skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After having a quick look at all the external interfaces of my laptop, the only one that has a predictable latency (that I know of) is the microphone/headphone jack. It should be fairly trivial to convert a serial digital data to an audio signal that can be reverted back on the other end. Of course, initially the jack latency needs to be measured (e.g. using a loop connection) and accounted for.
Distraction by Bruce Sterling has held up very well except for missing open source software.
The whole post is filled with convoluted language and vague words like "interactions." I suppose it's possible that a co-worker who is just part of a group of drinking buddies or whatever heard some (purportedly false) story about the author one day and promptly headed over to HR. But that seems... unlikely.
I guess i should have worded that differently.

It must be heavily compressed to play-back without stopping.

So unless the server has the ability to change the bitrate on the fly, the video won't stream right at all.
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> It's built into most of the streaming protocols to downgrade on a slower connection.

You could tell that to PBS. Their mandatory ads are HD only and can't stream smoothly on low bandwidth links. Of course now that they've implemented a paywall for video it won't be an issue anymore as I spend my time elsewhere.
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You only need the three cars if you insist on owning the vehicle you're riding it. So if Mom, Dad and Kid all need to be somewhere different at the same time, Uber Pool could work for two of the three, or all three while the car is earning more as Uber Black (or the future equivalent). They only need their own vehicle if they want to ride together.
Is Cardboard a consumer item? It's been pretty straight to dev expect marketing promotions and Google IO handouts.
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I have mine for 2+ years, no burn-in. I guess it's about how is everyone is using and the panel used.
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> In the Stanford lab, researchers have found even a single experience can affect people. In one test, researchers found that test subjects who had just cut down a virtual tree used fewer paper towels when cleaning up a spill after the experience than subjects who hadn’t cut down a tree.

Oh great. More priming studies.
Is there any substantial apps written in Polymer yet?
There was an interesting story on NPR a while back about counterfeit honey from china.

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/08/honey-laundering/
What I miss from this overview are two interesting facts:

That more aggressors die of suicide than during combat. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/01/14/169364733/...

And that the suicide rate amongst the war victims is much higher than the rate amongst the war aggressors.

e.g. 349 in the US military 2013 vs 450 in Bosnia 2013 as absolute number.

That fact that modern and cheaper cognitive-behavioral therapy is 2x better than standard US talk therapy is not new in Europa amongst the war victims and refugees.
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This is a little experiment I put together out of curiosity.

The repo can be found here: https://github.com/BDiehr/briandiehr

The task which grabs the posts to analyze is found here: https://github.com/BDiehr/briandiehr/blob/master/server/src/...

I thought the results were interesting, though I am not confident enough to make any statements based on the results besides that it appears many people post their post on both simultaneously, and /r/programming appears to have a larger group of people submitting content.
> if the founders feel screwed they'd just bail and start a new company.

like this Harvard Business School case: https://youtu.be/dz72uaZDWQI?t=5m22s (Stanford seminar video) the interesting case starts at 6:00
Self-driving mini-vans could lie in the car / public bus & subway trade-off on high traffic commute roads.

car: high flexibility, high cost

public transport: low flexibility (last mile, connections, fixed time schedule), lower cost

self-driving vans: medium flexibility, possibly low cost.
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Well, browser compatibility is still a big problem with Polymer. A simple click-and-select-stuff-quickly-while-moving-mouse-around test can often lead to focus and/or the selection being "stuck" on Firefox -- even on simple widget demo pages. (This was a few months ago, things may have improved.) Probably on other browsers too.

React works perfectly today.

> I see 2016 as the year that people slowly begin to realize that while components ARE the future, you don't need big frameworks or libraries or 4000 node modules.

What would you call Web Components (polymer) if not a "big framework or library"? That's effectively what Shadow DOM, custom elements, &c amount to -- it's just standardized and shipped with the browser. (Yes, that's a massive advantage, but not until we have 100% working shims and/or browsers that comply 99%+ with the specs.)

EDIT: I should also say: Polymer itself is quite opinionated about how you should structure your custom components (and thus JS code) and this may be a disadvantage to some. This doesn't seem to affect Web Components per se, so that's something. Also, something like the virtual DOM will probably still be needed for speed.
Given that trains require far less cognitive load to operate than a tractor trailer (sorry engineers!), and yet still require humans to operate.. I wonder if ever?
I'm actually curious why trains haven't been automated at this point (in the US at least). It seems like an ideal first step (no navigational issues, retrofit some collision avoidance mechanisms, remote control, etc, and you are up and running).
Carpooling in private cars is very different from carpooling in self-driven cars. While you own the private cars, it's very reasonable to expect you not to share the ride with strangers or to occupy another's car. However, if it's a self-driven car which no one owns - it's just like public transit, but way more efficient. Instead of buying a monthly train or bus pass you just pay your self-driven car rental/lease, to be picked up door-to-door at your whim. This will happen and will bring about the 10x change.
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I think it is worse on Windows because Windows uses locking very heavily -- i.e. Windows tries harder to protect system integrity than Unix does, even if that means giving up and showing the blue screen.
Even with DK1, a single 1 minute demo was enough to hook me. It works.
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Just like Apple is happy for iPad sales to eat into MacBook sales, however I don't see GM as being the type of organisation able to pull this off.
yeah, but good luck for developing that middle-layer from scratch.
I've briefly used Angular 1 a few years ago, and have been involved in the React ecosystem for the last two years. I really like React, it gets a lot of things right and I think it has a bright future.

But I don't envy people who come into the React ecosystem today as their first experience with large-scale front-end development. As soon as you get past a "hello world" Todo app, even trying to figure out what questions to ask to get to a scaleable app design can be tough. There are good, stable solutions to most common problems like state management (Redux) and routing (React Router), as well as a ton of other goodies like server-side rendering and hot module reloading available, but if you don't know what you're looking for you're in for a lot of contradictory and sometimes outdated advice about what tools to use for what, and the best way to wire all of them up.

That said, this is an issue that the community is acutely aware of (there's been a lot of chatter on Twitter about it recently, although there's definitely still more questions than answers) and one that I think will get better with time.
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I tried the HTC set a few weeks ago when they were touring it around the country. I was very skeptical. The resolution of the headset isn't even that great.

However, the final demo (a Portal 2 derived scene) freaked me out. I felt like I was being bullied by the robot. I've had nightmares about it since, for reals.
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You're already on tor. JavaScript should be disabled by default in the tor browser bundle anyway.
Yup, get ready for some major changes. The people who see this coming will be well ahead of the curve.
Because of specialization. Manufacturing cars is a different core competency than running fleets.
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Or, much shorter, Angular is creating an inner platform [1], and React is extending the platform that already exists to do more work.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
The socialization skills I learned in college didn't really help me at my first corporate job where the rules are completely different.
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You don't need Flux/Redux to use React. React without a Flux-alike is very much like Sinatra compared to Rails. If your goal is to learn React, Flux gets in the way, and you shouldn't bother.

Browserify/Webpack is a giant pain and my least favorite part of this programming environment, but I'm not clear what it has to do with React. Is the concern here that React is packaged in such a way that you can't use it with a simple script inclusion, and that you must use a bundling system?

Router libraries are even less essential to React than Flux. I've never used one.
Here's a cynical view: if those regulations you describe would ever be enacted, "Internet" providers would rename their selective service into "ExtraNet" or something ("now with Super Fast Netflix in Ultra HD!"), with the regular (regulated) Internet access also available, but properly throttled-down. As an ISP trying to provide neutral service, good luck convincing your customers that they're selling shit and yours is the real deal. They're bullshitting the general population now, I don't see how regulating the term "Internet" would stop it (unless the rulings would cover a lot of technical details about connectivity, e.g. if you connect to a third-party IP network, you're part of the Internet, etc.).

RE Free Internet in Poland, the situation is absolutely ridiculous. The company that runs it, Aero2 (they deserve to be named and shamed), is an absolute mockery. Not only they started with the Captcha bullshit[0], they now actually advertise two options - "Free Internet" and "Internet without Captcha". To apply for the free Internet, you had to (around 2012-2014; I'm not certain what the situation is now) be personally present in Warsaw to pick up the SIM card. And pay the deposit. For the free SIM card. They made sure the paperwork is nontrivial, and the procedure not easy to discover - they did exactly what one would do if one had to provide a service but absolutely didn't want to do it. The end result is that most Polish people don't even know this service is available.

I don't even know who to blame more. Our FCC-equivalent (UKE; they're probably the nicest and most easy-going government agency in Poland) had a good idea. But whoever let Aero2 win the bid fucked up, and then the company fucked everything for everyone, and I'm pretty sure they did it on purpose.

[0] - I know. This is because they want their service to be only for personal use, and to get rid of people who download lots of stuff (for whatever "lots" you can download at 256kbps). But in the process, they've managed to fuck up the service and destroy plethora of potential applications - from MiFi equipment (dual-SIM phones are still rare in Poland) to giving your Arduino a data service to non-profit scientific measurement equipment.
The hardware requirements are a marketing gimmick. They aren't "requirements". What works in AAA games to make "good" looking graphics often fundamentally breaks down in VR anyway. It's no different of an equation than we've ever had: set your polygon budget and stick to it. Compelling experiences will be had on lesser hardware. There is a lot more to the world than Call of Halo 15.

Or not. Give it a year and it won't matter. Today's top-of-the-line tech is tomorrows middle-of-the-road. And if you saturate the market in the first year, who will you sell to then?

There are a lot more tech geeks on Windows than you think. Get out of your bubble sometime and you might see that there are probably more of us than there are of you.

The games aren't there? The games aren't where? Where is this "there" you're talking about? I keep hearing people talk about this "there", but I've been playing games in VR for over a year now and been enjoying the heck out of myself. I think you mean to say "the games are here already, and only going to get better".
https://gaming.youtube.com is probably one of the bigger ones, but of course it doesn't support mobile so you can only check it out on desktop.
and yet it's the easy part in the self-driving car problem, re how you can navigate the car in a fully autonomous way.
Ten years later, did Boston's Big Dig deliver?
That's exactly the wrong question.

The right question is: "are there any substantial apps that take advantage of native Web Components (polyfill or not)?" The answer to that is: "yes, a lot."

Polymer is just one way to write the components. X-Tag is another. Pure JavaScript is another. Use one of them or use them all. No big overarching framework required.
Yeah I disagree. I work for an agency that's almost all giant big-brand apps. You just task developers with separate sections in the app. You can use multiple storyboards in your app (which comes as a surprise to some). So you break down the user flows so its more manageable. The merge conflicts should be few and far between.

How is setting up constraints a pain in xibs? It's hardly anymore difficult than typing it in code.
You don't need more schooling for this; just get a job as a developer at $BIGCO and then pump out mediocre-at-best work until they promote you into management.
I really liked the break down of the low, middle and high class fluctuation that is broken by perpetual "WAR" on "something". I feel now more then ever we are trying to grasp at a WAR to unite the people under specific goals (or a political party) so that only a certain group of people can benefit. There is no longer not war, just who is the next target. "War is Peace" as they say in the book.
So the time frames for these predictions are "sooner", "later", "drastically sooner" and "within our lifetime". That's nice.

You sir are well qualified to work on Wall Street.
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I don't know if I would say it's "most prescient today", but Gattaca was always one of my favorite SF films, and some of what it portrayed may well be coming our way in the not-so-distant future.
Why?

It's not like there is unlimited bandwidth available. There isn't. If people followed your plan no one would have any bandwidth for anything. At least this way it's just video which can handle it.

Your cure makes things worse, not better.
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Go somewhere that does product well, especially if you're early in your career.
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That's an uncharitable reading and you know it.
Why did Google create Polymer? Google isn't using it. This is almost the same 'problem' with "AngularJS by Google", it's almost never used by Google.

Edit: The reason I like React more is the fact that Facebook uses it in a high traffic production setting.

Edit 2: I think the whole Javascript (or framework) fatigue is just a 'transition problem'. Old tools are getting replaced by new tools, causing confusion..
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If you're writing loops, and especially if you write loops that have conditionals inside of them, you're writing code. "Declarative" is saying "I want a list of all users", "For every user, display their name like this" is just code.

I've seen a lot of template languages that claim to be declarative, I'm yet to see a production template (that is to say, not an "example") that actually looks declarative and isn't just writing code in a language with poor constructs for writing code.
On average, no one needs wealth. After all, one can simply work for a wage completely spoken-for, hand-to-mouth, letting the automatic deposits feed the automatic withdrawals, a "good" "professional" corporate "citizen", pulling the traces until the heart stops and the teamster cuts loose the carcass to hitch up the next mule.

However, no human life is average in that respect. Everyone occasionally wants to fix the car, bail mother out of jail, keep the new restaurant open for another month, hire another cook, quit the job, drive to California, or whatever. Some of those variable circumstances can be addressed through insurance, but many cannot. Many of them are more along the lines of "it is my will to do this thing I had not planned on doing, right now."

That stuff, that human stuff? That requires wealth. We can paper that over with "easy" credit, but that's a leaky abstraction, and it really only helps one make the choices that consumers are allowed to make. Just ask a 90yo (hint: probably remembers a particular period of history): wealth is strictly better than credit. That's without even considering transaction costs.

ps. try getting a reverse mortgage without first owning a house...
Anecdotally, it seems pretty consistent to me – people who scoff at Edison also scoff at Jobs, and people who want to emulate Jobs aren't those who scoff at Edison. But you certainly see both sides here.
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Based on the photo of him draped in a rainbow colored cape at what appears to be a Pride parade, I suspect that this involves a case of a homosexual advance on a straight coworker, which, depending on the person, could make it more sensitive.

Despite huge progress in gay rights and public acceptance, not everyone is so accepting.

I'll admit that I have nothing to base this on other than pure speculation, but the lack of detail in the post makes wild speculation possible. As a manager, I once had a similar situation between two coworkers - too much alcohol at a Holiday party led to an unwanted advance that was not accepted well at all, there was almost a physical altercation. Though in this case, both parties wanted nothing more than to stay away from each other so a reassignment to a team that was based in a building across town was an "easy" solution (keeping them socially separated was self-fulfilling), though one party left the company within a year ostensibly for unrelated reasons.
Are you suggesting that AWS will last 100 millenia?! I know we still have some roads the Romans built, but 100,000 years is a long time (compared to recorded history).

Amazon will be lucky to last 100 years.