skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm a pro-development kind of guy, but the Chinese model of unelected technocrats dictating what gets built isn't the right answer. We should be looking to Western Europe, where development like public transit gets done because there is widespread public support to push things through the democratic process.

Except in our history the major projects that got built were built in exactly this way. Robert Moses[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses] is perhaps the most famous example of this, but we've had many others. The technocrats get either a public official, or a private multi-billionaire and make their vision happen, and damn the consequences.

I'm not familiar with the history of urban development in Europe, but I would not be surprised to see similar figures behind the first few systems before the benefits were obvious to everyone else.

Democracy is really good at forcing the system to take, or pretend to take, competing needs into account, but end of the day in basically every system "he who has the gold makes the rules".
I haven't seen any completely autonomous quads racing. Can you give me a link?
Anyone using ArangoDB in production who can speak about it? It looks interesting, but like many of the newer databases coming out (Aerospike, Blazegraph, Hyperdex etc.) there is precious little public information from third parties.
What's the advantage for Facebook of doing this,
compared to moving their developers to OCaml or Haskell?
Or is that just too hard ?
Yep, great examples. Also, pretty much any experienced Photoshop user will create their own actions to automate common operations. And then you have things like workflows in Alfred.
So the way to signal that one is an evidence based aficionado of sound is to call yourself a "sound nerd?" In today's parlance, "audiophiles" are all deluded woo-woo proponents who are deserving of ridicule. (I find that to be a form of shallow prejudice: One can simply evaluate the science behind what someone is saying.)
That's not actually true. We still have bad days in some cities. The air quality in the U.S. is better but we still have room for improvement.

http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/government/5111-while...
I smell bootstrap. #onto-reading

ps: I remember an article with a similar structure but using lambda calculus. Starting with very poor subset and gradually expanding features... Too bad I can't find it again.
> BASE jumping is inherently dangerous.

Part of the reason it's so dangerous is because it's illegal. I used to assume people flew at night because it was a beautiful time to fly; I had no idea the legal status had such an influence on when they chose to jump.

One of the inconsistencies that's not mentioned in the article is the way the park service harasses these climbers/ jumpers, but then calls on those same elite climbers to rescue ordinary citizens who get in trouble in the park.
That was my immediate thought as well. Their choice of a scruffy looking guy (nothing wrong with it in and of itself) says a lot about their intended audience.

Hard to imagine Apple or Google marketing a product with that kind of imaging.
There's an album, 'Codebook' by alto saxophonist and composer, Rudresh Mahanthappa, which is laden with mathematical concepts. It isn't the most pleasant album to listen to, but it is interesting and intriguing to listen to the starkness of music set to mathematical objects of curiosity.

https://pirecordings.com/album/pi21

Here's an article on him, he apparently had a lot of interest in mathematics in high school and tries to incorporate some of that in his music.

[1] Science 26 January 2007:
Vol. 315 no. 5811 pp. 462-463
DOI: 10.1126/science.1139629 http://pastebin.com/B5V73iz8

[2] http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/composing_in_code/
InfluxDB is a time series database (think reporting/analysis of collected system metrics). It's not intended as a general purpose database.
Interestingly some researchers believe that sex is determined due to hormones (rather than genes - i.e. it's not possible to create a breed that biases one sex more than another), and that there is a bias in animal (including human) populations. It's not determined by a simple roll of the dice.

In some insects the female is able to select gender specifically by fertilising the egg with sperm or withholding it.

In others, it seems that it has to do with ambient temperature, abundance of food, etc. If there are enough resources to make a large offspring, the most optimal one is produced that can benefit by being largest. In turtles it's a female, in crocodiles a male is produced (IIRC).

Anyway, in humans, higher rankers typically have male offspring. Apparently American presidents have had a disproportionately large number of sons. Poorer families typically desire - and apparently some studies indicate produce - more girls. This can again be explained by what is most optimal. It's more common in human societies for males to inherit rank, whereas women can marry into it. So poorer families in some cultures bequeath more wealth to women for dowries so they can try to buy their way into higher classes. By contrast, higher ranking men can father more children.

I'm basically regurgitating what I've been reading in The Red Queen. Not my ideas - check out the book. It's very interesting.
Oh yeah? I can't find where it says you can replace them with their own. That'd be cool though.
Apple Music Is the Biggest Music Subscription Service in the World
Since OR is under Facebook, and Facebook has been fairly Microsoft friendly in the past (opting for bing maps and some office docs stuff etc), it doesn't seem like a huge surprise, especially since Sony/PS4 has their own thing in development (Morpheus)

I guess this also explains the earlier announcement dropping OSX and Linux support.
The marked ones. The tax collecting police cars look like any civilian car, with emergency lights hidden behind the back window and the front grill.
I'm with you on your second statement, not on the first.

VR will be clearly more than just movies. And AR is far from just for smartphones. Granted HoloLens isn't ready and might not be that great, but it has so much more potential than just smartphone gimmicks. A good set of AR can completely replace my work setup, I wouldn't have the need for monitors anymore. I'm excited by that idea, a new way to interact with the world.
I'm mildly surprised, why isn't this a thing in Haskell? Can't it be easily added, considering an or pattern is trivially expanded to two (or more) patterns?
The earphones are detachable and you can use your own audio headphones. As I understand the quality of these are actually pretty good, and definitely better than "gamer" headphones that the target audience might have. The reason they are on there is because they want to be sure everyone who has the rift has a decent audio solution, because positional audio helps so much with tricking your brain into being immersed.
> To rephrase my question, can anyone point me to a list of PCs manufactured by companies like Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. that meet or exceed these requirements?

Buying a prebuild is a bad idea. Apart from being overpriced, they often have strange custom motherboards and cases which make upgrades complicated.

There's always those places where you select the parts and they assemble the machine for you, but I can't recommend them. I bought a machine from Cyberpower UK a few years ago and had nothing but problems with it.

Just grab the parts from Amazon and assemble them. It isn't difficult, you're simply buying it in 7 parts and plugging them together. That way you'll know it's been done correctly, all the parts are standard, and you didn't pay over the odds.

Anyway, your question was for a hard price. I would budget $900 USD for all the parts (including 4690K CPU and GTX970 graphics crad). For a really high end setup for Rift (980Ti), the next step up would be about $1200.
Why reinvent the wheel? The xbox controller is widely considered the gold standard.
"When meeting with the VP, TMitTB should talk about the business impact of options."

I don't think he even knows what the business impacts are. TMitTB is just a tech guy who works for the new CTO. Presumably, the CTO (being an executive in charge of technology) can speak both the language of tech and the language of business and could make a business case to the VP, in terms he understands, as to why the company needs the new software. The CTO should not have sent her tech guy to talk to the VP.
http://justdelete.me/ is a good site for looking up these policies. Skype is bad, but not quite in the "Impossible" tier with sites like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Hacker News.
Oh yeah, it works in incognito.
It was a legacy from the acquisition and I believe they have already had to pay out bug bounties on it.
I'd like to think that most officers really do want to make a positive impact, so I don't necessarily agree with your 'no accountability means they can be bad actors' statement...it makes it seem like the officers have malicious intent. I think it has more to do with the general population and the police community being on different pages when it comes to acceptable behavior. When there is an officer involved shooting, the general population wants the officer to be held accountable for their actions (sometimes), but if the officer followed protocol then there is no case to be made. We need training reform
Opening the page at work, it triggered my scroll-down reflex.

Maybe it's just my memories of 90s predictions of VR pornography, but the image does feel off-puttingly suggestive.
How people behave on websites – do they search or do they navigate?
I think the sites dependent on flash or something. I thought it was just a bad headline until I saw some commenters mentioning article details, so I tried multiple browsers until one worked.
"If you’re old enough to remember DOS, you know what a command line is."

This is a joke right?
So how does that make this article a bad thing?

Also the TONS thing is kind of bad, because it becomes a lot harder for the layperson to filter out the bad resources from the good.
They are better than V2 (also called DK2, as in developer kit 2). The total res is 2160x1200 at 90 hz. 1080x1200 per eye. You can find out more here:
https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/powering-the-rift/
The TSA was created for one purpose and one purpose only: To remove liability from the airlines if someone tries to blow up a plane or bring a weapon onto one for evil purposes. (At the same time as it was created, the airlines had liability retroactively removed after 9/11; without that, they'd have been sued into smoking craters by the families of the 3,000 people who died.)

The fact is, nobody in this country has been willing to die to blow up an airplane since 9/11. If there had been just ten people willing to do so, then, from the statistics, nine planes would have been blown up, and, when the tenth guy was caught, he would have blown up the airport instead.

The TSA is a failure, and an infringement of civil rights besides. Everyone responsible for it, up to and including members of Congress, should, by all rights, be fired and forfeit all salary and pension benefits.
I've seen three different articles at that link so far. The latest is "Apple is setting itself up for a giant iPad." Is QZ just broken?

EDIT: Now it's showing "Picasso = Genius". At the top the embedded link says "http://qz.com/335183 ", which matches the URL, but at the bottom it says "http://qz.com/425662 ". Very confusing.

The downvotes in this thread are hilarious, it's like downvoting as a proxy for "Works for Me."
I think statistic lie if you consider a police officer in Detroit or Chicago having the same risk as a police officer in rural Oklahoma. I do believe the statistics would be drastically different for those two groups, and until we have honest statistics, I don't see how we can come up with any conclusion one way or the other. (Unless you're a cop of course, and can speak based on experience, but let's face it, most of us are a bunch of nerds using our elite Googling to verify and prove our version of the world)
The shit is that those who have lent money to others through long dated bonds lose money if inflation rises faster than expected, because bonds pay a fixed interest rate for a fixed period of time. As no one wants to lose money, they sell the bonds and bond prices crash, leading to more losses.

People who can afford to lend money to others for extended periods of time are the wealthy and those with a lot of money in pension funds. So the losers' side is skewed towards the wealthier and the older.

On the winning side are heavily indebted governments and corporates as well as people with fixed rate mortgages. As government spending has a redistributive effect and wages tend to rise with (moderate) inflation, the less well off, younger, working people are on the winning side as well.

So there you have your political dividing lines. Newspapers who cater to those on the losing side (such as the Telegraph) are going to get hysterical at the sight of even the slightest whiff of inflation.

There are global implications as well. Money flows where interest rates are higher. If interest rates rise in the US and in Europe, money will flow there from countries like India, Brazil or Indonesia. The currencies of those countries will fall versus the dollar because they are being sold, and as they are indebted in dollars, their debt load increases.

In previous episodes that has lead to defaults among poorer countries. But this time, these countries are not as heavily indebted as back in the 1980s and 1990s. Some of them are under pressure from low commodity prices though.
I thought he was making a Terry Pratchett reference.

> The world is made up of four elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. This is a fact well known even to Corporal Nobbs. It's also wrong. There's a fifth element, and generally it's called Surprise.
They showed them popping off to make room. Easy enough.
It was mentioned in the keynote event today that the headphones were detachable.
This isn't the first time I've been in this position. Yeah my last few gigs were within 20 minutes, I thought that it wouldn't be so bad but realize now anything further than 20 mins isn't for me.
Re: pipelines, you can feed external data into a Photoshop doc [1]

[1]: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/creating-data-driven...
Still the prohibition on use in gambling applications, just as Crytek does. And Unity is $200K/year for gambling.

I use Unigine instead. It's absolutely great. Rough edges but it looks great and is easy to use.
Separating the controllers into 2 devices for each hand is a natural way to do input in VR, but I feel that the hand and finger motion should also not be limited by the need to hold the controller. The pointing and thumbs up gestures are ok, but imagine if the computer could respond to the full range of motion a-la Leap.

Maybe it would look something like a cone that's at its base wrapped around your wrist but at its height contains Leap sensors that can recognize the full 3-dimensional range of hand/finger movements.
They could've at least gone with Discourse. But I guess owing to the abundance of PHP talent at hand, they might've chose to stay with a widely used one.
Doctors use something worse than paper called Epic.
You might want to get that checked out.

Turn around and sell the Xbox controller on ebay if you feel the need, nothing says the two are wedded or the controller is required to use Oculus.
I feel VR will be strictly a gaming toy and even then will be something of an eccentric item considering the cost/hassle of it all, not to mention all the side-effects. AR seems promising, and this hands on review has me really interested in Hololens.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/30/hololens-is-real/#.ciyefr:x...

Its crazy that we have a wearable hologram headset that produces real world opaque holograms but no one is really talking about it. Yet an ugly VR black box mounted on your face projecting a cell phone into your eyes somehow gets all the press. If anything, Oculus shows us how gamer-centric the tech press is.

Hololens is pretty much a wearable holodeck. The money I had earmarked for the Vive or Oculus is going to sit in my savings account until the Hololens comes out. I doubt I'm the only one sitting this first round out. AR might just strangle VR in the cradle - and that's a good thing. Let's face it, Oculus didn't firesale itself to the evils of Facebook because it had a bright future. It did so out of desperation.
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I agree, but the feeling I was getting from joesmo was that law enforcement was just another job, with little risk.
ok, I will just chalk it up to semantic differences then. :)

To Terry (dead comment below): God should implement a "show dead" feature on the universe. Huge fan of your work, btw.
Sure, this will be a hot product among PC gamers but they are not the mainstream consumers. I wanted to buy the device for my mom and have her use it. I think the vision should be to bring VR mainstream that is usable by all without technological friction.
American presidents aren't exactly a large sample size. I seriously doubt any statistically interesting data can be derived from such a small set.
>People don't have those big PCs any more.

People who play video games on them do.

>Most people have just laptops/MacBook.

Not people who play video games.

> I guess nobody would want to bring back those beasts in their living rooms again just to use Oculus Rift.

If they like to play PC games in their living room, they already have a PC there. If they don't, this won't change that.

>"They should have really considered full device experience where you get everything you need and hardware is exactly designed to give optimal Oculus experience."

So... sell the Oculus together with a gaming PC? What's the difference between that and getting your own separately?

>World has long moved on from knowing which graphic card you need for your PC.

Except for those people who play video games on their PC. Those people generally do know what video card they have.

>I really hope this has good enough performance on typical Lenovo/MBP at least.

It will not. A powerful desktop gaming computer is absolutely required for acceptable VR performance in any interesting game.
Exactly; Microsoft invested approximately $100 million into development of the Xbox One controller[0], and it shows.

[0] - http://www.gamesradar.com/video-designing-xbox-one-controlle...
Thank you! I thought, "Either I'm getting old, or this is the worst site I've seen since 99.".

Then, I clicked the author's name (at the top) and the page went blank, except for the header.
Why would you compare InfluxDB and RethinkDB? Those are two databases for very, very different problems. CouchDB and MongoDB are more comparable to RethinkDB if that helps you get a start!
5 Highly Requested HubSpot COS Features
Autonomous vehicles could coordinate to allow manuevering. I mean, if there is enough space, surely you can keep cars at whatever separation, but in heavy traffic the most efficient would be leaving a lane on the right or left exclusive for emergency (or maybe coordinating vehicles for clearance).
The Crescent Bay prototype used the drivers from porta-pros, which are pretty good. The point of included headphones:

A) Based on Twitch and YouTube a lot of people didn't use headphones, losing most benefits of headtracked and spatialized sound. Integrating them makes them much more likely to be used.

B) Standardized frequency response and built-in DAC/amp means their HRTF (head related transfer function) spatialization tech can be tuned precisely, without worrying about the EQ of thousands of different variations. Though people are still free to use their own and lose the fine tuning.
Hololens hands on show it to be a ready product. It doesn't require any breakthroughs.

One reviewer was shocked at how opaque the holograms were. I think the situation you're describing with a black object has already been solved:

>What did surprise me, though, was how little opacity there was to the holograms. I expected them to look somewhat transparent, with the background shining through. That really wasn’t the case, though. They looked really solid and there was almost no transparency.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/30/hololens-is-real/
Yes. Also lackluster considering cooler possibilities like leap motion[1].

1. https://www.leapmotion.com/product/vr
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> Many coders would do well to read a similar article, if there was one, called, "What is Society?"

There was a thread a while back where software developers told me I was unreasonable to expect them to know who the vice president of the country they lived in was. I feel you here a whole bunch.
iOS is a blackbox, and all the security iterations in the world will not stop apps phoning home in plaintext without the user's consent. Unless informed consent is a given for iOS, users are still shooting in the dark.
Libraries and Cities Are Terrible at Keeping Track of Art
> I, at least, and not "crying out that automation and software are going to make everyone redundant" prior to some nanotech utopia, which is some years out from even achieving the first levels of Drexler style nanotech.

Then I think we have much work to do.
When I was at school we were supposed to build a robot that put out a candle. Basically an LDR guided squirter.

Mine used an aerosol and a lighter until I got told off. Someone had to relight the candles.

So that idea is right up my street :)
Logged into HN just to agree with you guys on how terribly that site is designed. I think the big issue is how if you keep scrolling it just pops another article into the feed so you can never stop scrolling. So there is no way to easily find the end of an article.
In the submission, it says the headphone arms can be removed.
I've moved my personal working source-dir to Dropbox, and symlinked it to ~/src on both my computers (in addition to my editor's workspace and session files, amongst other things).

It has worked like a charm in my case, though the odd conflict does occur when changing very quickly back and forth between keyboards. I've also experienced some sync failures when rapidly changing lots of small files, but this can be remedied by pausing and resuming sync.

Though I've been doing this for years, I have never experienced any bigger problems that I were not able to fix with a quick rollback via Dropbox' web interface.
If somebody wants to kill air travelers, TSA screening checkpoint line is the most attractive target.

Just fill big suitcase with explosives and wait until you are middle of the TSA screening line during holiday season.
If you are interested in this, check also PicoBit: https://github.com/stamourv/picobit
Pretty cool but I hope they don't overlook the importance of aesthetics. It's worth spending extra time and money to make a building look unique and fitting for the location it is in. A city filled with identical mass-produced skyscrapers will not be pleasant once the novelty wears off.
> Part of the reason it's so dangerous is because it's illegal

Part of the reason it's illegal is because it's so dangerous. The argument goes that park services have limited resources for search and rescue. Engaging in such an inherently dangerous activity inevitably causes a lot of incidents draining those resources.

I like BASE and fully support those who choose to participate. But maybe banning BASE in the parks isn't the worse idea. Some famous BASE spots in Europe have outlawed jumping after numerous deaths.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_Wall#BASE_Jumping

It's not like this is a sport that thrives on legality anyway.
Dynamic 3D Avatar Creation from Hand-Held Video Input