skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using Glass in a factory environment surprises me. Factories are notoriously loud, so unless Glass is really good at filtering out background noise, I'd imagine that voice commands wouldn't work very well. My experience has mostly been consumer electronics factories in Asia, but I also see the following problems that may or may not apply to domestic factories:

* Equipment with clear resale value has a tendency to "walk away". We worked hard to avoid using consumer electronics such as PCs or phones on the line. When we did need to use them, we had to establish strict policies and secure storage for when the equipment was not in use. Glass seems like it'd fall in this category.

* Even dedicated, laser-based, handheld barcode scanners could be finicky with part labels. Camera-based scanners were unusable due to poor accuracy and latency.

* Internet connectivity is poor or non-existent. WiFi coverage is usually terrible due to physical and electrical interference from factory equipment.

AR work instructions would be a dream--especially if the technology could flag errors. The environment just seems especially hostile for consumer-oriented technology such as Glass. I don't have firsthand experience with Glass, but I'm really surprised this company is reporting success with it.
The BBC video does mention his troubles with the law. It's not at length but it does put things in context.
This is nothing more than PR fluff. Spotify is in big trouble, as waging war with Apple is proving to be far more costly than they expected.

I want to know how much Techcrunch got paid for this advertisement.
I think perhaps it is because many people in 'modern' societies are starting to rediscover their humanitarian side after a long time of being blinded by years of consumerism and trying to find enlightenment via a career or 'keeping up with the Joneses'?!?

What a lot of people don't realise is that things like this are actually quite commonplace in so called 'third world' areas like Asia and the sub-continent.

Where they were once viewed as sign of a society less well off and endeavours that won't really lead to a difference, I'd like to think that people are starting to realise that improvement of humanity, rather than the building of bank accounts and stock portfolios, may actually be the purpose of existence.

Addendum: Less well off people tend to do this all the time (see my other post in this thread), but because of their 'low' social status, they tend to be invisible to the casual observer who have their eyes conditioned to look upwards only.

Therefore, if someone considered well off, and a 'good role model' does it, it tends to get more notice.
£4.5bn of British gold sunk by the Nazis
A more unconventional (but effective) way would be writing a compiler for the language you want to learn.
It was settled by his insurance company, against MJ's wishes.
He was also actually tried, and found not guilty on 14 charges.

Not quite the same boat as Chuck Berry.

In any case, I'm a "separate the art from artist" kind of guy. There are no saints.
I don't have any real reason to believe so, but I doubt techcrunch would accept money straight up for an article.
Ask HN: Will I be accepted for engineering internships as a 28 yr old undergrad?
I'm a military veteran, and I've recently started my undergrad education in computer engineering. I'm really hoping I'll be able to get involved with industry/government internships down the road. Will I be at a disadvantage for my age?
You may have done yourself a favor.

I have a Zenbook Pro UX501VW, and getting Linux to run well on it has been unusually challenging. Although as time goes on and newer Linux kernels and nVidia drivers come along, a fresh install should get easier.
They solve other people's problems. They make something people want. They have leveraged value. Get an MBA, make friends, expand your network. Be the best and help others.
How is it that engineering managers are able to have such an outsized influence on company culture?
There's some indirect references, but yes, a good point: that's a pretty glaring lack.

The comments about the social interactions of what are perceived as economic transactions or phenmomena strongly suggests a few differences. The social dislocations caused by job loss, or housing eviction, are specifically mentioned. I'd see far more weight and consideration given both in policy.
Because it's a made up term. It's just called "slash."
Immersive Linear Algebra – textbook with fully interactive figures (2015)
If you don't mind my asking, what do you do?
Lots of other people talk about fancy GPS systems in this thread, but it's been done for far longer with much simpler, arguably more reliable technology: long poles/sticks either painted with bright high vis paint, or more recently, retroreflectors.

It reminds me a bit of the story about NASA and the gazillion dollar space pen, vs the soviet space agency and their pencils.
When I was reading this, the first thing I thought was that it sounded like something from a developing country. I then wondered how long it was gonna be before we're all doing our laundry like this because of housing costs. But I like your more optimistic take.
I plan on reading Sustainable Energy – without the hot air by David MacKay, maybe you would want to do the same.
Hot damn that's meta.
Then bad ideas propagated by non replicable "science" would have a counterargument.
Children who play outside more likely to protect nature as adults
It's super easy to look back and think, "it really doesn't matter where you went to school." and it's true, I've met people who went to no-name schools and get employed at great companies.

But put yourself into the shoes of an impressionable 16-17 year old. Private and flagship public universities have mastered selling their product with tours, special programs, the "college experience" etc. In addition, they sell getting a job with countless networking opportunities (especially prestigious schools).

It'd be really efficient for anyone who would need loans to get a degree to knock out all gen eds at a comm college and then transfer to an in-state university (it makes zero sense to pay 30-55K a year to take an entire schedule of calc 1 and chem 101). But it's hard to blame a 17 year old for taking the more fun and cooler option than the practical one.

I suppose if government and states invested heavily into community colleges and made them "cool" with great facilities and opportunities, more kids can be incentivized to go that route and avoid the heavy loans.
NYC's, unlike all other bike share programs, is not subsidized, explaining the relatively higher cost of $163/yr (still a great deal if you ask me). NYC is considering subsidies so that the program expands to poorer areas farther from the core CBDs, though.
People may be able to make accurate predictions after reading sociology for its qualitative findings, without it being possible to make these predictions formally using our current mathematics.
Hi, I think it's really cool you're thinking along these lines.

Giving to charity is great. I know you say it's not enough, but you might be able to get more out of it. I give to Watsi. When the email reports come in about the people who got medical treatment, I give them my full attention for a few minutes. I really look at the people and imagine that I know them. I try to think about them as if they are my dad or my mom. Or if they are a child, I think about how it would feel to be a parent, and not be able to afford care for my child, but then I'm saved by the generosity of a stranger. It can be very moving.

Another way to go is to just help people around you. You can take walks with the intention to just pay attention and see what's going on. Just look at peoples' faces and imagine how it feels to do their jobs. On my walks, I saw a lady sweeping the street every day, and people walking up and down the rows of waiting cars selling flowers. I eat at a certain cafeteria every day, and I watch the cleanup crews clean up mess after mess, silently and thanklessly. Earlier this year I handed out ten envelopes with happy new year cards and money, and said "happy new year" to them in the local language. My intention is just to say, I see what you do, and I care about you and want you to be well. I see many of them every day when I go out. There are opportunities to help everywhere. Every time you reduce suffering it's giving something good a chance to grow.
As someone with a strong background in economics, I think this would be a wonderful idea (reasons scattered through comments in this thread).

I do have a question though: What is the central organising question or theme of sociology?

For economics, I would answer "the allocation of scarce resources to greatest effect". I'm not sure I can come up with a simlar statement for sociology, and online searches over the past few minutes aren't turning up anything strongly resembling such a statement.
The potential silver lining is that this resuls in FOSS operating systems getting more users, which in turn will mean even better support/stability in FOSS options.
Five.js – a library to overcomplicate five
Isn't noise cancellation a solved problem when using multiple microphones?
I know right?! How horrendously vile! "Hey, I know it wasn't clear that the consumer was actually the product before, so let's cut to the chase and let you know that you're really just an advertising-consuming-biological machine."

How painfully and uncouthly reductive. Making your products skip the whole "getting infected by Malware before they show you advertisements all the time" is not the solution to making money, or growing your brand, or having long-term success. Rather, it looks more like the final hoo-rah of a sinking ship.
Google Glass has physical controls on the right side to navigate the UX.
I like the way you open source.
they don't seem to sell anything
Sure, why not a "gazillion" at this point:

> When the solution of providing astronauts with a ballpoint pen that would work under weightless conditions and extreme temperatures came about, though, it wasn’t because NASA had thrown hundreds of thousands of dollars (inflated to $12 billion in the latest iterations of this tale) in research and development money at the problem. The “space pen” that has since become famous through its use by astronauts was developed independently by Paul C. Fisher of the Fisher Pen Co., who spent his own money on the project and, once he perfected his AG-7 “Anti-Gravity” Space Pen, offered it to NASA.

Via http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
Yes I remember bringing up a software license with a lawyer I was talking to some years ago for a product I was selling - he laughed. I don't know if it's changed much since then - most of that stuff is untested in court AFAIK
Nope because although VueJS is simpler than angular2, it but makes a lot more assumptions (and thus lockins) to the user than React. The way best practices evolves in React doesn't happen so easily in vuejs ecossystem, even less in the angular2.
So it's the duty of the interrogated person to know how to give good answers to security questions and not the security personnel's duty to ask good questions?
How does that matter? There are countless historical examples where larger organizations with plenty of funding lost to smaller opponent.
Access to scoops and leaks, which translate into articles that get page views, which translate into ad dollars, is an indirect way to pay off a journalist.
“How could you do this to me? After everything I’ve done for you.”

“I guess I’m just a hard muthafucka like that.”

Damn, that's funny.
I think with the rise of cloud based productivity software (Google Docs, etc.) we'll see a rise in alternative OS's.

I know one of the big issues with adopting Linux on the desktop in companies is the issue with access control (something like AD's Group Policy). It's amazing how you can control pretty much every permission/policy imaginable within your domain using AD, and until something like that comes out for Linux it won't get adopted.
There is no question people were trying related approaches in the past (as the paper cites!). Indeed, it's exceedingly rare to find a totally new idea; we always stand on the shoulders of giants, which include but is not limited to Steels's work. The goal, both here and in general, is to go beyond previous work — in the case of this work, to use modern DL tools to learn a more sophisticated language that has a real degree of compositionality and grounding. The hope is that by pushing this approach to its logical limit, we'll get agents that can really understand language, both artificial and natural.
Canada not Minnesota but close: https://youtu.be/jx4iIaEWmRM?t=42s
What's different about Kangpe?
Just to be safe, don't list your age on your resume. Personally, I've hired interns of various ages but that was in an "age-tolerant" environment.
I mean, for that timescale, I personally would prioritize making sure the kids know not to poop on their desks and not to scream indoors, but sure, metacognition, that's good too.
Let me share a "contrarian" view. People think react can't be beat because they have Facebook behind them and tons of people are working on it with tons of funding. But I think that may be the reason why it may go down one day.

Facebook is not doing this for complete charity. At the moment their interest is aligned with react being open source but you never know when that will change. And when that happens, the artificial illusion of support will go away.

I'm not just pulling this out of nowhere, I actually use both react and vue, and think react ecosystem is too convoluted. It's a matter of opinion but I don't think it's just me who feels that way.
Here's a quote from the Dashboard:

> During the beta period [team name] will only be billed for dyno usage when tests run. After the beta period ends, each pipeline with Heroku CI enabled will be billed at $10/month plus dyno usage.
I've been using S3 static sites more and more and I think that exposing any kind of CMS control panel to the internet is a bad idea.

Take a look at the list of security concerns Airship tries to manage. Most can be avoided by separating the content creation aspect and the publishing platform. Content creators represent the smallest audience group your site has, why then have a full application exposed to the internet running only for them to easily change content? Content creators should have an offline app, make changes, press publish and have those changes uploaded to a static server. The whole CMS control panel paradigm seems kinda flawed to me.
Those concerns would be greatly addressed by having an "on-premises Firebase" option, even if everything went sideways, I could slowly migrate my projects off of firebase slowly.
My piano tuner uses an iPhone app called TuneLab.[1]

$500.00USD. For an app. Interface that looks like the dev Googled all the images needed and used the first result. First line of the app store description is Do not buy this app unless you are a professional piano technician. Yet it's a highly powerful tool and professionals use it.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/tunelab-piano-tuner/id335568...
Actually, it was a joke.
Obviously the shareholders want the business to focus on whats the most profitable. iPhone seems basically to be a license to print money for Apple.

Still, I think there are two arguments:

They are sitting on so much cash. There is obviously a cultural or organizational problem that produces to much friction to keep this product line up to date. I'm fairly certain many other corporations, if provided access to basically infinite cash, could figure out how to put new ram in an existing product line every year.

There's huge value in having creative professionals and developers use your product. Keeping people in your ecosystem is important. This might be hard to quantify on the bottom line, but it seems like an obvious strategic mistake to give up this advantage.
Big Data Engineering
A colleague recently interacted with Google in an attempt to acquire Glass. The takeaway I got was Google was only interested in selling if the project was "cool" (no definition in sight) and if the quantity was substantial (minimum 100 units I think.)
Spotify will not win unless they find a way to materialize and dematerialize vinyl LPs on demand.
> Each individual niche is tiny, but once you add up all the niches, it adds up to a significant part of the market.

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

> Is that an actual trend?

It points to a solution anyway. Have one family PC with Windows to run the one niche app you need, but don't put Windows on anything else. Even if the other devices are laptops and not tablets, it still works.
At what point do you conjoin the two? Does the line vary? If a brilliant painter turns out to be a convicted pedophile, for instance, would you still hang their art on your wall? Just curious to hear opinions. I was just wondering about this sort of thing the other day.
Interesting in the demo that pings to 127.0.0.1 fail. Is that a common setup for some distribution to block icmp on the localhost if?
You don't even need to use css at all to make text visible on a page.
Am I correct that you are against nuclear energy? That law sounds like a poison pill with the effect of reducing future plant development.

What's wrong with requiring it to be shipped to Yucca Mountain and charging fees into investment funds for long term management? Jobs and benefits for both communities, no?
See, this is exactly the problem I have with Windows. It's full of obscure exes and undiscoverable settings (wtf is the registry? fuck). It's like I'd have to have years of experience (since 98 or something) to understand fully. Also it has compatibility issues out the butt with hardware that 'justworks' on linux.

With windows 10, this has gotten /way/ worse. Sure bluetooth works out of the box, but sometimes it just disapperates. I'm doing like, rain dances and getting tons of wrong answers out of google, only to find out that somehow Windows decided to turn the radio off, and there's actually no way to re-enable it except booting into linux because when the radio's off, windows says the hardware is physically /not there/.

I install it for a while, play some steam games, then usually just boot it out and go back to linux.

It's generally hard to switch operating systems, not just one way.
There was some experimental evidence (and open publication) by 1939, to boot. The threat outlined by the Einstein-Szilard letter is that the Germans must be aware of the idea and might be developing a weapon so planting disinformation was probably not high on anyone's list of priorities.
4 Watts! That is a ridiculous amount of power for a project like this. No wonder the screen is so bright!

For those of you who want another point of comparison for how powerful this laser is, advanced LIGO detected gravitational waves for the first time in 2015 with an average laser power of only 23W[0] (though we use a lot of tricks to boost the power of the beam, like Fabry-Perot cavities in the detector arms).

[0] https://www.advancedligo.mit.edu/aug_2016_news.html
I used the one in DC (Capital Bikeshare) for a few years.

It is good, there are plenty of stations, and the city is very plain. There is a subtle inclination actually, that helps when driving from north to south, and makes a little bit harder in the opposite direction, but nothing major. I wonder how it is in SF with all the hills as these bicycles are pretty heavy.

I had both my own bicycle (a folding bike) and a bikeshare membership. I could buy a cheap bicycle for the same price as the membership, but it was useful to make quick trips without having to worry where did I put my bicycle and how to secure my own bicycle while I'm away.
There is an actual price list for those if you know where to look and you know right people.
So by your logic they are 'bribing' the journalist and 'paying them off' by 'giving them a scoop'?

Ergo - every decent news story amounts to 'bribery'?

I think you bit your tongue on that one.
All social problems stem from the fact that people believe it possible to be superior to one another. Once you get rid of this possibility, social problems, stemming from the "superiority problem" disappear. Utopia ensues.
"I don't have any real reason to believe so"

They are a reasonable journalistic outfit. You can safely assume they are not taking bribes for stories.
"Blacks are humans just like we whites are, not some inferior race that's OK to be exploited".

I'm a policy maker. I put an end to slavery.

No prediction involved.

"X prevents women from getting into IT".

I'm a policy maker. I take steps to help women get into IT.

No prediction involved.

Conditions in prisons are bad because so and so.

I'm a policy maker. Let's change the conditions.

No prediction involved.

Sometimes the prediction is obvious and implied (removing X will allow more women to get into IT), other times it's not needed at all (when the change is about doing what's right, like with slavery, not about doing something that we predict will turn things in some specific way).
I've spent the last decade of my life answering this question with my day-to-day life activities. I am only 27 and have no idea what our ultimate fate will be, so take my advice for what it's worth.

The most important thing is to start with yourself and cultivate character. All your future actions will be more effective if your foundation is sound. How do your daily actions affect other lives? Think about your food, your transportation, your consumption habits. How good of a designer, developer, salesman are you? How much time do you spend a DAY learning, building, pitching? Don't waste your life trying to change the world without changing yourself first, this process will also change how you see the world as well.

So start small, stay grounded, and grow stronger with age. That's exactly what I did and am still doing. I am going to enroll in Startup School and apply to YC soon. If they don't accept me, I'm also applying to both HackReactor or Galvanize Data Science. I also plan to hang around Stanford and Berkeley to make friends following the same moral, intellectual, and creative compass. The plan is to 'get so good, they can't ignore me'. I'm going ALL IN on my hope that humanity can still live harmoniously with our home planet and expand beyond it.

If you're for real about this, over time you will get to this level of urgency and do what is needed for you to live in accordance with your conscience. Earth will be fine whether or not we decide to live harmoniously with the rest of the biosphere or not; when the Sun dies, the rest of the galaxy will take thousands of years to even notice. So try to be humble, I still struggle with this seeing the state of our planet but lead by example and whoever is ready will follow.
I have to replace perfectly good hardware more often under windows than linux, with osx being the worst offender (though to be fair, hackintosh isn't what they had in mind).

With windows's new mandatory driver signing, some of my hardware will never work with newer windows. I have to either dig up a copy of 7 or XP, or throw it out. Even on 7 it's a pain. The same hardware works fine under linux.

Also, your "manually editing obscure config files" is my registry hell. I'm pretty sure every operating system sucks (I'd say OSX's equivalent is defaults.write)
> theoretically, everything could be reduced to physics

Is there a thing as free will, and if so, is it explainable in terms of physics? And with consciousness (if you believe there is such a thing)? Is morality and ethics reducible to physics as well? There's a lot of presuppositions to the statement that everything is reducible to some purely mechanical process.

I have no doubt that many serious people believe as you have stated, but it's not a self evidently true claim.