skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not understanding the downvotes. Pebble devices, as well built as they are, are using components that have definite lifetimes. They are not designed to last forever or be fully user serviceable. What do you do when the components fail?
I looked into this a bunch earlier in the year, if anyone wants a collection of links to sources: https://curiositycontinuer.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/are-lenr...

> Low Energy Nuclear Reactions have been, for a long time, the archetypal crackpot technology.

> Huge promises. Failed replication attempts. Dismissal by the academic community. Accusations of handwavey pseudoscience. Advocates generally having low status. Associations with conspiracy theorists.

> Anyone associated with it or even expressing anything less than absolute certainty that it’s an unscientific non-starter is risking not just a reputation hit, but aggressive ridicule.

> Based on my understanding of the history of science, I think that the feelings I have around talking about this, that fear of that ridicule, should be a red flag. If the incentives are stacked too strongly against an idea (for good or bad reasons), it can become impossible for respectable people to entertain the idea. Often this is a correct approach, the vast majority of amateur science with big claims is nonsense. But what if something valuable was stuck in this trap?

> If not for observations of current dramatic failures of the scientific process in nutrition and medicine, my priors against a demonstrable discovery of this magnitude being ignored would be very formidable. As it stands, this would still be shocking civilizational inadequacy, but I can see a process by which it could have occurred.

> So I decided it was worth a couple of hours of investigation. Low chance of turning up anything of value, but low investment and in the worst case I’ll know a few more things and be able to hold up a conversation using actual understanding about why it’s bunk if someone ever tries to sell me on it, rather than simply using the “experts are probably right” heuristic.

> And now.. I’m not quite sure what to think.
Would you seriously use it? Seems like a bit of bother to me versus just firing up a fave on the ol' 2D 27" monitor, but perhaps my personal tastes don't run parallel to the market in question.
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How is thought experienced by you? Do you think in words? In pictures? What is your internal landscape like?
You already see those sort of "trikes" around town sometimes. Not sure what they deliver.
Old Apple hardware has always been fun to tinker with. :)
Beyond ethics, there's also geopolitics involved. Weaker patent guidelines in USA gives a competitive advantage to the USA over the rest of the world. Of course any country is free to submit patents as they please (in accordance with the WTO), but USA companies de facto submit more patents, the same way as a USA citizen has more indemnities in case of plane crash, which ensures an ongoing dominance for the rolling 20 years. See it this way: As a French person I'd love that your guidelines become more strict, because it would give more opportunity for the smaller French startups to grow; If I were American, I would love if patents were used to bring money back from the French companies to USA. The irony is, patent trolls attack other Americans more often than foreign countries, which hasted the debate about patent trolls.

Hence, Kudos to the Supreme Court for putting better bounds on patent laws, especially since that means losing a little leverage for American companies.
Why would you do this to yourself, in this market for engineers?

If you're going to work at a BigCo, go for one that doesn't abuse you. Otherwise, work at a startup where at least you'll learn a ton and maybe get some equity. I can't see any advantage to working at Amazon.
On being stateful (2008)
Not for banning Tor, but I get the impression that if that had happened in time they'd have thrown it in there as a positie.

And many in Belarus said the country’s reputation as Europe’s last dictatorship is no hindrance to their work.
“Success stories and a business’s scalability are more important than politics,” said Nick Vyhouski [...]

Charming.
https://stackshare.io is one such website.

But the answers are usually clear. If you just know Python or Ruby, use Django or Rails. If you know JS, try a Node server and React. Using a language you know is usually more important than using someone else's favourite thing.
Smallest. It might be larger (and infact it is in a lot of DSP toolchains)
At least in the Buffalo case (crash was down the road from house I grew up in) the pilots didn't know what they were doing and it was a very cold night with ice on the plane.

If I remember correctly they pulled back when flying too low and the plane dropped - was a freshman in college at the time though and don't really remember specifics. The recording recovered of the pilots didn't inspire confidence.

This would play into the distinction the article makes about 'major' airlines and the culture differences probably.
Note that they never state they aren't still caching and selling your data. They just aren't showing you ads based on it.
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> So a single application is going to need to cope with a 4" touchscreen display with no keyboard or mouse as well as a multi-monitor setup without touch, but with a keyboard and mouse.

Yes, it reflows. You use the app when it's in phone mode, and you get the full desktop-style UI when in Continuum mode. There are several demos online. See for example, from April 2015 (so it's surprising you haven't seen it before):

Windows 10 Continuum for Phones LIVE DEMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc1efHpPIVo

More recently:

Enhanced Continuum For Phones demo (Build 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv5Y9vNOSMc
That's Silicon Valley material right there.
Chrome on iOS is really Safari when it comes to rendering engine, which is what the current news is about...
Entice.
Driving with a latina
This is a false equivalence. As long as the progress is set correctly via messaging (queue) to an alternate UI thread, the time lost will be under a millsecond. The naive print loop you provide is obviously IO bound and print is a blocking IO call. Use an async print IO and youll have much better performance. Narf!!
>I wonder if we'll see a day when we have stuff that runs on ReactOS because it's designed correctly and the same apps fail on regular Windows because they didn't use terrible hacks.

The opposite. It's the software that relies on the hacks, then break when the OS stops allowing them. It's the source of most of the problems with Vista and ME.
Components having definite lifetimes and planned obsolescence are two different things, the latter implying artificially limiting the useful life of a product. If that's what you meant, others may be down-voting you because they don't think Pebble in fact did that, especially as you haven't provided any evidence to that effect.
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Isn't there some disk caching going on here? Surely the OS is not writing directly to disk immediately after gunzipping. I don't think that's enough to explain the large difference, though.
"he received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from its College of Arts and Sciences. Musk moved to California to begin a PhD in applied physics and materials science at Stanford University"

maybe not, but pretty technical.

A better example of a non-tech CEO of a tech company is Jack Ma, who was an English teacher.
Hmm interesting. So the article makes it sound like one of their faked videos was used to bring in software developers but if they come in and it's simply not working anywhere near the level shown, wouldn't that seem suspicious?

I don't think this necessarily means the company is a scam or anything like that but it seems a little...suspect at least to me if I was interviewing with them.

Curious if the community has an issue with it or not.
> When they met, Zuckerberg, new to Silicon Valley, didn't know what Netscape was.

A young man who was presumably actively using internet didn't know what Netscape was, around 2004?
Driving out evil spirits is a perfectly workable theory in a culture lacking both the scientific method and microscopes.
Example 1: You can stop all instances and wait for sycn/migration to complete, and start all instances.

Example 2: (which is much better IMO) deploy the new version, but keep the older versions running. Sync/migrate one-by-one and start the new version when ready.
How a deal that two sides voluntarily agreed on can be a racket?
This is essentially a reblog of the (paywalled) The Information article: https://www.theinformation.com/the-reality-behind-magic-leap
Solaris is one of them, unless you made significant changes to the kernel itself.

Darwin, as shipped by Apple is another.

There are a variety of embedded OS' that are the same.

So yes, as shipped and delivered, you can't replace the standard library and the vendors both consider the standard library as part of the OS.

And furthermore, existing application binaries for those platforms would not work without them.
You can sniff the traffic out-of-band, possibly implement it on already existing spy/monitoring infrastructure.
Actual title should be "Magic leap lied about a video demonstration of its tech".
Or
Magic Leap still noticeably inferior to the Microsoft Hololens
Not surprising, given that the hype train was billowing at full steam. A friend of a friend interviewed there and eventually walked away saying "Wow. That is a lot of cool-aid"

Meanwhile, teams like Oculus are reportedly trying to sidestep AR by investing in "mixed reality", which will bring live camera feeds in to VR, with screens still covering both eyes.
Or my preference with 32 cores; some for power efficiency and some for battery life.
How about "employ"? :)
> It's 2016 and there are many well documented and widely adopted solutions arising from external libraries and developments in ECMAScript.

"Solutions" is a strong word for what's available in JavaScript. Promise hell isn't better than callback hell, it's just horrible in slightly different situations. To make matters worse, it seems that many JS libraries have just wrapped the old callbacks in promises, meaning that we end up using promises in situations where a callback would actually be easier (because that's how it was originally written).

None of this comes close to the ease of threads in Erlang.
I'm guessing the effects of swipe fatigue as starting to be felt in the company. Tinder is a shallow platform that never really grew functionally, so trying to find a next big thing in dating while they are still a (mobile) market leader is a smart move on their part.
> People feel a natural obligation to be rewarded for their work ...

If people are actively demotivated by seeing others idle and surviving, who cares? Provided that we as a society can afford basic income (including after it's been established and it's having various impacts on the workforce), it's no loss if people stop working. And there's only so much basic income could ever give you; it'll make the necessities of life free (or rather paid for), but if you want things beyond necessities (including any positional good), you'd still want to look for work.

> Is a safety net nice? ...

If we can afford to provide a basic income, you don't need to work -- unless the economy goes so pear-shaped that we stop being able to afford a basic income. (And this seems unlikely, since automated factories won't be offered a basic income. If anything, basic income might increase consumer demand...)

> The idea of giving people a flat income ...

I'd emphasize that this income will grow if you work -- and that it won't be enough to buy positional goods, by definition. You can keep body and soul together on a basic income, but to live better you'll have to find a way to engage with the economy. (And the presence of a hammock-grade safety net will give you more options, not fewer. Live on oatmeal and vegetables, and buy stock with your food savings; or work for years on a project that might or might not pay off.)

> I'm not sure what you mean by this ...

"Made to do work" could mean any number of things. Tribal warfare, hunting, gathering, and social climbing are certainly things humanity has evolved to do; subsistence farming, artisanal crafts, and management are close enough that we're pretty good at them; but factory work, we're just plain not adapted to. Keeping strict schedules, doing small parts of a large whole, and repeating a single task for a long period of time: these are learned skills at best for humanity, and that's why such jobs get automated.

> Some people feel like they wouldn't be fulfilling their purpose ...

They can find jobs and keep working. UBI isn't the end of employment, just the provision of support. Think of it as reverting to the economic structure of the classical world or the American South, except that this time the only slaves are robots.
That was my first time to ever read that. I lost it at the eye patch.
Good list, let me add bad color display.

Chrome shows wrong, washed out or desaturated colors everywhere (not just embedded images without color profiles or wrong gamma, but css hex colors), it's a big difference from Safari, Firefox and specially from browsers on Windows machines and phones.
(Contains mirror of article in the comments)
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicleap/comments/5ha6kr/the_reali...
Thumbnail tissues used to examine metal exposure and diet in Franklin expedition
Initial development was on the Intel i860XR RISC processor, switching to the MIPS R3000 in late 1989, and then the Intel i386 in 1990. Later it ran on DEC Alpha, PowerPC, Itanium, x86-64 and ARM. (Wikipedia)

If you have developed a portable OS, it really doesn't matter whether ARM was first or last or inbetween.
http://www.geekwire.com/2016/report-amazon-employee-jumps-of...
Some points about that in this talk:

https://youtu.be/QTYiH1Y5UV0
Good point! Odd number allows for strong and simple joinery.
It's a start, Amazon is smart to move in that market. I say put Linux on it and add a keyboard and we'd be getting somewhere.
Lucky find offers our first look at a dinosaur tail, complete with feathers
So VR is hard enough - to avoid jitter that makes users feel sick you have to respond to a user's head movement, render a new frame with the new information the user should see, respond to any button presses, then draw the frame, in under 14-20ms.

Magic Leap was always a much more difficult problem... they have to respond to a user's head movement, parse the scene the user is looking at (which could be anything), figure out what to draw and where to draw it on the user's environment, then render, all in the same 14-20ms window.

Compounding that they have to do it with a much weaker CPU/GPU/battery than Oculus and friends, which use a phone, or are tethered to a PC with a $1,000 GPU. You wear Magic Leap on your head, no cables.

On its face I was always sort of surprised to hear about the good demos; it always seemed like such a difficult problem, and I know the VR folks are having a tough enough time with it.
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Where to Go from Here? Tips for Building Up R Experience
> This over-selling is going to kill people.

Yes, this is what I meant in my comment. I know there are going to be massive hurdles here, but Tesla seems to be shooting from the hip wayyyy too much for my comfort level.

I'm not a full believer that this can only be solved by OTA software updates. If that Tesla had a LIDAR on top of the car like Google's vehicles do, a man would still be alive.

> whataboutism

That was a very nice way of putting that pile of rubbish of a comment. You must have made it further than I did, I stopped reading at the word "decided". You are too kind.
There is a ton of AR/VR hype driven by Adobe After Effects and not real product results. Now whenever I see AR/VR tech that follows this pattern, I stop paying attention. It's unfortunate for the entire industry.
I don't think any transformation like that happens overnight, but you have to have a point of view on what the future will look like and then turn the ship towards it. A good example is Netflix. They did DVDs, won that battle but then turned a multi-billion dollar public company towards streaming. It wasn't easy, but the leadership was clear about what the future was and it reflected in the investments they made. Some other company or a combination of other companies would have been Netflix today if Netflix had failed to turn towards streaming.
I seem to recall reading that GOOG pays a larger dividend to make up for the lack of voting rights though. Did I misunderstand that?
You are assuming you cannot be automated away, why?
Could you post a link to/picture of said half & half? I have a very hard time believing it's legal to call something with corn syrup in it "half & half" (as opposed to "creamer" or something similar).
Doesn't the Arduino use a proprietary microcontroller?
Well, I know a couple of guys in prosecutor's office. They're good friends of mine actually. If I had trouble with the law, they would take care of it. (I'm not talking about US here — for this guys, business like this is nothing from the ordinary. When they want to get drugs, they just turn to the buddies in narcotics division). Such good friends they are.

But asking for this friendly help would also be a violation of the law and in general, not a very ethical thing to do.
Wow. So if Magic Leap is vaporware, does that leave Microsoft as the only ones publicly making progress in AR? Plenty of companies are shipping VR, but AR ends up being the future, HoloLens is building up quite a lead.
Are you going to do a Canadian version? (please do)
You're worrying about ill-informed speculation about a hypothetical product? ;-)
blocking. blocking. blocking. blocking. rtfm
How should you structure your Data Science and Engineering teams?
What is the general approach to doing this in realish time?

The benchmarks on this make than untenable, but you could probably RYO KNN and be in the low seconds ... that still won't work.

Is the approach to build generalized profiles ahead of time and then compare against those in real time?
It's interesting just how many Magic Leap stories get posted to HN. In the last month or so I must have seen at least 3 stories about Magic Leap, but no other VR/AR technologies.

I don't even remember the last time I saw a story on HN about Oculus, or Vive, or whatever the Sony Playstation VR product is called, nor about the Hololens. But the Magic Leap stories are popping up like mushrooms.
Someone posted a pastebin in this HN submission.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13135371
10,000 times lower power, but achieving speeds up to 11Mbps

Being named passive wifi. Quite neat and could be useful for IoT considering also approx 100 ft distance
An improvement, but still not good English.
You don't need to parse the environment from scratch 60 times every second. As long as you get head tracking right you can just focus on what's moving and assume it will keep moving the same way. Further the demos all seem to be around a fairly static environmenment. Remeber you don't need to render the background so a simplified internal model works fine with AR.

If it works near a closeline blowing in the wind that's really hard and impressive.
Even then it doesn't sound like natural English.

I'm not sure why the original title didn't suffice.
"...there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead."
Today I walked away from $89,000
Only the imaginary numbers are named as a slur on the concept.

The quantity zero is empty, so the name is clearly appropriate.

negare is "deny" in classical Latin, but the term "negative number" is much more recent than any form of Latin, and refers to the "taking away" sense of "negative", just as in "negative reinforcement". Negative numbers are related to subtraction.

Supernatural numbers are an extension of the natural numbers. The terminology is pretty straightforward. Also, the word "supernatural" is generally complimentary, not derogatory. Similarly, surreal numbers extend, and are named in reference to, the real numbers.

Irrational numbers can't be expressed as ratios (of integers). It's not the term's fault if you confuse it with another word.
As kids we used to entertain ourselves on the JSC campus---they had the best junk: old shuttle parts, broken satellite antennas, x-plane canopies; you name it! I liked being able to roam around and just check out old mercury modules, etc. I know that this stuff needs to be maintained; thus, the ostensible reason for Space Center; but, that curated faux experience is not the NASA which inspired me.
Further behind than expected. I have always suspected that this is a giant money pit with zero chance of success. Another decade or two and maybe technology will catch up to the desire to understand the world around you in real time, but today it's not possible. It's not magic, it's dreaming.
Seems like SnapChat isn't doing too bad. Sure, maybe their tech isn't as advanced... but they've begun solving the equally hard problem of getting it into people's hands naturally and getting them to use it and even pay for it.
It's unlikely it's on purpose. It makes sense in something like tax software you use once a year. It makes no sense at all when doing a bunch of i/o bound operations which are already potentially slow.
Why can't there be a smartphone/tablet/desktop mix? With a single device, so that your apps are always running, you're always in the same place, all your data is always there (connectivity or no) etc.

ASUS actually already tried a smartphone/tablet device with PadPhone, but it lacked the productivity angle that full-fledged Win10 would bring to the table. Also, I think the idea of physically docking the phone into the tablet is counter-productive, because it results in a bulky device, and you cannot use the phone.

A simple tablet that is basically just a wireless display with touch makes a lot more sense, and the phone can stay in the pocket. I also wonder how much lighter the tablet could be made if it didn't have to have a powerful chipset, and cooling for it.
Suppose 30-year-olds make exactly the same as their parents did at 30. Then we would expect that barely half of 30-year-olds earn more than their parents did at 30.

This title is stupid. It implies "oh hur dur the economy is so bad" when in reality it says nothing.
I don't think there is an accurate measure of programming skill. Experience, diversity, challenges faced, skillfully using solutions to past problems, effective communication, reaching out for help when needed (including StackOverflow) are qualities that I can think of from a programmer that I would pay to build my product. I work / have worked with co-workers that you are trying to point out but use of StackOverflow was not my measure.
> I'm worried that if I started using Emacs, I'd start hacking the Elisp (which I'd be terribly good at), and hate the lack of lexical scope, etc.

emacs has lexical scope these days:-)

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LexicalBinding

elisp still isn't nearly as good as Common Lisp, but it at least has lexical scope now.
Locker Room Culture and Conformity in Office
> “This is a game we’re playing around the office right now,” reads the video’s description — an assertion that could not have been true.

If by "game" they meant gaming potential employees and investors, then the assertion may well have been true.
>If you have paid Google money

If you've paid Google enough money. I have to keep paying $6AUD/month unless I want to lose $300+ of Android apps forever (Google Apps for Work). No chance of transferring them to another account (I'd pay $100+ for this)
This

Also if you don't have an "in" at the company you will be rejected by software before a person even has to look at it