skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"RECODE", ha, cute.

Short and to the point, it's a good doc but not very interesting. Just glad they didn't pad it with tons of code (last I remember Digipen TDD's are required as part of the curriculum and students are known for doing this).

Haven't thought about this game in years, though. What a nice throwback. I thought Portal was great, very polished with great sense of humor but ND was in my opinion a much more fun and interesting game experience (the puzzles really gave you that fantastic "aha!" moment).
> VR? Probably not.

You are correct. AR (augmented reality) is the future, and it's going to be huge. Look at microsoft's hololens, and use your imagination as to what magic leap is cooking up. Once the hardware is there, it'll be like the second coming of the iphone.
but much of their crimes were kept on the down-low. Clinton's has been major news for over a year. Thus, blatant.
That's not how it should work, though. And if you're in position to be first to be paid back, how much of a risk is that, really?

And while we're at it, why do I care how much of a "risk" you took in the first place? Do we want to reward someone for just having money to start with, or do we want to reward people who actually do things? Wouldn't rewarding those who actually do the work first send a much more positive message than getting someone who already has a lot of money a little more?
I was curious about employee option pricing, but not curious enough to sign up for the site in order to read the article. Sounds like strike's being cut by half but total number of options aren't doubling to offset the haircut? Is that right?
The previous issue of The Macro had an article about this:

http://themacro.com/articles/2016/06/the-real-product-market...
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> There could have been an interesting article here about the maker scene in China, or the unhealthy way many westerners online attack this woman for her appearance, or how non-stereotypical people can end up interested in the maker scene, or maybe something else.

And the article that actually was posted makes for a very workable entrée into all of the above, especially if you take the time to follow links from it or otherwise investigate.

> The article did a poor job of making this profile interesting.

You're right! But that's excused by the fact that it's an uninteresting article about an interesting person, who sheds light on an interesting culture, about whom and about which probably everyone who's commented in this thread previously knew nothing. In light of that, it strikes me as odd it'd be so divisive.
Yep. TV's are not great at conveying radio plays. But, that's all people could think of to do with them initially. Turns out they are better for content like Game of Thrones. Phones and tablets are not great at playing deeply engaging games like Quake III, but people tried to make that work initially. Turns out they are better for shallow games to fill in spare moments of boredom where ever you are. VR is not good for a lot of games we are used to. This is the experimentation period where we get to learn what it can do differently and discover new styles of games that didn't make sense to attempt before.
"But you can't explain the concept 'illusion' without reference to 'consciousness'"

Of course you can. What you see is just a model the brain constructs based on visual input. The brain squares up corners, sees depth in converging lines. You can hardly see at all outside your focus point, but the brain makes you think you do. You have a blind spot in each of your eyes but the brain fills in the spaces based on the surrounding images so you don't notice it. None of these effects are the least bit dependent upon consciousness. It is conceivable that consciousness is just the brain's model of itself, and since the brain can construct these models without the need for consciousness, the argument is not circular.
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Ah. I missed that while skimming through the page. I was primarily responding to the statement made that "they are also called “time zones” in casual conversation." They are time zones in the official sense of the word.

Speaking as if the Olson tz database is authoritative and official reminds me of when some small country cancelled summer time with only a few days notice and our OS vendors were not going to be putting out a patch in time. While explaining the process of downloading the Olson tz database and updating systems manually, a coworker asked who gave them (the country's government) permission to cancel DST. It took longer than it should have for me to come up with an explanation that sovereign countries don't need permission from the Internet or OS vendors to change their laws and regulations. The computers track the government actions, not the other way around.
It could also be an emergent property of the inter-breeding. Maybe those particular genes are fine in Neandertals, but combined with some Cro-Magnon genes leads to depression. I know that if you interbreed a lion and a tiger to make a "liger" the resulting hybrid grows to be larger than either lions or tigers; something similar could be happening here.
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Or for any other purpose, actually.
Well the trouble with open-sourcing incomplete or very immature solutions out of the gate is that they'll get forked because people will see a need to fix what they see as fundamental flaws with an as yet unvetted or incomplete design. You'll also have people implement in production solutions based on the half-baked designs that may not be forward compatible with the ultimate 1.0 release. In either scenario you've fractured your community and diluted your effort.

By announcing a solution before it's released you can attract the attention of SMEs who might evaluate the solution and provide valuable insights and offer you the opportunity to resolve concerns before users start adopting your solution.
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Does Java still have a word in every object allocation for locking it? Adding a 64-bit pointer sounds terribly inefficient.

Did you know Objective-C does locks and retain counting without allocating any extra fields in objects?
Its easier to embed digital into the world than to embed the world into digital.

Wait for the first e-ink cheap as paper. That and solar cells cheap as paper. Then things will get interesting.
Oooh, that was it. I had a completely wrong recollection of it, so my previous comment is BS now :/
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It also gives you one hell of a migraine.
Things might work differently for small children who wear VR goggles for extended durations. Their brains might get wired the wrong way, and there might be no "auto-correct" in this case.
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Then everyone outside the tropics has to adjust their daily schedule as the seasons change. Measured time is a tool that exists for the convenience of man not computers or their programmers.
I still don't... get what PubPub is. I definitely think that peer review should be updated and science should be using the internet better, I just have no idea what PubPub has to do with that mission. Is it just... a place where people can post things, and other people can comment, and other people can curate posts? So like any blogging platform?

Even if used as intended, it seems like the only comments would go on things that people are already seeking out; there hasn't been a "random pub" button since it got overtaken with spam. So the use of comments to "review" is already throwing up a huge barrier to discovering new science and leveling the playing field for unrecognized researchers, exacerbating the problems of the current system. The inability to anonymize comments or posts gets rid of the most promising way the internet could affect peer review. It's hard to see what about the platform promotes evolving documents as opposed to static publications. And complex, digitally native papers are already being promoted by larger journals, with better resources to implement them, and more staff to help potentially unfamiliar scientists with the process, another aspect that could make the platform a source of exclusion and bias.

I don't mean to sound to critical, I just follow both science publishing and projects coming out of the Media Lab pretty closely, and have been baffled by this one for a while. https://www.sciencematters.io/ is doing cool things with switching from static publications to a set of growing datapoints, updated in real time, http://meta.com/ (formerly sciencescape) is dipping their toes into curating papers in a really interesting way, and even http://the-artifice.com/ has a unique peer review system that I think could be implemented well in the hard sciences as well. PubPub is just like... Medium? With a little bit of GitHub, and the ethos of arXiv?
You mean how there are no hands and arms attached to the guns? While it looks funny on a video like this, it doesn't bother you a bit while you're in there.

My best explanation is your brain doesn't really care about your limbs while you're holding something. Your attention is on the object.

Rendering fake arms and hands would be a bit off-putting, I think. VR isn't tracking the position of your elbows or fingers, so it would have to guess their positions, and pretty much anything that's doesn't match reality gets noticed by your brain.

Rendering nothing instead of the wrong thing is more immersive.
I feel a need to disagree. Large companies or states very likely have the means of associating the flow of transactions to other metadata and thus revealing whom is doing what within Bitcoin.

Only in cases of careful opsec practice could someone mine clean coins which don't have a clear owner identity and thus transfer / accumulate secret wealth. However once there is a pattern or even direct connection to that wealth you've undone the isolation work.
Actualy, it looks that article show Mr Ardizzone suing two people for fruadulant activity, rather than being sued himself.
One of the signs of maturity in a language is when it reaches the point that it can implement itself. C wasn't written in C originally either.
How do they prove correctness of their GC?
Their date widget is ridiculous.

It doesn't allow you to type dates. :sad:
I think you missed the bit where he said "more intelligent compiler". The compiler is the bit that does the bookkeeping, only in Rust (and evidently Swift--I haven't played with it much) it's done statically, ahead of time rather than at runtime.

That said, I think Go is a much more practical language than Rust for most problems. That said, I'm still very excited about Rust.
TLDR - very long technical explanation of DHCP with recommendation to reduce the lease time.
I've had a small NFC + RFID chip implanted in my hand (between the thumb and index finger). I'm able to open my front door, unlock (not entirely, but it's part of the process) my laptop and my phone and I'm looking for other uses as well.

The idea of implanting something in myself was very off-putting to begin with. But after I could see the practical uses, discussed some of the ideas people had for usage it seemed like a pretty fun idea.

I received the xNTi from Dangerous Things which came pre-loaded in a syringe for implant. Under the observation of a professional I implanted myself, two months later there's no scar and I've mostly forgot about the chip except when I use it to open or unlock things (and I think, damn that's cool) or I pass on contact details to someone at bar via NFC who thinks I've just done a high-tech magic trick.

I can feel and slightly move the implant beneath the skin, it's a little weird to get used to, remembering "oh yeah that's the chip I implanted into my hand".

I'd not recommend anyone performing surgery on themselves, however I'm pretty familiar with some basic surgery on myself in various places of my body (that sounds odd, but I've been in very odd situations) and I did my research beforehand on the implant, as well as had a registered professional to oversee the "DIY surgery" (really just made sure I sterilised properly and didn't somehow sever an artery).

It's also safe for an MRI (which would have been the stopping point for me).
u think 7 implies light? And 22 implies dark? Or vice versa? They are just numbers!
Removing the headphone jack is a signal. The new version of the device must have a new feature in order to drive new revenue. After all, why do I need a new phone right now?

Apple has again stagnated on the innovation front, so they're instead making a change for change sake. Fortunately, they were at least clever enough to choose a change that was linked to increased licensing revenue.
> I personally think it's what makes people sick.

It is possibly 'one' of the factors that make people sick but that doesn't preclude the other very common issues that make people sick like artificial locomotion. After giving ~100 VR demos I haven't found anybody that gets sick with non-artificial locomotion games (including my mum who can't even watch a video game on a TV without getting sick).
If you enjoy these sort of summaries, I encourage you to check out the book "Seeking Wisdom" by Peter Bevelin https://www.amazon.com/Seeking-Wisdom-Darwin-Munger-3rd/dp/1...
It's useful for a writing system to have a glyph for "zadmin" -- when you want to write about a zip-compressed administrator interface, it really saves time.
Seems to me that the centre section of the camden bench is big enough for two - also, in one of the photos a lady is sat on the small side of the end section, so sharing a side is certainly possible - also, two people sat on opposite sides but at an angle could almost face each other, like a love seat?

http://cyan-teak-furniture.com/acatalog/garden_bench_gift_id...
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjxXTsHgc8g
> Amazon is a logistics company

We hear this said of Amazon, and that's also Uber's ambition.

But isn't Walmart also a logistics company?

Isn't every big company that makes or moves around physical items?
I like the idea of preserving public records with a block chain. However if the 'currency' of that block chain is in fact based on it tracking other assets as securities then it calls for a constant need to evaluate the actual value of those backing securities. This makes it so that there is not one value (BTC or equivalent) but instead a portfolio of assets (like stocks/bonds).
Thanks!

Off topic: I frequently click on ambiguous titles due to FOMO. This is exploitable; I don't like it; one solution would be to disambiguate every title. ...But that would remove the art from some cool, worthwhile titles.
> The number of companies that need the advice in this post is so small that YC should just write it as a personal email to founders.

I think that a large portion of The Macro's purpose is content-marketing for YCombinator. It's a taste of the advice that you will get, personalized, if you take funding from them. The point isn't necessarily to help later-stage companies (although this is a beneficial by-product), it's to convince later-stage companies or early companies that hope to get to the later stage to apply to YC so that they can get the personal emails to founders with more tailored advice.
That's just cognitive dissonance kicking in. I had no problem with Chalmers, but had my own dissonant moments beginning with panpsychism. Why anyone would give credence to such ludicrous, unfalsifiable theories is beyond me.
I think it's easy to recognize as very cool. But, shader programming is not something many people have experience with. So, they don't have much to say...
I found it amusing to learn about the Australian time zones: Australia is basically divided into three parts, which could be very nicely +8, +9 and +10, except it is +8, +9:30 and +10. OK. Except that in the south, two of the three zones are split and do DST, which the north does not do, so you get +8, +10:30 and +11 in summer in the south (but the north keeps +8, +9:30 and +10).

Now, that was my amusement for a couple of years.

Then I learned that there is Broken Hill, which follows a time zone different from the surrounding area because of the train track history. And there is Lord Howe Islands, which uses a +0:30 minute DST shift instead of an hour.

And then I learned that history also experimented with 20 minute and 15 minute DST shifts, and that double DST (or Hochsommerzeit in Germany) was quite common, too.

You can probably go on and on and on as you dig deeper, and at some point, anyone's mind will blow, I guess.
Did you even watch the video? That's someone in a tiny apartment room (about 2 meters squared) playing a game that spans an entire building, with pretty much every room in that building being larger than his.
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Alternatively we could go back to the old approach from before time zones and make 12:00 PM wherever you are be the time at which the sun is at its zenith that day. It's obviously kind of silly but could actually work now that many people tell time with GPS linked devices.
While you're right that countries don't need permission to change their timekeeping, they should be fully informed of the technical trouble they're creating when they make changes.
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The previous posting at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12012231 garnered 6 comments.
CSS is an art in a very literal sense. Once you know the basic technique a book won't help you as much as seeing examples in the wild and trying to reverse engineer them. To learn the nitty-gritty nuts and bolts of CSS, try reading the CSS-Tricks blog and digging into the documentation on MDN.

Finally, to truly master CSS, learn the art of brevity. Most stylesheets I see are terribly bloated and over specified. Always ask, "Can I do this in fewer declarations? Do I really need all of these constraints? Is there a single style that will work smoothly across all sizes without media queries?"

Learn that, and you won't need a book.
> You don't need to have money in the exchange for that long, just move it in and out.

Out to where? Your EU bank account? Oh wait..
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Thank you! Finally someone who talks sense.
As someone who recently had to implement time zone (offset) preferences in a web app to satisfy a "Daily Requirements" feature...

I just wanted to say that I hate time zones with a passion.
Not sure if you've experienced watching somebody play in VR but I personally find it really fun. This video gives you a good idea of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYfNzhLXYGc
I live in the UK and do freelance work for a mix of UK/US clients, though for the past 8 months I've only really worked for a couple of clients on an ongoing basis.

I do web & mobile dev, mainly the latter these days.

Annually bringing in around £160k - but that's a recent thing - good few years of £10-30k before I really found my feet.

Hard to really gauge the pros/cons with regard to FTE as I was never much use as an employee, I did little and was paid less (went full time freelance when my first side job earned me 6 months wages). I am naturally lazy and can procrastinate for days sometimes (before going on a mad streak) but I'm getting better at that. Don't think I could ever go back to working for someone else.
I take it you're not familiar with "crowdfunding" sources like the AACR, LLS, ASCO, or other professional societies?

As someone who is funded by several of the above, and who noted that their review processes were substantially less bullshit-intensive yet no less rigorous than NIH review (which has many benefits, efficiency not among them), I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that it's possible.

As far as the NSF, they do a good job with what they have, but what they have is not commensurate with what we as a society could stand to spent on science. Even NCI is a far cry from that: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmLJzKQWkAAl372.jpg:small

Distributions are similar for various other avenues of funding, and it is quite clear that the overhead & administrative costs requested by many recipient instutions are far out of proportion to actual needs, so the impact of the funding allocations is further reduced.

Thus it appears that a direct conduit from potential patrons to researchers is, in fact, desirable. Otherwise, services like experiment.com would not exist. They're not at the level of an NIH study section (duh?) but they have consistently produced a small stream of usable results that belie their supposed irrelevance. Once upon a time, the Royal Society existed for just such matchmaking: find a rich patron and a promising young scientist and line them up. You've likely noticed that many if not most major universities and "centers of excellence" rely upon exactly this model, supplemented with NIH or NSF grants, to exist. Further modularizing the model so that an administrative hand yanking out bloated "indirects" at every turn is not mandated might not be the worst thing, or (alternatively) being more transparent with said O&A requests, might at least bring some of the bullshit under control.

The public clearly wants accountability. The masses may be asses, but if we want their money, we really ought to be transparent about what we're doing with it.
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For 'redirected walking', you need a lot of room because you can only bend a little. The Void has done it and researchers have, but they usually have warehouse-like spaces. It won't work in a normal 3m^2 sort of residential room, which is why you need gimmicks like teleporting or omni-treadmills.
There are other places to cover from rain than a bus stop, but busses seldom pick up passengers from non-bus stops.