skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual quote is excellent (and already on this page). He's right -- the list of things to be done is obvious, and will take time.

And, I'd like to imagine he has some enjoyment at the thought -- if you saw his keynote showing off a precomputed(ish) raytraced walkthrough of their new office space, he was really enjoying himself and the possibilities.

What Hsun has is an incredibly good window into the silicon side of the problem, and he knows how many chip cycles he's got to address the amount of computation needed for physics, visual realism and presumably a latency budget to allow wireless support. Plus he can estimate what screen tech will be doing.

It's a prodigious amount of R&D, and it is a bit breathtaking. Finally having a reason to do it, and a taste of how appealing it can be is pretty cool.
This is the cause.
It's impossible to precisely calculate "the true figure" of a counterfactual, which is what you appeared to demand. It's obviously not impossible to estimate it or approximate it, particularly when we have things like physical laws, historical correlations, basic reasoning, or even self-reported data to guide us. None of these are "the true figure", although physical laws tend to work pretty well, and despite that are not necessarily totally wrong, within some margin of error. (I'm not sure if macroeconomic claims are the best way of demonstrating the possibility of calculating counterfactuals, at any rate!)

Anyway: if you showed me a study that interviewed a statistically appropriate number and distribution of bankrupt debtors and found that over 50% claimed that a high tax bill was the cause of or contributed to their bankruptcy, I'd agree that taxes probably needed to come down.

Still, a tax bill is fundamentally different from a medical bill, in that your tax bill is ultimately a fact of life: it's something you're aware of ahead of time, and the assumption that you have to pay it is baked into the salary you take, and, in principle, into the rate chosen by legislators. You can plan for it and account for it in a way that you can't catastrophe, and outside of extenuating factors, failure to do so likely indicates pretty severe financial irresponsibility if tax rates are at all reasonable. That's probably why people wouldn't be too likely to claim that tax (or groceries, or rent...) caused their bankruptcy - even if a person is living paycheque to paycheque, they might be scraping by, and then wham: suddenly they get diagnosed with cancer or get struck by lightning and half their annual salary goes to the hospital in one moment, they're going to say that those medical bills caused the bankruptcy, not the expenses that they'd already accounted and planned for. Which I don't think is necessarily wrong: if I knock a glass off a table, in terms of blame, my action is what caused it to fall and drop, and chalking it up to gravity or the glass being in the way is somehow wrong, in terms of our understanding of the idea of fault.

A better comparison might be a tax hike causing bankruptcy. And yeah, if the federal government declared that a person with an annual income of 45k (the average of the people in the PNHS study) suddenly owed 17k more in taxes and people went bankrupt trying to pay it and blamed it on the hike, I would 100% be on their side (and yours, I'm guessing). You wouldn't even need to show me a study, to be honest. I would probably also say that instead of taxing these people just scraping by, they should tax the rich instead, who can easily afford it, and use that to subsidize for the poor, which is incidentally how I think health care should work.
Also, YouTube is a monopoly.

Haha, good one.
And then you have the fundamental design problems of VR, where it blocks out your environmental awareness, causing people to crash into walls, leading to liability issues: https://imgur.com/umYTJP1

The first generation VR also faced the same liability issues. Specifically, the Atari Jaguar VR was cancelled because of this.

VR will never make it as a consumer product.

Ever.
Net of the UBI? Sure. A UBI which is exactly as redistributive as the existing welfare system would reduce taxes (or increase the UBI you receive) by the difference in the administrative costs between the existing welfare system and the UBI.

And that's before the economic benefits of increasing the incentive to work for low and middle income people by not reducing their government transfer payments when they get a job.
Unsigned overflow/underflow is defined behavior, unlike signed overflow/underflow. Underflow will be caught by the upper range check.
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Hah, I never thought of it that way. In Lisp, you use lambdas to define classes. In C++, you use classes to define lambdas.
The overlap between GIMP and Krita is quite large. In general, at this point Krita is mostly a superset of the GIMP - though I still use GIMP a lot due to familiarity. Also, Krita is a must for >8bit images at the moment.
My previous bank ( ASB ) used to truncate passwords. I found out because one day I was trying to enter my password and it kept refusing it until I left off the last two characters. It turns out that they had stopped truncating or perhaps just increased the length, and so my 10 character password was just an 8 character one all along. It kind of boggles my mind that a bank would do that.
When an application residing at one.example.com sets a cookie, the browser by default resubmits the cookie in all subsequent requests to one.example.com and also to any subdomains, such as sub.one.example.com. It does not submit the cookie to any other domains, including the parent domain (example.com) and any other subdomains of the parent, such as two.example.com.

A server can override this default behavior by including a domain attribute in the Set-cookie instruction but this is pretty uncommon. Cookie scoping (and therefore cross-domain protection) can be managed differently if the default behaviour is not intended and HTTPOnly is not relevant here. HTTPOnly is really only a simple mitigation against the most obvious and trivial Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) exploitation technique (i.e stealing a session token).
"If someone asks me for money, and I give them money, it becomes their money, and it is none of my business what they choose to do with it"

It isn't if your idea of help is unconditional donation. But is there anything wrong if I see donations as investments (in society) with expected returns on the same? Would I be wrong in trying to maximize my returns?
They want what they have long wanted: to push responsibility for enforcement onto someone else.

The problem is that no one else can tell what is and is not authorized. Copyright relies on permission and the copyright owner (and only the copyright owner) has any idea to whom they have and have not given permission.

Granted, as the Viacom lawsuit against YouTube once proved, even they can get that horribly wrong, but anyone else has even less knowledge to act upon, which should not be encouraging.

I'm sure they see that the DMCA spammers are rather ineffective at doing anything but taking their money, which no doubt upsets them, but the level of censorship and preapproval for speech that would be necessary to actually enforce copyright is, in fact, quite draconian.

Given how easy it is to quite literally steal someone's video (that is, by both taking it and depriving them the use thereof) with ContentID and how many times something like that has actually happened, I can only fear what might come to pass were they given their wish.
Type in "Fruit Flies like honey"
Their videos will probably get taken down by someone else claiming to own them, if history is any guide.
There is an interesting segment on this in the documentary "Workingman's Death".

https://vimeo.com/88162472 from 1:21:00. The entire film is quite beautifully photographed. Too bad it has not been released in an HD format yet.

Workingman's Death is probably my favorite Michael Glawogger film. It feels less staged and fake than "Megacities".
So it looks like the problem is the third-party doctrine, which is described as "the 1970s-era Supreme Court case holding that there is no privacy interest in data voluntarily given up to a third party like a cell phone provider."

But people aren't voluntarily giving cellular providers this data, right? I mean, I never saw that prompt on my phone asking if Verizon could have access to my location.

Of course the truth is Verizon/AT&T/others collect this data every time your phone hits a tower, but how many customers actually understand this? Is it outlined in the service agreement? I'll admit I've never actually read the whole thing before and just assumed it was the usual yadda yadda. But even if it did mention they collect location data, could I then opt-out or say I do not consent to have my location monitored and collected? Would that then protect me from data searches? Probably not...

I maintain a large amount of Wi-Fi networks in various locations across the US. While we have the ability to monitor the signal strength of every device and use trilateration to obtain a location, we don't do this. But, if we did, does that mean anyone our wireless picked up "voluntarily" gave me this data, and then I would have to give it up to law enforcement at a moments notice?

I'm getting really tired of seeing centuries old laws being cited in 2016's technology.
That NBA guy (I assume we're talking about Bryce Dejean-Jones) played this year too and it wasn't a home-invasion robbery.
In the near future, criminals will learn to leaves their cellphones at home while committing crimes, using burner phones for any contact they need during that time.

Which, incidentally, is advice that the Shadowrun tabletop RPG gives freely as advice to would-be players...
Ranking of programming languages (based on demand, salary, and employer rating)
This was so well written that it makes me want to hop on a plane to New York and give it a ride.
Oh my. http://gizmodo.com/5846133/the-best-ipod-prediction-ever-mad... comes to mind. Want to put money on that? Say, 40 million unit sales a year within a decade?
Another way to think about this is if a person comes into existence, then BI demands their immediate universal right to the resources to sustain their life comfortably without any contribution from that body.

So really, those who multiply the fastest win the resource war of the future? Or having kids is somehow constrained now through other hoops, like a "procreation license."
Have you tried the Vive?
I have a calendar widget (Event Flow) and a task list, both are very useful.

I would like to have a step counter too, but haven't found one that have a nice ui.
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I think the interesting opportunity here is can bring this real-time workflow to professional software teams that use git and micro-services?
New Zealand also calculates weekly. For example, a landlord can only ask for two weeks "up front" (aside from a bond). Weekly is common outside the US, whether advertising-only or otherwise.
The major labels try to frame the discussion around piracy, which confuses everyone else because YouTube bends over backwards when it comes to copyright law.

If you dig deeper, its not about piracy - its about control. What do the majors get from Spotify/Apple music that they don't get from YouTube? If the majors don't like their deal with Spotify (whether its 80% of the revenue, or no free listeners), the majors can walk, and if any of their music appears on Spotify, the majors can sue them out of existence.

With YouTube it's different -

1.) YouTube is the largest streaming site so users will always look for music there

2.) Anyone can upload music to YouTube

3.) YouTube isn't financially responsible when someone uploads infringing material.

These 3 factors mean, if the majors decide they want 80% of YouTube's revenue rather than 50% and YouTube walks, there is a chance (more like a given) that someone will upload Taylor Swift's new album on there pitch shifted by 13% (to evade content id), and will go on to generate millions of views. And since YouTube is protected by the DMCA, the majors can't sue them out of existence. That's why the majors hate the DMCA, as it applies to YouTube. There effectively isn't a "scorch-earth" policy for music on YouTube, and the majors can't leverage their army of lawyers to force YouTube to submit to them if "scorch-earth" fails.

Now I doubt "we need to kill the DMCA so we can sue YouTube for billions" is very PR-friendly, but "muh piracy" always is.
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Lol, future technology prediction "responsive level design".
Once I read the quote I probably had the same reaction as you. Bad journalism.
This reads like a 26 year old wrote it after supporting a toy system for two years, and has a few things to school his elders on.

I'm sure projects fail for many, many reasons, and inertia plus ego from an original developer that's now powerful is certainly one of them.

On the other hand, the number of half-baked ORM replacements for SQL I've seen represents a staggering amount of wasted labor, labor that could have launched a number of great tech teams if they'd had the wisdom to learn from someone who was coding while they were in diapers.

I think I find the whole thing so offensive because node plus microservices are put out in the essay as the thing that a hot new dev knows better than her elders.

So -- computing models are cyclical; they wax and wane for social and practical reasons, and admittedly, beyond all predictions javascript has been massaged into an amazingly fast thing given where it started.

But, really? microservices as an approach that's just too hard for some old fogey? The same fogey that probably could concatenate piped unix commands to get real shit done in the '80s, and had a solid understanding of awk syntax?

Annoying.
Authenticity and communication I personally think are the two most important traits for a successful relationship.

If you don't feel like you can be your real self in front of that person, unable to share with each other your dreams, fantasies, desires, fears, faults and foibles, it is going to be difficult to build a relationship that can last.

I’ve been married twenty-one years, and neither of us are the same two people who got married all that time ago. There have been times when we’ve discussed if the two people we’ve become should stay married. There’s been times when love is strained, times when things are just comfortable, and times when my heart still beats faster when she walks in the room.
Things No Amount of Learning Can Teach, Noam Chomsky [83]
Matrix is not peer-to-peer. It's decentralized in the sense that it's federated. Like email, (or other messaging systems before it, like XMPP,) each user's account exists primarily on a specific server, but they can choose which server that is, or run their own, and it doesn't change their ability to message anyone else in the system or for anyone else to message them.
Send SMS messages via email
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Tween: a middleware library experiment
Good luck convincing CSX to share rails. It took Amtrak decades to get a deal in place for the Hudson River line.
The Staten Island connection is shown as a possible future extension, not part of this plan.
See this thread from a couple days ago for more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11794914
Just what the doctor ordered for me!

I've been playing with music and mathematics for a while, and I had a thought that someone far more mathematical and musical than myself could correlate tried and true mathematical constructs to music other than defining patterns via Markov processes, neural or evolutionary algorithms, or simply generating random melodies. Pulling these patterns into 12 point space is really interesting.
The witch appears to be the Red Queen. (Rotate her head about 135 degrees ccw and you get what is close to the symbol for a chess queen).
"The whole process is to avoid approving medicines that don't work. "

No. The process is to identify medicines that are safe and effective. That is not the same thing at all.

Under your viewpoint not approving a medicine that is safe and effective is perfectly fine. Under my viewpoint (and, I strongly suspect, most other people's) not approving a medicine that is safe and effective is a failure. There are ways to avoid that without "shortcutting the process".

The point that is actually being made (but which you seem to be avoiding addressing) is that approving dangerous drugs is bad, and not approving good drugs is also bad.
I used first-gen VR. By this I mean I programmed using BodyElectric on Mac and SGI Onyx systems in the early 1990s.

There was a ton of innovation. But frame rates, even on half-million dollar hardware, had to be in the 30hz range. Knowing what we know now, there was no way for that technology to take off, even for those with very strong stomachs.

The minimal technology package to do a good job has only very recently been available for almost any money. I think it's too early to call it as a 'never'.
I use all major consumer OSes.

The point here is about the missing features OS X on Darwin, not about alternatives that aren't native OS X.
I had the Star Trek Omnipedia as a kid (actually, still do; 2 versions of it, complete with janky voice recognition), and I was embarrassingly jealous of a friend that had the Tech Manual. As far as I was concerned, he could tour around the Enterprise whenever he wanted.
Elon Musk: The first Tesla Roadster we sold was 'completely unsafe'
Some of this may be misdirection. VR is getting tremendous attention and will be very competitive. Look how he backed away from mobile. Complaining about wires and resolution? They're getting new revs every 12-18 months now. Look for hidef wireless hmds in 20-36 months, not 20 years. No physics? Look again. I think he wants to avoid competitive low margin businesses when better choices are available.
So why not explicitly pass a subsidy (e.g. through the tax code) for the chronically ill? Disguising such transfers through regulatory costs is both inefficient and dishonest. It's also very unclear whether society would choose to subsidize all sick people. For example, those who are sick and rich enough to afford their insurance premiums (or who were lucky enough to obtain long-term coverage before they got an expensive medical condition, so their premiums are low), might not merit such transfers. If women have higher expected lifetime health costs due to pregnancy-related care, society might or might not want to have healthcare-related subsidies that amount to a transfer payment from men to women.

The proper way to make these sorts of decisions is by passing laws that make the transfer payments explicit, not disguising them in byzantine insurance regulations.
That connection used to have a much higher service frequency and the traffic didn't support the costs of operating it. I'm not judging by what the traffic is now, I'm judging by what the traffic was when there was a dedicated BART shuttle to serve that exact segment at high frequency. Further, the timetable changes to increase service between that single station and the airport are large, therefore a massive amount of traffic would be needed from one station whereas improvements to existing service benefit people coming from the other 43 stations.

So no, it's nothing like your analogy.

And, even if the traffic would be similar to have an operating loss ratio similar to the other lines, that still doesn't address the fact that fundamentally it would be to provide service for transit users who live in counties that voted to reduce their BART service and opt out of that transit system. So in your analogy it would be like a Comcast customer complaining that when they use their friend's sonic.net line, the speeds aren't to their liking.
That would make sense. Removing any cargo is a no brainer. It also seems to make sense to have as little fuel as possible and to have already removed any high value equipment that doesn't absolutely need to still be on the ship for its final journey.

All together that means the ship could potentially be significantly lighter than its usual unloaded weight let alone its weight when loaded.
Microsoft sells patents to Xiaomi
Good point

...and that's in the book! ;-)

edit: I think the key is that there's a dominant technique, regardless of whether you're getting trolled.
"I haven't heard of anyone leaving a platform because there wasn't enough offensive content."

I have left both Twitter and Github recently, not because there "wasn't enough offensive content", but because I find thought-policing even more offensive than the allegedly "offensive" speech.

If it weren't for the fact that Facebook is used by many of my older relatives, I'd be out of there, too, and it won't take much more to get me to leave.

So... now you've heard of someone. I do not think I am unique.
You should check out music set theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory_(music) and also diatonic set theory, they are pretty fascinating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatonic_set_theory .
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Sorry to seemingly play a game of one-upsmanship, as 538's repo is wonderful, but BuzzFeed also posts its data and stories online on their BuzzFeedNews Github account...however, what I really like about their repo setup is that they have a repo for every project...and then a separate repo that has a tabular listing of repo, date, description, and story link * ...IMO, they have the best setup (in terms of discovery) among the news nerds:

https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/everything

- * edit: Oops, I forgot that 538's data repo also has a readable table listing below the fold...I suppose having separate repos per dataset vs one main repo is not a clear advantage depending on the user.

They also list their standalone datasets and tools, e.g. their standardized H-2 certification data [1], for which they've probably used in their many H-2 visa stories, and twick [2], the tool they use to quickly fetch newsworthy Twitter account data on short notice...

And those aren't even all the useful tools that that team has created...Jeremy Singer-Vine (their data editor) has several great Python utilities in his personal repo (github.com/jsvine), including waybackpack, pdfplumber (a wrapper around pdfminer and similar to Ruby's tabula), and markovify.

[1] https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/H-2-certification-data

[2] https://github.com/jsvine/twick
You're unjustifiably assuming that BI provides less incentive to work than existing welfare and then doing math based on that assumption to prove a conclusion which is trivial given the assumption. It's begging the question.

Calculate the marginal tax rates people would pay under a BI funded by a flat tax vs. the existing welfare system when disqualification from benefits is calculated as a tax. The existing system has low and middle income people paying absurdly high marginal rates. BI would increase their incentive to work.

BI would have high income people paying somewhat higher marginal rates (but not necessarily higher taxes net of BI because they would receive the BI), but high income people are extremely unlikely to give up their high income in exchange for a subsistence level basic income.
I was curious about the useability. Assuming your configurations are both in perfect parity from a security standpoint, I would be curious to know how broadly available or unavail SS is. A user can turn it off (true of cookies), and iirc browsers have a shared storage max of 5mb ish but it varies from browser to browser. not sure what the wxact num is, but if is it possivlble to max this out? or is a page/domain given its own allocation?

Also, is this workable on most mobile devices? it us avail in electron because its essentially a chromium wrapper i think but are there any other compatibility issues / synchronization issues where one or the other makes more sense?
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