skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this may be true for high fidelity gaming, for moving some textured triangles around, mobile GPUs are fine. Also, they can (and do) perform much better clock-for-clock vs a PC (and especially a Mac) thanks to the ability to optimize drivers. For a fascinating discussion of the optimizations possible, Carmack's 2014 Oculus Connect keynote is well worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn8m5d74fk8

This talk was a slightly long but very informative discussion of the various challenges in reducing latency and dealing w/ PC rendering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoqV112Pwrs
The Massive Hack on US Personnel Agency Is Worse Than Everyone Thought
Watch it when capitalists pushing incessantly people to learn coding. They're trying very hard to cut the costs of their input "materials" and they will do everything that they could to devalue us in every way possible.

Did you actually read this article? The article doesn't aim to teach Bloomberg's audience (which consists of VPs, SVPs, and managers, as implied in the first couple of paragraphs) how to code or replace the average developer.
It's more a one-way dataflow language.
Compare that to github who has a whole subdomain dedicated to their academic offers:

https://education.github.com/
Remember the last time you heard Google say don't be evil. I don't. My point was not that apple can do no wrong, but simply that times change, business models change. Today Apple is our benevolent leader tomorrow they are our cloud tyrant. No different than the slow erosions that we've seen from Google.

So why rely on market forces for privacy, because for this fight once lost will be hard to win back.
"A real language built in assembler would be headaches"

Depending on what you consider a "real language", it's not that bad. I did a Forth in 80x86 assembler years ago, and it was reasonably easy and fun.

(I did use the BIOS routines for keyboard/screen I/O...they were one character at a time, IIRC).
You are the only person who is really uncertain on it.
Nope. Read it all. If your going to accuse someone of being mentally deficient, you should work harder to not be obviously an idiot yourself. You failed at that.
Hey, it's good to meet someone else who suffers from this. Funny that it only developed for you in your mid-twenties - I've had it all my life. Not from the sight of my own blood, but from reading medical texts (such as the page you linked) or from having human biology explained to me.

One thing that I think people don't understand is that it's completely uncontrollable. I can prevent myself from fainting about a well as a person with a broken leg can just "walk it off". It's very weird to see this effect from a part of the brain that I apparently have no control over.

Have you looked into treatment options at all? I have looked around a bit, but I haven't found any studies into treatment of any kind. I've been considering regularly donating blood in the hopes that regular exposure to that environment would reduce effect.
I don't think the problems the OP mentioned will resolve. Docker is fairly opinionated and so are the authors of it.

If the shoe fits; use it. But Docker is not a 1 size fits all;

If the idea of trusting a ubuntu image that is debootstrapped from someone on the docker team huzzah
If the idea of not running being able to run apt-get upgrade and having up to date packages; does not bother you then Docker is for you.

> Note I use Docker and it pains me to keep using it. I feel like I could be trusting Jack the Ripper; or the Pope.
Because the password correcthorsebatterystaple is secure enough.
Oh weird! Is it common in ClojureScript to pass strings of code around like this?
> It is followed by a more advanced spark course (Scalable Machine Learning)

Is it really more advanced regarding Spark? The requirements state explicitely that no prior Spark knowledge is required.
Wanted: a perfect scatterplot (with marginals)
LOL, and I spent all that time getting it to compile. Do you know if this compiles with GHC 7.8?
I don't know the numbers but I know a lot of people who want to use the firehose for a purpose.
80s cars were damn ugly, even during the 80s. I breathed a sigh of relief when they finally started adding curves again.
They sell solutions to business problems at the CEO/COO/CFO level. The database as outrageous as it is, is just a sideshow.

I think New York spent something like $40M for a general ledger system. There is ridiculous amounts of money in these projects.
IMHO, government money is so tough to divy out. Mainly because there is a large group of people who are cheerleading for the investment to fail. That is, the opposition party and their supporters.
The 3rd Gen RX-7 was the first to make curves look good.

At least it still had the popup headlights though. I sorely wish those would make a comeback, but most folks don't like to have to think about whether their lights are on or not anymore.
Stephenson already described the Gargoyle in Snow Crash.
Sure. At a naive (but workable) level, you could just use assembly to link all the free space up into one humongoid list at startup, then operate on that using Lisp (either directly, or by having a later stage in the startup transform this rudimentary free list into something more sophisticated).
You know, the extra curvy crazy body panels can be cool looking sometimes, but I still wish they'd ship the engineers that build and design these cars out to Alaska in the winter and make them disassemble and reassemble the cars a couple of times before they ship them -- the increasingly custom body panels and designs has made it much more difficult to fix what's there or even get the cars apart for service.
Second this. I had similar experience in 2003-2004. I guess things haven't changed much in last decade.

Another issue was the Canadian VCs being followers. It was funny when I was raising money in Canada. A few Canadian VCs I talked didn't return calls until I sent them email mentioning that I am visiting U.S. VCs tomorrow. The C. VCs called me at 11pm few minutes after I sent emails. I came back to U.S. by end of 2005.

It is most probably handout by politicians to their favorites. I had some interesting experiences trying to get govt funding too in Canada.
I agree. This is the best piece of writing I think I've ever read on the web. This touches on everything, and so accurately, and so concisely... this article is giving me a stroke I think.
I skimmed and didn't get mocked. I really am a slow reader :-P
Most trades have a buyer, a seller, and a third party arbiter. When an agreement is made the bitcoin goes into something like escrow. Any two of the three parties together can release the money. In a normal trade, when the buyer receives the product he OKs the transaction and the bitcoin is released to the seller. If the product is not delivered or isn't what was promised the buyer can appeal to the arbiter. The arbiter settles the dispute. The arbiter can also release the funds if the buyer fails to OK the transaction

I don't think an arbiter is strictly required so if a big name company enters the market you can probably avoid paying an arbiter. Generally though, in a ebay like situation you'll probably need to pick a trust worthy arbiter and pay them accordingly.
Exactly right. They have a really good product with great reputation, a ton of support resources and skill availability. Besides the features like RAC, RAT, Various security stuff (redaction, encryption etc) that enterprise customers demand are not in any open source database I know of.
I disagree. The 70s/80s wedge is still my favorite car shape.
Hatchback Louvers were grand and those 5-mph bumpers look great on some cars (VW, Volvo...)

Those garish econonoboxes are for-sure terrible though. The Dodge Omni has the honor of being one of the ugliest cars ever made. Which also makes the fact that Shelby turned it into one of the most awesome machines ever on the road (Omni '86 GLHS) that much more satisfying. That said, rally was much more fun when it was with ugly boxy cars and Group B.
SteamBox is Vaporware anyway
Exactly. Gear VR is their 'VR for everyone' product. It's fantastic for that. They're already well on their way down that path.
Ask HN: Area to study to learn writing code for navigating inside a building?
Hello HN,

Down the line I will be working on a project finding the fastest route from point A to B inside of a building. The building is very complicated and has multiple ways of getting somewhere.

The piece of software will not need to actually "navigate" the user as, for instance, Google Maps. Instead the user would tell the app where they currently are and where they want to go and the app would give them a static route.

Is there an area of research I should be studying that helps with this type of programming? Obviously I need to take into consideration walls and figuring out the fastest route, but I don't have a great idea on where to start my research.

Thanks in advance for any help!
Indeed - there should be a term for this, perhaps "Financial Recapitulation".
I'm just waiting for some internal fallout in the company between execs so I can make a well-timed "rift" joke... It's interesting to see these images now in comparison to the leaked ones that came out.
This is a really ugly, selfish attitude. It's like opposing literacy because it will put pressure on jobs for those who can read and write. It's circling the wagons around people who had the privilege and opportunity to learn these things before everybody else.
The article could have been improved with a quick round of editing, particularly for an Anandtech article - some of the exposition was rather breathless (not to mention inaccurate). For example:

The write/erase endurance is practically infinite as independent university study has shown Nantero’s NRAM technology to have over 10^11 P/E cycles,(for your information, 10^11 translates to 100 billion).

First, 10^11 P/E cycle and "practically infinite" aren't really two concepts I would associate with each other when discussing RAM.

And second, an Anandtech article explaining what 10^11 means? If I have trouble with that concept, about 98%+ of their articles would be completely over my head.
I hate how all cars on the road look like identical bars of soap. I realize a lot of this is due to aerodynamics and safety regulations, but it's a shame. You don't see too many cars anymore that are significantly visually distinct from a Honda Accord.
If they held off on paying those obligations until later, they'd be unable to pay them. It's that simple. The math would not have worked out. Reduce the size of their business by 1/3, increase the size of obligations substantially due to employees retiring and drawing against those pensions, and it becomes a very large tax payer funded pension plan.

The USPS has already become increasingly dependent on commercial spam mail to keep going.
> Writing this article was a nightmare because I know that no matter how many people review it, I’ll have missed something, some thread that a reader can pull and say, “He missed the essence of the subject.” I know you’re out there, ashamed to have me as an advocate. I accept that. I know that what I describe as “compilation” is but a tiny strand of that subject; I know that the ways I characterize programming languages are reductive. This was supposed to be a brief article, and it became a brief book. So my apologies for anything that absolutely should have been here, but isn’t. They gave me only one magazine.
I had food poisoning. The vomiting caused damage, and I had many similar symptoms. Some of them led to panic attacks. Needless to say, I had poor results with Doctors, and ended up on a pretty strict diet for about 2 years which helped reduce acid. Things are much better now, but I notice that the symptoms are also linked to my mood. If I'm feeling down/sad, everything flares up again.
I agree with you. I think that was a poor way for engadget to end the article. It was probably meant to be more along the lines of this quote from earlier in the article "It was all because they thought Reddit was restricting their free speech, something they have no actual right to on the site in the first place."
I've always felt the Ford KA (here in Europe) was a big influencer in the movement towards curvy cars over here.
Most things in the 80s were ugly. I mean people wore costumes for clothes for crying out loud. I have pictures my wife will never see because of the embarrassing things I wore.
General Motors, which dominated the market and always set the styling trends, stuck with the same box styling for too long. The "sheer look" was introduced with the 1976 Cadillac Seville and they were still using it until the late 1980s. So the Ford aero look was very fresh in comparison.
Amen brother, a giant loss.
Thanks to John Foreman's book "Data Smart" I now regularly test small-scale machine learning problems in Excel. Sure, a developer will translate the end result to scikit-learn or AzureML, but this is stuff that's easily available to even mildly-technical enthusiasts.
Agreed, we need more Bloomerg articles that increase the supply of financial and negotiating skills.
From part 2 of their article:

> Currently, more than 60 percent of global internet traffic consists of requests from crawlers or some type of automated Web discovery system.

Where is this number from and how accurate can you make it?
Focus on office politics and not on actually doing anything useful.
i viewed source to see how they did the custom skin and noticed this:

if (!console.log) console.log = function(){}

shouldnt it be if(window.console) ?
It's good that more companies are adopting free software, but most of them do not, in turn, release their core applications as free software. This indicates they do not value freedom more than they value saving money.
This exists: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2015-Newest-Vmsart-X1-windows...

15.1x8x1cm x86-64 computer with a built in 3000mAh battery
He's getting no compensation from leaving (a golden parachute).

He does have a substantial equity position in Twitter.
> Cassandra "just works"

It's hard for me to believe statements like this. At this point, I think the only things that "just work" are gravity, relativity, and modern CPUs.

I recommend this talk on Scaling Pinterest http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Pinterest
Uber driver taken hostage in Marseille within 24 hours of launch
First Thoughts on ResearchKit
Nothing about EC2 precludes it from offloading accountability from its clients to itself. Amazon operates infrastructure for the CIA. Consultants are plentiful and cheap. Amazon can provide handholding-as-a-Service just as well as Oracle. At some point, Amazon may invest more resources into its service business. But now it makes sense to grow its platform. That is the difference in Amazon vs Oracle model. Amazon is platform first, Oracle is service first.

When Amazon competes with Oracle on service, what value will Oracle have to provide? Amazon is far ahead of them in platform, and catching up in service is easy. Oracle would have a much harder time doing the opposite.

Platform-first business model is quickly displacing service-first business model. Build a large customer base, use it as proof of ability to scale, then charge enterprise customers for concierge service.

EDIT: keep in mind we are discussing an article about oracle's declining sales.
I've noticed a lot of MS SqlServer being thrown at larger systems.
It's strange, but when I think about it, DK1 was a much more positive 'product-y' experience for me than DK2 was. Perhaps part of that is that DK1 was my first VR headset, so much of the initial awe factor had worn off by the time I got the DK2.

The DK2 was/is plagued with software teething issues. Totally acceptable as it's a developer kit, but still frustrating and a little worrying. The other thing I found disappointing coming from DK1 to DK2 was the vastly decreased field-of-view. I think it's a combination of things that contribute/contributed to that (over-zealous vignetting in the earlier SDKs being one of them), some of which may have been fixed since in software. I say this as, to me, the Gear VR FOV seems wider than DK2's despite having a slightly lower quoted value.

My DK2 is basically a brick now. There's been a compatibility issue with AMD cards running it in extended mode, which goes all the way back to September of last year which has not been fixed on my system by any driver updates or Oculus SDK updates since. Given that the cool stuff I'd like to use with it (specifically VR Desktop and VorpX) doesn't support direct mode and only does extended, I've almost given up on it (this affects dev too - I believe the latest Unity editor still doesn't support running stuff in Direct-to-Rift mode from the editor, for example).
Just realized I never posted this when I wrote it a couple months ago, and figured a few healthcare devs gotta still around here somewhere... Now that we're through the WWDC keynote, it's been a few months, my thoughts are still the same.
I've never seen anything like this on a website before. The writing, the formatting, the structure, the animations; it's near perfect.
Let us keep the sacred arts secret, brothers.

EDIT: Just being sarcastic. You are clearly incompetent, coasting along in your job, and afraid of someone with 6 months of experience being better than you.
Work with Project Calendar Data and Improved Project MPP Files Reading Using Java
yep, should be getting updated in the next day or so. We're on it ;)
Fox Yeah
And pray tell how do you get around Google Maps' usage restrictions?
Though I agree in principal with what is trying to be said it's unfortunate that it's wrong in several places.

For instance, Docker doesn't enforce you to run a single process per container. It simply requires you to provide it with one root process. This is true for all *nix systems, if you wanted to you could give it /sbin/init (or busybox, or systemd, or a custom supervisor) and launch SSH, NTP and friends under that.

All true on the networking front, things really do suck there out of the box. I would recommend looking at flannel with the native VXLan backend to reduce said suckage.

The storage stuff is made somewhat ok by the ability to pass volumes or entire storage devices in, which is what you should be doing for anything performance sensitive.
Snowden Document Search
I would have loved the new Safari mute features on that page....

How dare you pollute my ears with garbage without a mute option.
It should make sense that this article & VP exists. 7 billion people in the world and only 11 million professionally code, and 7 million are hobby coders, according to the author of the article and the IDC.

After auditing the software of at least 20 different startups, I'd have to say there will always be people in positions of power who know nothing. Just look at our politicians.
Reason 1 and 3 are totally baloney. European cars were as much boxy as the Americans and Japaneses in the same era and technology have nothing to do with enabling new curvy design either. If you look back to the 50s/60s, cars from Lincoln, Cadillac, Ford, Bentley, Mercedes, etc were not only curvy but there were all kinda of crazy complex shapes.

I think people's preference just got tired of the overly designed styles up until the late 60s. I would point to Cadillac as the one that started the boxy cars trend. They are still boxy/edgy today, although much more stylized. I love the newer Cadis design actually, they are so different than anything on the roads.
This came up in the car ride back from work with my spouse. I argued that there must be some other interpretation since I couldn't believe that they'd throw this out there - maybe some part of recent culture I was not aware of.

Wrong.

Guess I'm not the one in tune with the Zeitgeist.
So interesting thought here...but C# might be a better comparison. This is a language that has seen a lot of change and a lot of added features. But at least some of the earlier features that were part of the language are no longer used much. I think js is more like C# than C++ in this way.
Blackberry might switch to Android as OS
Net neutrality takes effect Friday; ISPs scramble to avoid complaints
You know there are people who pass the interviews but still don't get an offer, right?
CloudFlare Enjoined from Aiding Infringers: Internet Unbroken
All this stuff you're saying is possible and may very well be true eventually, but not in today's Enterprise-world.

On Enterprise-planet, all this "Cloud" talk is scary and you can't quickly conceptualize PCI compliance with some computer in the sky somewhere; nor can you conceptualize who/where a consultant will be to fix your problem immediately if a problem arises. Your IT department are a bunch of inflexible people who refused to learn anything beyond what they were using 20 years ago and will tell you "Cloud isn't safe! Didn't you hear on the news how such-n-such got hacked?" I have no problem accepting that you're right; I'm just telling you that Enterprise-world doesn't care how right you are. Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM, Oracle or Microsoft. There's no thought-process beyond that point. You join the company, learn how they do things and do your best not to rock the boat or suggest any new fancy things that might make your coworkers antiquated skillset obsolete... or you will be back-stabbed.
Reading stories like this confirms that what we don't know about the body might be more than we actually do know.
I wonder why we need transparent screens though. I see AR as a subset of VR, not a superset of it. Once you've solved the field-of-view, screen resolution and (I'd also argue) dynamic range/colour accuracy of VR, you add a front-facing, wide-FOV stereo camera to it and there you have it, AR with the dark object problem already solved for you.
Use pay phone to contact Australian Secret Intelligence Service recruitment
i want to pay for a service that summarize articles in 5 lines tops and a few images (which is honestly the only reason why we click)

Demo for this one:

1) aerodynamics/fuel efficiency

2) cost/machinery able to make curves

Also, didnt have to read it to figure that out ;)
Amazon does not provide SLA agreements at all. I don't think people are necc. disagreeing with your vision of how things should be, but the fact is, enterprise software just doesn't work the way you're describing.
You can even go one better and use the Spark integration directly:

https://phoenix.apache.org/phoenix_spark.html
most ppl fly 100% legally at the races because range isn't an issue and channels are okay

so 2.4ghz control below power limit and using legal channels, 5.8ghz video, same deal.

of course this depends on the country etc. still, at 200mW nobody is going to go after you. in fact nobody will know you're flying if they arent 100 meters away from you ;)
This sounds contradicted to the mathematics/empirical/quantitative observations. Startups built on texting two alphabetic characters are attracting million dollar financing rounds. Startups based on erased timeouts of texts are declining 3 billion dolllar acquisition offers. VCs are trying to get deal flow by building the reputation of being the most helpful to entreprenuers. Interest rates are at historic lows and hundred billion dollar pension and mutual funds are pouring money into every 1st to 3rd tier vc to chase returns. tl;dr...this sounds like some bs.
How it feels to join an all-Haskell startup
The belly button test: meet the sexy new meme sweeping China
They are not really problems. Your vendor should roll you new images when the software running in your container poses a security risk.

You always have to trust your vendor. And if you don't you can always roll your own docker images using the Dockerfile in their github repo.
Are you naive enough to not believe the photo will be saved along with a host of other metaData to bloomberg's server?
"... on top of Hadoop".

Can safely remove this part. Hadoop not required.
This is the headline I expected to see 10 years ago.
Deuterium – Fully typed SQL query builder for Rust