skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From discussion about this outcome: "Extreme carelessness doesn't necessarily translate into gross negligence," said Laurie Levenson, a professor of law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and former federal prosecutor. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-email-sc...
I don't have social media, and GitHub issues are indeed acceptable for giving public feedback of any sort, though I understand not all projects are ran this way. I clarified this point:

https://github.com/magcius/xplain/commit/91fde0e87116ec834f1...
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I was a doubter until I got a free samsung gear vr with my phone. Some of the apps are just amazing, and turned this doubter into a believer. Everyone I've let use it, thinks it's amazing especially The avengers demo.

The few people who liked it but had to stop, had issues with nausea.

I think we are maybe a generation or two away from a vr explosion.
I hear about this depression. I was the opposite. I felt artificially manic/high/excited about quitting I think. It wore off pretty quickly but I was super happy the first few weeks.
I'm keen for designer pets. I'd like a dog with a bit of cat and cow mixed in, so I could let it roam free and know it will always come home, maybe a bit of elephant for longevity.
Lots of interesting research being done on this, keep an eye out for stuff from SIGGRAPH later this month.

Here's an example from SIGGRAPH Asia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oie1ZXWceqM .
>TESLA really needs to tread carefully here to avoid giving the whole Self-Driving Tech a bad name.

What does it matter if it cannot be proven to be better than regular driving?
Thanks for the writeup. I've been wanting to read about X11 for a long time but didn't know where to start.
Tesla itself claims knowledge of a statistical inevitability that a collision will occur while Autopilot is engaged.

Some questions now are: What did Tesla do to warn of this inevitability? What did they do to mitigate it? What are they doing to mitigate it? Is there any way for users to reduce their chance of being a count in the collision statistic, other than reading and following all relevant disclaimers and warnings?
I too enjoy science fiction, but I don't think that has a lot to do with the sort of near-term investment decisions that are being discussed here.
Research is promising: https://research.nvidia.com/publication/near-eye-light-field...
That's not clear at all -- there's no evidence that information was classified in the first place, but moreover a request to convert to "nonpaper" refers to sending a written summary or briefing. Jake Sullivan is no fool, he's a law professor at Yale. It is equally reasonable to assume that the request to send nonsecure includes an implicit request to not include confidential materials in the "nonpaper" version. Rational and intelligent actors could be assumed to act in a legal way based on this legal request.
> We may have passed "peak social".

Every time a social startup becomes too successful, it creates the need for more social startups. E.g. there would have been no reason for snapchat to exist if not as a reaction against the success of Facebook. It seems unlikely that social will ever reach a steady state, and so I doubt we'll have have a ten year period without a new 100B+ social startup.

Social is an evergreen human need, but the exact flavor that resonates with the zeitgeist at any given time will likely change faster than any given company can adapt.
did a ketogenic diet for two years. went from 260lbs to 165lbs. the key is _high fat_ and low carb. ratio was 60% fat, 35% protein, and 5% carbs (up to 50g per day). nearly zero muscle loss during the diet. a couple of my friends took interest after my results were obvious and they have also had great success. worth looking in to, as weight loss is not the only benefit.
Totally agree on the potential damage Cardboard/Gear can do to VR. I had a friend who tried Cardboard he bought for $20, and his comment was "it really was just worth $20, or less".
You might have liked the Juice project:

http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt69.htm

Just found a Github page while looking for it where they might have put up the old source:

https://github.com/Spirit-of-Oberon/Juice
Valuations of companies in the space may drop unless they can provide an alternative prospectus.
It must depend on your privacy settings. I was prompted for a password, and then all it had to show was a handful of youtube videos I've watched over the past few years.
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Exactly. They say they are using some variant of Reed-Solomon erasure coding. If you did something like K=100 and N=150 and stored all of the shards on different disks, the probability you lose data is equal to the probability that 50 hard drives fail before you can repair the lost shards.

If I am reading the article correctly, they claim that they should usually be able to repair in less than an hour in the case of disk failure.

Thus the probability of losing 50 (or whatever their N-K value is) disks within an hour is how you get 27 nines of durability.

Of course, the probability that one of your software engineers introduces a durability bug is WAY more likely than those disks experiencing a coordinated failure.

Or say, the probability that a terrorist organization targets your datacenters. Even if those odds are one in a billion, that's still not even close to 27 nines.
Could you go into some of the things he did that made the technical debt so bad?
I don't think it would be catastrophic, unless these children spend 90% of their time playing VR games. I would expect it to be similar to exposing a child to a second language. If you replace their exposure to the previous language completely with the new one, their proficiency at the first one will suffer but if you provide enough time for both, the brain will improve in both.
The AI Existential Threat, and the Bandwidth++ Scenario
As someone who owns no stock, I don't care about that. I thought we were talking about advancing the mankind and that kind of thing...
After playing Elite: Dangerous with the Rift, I can corroborate that it's a legitimately amazing experience that is a huge step up from both playing with stereo 3D or regular monitors.

VR might stay as a somewhat specialized medium, but within the medium the possibilities are very compelling.
Just go to /r/raisedby/r/raisedbynarcissists
I used to manage the engineering R & D department at a pretty major e-commerce retailer, they bought the oculus devkit and that was my first idea. I brought it up and was promptly shut down. Then they made me build a cars.com clone. Don't work there anymore.
I'd be lying if I said the journal didn't matter strictly speaking, but in general as long as it's a "real" journal (as opposed to one of those obviously fake journals I keep getting spammed by) then I don't really care.

Don't get me wrong though, just because the paper has a heavy hitter as the PI or even as first author, doesn't mean I treat the content with less scrutiny. It's more that I know my time is extremely limited so I'm more willing to spend more time dissecting a paper from an established first author or PI than an unknown person (unknown also meaning that it's not a paper someone recommended to me or a paper someone cited in another work).

It's more like, I'll _make_ time to read papers with certain authors on it because I know that they do good work. I'll also _make_ time to read something if it's published in Nature et al for example. But a random paper from a random author in a random group? It's not that I don't trust this person's work, it's more that I'm unfamiliar with that person's work and there's other things I could spend my time doing as well. I'll download the paper, throw it on my iPad, etc, and I'll get around to it eventually.
This is blogspam, all the information comes from the original reporting by The Mercury News article:
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_30091649/uber-faces-a...
From what I hear from other major storage providers Magic Pocket is definitely very high up on the paranoia/verification scale. There is of course a cost to all this verification traffic. Any sensible storage provider will be doing stuff like disk scrubbing and verification scans on their storage index however.

We haven't shared drive reliability stats before but I don't think we have any objection to doing so. Don't expect these in the next month or two but we'll likely get to this in the not-too-distant future.
China's innovation economy a real estate bubble in disguise?
> page 139 of the Unix Hater's Handbook http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

For quick access, put page 177 in pdf reader to get to printed page 139.
Yup also relevant for subsystems that need to shuffle data across a bus like the SPUs on the PS3 that only have 256kb of addressable memory.
Reminds me of this scene from Terminator 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cfQKxUffqA
Yes, WebVR is more performant (many webpages struggle to achieve even 60fps). But minimum 90fps, at a much higher resolution is a challenge even running on bare metal right now. And that is needed for even the simplest VR experience (unless you don't move your head that much, but then what's the point of VR).
Same. I logged in with my university-issued account, and all tracking is disabled by default except for YouTube.

I tried turning on Web & App Activity just to see what it caught, and it turned it off again.

I'm not sure, but I think that makes me feel slightly better about my university.
Even with a better performance than regular driving, people will avoid a technology they don't understand and have no control over. Dying of a bot accident is scarier to many than a drunk driver on the oncoming lane.

Unfortunately, accidents with automated driving will seem a lot more prevalent if people are shown concrete cases. I believe that's why none of the players should give it a bad name in its infancy.
From this image, the architecture looks similar to wxWidgets, which has been pretty successful. Why do you believe Lazarus cannot keep up?
> most regulations have the side-effect of benefitting one constituency or interest group over another

Well, yes. One of the functions of government is to adjudicate incompatible desires.

This doesn't mean it always should, but something is going to play that role, and if it isn't a government, it is something that will be called a government once the shooting stops.
Lack of Lithium in Early Universe May Be Evidence for New Particle
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I've used both professionally. I'd say that "begin" and "end" may be clearer than "{" and "}", but less typing wins when you're writing a lot of code.

Writing "if" statements without short-circuit operators is both tedious and error-prone.

So, yeah, I like the C syntax. It's not a question of "ugly", though. Pascal is tedious. It's more work to write. And, of the kinds of tedious I've complained about here, it's not tedious in a way that gets you more correct code. It's just tedious in a way that takes effort and saps your energy for stuff that doesn't matter.
I'm also concerned about long term readability. Some of those documents might have at least a few hundred years of people wanting to read them before them. Can any of those innovative new data formats stay around long enough, especially if they're proprietary? We might change computation platform and hardware paradigms a few times as well, just think back to 20 years ago. A lot of measured raw data is already lost due to this; it's about impossible to parse any more. Pure text can survive far more easily.
30 minutes is pretty good response time! The one occasion when I was involved in a backcountry emergency it took 8 hours for the Air Force to arrive with helicopters.
I never keep weight off by dieting. I just keep it off by being active. I find that carbs help me stay active. I focus on good foods and fish.. by good foods I just avoid the trash that people seem to blame carbs for.. (packaged crap snack foods)
For sure. I hope we're all agreeing here :)

We've very strong believers that an effective replication strategy is just table stakes and that from there the real risks to durability are the "black swan" events that are much harder to model.

I gave at talk at Data@Scale recently where the main premise is about "Durability Theater" and how to combat it in a production storage system. In case you're interested:
https://code.facebook.com/posts/253562281667886/data-scale-j...
Silicon Valley Elites Buying Huge Amounts of Land for Secret Compounds
Docker: Docker Swarm on DigitalOcean by Angel Dimitrov
Talk is just talk, follow the money.
"An error occurred while processing your request.

Reference #50.d66d717.1467850467.45a102d"

I supposed their ssd failed
The Higgs fell out of math that was originally designed to model the world. It was a testable prediction of a physical theory. The math could have been wrong. The math probably is wrong, except about other things than the Higgs.

I'm not valuing anything. I'm saying that if I build a toy axiomatic system, there's no reason a priori to believe that it resembles anything in the physical world. Such a system (say, Peano arithmetic) doesn't actually make any predictions about the real world at all, and cannot be falsified scientifically.

It's like saying, I painted a picture of a dog, therefore I have discovered a dog, by proving that it could exist. Except your depiction is of a 100-foot-tall mecha-dog that definitely doesn't exist. Mathematics is sometimes (though by no means all or most of the time) more like painting than it is like science.

Ex: the Banach-Tarski paradox is almost certainly not describing anything physical.
Pascal is unnecessary verbose, even in its own family. Even Modula-2, where the most prominent change that is immediately visible is that you don't have to say "begin" so many times, is noticeably better.

It's really too bad about Modula-2. It was a very nice language, comparatively speaking, and it should have been what Pascal eventually became through its dialects (notably Apple's and Borland's).
I am not putting English on a pedestal, just trying to explain why so much of human thought is only able to be communicated in English.

Any scientific concept can be translated into any language in principle, it is just that in practice nobody does - well at least until the concepts filter down to the undergraduate level.

You will really find it impossible to be a professional scientist if you can’t read and write English these days (speaking is less important). In the past if you could not read and write Latin you couldn’t discuss the latest scientific concepts, now that role is played by English. A very large percentage of all concepts are now scientific concepts and hence accessible only to English speakers (well readers).
Man threw Molotov cocktails at StreetView cars because “Google was watching him”
Tesla is surprisingly aggressive with media organizations. I think it's one of their hallmarks actually -- I'm not sure why they are this way, but I would guess that they have over the years hardened up in response to one-sided press (I'm thinking of the NYT article claiming their car died and Top Gear in particular).

At any rate, it's refreshing to read rebuttals to journalists. My own experience is that it is very rare that journalists both want to get a story right and have time to get it right; the vast majority of modern 'news' is written by glorified bloggers on a deadline.
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Delphi was very common for LOB applications in some European and ex-USSR countries in 90s and early 00s (more so than VB, which, I think, filled the same niche in US). Plenty of those are still running in production. So, while I doubt there's a lot of new code being written in it, there should be quite a few jobs maintaining and extending an existing codebase.
That's part of it, but it's also because I want to use it to teach people how to program, and Clojure is really not a good choice for beginners. Learning Lua is a lot easier because it is dramatically simpler. It's also much easier to sandbox, and that is a key part of the game too; there are several layers of sandboxing going on.
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How about if you have a culture of being willing to try new things not invented here? That would be quite different from NIH syndrome.
Seems to be working for me, anyway this is the url

http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2930000/2928278/a7-narayanan...
With a graph that's always 0, I'd be scared that my verification code was accidentally wrong. Do you ever intentionally inject missing hashes somewhere to see if your graph blips? How would you feign that a hash was missing?
>Complicated to implement, yes. Complicated to read and understand why the browser is doing x? No.

CSS, for one, is notorious for being complicated to understand, with tons of complex cases, especially in the layout department, where whole cottage industries of "tips" and "workarounds" for the simplest of stuff -- and I'm not talking browser incompatibilities -- thrived for decades (until, at least, flexbox and the like).
That link seems equally dead. You might have it in cache still?
Archive.org concept + Backblaze storage appliances + replication. Way more efficient than Bitcoin or a blockchain in preserving public records. Also, has been working for some time in real world under large usage even without the Backblaze boxes. :)
Cryptocurrencies are the next cycle.
Vive and Oculus are both first-generation, early-adopter versions of VR. As such, arguing about which is "better" is unwarranted or at least premature. They are both capable learning and demoing tools. Neither one, as v1 offerings, will reach the mainstream. In fact, it is possible that neither will become the dominant consumer VR platform.
If you've never used the Tesla autopilot its a weird feeling.

It's not a fully self driving car and its obviously not strictly human controlled. Unfortunately it ends up being more mentally taxing to use this hybrid approach than to just drive yourself.

Consider highway driving, with normal human powered mode you are in full control so if you see brake lights a half kilometer up ahead you can disengage the cruise control and react on your own, everyone who has driven is comfortable with this.

With this assisted driving the car doesn't slow down right away, and its not clear if the car just can't see the tail lights lighting up yet or if its decided it doesn't need to react yet and as such you start to second guess the car,

- should I drive or should I leave it to the car?

- what if it turns when I grab the wheel? Will I make things worse by driving?

- does the car even see the object up ahead? How can I tell, its impossible to expect the car to tell you of an object that it cant' even see.

It becomes just more taxing to use the hybrid approach to driving and as such I don't use it at all. I have no doubt that the Tesla auto pilot is safer than driving, but I also have no doubt that it can royally screw up.

I've come to the conclusion that some assisted driving, like auto braking for obstacles that you will imminently hit is good but the kind of assisted driving where it can almost automatically drive for you is not really anywhere near ready, if you follow Tesla's rules on how to use it, it actually makes driving harder:(
Thanks! I'm aware of that repo. I think the problem is much deeper than can be fixed by creating more issues in the repo. The docs for k8s really need to be approached holistically by a technical writer or someone else who works on it full time. What's there now, and the approach the project has taken towards docs thus far, has resulted in information that is inconsistent, not well organized, and not well maintained. I think comprehensive documentation should be considered a requirement for a release—just as important as the code or the test suite. Software is only useful if people can figure out how to use it, and it's very hard to do that when it's so difficult to find high quality information.
Why? It's true. Most tend to go to one extreme of the quality spectrum or another. A small number of companies and people find middle grounds that knock out serious problems while maintaining time to market. Then, can keep fixing stuff in reasonable time before it becomes a big problem due to design & policies being made to do that. These groups trying to go all in on unproven stuff really should dial down the innovation a little bit for caution and peer review in its place. Smaller-scale experiments before the big ones (eg DAO), too.
"Well the brilliant PostgreSQL developer created a system for windows that emulates the fork ... with threads !"

Err, no. Backends/sessions in postgres are their own processes, even on windows. There's a signal handling emulation thread for each of those, but that's a fairly minor detail.

The benchmark is also for a very small table, and performs only trivial queries. To me it looks it's mainly bemcharking the OS's context switch behaviour.
Silicon Valley doesn’t care about black people
Not specifically. I'm sure that running on GearVR and Google's Gear-equivalent DayDream-certified phones is a goal. But, so far the focus has been just getting it to work well at all. Mostly on desktop.
Yeah. I'm not sure if Digipen still teaches it but I know others do, unfortunately.
I have a completely different opinion. What do you have your following distance set to? I have mine set to 6 or 7 and it starts slowing down well ahead of when I would slow down.

I think you're over thinking things - just let it do its thing, but be ready to resume control if needed. I drive 90% of the time in Auto Pilot, and it makes driving exponentially more relaxing and safer.
Ah, might be because my institution has the acm subscription. This is the paper http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2928275.2928278.
I think it's a sign that Tesla is not yet run by an army of corporate lawyers. (or they haven't been able to persuade Elon Musk yet)
Yeah they can pay attention, even while AutoPilot is engaged
>I personally don't think it'll so much "replace" as much as open up new doors. As in Cinema/TV didn't "replace" theatrical performances, theatre is still around and strong, but the audience has mostly shifted to movies/TV because it is more scalable and flexible.

Theatre is niche whereas once it was mainstream though. And it has been ages since its been culturally relevant in the way movies are discussed etc, even for high-bro audiences (e.g. since the 50s or so in the US, or around the 70s for European audiences).
Maybe for long-running processes, but for running one-off scripts it can be slow to fire up a JVM.
Designers intentionally slow down interfaces for credibility
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2928275.2928278
Yes, but that's the problem. Just "letting it do its thing" and relaxing/trusting/expecting it to "do the right thing" is what leads to accidents like this.

And if you trust Autopilot to do the right thing, and get into a fatal accident, Tesla will say you should have been paying attention!
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Well you seemed to be upset that people (submitters and upvoters) thought it fit to be posted on this site and disagreed with your personal opinion on what, should or should not be posted on a community driven website. But if you're not, then there's nothing to talk about I suppose. So have a nice day.
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