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> New "augmented reality" stuff is super interesting to me because it's basically the means of creating a shared illusion. So, like a drug trip, but more social and controlled. Basically like video games, but way larger in scale and social reach :)

Would you want to be constantly immersed in a video game with your friends/family? Or even the same social groups? That idea does nothing for me... it's actually a huge turn-off from AR. If I just wanted trippy graphics with friends, I'd go on a shroom camping trip with friends.

In my mind, AR is about automating and building context. It's the first cybernetic, tightly integrating our visual/auditory senses with technology. Video games, re-skinning reality, omnipresent advertising... none of that will surprise me, that's updating current applications to use new technology.

Boring.

What about new applications? Imagine working on a car engine and hitting a snag, snapping off a seized bolt head for example. AR should recognize that I'm staring at a car engine, grunting in frustration, with elevated heart rate/sweat and other physiological symptoms of stress. The application should use those signals to look at my contact list (integrating their social media context) and suggest calling a mechanically inclined friend for advice. It should know that I hate animated graphics covering my work and simply talk, telling me that John might be able to help out if I buy him some beer. At some point it might even be smart enough to warn me against snapping the bolt head in the first place..

Or imagine project management style stuff. AR should know I'm 24 minutes away from my next meeting by foot and tell me to start walking (offering to reserve a taxi at the same time). Once I start walking, AR should automatically start giving me meeting prep (notes I prepared beforehand, meeting invite body, who's on the meeting invite list, etc). It should also show me a line that will take me all the way to the meeting room, and highlight the right button on any elevators on the way.

Imagine I'm painting a large canvas piece. Instead of lugging around a handful of sketches, putting them away and taking them out every time I work on the piece, AR can display (or even overlay) hundreds of sketches (letting me position them as I see fit). It can remind me that a particular part of the canvas is still wet, or when I can start painting over a section. Even better, it could show me contextual paint reviews when I'm at the shop... recommending certain brands because the colors dry true, or any number of personally relevant metrics (pulled from past internet search history).

Augmented reality: Adding to reality.

Virtual reality: Replacing reality.
The original paper[0] on relational databases by Edgar Codd is quite accessible.

I also loved the MOOC by Prof. Jennifer Widom[1]

[0] https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf

[1] http://online.stanford.edu/course/databases-self-paced
What is "real programming" anyways? What separates VB6 from the "real programming" languages? Try to answer this question not from the perspective of an opinionated programmer, but in the general framework of "what it takes to make a working product using VB6 versus other things out there"?
This lead me down a dark path.

What if John Cena was ...

...pretty.
...tiny.
...Hulk Hogan.
...in The Princess Bride. (my fave)
...in KISS.

...
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I'm confused what a function spec would look like using fdef (etc). Can someone write an example?

If in Haskell we have a type signature

f :: Type1 -> Type2

...what will a clojure function spec roughly look like?
For those who find all of those parenthesis off-putting: http://clochure.org/
I believe the hypothesis is that age may very well play an important factor in the development of the immune system. What your body learns in the first 3-4 months of your life is not equal to what it learns during the next 6... It's moved on to other things.

That's actually how the brain works. Once you form a habit, for example, you follow the developed pattern (now moved outside of the conscious level) without thinking about it much anymore. It's how people learn how to walk, talk, and basically do everything else they once learned in life with relative ease... It's the brain's method of freeing up resources for other, new things.

It doesn't sound all that implausible to me that certain other mechanisms of the body might perform in a very similar way.
> Do they not believe that they aren't going to be here for it?

Well, it doesn't really say all Christians get called up before it all goes to heck. Revelations has quite a few stages.
does it web-scale?
If anything I would appreciate an AR that FILTERED content.
Yeah, sorry about that. We'll update the blog post to clarify. We're updating the CI runners this week to support this.
if you don't mind me asking, how big is the company and what do you do with vb6?
You're definitely an outlier though, and no one is saying that it's not possible, it's just that the interface of a tablet (or lack thereof) presents an un-necessary hurdle that needs to be overcome.

My company is responsible for a number of different school districts, and I've seen this happen at all of them, despite them being warned about the outcome beforehand.
Like pretty much most things.
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You can enable Container Registry for your projects on GitLab.com :)

And in a few days our shared runners should be updated to support the full docker workflow with the Container Registry.
"Coping poorly" is one way of putting it. I prefer "[the American people were] suckered into bad trade deals with countries with nonexistent labor and environmental standards which forced them to compete on the same level even though foreign competitors were handed enormous advantages as though they were US states but immune from regulation, thereby gutting the American middle class and the necessary tax base necessary to foot the bill for the kind of human investments necessary for a large country to succeed in a global information economy," but I guess your way works too.
That first graph is really confusing.
I was surprised to find that out myself. I bought a used car a year ago with satellite radio hardware, but it didn't come with a subscription. Shortly after I got it, Sirius did a promotion where it was free for anyone with a receiver for a few days. I couldn't believe how bad it sounded: substantially worse than FM, and actively fatiguing and unpleasant to listen to. Despite the range of decent stations offered (and my hatred of commercials) it was bad enough to put me off signing up.

Interestingly, I thought the always-free "Preview" station was of noticeably higher quality.
Let's talk after you start paying. I'd love to hear how you're using it and how it's providing value for you—and even get a testimonial for the frontpage! :)

FWIW there are multiple tiers: $8/mo, $35/mo, $85/mo, $275/mo and I have one custom-priced "enterprise" client.

That's another lesson I learned: The kinds of feedback I get from paying customers vs drive-by trials is completely different and often opposite.
This makes me think of the plot of Casino Royale, where an international money launderer (more or less a hedge fund manager) tries to blow up a plane in order to send its maker's stock plummeting.

More on point, some anonymous investors made billions shorting airlines on 9/11. That's like a perfect storm of insider trading ("As long as we're wrecking the airline industry with a terrorist act, let's short some stock on it make a bundle!").
Weapons of Math Destruction

http://boingboing.net/2016/01/06/weapons-of-math-destruction...

It's easy to hide agenda behind an algorithm; especially when the details of the algorithm are not publicly visible.
My eating a big pizza and beer for breakfast also correlated with obesity, so there's that.
Thanks, glad you like it. BTW I wonder how many people understood our hint yesterday: "We almost can't _contain_ our excitement about how our announcement on Monday will _register_ with you!".
If we prevent certain kinds of people from even being born in the first place, how is that not as bad as murder or sterilisation?
Thanks for your comments. I spent forever thinking about how to do something a bit different in this sector. This version 1.0 is just a brain dump. If people are interested I will re-factor the website in a pretty big way.

I think the valuable content is still to come. I am intending to post a lot more help on how to write an information security policy for instance.

Automatic consultancy? Interested where you think that could go?
2% of 16oz of milk is a bit less than 10 ml of milk and that would only be 6 Calories even for the full-fat whole milk in sale here in Europe.

Not sure how they manage to squeeze that amount of calories in their coffee but that is indeed some serious calories intake. People around me that take a breakfast take both a coffee and a breakfast. I wonder how much calories that would amount to at Starbuck, but I guess that would set me up for the whole day.

edit: Just looked at the website. Indeed 120 calories for their 16oz Americano. The 2% you mentioned is 2% fat milk, i.e. skimmed here. Another reason not to go to Starbuck I guess.
I agree that Flink is better for low latency, but I was also under the impression Flink's DataSet API was faster for batch processing than Spark. Now that they're purporting Spark 2.0 may be up to 10x faster than 1.6 I'll have to take another look.
Your explanation of economics really hurts me to read =/

> The average bachelor graduate will demand higher wages than the average high-school graduate.

In economics the word 'demand' does not mean 'demanding' your wage or 'demanding' a certain price. Economics demand is how many people want something at a certain price. Lets repeat that. 'Demand'... is how many people... want something ...at a certain price.

It's not at all related to literally "demanding higher or lower wages", or "demanding higher or lower prices" as you are suggesting -- that is the colloquial definition of demand, and IMO it really should not be used when talking about economics. They can't be substituted for each other.
Thank you very much much. I hope your switch goes smoothly.
As you note, the algorithm for judicial discretion is unknown. The algorithm for this software is fully known, just kept from the public.
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Having worked with chinese researchers in chemistry/biophysics, I agree with the observations about authority and confirmation bias. There's a discernable trend between, say, a postdoc who did undergrad & grad in china, a postdoc who did grad in the US, and a postdoc who did undergrad & grad in the US. This is not a problem confined to china, and to be sure there are many american scientists who can't seem to work up a healthy antiauthoritarianism (and things are getting worse here as certain public "scientists" are becoming authority figures)
Thank God for the Chinese. They must think we're insane.

Bioethicists I've watched debate are seemingly unconcerned with the present day. I've never seen it emphasized (as it used to be once) that the potential for mental and physical handicaps goes up very dramatically as a woman ages. There exists a fairly narrow window to produce children optimally. I am confident no school children are aware of this through sex education. It is sort of brushed under the carpet in favour of 'right to choose'.

You would not believe the rate of deformed children that exist. In my small town there are six or seven special centers for children with mental and physical handicaps. I am convinced this is because the parents got to the idea of having children late. This is a failing of society.

"http://www.ivfne.com/content/editor/Fertility Age Graph.jpg"

http://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/1331118/di...

http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/downsyndrome/images/p...
In US courts intent matters. If you can be shown to have intended the scandal to manipulate the stock, the courts consider that. To know whom and what to investigate, you had to talk to someone in the know. Almost always, someone inside. For a journalist, this is fine. But to accomplish this, you had to talk about it. Along with intent, especially if you've it done more than once, this suggests conspiracy and even RICO. Which an aggressive prosecutor will use to threaten one of you to convict the rest.

I forget how much HN wants the law to work like code. It does not. Intent matters. Circumstances matter. Context matters. Of course, money does, too.
> constant expensive campus development

I don't understand all the amenities that modern universities have (gourmet meals, private rooms, hot tubs, etc). I didn't have time for any of that - I had to study and work at my part-time job so I'd have gas & pizza money. We weren't wearing hair shirts by any means, but living in the dorms made you appreciate things afterwards.

Regarding the rising debt - it's cynical of me, but I wonder if universities don't care about their graduation rates any more. After all, there'll be another freshmen class showing up in a few months and they'll also be waving federal college aid checks at the bursar. So if students drop-out (or are on academic suspension), it's no skin off the universities' back that the student still owes all that money.
The market solution for student loan rates is to underwrite based on factors such as school attended and major/intended career. For whatever reason it seems this hasn't been done at scale until very recently (with SoFi offering low rates to the Ivies). The fact that an art history major at a lowly ranked state school pays the same loan rates as a computer science major from MIT or a medical school student from Duke implies that the market is inefficient. As a result of that inefficiency (which may be purposeful to prevent discrimination - I'm not sure), more qualified borrowers subsidize less qualified borrowers.
I also asked myself whether I've seen it here a few days ago or perhaps it was on some other site - seems like this alone suggests how I'd handle a higher dose of information overload... :-)

Perhaps it's the generation gap - even though I love software technologies and do it for a living, looking at the younger generation in the family multitask across several applications while talking on the phone and watching TV makes me wonder if there's more here than just trading depth coverage for breadth coverage. I wonder whether they've actually extended and adapted to handling the current of information that would overwhelm me.
It really comes down to cost and convenience. We don't charge anything additional to run the container registry (including unlimited private projects for personal or business use), and it's already installed with GitLab.

Having said that, we do love deep integration, so we'll continue to improve it going forward. If you have any ideas for improvements, please do create an issue!
We are working really hard to make the underlying infrastructure of this type of interface a reality.

I think every day about how to build these capabilities, without them becoming overwhelming like you see in the video.

Everything from how to interface (gesture actually sucks: non-haptic, unnatural), to how to serve contextual data using natural visual input without relying on engineered visual markers (QR codes etc...).

We have come a long way from the infrastructure perspective (mobile visual mapping and re-localization) and are really looking forward to having better visual interfaces - though they are years away from becoming mainstream.

One other thing that nobody has commented on, that is critical to these systems working is having content. 3D content is an order of magnitude harder to build than 2D content, so that is also a big focus of ours.
I'm not sure I understand your position.

I mean, yeah, unmaintainable code sucks. But I think this highlights the need for more accessible coding. The web became huge because it was so accessible. Yes, it generated a lot of crap code, but if 10% of projects add value to society, the more projects, the more valuable projects.

> The fact that Joe in HR threw together an application in a weekend in a testament not to its accessibility but to its abject lack of maintainability.

I don't see how "easy/fast to create" necessitates lack of maintainability, nor that it is a statement AGAINST accessibility. (without regard to the quality of VB6)
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Seeing the section "How to Start" I can't help but mention it doesn't include "How I Start: Elixir" :) http://howistart.org/posts/elixir/1
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investment alone does not good science make. (obviously this is a slightly self-serving argument for me, but:) much of the best science has been done on a budget.
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First you must distinguish between hunger and appetite. Hunger is usually accompanied by a "growling" stomach. Appetite is simply the desire for food.
Absolutely right. Also it costs a hell of a lot less for a wealthy family or a poor-to-moddle-income state to be educated in America and use what they learned in their home state rather than build up equivalent educational institutions at home.

That's why you end up seeing a lot of partnerships with US universities on foreign soil (Yale in Singapore, RIT in Croatia, Cornell in Abu Dhabi...)

EDIT: This also helps wealthy Chinese youths who are so committed to disappointing their parents that they fail to score within the .001 percentile on the Gaokao and have to be shipped off to Harvard instead.
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> but without other changes, I feel that it would make the problem worse

I agree. It must be enacted in concert with the equivalent of single payer education.
Well, magical or not, I do not want to be hungry until lunch.
Rails is several percentage points more widespread than Django, but far from any order of magnitude.
That sounds exactly like a conversation I had with a taxi driver in London. His friend was struggling to find programmers with the right skills. Well they were there, but they wanted too much money!
You forget about batteries. We are probably able to do VR/AR stuff like this in a few years but we won't have the energy to implement them as wearables. It will take a lot of progress or some kind of massive breakthrough in battery technology to actually produce good non-trivial wearables.
A bit off-topic, but this is also true of many hospitals. The private insurers and government programs fight with hospitals to drive down rates, so the elite hospitals are aggressively marketing in the Middle East and China for rich patients who can pay the full ticket price. I lived at Children's Hospital with my daughter for ~2 months and ~1/3 of the patients were international.
> We should be clearer about what we want institutions of higher learning to teach: life's big questions or job skills?

This used to be easy to answer. The first is a university and the second is a trade school or apprenticeship. However, the latter has fallen out of favor (for some reason?), and universities are having to pick up both roles. I don't think this is the right answer, but it's the only one that seems to have political / financial support. Interestingly, software rediscovered "trade school light" in the form of coding bootcamps.

> If lawmakers wanted to help the student debt crisis, a great start would be making student loan payments tax-deductible ... instead of just having student loan interest be tax-deductible.

Tuition is deductible. So you effectively deduct the principle payments the year you pay tuition. It makes perfect sense for only the interest to be deductible the second time around.
This article really didn't resonate with me.

The first point revolves around AWS not providing tools they provide building blocks. To me this is true basically of all AWS, not just Lambda. If you come into AWS without understanding that they are building blocks meant to be used together, you will experience pain and suffering. If you want EC2 to be a virtual hosting service, for example. You are expected to use RDS if you want to store data, not put it on an EC2 instance. You are better off using their blocks together rather than trying to roll your own.

The second thing about the documentation seemed like a non-starter... I took him up on the challenge of finding out how to pass arguments to a python lambda, so I typed in "aws lambda python", which google suggested adding "example" to. The first hit showed "If you are passing in this JSON, your function will look like this".

Obviously, this guy had a hard time trying to deploy a Python lambda, and I haven't tried to do the same myself, but it felt a bit off base to me.
I think you missed the point - the way I understood parent, he tried to point out that many of the articles about "healthy" food consumption are financed by food industry and should be more or less ignored.
In fairness, Windows 1.0 wasn't advertising itself as the future of finance or using the inability of third parties to intervene to retrospectively fix errors as its chief selling point.
I understand that Smart Replies takes away a very personal part of a conversation, and might even lead to just a couple of AIs talking to each other, but if it reduces sarcasm it can't be all that bad!
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> The author has the first name "John Carlos". Why not take an educated guess and use (gasp) gendered pronouns?

Because the text of the article could have been generated by a Turing machine with the pseudonym "John Carlos". And on the internet, nobody knows if you're a man, woman, dog, or sufficiently complicated state machine.

tl;dr: Non-gendered pronouns are inclusive and never inappropriate on the internet.
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> Science has historically based on a system of open debate.

That's not the definition of democracy, democracy is majority rule.
No pressure, just thought you might like it. It's got a take on reincarnation that you might find interesting to think about.

It's an extremely visual film -- as an experience it's nothing like its Wikipedia entry :)
It should be fixed by now :)
Good info. Thanks. I've had similar experiences where, with some luck, I've hit upon a keyword/subject ripe for the picking or perhaps just too small or specific to have generated much competition up to that point. It's fun when you find something like that! The hard part is know when you've found it (or not).
If the mix engineer does it it's mixing.

If the mastering engineer does it it's mastering.

Either can use bus EQ and bus compression.

The mastering engineer usually approaches the job as a final polish of something that's already finished.

The mix engineer can go back and change the mix after adding bus EQ and/or compression. Usually the mix engineer makes [n, which may be a large number depending on time and budget] of mixes, with feedback from the band and producer and sometimes a record company exec.

Then everyone's favourite mix goes off to the mastering engineer for that final polish, assembly into a consistent-sounding album (if it's an album) followed by final format sourcing.

These days artists often do their own mastering. It's not hard to get something better than cheap mastering, but DIY won't be as good the best full-fat pro mastering.

I was always a fan of the sound of the DBX Quantum processor, which is highly rated by professional mastering engineers - not as highly as custom hardware, but a good few steps up from most DIY mastering options.
That "speech" in that Black Mirror episode for me is up there with the "Network" rant.

> All we know is fake fodder and buying shit. That's how we speak to each other, how we express ourselves, is buying shit. What, I have a dream? The peak of our dreams is a new app for our Dopple, it doesn't exist! It's not even there! We buy shit that's not even there. Show us something real and free and beautiful. You couldn't. Yeah? It'd break us. We're too numb for it.