skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also how casual comment 6, never mind that we've waited 10 years to look at this thing again, I've got a question.
Considering the firmware is the code that directly interfaces with the hardware, how would it even be possible to move it to the cloud?
It's not hard at all to get those kind of payments. You already pay your ISP a connection fee. Thats the payment we make to see the content.
Most countries that fly it are either inside or still part of a club called the Commonwealth that celebrates their shared heritage, and many maintain the UK royal family as their head of state.

People tend to flip the bozo switch on people using Nazi analogies because generally they're ludicrous.
I owned the Note 4 Innovator Edition. Its better than you'd think. Very low latency, excellent tracking, solid design. But a noticeable Screen Door Effect is a downside, more so than resolution IMO. You may not get full presence, but undoubtably its worth a mere $99.
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I spoke to a USAF pilot and he said the F-35 is a decent plane, easy to fly, well equipped even thus no match for specialized fighters its decently good at everything.

Here's the problem though. None of your comment or these article bring any proof and is more of a click-bait than anything else. It's trendy to hit on them, that's all really.

Also, I did actually talk to that pilot and a few others from other aircrafts as its actually an easy thing to do in the US so easy to do/verify on your own for many of us:

since many HN readers are in the bay area, just visit the boats for SF's Fleet week - it's free, and there's always marine pilots of all kinds onboard (mainly heli, but also a few F-35, harrier and osprey pilots.
Another question, apart from the money it raised how much profit did the make annually? Is there a place to get these numbers? Also, shouldn't the quarterly/annual sales numbers be telling them things where not going well? Were the books cooked or just an oversight? There are just so many questions. It is nice to raise money but that is just not enough...
That's a strange arrangement. It's really robotic walking, controlled by computers and gyros, but using the patient's own legs.

"Rather than having a precise control of each leg, the patient activates the system with a general concept of walking. It’s not so much that he’s thinking ‘move the right leg and than move the left leg’. What happens is that the computer system detects when the brain waves change from a state of not walking into a state of walking. When the computer detects that a person is walking, based on these brain waves, it turns on the electrical stimulator, which starts creating muscle contractions in the right leg first, and then the left leg; right leg, left leg. And then it keeps on doing this automatically until he stops thinking about walking, then it shuts it off and keeps him in a standing position. So really he has the control of a general concept of walk or not walk.”

So this is nothing like repairing the spinal cord or getting control info from it.
Unlimited vacation, it seems, encouraged employees Not to go on vacation
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I haven't had it for several years, and I'm very happy with my Chromecast, Netflix / Google Play combo. I spend less, watch less, and don't have to deal with commercials.

I wouldn't trade it for Cable TV even if it was cheaper.
I mean, Twitter only makes sense when a third party digests their API. The default web client is broken (sometimes intentionally) in many, many ways. Perhaps I'm misreading you?
That facilitates people who want to watch anything right now and don't care what it is. But for people for whom consuming video content is just one of the things they do with their free time and who choose what to watch ahead of time, those are not benefits.

Not being suitable for "couch potato" viewers isn't a competitive disadvantage. People under 30 don't watch TV conventionally much any more, and as old people ... ahem ... go away, fewer and fewer people will care about conventional television.
Try this: Inside a counterfeit Facebook farm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10275631
All your points are well-made and I believe you are mostly correct. However, I wouldn't be so quick to entirely dismiss dogfighting as something that "just isn't going to happen anymore".

Nobody knows exactly what combat would look like with modern weapons between actual adversaries; which weapons would would be ineffective; which countermeasures would succeed. The possibility that two aircraft could get close enough that it would become a dogfight should always be accounted for.

Munitions could be expended to the point where no long-range missiles remain. An enemy aircraft could use terrain masking in mountainous terrain to get close; no radar can detect an aircraft through half a kilometer of rock. How about the effects of inclement weather? Or, perhaps, some F-35s are themselves using terrain masking on a ground-attack mission due to enemy SAM presence and are surprised by an enemy squadron.

The point is, there is always a way things can go wrong. Ignoring that gets people killed. That said, it has been accounted for in the F-35; the Distributed Aperture System along with off-boresight missiles could actually make the turning battle of a dogfight obsolete... until the F-35 expended all its missiles.

Of course a UAV could be much better than any manned aircraft in a dogfight; but battles aren't always picked, one must always be prepared for a battle to be forced under less than optimal circumstances.
The USAF requires Airmen not to criticize USAF or Pentagon policy. If a 4-Star General publicly criticizes policy of the Petagon, it could end their career.

This post by David Axe is complete rubbish.
Not so much networks in the 'Adwords' sense but offline companies, many of which have networks of outlets, have media kits to let you understand offline impressions/audience etc.

Agencies can aggregate across advertising companies if you want a wider reach and don't have the time yourself.

Basically hire and agency to be the expert, or decide where you want to advertise and ask for their media kit if they don't have it online already e.g. here is one from Condenast: http://www.condenast.com/brands/vogue/media-kit/print

Rates are almost always negotiable.
To be fair, other types of screw drives in the same socket-like family, e.g. Torx or hex, are a good choice since they are generally more resistant to stripping.

Then again, the type of fasteners is not at all an obstacle for someone wanting to hack around on a machine like this. The software is the far more important part.
Thanks for the update, long time fan of uBlock Origin! Good to know it's still the fastest!
> The cult of quarterly earnings may lose more of its following

I'd love to see that. But still you need to make money in the near term and once you start making money, you have to keep making money, that's where the quarterly earnings cult is coming from. If your topline falls for 3 quarters in a row and you have no incredible new strategies to make it grow again soon, of course investors get worried.

Finally, it's not fair to compare corporations like GE, that makes most money producing stuff in plants ww, with Facebook, that makes money running a glorified web app. Those are 2 completely different worlds, even though some of the problems Corporate is facing are the same (capital allocation being the 1 concern of both type of companies).
The GearVR actually has a fair amount higher resolution (and arc-resolution) than the first-gen wired headsets. It also has a bit more SDE and lower FOV so there's a trade-off.

In terms of rendering pipeline, even w/ the latest Gameworks VR / Liquid VR drivers and WDDM 2.0, the GearVR may still beat out the PC's latency - Carmack's OC keynote from last year is worth watching for some of those details. Since the GearVR has both a direct kernel driver for the sensors and front-buffer access to the GPU, he quoted something eyepopping, like 4ms M2P latency.

IMO, the killer app for GearVR is watching movies on long trips, and the really compelling 360 photo/video content that's starting to get made. If you're getting an Android phone anyway, the extra $99 seems like a no-brainer and is a compelling reason to buy a Samsung device over the competition.
Mobile phones are the greatest poverty-reducing tech EVER
The EEG signals used in this study are inherently quite noisy and low bandwidth and are unlikely to yield a clinically useful neural prosthetic device. There are alternatives, but these usually involve (a completely reasonable and clinically justifiable) surgery.

Intracortical electrode arrays are used by the Braingate program and other BMI researchers, provide much higher bandwidth, signal to noise, robustness, and are likely necessary for real-world utility for tetra or paraplegic individuals. Since people like disclosing things here, I work in a lab that's one of the Braingate sites and we're biased towards implantable arrays, as no other system can currently in 2015 achieve the same levels of performance.
Can watch the latest video tour here https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble/videos/101536135477696...
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You're right - that was a terrible example. Thanks for doing the math to prove me wrong!
> What else are you going to do with your money?

Leave it to my heirs? 5,000 years of inheritance tax would be interesting.
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Sling TV is exactly the internet version of this experience.
Except that's not entirely true and a few minutes thought should convince you that some people are better at playing the piano than others, even after years of practice.
I concur. The F-35 is a decent aircraft performance wise. It might not be quite as agile as an F-16 in airshow configuration, but when carrying a combat load, the F-35 has the edge.

When it comes to the F-35 sensor package, its a huge leap beyond the F-16.
Bringing back skeuomorphism in full force like it's 2005...
Did they have any pre-order threshold for when a product would go into production?
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My understanding is that the optics are designed to actually be at an infinite focus.

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Short question:

> Now I read about this HMD Oculus Rift, which claims that you are always focused on the "distance" which I assume is the same as infinity focus in photography.

The short answer:

> In the same way as a telescope eyepiece, they create a virtual image at infinity.

> In the HUD the objective lens focus the image from a display (on the left in the diagram) and the lens at the front of the HUD reimages it at infinity.

The full answer: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/47390/how-do-head...

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Which may cause other eye muscle problems... https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/2hxfku/eye_muscle_f... (which does mention that the LFD is a better option)

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But the key for me is someone who isn't myopic noticing that ...

> I've been able to see far away objects much sharper than I was able before, as if my sight was getting trained at infinity focus (which makes sense, I guess).

- https://forums.oculus.com/viewtopic.php?t=2833
How about an elevated bike lane that sits above the train tracks like 20 ft. above but with the train running below it?
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A poorly-written nitpick about the choice of words used "seems about right" to you?
So you're suggesting instead that 'superforecasters' exist, but that they haven't been discovered by finance? It'd be a pretty lucrative market for people able to predict the future. I think it's far more likely that it's less than excellent science.
> Boyd thought that even the F-16 was overweight and over-sized

... compared to what it could have been, and would have been, had he somehow completely gotten his way, sure. It was a disappointment to him, but it's still pretty good in energy–maneuverability theory terms.

And it's worth comparing the F-105 to the F-86 in dogfighting because dogfighting just keeps happening in wars, decades after it was predicted to cease.
Yeah the moment I read about casting lighting based on screen contents, I was thinking "things you can't do with 'secure' output". Sad.

This partially remains why other players are better than Netflix. If I ever need to really modify playback, I'm all set, no problem.
9/10, given two coders of the same talent, I'll always hire the one with the experience in the language/framework. But I hire for velocity - ie, people who can develop productized solutions (bug free) in a short period of time. People who know the theory but not the in the trenches reality, well, you don't need that many folks.
Are there really cameras currently available that are light enough to provide 360° view without interfering with the athlete's performance?
I'm building a reactor-like environment, only with code blocks of javascript and a shared, collaborative library of components. I'm hoping to make it useful for any sort of node streams eventually.

Nice drum pads, btw. This may replace Ableton when I practice with my drum controller on my daily commute.
http://www.nextvr.com/

Also, OTOY is talking about live streaming. That said, I have spoken with more than one startup that wants to put cameras on athlete's heads/helmets. Dunno how practical it is, but I guess it'll happen eventually.

With VR, the question is (and has always been) "when". As in, "man, that's awesome, when will it actually happen?" Because everything is possible in VR, and that's part of the problem.
Yep! And the way to do that is stay away from proprietary technologies wherever possible.
A related possibility is multi-rotor helicopters where the main power source is a jet engine, but the power distribution is electrical. One of the huge headaches of the Osprey is the mechanical linkage by which one engine can power both props. There are flexible shafts, U-joints gears, and a big clutch. This might provide a way to get to VTOL without insane mechanical complexity.

NASA has built a big model tiltrotor craft with 10 props to test this.[1]
There's also the Latitude VTOL drone.[2] This simply has electric quadrotors for VTOL, plus a gas engine, wings, and prop for sustained flight. So it has the range of a winged drone, without the need for a runway.

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188338-nasas-electric-ver...
[2] https://latitudeengineering.com/products/hq/
You're probably right, but I don't see the harm in making firmware Affero GPL. For instance, intimate communication between two programs tends trigger GPL provisions. So there's an argument to be made that if a competitor improves the firmware for another device with a different cloud-powered backend, then that backend code must be released if the firmware is Affero GPL.

But my original thought was that maybe there's some useful logic in the firmware that's extracted to cloud. And on that point, it's pretty speculative.
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I heard at a VR conference that the CV1 is likely to use the Note 4 screen, but that's hearsay. I had stronger confirmation that it will at least be the same resolution... the Note 4, S6, etc all are 2560 x 1440; we were hoping for 4k but it's not gonna happen this cycle. CV2, perhaps?

(And there are no guarantees, so this could be wrong... but probably not.)
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For fuel generation, we're likely better off with using thorium power to turn air and water into gasoline.
Looks like I was not clear enough. goimports works perfectly, but only on buffer save event (or by manual trigger).

Take an example, start from scratch:

package main

func main() {
fmt|
}

Cursor is at |, and when I type ., I immediatelly have fmt package imported and see completion menu for fmt package (without leaving insert mode or saving file, just by typing dot).

Out of the box vim-go doesn't provide that.
Close, but you're actually using inline asm in most cases.

Then you're verifying the microarchitectural details of every CPU it executes on. (Intel's OpenSSL countermeasure to an RSA timing attack was dependent on CPUs not coming out with narrower cache lines than a predefined constant, but one did later.)

It's difficult to get high assurance in software. Best bet is to design algorithms to avoid data-dependent accesses (see: djb).
I can personally say that the F-35 is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful plane I've ever known in my life.
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No, unless the athlete is doing power lifting or something trivial.

It's possible an athlete already accustomed to encumbrance wouldn't mind more -- like a few cameras on a football helmet -- but keep in mind that even a GoPro is ~80g, and you need about 3-4 of those to get 360 (mono). Stereo is actually super important, and that requires a lot more cameras.

Personally, I put this in one of those 'future, maybe' categories.

Now, a VR view from courtside seats... well, that's literally already happening. Just look up NextVR, among others (that I'm probably not allowed to talk about).

2016 is the (first) year of VR, for real.
> back then they argued that missiles had eliminated the need for agile fighters, but the Vietnam War's rules of engagement meant that agility was crucial.

Please stop this. Vietnam era missiles were little more than firecrackers with IR seekers that flew into the sun. That's why pilots needed their guns, because guided missiles were so shitty at the time. Modern missiles are basically immune to passive countermeasures and have directed warheads, thrust vectoring etc. and would be the first choice of any fighter pilot interesting in staying alive.
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Seastar, a high performance server-side application framework used in ScyllaDB - https://github.com/scylladb/seastar
Well, sure, but you could have said the same thing about modern airliners when Louis Blériot flew across the channel for the first time in 1909.

Electric aircraft are a technology that does exist, already. Two different aircraft have been built and flown over the channel already. Electric airliners will require significant additional tech development, but the fact that planes have already crossed the channel multiple times is a pretty good start.
Not long ago I found a quiz which purported to measure how much of a "millenial" the test taker was, ultimately it boiled down to three main characteristics of "millenials", one of which was whether or not they watch TV. Younger people just don't watch TV conventionally much any longer. They may watch TV shows, but they do so using computing devices and the internet, not cable or broadcasts. The internet will only get better for that, and people will increasingly be abandoning conventional TV service.

More so when you consider that more and more of the highest quality and most popular video content has shifted away from the traditional model of regularly aired shows and schedule based content consumption to more plot driven content that is designed more for on-demand viewing. The shows people are watching the most and talking about the most are increasingly of the type that have fewer episodes per "season" and are more story driven. And many of the most popular shows today are only available online (House of Cards, Daredevil, House of Cards, Narcos, Sense8, etc.)

A lot of teens and younger folks aren't even watching traditional television style content. They're watching "streamers" and other video content on youtube. As they get older they may start watching more episodic content but I doubt they'll magically morph into traditional couch potatoes. That era is, I think, firmly in the past.
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Completely agree. But devices should work without a connection to a cloud, even if that cloud was open source. In this case, I see no reason for performing logic in the cloud, except that it makes DRM easier: You can't copy code you don't have.

You can continue to use proprietary hardware that is no longer supported by the manufacturer, as long as it is self contained. I think that SaaS is an unfortunate misstep, and making hardware depend on SaaS is even worse.
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The time to think of topics is not when you sit down to write--it's when you're busy interacting with the world.

There, you're going to have insights. You're going to encounter itches you need to scratch. You're going to find questions that pop up--why you're feeling out of sync with something, why you're annoyed by something.

With luck, you're going to create things that no one else has created. And even if someone else has created it, something led you to create it in the way you did.

All of these observations of self can be noted when they occur, and they can form the premise for an essay. Use a sticky, or carry a Field Notes notebook. Stop and capture them.

Maybe 95% of them will be garbage. File them away--maybe journal them. See if they come up again. If they do, then you're onto something.

The other 5% may write themselves.

For me, essays are about connecting ideas from disparate domains.

Short version: if you have nothing to say when you sit down at the keyboard, then get up from the keyboard and interact with the world around you, and observe. You'll be cured in no time.
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That's completely untrue. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, we also had crippling inflation to go along with those high interest rates.
Very well said, wish everyone could read this comment.
>I've also noticed an increasing amount of apps that now also use the notifications for ads. Definitely not what I like to see on my lock screen.

Once again, Apple is lagging behind by several years ;) This kind of Ad used to be incredibly common on Android for a while, but Google eventually stepped in and banned these sort of apps from the store. Honestly, I'm a little surprised that Apple allows them.

http://phandroid.com/2013/09/30/google-play-notification-ads...
Apparently that's an Orange Pi Plus. The 'normal' one [1] lacks the SATA interface and has one fewer USB 2.0 Port, but otherwise seems pretty much the same.

[1] http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Orange-Pi-PC-set-1-O...
So, in a nutshell, the phrase 'It is only determined when one party looks at it' is the definition of non-locality.

If the two parties are separated by a significant distance, that implies that one viewer (Alice?) determines what the other viewer (Bob) sees the moment she looks at the coin. But of course, our notion of who 'looks' first is a function of relativity; there are reference frames where Bob looks first.

The fact that they always correspond suggest that either A) the result was predetermined (hidden variable, i.e. local reality)
or
B) the two particles 'communicate' faster than light. (Note that, because the 'communication' can't actually convey information, it doesn't technically violate relativity, just, you know, that last shred of common sense you hoped applied to physics.

I'd write more -- didn't get to that meta-post, because I recently turned on the 'no procrastinate' flag on HN... and though it's made me way more productive I'm not sure if it's made me happier. C'est la whatever.
Then you're limiting the amount of skills you possess.

Learn open source and proprietary technologies alike, now you become someone with a lot of diverse skills.

This open source fanboyism makes no sense if you want to be professional about your craft.
Ask HN: Want to contribute in Open source implementation of research papers
Hi, I am a JS developer and aiming to get into Research domain. Is there any platform where I could contribute to build a project based on ongoing research, like implementing a research paper? That would help me in getting exposure to research, build my research interest and also improve my coding skills. Thanks!
In theory a CTO should only have employees that self manage.
This won't help you if your internet connection is down.
Last I checked healthcare R&D outspends VC by about 3:1 in the US.