skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think so too, but it's still "sloppy writing". They can at least try and be a bit creative with that. It's really not exciting at all.
I think there are some folks at UCSB that are working on modeling the health state of trauma patients' based on incomplete and noisy data. Pretty fascinating stuff. I'm mostly familiar with it from talking to Dr. Bernie Daigle at the University of Memphis.

I'm curious, since you have a background in fraud detection, are there parallels or insights you brought to healthcare from that area? I'm currently working in fraud detection, and I'd like to move to healthcare.

Also, what are your thoughts on operations research for healthcare? That is, not modeling individual health of patients, but instead improving scheduling or other operational aspects of a hospital or clinic.
Plus isn't the GearVR limited to specific Samsung phones? The Daydream headset seems more like a nicer version of cardboard in that it's a "dumb" headset and the phone does all the work.

Ordered a Pixel to upgrade my Nexus 5 but not buying the headset so I guess I'll find out when I plop it into my Cardboard headset to test it out.
> Hammer/nail syndrome.

Blockchains address that problem too.
> I've got a GearVR with Galaxy S6 and the display is adequate. Not one of the 6 or so people I've let try it have wanted to vomit.

Try using it for an hour or more. Keep a toilet handy.

> No one is stopping you from running with your own WebVR platform, my guess is that it's not an easy thing to make money off of (which is what Google does).

It's fun to pretend this is a passive thing that doesn't hurt the rest of the industry, but they've cannibalized talented people for this project that were previously working on WebVR. So I'm sorry if I'm not all that jazzed about torturing developers for the next 10 years with several shitty proprietary SDKs for doing VR development that won't work with eachother, when we could have a standard we can all come together and agree on and that runs on every device and platform with the same code. Have we seriously learned nothing from mobile phone competing SDKs and proprietary app stores nightmare?
Funny, I thought it might be a normalizing set of audio interfaces to make web audio easier to use... A bit more than their fetch shim.
I think the attitude here that most tech companies are rolling over and just complying without a single ethical consideration is misplaced.

The government has been doing an excellent job of basically extorting these companies into compliance. They threaten the full weight of the US government's wraith and then tie every order up with classifications and gag orders.

You aren't legally allowed to talk to other companies in the same position. Most your legal team probably doesn't get to know what's going on. You can't take your case to the public without being held in contempt.

I'm not giving these companies a complete pass for being complicit in the erosion of individual's civil liberties but treating this as if the decision is easy is vastly unfair.
I don't get these recurring jabs at Apple.
Why bother? It comes out as some sort of inferiority complex.
I'd have thought that with innovation and greater availability of components, smartphones would become cheaper. Instead, I experience quite the opposite with all these new devices.
That just goes to show that the Constitution, while imperfect, is better than what we have now.
> and helped me realise that what I want to do is write code that calls, not code that is called. I want to own main().

It took me a while to clarify this in my head, but I feel exactly what you wrote here - I want to own main(). A framework is something that calls your code. A library is something you call. I avoid frameworks whenever possible.
All sounds good on paper (or video) but £599 entry price?! Now that is courage.
Twelve Thousand Miles in an Electric Car
What a lack of courage!
That's only compared to Cardboard though. Gear VR locks the phone in place, so there's no calibration step. Gear VR also has a focus wheel, which while not perfect, does let you hand it to a friend who can adjust it to their vision. Not as good as just putting glasses inside, but glasses come in lots of sizes, and I'm sceptical of claims to be glasses-friendly, which so far haven't proven to be the case (Vive, Rift, and Gear are far from it).
Manhattan doesn't have many supermarkets or big box stores, certainly not in the areas the article references.
Perhaps that's something they should show off in the video :)
You want the government to give up the right to access communications that it has the ability to access? You're talking about a fundamental weakening of government greater than has ever been attempted. Governments have always had the power to access your mail and papers and such, the only changes over time is the legal hurdles they must use to exercise that power.
You must hear lots of things that scream.
This would be harder to do in New York because the blocks are very long east-to-west. It's a third of a mile from 6th avenue to 8th avenue. It'd be easy to shut down a bunch of the east-to-west streets (which are often pretty quiet anyway), but you'd lose a lot of the utility of the superblock without an internal north-south pedestrian route connecting them.
Hey Chris! I run a podcast hosting/publishing service (https://zencast.fm) and am curious to hear more about what other metadata you'd like to include in a feed aside from greatest hits?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ITLdmfdLI

This was the first time I watched pg give a talk. It was the talk that brought about the biggest change in the way I think about the world, my ambitions. The talk was the beginning, reading more about pg, I came across his essays and then HN.
Yeah, unfortunately it looks very awkward and they're somehow hiding it in all the marketing renders. Why?
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I think they mean "is_deprecated":true,"
I can read way, way faster than I can listen to a video. Also, reading usually comes with charts and code I can cut and paste. Books are way more effective than videos for me.
I don't even understand how you can claim that.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487045541045754362...
Not winning on specific account searches is very different than not even fighting global access. Orders of magnitude different.
It's definitely important for really immersive VR experiences. I've not used the Vive or retail Rift but even on my Rift dev unit, tracking makes a huge difference in immersion versus just orientation tracking.

I'd imagine that this is to be expected as it's a sort of "VR Lite" compared to more fully featured platforms. VR experiences will need to be designed with the limitations of the platform in mind and not rely on moving around in 3d space but rather focusing on head orientation.
I'm not sure how this might work considering the fact that trucks are taking stuff to and from Manhattan businesses and homes almost 24/7. Barcelona might be a city, but it's scale and density is nowhere near that of New York.

Perhaps I can see this being tested in another borough in an area with lower density.
It's shorthand for "I have a distaste for this thing which I presume to be understood if not necessarily shared." I was wrong about that.

This isn't musical at all! It's some lazy shit a high-schooler with free time and a vague understanding of the Web Audio API could do. Moreover, there's no value in it. The abstract "sonificiation of real data" is such a low bar, there's so much room for creativity, and there are so many brilliant artists who (rightfully) don't want to wade in the depths of the hacky web-tech garbage necessary to make something like this work that it's a wonder anyone gives a fuck about this. To find any value in this, one would have to have tuned out somewhere between having an abstract understanding of the project and actually listening to the darn thing.

Now, do you really want to discuss the merit of the thing, or would you rather Get Offended on the Internet?
I was hoping for something closer to an arcology, society assimilating disperse buildings in to a more cohesive urban /plan/ that services their transportation needs and encourages high quality space within the middle.

This is more like the budget version of that. Don't really solve the big issues, don't really improve the central areas.

What would make this better is consolidation; actually moving the parking to the interlink point of the node, making it faster for a pedestrian to get from there to their home, or another point within the node. Improving the center so that it's more of an actual park, possibly with the shopping at level around it. Raising the standard of integration, interaction, and building codes for noise/fire suppression.
We're talking about datacenter usage, not home. Also, there's plenty of older generation cards out there at reasonable prices, the Mellanox Connect-X 2 cards I have in my home servers cost me like $40 for a pair of them. And no matter how you slice it, 10GBe switching is expensive right now, like, crazy expensive - to the point that I don't even bother with it and my VMWare box is connected directly to my FreeNAS box with a 1M SFP+ DAC as a switch with even two 10GB uplink ports would have cost me considerably more than my cheap 24-port TP-Link managed switch ($150).
Isn't a similar thing possible through ELK stack for those who are already maintaining one, the logs should be sent to Elastic Search for indexing. It might not be as customisable as this product.
Exact same situation here. Portability is much more important than an immersive experience for my use. Many people spend a lot more time on their phones than me though. I only use mine when on the move and would much rather be on a laptop once settled.
HILLARYUSING NSA SPY TOOLS TO IDENTIFY TOP TRUMP PEOPLE TO KILL THEM
Just wanted to +1 this issue, OP can fix this if they increase the width of the container of the page.
I would anticipate some significant losses in fidelity---Oculus has an IR sensor to record head displacement, not just head tilt. There's a subtlety to the way your head moves since the pivot is not directly behind your eyeballs that the Oculus captures by monitoring translations in addition to rotations; trying the Cardboard vs. Rift was a night-and-day experience for this reason, and I didn't see anything today that suggests they have a solution for that part.

But on the flip-side, this and the GearVR are the only solutions I'm seeing that remove the cords dangling around. So that's a big win.
It's not just accelerometer, the gyroscope is what makes it so stable.

The gyroscope combined with the accelerometer and the compass is able to accurately find your relative motion in 3D space without any external references (just the initial point) using simple physics. But yes it also drifts but very slowly.
Haven't seen then say it...but if it's just a fancy version of the Google Cardboard...Google Cardboard supports many phones.

Edit: Clicked the link (my knowledge was from other PR) and looks like it's only for pixel
Have never had an iPhone but I've exclusively used phones that have the stock Android experience (Moto G, Nexus 6). And to me nothing that Google has shown today is at a all threat to Apple (or Samsung for that matter).

The only interesting thing in the whole presentation was the talk about AI which isn't really even anything that has to do with the hardware but the servers that it connects to.

Maybe if they released a 4" phone or a standalone smartwatch they'd have something special. But two generic phones? Meh.
Summit is suburbia. You don't have sidewalks across the entire city, it's very hilly in places, and the train station is not centrally located. Walking and biking year round is out of the question, and that's not even accounting for people not promptly clearing snowy sidewalks before commuting hours start (usually 6am).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12538157

Extensive discussion of Pixel:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12636826

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12636520
Access to supermarkets and big-box stores isn't as necessary when if streets are lined with small grocery stores and other retailers. Assuming the zoning allows it, I would think the increased pedestrian traffic makes those types of stores more sustainable.
Camera doesn't have OIS. That is a disappointment considering the price.
A feature that would make Stripe even more awesome would be the possibility to withdraw $USD to $USD bank accounts located in Europe without the need of losing 2% or more on conversion fees (or lower those fees!).
It's an interesting question, though it is somewhat suburb-centric.

In NYC, the elderly and disabled have no natural access to these kinds of services unless they live a block or two away from such an establishment, for the simple reason that hardly anyone living in NYC owns a car. Yes, they can take a cab, and that makes it feasible, but economically speaking, the most common outcome is these people are dependent on the bodega on their block to provide their food.
Uber self driving car drives on the wrong side
My first thought was my Nexus 5X.

Fortunately, the slim case I have produces a raised lip around the camera bump, so that if I'm careful, I'm not scraping and scratching the protective glass against every surface I set the phone down on.
Bitcoin may be short lived, but documents talking about it will not. Linear B isn't exactly widely used in new documents today, but it's still useful to have glyphs for it so that anthropologists can use them in documents about it.
It's not just how it feels in your hand, it's how easy it is to tuck away in a pocket. Unless you carry a purse or wear some sort of belt clip, a phone can get quite annoying to tote around.
> UC does not really have IP rights under the CA Constitution.

Yes, it does. IP is a subset of personal property (more specifically, a subset of intangible personal property) and the Regents of the University of California have the "power to take and hold, either by purchase or by
donation, or gift, testamentary or otherwise, or in any other manner, without restriction, all real and personal property for the benefit of the university or incidentally to its conduct". Art. IX, Sec. 9(f). [0]

[0] http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.const/.article_9
I'm actually in Barcelona at the moment, and it's definitely been easy to walk around, but that could also be because the touristy areas near the ocean are very dense, and day to day living north or west of that hub might be different. Besides the giant blocks for walking (I'm not sure I've found a "superblock", but the blocks I've walked on are huge), there are an incredible amount of mopeds. That seems to be a default way of getting around town for locals. That's a big difference than bikers who have to worry about bikes getting stolen, mopeds are probably going to be safe where you leave them, and people here are able to leave them pretty much everywhere. Movement in the city seems very easy for sure.

Side note, anyone here work at or know about Pier 01 down near the water? I just walked by there and was wondering what kind of companies were located there.
This is actually a jab at Nexus 6P's "visor":

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Front_and_bac...

Note the large black bar at the top.

It is glass and there are incidents where it cracks, causing unpleasant damage that is difficult to fix.
Here's a nice video explaining what superblocks are

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/4/12342806/barcelona-superblocks
I'm surprised the NYT article didn't mention anything about Barcelona's existing legacy in novel and pedestrian-friendly urban layout. The "superilles" likely reference part of the city's existing street grid composed of "illes," where blocks are chamfered to create large intersections and provide space for walkways, green strips, even expand sunlight penetration somewhat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eixample
On the google store now too: https://store.google.com/product/daydream_view
The whole killing girlfriend thing is not so cool. I would remove those pieces, they don't add much to the story.
1. Compute $/flop, see "cloud."

2. Tooling. Spark, Tensorflow, etc.

3. Policy. Folks who make decisions in hospitals are finally coming around to this whole "computer" thing. Slowly, to be sure. Eventually those who don't figure it out will be bought by those who do.
Well, that and the premium prices they charge.
my first thought was to buy a spare 5X soon.
> I'm not convinced that a study that relies on IQ (which is itself a biased metric) and self-reported data (self-reported data is low quality) makes the picture "unclear".

1. I didn't intend to communicate that this paper alone makes the picture unclear. This paper is just one source that indicates no bias in law enforcement.

2. This paper explains why IQ is a reasonable factor

3. This paper explains why this self-reported data is reasonable

4. The data from convicted criminals, victims, and law-enforcement all tell a similar story (African Americans commit crimes disproportionately)

I agree with you that there are huuuuge gaps in our data collection, and this is a really serious problem. Besides the gaps you mentioned, Eric Holder's justice department stopped releasing information on race of perpetrators in 2009 and many large (liberal) cities don't report this information either. This information is obviously critical if we want to determine whether or not we have a racial bias in law enforcement.
Haven't heard/read about this aspect, yet. Pixels are more locked down?
I guess I've never gotten that vibe before—the only thing tying me to the protagonist is being human, which sometimes doesn't even hold true. The idea that I would even want to be a space marine is absurd. Why would I want to get shot at?

It makes much more sense it you view it as a target practice game instead of one with a narrative.
Not working in mobile safari
Yeah. The only reason I say this is because their "supported phones" link just links to the Pixel. They're not outright saying it only works on that device, but that does sort of imply it.

The headset must be device agnostic, I'd imagine, put whatever fits in there. But the Daydream software might be walled off.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12636826

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12636520
I'm actually migrating a large (poorly written) angular 1 project to angular 2 using the adapter.

For the most part, its pretty straightforward. Unfortunately, if your ng1 code still uses ng-controller extensively, you'll probably be stuck at the rc4 release of Angular 2. Everytime I've tried to upgrade past that point, none of the controllers initialize.

Aside from that and the inability to mix attributes and directives from different versions, I haven't really dealt with any major problem upgrading. For any services you have which are returning promises instead of observables, I highly recommend creating a re-usable adapter class as it allows you to drop-in replace legacy implementations with new observable based services without changing the consuming ng1 code.
The difference is that God is an unfalsifiable claim.

The simulation argument is one that can be supported or argued against using evidence.

For example, if scientists find some new nature process that would be very difficult to simulate, (infinite speed of light is one such example) then that is strong evidence that we aren't in a simultion.

Of course, even if we keep observing things about the universe that would make it easier to simulate, that doesn't mean we actually are. It could just all be a coincidence. Or maybe it doesn't make any sense for a universe to be difficult to simulate.

The basic idea is to ask the question "Assume someone lives in a simulation. What would that person be likely/unlikely to observe?". and "Assume someone does NOT live in a simulation. What would they be likely/unlikely to observe?" And see how much this stuff matches up with reality.
In fact it's often far easier to get hundreds of dollars per month approved than tens. Everybody knows who's responsible for approving hundreds, no one really wants to think about who approves $10. All of the people who want to spend $10 are approved for nothing at all of the people who would approve and set up $10 are too busy for such small stuff.

I'd jack it to $750. To corporate, it's the exact same choice.
I don't think there's anything available for CNNs other than resampling techniques like nested cross-validation.

I'm also a fan of sensitivity analysis, where you jitter one of the inputs, or one of the model parameters, and see how robust the output is to local noise.

ISV I'm not explicitly familiar with. But there's no reason you couldn't use one of the general purpose techniques from above.

That said, resampling is very computationally intensive, so I can understand why it's not that popular in conjunction with similarly intensive iterative fitting algorithms like backpropagation and MCMC. I didn't mean my post to be a criticism of the research as much as I wanted to just put a warning out there about an issue that researchers without deep statistical backgrounds tend to overlook.
All I want for Christmas is mobile positional tracking. Leap Motion. John Carmack. Google Tango. ZED. Who will be The One? Who will get positional tracking into a phone or headset?

Edit: In my fantasy world Carmack is teaching himself chip design and will put a low power positional tracking computer vision ASIC in the next GearVR. Why Oculus isn't putting the full force of their company behind that National Treasure of a man I have no idea.
It's about how people think about things. Other companies could have put a stick on their controllers, but Nintendo were the first ones to realize that it was a good idea. Twin sticks could have evolved earlier, but Sony was the first company to really get it. Turok on the N64 didn't need to have as bad controls as it did, but until Goldeneye, that was just the way things were done. Mind, Goldeneye's controls weren't that great, but they were playable.

OTOH, there are some old games that control fine. Megaman 2 still feels great to play, as does Quake with +mlook and WASD. But yes, control affordances matter. For the large part, Doom can only be played comfortably by modern audiences because of the work Source Port developers undertook to allow for rebindable keys, and sgtmarkiv's Brutal Doom, which allows for proper mouselook, if you really want to be that guy.
I would get this phone for the fast charging and automatic OS updates alone.
Using this as evidence for that view is sort of like saying you're surprised at the relatively increasing expensiveness of cars after the press release about the new BMW 7 series, or Tesla Model S. Big sexy press releases are for high-end products. Consumer grade, cheaper offerings generally don't get as much media since they are lower margin products, but they do exist[1].

1: http://www.androidcentral.com/best-cheap-android-phones
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle https://vimeo.com/36579366

We can argue on some of the points he makes but we can all agree that the demos are very impressive.
Microsoft and Apple have both been in court during the last 12 months to block US government over-reach. Yahoo joins Amazon in ethusiastically facilitating it. Your assertion isn't realistic, it's nonsense.
+1 this comment. I do not recall in which of his talks he defines "complexity" but his definition is excellent.
Every alarm, timer, and reminder I set (on my phone), are set by voice.

I chose it because "Set an alarm for 8am" really is the best interface to interact with that subsystem.
Chanel transformed the Grand Palais into a data storage for it's spring show
Simple Made Easy is one of those talks that never gets old to me. Never heard anyone talk about the power of reducing complexity in such a clear way.

Here's the link for those who are interested. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
Well then, there's your proof.