skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all a matter of degree. In the 1950s and '60s, African-Americans in Mississippi were terrorized by the State Sovereignty Commission, a kind of Cracker Barrel Stasi that had files on virtually every black citizen in the state, kept surveillance on anyone associated with the Civil Rights movement, and regularly used their power to hound undesirable citizens out of jobs, call in bank loans, deny credit, and so on. They weren't cross-burning Klansmen -- in fact, they saw themselves as anti-Klan -- but they ran a second-rate police state down in the Delta for decades. And where they didn't operate, Hoover, with his voluminous blackmail archives on politicians and his secret campaigns of vilification against civil rights leaders, did.

Today, we have pervasive state surveillance, a culture of secrecy that permeates every level of government, and a society that maintains a separate class of police and law enforcement officials who arguably operate with near-impunity, with tacit sanction for everything from extrajudicial beatings (and, at the risk of sounding overheated, SWAT-based extrajudicial executions) to prosecutorial misconduct. Thanks to Bennis, SCOTUS has ruled that the government may seize your personal property if you are the innocent owner of an item that the government might proceed against in rem (e.g., United States vs. $124,700) -- and those proceeds then go to fund further law enforcement and security operations.

We live in a state where Lincoln's fear that "all the laws but one go unexecuted" is the spoken and unspoken impetus for all security and law enforcement efforts -- every immigrant may be a terrorist, every demonstration a riot, every black man a gang member. In a state that is organized for the security and convenience of the police power, what else is there to call it?
(Disclosure: big fan of Ramda here)

That's exactly where I got caught too. I just don't see why I really want to do it that way at all.

My favorite thing about Underscore/Lodash/Ramda is function composition. This seems like a (syntactical) move away from that . . .
The Xbox controller is really surprising to me. Years in development and it will ship with an Xbox controller. Oculus Touch didn't even get demonstrated and "prototype" was mentioned time and again.
This thread is weird.

The people vilifying Max or saying "duh you didn't get hired, Google requires awesome people" seem to have a totally warped sense of exactly what Google engineers do day to day.

Blows my mind that there are so many people defending this (well-known and pretty much taken as a trade-off) lapse in the Google hiring algo and instead making it seem like Max's fault.
Relevant: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-a-pregnant-woma...

The probability of conception producing a male child is not 0.5; it is stacked in favor of the male. (In "most industrialized countries").
Their 500 page is also pretty great
Fwiw if they're legally gifts (which is not always obvious, consult your tax professional etc.), gift tax in the U.S. is payable by the gifter, not the recipient: http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ... I believe this is because it's mainly aimed at wealthy estates who're trying to end-run the estate tax by conveying large amounts of money to would-be heirs via gifts instead.
I feel like regardless of how ubiquitous Javascript is, it's honestly an awful choice for embedded applications (no, most embedded applications don't sport some racecar ARM A7/A8/A9/A15, and shouldn't if it's not absolutely necessary); there are excellent reasons C still dominates here, and would likely be replaced with something like Rust instead of JS. Manual memory management is usually a huge plus on lots of embedded platforms, static typing is really important here, and most of the code is rather low level. These concerns are really sort of exacerbated on stuff going up into space, as the chips tend to be lower density designs, and simpler. Forth is an excellent choice here, and Lua if whatever you're running on can spare some extra CPU cycles. I guess it will be interesting to see how things pan out with MicroPython.

I would imagine if you could do anything to improve on what exists today for embedded, it would be to push things like verifiable systems harder, kind of what like Margaret Hamilton was pushing with USL[1].

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Systems_Language
What do you mean? Theres tons, TONS of resources for learning the basics of programming.
Twin Falls, ID is right on the edge of the Snake River Canyon, with the Perrine Bridge connecting it to all things north of the town's location. We frequently have bridge jumpers, as it is allowed.

Last month a 73 year old guy died when his second parachute didn't deploy correctly. He needed the second parachute BECAUSE HE LIT THE FIRST ON FIRE!

http://magicvalley.com/news/local/video-shows-base-jumper-on...

I don't mourn people who die doing crazy things, so long as they are smart enough to know better. For some people, this is how they celebrate life.
This is the coolest thing I've seen posted on HN in awhile.

The title might not do it justice; the point is: there's very little assembly language involved, if you're careful.
AR and VR serve different goals. In this page they mention presence, which is basically the internal lizard-brain feeling of being somewhere else. Presence is what makes VR something unique, different, and powerful. AR doesn't provide presence.

I think AR is infinitely more practical for practical things but ultimately less useful as an entertainment medium. And the holosuite is just as much VR as it is AR.
Although the stated reason for National parks to restrict it isn't safety, it is a common complaint amongst objectors anywhere. BASE jumping is inherently dangerous. That is no reason to ban it. The highest goal cannot be to make the World a perfectly safe Disney park.
Maybe. But by that standard, using a Xerox machine is programming because you can layer some pieces of paper and transparencies together and then copy it onto an image on a single sheet.

I think to be programming, there has to be some kind "logic" (conditionals, mathematical functions, loops, etc.) embedded in the structure (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom) and I'm not sure Photoshop qualifies.
It works fine for me in Conkeror with no AdBlock.
Max Keiser: Banker Suicides Likely to Increase
I mean, when choosing titles for experience level - it is always better to use common words rather than buzzwords( like Tadpole or ninja)

Although the difference between levels may vary from person to person - your projects section should also reflect your listed skills.
I have a hunch it's not ready, though I have no evidence to support that
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http://i.imgur.com/avm58fO.png

Am I going crazy, or is there no red in that?
I find a more effective solution to this problem is viewing code/projects the candidate has completed. No developer I know would jump through these hoops.
I'm the author of this piece. If you have any questions, go ahead and I'll try to answer.
Looks like facebook acquired this code http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/18/facebook-b...

https://github.com/facebook/infer/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=mo...
Nonsense. If not craigslist, then a yard sale. If not that, a thrift store. You can certainly do better than buying new.
I equate VR -> movies and AR -> smartphones.

VR is a medium for immersion but AR really shines as a tool.
"Prove" is an incredibly strong word. Too strong for this case.
Good to hear because I started to experiment with it a couple months ago to solve a specific problem. I abandoned it because the embedded version required an older version of Lucene than I was using. Yes I could have worked around that but it's a lot of extra work to try something that may or may not solve my problem. Then I tried the server version which also required I be able to call web services (something my code had no other use for). Worked through that and found the performance pretty poor compared to embedded. I ended up just solving the problem in Lucene. Glad I didn't spend more time on it.

I would love to have a good graph database later on though
> There are certainly too many politicians in high places and other influential members of our ruling class who'd like to institute a full blown police state. That's one reason I'm interested in Strange Loop controversy.

That is Orwellian state. In it the policing is internalized in the individual.
I think you overestimate the draw of device that isn't really market tested and doesn't yet have a lot to recommend it besides its newness. Christmas of 2016 will give it time for good games to have bubbled up and make the value proposition of the Oculus + supporting hardware much stronger.
That really doesn't bother me. Having used an Xbox One controller regularly, I think it is a fantastic controller, and I like that Oculus didn't feel the need to reinvent the wheel. I am excited about new interfaces other than a traditional controller though.
What are the specs of the display? Is it the same one than the V2?
Product Market Fit: I finally saw it in the wild. Now everything makes sense
Haha, thanks HN mods for changing the title to the uselessly generic "Oculus Rift".
https://twitter.com/akipman/status/595028946720137216
Don't throw a tantrum.
With birth control and condoms, there are only cultural barriers to new social norms regarding females with multiple partners. Such behavior is certainly within the range of commonly observed human sexual behavior. Legalized and effectively regulated prostitution would be one way of addressing such a demographic issue while avoiding crime and human trafficking. Legalization would probably be one of the easiest changes to implement. (Given the vehement opposition to such an idea in the US, that's saying something.)
"The oculus will ship with...

A wireless....

Xbox one controller"

I closed out of the stream at that point.
One very popular paywalled news site I use allows you to freely share links to individual pages. For now, that seems to work for them.

As for paywalled music: artists were getting screwed before. Maybe more so, maybe less so, but many were getting screwed. Either way, maintaining the status quo doesn't seem like a good solution, so why try and maintain that. I'd rather see the whole deal collapse so that new things can be tried.
that would make it less exciting. the rush of autonomous competitions is trying to outsmart the others in terms of code
Really refreshing article.
Huge kudos for that great achievement! Seems like you had a lot of fun.
I would imagine you'd get the best results from an Alienware style sub-brand of the listed companies; very few stock PCs come with the high-end GPU's you'd want to make the rift a good experience.
It isn't really mentioned, but another reason why using HTTP is unfortunate is due to capturing paywall endpoints that are found in locations such as planes, hotels, etc. If you have software installed to monitor/whitelist all outbound connections, it is extremely frustrating to see your OS services attempting to talk to GoGo's server or some hotel WiFi man-in-the-middle prior to you authenticating and bringing up net access. Fairmont Hotels was actively inserting DIVs into unencrypted sites. Why would I want actors like this to receive any of my traffic? You have to trust Apple at some point, but it would still reassure the public if they pinned certs and you could visibly see the OS only talking to their servers.
I'm excited about SparkR, even though R is shunned in the field of big data. Between that and dplyr (which inspired the SparkR syntax) for data manipulation and sanitation, it should be much easier to write sane, reproducible code and visualizations for big data analysis. (the Python/Scala tutorials for Spark gave me a headache)

SparkR appears to have strong integration into Rstudio, which is big news: http://blog.rstudio.org/2015/05/28/sparkr-preview-by-vincent...
Also it won't let me scroll with clicking the middle mouse wheel and dragging the mouse. That's how I quickly skim an article.
This is likely going to be the biggest turn-off. People don't have those big PCs any more. Most people have just laptops/MacBook. I guess nobody would want to bring back those beasts in their living rooms again just to use Oculus Rift. They should have really considered full device experience where you get everything you need and hardware is exactly designed to give optimal Oculus experience. World has long moved on from knowing which graphic card you need for your PC. I really hope this has good enough performance on typical Lenovo/MBP at least.
Going to a page and the first thing I see is someone with their mouth gaping open and looking up. Horrible design.
The issue at this point is the lack of full packet capture.
I think the cinema mode is to ensure that you don't have to take the device off when you switch between a game that's designed to support the Rift and software that does not. With that it mind, it seems like a reasonable compromise. I mean, do you want to have to take the thing off every time you alt-tab to Windows Desktop, or do you want to be 2" from the Windows Desktop?
I don't see it happening soon enough for a whole bunch of reasons. The suppression of nanotech development for an "ultimate" solution, the current VC, IPO etc. situation which is anything but hardware friendly, in sharp contrast to the, oh, pre-mid-90s or so, to just how darn hard this stuff is.

My mother was a RN, my father managed the business affairs of a lot of doctors, one of which was his primary hunting partner, my youngest parent is almost 80, this is not stuff you can automate now at any level beyond say lab work, and I don't see that changing in time.

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.
What's the actual article? I get "Teaching women to fight today could stop rapes tomorrow". The string "60" doesn't appear anywhere...
The article mentions that this is balanced by the longer life spans of women leading to an overall average of very, very near 50/50 (other factors aside).
> Smalltalk’s history is often described as slightly tragic, because many of its best ideas never permeated the culture of code. But it’s still around, still has users, and anyone can use Squeak or Pharo. Also—

>

> 1. Java is an object-oriented language, influenced by C++, that runs on a virtual machine (just like Smalltalk).

> 2. Objective-C, per its name, jammed C and Smalltalk together with no apologies.

> 3. C# (pronounced “C sharp”) is based on C and influenced by Java, but it was created by Microsoft for use in its .NET framework.

> 4. C++ is an object-oriented version of C, although its roots are more in Simula.

>

> The number of digital things conceived in 1972 that are still under regular discussion is quite small. (It was the year of The Godfather and Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together.) The world corrupts the pure vision of great ideas. I pronounce Smalltalk a raging, wild, global success.

Except that these examples are "object-oriented" in almost none of the ways Smalltalk was object-oriented: http://www.paulgraham.com/reesoo.html

The specious reasoning on display in this paragraph is almost offensive in its glib uncomprehension. Calling Smalltalk "a raging, wild, global success" because modern programming languages call themselves "object-oriented" is like saying women in technology are well-represented because Ada Lovelace was the first programmer.

I get that it's supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, but like the rest of the writing in this article, it's supposed to be tongue-in-cheek in a way that gestures toward what the author actually thinks. In this case, what it's gesturing at is the notion that Smalltalk has had a large-scale tangible influence (if not wholesale adoption) on modern programming languages, which, if you actually take the time to understand the subject, is just not true.
µBlock on Firefox/Android is nice, much like the desktop version.

I only used ABP-by-proxy briefly before I rooted my phone, but my mother reports mostly good results and only minor hiccups. I currently use Adaway, a hosts-file based solution that requires root. I know some builds of Android on some devices resist rooting, but it's officially supported on my Nexus 5.
Should probably be blue not red
That's true. However, women have a longer average life expectancy in every country in the world, which should (over-)compensate the slight imbalance towards male at birth. Which in fact it does in industrialized countries.
This.

It appeals to a very specific market at the moment. Most consumers will probably never experience VR on a PC at home.

The real seller to mass market will be a combination of integration with phone handsets (a la Gear VR) or console (Morpheus/PS4) devices. The mass market doesn't want a big, expensive black box chugging away in their living room.
I'm a bit of a sound nerd, but the on-ear headphones are really underwhelming. No noise isolation, most likely low quality drivers... this would make for a pretty terrible VR experience.

Simply upgrading them to closed back, over the ear headphones would make a big difference - you'd be able to use lower volumes (at which point even cheap drivers aren't oto bad), and you'd be more isolated from the environment, similar to how the rest of the headset works with your vision.
More exciting, to watch
Off topic, but PHPBB would not have been the first forum software I would have expected Facebook to use.

https://forums.oculus.com/
Is there a place where we can actually read the article? That site is very broken in my browser. I cannot scroll past the first few lines - the articles don't scroll independently.

Edit: seems to be fixed now.
Surprisingly enough, China still has a huge number of (as they put it) "left-over" women. This is likely because the population of there is well aware of the 60M+ fact going in their favor and, in truly amazing display of classical economics, heightened the standards and criterion the average girl uses to look for a man. The result (aside from the large majority who are one-to-one dating/engaged/married like it's always been) is that there are a ton of frustrated young men who (unless a miracle occurs) will remaining single until he dies, a small population of ultra-successful men who concurrently juggle multiple girlfriends (and possibly wives), and a large group girls who are annoyed that all the "good" men are taken.

Unfortunately, sex crimes have been on the rise in China.
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I'm guessing you're supposed to associate "Aaah" and "Oh" as in Oh-culus, but I agree: that's a terrible filler for your first product page.
I had the same thing, then I tried in incognito and it worked. Probably adblocker or something.
I like the split controller. I hope they sell those as a stand-alone device - I'd like a 1-handed controller for gaming on my phone, for example.
In the US you do not have to prove that person was not qualified.

It is "at will employment".

There is no need to prove that employee is causing losses.

It's the employee who has to constantly "prove" to employer that this employee's salary is justified.
Spoken – Audio stories 4 minutes or less
http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/why-you-wont-see-hard-...
And it's supposed to be intuitive the black oval in the top left is somehow the "Home" button?
I'm often on very crowded flights, but not so much in the northeast. Maybe people there tend to bring more/bigger luggage, but it seems to me the airlines created the issue by charging for checked bags.
You mean you fly up to 16 pilots in a race? What's your set-up? The most I've seen so far is 6.
Startup Ideas, Meta Validation, and Linkship
Acquihired people still are interviewed.
The ring serves 3 functions as I understand.

-Tracking of the controller: There are leds on it that emmit IR light so the tracker can accurately track the controller. This accuracy is not achievable at the moment with just internal sensors (although the controller has these, presumably for even better accuracy)

-The inside of the ring has sensors to track your finger gestures. I can imagine this would not be possible with just the internals of the controller.

-The ring acts as a sort of extra handle. Imagine opening your hand totally (as in waving). This is a gesture you would maybe like to do in VR. The ring will hang between your thumb and index finger while you do this. Other more traditional tracked controllers would fall out of your hand.
Might be an issue with infinite scrolling on the Quartz site, works fine on my machine. Try this if the above link doesn't work for you: http://data.qz.com/2014/qz-sexmap/
Using Photoshop is instructing a computer to perform a series of operations, necessarily fairly high level ones, but conceptually not that different from text-based coding. I agree it stretches the definition pretty thin: where's the control flow? Conditionals?, but are those things really foundational characteristics of programming languages or are they simply the equivalent 'predefined tools' that, say, C gives us?

Excel is much closer to traditional programming: it's basically a purely functional language (absent VBA), but instead of a linear description of the program in a text file, you're in effect embedding functional code inside a virtual machine's memory.

EDIT: I suppose an important question about Photoshop is, can you do computation in it?
Very neat. If you find this interesting you may also like jonesforth, another project developing a language starting from assembly.

http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=summary
Also,

This is a result about the worst case expected time for an abstract algorithm for finding the edit distance between any two sequences of less than a given length.

It's possible an algorithm which usually takes much less time exists. And more to the point, an algorithm knowing something about the structure of genomes might wind-up with even less time. Matching broad areas of different genomes together first seems like an obvious speed-up in this case and I'm sure there are a number of others.
Not necessarily. The encryption key could be stored in your iCloud keychain, or derived from your login credentials and/or an account-specific identifier stored on your devices. That would prevent anyone from decrypting your data even with root on their servers unless they managed to capture the decryption key out of memory.
Wasn't a big bit of it that Lee didn't feel he was up to that much screentime/travel?
Palmer claims the headphones are very high quality. If you don't like them you can replace them with your own.
The entire PC gaming industry would beg to differ, which is likely the initial target market. Of course that will change. Also I wouldn't exactly consider my desktop a beast. Form factors are pretty small these days.
Mind explaining the "eotech"/platoon sargeant being upset, for us civilians? ;)
Tor 0.2.6.9 is released
Man, these should be in a museum somewhere. What an amazing piece of history.
Am I understanding correctly that this proposal again side steps / ignores pinning dependencies for libraries? To me, this is the biggest current problem in the ecosystem and, as a library author, this doesn't solve any of my issues. I hope I misread somehow.
While I agree that the $7B spent on TSA is a waste, I can't agree with his conclusion that we should spend it on other security measures. That just leads to more "wiretap all the citizens" initiatives.