skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my case:

a) neither are new or revolutionary, I've been following VR for literally 20+ years, and it's been around in various forms for decades longer

b) despite not being new or revolutionary, real solid use-cases for the technology hasn't really been found outside of "better stereoscopic presentation and head tracking for games"

c) lots of the mistakes that were made in the first several rushes to 3d are obviously about to be made again

d) to "do it right" (e.g. not using it as a fancy 3d-tv strapped to your head) requires lots of expensive equipment and facilities (space to move around in). People will have to make investments in completely changing not only their computing equipment, but even likely dedicating an entire empty room to the endeavor.

e) all the fancy 3d use-cases that aren't in b) above are almost all better handled through existing user I/O schemes an awful lot of the stuff we're hearing sounds like yet another version of Mall Quest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94mwUGCkkg0)

f) it's expensive, I mean seriously. Unless you're meeting minimum system specs in some way, you're looking at $1000+ minimum buy-in on the low-side. I can buy lots of other entertainment crap for $1000 and probably get better dollar/time ratios.

g) it's still incredibly immature. There's at least 3-5 different major incompatible systems bouncing around. To fully participate in all this means costs for f) are x3-x5.

It's not that I'm down on it. When I see VR/AR things, I think "that's cool" and think it'd be interesting to play a game for a couple hours (max) in VR-land. VR has always been cool and interesting. But the obvious downsides to the tech far outstrip any conceivable upside.
His chess celebrity keeps him out of Russian prison.
What brought down Flight 1549 was damage to the core of both engines. If the birds just damaged the fans, then the aircraft probably would have been able to return and land safely.

I'd be more concerned about a DJI Phantom type drone going through the windscreen of a light aircraft and injuring the pilot.
That's what you call "paying for a service." Lock-In is an entirely different matter.
The ‘minimum viable product’ infection
Hell, I interned for a large bank and received a great job offer which was promptly rescinded after the right manager found out what everybody else already knew.

Yeah, banks (and many big companies) are like that.
What these companies have successfully done is weed out all the great devs who value their time very much

I'm not sure I understand this. A dev who valued their time very much would already be working at a job they liked enough not to be looking. As job satisfaction declines, time opens up to work on whatever you want to call this, a technical feeler, perhaps. A dev who values their time wouldn't get snowed under by a ton of these because they wouldn't be applying willy-nilly, only to those places they want to work.
If you really did have a case where your list is a list of apples, wouldn't you type:

List<Apple> apples = aps

If you're using a general type Fruit, and can't stand any fruit that isn't an apple, you probably need to use the more specific Apple type.
Here it is running real-time in Unity editor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN3PsU_iA80&t=37m50s

It's a standalone PC project using DX11.

Cloth and cables physics simulation is pre-baked, lighting is dynamic.
We're talking about a PS4 with roughly an AMD 7870 under the hood vs a minimum 290 spec'd for the Rift. Using Passmark, that's 4289 vs 6875.

Admittedly, there are a ton of caveats to those comparisons, and the PS4 has the benefit of system integration, a standard platform, and a dedicated OS.

But that's still a fairly substantial difference. Especially when framerate & latency are no longer quite as optional and able to be fudged.
I wouldn't drive myself + passengers on the same freeway as amateurs trying to weave RC vehicles around my own. And I wouldn't be driving through the air hundreds of feet above the ground.

The fact that professional pilots and helicopter operators _have_ to make that judgment call for safety reasons because there are no regulations ensuring a safe flight is a concern.
It'd be interesting to integrate http://www.beelinereader.com/ style gradients. I had a hard time with the quick change from gray to white.
If I read this book, would it be practical to build an Erlang VM targeting GPUs? The Erlang GPU work I've seen provides access via NIFs, but as I understand it, those are going to continue to hit the PCI-E bottleneck. I'm speculating about the feasibility of Erlang putting its "processes" onto the GPU cores, and the data staying on the GPU until it needed to do network, disk, or other OS mediated access.

If the question is ignorant, I plead guilty.
That's an interesting point. I think there's definitely a give and take on both sides here and good points to be made all around.
https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/blob/master/ponysay.pdf

I've never quite understood the My Little Pony craze, but that's some high quality documentation.
Democratization of technology refers to the process by which access to technology rapidly continues to become more accessible to more people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratization_of_technology
They mean that it was rendered in real-time when it was recorded, not that it is rendering in real time in your browser.
It's not lock-in if you don't want to leave – that's just being competitive. Real lock-in would be something like removing an export function or introducing a proprietary storage backend with incompatible semantics so anyone leaving would need to rewrite application logic.

If you want to talk lock-in, look at services like Lambda where there isn't a direct counterpart (although the model there is so simple that most users could port relatively quickly).
nice try nsa
I imagine this is a recording of the demo which was streamed in real time, as opposed to being rendered (a process which can take significant time per frame for scenes this complex).
There was also a flip back in the 90s where "Made In Japan" denoted a better product where in the past the slogan was thought of as cheap.
But all that is even worse. It doesn't help for the fundamental problem : mortgages are losing money slowly and (I just checked) corporate loans and bonds are losing money a bit faster.

If the government owns those loans, once their losses accelerate ... well ... we know how they "fixed" that problem for student loans.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stephendash/2015/10/25/why-stude...

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/student-loans/student-loan-h...
Is it really "lock-in" if you use it because it's cheaper and better for you and migrating somewhere else is as simple as a database export?

I can see something like DynamoDB being vendor lock-in since you can't just download your data into your own self-hosted DynamoDB instance, but if you're using a standard off-the-shelf RDS database (MySql, PostgreSQL, Sql/Server, etc), I don't think you can call it lock in when you're staying only because it's easier than running it yourself.
What they mean is that it was rendered in a way in which it took 1 minute to render 1 minute of footage.

Instead of a typical movie rendering which can take a long time for just a single frame. Like toy story "Our original toy story frames were averaging four hours, which is 240 minutes" - https://www.quora.com/How-much-faster-would-it-be-to-render-...
Google Maps on Android Will Now Show a Dedicated Ride-Sharing Tab
Microsoft needs to put up a dialog box which says, "Please check the following checkbox, and click OK to upgrade your whole darned OS to Windows 10, or else click Cancel not to do that.".

This needs to be in 48 point font, splashed across most of the screen.

Any prompt less than this is deceptive.

Making it a recommended update so it can be foisted on users who have things set up to automatically apply recommended updates is particularly sneaky.

Windows 7 or 8 to 10 is not an upDATE. It's what would be called an upGRADE in the sane world. Update is "patch a buffer overflow in FOO.DLL".

MIcrosoft clearly knows it is an upgrade: the progress screen (depicted in the article) shows "Upgrading Windows".

The MSDN Windows Installer guide also makes the terminology clear: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3... (MSDN Windows Installer Guide).

According to Windows Installer terminology, this is a Major Upgrade.
Tested.com has done great coverage of the various VR gear.

PSVR hands on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq5VVnsQgB8
Red periods were a bad idea. Also ew.
Lock-in happens when migrating would be expensive, too. And leaving a managed service like this could introduce substantial cost.
So there is no significance to AlphaGo, besides the fact that it defied your colleagues' expectations about whether these techniques would work in this domain.
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> If merely being present has stopped a course of action, then yes, merely being present is 'interfering' with things.

No, it really isn't. Hypothetical scenario time: "Black cat steps on mirror, firefighters let house burn for fear of upsetting spirits." Was the black cat interfering with things? Or were the firefighters' beliefs about black cats and spirits interfering with things?

> the drone did imperil the helicopters (or they wouldn't have been grounded)

Sure, it follows -- if you assume their judgment was infallible.

> None of those headline need active malicious intent to 'work'.

I never accused anyone of acting maliciously.

> they're being political about it and should be ignored as a result.... but labelling the judgement call 'grandstanding', that's not political at all...

It's highly political, of course. I never pretended otherwise.
I hope they expand this beyond Uber and include Lyft too. I'd love to be able to compare times and prices in one place.
Well a bunch of people were confused and still don't know the difference between AI and AGI.

I actually think it's OK if some people think AlphaGo is more general purpose than it really is, because the general attitude or at least appropriate response to the likely development of AGI relatively soon still seems to be amazingly muted.
InfraRuby 4.0 statically typed Ruby compiler released
Do you really have more than 15 active participants, or would hangouts on air work for your use case?
It's not just aesthetics, having proper typesetting makes papers more accessible, easier to read and parse, the standard formatting makes understanding the layout of papers easier, there is a huge library of packages that cleanly abstract the task of rendering obscure symbols and complex mathematical formulas, and it automates the job of tracking figure, equation and reference citations to name just a few of the features. Fine, TeX is an ugly language that only a programmer could love, but in over twenty years nobody has yet been able to replace its expressive power and flexibility -- doc generators just compile to LaTeX and more user friendly GUIs like Lyx and TeXMaker have been written to ease the process of writing for end users, but the underlying format has yet to be replaced in over twenty years. Like Markdown, TeX rides the line between being able to be written by hand for greater flexibility and automatically generated for newbies.

Unless you think that reading red text on a blue background in payprus would be an equally enjoyable reading experience it more than simple aesthetics.
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If you want a Mac app that does this, iA Writer has a feature called Syntax Control: https://ia.net/writer/updates/ia-writer-3-1-comes-in-colors

I use it sometimes, it works pretty well but occasionally gets confused.
That's fair. If you ask people outside the VR bubble if they would trust Facebook, some company called Valve, or Sony PlayStation to make a quality VR entertainment device most would put their money on PlayStation. Not only is the cost much less, you will probably get to try it out at your local Target.

But thats just the gateway drug to VR. From my perspective in the VR bubble I prefer more pixels.

I think the PSVR will have much better unit sales than Rift/Vive, but that the latter will provide tangible benefits to those that enjoy VR experiences.
Postgres and SQL Server have different concurrency semantics, unlikely that you won't have subtle bugs unless your updates are very straightforward.
There's a striking moment at about 41:00 where Wiles tearfully describes his ultimate breakthrough. Mathematicians and others in the hard sciences are often perceived as cold and joyless, but this is a remarkable counterexample.
Realtime with what hardware?
When the vendor lets you export your data in a form that you can easily import into your own copy of the exact same software, I fail to see how that is "lock-in". If the vendor increase the cost of the service or changes other terms in a way that's unfavorable to you, you can easily leave, that's the opposite of lock-in.

You can't really accuse a vendor of lock in just because his product is priced lower than it would cost you to do it yourself.
Let us now pause, and write in praise of POI. Not for any political reason (Snowden, et. al.), but because the writers have created genuine science fiction. I can't recall who said it -- perhaps one of the greats (ACC, PKD) -- but good scifi takes the world as it is, and changes one very small thing (in this case: genuine AI). Such a pleasure to watch. I know, I know, many folks on HN will point out technical shortcomings, but as someone who has straddled these many worlds (natsec, digital security, privacy), I see them reflected here in a glorious alternative universe that is thought provoking, entrancing, mesmerizing.
I am agree, that wasm will be on par with generated/minified JS right now, but I predict that wasm will beat JS in future versions. My prediction is based on experience. It is very easy to introduce a binary thing which is hard to map to flat text. I.e. first version of wasm will be 1:1 map to JS, but NEXT versions of wasm will introduce optimizations, which are quite possible in compact binary format but are not possible in flat text format, so 1:1 map from wasm to JS will be broken.
love the ending... probably all going back to their cubes to write themselves some React JS code..
Srinivasan or Garland Likely Obama Choice for Supreme Court
I don't understand what you are getting at. What's the equivalence between a random black cat on a mirror and an intentionally operated drone?

If there was some meaningful need for random everybody to operate drones by forest fires, I might care that the pilots are serving some weird agenda, but I don't see any need for (especially private, unregistered, non-communicating) drones to operate near forest fires, so I don't even care if the pilots are just objecting for the lulz.
Talking of straw arguments, I don't see John Langford saying in this article that anyone has gone so far as to claim AlphaGo is an AGI. What I have seen is a number of comments on HN kvetching about moving goalposts.
Every interview with Snowden, as a pseudo-clinical paranoia-level security nerd, I tried to critique his security decisions, but I was surprised to see that he really did think through every decision he made. That is what impressed me.

A generally impressive human, in many ways.
This is their final response in their own federal district court. The district court will issue its decision. Afterwards the next appeal would be to the US Supreme Court. That level of appeal can take years if accepted, or more commonly, is ignored. In the meantime there can be orders for them to comply in the meantime or face consequences.
"This applicant went to some cow-tipper school called the University of Illinois at Chicago. Claims he had as a thesis supervisor some guy named Daniel Bernstein for his cryptography project... eh, put him in the 'Other' pile. And when he turns in his 8-hour take-home, make sure it's perfect."
This isn't actually mine, just something I stumbled on. Before I go and pull this apart to do it myself, does anyone know of an extension that will do this to arbitrary text in Firefox?

I found this because someone was using it as an argument against syntax highlighting for code, but I actually find that it lets me read significantly faster.
You still failed to understand the bayes rule example. Look in the breast cancer example for bayes rule you retard. IT DOESN'T MATTER THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A LARGE % OF FALSE POSITIVEs. Stop using your shitty assessments go open Barkley's handbook and look at the literature. You keep struggling to understand that these odd studies are irrelevant. The literature concerning accurate adhd diagnosis is so extensive and has been beaten to death over and over again. Please just go search pubmed please.

WRITE OUT BAYES RULE AND MULTIPLY IT OUT.

>Arthur Elstein, a cognitive psychologist interested in ‘how doctors think’, studied clinical decision making for his entire career and concluded the diagnosis is wrong 10–15% of the time.7 A diverse range of research approaches that have focused on this issue over the past several decades suggest that this estimate is very much on target.6

Hahahahahhaaha. Again showing you don't get the bayes rule example. Look at the breast cancer example again even 99% will get a large percentage of false positives.(The base rate is so low). In psychiatry how do you expect to get it so high? Then again with Barkley(2012) we might just be able to.

Why don't you get it? For 4-5% of the population, even if the test is 99% accurate you will still get a large percentage of false positives no matter what.

I see you struggling so hard to keep up for failed point. You lack any familiarity of the subject matter. Again it's the relational structure of diagnosis itself. The mathematical structure of diagnosis/inference NO MATTER THE DISEASE.

"https://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/30002.6.shtml

Suppose that you are worried that you might have a rare disease. You decide to get tested, and suppose that the testing methods for this disease are correct 99 percent of the time (in other words, if you have the disease, it shows that you do with 99 percent probability, and if you don't have the disease, it shows that you do not with 99 percent probability). Suppose this disease is actually quite rare, occurring randomly in the general population in only one of every 10,000 people.

If your test results come back positive, what are your chances that you actually have the disease?

Do you think it is approximately: (a) .99, (b) .90, (c) .10, or (d) .01?

Surprisingly, the answer is (d), less than 1 percent chance that you have the disease!

> Despite these potential problems with classification, general medicine seems to fare much better than psychiatry in terms of accuracy and reliability. The high rates of misdiagnosis and disagreement among psychiatrists support this point: for example, Kirk, Gomory & Cohen (2013) cite a recent estimate according to which the diagnostic error rate is 38% for ADHD

You're an idiot. Once again disease assessment is much easier to assess than psychiatric assessment. Considering active experimentation with it is easier? Can't you tell why psychiatric diagnosis is much more difficult? Disease vs Disorders(?). Are you seriously appealing this?

Answer it yourself, why would disease assessment be easier than psychiatric diagnosis. Say for a foot tumor or something.
the best part was the real time orchestra sound track.
Thanks! That makes perfect sense.
The prediction component of the machine is not currently on the radar or even the real problem. That's 'minority report' grade stuff and doesn't need to be explained or given wider distribution.

What is the problem is that given this mountain of data and a dollop of selective enforcement could mean the end of democracy as we currently know it. It doesn't have to happen overnight, it doesn't have to happen everywhere. But it might be enough to tip the balance in favor of a world that we'd all recognize as something to avoid. And how to illustrate this without pointing to horrors past and without seeming to be undue alarmist is becoming harder and harder.

Having 'nothing to hide' is the mantra by which many people make their decisions and cast their support, and programs like 'earnest voice' are seeding the crowds with distracting talking points.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-ope...
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The whole article reminded me of a segment on QI. You can tell that Fry would enjoy this fact and the rest joke about a snarky Caesar.
PSVR uses 60Hz reprojected to 120Hz, so gets a 33% performance advantage over Vive and Rift which run at 90Hz.

It uses RGB-stripe instead of pentile, and actual has more subpixels than Vive or Rift, and it picks up some big performance advantages there (on Vive and Rift you more or less throw away 33% of the subpixels you spent time rendering). It won't quite be up to their quality because your eyes are more sensitive to green, but at current low HMD resolutions green sensitivity less significant than on phones.

With both factors combined, 33% lower framerate requirements 25% or so lower nominal res with much of the quality retained, it will have something like a 50% performance advantage over Vive and Rift. Putting it close to parity with Rift's GTX 970 recommended-spec.
I don't know. That was my first reaction too, but I started reading and after a couple of paragraphs I found them to be helpful. The red periods actually let me read faster because they were easier to spot.
I'm confused, are you saying that the operators of walled-gardens and app-stores are not middlemen?
Indeed. Person of Interest has struck me as one of the most prescient scifi shows of our era, while remaining incredibly entertaining and understandable to the general viewer. They definitely stepped up the 'future' with the warring AIs, but just the basic premise of incredible surveillance and predictive technologies, and how that could be used for good or evil was fantastic.

Another show that did some awesome science fiction in the last few years was Continuum. A lot of it was heavily based on the concept of corporations (particularly tech corporations) gaining a strong influence in or control over our government. To the extent of having a 'corporate congress'.
The first two seasons were amazing. I think they were more successful than they thought they would be, and didn't think the story out well beyond that.

In was also amazing that it was a CBS show, given their typical fare.
If Snowden had been less clever or resourceful he'd be stuck in solitary confinement right now instead of giving interviews. Playing chicken with the mightiest organizations on the planet and getting away with it is extremely impressive and in many ways it shows the dangers to powerful organizations like these: individuals, acting on impulse or because of convictions.

And that's precisely why all that data collection is so scary, such individuals will be shunted onto dead-end tracks long before they even realize they are such individuals in the future.
The sky is a bigger place than a road. 3D vs 1D. No comparison.

My problem is not with the judgment call; my problem is with the fact that their judgment call is being used as evidence that they were in danger. As you yourself point out, nobody really knows how dangerous the situation was. Extreme uncertainty makes conservative action reasonable, but it doesn't make drones inherently dangerous.

It would be nice to get some laws on the books to eliminate the uncertainty. My fear is that the laws will lean absurdly on the side of caution; an analogy would be putting a literal tin-foil-hatter in charge of the FCC.
Either that, or you did not or deliberately did not notice that the parent said "last year" before even mentioning it.

It was the two words immediately preceding your quotation.
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