skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're perhaps not misquoting Iribe but I think your statement is a bit misleading. He said 1 million units for the lifetime of CV1, and they plan to keep the CV1 around for at least a couple more years[0]. We may see more people buy Rifts as PC needed to run them get cheaper.

Also, PSVR has sold many units, but is 2 million short of their projection[1], which is pretty abysmal. I wanted them to succeed, like every other VR enthusiast since they're the lowest more reasonable entry point as millions of people have PS4's, but that just doesn't seem to be the case... :(

[0] People have pried for when CV2 might be expected and Oculus usually say "Lifetime of Rift's will be between smartphones and gaming consoles" Phones refresh every year, consoles every 8-ish, so something like 3?

[1] over the life of the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift."
I wonder how this will affect the software side. Programmers and compilers.. how do you interface with a NN based prefetcher to avoid regression and hiccups.
This is probably a better link: https://blog.google/topics/public-policy/sharing-national-se...
That is terrifying logic, because it applies equally well to pretty much any person that happens to be in the public eye. I could generate a "pizza related" pedophile ring conspiracy theory about Paul Graham, and someone like you could step up and say "well maybe it's true because the media doesn't take pedophile rings seriously and a lot of people at the Pentagon had child porn".

A normal person does not look the underlying fact pattern and say "maybe something is going on there". But it's easy for trolls to decontextualize and distort --- well, we're down to "pizza shops" now, so I guess the words we're looking for are "anything at all" --- to force people to wonder whether there might be something going on.

Because of course: something is going on: crazy Internet trolls are trying to frame strangers for pedophilia.
I would like to try these, but the AirPod/EarPod form factor is just painful to my ears. I can never wear them for longer than 30 minutes at a time. Must just be my ear anatomy.

On the other hand, Panasonic makes simply the most comfortable earbuds I've ever worn, even for 8+ hour sessions, for $10: http://a.co/4ztIdDw
What if, regardless of the likelihood of deletion, there were no harm in making backups and one obstacle was funding? Would not a post to a site frequented by members of the scientific community be beneficial?

And is not the very belief that backups are necessary, founded or not, very interesting in itself? Particularly interesting to the scientific community, many members of which frequent this site?

A community devoted to science and technology is going to end up completely vacuous if it forbids anything that might upset the new populist order. Certainly the most important topics will quickly disappear. For example, climate change and hacking by certain state actors are out are already out, both are clearly important and relevant.
I'm still waiting to see a list of "pedestrian wireless headphones" that are actually wireless and automatically pair all your devices via the cloud.
I'm curious how well the battery life claims hold up. It's impressive but sometimes the real world battery life doesn't measure up. The new MacBook Pros are a good example of this (even if the current battery life is temporary and may be fixed by OS updates).
The New and Improved Privacy Badger 2.0 Is Here
One more important thing, amazon does not support ipv6.
And it got really successful only on second or third iteration, when it got rid of silly stuff like Mac-only compatibility.
I don't think this is a big deal. That indicator was ridiculously inaccurate anyway.

If you want it back, use iStat Menus.
Keep in mind we're not really the audience for their copy. There's always some subliminal reason companies advertise the way they do.

But I do agree it's kind of corny...
Absolutely, though the biggest problems are the walled gardens. Personal pads are a thing -- the various assistants from google, ms, and apple will already do things like take reminders in the form of "remind me to x at y time" or "remind me to z when I'm at w". However, sharing those notes in a reasonable way still isn't a thing as far as I can tell.
Seems to directly contradict what the parent comment is claiming, does it not?
Short term hires should hit the ground running. Long term hires should have core skills and don't need your stack first day. If you don't know which you're hiring for then they won't ever fit correctly.
Easily mispronounced "whammo"
And for those wanting to play along, there's a legal download of the executable from Dan Bricklin's site: http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm (also has the reference cards)
Unless several other games exhibit this issue, I'd consider this to be an issue with Civ VI.

I'd bet that this same program eats the battery of any Mac, hence it being a Civ issue, not a Mac issue.

Call me on this if I'm wrong.
Originally, and perhaps at the time this "backdoor" was created, Skype wasn't Microsoft.

Skype was around for along time before Microsoft bought it and changed its architecture and design.
Decoupling of the brain’s default mode network during deep sleep [pdf]
Oh come on, have some fun.

We're slowly moving into that future tech world that we saw in movies and dreamt up when we were kids. These are wireless earbuds. My first pair of wireless headphones used IR, took two AA batteries, were huge, heavy, and sounded horrible once you started losing sight of the transmitter!

Sure, it's a small step in mass-market technology, but that's the only way tech moves forward for most of the world. It's never really existed before, it's something new!

Some of us find advancements in tech exciting, whether it's some incremental advancement in AI, or an incremental advancement for silly earbuds.

If you think in terms of small increments, you'll never see, or be impressed with, the big changes that are happening around you.
Okay. I guess what I'm wondering is, if I'm already reasonably proficient in LaTeX (for documents where I want/need lots of control) is there an advantage to learning/using troff versus using markdown?
letting humans drive cars is insane. i'm not paying into your insurance pool.
Also the amount of money due to parts profits. Everything is expensive, even the slightest piece of plastic.. because it's proprietary so if you're not into hardware hacking you bleed.

They've been ignored by mass DIY movements since forever but in these arduino / 3D Printing days they'll have to cut that fat off.
Basically trying to achieve a certain level of plasticity in deep neural nets by getting inspiration from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_neurogenesis
Google Datastore wouldn't be a bad bet.
Surge of neurophysiological coherence and connectivity in the dying brain [pdf]
Totally unrelated:

oh man. My absolute favorite assignment in undergrad computer science classes involved searching ~50GB of compressed text files containing protein sequences, to see how many times "ATG" or something occurred.

It was a ton of fun. Minimum requirements were to get the correct counts. Then it turned in to a competition to see who could make the fastest solution. You had like 8 machines at your disposal, each with the full dataset, to distribute whatever you wanted.

I think we did it in 3 languages or so (java, erlang, something else...).
There's a difference between poor design and performance optimizations. Lacking any information, I'm inclined to commit an appeal to authority and guess that it's probably a performance optimization.
Skype for Business, the Lync replacement, is equally if not more of a mess. You can break conference calls just by muting people.
and gzip every file and tar it ? ie gz.tar
Messages is an utterly perfect, textbook example of software bloat.

There are now so many garbage features, tangential to the core purpose of the app — self-deleting audio blips if you move the phone this way, internet GIF search if you swipe that way, weird drawing pad, stupid variable-location popup to add "HA HA HA" animation, recently-played music grid, full-screen-or-sometimes-not fingerpainting applet, image editor, heartbeat monitor, fucking kiss simulator (what the fuck), and I know from sorry experience (usually when trying to send a message with one hand while carrying something heavy and awkward) that there's more shit buried in here that I can't even figure out how to navigate to right now, like a signature editor — that I have had to help my dad, my wife, and my kids figure out how to get back to where send a fucking message with it, repeatedly.

You could use iOS 10 Messages to create a 6-episode TV miniseries called Software Design Gone Horribly Fucking Wrong and surely win an Emmy award for best documentary.
And if you're going 70 down a busy interstate?
I just want to say thank you for making a startup from an idea my friends had in college. For some reason we just never managed to get our shit together to the point of doing this. I can't remember why...
Sure. But you are assuming a good way to estimate that chance. Say you base it on previous performance: in the last 5 years, twice as many people have died driving non-self-driving cars compared to those riding self-driving cars. Then, the very next day, a massive hack / cyberattack happens that causes 10 million fatal accidents...
Indeed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13170557
Coincidentally, I was just finishing up a simple reST wiki. It's literally just a makefile and a couple conventions to follow.

https://github.com/a3n/riki

As morantron says in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13158062

you can navigate from within your existing markupdown* files in Vim by putting the cursor on the filename in your .md/.rst file, type gf, and Vim opens the target file.

I wanted to be able to use the links that I was going to write anyway in my .rst files, but they end in .html and when in vim you probably want to go to a .rst source file.

So you write them ending in .rst, and the makefile fixes that up before giving the file to rst2html. Proper nav within Vim and on the generated .html page.

Would work equally well with any capable programmer's editor that allows you to "go to the file under the cursor."
Ah yeah, I was wondering why they only had Digg. Figured it would be nice to do the same thing for other sites and compare as well. Seemed odd to not do a comparison since each site will have their own demographics.
This is going to be one of those things where a lot of people have trouble quantifying the actual risk because the fear when things are out of your control is so powerful. Like flying.
I bought a DK2 to play with it and get a "sample" experience. I'd buy in a second if there were a killer app, whether that be some sort of communication platform or big game. Thus far it strikes me as a gaming peripheral first and foremost, with the problem that nobody will spend big money to develop a big game for it because the platform isn't big enough. Think the Playstation Move controller - lots of promise for the technology but not enough sell through to get people to use it for much other than a gimmick to an existing game.

This is why I wish they would stop focusing on games. Looking at the Vive and Rift websites the #1 thing they're looking to sell people with is games. Why not utilities? Why not COMMUNITIES?

I wish they would make a big push for something that could expand our ability to meet with other people virtually. Why not a MUCK where you can speak with and interact with other people in a virtual space? It seems like there is so much more potential for self expression and interaction than people are building right now. AltspaceVR and Playstation Home were examples of this, but really doesn't bring a whole lot to the table that you couldn't get in any other MMO game.

If someone is making something like this and you need a backend or web developer, drop me a line :)
That's surprisingly good at finding what I'm searching for. Great work. Now just get the images loading a lot faster and I might even try to switch from Google.
Yeah, I wouldn't set your hopes that high, if that were the case Intel has 4 to 5 generations of silicon already prepped that they could start churning out in volume within 3 months.

Comparatively, AMD has been building chips to order as of late, since they do not have the money to build a bunch of chips that may or may not sell, so your looking at a 3 to 4 month delay before you can get a new chip like Ryzen after announcement.

The cache arrangement (see pic halfway down) and better branch prediction are interesting though, cache has always been a space where Intel has been able to use way less transistors to store the same amount of data.

http://semiaccurate.com/2016/12/13/amds-zen-becomes-ryzen/
But the first device still had huge weaknesses. Firewire-only, Mac-only, and small storage compared to the competition. Not only that, the first iPod wasn't a success, it took a few iterations for Apple to get it right.

My point is that this initial criticism of the iPod was not wrong. It was a flawed device. It was eventually improved into a successful device, but using that logic to shut down any criticism of future products is just silly.
Sure, I thought of that. Then instead of a variable named "salary" you've obfuscated your code by calling it a[4].

Ah, but you can just name your indexes, so it's a[salary]. But now you've got ten lines of code naming each of the index values, and a vim macro makes it faster to write again.

In any case, macros are just one of the features that make vim productive. I find that I do a lot more small refactors when I'm using an editor that makes arbitrary edits really fast and convenient. It's complementary to the named refactorings you have in an IDE. If all you're doing is pointing and clicking then you don't need vim, but if you're actually writing code, it helps.

I used to use a vim emulator in Visual Studio, and it was great. Now I'm working with stuff that doesn't have IDE support, and I'm still productive.

A lot of good programmers are hooked on vim. Hasn't it occurred to you that maybe they have good reasons for that?
Are they actively blocking the other HMD's or just not supporting them with drivers, etc? I know they locked it down at one point with DRM, but quickly backtracked.

Revive is a free option, that works with the Oculus Store and the Vive but that's obviously not as nice as native support from Oculus.
The author addresses building internal software as monolith vs. microservices, not the use of others' services as part of one's monolith/microservice.
I'm rather surprised that amongst the speculation in the comments, no one is really considering that maybe Iribe's comments are true. Maybe he really did miss being more involved in the product and engineering part of the job.

The company has grown up very quickly, and I have to imagine at this point as CEO, he was spending most of his time in high level business talks and not doing what he loves and what he's best at.
The half-life of sulfur aerosols in the stratosphere is on the order of a few months. So if there turns out to be some overwhelmingly undesirable side effect, we can just stop putting the sulfur up there and the effects will dissipate relatively quickly.

Nature does this experiment for us every so often: large volcanic eruptions, such as the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption, put massive amounts of sulfur into the stratosphere, much larger than the amount we'd need to use. So it's pretty likely we would have noticed the negative effects if there were any (beyond the fact that we got much more cooling than we wanted for a couple of years).
When I purchase enterprise software I call them up and ask how many people work for them. In UK (and sure it translates) I normally pull their accounts from companies house. If not incorporated I'm suspicious. If they are it will help me gauge size
Nice.

Some people might be put off by how competitive those spaces are. Don't be!

https://blog.nugget.one/2016/10/04/competition-does-not-matt...
So far the focus was primarily on what it would take to produce an autonomous car, which is primarily a technological challenge. But what I see as a harder problem to solve is the one imposed on all humans participating in traffic: we will have to strictly adhere and be very self-disciplined in traffic, in order to make sure that the non-humans get the correct message.

Imagine I am a cyclist and I don't signal but I swiftly swerve to the right. Unless the self-driving car is already at a slow speed, it would impose an undue risk.
Or, it is hard to expect that humans will rigorously adhere to this traffic discipline.

This is why these cars will drive slow for the foreseeable future and will frustrate a good chunk of the drivers.

Unless it gets dedicated lanes, the way bicycles do.
No need to be so salty.
The car-human interaction bit isn't from a quote, is there any evidence of this actually happening in the field? Would be great if there was a video or something.
The whole DRM move for their headsets brought Oculus a bad reputation among many VR enthusiasts:

> https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/05/23/oculus-rift-upda...

> http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/05/oculus-workaround-to-p...

Though they removed it after lots of users protested:

> https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/06/24/oculus-rift-vive...

> http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/06/oculus-reverses-course...

But the bad image that they got for this still persists among many.

---

Another thing that Oculus did (probably because of pressure from Facebook, their parent company) is inserting dubious terms into their Terms of Service:

> http://gizmodo.com/there-are-some-super-shady-things-in-ocul...
From the website:

>you can listen for 5 hours on a single charge
>Willingness to paying more for convenience or speed is not a constant

Especially regarding the largest financial transaction of one's life, in many cases.
A pair of "fucking headphones" with a custom designed BT/audio processing chip that does lots of interesting things.
No two latex installations are the same.
I have the same problem to a lesser degree, but the bigger problem for me is their form factor causes sharp pains in my ear after prolonged listening (30+ minutes).
See my response to another comment on this page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13171982
That would be a fantastic way to learn history!

Only thing I'd add is that the written historical record only tells part of the story and can often get amazing insights from other sources such as the material record (i.e. archaeology).
eh the beats X headphones are the ones I am going to get -- I can't be having these q-tips falling out of my ears
> This is a pair of fucking headphones.

I'm not sure if you have a bias against Apple or not but you're distilling your adjectives down to the simplest level in order to attack them. I do not believe that is a fair assessment.

The AirPods include some interesting UX changes not typically seen (open case to connect, etc) and while some abilities have been done before (the tiny ear buds, the recharging case, etc) it also has some interesting aspects with voice commands and gestures.

Yes I wouldn't necessarily call them world class but a "pair of fucking headphones" seems possibly even more inaccurate to me.
For info about how much you use each application, use https://www.rescuetime.com

For info about your programming, use https://wakatime.com/
I wanted to open general discussion, so both.
All these are old "problems", either solved or in progress.

Something I've never seen adressed is how SDV fleets behave when change occurs. Are there chaotic oscillation patterns that emerge from AI trying similar avoiding behavior.

There's research in massive multi agent behavior, but I've never seen it tested on the field with SDV makers actual models.
I'd be pretty impressed if somebody could grow in vivo tomatoes efficiently. It's really hard to beat leaves and roots for nutrient and energy absorption/conversion. I've seen warehouses of plants growing, about the best people can do right now is flowing nutrient solutions directly on the roots.

Photosynthesis is actually fairly efficient.

As for the whole cells-are-state-machiines, while that's technically true, the state vector has a trillion parameters.
Oh, yeah, in that case I'd either if-case it by time stamp or I'd prepend a zero width space to all historical data as well. I would prefer doing the latter and would only do the former if there was some reason I couldn't do the latter, for example if I had too much historical data to able to process it (though I have a hard time imagining that happening for something so trivial as prepending a zero width space, unlike say converting thousands of hours of video which might actually be too time-consuming or computationally expensive).

One issue that might arise with altering historical data that I can imagine would be if it was ever necessary to restore from backup and your backup was made before you later added the zero width space, and then you forget to add the zero width space again when you restore from backup a few months down the road. But with proper documentation and procedures that shouldn't happen.
Neurogensis? How about neural death as a way to prune large neural networks into more compact ones--now that is a research idea!
Know any graph databases that you like? I recently tried arangodb and it consumes a crazy amount of memory for even a relatively small dataset (several million ~20 character strings)
The Cybersyn Revolution (2015)
2016: The year AI got creative
I think he means 'if nsa were logical actors, they would patch vulnerabilities, not leave them to be exploited by anyone, and they would use NSLs/collaborators/special NSA Voodoo to get their data'.

This idea is built on the assumption that (1) they think their defensive role is as vital as their offensive one, (2) there is plenty of special NSA voodoo to go round. Which is false. In particular, it is better that a hack come from a vendor vuln that anybody could find than from crypto wizardry (e.g. Logjam or signed drivers with md5 collisions).
I recall reading an article on this from a while back (maybe up to 3 years ago) I think the conclusion was that EarPods fit extremely well for 60-70% of people - worthless for everyone else. Spent a few minutes looking for the actual article and couldn't find it, so take it fwiw
It's interesting that most of these are only for:

>>...name, address, length of service, and electronic communications transactional records for all services, as well as accounts...

Makes me think they would submit two requests: one for metadata and one for content. This would allow them to let google publish more "innocuous" letters while continue to gag order letters where they request more intrusive information.

Would love to hear the opinion, however, of someone who unlike myself knows what they are talking about.
For starters, it has a CPU. Also it has an accelerometer. Also it has a microphone.

Hope this answers your question.
That's cool with me. A sense I have picked up from your reply and another message in this thread is that Apple is attempting to evolve the definition of "wireless headphone" to require no bridge between the two ears. I think that is a vocabulary change that is causing a lot of us to scratch our heads in confusion. Conventionally, "wireless headphone" has meant no wire to the device—no headphone cable and no 3.5mm connector. And by that definition, wireless headphones are old and boring.

That said, I'm not a fan of earbuds, wired or otherwise. So whether removing the bridge wire is a revolution is lost on me since I'm not interested either way.