skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As humans are fallible, it's inevitable we will make mistakes carrying out even what we intend to do, when we know it and are actively trying to do the right thing.

Sometimes our mistakes are not recognizing the right thing to be done, or not recognizing anything at all.

I think the view that true security is impossible is true if security is up to one person. What about a system with multiple layers of sign-off, or an automated system that can help test the security of what you're doing and alert/prevent dangerous behaviour without specific reasons.
I imagine the network latency would be more than enough to induce motion sickness as the display would not keep up with your movements.
I love these, they have such a comfy feel to them.
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as a dk2 owner, I would guess that it's not very nice, any amount of lag or stuttering in the rift is catastrophical to the experience, IMO.
I'd recommend putting some time into learning how to change your body composition, improve your fitness, and control your mood. Better physiology improves all other aspects of one's life. Also practical psychology (why people do what they do, etc) is helpful. After that, learn how to create software.
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They ran a small user session with some 'rewards club' players, to get feedback on the MVP that we built.

It did go live eventually but I don't think it's taken off as they hoped.
so basically you're saying to un-oppress women, they should get back to the kitchen :-P (I'm kidding! I'm kidding)

it's an interesting theory, and as HCIdivision said, there's indeed Irish pubs, and (mainly in the US) also that whole St. Patrick's Day thing that does indeed put Irish in a good light.

but realistically, for women in tech, I don't think baking cookies is going to do the trick. however going with the Irish example, some general celebratory thing could be nice. even if it doesn't work, at worst, you'd have a great time? I've always been of the opinion that pretty much whatever you do with a group of people (be it a convention, a party, study, or work) just steadily gets better in many ways the more the gender ratio approaches 50/50.

out of curiosity, what is popular Jewish mainstream food? (I can't think of any, perhaps it's something that I forgot was originally Jewish)
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There's no liquid involved. They use a copper part, similar to the heat sinks on CPUs.
C# is my favorite (and most skilled) language, but I moved to Node+Typescript when that came out due to cross platform needs (linux)

I'm actually getting back into C# because of these broadening ecosystems (and hopefully improved OSS community over time!)
Devarist looks pretty cool. I signed up for the free account and if it works well I'll probably upgrade. I've been keeping track of this stuff on a paper notebook but I think this will be more useful.

I'm a little worried that there seems to be a lack of searching through notes. I understand that might just be a feature that's not enabled for the free version, but personally I'd like to see how every feature of the site would work, if possible, before upgrading (even if the search is only for the limit of the past 10 notes).
I'm sure he's holding his breath waiting for your credit.
I just wonder how soon will the race to the bottom of the rapid growth barrel will end?
I believe you're correct that the stock markets in China are less directly tied to the economy than than the stock markets in the US.

But, even in the US, I think stock markets are like a balloon tied to the wrist of a toddler on a windy day. They may very generally track where some part of the economy is, but there's too much interference and interpretation to get a precise picture. Even worse, the length of the string is unclear.
What do you think about consistency between a mobile app and a website? Logos and other such assets aside, is it valuable to keep the colour scheme the same, and keep UI elements such as buttons the same?
> Developers can simply upload their application code and the service automatically handles all the details

In this situation, you've basically traded your own Ops staff for a combination of your developers and whatever support AWS provides you - so you're back to a managed service like every man and his dog was using in the 90s.
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Scrolling my mouse wheel up once increases scale to 101 and then going back one takes the scale to "1" but the object is super tiny (does not seem to be really "1")
I think there's still value in this list of principles - they are so often violated that it seems that they are less than self-evident!

I've seen lots of engineers advocate for the opposite of consistency or convention in the past, when building particular features. Things like consistency; the attitude that your app doesn't have to follow the rules of the platform and act the same way as others do is surprisingly common!

Similarly, minimising clutter is often overlooked. How often do you see an engineer add a knob or checkbox to control a function without proper consideration of where that should appear in the workflow and whether or not it clutters the user's view? I definitely see that quite often.

So yeah, nobody will actively state that convention is bad, but many will treat it as being less important than it is. So it's definitely worth bearing these principles in mind, IMO.
For me the original plan was bilingual (English/Japanese) plus engineering but I ended up getting more career mileage out of being able to program rings around most SaaS companies' marketing teams. (A high bar that is not.)

You can pick many, many things here, though. Combining programming (any stack which lets you ship things) plus any other white collar profession works well, too. Try embedding in anybody's workday and just sit on your hands and watch the insanity as they do any data-processing work, for example. It's insane how much of day-to-day accounting work exists because of the lack of 50 lines of Ruby.
I'm rather curious if this could be used (or changed to support) two people playing a local co-op game. Would open up a lot of games in my library for play with a friend.
turn off stuff you don't need! features are the source of bugs.
It's true that there are sometimes workarounds but they're only relevant to certain cases. This bug appears to be a good example of why you can't rely on being able to fix most or even the most severe ones with that approach.

#3b is particularly optimistic since that assumes an OEM will ship updates promptly and that's been the underlying problem here since day 1. It particularly wouldn't help if, say, a vendor ships an update for their flagship Android 5 devices which doesn't run on the 4.x devices which most all of their users have and will never receive an upgrade to Lollipop.
So you leave them in as a kind of poisoned honeypot. They'll go right to the wrong info....

I'm sure you've daydreamed of the facial expression of the scriptkiddie the moment he stumbles across your fake keys illicitly, only to be disappointed hours of unfruitful hacking later :)
One flaw comes to mind when the thought of using prizes to fund pure science is discussed. It's actually an issue that is even larger than prizes.

The people who go down the wrong path in science are often performing an important service. It is obvious enough that we cannot know beforehand how to solve all of science's hard problems (they wouldn't be hard problems...) and of course the people who don't succeed still need to be paid.

The other, maybe less immediately obvious thing, is that a person or group who demonstrates the ways a previously plausible line of thought just doesn't work is performing a valuable service. Progress in science depends on what they publish, even if their work ends up being a dead end.
Possibly stupid question: Isn't this how the Playstation 4 plays Playstation 3 games (in a nutshell)?
> Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.

- Brian Eno

This is my favorite quote to bring out when people are discussing the merits (or demerits) of pixel art. It's really spot on.
In 6 months, you could learn the basics of drawing. Enough to make a simple graphic novel, to have fun and get the experience. But something tells me the source material demands a more complex approach. The best illustrators take years to refine their technique.

Not trying to dissuade you. If you love drawing, absolutely do as much of it as you can. Just don't stop after 6 months.
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I think this is a good example. I would just add that it helps to be able to deflect when the lawyers come to you with all of their technology problems and coders come to you with legal problems (or whatever appropriate mix of skills and problems). You don't want to end up having to fix all the printers.
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I did the exact same thing...Now I feel bad because I down voted some awesome ones.
Or just read it on someone else's computer?
I think Cave Story might be an inspiration for some of these.
Absolutely. I think that these kinds of scenes and the feelings they evoke are actually the core component of "8-bit" art. Portraits, still life, most bare landscapes, and many other subjects don't really gain anything from the pixellation effect and perspective that 8-bit art uses.

Also (anecdote incoming), I could show these to my wife and she'd just say they're "cute." They won't evoke the same feeling in her that they do in me, and I'm pretty sure there's exactly one reason - I grew up through the 80s and 90s playing video games, and she didn't. Ask anyone who did they same I'd bet that they'd all immediately say that these look like locations in a JRPG, all of which are generally designed to evoke the feeling that there is real, recognizable life happening in the locations that mostly serve as bus stops for your character's momentous story. That life is generally calm, to offset the stress and momentum of your quest, and the contentment and happiness of it is what makes the world worth saving. It's also got a comfortable routine: the old lady feeding the birds in her yard is always there; the train always comes every 45 seconds; the dog is always chasing the cat; the pretty waitress is always serving coffee. The environment doesn't heave, it gently breathes, and the animation loops forever and ever - the simple machinery of the background never breaks down, unless of course it's always broken, in which case the brokenness is a fixture of the local environment that one really minds.

Also, most of these particular scenes are desaturated and "cold", even rainy or snowy. The feeling of sitting in your warm house looking out the window at the snow or the pouring rain is easy to connect to.
I get what you're saying, but there seems to be a bit a subjective decision being made there. Would you make a similar joke with a racial (instead of gender-based) slant in that situation? I doubt it. Or would you work the Holocaust (sorry, used for shock effect) into the joke? This is just to say that there are obviously some things you would never joke about. So who decides what's acceptable and what's not? The person making the joke?
You register with your regional or national donor group. They are all networked for the most part. I live in the US and three years ago I donated to someone in Italy.
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With respect to "China's reaction is more panic-driven", check out the following three charts of US Fed policy which I would argue were "panic-driven" based upon magnitude of the intervention when compared historically.

It remains to be seen to what affect recent US Fed policy will do long term, however, I would argue that it was definitely a panic driven reaction.

I provide this not in support of China's policy but for context.

Excess Reserves
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/EXCSRESNS

Overnight Rate
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/FEDFUNDS/

Federal Reserve Balance Sheet
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/WALCL
Open text messaging app on android -> attach image -> hit send

There, it sent an MMS. It's transparent to the user.

Non-MMS: Hangouts to another Google user, Whatsapp, Telegram, Viber, etc etc
Or it could have been set as a sensible default, since an overwhelming majority of users despise autoplaying videos on sites other than Youtube?
I knew someone would bring that up. I actually thought about whether I should treat it shortly to prevent someone from parroting it _again_. No, I feel like pixel art is different. I grew up with cassettes and CDs, even some disc records, but no. I hate the lack of quality and distortion so much. I think the quote is superficial and condescending and I do not like it.
For those too paranoid to open a .PDF from the NSA, several solid parts in the typewriter were replaced by solid-looking parts with embedded circuits and altered magnetic characteristics.

These circuits magnetically detected the motion of the arms that carried and moved the character ball. So non-printing keystrokes, like space, tab, and backspace, and the character that did not rotate the ball, '-', were not detectable. The circuits had a tiny buffer, so would transmit the detected characters as they were being typed. Early models used batteries. Later bugs diverted some of the AC mains power from the typewriter.

It is likely that a relay antenna was employed to increase the detection range of the transmitted signals, which used the same frequencies as local television broadcasts.

That's really about it. The bugs were largely undetectable without x-raying every single part in the typewriter, which is how they were eventually found.
Okay, I've got it. Redirects because of my DNS.
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Most likely because their "C++ developers by platform" statistic does not include an "other" category, while there are actually developers working on platforms than Windows, OS X, or Linux (such as Solaris, BSD, etc). Since they didn't include an "other" category but the numbers add up to 100%, they probably just left out people who didn't respond to that question; thus in fact, in their sample, the number of Windows developers is probably less than 36%.

Another thing to note is the sources of information used for these statistics, including their own user surveys. These aren't necessarily accurate for the industry as a whole, but rather represent a particular sample, which happens to include their own existing users, people on Reddit, people sharing code on GitHub, etc.
scalac is definitely slower than javac, but I do wonder if half the complaints about speed are from people who don't realize you can leave SBT running but rather do an "sbt compile" every time and end up waiting for JVM initialization.
Wait, Hispanics "overcame their oppression"? So they aren't economically disadvantaged and victims of rampant discrimination in the US?

They might be better off than blacks, but I think they're at least as big a hole in your theory as the Irish.
SSA abstracts the stack away, and allows to reason about types much easier.
Hitchhiking robot's cross-country trek off to a sluggish start
It's hugely popular in the U.S., where most "all you can eat" text messaging plans don't charge extra for it.
Although I guess for many, it's a fairly important feature if you're creating a new disk image.
Well quite. There are many good reasons to live in Thailand - I've been there maybe 10 out of the last 30 years - but I think you'd skip most of them if you were working from 6pm to 4am frequently; and you'd quickly end up in a situation where somewhere in Central or South America would give you normal working hours + many of the benefits of Thailand.
Thanks! Looking forward to reading the next posts in the series!
I really wish people would stop lumping C and C++ together. They are two separate language that have a common lineage, but neither is a subset of the other. The people who write C well do not generally write C++ well, and vice versa. It's a pretty different development community between the two languages. Bjarne Stroustrup, also thinks that treating the two language as if they were one is kind of silly.

Saying "C/C++" is like saying "ML/Haskell".
I'm a teacher in the UK. Educational systems range from the ridiculous like the one you mention to the ones who take it very seriously.

One employer some time ago would only do password reset if you turned up in person with photo ID. That organisation had quite a lot of students spread over a number of sites so it was labour intensive - the library staff used to be able to reset passwords and they had access to the student and staff badge photos. IT staff at a University I taught at for a year would only reset password if you went on a conference call with a manager level staff member who could confirm recognising your voice.

For a general access Web site available nationally and not tied to an institution I imagine you would have to fall back to the usual email reset code with challenge question type systems.
Doing stupid things is common in the small business world. For example, I regularly run across people who have no personal bank account and just use the company account for everything. In practice, there is almost always something about how things are run (particularly with a failing company) that is actionably questionable and pulls the owner personally into the suit.
What do you mean by "even the elite drives western cars..." Obviously only the elite can buy these. And most Chinese people eat Chinese food, visit Chinese touristic places, read Chinese books, etc. There's only the western movies which could be said to really have no local equivalent.
It's the right question, but the answer is more complex than the asker usually wants to recognize. Too often it's used as a short-term stick rather than as a means to improve.

For that reason alone, it's best to ignore the speed motivator and focus on what can actually improve to get you to be faster as a team.
This system is truly beautiful, I think one of the best suggestions in the thread (definitely the best self-rolled solution not using other tools)

I have a question about redundancy or "What happens if your gatekeper EC2 instance goes down"? If you have multiple gatekeepers could they be set up this way:

- let's say you have five different web apps using a gatekeeper to hold their secrets

- let's say you have n gatekeepers (let's say 3) and each of the apps knows the address of all three gatekeepers.

- If the primary gatekeeper is unreachable, all five apps would try to contact the secondary gatekeeper, but that gatekeeper would only (ever) respond in the event that the secondary gatekeeper also found the primary gatekeeper unreachable.

It's like a sleeper cell - at any given moment you have multiple replacement gatekeepers ready and waiting to serve, but each of them is unable to respond unless the one above it in the list stops responding. In this way you could lose gatekeepers (even permanently) and build a little bit of resilience into the apps depending on it while you're able to sort out what happened and restore normal behaviour.

Is this a good idea?
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'Open source' companies need to eat their own dog food
>TAKE IT

Seconded. I went midweek around noon and it was pretty quiet so I got a personal 90 minute tour by an NSA retiree. He was very knowledgeable about crypto history, esp. as used in the cold war and WWII. They had Turing's "bombe", multiple Enigma variants, many lesser-known crypto machines, historic correspondence, a Cray YMP, codetalkers exhibit, spy satellites, and tons of other good stuff. Everything is free - except merchandise in the gift shop, which is also pretty unique.
Here is the offending section of the bill in question:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/6/te...

Apparently a panel of 9 persons will be in charge of giving away $80 million in prize money for biomedical advancements every year to any person or company (even foreign).

The 9 people are primarily congressional appointments and the director of NIH (who is already appointed) and the administration of this program can be outsourced to a private company who can take 15% of the money.

Personally, I'd have to agree with the author that this is a pretty stupid idea.
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> Remote desktop in the browser has never been an issue, so obviously playing games isn't an issue either.

at 60 fps?

I few years ago I was lucky to get 3 fps from a local server.
> useful and interesting dataset

I think the usefulness is limited by the fact that they haven't explained how they gathered this data. At first glance, the data looks to have some specific quirks (44% Linux users, overwhelmingly in the Finance industry) – you'd have to wonder it that's due to how the survey was conducted.
Just anecdotally I would say the US labor marker is tighter now than it has been in a long time.

Which isn't intended to disagree with what you are saying, but I wonder if we are just now reaching a point where we will start to see wage pressure.
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GIF only supports an 8-bit colour palette (256 colours per frame - albeit colours can be picked from a 24-bit colour space), so it's definitely an 8-bit colour palette.

There's no such thing as an 8-bit pixel resolution. In fact even amongst the 8-bit consoles, their output resolutions differed: NES: 256x240; Master System: 256x192; Game Gear & Gameboy: 160x144; and the Atari 7800 supported a few different resolutions.
Also their about page http://m.hitchbot.me/usa/

I wonder if robots will take off soon - the AI tech is just about getting there
"Take a look at the infographic that sums up the results of our research"

Or research that you found that others have concluded?
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These are not running in the browser, though. And previous Remote Desktop solutions that are viewable in a browser can't handle 60fps (let alone anything >10fps for full motion).
Hey guys, what about doing this on a chromecast? Since it's a browser app, we just need to know if chromecast can handle the decoding.
I agree with a precise interpretation of what you are saying, but I think you are focusing on the wrong problem. The real problem is that Android really isn't an open ecosystem.

Here is what it looks like to play the game:http://www.htc.com/us/go/htc-software-updates/
Thank you for raising this one noisily; very grateful.

I've put a full stop on upgrading our test kit to this while we analyse everything.
This is the coolest thing ever
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How much work would be required to adapt this to use WebRTC with native H.264 instead of websockets with a javascript-based MPEG1 decoder implementation?
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