skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty amazing. Makes me wonder what the current state of the art in general purpose voice recognition is.

I recently wondered if there is a a video-chat app that uses voice recognition for live subtitles? Would be awesome for talking to people who don't have perfect hearing. Could this be hacked together in a similar way?
For niche cockpit genres like simracing Oculus is probably the better buy. Comfort is king when you're trying to run an endurance race.

Personally haven't tried Oculus, but the Vive does get really heavy on the face after 30 minutes or so.
Alternatively to that alternative approach, instead of making local noon be the anchor point, make local sunrise the anchor point: the sun rises at 6 AM.

Note that this has the side effect of automatically making it so the extra daylight during times of the year with more daylight come at the end of the working day, without the need for daylight savings time.
I had to stare at "OLIE #0" for a full minute before I realized it was "(LIE #1)"
If you look at the Steam Hardware Survey [1] you will see that HTC Vive is "winning" two-to-one [2].

But sobering reminder of how far consumer-grade VR has to go: users with VR headsets are 0.15% of Steam's installed base.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey Caveat: Participation is optional.

[2] Caveat: this assumes that all HTC Vive and Oculus Rift users are Steam users. Oculus has its own store.
My Rift doesn't have a vertical green line between the two eyes. That sounds like a technical issue.
I'm not sure what is more cringeworthy, the email itself or the fact that this became controversial enough to warrant a response from Microsoft [1]. People on the Internet will express discontent over anything and everything.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/microsoft-wants-bae-interns-to-get-lit-at...
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Granted there is a difference between publicly releasing > 1 million secret documents, but he makes a solid point.
The problem is Western and other more developed countries still do business with the country, inevitably enabling and persisting their systemic corruption.

See ExxonMobil projects in PNG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPIUFZl7f-U
There's still lots of deployment of existing technology to be done. But most of the "get rich quick using off the shelf technology" has been done for this round. There are just too many people trying to do that.
I posted a link to the Foundation's Web site to Jeff's Facebook page. (He's been busy getting his house in Colorado Springs ready to sell, as he and his wife are moving to Phoenix for health reasons. Facebook is about all he has time to check these days.) I'll also link this HN comment thread to him.

Jeff's blog is at http://www.contrapositivediary.com/ , and he updates that more frequently than his main Web site. (Which is to say, pretty infrequently at the moment, though I expect that to change once his big move is over.)
Misleading title. The author concedes that interstellar travel may be possible, but that we will have evolved beyond recognition by that time. A fair point, but a bit sensationalized.
I hate facebook as much as anyone, but they do put out a lot of open software.
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I really like aframe, but I just has the feeling that for things like aframe, it would be similar to what the Web Apps has been experiencing: the performance will always a few steps behind the native alternative. Even for Vive/Rift, there's still vast space for improvement on the hardware/performance side, so I'd assume a long way before efforts like aframe.io to really take off.
And what problems will it solve?
The author appears to credit the X Window System or Microsoft Windows with repaint-on-expose. To my knowledge that was first implemented (along with regions) by Bill Atkinson for the Apple Lisa, because he misremembered what he saw on the visit to PARC; overlapped windows in the PARC systems at the time didn't automatically and efficiently repaint only the affected area.
I don't see why anyone would buy an Oculus over a Vive. The software support for the Vive is just so much better on Steam. Additionally, the majority of PC gamers prefer Steam and it only makes sense they would want all of their VR games and traditional games to be under one service.

I really don't see how Oculus will even be relevant in VR games in about 2-3 years especially once the VR headset is commoditized.
Agreed, but if I did that with 10 emails in my current job I'd lose my clearance and the job with it.
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It's relevant in light of recent developments.
I've heard a lot of good things about the Oculus, especially the touch controllers.

My main experience demoing the dk2 around was that the first thing everyone did was try raising their hands in front of their face, and that motion sickness hit about 30% of people. The Vive fixes both of those problems, and they're first to market.

Still, facebook has deep pockets, and from everything I've heard their headset is better and their controllers are better. I can't wait to give them a try.

The next big thing that I want in VR is multiplayer.
Train crashes.

Seriously.

Trains presented the first time that 1) humans could travel at a sustained rate above about 10 mph, and 2) presented roadways on which it wasn't possible to spot oncoming traffic and decide, at any point, to simply pull to the side to let it pass.

There was also the matter of coordinating service with local pick-up and drop-off, and whatnot.

So now you had a requirement for all points along a linear track to actually agree on the answer to the question "what time is it now?"

"Local noon" was no longer an adequate solution, or at least, it wasn't adequate with the means available at the time for computing offsets between your local noon, my local noon, and Train Time.

Railroad engineers (train drivers), track switching controls, and other elements also had to be, or could be, coordinated. Uncoordinated switching leads to packet collisions, or in this case, literal train wrecks. Which are messy, bad publicity, and discourage business.

Hourly offsets were reasonably close to solar time (generally no more than 30 minutes off), and abstracted enough complexity that offsets could be calculated (a given train was unlikely to cross two time zones in a day).

This happened in 1883.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/time-zones-history.html
I haven't found the Vive uncomfortable as far as weight but it did slip off my head when I was jumping around playing Hover Junkers. If it were lighter, it would probably have stayed in place.

I didn't like the light gap around the nose of the Oculus but I would assume it's easy enough to "plug up."
Sure. I think we're talking about different things when we say heavy. Perhaps less ambiguous phrasing would have been "frequent string manipulation."
I'm sure you're points are valid for your setup, but just a few notes:

- The Oculus Touch controllers will require placement of two cameras (when they come out), similar to the two Vive base-stations. You're currently comparing the setup of a seated Oculus experience to a Room-Scale Vive experience, it's like comparing setting up a Chromebook vs a Desktop computer. Yea, the desktop takes more setup, but it's more powerful.

- There's 1 3-in-1 cable on the Vive that has HDMI, USB, and power, and then there's a really short one that connects to earphones/headphones. Are you sure you are talking about the consumer version?

- If you lose tracking often, you probably need to alter your setup, or make sure you don't have a large reflective floor or mirror in your tracking space. The Vive uses lasers for motion tracking that have sometimes been interfered with due to high reflectance. I've personally never had tracking issues I couldn't resolve by repositioning.

You also don't need to put them at weird angles, mine are on either side of the room, basically 1 foot above my head facing each other. They have a rather wide 120 degree field of view.

- You can adjust the focus distance on the Vive, might want to check that if you are having blurriness. That said, the resolution on both devices is identical, but they are both not super-high as they are the first consumer devices of this generation, so it won't be picture perfect. That said, it doesn't generally hurt the immersion if the game/experience is well designed.

That's just some information / my experiences, the Oculus is a great device, I just personally think the Vive really leap-frogged them in this first round.
i think the main distinction that the law does is intent (to harm the US, etc.) - at least it sounded that way in that FBI statment on Clinton . So depending on whether you think that the US is the people and their constitutional rights or something else...
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> This is just plain wrong. Please see Rec Room.

no it's not wrong. I bought the GearVR in anticipation of getting the Vive when it launched. Wearing goggles is far more anti-social than regular gaming. It totally cuts you off from family.

I have a 2 year old and wife at home. During regular gaming, if my son or wife want my attention I am aware of it and it's trivial to pause and give them the attention they deserve. Goggles on the other hand are fundamentally isolating. It's hard to describe, but others that aren't sharing the experience with you feel cut off and almost hurt. Maybe that's not the best way to describe it but it's close.

The experience has put me off getting VR at this stage.
FBI director Comey said: "Although we did not find clear evidence that Sec. Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless."

What I find interesting about that is that the law states that intent to violate the law is not required, gross negligence is sufficient.

Here the FBI director states himself that Sec. Clinton was extremely careless yet he doesn't recommend prosecution.

The law (section f): https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793
I'd like to see some cross-species mitochondrial donation. I'd bet mouse with bat mitochondria would live for decades and never get cancer. (Some telomerase might be necessary too)
So... it's hardware transactional memory with explicit priorities on the transactions so the hardware can retry and/or complete the highest priority task first if there's a collision?
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I like the Chris Milk quote "VR is the last medium." Because VR (eventually) encapsulates all of our senses and all of our actions, all other media, past and future, can be encapsulated in VR.
Are the software engineering positions also open to international applicants?
So does Microsoft have good parties or not?
> i think the main distinction that the law does is intent

It's not just a law, but a policy/statute where it is definitive that intent is irrelevant to the violation. The law even references negligence, so this looks like what it is from his own statements. It's blatant corruption across the executive branch to circumvent law and executive policy.
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> employee with the lowest seniority, but worked 6 years there, that's hardly believable

That was my gut reaction too. It's essentially a call center.

Also, I have a hard time believing that the type of person/manager that would handle a situation in such an inhumane manner (the sociopathic boss) would paint themselves in such an obvious bad light. Two different personality types.

It would have been slightly more believable if the girl (orphan?, dozens of foster homes, homeless, best employee by far, graduates against all odds by working nights, made-for-tv Lifetime Sepcial...) had written it.
Is interesting that people that "like" the c-like syntax consider pascal "ugly". The opposite is also true.
Edit: Title edited to reflect the fact that this is a month old. Still relevant IMHO, but I didn't notice the date before posting.
The only difference in actions that I see is intent and exposure of public information:

Snowden attempted to whistle-blow through reputable non-government actors (Reporters living in a very public spotlight) for the benefit of the people. Snowden's actions were driven by the belief of being a true patriot.

Hillary meanwhile willingly bypassed operation security for personal convince, benefit, and quite probably as a means of evading oversight and data retention/discovery measures. The lapse in security cannot be estimated as their practices were so poor that any measurement is not possible; it is very likely that TIMELY, SENSITIVE, information made it in to the hands of foreign powers thoughtful enough to have even 'script kiddies' attempt to breach a very publicly known server.
might go without saying, but: do NOT get sloshed at events like this, even if you see other people doing it. you're trying to get a job, so keep your wits about you.
I agree, at least until the Oculus Touch is around and well-reviewed, I really don't see a point in getting the Oculus over Vive at the moment. It's a few hundred more, but you're already paying a ton, so why not pay $200 more for something 100x better.
IoT

It went from mainframes -> desktops/laptops -> mobile. And next will be IoT. Huge possibilities will open up when you have internet connected devices at the sub $1 range.
Because the Oculus headset works on Steam games, but the Vive doesn't out of the box work with Oculus Home. You can make it work, but it's not quite official. The Rift is also a little bit more comfortable and people seem to the think the display is generally better.

The real reason not to buy the Oculus is because there aren't motion tracked controllers for it yet. There also isn't a lot of room scale experience out there with Oculus so it's not totally clear how it's going to compare when the touch controllers are available.

Early reports sound positive, but early reports are early. The potential for the Rift seems a little greater. Oculus Touch controllers look like they are going to be a real nice piece of kit.

Disclaimer. I went with the Rift because it was more comfortable and I had no problem waiting for motion tracked controllers.
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$ for file in $(ls); do echo $file; done

Please don't do this. I understand why it was put there, but don't. There are
other examples of this construct, and most of them actually make sense.

People reading the article are not shell experts and don't know that in
this particular case it's extremely bad idea to use `ls` (shell wildcard is
the proper way here), so don't give them such example. This statement should
be burned with fire.
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I own a Firefly VR headset which I bought for $60. It works great for 360 videos on youtube and some games. The best part is it uses my phone and has a small wireless remote for navigating and making selections.

I don't understand the whole hype with Vive/Oculus. I know they are a beast compared to cheap VRs but requirement of gaming pc, strangling wires etc sets me off.
It's great that Vive has gained such traction (I personally contributed to that number), but I don't think VR has "hit it" yet. I think what Vive offers today is a good indicator of what would become the norm in VR in the next few years (assuming big companies keep pouring money in), when mass production of low cost equipment that provides experience similar to what Vive can do today. Low cost device + pretty good (but may not be the top notch) experience is what's needed for VR to really take off. Cardboard is trying to do that right now, but honestly it lacks a lot on the "pretty good experience" part.
Whoever comes up with a way for furniture and homewares retailers to demonstrate their products in your home is going to make a fortune, whether it's an open system or a whitelabel platform for scanning rooms, ingesting models and integrating with a shopping cart.
While I understand and agree with what the article is saying, I think a primary driver for other browsers catching up was that they were forced to because developers refused to spend the time dealing with quirks and browsers that didn't correctly implement standards.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

If developers catered to the other browsers like they used to we wouldn't have seen the dramatically improved compatibility we now have.
From the article: "What I hope I have done is sufficiently piqued your interest to get you involved in Lab41." So this is an ad.

While I sort of agree that AI could use a bullshit meter, it's way better than it was in the 1980s. Today, much of the stuff actually works. Real work is done with AI. Deposit a handwritten check at an ATM and watch it be read properly. I'm amazed that works.
Serverless also describes the application invocation model.

The design intention for serverless applications uses pub-sub events rather than client-server calls. That's a major enabler of async processing and containers-on-demand, and it looks like LambCI has followed the pattern to a tee.

If you have to accept requests from a non-event-driven world, AWS offer their API Gateway to provide a listening server endpoint, but I think it's telling that this was not available when Lambda was released, and that LambCI does not need it.
Your clarifications help, thanks.

> I can visualize some of the founders I know seeing this post and saying to themselves... Great, I'm at 19 people, now I just need to get to 20, then I need to hire HR. When in reality, they don't have full product market fit and should be focusing on that.

Yes, if you're not at product/market fit, then as a business getting to product/market fit is probably the most important thing. However, people problems always crop up when you have people involved, and your people problems will be largely uncorrelated to whether the business has product/market fit. (It's not likely that you will have fewer people problems because the business doesn't have PMF).

The article could probably be made more clear that this isn't a 'list of things to do after you're successful', it's more a 'common failure patterns we see in companies with headcount > X'. And of course, there's the unstated advice, which is 'try to avoid having large headcount until after PMF'.
So you kinda thought VR was hyped, but it didn't stop you from ordering a Vive?

I think VR is incredibly hyped, just as it was 15 years ago.

What do you imagine this new medium replacing? Games? Movies? Monitors?
I do use my browser on my iPhone still though, quite a bit. I think if webVR makes it possible to make more "VR friendly" interfaces for websites, it could be really helpful. As a web developer, I shudder at the idea of "responsive" now including designing for VR but as a VR early adopter that idea sounds great.
Cool! I had an idea for something like this but instead of having each build be it's own lambda event, I wanted to make each individual test it's own lambda event. The goal is to have the build time for a complex project boil down to the time it takes to setup + run the longest test.
And just like that we go from #1 to off the front page.
This is a very confused article with many errors.

Au contraire! It is a good article which highlights a number of subtle points!

But possible the worst error in the article is suggesting that ensemble methods are a way to validate the accuracy of a model. An ensemble technique is not a way to validate accuracy. Rather it's a way to try to obtain higher accuracy.

Err... to quote the article: "One of the ways to improve result quality is by running ensembles of algorithms."

The talk of blending recommender systems and deep learning appears to be inspired by Google's Wide and Deep Learning[1] work, which is effectively a way of blending global and local results.

Every expert practitioner measures the accuracy of their models with well established methods such as cross validation or hold out tests.

The problem here is knowing how well the model will work with radically (or even somewhat) different data than it was trained on. This is not the same as doing CV or hold out.

For example, the ImageNet set has an enormous number of dog pictures. This means that its CV or hold-out performance tends to translate well to performance on similar datasets, and if the new dataset has a lot of dog pictures it will translate very very well.

However, if you attempt to use a network trained on ImageNet in a completely different context (classifying X-Rays for example) it is unclear how well it will perform before testing.

Further, the article users the security domain as an example of the lack of validation. Most applications of ML to security use unsupervised algorithms to perform anomaly detection. This is entirely a different thing to a supervised algorithm. Anomaly detection via unsupervised algorithms is well known to have many false positives.

Lab41 works in the intelligence space. That isn't your normal computer-security anomaly detection. Have a look at their other work[2] - there is only one thing that is conventional security log file analysis.

[1] https://research.googleblog.com/2016/06/wide-deep-learning-b...

[2] http://www.lab41.org/work/
I believe the Vive is $200 more than the Rift.
The biggest difference between Snowden and Hillary is that Snowden did what he thought was right, owned up his actions and suffered the consequences. He lost everything just so Americans could know that their government was spying them. He lived the American spirit.

Hilary Clinton denied first, lied next and then claimed ignorance. Pretty much like her husband and the worst part is the Law enforcement accepted her "ignorance of law" argument.

FBI director's conduct is despicable and reduces average citizen's faith in law and order. It shows that Hillary is either too powerful or FBI is compromised.
He'd probably appreciate it more if you made his science fiction books hits, as he's been trying to get back into SF writing recently, and has joined the indie publishing revolution (after getting talked into it by Sarah Hoyt).

Available on Kindle Unlimited: his novel The Cunning Blood [0], a newer novel, Ten Gentle Opportunities [1], and his collection Souls in Silicon: Tales of AI Confronting The Infinite. [2] More to come, too, stay tuned!

(Disclaimer: I've designated myself as Jeff's "#1 fanboy.")

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Cunning-Blood-Jeff-Duntemann-ebook/dp...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Gentle-Opportunities-Jeff-Duntema...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Souls-Silicon-Tales-Confronting-Infin...
Not a lawyer, but I think "extreme carelessness" is a step below "gross negligence". I think gross negligence has specific meaning.

Any lawyers in the house familiar with this kind of law?
It replaces the default reality.