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Yes! I agree 100% and have been saying the same thing.

I too wonder if seeking AI is just another quest for the answer to whether things are fated or not, or whether true randomness exists or not. Are we just atoms bouncing around? Or is there something else?

I think most people will agree there is something more. I don't think the computerized AI as we perceive building it today will result in some new AI being.

And, that should not stop us from trying, however, we ought to be honest with our fellow humans in the non ML world that true AI is not around the corner. As soon as we collectively make a promise on which we can't deliver, and the public realizes that, our funding dries up. 2001 wasn't a bubble because computers and the internet aren't awesome. It was a bubble because we told people that tech would be awesome in 2001. In reality, it became awesome gradually and we're now in 2016 at the point of realizing 2001's promises.

Under promise, over deliver = stability

Over promise, under deliver = instability
WhatsApp has implemented the same encryption scheme, but it's not as trustworthy as Signal on account of it being closed source. Assuming the code were trustworthy, proper verification of keys requires a physical meeting.
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I'd like something that keeps pigeons off my balcony. Surprisingly little works. I have a motion detecting sonic alarm that doesn't work - maybe it's in the wrong frequency for pigeons. I wonder if a motion detecting laser frightener would work better. Kickstarter anyone?
The main issue with WhatsApp is the lack of warning when someone's keys change and the fact that you have no guarantee that the noise protocol is implemented end to end as it's impossible to check the source (decompiling/reverse engineering aside)
> Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know

Google nows that, but improvements upon Gchat is not best fit for OKRs and Googler's future resumes. Why not invent another wheel so you can show off next GoogleIO?
The law is probably necessary for HAMs to be self policing.
I think we should coalesce around a clean modern modular standard that's not XMPP for the perfect world scenario. It's not perfect, but I think you overstate how bad it is. Conversations (a mobile client) allows pictures and (file transfers) and with multi-user-chats MUC (group chats). It takes implementing some XEP's on the client and the server in order for everything to play nice. Implementation is a bear and some XEPs are simply too complicated for their footprint. However, if no one is interested in the open federated standard communication protocol we have, even less are interested in adopting another one we haven't written a line of spec for yet.
Does anyone know of a good windmill pump schematic?
You can't keep hype without some actual successes. If everyone gets on the hype train without researching where it is going it'll overheat

Which I guess is bound to happen. But, it is possible to fight those forces by critiquing frauds and prolong these "ai golden years" as long as we can in order to promote more advances
This is called a CAVE and it's the predecessors to today's HMDs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_automatic_virtual_environ...
So to answer your question, the problem is a usability one.
Look, if someone thinks women shouldn't have the right to have an abortion if they choose, you're right, I am not going to tolerate that debate. I don't believe there is a debate. I'm sure there are a lot of topics you don't think are up for debate. We all have our lines in the sand.
Blocking at the firewall works best for me. If any OS X users want to know how, I've covered it here: https://www.perpetual-beta.org/weblog/blocking-facebook-on-o...
You can already do this: http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Animated-Images-in-a-Browser Hope it helps!
What makes people repeat it? Personal experience.

I have experienced first-hand how my edit (purely factual corrections, with sources) were reverted by an editor who has edited most of the lemma for most of the time, just because it is "his" lemma.
The problem is not finding new antibiotics, it is getting them to market. Given the way the current drug development system has been designed it is very hard to bring a new antibiotic to market and make a profit. Because of this most pharma companies have long ago shut down their antibiotics divisions.

We really need a new approach for funding the development of new antibiotics. My personal favourite is a straight cash reward with a sliding scale for novelty and utility. Just pay the pharma companies a billion dollars in cash for each new antibiotic they bring to market and we will be awash in new antibiotics.
I tried various VR, AR, 3D glasses (shutter, anaglyph) and autostereoscopy displays in the last 20 years.

There were several hypes and fads (like 3D TVs and movies) and VR glasses seems like another fad - especially as soon as more and more tried them and cannot imagine to use it for general purpose gaming - it's more relevant for niche topics. Autostereoscopy displays and AR might get a broader audience in future. But current prototype AR devices like HoloLens are a far cry what would be possible, and at the moment a lot of demos are faked to hype unfinished devices, as the reality is that AR is won't be ready for another 3 years (e.g. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Microsoft-HoloLens-im... ). A problem of VR and AR-prototypes is motion sickness, that some people have (from my experience often people who have not 100% eye sight) - I never got motion sickness, but I saw some fellows vomitting on the lab floor (carpet).

Autostereoscopy displays like in the Nintendo 3DS handheld console have its appeal as there is no ugly glass needed and technically it's possible to support a group of people, instead of just one person. So in near future our smartphones and TVs may have such a 3D display. And given a 4k LCD panel one can still get a 1080p or 720p 3D resolution out of it, that's already enough and it will be cheap. And with back projection technology even projectors could be used for 3D autostereoscopy.
Totally agree with his from my own experience. Although I think it's a grass is greener thing. Now that I connect with my peers more often, I long for the solace of focusing on books!
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Personally,I had that moment when Google bought my favorite interoperable chat app so they could kill it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meebo
I know a few people who feel sick just playing a FPS game on a regular computer monitor for more than a few minutes. Even on a high-end system 3D environments can cause motion sickness. So I believe it will be a long time until VR technology overcomes these problems.
Hi I know it sounds crazy. But I see that as an oppurtunity.

I have a youtube channel where I teach HTML CSS and Git in my mother toungue, I have a lot of positive reviews for my simple to understand method of teaching.

That being said I'm charging $99 because I'll save you days or months of users time by making something difficult very easy and a task that can be completed in a day and I'm so confident I can assure the results, I will have a 100% no questions asked money back guarantee.

Although I still have to validate if my language will be good enough in voice, since english is my second language and I don't speak english that often

Link to my youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/sathishmanohar
Even more eye-opening are these articles from Linh Dinh, mainly dealing with American poverty: http://www.unz.com/author/linh-dinh/

The latest is on an ex-programmer who has fallen into heroin addiction and poverty. I suspect there are a lot more stories like this than you would expect from reading articles on Hacker News.
I find the attitude of "if you consider yourself both Turkish & German you're not really German" disappointing.

My wife & I are immigrants in Germany (and pay a lot more taxes than the median German family, draw far fewer benefits, speak German and have plenty of German friends and acquaintances) and our son was born in Germany.

I would expect him to believe himself to be German when he grows up, but would also see it as unfortunate if he doesn't also see himself as Israeli & Austrian at the same time.
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<The people who live on the peninsula chose to pull out of the BART system.>

No, the people never had a choice, but they would have likely never participated by choice. They would have been paying full share while waiting many years after SF and Alameda County for service, plus most passenger traffic would have been through-traffic between SF and Santa Clara County (which itself opted out because BART would not extend more than a couple of miles into the county until over a decade later).
How is a language supposed to make backwards incompatible changes, when it's eventually found that the original style contains substantial flaws?

Would you want the world to still be using K&R C? Because I remember the transition from that to ANSI C, and the special macros to make function prototypes work across both languages. The Python transition is little different.
The problem with video quality (if you are referring to stereoscopic 360 video) is coming from the content, not the headset.

To make a video that leverages the GearVR pixel density for example, you need 6000x1500px. Per eye. Videos are usually a far cry from that. H.264 encoders won't even let you encode it.
From TFA:

"A Word on WiFi Sockets: They suck. They take the simplest operation of closing a circuit and abstract it in a shitty smartphone app that only works half the time."

Short interval timers are a bit harder to come by, as several others have mentioned, but they do exist and aren't very expensive. E.g. this one can go as short as one minute per week:

http://plumbdeal.com/product_info.php/grasslin-digital-plugi...
AC is cheaper than headset, dont see a problem here
When Slack first came out, and everyone got all excited about it, I was quite skeptical. I've been using Skype (and lots of other IM systems) for years; do I really want or need something new?

The answer, for me at least, was yes: Slack is new, different, and better. And nearly all of that difference is because of a vastly better UI, on my desktop, in my browser, and on my phone.

So, did Google Chat work? Sure. Did it do the right things in a narrow technical sense? Absolutely. But without the slick, inviting, easy-to-use UI, it wasn't going to go anywhere. And now that Slack has critical mass, it's hard to imagine Google catching up.
I send 1M texts a week.

https://www.quora.com/Who-are-Twilios-competitors/answer/Kum... - My answer to who are their competitors. The list of competitors is massive.
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I liked the suggestion that they had to open up the warehouses for the public if they want to keep their tax free status. To have so much great art locked up for tax avoidance reasons is not ideal.
That paper says the actual benchmark was only 2.2% faster. What does the 3x speedup actually mean then?
This was a good read; must have missed it the first time it came around. Thanks for sharing
As a victim of such things, it is mostly true, not false.

I've mostly given up on editing wikipedia because it's just too annoying to deal with.

Your numbers area meaningless because most articles are ignored, tiny, and full of spam, it's the higher profile articles that are patrolled.

The problem in a nutshell is this:

The less qualified someone is to edit wikipedia the more time they tend to have to edit on it.

The people who actually know the subject, have little time on their hands to edit things, and no desire to waste it.

To fix it:

They should make a rule: It's forbidden to simply remove things, instead if you want something removed or changed you have to actively research the subject first, and attempt to help make the edit good. Or show that it's incorrect.

Right now all the timewasters simply remove edits, instead they should fix them.
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A really big fan of Gchat here. What I was amazed at in the software was, how reliably it worked no matter how less your internet bandwidth is.

The desktop GTalk app was tiny, handy and powerful. Back when I couldn't afford a wired internet connection in my home, I used to bridge my phone's 2G data to my computer and when nothing else worked with that tiny bandwidth, GTalk did.

Hangouts - is just sad. It loads visibly delayed. Every conversation you click at, again takes milliseconds/seconds to load. Never had this cognitive delay in GTalk. I miss it.
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You can also add 14 months of ma/paternity leave (67% of income replaced, max €1800/mo)

Child benefit (Kindergeld) goes until the age of 18
IMHO.

Scientific output (and credibility of the paper) comes from the number of authors citing the work..
But isn't that the point of local government? Or, at least, isn't that the reason that voters (who vote against public transit in these areas) will give? That large transit agencies covering big swaths of territory are unwieldy? Why is blaming it on individual counties a waste of time? There had to be a political push to withdraw from the larger system, or at least to have the vote, so shouldn't county leaders be "on the hook" for that push?

One of the things the Puget Sound region got right with its transit is to have a super-regional, standalone agency with its own tax and bonding authority that has the express mission of "connect the discrete local agencies together with express service." How it does that (see also: Spine Destiny in relation to Link) is a matter of some debate but it factually does accomplish the goal with almost all parts of the region being equally accessible through their major transit hubs. If, for example, Snohomish County up and said "pfft, screw that Sound Transit business," why should a) the county leaders not have responsibility for, if nothing else, not being effective at showing the benefit of connectivity to the regional system; and b) SnoCo be able to complain about not having the benefits of the system that it voluntarily left?

Political systems are only "abstract" if one doesn't place stock in the influence of that level of government.
That's not much different than dropping xmpp federation: Microsoft was charging them for the patent license on ActiveSync, AND attacking android at the same time. So Google dropped ActiveSync at the point in time when it hurt Microsoft most - WP8 release. Microsoft's response was "no no no, don't pay for ActiveSync but please keep it up"

Historically, Google drops features when they don't make financial sense or when they give leverage/advantage to competitors.
That is the weaponized version of the iRobot Packbot class robot (although the Packbot has more field time). I couldn't find anyone who had deployed the Gogo, and it does not have an autonomous target/fire capable system, it is, like an aerial drone, a "point and shoot" interface.

Something like this: http://www.paradigmsrp.com/talon-universal-weapons-mount/int... mounted to a mobile robot with openCV type software to automatically acquire and eliminate targets, that is the scary thing and we're still pretty far away from that.
See http://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/105/programming-a... for a (negative) answer.
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> When Google dropped XMPP

AFAIK they only dropped federation and support, but I still can connect with any XMPP client.
Escape analysis is pretty damn capable if you can give it enough time to run.
The solution is to map the movement in the VR to only users movements. HTC vive and Hololens both do this. Oculus almost makes me puke each time I try it but not so with Vive or Hololens.
> But yeah, eg the student welfare benefit (Bafög) goes much further in cheap cities.

Simply not true. Bafög is paid based on what your parents have. And how far you are away from them. They have a "base" need for everything in your students life which is something of ~650€ as of today and then they calculate how much your parents "should" give you (even if they can't) and give you the rest of that money (monthly).

And after something like 4-5 years your last payment was made you need to pay half of it (the rest is yours even if you don't make it, if you make it you don't get any bonuses, but making good grades or other super stuff will actually) back in junks of 150€ per (month, paid in quarters if you are wellthy) or you could make upfront payments which will reduce your payment need drastically.
YES! Meebo was the best. I used to use it on both the web and mobile, all the time. I was extremely disappointed when Google bought them and shut them down just like that.
I've got a feeling in a couple decades the military will declassify how they used some kind of new ULF device to talk to submarines and it had a power level equal to nuclear weapons.

And that as a side effect it screwed up all kinds of wildlife.
Please look at the extensions of JS in ES6 for better solutions of the problems you talk about in the article. Symbols for example

export const ADD_TODO = 'ADD_TODO'

Can be written as

export const ADD_TODO = Symbol()

Also:

The class statement that helps express the intention of a function.

The power of JS is that you can choose your own style and evolve the code between paradigms when you need to. Most other languages forces you to one paradigm.
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The audience who buys $500+ VR glasses at the moment often has a climate controlled room.

VR works fine for some casual game concepts and maybe racing games were you sit and just move your head while steer with the gamepad. But I never saw an action, action-adventure, roleplaying or strategy triple-A game in VR. I am still waiting until the first triple-A VR game comes out in one of these very popular game categories - until then, I have my doubts and it could end as abrupt as Kinect 2 or 3D TVs.
I thought the parenthesis made that quite clear.

Anyway, in the early days of iTunes on Windows, the design and looks was a big selling point.
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I've listed a good number of twilio's competitors here.

Now it's important to keep in mind that not all of these are direct competitors. Some of them are like viruses that only partially afflict the host and Twilio can be thought of as a virus that infects a larger percentage of the host than the others.
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Or higher social status being the result of having books and a good job.
That's no different from 2nd and 3rd generation Asian-Americans identifying their race as Asian and their nationality as American. I don't think they're any less American than Caucasians who've been there for 2 or 3 generations more.

To your specific example, I'd say football is a pretty big part of German culture and there are footballers who identify with the country they came from but feel more comfortable in a German shirt. They choose to represent Germany for that reason, becoming a massive part of that culture. Now would you say that Mesut Özil or Sami Khedira or Emre Can or Jerome Boateng aren't that German just because they remember where their family came from?

If you do, its interesting because others in Germany share that opinion. For example, one leader of a political party said a couple of days ago that Boateng remained "alien" despite his popularity and that people would not want "someone like Boateng as a neighbor." [1]

[1] - http://www.dw.com/en/afd-provokes-anger-with-racist-comments...
Only if it's harmful to people. We're not entirely sure of the extent of that yet. If not then we're not destroying it, just modifying it.
One school of thought has that World War II was much bigger and deadlier because a single human could kill more opposing humans than ever before. On the one hand we sort of took that to infinity with atomics but barring that, in wars like the ones in Syria, it would much bloodier for the side that did not have killer robots. And what is worse, it might be more easily engaged in at a distance.

One huge issue foreign policy people have with drone strikes is how "uneven" they are. War is a horrible thing and when it can be prosecuted with less risk, it seems more likely. And while robot armies fighting each other might seem like a "good" thing, the people dying most often in Syria and Iraq are not soldiers on either side, they are just trying to live out their days.

Arming mechanical devices to kill people is never a good thing.
Tiltbrush on the Vive is friggin amazing. The thing with it is that it's not just a painting app. If the brush width is set to wide and style to solid it's the most fluid and intuitive 3D modeling system I've ever used.

I'm a hobbyist artist - using the Vive for a first time I could sculpt a 3d figure, life sized, in front of me in just minutes. (Professinal 3D designers are probably faster than that on their 3D system of choice but I'm just an accidental hobbyist).

I would guess the better one can generate shapes from memory the more amazing the experience is.

This will be huge with designers.
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> on welfare

> Your computer, your car

> your house

> I can save a little money to fly somewhere

Being poor in Germany certainly sounds different from being poor in other countries.
I'll second the "mandatory reading" suggestion. The SCC post has considerably better analysis of these tribal disagreements than most anything else I've read on the subject, particularly the NYT column.

The article is almost cute. Like, "Did you know people are tribal? And did you ever think that might be a bad thing?" It's not a profound new idea, and it's one that's been better discussed elsewhere, from the SCC posts on the subject (see also the recent one on Albion's Seed[1]) to Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind[2] to Joshua Greene's Moral Tribes[3] to the many, many articles[4][5] that have already been written about partisan polarization in the U.S. (and probably globally, if Europe is any indication).

I mean I'm glad that a random NYT column is provoking further discussion about an important subject, but there's so much more and better stuff that has been said about it than just what this touches on.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/27/book-review-albions-see...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religi...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Tribes-Emotion-Reason-Between/dp...

[4] https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/how-divided-are-...

[5] http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/why-are-stat...
It's a chicken and egg problem.

Because the hardware is so niche, the software makers don't have an audience to justify a big investment.

What's more, content - even if it becomes the Mario of the VR - is not as important as the platform itself for control.

Companies and investors realize this and so they focus on platforms. And so we have a bunch of companies vying for a turn at the platform while no one wants to make content.
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