Most don't have the fucking slightest about finance or money, which can be an impediment if you're trying to create a product in an existing market, but if you're building a new market or category, short-term viability matters less.

That said, there are a lot more ideas that can turn into successful $1 billion companies than ideas that can become $100 billion companies. So your odds are a lot better at starting a successful business if you learn how first.

And to your point about senior care... most VCs who don't focus on health care avoid it entirely for similar reasons they avoid dating apps. You can either go the medical device/biotech route and spend hundreds of millions on lawyers and regulatory approvals, or you can go after the provider side of things. The healthcare IT space is pretty saturated and very fragmented, so it ends up scaling like a consulting business (which VCs are also not fond of).
Also, a class of rings, called Noetherian rings[1], are named after her. Noetherian rings are of great importance in ring theory.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noetherian_ring
Shameless plug: Here's a poster I made recently using Roboto Slab:

http://hypertexthero.com/logbook/2015/05/when-doubt-move/

Edit: Is it bad etiquette here at HN to do shameless plugs for the purpose of finding work?
Is the lighter or the darker blue outline the new one? I'm still at a loss to say which one looks better or why.
More on the Dakota 38 http://smoothfeather.com/dakota38/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pX6FBSUyQI
Agreed, that was bothersome.

Here's the font: https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto
The main reason to use feature phones in my developing country is that they are not worth stealing.
I was curious about the claimed collection performance too, since this is an area that a lot of people have looked at, and a 5x improvement there would be pretty impressive.

Apparently, what makes jsblocks different is that it appears to be doing dynamic code generation. That's an interesting idea, though I'd have concerns about how it respects lexical scoping. There are a couple bumps apparent as well:

- the benchmark is only faster because it ends in a .reduce(). I suspect that code generation allows them to remove all collection generation here and just update the reduced value in a loop. If you remove the reduction at the end, then lodash is fastest, as expected.

- the jsblocks code in their own benchmark reports the wrong result. It appears there's either an off-by-one error or the generated code runs the filter step before the map. I'm not counting this against the method, as presumably it's fixable, but it might speak to the difficulty of code generation as a strategy.
Are we allowed to suggest our own blogs? ;)

Either way:

https://github.com/paragonie/awesome-appsec - Everything on this list is at least worth consideration
I'd like to see the article about why we should invest time in communicating effectively rather than bashing on the tools that people misuse. Seems like on every level there is room for improvement on conveying ideas to other people even with all the technological improvements we've had.

Specifically I'd like to see us get better at expressing the core ideas but still having the ability to easily dig deeper into the details even if it is offline. Especially interesting is when a presentation allows the user to play with the data additionally. Something like Mike Bostock's work[1] that conveys a lot of information densely and also builds on an open platform to let audience explore the data interactively.

[1] http://bost.ocks.org/mike/
Although I agree that people are poorly educated on presentation making I think the main reason they use PP is because of the 'I have a computer' syndrome. Tufte illustrates it perfectly in with 5 colors for 2 data points example in his "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information". People would not recreate PP but abuse watever else they could find.

What is worse is that this syndrome is affecting high school students. At least here in Lima Peru, homework is demanded to be done in the computer because it is 'more professional'. So the minimum effort way copy and pasting becomes trivial. In the old way of pen a paper our inherit aversion to effort pushed the student to learn to summarize as writing more demanded more effort. I would prohibit high school homework to be done in the computer. But I digress.
If the alternative is unemployment, sure, why not?
React Typeahead Component (used in Prod by Yahoo Mail)
The darker blue outline (with the straight leg on the "R") is the newer one.
I don't think there is any way around the hardware requirement if you want any kind of decent graphics experience. You need to calculate each scene twice (once for each eye), otherwise you're not going to get stereo vision.

And unless you want to view your minecraft world in 3D, that's going to result in hefty hardware requirements.
Druva Co-Founder Jaspreet Singh on Startup Lessons
As a french citizen, and on behalf of everybody I know who doesn't live in the US (and some that do), the idea that knowing somebody's SSN basically puts you in control of their life and gives you the ability to ruin it is unbelievably ridiculous.
It's useful to add that, generally speaking, when you get the motion sickness the effects can be intense. I found out the hard way that even if you've never suffered from motion sickness via regular vectors (car rides, boating), you're not immune.

I've only had one bad experience that resulted in motion sickness - during and following an extended play of Half Life 2. The feeling stuck with me for several hours, to the point where I couldn't even look at the TV screen from the couch.

It was a miserable experience; afterwards, I was careful to never ignore the signs, and stopped playing any demo that started to feel just a little 'off.'

Something like this could be a platform-killer and doom your project before it ever reaches critical mass.
Here's my favorite way of thinking about Noether's theorem:

In physics, we have to assume the laws of nature are the same everywhere and for all time. Otherwise, we're wasting our time. Because of Noether's theorem, this means there are some conserved quantities. Whatever these happen to be is what we _call_ momentum and energy. If the laws of physics change (they are still the same everywhere, just modified based on an improved theory), then we have to change our definitions of what is conserved.

If you define kinetic energy as mv^2/2, then when you take into account relativity, you realize that's not conserved any more. However, because the physical law that relatively predicts still does not change over time, then _something_ must be conserved. So we call that energy instead. Until the next iteration, of course.
The corollary is that if you're allowed to argue that things are the best they can possibly be (or better than alternatives) because of a single event/condition, this is also "proof by fantasy land".

"Thank god we tightened up security or there would be another 9/11!"
Hi,

I work for Atlantic.Net and we have the FreeBSD logo on the homepage at the top, we also mention it in our FAQ as a supported OS:

https://www.atlantic.net/cloud-hosting/faq/

Hope that helps!
The concept is known as "eternally collapsing objects", and has survived peer review just as much as any other concept discussed here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetospheric_eternally_collap...

This is actually something that is verifiable, given time, since traditional black holes may not sustain their own magnetic field, but MECOs can.
How to Store Important Financial and Family Documents with Paperistic
SLAM is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_m...

I believe "inside-out" means that the headset is detecting its own position relative to the environment, rather than the environment tracking the position of the headset.
I doubt that it was unintentional.

It's an old fix to what I perceive as a non-problem [0]. When a user turns their iPhone to view it on Landscape - the site won't resize without that viewport meta tag being there.

Not sure if it's been fixed. Even if it hasn't, I question the amount of people who browse on their phones in Landscape.

[0] http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/iphone-safari-viewport-...

E:

I'm running under the assumption that you might not be the dev and that the dev may have added it there intentionally to fix the landscape bug. This post has the wrong tone without it being read more explanatory, so I felt this clarification necessary.
At one point I started one called Pen Japan and soon realized I don't have a passion for stationery or know anything about it. So at the very least I would need someone else do the curating.
Extensibility is itself a feature, so YAGNI would imply it shouldn't be assumed until proven necessary.

I personally use the "zero, one, many" rule (i.e. those are the only counts of things, there is no such thing as 2 or 3, etc.) as my proof of necessity. If I ever get to the point that I need two of something, I make it useful for many of something.
HD-DVD was cheaper and required less immediate infrastructure changes, but rather allowed a staged switch from DVD.
Blu-Ray is the one that was better.

Actually this is exact reverse of a Betamax story - better and more expensive long term improvement won over short term and cheaper one.
Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, on PowerPoint. Here are a few of my reactions (mine alone, not Microsoft's):

* Presenting an idea is one of the most subtle arts of the human experience. It draws on skills like storytelling, communication, and persuasion which are way outside the scope of any software application. The best typewriter in the world is going to let Ernest Hemingway's Great American Novel flow directly from his mind onto the paper, but it isn't going to make me even a tiny bit more capable of writing a great novel.

* A single PowerPoint presentation is often called into double duty, both as a visual aid to a live presentation, and a standalone document that serves as the summary of the presentation for those who couldn't attend. ("I can't make it this afternoon -- please send me the deck.") This requirement forces the PowerPoint presentation and spoken content to become 100% redundant with each other, yielding the meetings where people read verbatim off an overly dense PowerPoint slide. PowerPoint has features that try to address this problem, such as hidden slides that show up in the printed document but not the slide show, and narration recording so that you can distribute the audio along with the slides, but presenting from the "leave-behind deck" is still common.

* There's always a tension between giving the user full control, and making the experience as simple as possible. Also, the more structure you embed in an authoring application about what the output "should" look like, the more you encourage everyone towards a homogenous vision defined by the product designers. PowerPoint does make it easy to insert simple diagrams such as with SmartArt, but fundamentally the application is designed to let the user take full control of the content. I wouldn't want a text editor that didn't allow me to write a grammatically incorrect sentence. However, a suggestion that "the grammar in this sentence might be wrong" could be useful, if presented in a non-obtrusive way.

These are issues we think about every day in the PowerPoint team, and I appreciate reading the various viewpoints here.
Security confounds that strategy unless you're planning to stop using data once an exploit is discovered which won't be patched on the old OS, which in this case happened the day iOS 8 shipped.
Well that was quite cool. Theres that drum beat that you expect to kick in any moment but never does, which is kind of disappointing, but still its a cool track (just begging for a remix).

I have to say though, that video was weird. You've got Mr. Rogers who, judging by the looks, sells vacuum cleaners for a living, joined by Mr. Bruce, who would not look out of place in a Tarantino movie about a guy selling drugs in Las Vegas truck stop parking lots. Then in waltzes a scantily clad lady that proceeds to perform weird movements with kids who have apparently no idea whats going on, but decide to play along due to a lack of other options. I feel I've been missing out in my youth.
I answered over 1000 questions honestly on OKC and the matches were all pretty terrible. That could be simply that there is nobody I'm compatible with.
Dark blue is the new one.
But how many people read them? Once you wind up having to point to the contract, the relationship is already south bound. Today people are readily writing software in languages with no specification other than the prototypical implementation. When communication was expensive, investment in big documentation was usually sound.

Today, I don't need an atlas of Georgia Counties. I've got Wikipedia and the US Census Bureau and free long distance on my cell-phone plan and minutes that go unused every month. If I have a question about Ubuntu, I don't need a manual. There's StackExchange and Google. There are lots of lightweight channels.

Don't get me wrong, I love books and deep knowledge. But the six months that it takes to produce, publish, and disseminate a tome doesn't offer slam dunk ROI. The agilists have a point.
I really am focusing on the social elite of a small group of kids that I met over the summer. They're from California and I live on the East Coast (where Facebook is the norm). I'll be the first to admit that the plural of anecdote is not data. Which is why I said "some groups of people."

In any case, I think the difference in user population is because of accessibility to technology. Snapchat basically demands a swanky, whiz-bang phone, which not all kids have. I'd be willing to bet that more than 30% of kids (the difference in the statistics) lack a Snapchat-capable phone.

Being rich is cool, so apparently Snapchat is too. And it's cooler than Facebook, making Facebook uncool. I understand that there are a long list of logical fallacies in this section but hey, we're teens.
Still a big fan of notepad. Uses very little memory, but you must not forget to save periodically.
So Shasta, IDG, Cowboy, XSeed, Khosla, Lowercase, etc are not mainstream?

Here's some more data points. According to AngelList

https://angel.co/online-dating ~38,000 investors

https://angel.co/cryptocurrency-2 ~989 investors

https://angel.co/travel-tourism ~1,082 investors

Yet the market for Travel is $300b (online) and the dating one is $2b (online).

How does that constitute as investors not wanting to invest into dating startups when there's 38x as many investors (by absolute numbers) as travel and yet the market is 150th the size? Seems like it's quite the opposite, no?

If anything the talking point here should be "why are so many people investing in dating apps when their returns aren't great?"

It'd be also helpful to define what you consider "mainstream" before drawing a conclusion...
> Nothing in her work was a massive paradigm shift. She didn't shape the field for decades to come.

I disagree. Quantum field theories are often expressed as a collection of symmetries. The ever-successful Standard Model is:

SU(3) × SU(2) × U(1)

Everything else follows because of Noether's theorem. And by "everything", I mean, "every phenomena in the universe that we are aware of except for gravity".
I don't mean what they'll lie and say they want, I mean detect what they actually want. It's not nearly as easy. ;)

Maybe it's just Orlando, but most of the gay folks I've talked to were very NOT monogamous, but many pretended to be for the sake of managing perceptions and increasing their chances of being contacted.
Your experience doesn't line up with my own. The majority of my friends who use dating websites and start a relationship stop using the dating sites early in the relationship.
In startups, overplanning is punished by company failure.
I feel that pain. I just spent months building the alpha of my own software, making no money with grownup expenses. Then my wife got laid off, so I had to jump in and get another dayjob so someone would be making money.

I don't really have access to any sort of a larger war chest. What I do have is a much better idea than Snapchat for Drunks, because I have a lot of real-world professional experience, and I know how to actually build complex software, because I've been doing it for decades.

My killer is overcoming the cautious nature of too many years in the enterprise. It's easy to overbuild and not be lean.
I've written a script that looks at the output of xrandr and reconfigures the screen layout, based on which outputs are plugged in and what the resolutions are. This is then bound to a key via the window manager so I can seamlessly move between laptop only, laptop+1 external, laptop+2 externals, or 2 externals only with just a keypress after coming out of sleep. This has been pretty solid on MacBookPro10,2, running the XFCE spin of Fedora 21. Some people have questioned if I'm running Linux when they see this work.

The background on the login screen doesn't always render correctly, but I look at that as often as I reboot (which is like once a month), so that doesn't impact me much (just like boot time, ahem).

My main concern is that as things become less shell-scriptable (like requiring complex dbus interactions), doing this will be less accessible to work around design or implementation quirks to achieve the desktop experience one wants. This is the price we pay for progress, I suppose.
It's funny reading this after the article about banning PowerPoint[1] and being instantly reminded of why it should be banned.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9606345
Powerpoint is only as good as the content behind the slides
These Days, All Politics Is Technological
Whenever I see a relatively respectable source, singing the praises of blood-thirty, ego-driven maniacs, I start to think that maybe the crazies who go on about giant conspiracies controlling everything might be onto something. (Either that, or the Smithsonian's editorial judgement is slipping.)
However, just by researching and using open alternatives to PowerPoint, I demonstrated free thought, which, in turn, bears relevance to making a good presentation.

The root of the problem isn't PowerPoint itself or how people use it; it's that it doesn't even occur to them that using something other than PowerPoint (or not using anything of that sort at all) is even an option.
Article more or less: "I don't think that we do, so I tested it a bit. Tests confirm my assumptions. Still; there are cases where 32 bit is faster. I won't bother to explain why."

As usual "All headlines that ask a question can be answered no" ( but inverted to make it more confusing ). Really the title of the article to fit the mold should be "Can we get rid of the 32-bit JVM?"

Really what should be done is take the algorithms from language competition website, and then test all of those on 32-bit versus 64-bit with different data sets. A few tests is hardly conclusive or explanative of what is fast and what is slow.

Obviously a raw call to nanotime will be slow. Do you really need nanotime? If you don't; is a lower precision call faster than nanotime?
Much of your criticism around Windows phone is false.

And yes there has been a PR push, but this has been accompanied by increasing amounts of new and previously closed tech being released, such as DNVM, Roselyn, VSCode, etc

While MS is by no means a shining angel, you should at least give them a chance to prove themselves under new leadership.

Also large parts of Cyanogen mod only exist because of the good grace of Google.
haters gonna hate. The real issue: don't write power-points that are meant to be studied -- power-points are meant as a presentation addition.

the only things I demand on a power-points are two numbers at the bottom

1) the slide number we are on

2) the total number of slides in the deck

that way I can decide if I should slit my wrists immediately or if I can push through and wait the deck out.
> If space does indeed exist, it must be somewhere

It's everywhere.
Mars colony survives a mass dying in this hypothetical by not being the target planet of the mass dying.

Of course, you have threats that can impact both. Improvement by degrees is still beneficial though. Even though a backup is not useful for this type of risk, in the original hypothetical it is useful.

Also, of course you can switch the hypothetical around and consider Mars getting hit by the mass dying event. But we're talking about the value of having a backup and considering low likelihood situations where having that backup shows its existential benefit.
Cool project! I was surprised to see Go has 167k libraries vs. 153k from Node. The Go libraries are being counted incorrectly -- each vendored library is also counted (which is common practice for many Go apps) -- so the number is very inflated.
Been like this for months for me. I've found the way to fix it is to manually select a video resolution.
Definitely. The target specs[1] they announced are pretty beefy: NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater, Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater, and 8GB+ RAM. However, now that there is a target that means that tech will only continue to get cheaper/better from this point forward, so the longer a consumer waits to purchase the Rift the less likely it will be that they need to upgrade their hardware to use it.

1. https://www.oculus.com/blog/powering-the-rift/