skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me perfection is not AOSP, but https://copperhead.co/android/.

Sadly, they only support Nexus (now Pixel devices), and this new iteration is very expensive.
because pets can't drive [1]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/2000/11/07/1107pets.html
Indeed, that is one opinion.
it was a honor knowing you.
You're still talking about an audience that's predominantly gamers. The mobile phone market by default has a much larger market. My parents have phones that can do VR, they don't have a Playstation.
> but it's honestly baffling to me how these threads aren't peppered with what I would think to be well-justified skepticism

Are we visiting the same site? I see nothing but negativity in threads about Google.
From what we saw from the pictures the material in contact with your skin looks pretty much the same as what Occulus / steamvr has, only the appearance looks different.
I had nothing but problems with typical consumer hardware. Having to restart routers all the time. Dead spots. When family would visit (both my wife and I have large families) they would connect at least 2 devices each to my wifi (tablet, phone, laptop, etc). My wireless would just tank. They would always ask me why my internet was so terrible.

Last year I bought an Edge router and a higher end Netgear hotspot. Works wonders separating things out and letting me easily add separate "Guest" wireless networks on different channels or whatever using my older devices.

If I were to have done that change now I would've definitely used a device like Google's. But to do something like that would've been outside my budget. I wish I could easily add new hotspots that just seamlessly worked so that I could eliminate the dead spots on the edges of my house and in my yard over time.

Maybe there's something I don't know already and I don't need Google's new Wifi System. But it definitely seems to fix my usecase.
We'd see bits of time where the dwarf was in front of the twin and burning much much brighter, the accretion disk on the dwarf would be larger than the dwarf and giving off high energy photons as it consumes the incoming matter. We haven't seen any spikes in the light level, only dips. It's possible it's behind the other star still but I don't think we've seen anything else to indicate that.
you just need a van an three guys to lift the moped and put it inside the van. It definitely happens in Barcelona

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atJuzEhkRDg

http://www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcelona/20160802/4036244...
Very well written criticism. I agree with most points you made specially the fact that if google wants VR to go main stream and really cares about users it should have put more emphasis in Cardboard which works for all phones including iPhone.

Putting more emphasis on proprietary headset and phone shows only one reason behind this move - they want to make $$ selling Phones and VR headsets.
Interesting look at some public data but ultimately not all that useful. My dad has done photography for a couple decades and he really swaps lenses for different tasks. The is no single perfect lens.
grin Here we go...

For "laughing at ourselves" and oddities of computer languages, there is "Wat" by Gary Bernhardt:
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

For an opinion on the Sun to Oracle transition, there is "Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos" by Bryan M. Cantrill, Joyent. His Larry Ellison rant makes me smile:
https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m00s
Dude. It's a $79 strap that puts your phone in front of your face. It's a cool toy. They're obviously not trying to compete with Oculus with this. What are you ranting on about?
Wow, this sounds really beautiful. They've done a great job and taking random signals and stringing them into beautiful and pleasant-to-hear music!
And the subject is a human
This is exactly my argument! Thank you.
It's not, but it's not meant to be. It's a place for more people to get to experience it because it's still way cheaper than buying the current best solution Vive + a gaming system capable of running it then get excited for the Vive or Oculus 2+ in a few years when the specs to run them are easier and maybe we can fit the positional tracking onto the headset instead of requiring lighthouses.
Are you talking about the old "don't sit too close to the TV adage?"
Big Data in cars could be a $750B business by 2030
The interesting part is that a lot of effort is already being made to improve those systems. I even know a family doctor who was working in his spare time on improving IT infrastructure.
I didn't realize that's what synecdoche meant.

Adds some depth to the title of the movie "Synecdoche, New York"
Microsoft has totally crushed any confidence in automatic updates. That would be enough for me to count them in. Why again should I trust them?

I liked Windows 7. I set up an AD domain at home to use it. Now I feel forced to move to Linux.
Any house with double pained impact glass, for Hurricanes can severely limit your Wifi signal.
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An appropriate HG2G quote gets downvoted on HN ... the younguns have no respect and appreciation for the old masters.
Can Google Crush Apple with New Pixel Smartphone?
Yeah, that works too. Not playing is better for global thermonuclear war.
I'm not sure that I agree with your belief that voluntary termination (I prefer that term over euthanasia) can ever be clean. It is a process that is necessarily fraught with pain, even if that pain isn't visible on the outside. I'd like to believe that no doctor would take such a decision lightly, but that of course is hard to ascertain.

I do agree with your sentiment about the ethicists. The article paints a picture like the review boards and experts are closing ranks against the "outside world". It's somewhat understandable given that these are considered hard-won "victories" by the humanist camp and still under constant pressure, but it reduces transparency in an area that absolutely requires both transparency and accountability. It's almost like regulatory capture: it encourages practitioners to play it fast and loose knowing they will be backed, and that should not be allowed.

However, in this particularly case: I understand it can be very hard for next-of-kin to learn that someone close has chosen to die, and that they were not involved in the process. I've watched it happen twice from somewhat nearby, and I certainly hope never to experience it any closer. The anger, hurt and guilt from not being included in such a life-altering decision can be enormous.

At the same time, I don't see how drawing more people into the situation should be up to the physician; that choice too should be squarely in the patient's hands. For me it is enough that the doctor suggested she should contact her children.

For me, the bigger question is why these doctors felt qualified to assess her wish: it does not sound like any of the doctors that approved her request had more than a cursory involvement in her (long-term) treatment.
Doing with Images Makes Symbols, Alan Kay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY

The title says it all. It's really a summary of several software systems with good ideas abound. I believe all the software is 80s or prior.

Edit: I also forgot to mention some psychology and math.
"Their debut signals Google’s push into the $400 billion smartphone hardware business and shows that the company is willing to risk alienating partners like Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. that sell Android-based phones."

You mean not including the time they bought Motorola?
Sigh, kinda disappointed given all the hype and secrecy around this, and makes me doubt the near future of VR (I have a Vive, and was a believer until this point). For VR to really take off, we do need a "good enough" experience for the mass while letting the Vives driving the leading edge. Cardboard was clearly not good enough (otherwise it would have taken off by itself already), Daydream (with Pixel phone) just seems like a polished version of cardboard, but still not good enough: actually, is it in anyway better than cardboard towards the direction of Vive? Slightly higher resolution? A little bit more comfortable, maybe easier to setup, and that's it? How about 6 degree of freedom, more precise controller tracking? at least 1K per eye resolution? Just wish Daydream won't kill VR by over-marketing it and fails to deliver. If that happens, it may take another decade for VR to come back.
Your GearVR is polling it's position and velocities at 1000hz, about 5x that of Daydream. Your GearVR is a much, much nicer device than this fabric cardboard.
It's $649 (£509) for the base model in the US, so if you exclude VAT it's actually cheaper in the UK.
Not in Control: A Tale of UX Gone Wrong
Why would you use a phone for vr? Seems hugely expensive to upgrade the screen for the sake of a niche hobby. Most people wouldn't even use it.
Bitcoin: the slowest, most expensive key/value store in history.
If you can't get government assistance because you have an "extra" kidney, and you need to feed your family, I wouldn't call that decision anything other than forced.
As the saying, attributed to Burke (but whose precise origins are unknown) goes:

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good [men and women] do nothing."

Both Meyer and Stamos made their choices, on this issue.
and yet Samsung is out-selling Apple..talk about ignoring facts..
> If you're going to "burst bubbles" when talking about privilege, I encourage you to learn about intersectionality first. Otherwise you're bursting a straw man version of the concept, which doesn't achieve anything. Privilege exists on multiple axes, and you still have white privilege even if you're poor and don't have class privilege.

I've read a lot of Social Justice texts the last few years, and it's usually a mix of moralistic preaching, loudly asserting articles of faith as fact, and tearful wonderment at the moral superiority of the author and their ingroup over the common people.

"Intersectionality" writings are often the least coherent, as they try to make quite disparate theories of injustice fit together in some Grand Unified Theory.

I won't rule out that there is intellectually honest writing that quantifies these alleged real world phenomenons in a verifiable and falsifiable way. But if so, it is hiding real well.
Sadly getting onto copperhead now is gonna be expensive...
Why would you assume they are? Do you have any proof to backup your theory? And try to provide actual proof.
And that they're more inclined to post to sites that tend to be associated with photo enthusiasts.

It does in fact appear that the Canon 5D iii and the 6D are the two most common DSLRs on Flickr based on the number of photos posted. https://www.flickr.com/cameras/canon/

(The leading smartphones are still more popular in terms of total numbers.)
Obviously lots of work to do for all the players in the autonomous vehicle game. And I actually like Uber's approach to testing: get lots of miles of testing while being paid to do it by your customers. Clearly not a cash positive venture but it's still a cool business model.

I'm wondering if the autonomous vehicle industry will fight for market share along the lines of which company's software platform is better. Will consumers who buy such a car be looking at safety records as much as comfort and looks? Will we end up seeing "Ford Fusion powered by Uber" vs "VW Golf powered by Apple" etc.? Maybe we end up with only a few platforms that fight for market share, like Windows vs Mac and Android vs iOS.
Offtopic, but man that hero image is huge. 1.3MB

https://tinypng.com/site/output/8skfp6sngbse0pou.jpg/home-he... << -41% 551 KB total
I use the Nexus, which runs stock android by default. This new pixel phone will probably also do so, being a direct (ish) google phone. I think its because if the cruft 3rd party OEMs have been adding that google has been making these phones.

So, yes, you can buy a device with stock android. It just has to be a google phone, not a 3rd party for the most part.
Just saw intercooler referenced in a post a couple days ago and took a look. It does look refreshingly simple to get started.

I've got a basic app with JSON end points already created. I was going to give VUE a go but after looking at intercooler I'm going to create an alternate set of /IC/* URLS and send out HTML instead. I'll soon see how it works for this task.
So what's your conclusion?
I always find it surprising when people, imagining some large change, pick on some current reality and how it would have trouble fitting into the imagined future as some sort of indictment of that future.

I would suggest that roads closed to most vehicle traffic would be open to delivery trucks, like in most old european town centres, and or delivery is made by smaller vehicles. In the long-term, I can imagine a new model of city infrastructure that allows easy small-scale delivery with some standardized container system and small electric vehicles.
As a European I have to I assume all major US companies in this area are either infiltrated or willingly participating in pervasive surveillance.

It's still interesting to know which companies have been actually exposed for this kind abuse of their customers' trust.
Talks are a great way to discover interesting ideas, technologies, concepts etc. And if the talk inspired, one can then later invest in reading a book.
The gamer audience is pretty damn big. It's not an obscure hobby. A huge number of households have gaming consoles.

It's way way way bigger than the number that have custom built ultra-high end PCs.

Phones that will be powerful enough to provide a good experience for more than a short amount of time (due to battery, etc.) and with the abilities of other VR systems (hand controllers, positional tracking, etc) are going to be a fair ways off.
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Would it be possible to use Google Pixel as a personal high resolution monitor?
2560 x 1440 is the equivalent of a 27 inch monitor...if you wore it as a headset, how big would the monitor equivalent be? 50"?

If I could attach this to my Mac and use the headset instead of hunching over a 15" laptop, I'd be very happy!
The blog post about the infographic says that it's a crawl of Flickr, 500px and Pixabay. [1]

If you drill through to the camera/lens combination you actually get to see some of the photos that have been crawled, and then it will take you back to the original source.

[1] https://explorecams.com/blog/
We don't even need to what-if: http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/suspensionfailures.html

All I'm saying is that these scenarios can be sufficiently covered by contracts with the institute you want to preserve you. You can specify that in the unforeseen event of needing more funds to keep you preserved, that you are terminated and buried or cremated in such-and-such fashion without even trying to seek funds from potential relatives or descendants or the government. If contract compliance trust is an issue in Europe, that seems like something to fix first.
And who is the servicer of broken phones? Is there a
warranty? Can I get a customer service agent on a real
voice line?

This was one of the things they announced; Fire-phone-like support tools and access.
They might be doing something different, that they still can't speak about.
I love co-ops, but Twitter shouldn't become one
No. This is from last year. Snowden came out in 2013.
Part of that is not so much just that Apple is "way ahead" as it is that Qualcomm is falling far behind -- and Qualcomm's roadmap is effectively Android's roadmap, for many OEMs.
Apartments can have this issue - where I live there are 50+ access points visible and even with the router directly next to our streaming device I cannot stream Netflix HD (75 mbps plan with Comcast).

edit Not saying that Google's system fixes this but some users require nicer routers for that connection. I should note my actual computer gets an ethernet because I can never achieve on wireless what I can on wired!
It's not just a convenient target once you realize that as recently as the 1970s it was typical to redline neighborhoods so darker-skinned people wouldn't be shown certain homes. It was common to have white suburban flight, leaving all-black neighborhoods in the inner cities with little commerce or industry and few jobs. It's so easy to conflate class and race in some cities because a couple of generations out one still has been so informed by the other.
Incorrect, I have lived in many poor places, grew up poor and in a very racist part of Colorado. (I'm white)

I now live in a nice area and am no longer poor.

I can tell you from personal experience that cops are much nicer to white people All the time.

The worst white trash human being is still white and when confronted with arresting a white person or a black person, white people go free.

Even after you're arrested and put in jail when you go to court with all the inmates on the docket that day you will see harsher sentences for any non white person, and what essentially is a slap on the wrist for the white people.

Just go to your local court and sit in for a day, you will leave deflated and unimpressed by our judicial system.

Sure they'll put white people in jail but listen to the charges and you will see firsthand that although someone who is not white has 4 priors and gets sent away for a year, a white guy who comes in on his 10th, but has a suit on, and a lawyer might get supervised probation and 10 days.

How often are white people allowed to come back to court on their own recognizance vs. Black people that always have to post bail.

Always wear a suit, always hire a external lawyer and never talk to the police until they tell you the charges (and when they do, only say, not guilty).
True, they're not equivalent, but the second is implied when we use FUD (intentionally or unintentionally) to bias the status quo.

We all have a psychological predisposition to prefer the status quo. And we tend to assume the latter type of statement is true (e.g. believe it intuitive that without legal euthanasia people aren't systematically pressured into suicide) even when we don't explicitly think about it. But if we state the latter explicitly and burden ourselves with it, then it becomes easier to reason about the whole issue. We can examine our biases. Whereas by focusing only on the first statement we're predisposed to believe the status quo better.

That's also why I dislike abstract questions and contrived situations (e.g. the Trolley Problem). When we frame social issues too abstractly we lose sight, IMHO, of our inherent biases and implied assumptions, and tend to equivocate outcomes. Stick to real facts as much as possible and it's easier to identify and come to grips with our biases and assumptions.

In some ways my opinion is counterintuitive. Isn't it supposed to be the case that by distilling an issue into a simple dilemma that we make it easier to make moral decisions? I don't think so. I think it was Wittgenstein who pointed out, more-or-less, that it's the fine, concrete details of a situation wherein most of the substance lies. By stripping the facts and talking in abstractions or relying on contrived scenarios we've changed the context to an entirely different, fictional reality such that any logical analysis and decision is largely irrelevant to the real-life situation.
The officers leave the cars running to power their electronics and lights.

Those could be powered by the two giant batteries installed in every police vehicle. The engine is left running for the air conditioner. If "experts" are claiming the above, they are not experts.
You can fire them, have them arrested, and/or have them disappear to anywhere you like. Presidents are pretty powerful.
If you actually wanted to do something, call them out on it. Blackmail is highly illegal, and if it actually goes anywhere, your VP can always pardon you.
Yes. Living for 500 years sounds exhausting, pointless, terrible for the environment and my descendants, and a selfish use of resources.
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I mean, think about the threats from .gov, right?

$250k per day doubling every week that can come with a gag order sounds like the sort of thing that could damage a business to the point of extinction, no?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/yahoo-nsa-laws...
Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) Podcast: Episode 53 – Mapping Your DevOps Journey
It's not about an individual's tolerance, it's because the phones are not capable of having a refresh rate that's fast enough for your brain's ability to process it. That's why all the serious VR headsets right now require a physical cable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBtXMtUNpdE

It's going to be a very long time before mobile phones are capable of refresh rates sufficient to prevent this issue. The fastest consumer graphics cards are barely capable of keeping up with this rate as-is. Aside from being yet-another proprietary SDK for VR development, Google VR is DoA regardless because it depends on a hardware platform that simply won't work well for what it's trying to do.

Please let's focus on WebVR. Please?
I see the potential quite clearly.
Sounds like something I'd like to do.

Mind if I send you an email?
We really should have body cameras on our politicians.
Exactly. I can hardly see an application or any utility outside of gaming.
Disclaimer: I am employed by Google but I do not work nor have any affiliation with this product, this is just my opinion and not that of my employer.

All the experience I've always had with wifi in the last ~10 years has been abysmal. I play games and make a lot of use of internet (downloading, working through ssh sessions, etc) and the slight hiccup and packet loss is very evident in my system and frustrates me a lot. When I am playing games and there's a slight interference, I notice immediately. When I am chatting on irc through ssh and my keystrokes don't go through due to spotty wifi, I notice immediately. Sometimes it's unbearable. I think this idea is really great. I had to finetune my wifi so many times in all the apartments I've lived at. Using channel analysers to pick the correct one every once in a while (due to recurring congestion/interferences), living in a very crowded area I often have ~30 access points broadcasting and cluttering and it's really obvious in the performance of my network.

In the last apartment I was staying at (moved out a few days ago), every time my flatmate at the opposite side of the house would open the living room door to walk to the bathroom, my signal would experience a latency spike of 100-200ms (average would be 10-20). We had a pretty poor router, to be honest, and I was at the other side of the apartment, but it was simply ridiculous. At times it would just refuse to work and I couldn't browse the internet for a few minutes simply because of too much congestion.

I think this idea with multiple smart access points is simply genius and while I plan to use wired connection for my next apartment, I'm definitely looking forward to a better implementation of the currently abysmal wifi that we have in general.
How to Design A Good API and Why it Matters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw

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