skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vive tracking is better for room scale (Oculus doesn't handle facing away from the cameras well in a standard two camera setup and three camera tracking is still a bit experimental, plus it can be trickier to get the floor calibrated at the right position).

In most other respects Oculus is a bit better than Vive IMO: better ergonomics/comfort on both the Rift headset and Touch controllers, built in headphones (a big plus for convenience and comfort over the Vive), easier setup, slightly better optics, better handling of dropped frames thanks to timewarp.
I think he is pointing out that if you look at the 2008-2009 timeframe, the hedge funds had a loss of roughly 5-15%, while the S&P500 had a loss of roughly 20%. The hedge funds did better in bear markets... they just don't do well enough in bull markets to make up the difference over a 10 year period with only a single crash.

In a theoretical world where modern hedge funds were in business between 2000 and 2009, we might have come to a different conclusion: there were a number of down markets during that time and hedge funds might have been able to do much better.
Maximizing returns while minimizing losses is, ultimately, a meaningess phrase.

What you mean is maximizing returns under some specific risk acceptance. That risk acceptance is different between hedge funds and other funds. You choose the fund that matches the game YOU are playing.
The Apache license has had patent clauses for more than a decade.

http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Patent_clauses_in_software_licences...
Can it be ambiguous to only use who instead of whom? If not, then it's probably not important, just feels painful for people who know the rules. That's as much an indictment of the rule itself as it is of people breaking it.
It suggests that the court might at least be open to revising the rules relating to civil forfeiture on some future case.

However, it doesn't change the rules, and it's by no means clear that the court would change the rules, if the question comes before it, nor does it suggest that the question will come up anytime soon.

If the court had ruled the other way in this case, there would be no chance of fixing civil forfeiture. So I guess you can say that this isn't a "no", but it's also not a "yes". It's not even a "maybe". But the door is still open?
Although Puerto Ricans do pay certain local and federal taxes, they do not pay income taxes like citizens of US States do.
Yea I think because of the softness you couldn't switch to gold only partially or it'd wear exceedingly fast. It sure about other metals though.
Looks cool!

Mobile experience seems poor:

- Weird margins taking up lots of the screen

- Back button seems to be disabled (I pressed it about 200x trying to get back to HN and nothing happened)

- "view mode" would be nice: don't pop up keyboard for editing when I click on some part of a source file, but still support clicking symbols and offering options e.g. jump to definition.
So did the authors of Linux, and nobody is chasing them when a hack appears.
Yeah! Totally get it. The "distributed" part is an overloaded term though which is why I called out the "JVM version" which is more focused on commodity boxes.

I should note that ours also isn't "GPU first" but more "GPUs as an addon to your cluster for Deep learning" which is how the resource managers typically used in JVM land like mesos and yarn are treating it.
tl;dr Why do people waste money on fancy stuff that doesn't deliver any functional advantage? To advertise their wealth and power to others for mutual future advantage.
Child of HN here. LEGOs were extremely helpful. At first you just follow the instructions, but then you start designing your own things (if your kids don't, then invite them to do so, and make it sound like an adventure or challenge). Musical instruments and crayons are good alternatives as well, but require much, much more direction and help from adults.

But the one thing I'd say is irreplaceable is acting. Watch movies with kids and get them into mimicking accents, and then trying to act like characters. From there, it's easy for them to begin putting on their own "plays" and just having a blast, and the real hard part becomes finding a way to guide them towards improvement (as well as putting up with the quality :P)
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Mate it's called a sandbox and reviewed apps... We're not talking about hooking up some PHP script to your bank account... and I'm not even affiliated with them!
Not only sensor size but the ergonomics. I agree that in daylight my iPhone 6S is basically as good as my somewhat older Nikon, but the way you handle them both in order to take a photo really play into the final quality of the image.

The phone will always be like a tiny window to the world, while the camera is more of an extension of my eye. Might be a personal take, but for me it makes a lot of diference and it shows in my photos.
> I'm totally open to punishing the execs and investors, but shutting down the company hurts the employees, drivers, and users more, so not a great outcome.

So?

Uber and Lyft throwing a hissy fit and leaving Austin shows that replacing them isn't actually as traumatic as you think.

And stomping the investors flat would send a nice signal that maybe you shouldn't invest in companies whose primary competitive advantage is that they break the law.

At the end of the day, however, this is all part of negotiating tactics between Uber and Google.
I think the question is flawed from the get-go. Nothing is preventing you – there are blind programmers and amputee mountain climbers. You don't need motivation, what you need is discipline. Find what you want to do and then don't stop.
True, but the pace of the transition was substantially slower. I think that is the concerning part: it will happen over years (less than ten) versus generations.
It's not really a problem at all...the WECC utility companies have ample reserves, CA will just buy MW from APS, BPA, and PGE on the EIM (run by CAISO)...I'm not sure how this process is affected by utility company and operator "pace" in the slightest, in fact the ability to buy energy and transfer it from one BA to another happens every second...how would you envision this industry being "disrupted"?
He already took precautions against someone throwing the book at him: http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/calcutta-hc-judge-c...
I think it's important to note that Ted's bet was in fund of funds, which require additional fees that would negatively effect his investment return regardless of its performance.
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In healthcare, you have HIPAA and if you mess up patient records you can lose your license, be subject to legal actions. e.g: leaking 1 patient record.

If a pharmaceutical company releases a drug that causes negative side effects, lawyers are happy to sue the company on your behalf for free.

But software engineering is a discipline where no license is required, and now thanks to informal educational institutions like coding camps, not even a degree is required. You can ruin the lives of millions of people but always hop around and get another job.

Companies maximize their margin saving money on security (and other non-functional requirements), and expose customer sensitive information to significant risks with no accountability. A statement like "Sorry! we got hacked, your SSN and credit card information is now being sold by the bulk in an .onion site!" would do. We as consumers should punish those incidents more aggressively and demand a reasonable cause.

The product-driven minimum-viable-product lean-agile full-stack get-it-done culture of spaghetti code bases without security needs to die now. It's highly profitable and the preferred business model for many, yes. Is it ethical? hell no. Stop doing it. In those cultures, security is treated as "tin-foil hat paranoia" and laughed upon, and put into some "nice to have"/"maybe some day" list, with the lowest priority.

A security bug can make it into any software. But if you assembled a team of coding camp guys or fresh graduates to work on a banking platform or making an IoT pacemaker you deserve to be sued for neglicence.

Unfortunately because software is a relatively new activity compared to others, there is no established legal framework around it and that needs fixing.
How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your children (1998) [pdf]
Some Web sites will have enough data to do some unique and especially effective ad targeting, due to data and targeting math, for their own users.
Why do California Democrats vote this person in year after year?
With this release, you should be finally be able to do that. The 4.6.2 framework only supported the 1.3 Standard, which was the reason we were boned if a .NET Core library got released targeting the 1.6 one and didn't explicitly include a .NET Framework version in the nuget package.

At least, I hope I got that right. I'll give it a try tomorrow and if it works I might just uninstall the .NET Core outright.
So, the NSA and the CIA were recently hacked, yet these numbskulls think we can create a system that will only be accessed by "the good guys" How many hacks, leaks etc will it take for them to understand that if this passes, that will be the end of online security?

New Rule: If you want to propose cybersecurity legislation, you need to pass the fizz buzz test.
http://www.davidforcalifornia.com/

Uhh, I think I'm blanking on the other. Both will likely lose, but maybe it will make her look over shoulder and keep closer to her constituents.
Watch this and get back to us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY
I completely agree that our leaders would exploit loopholes. My point was meant mainly to describe the scenario if the Federal government were effectively constrained.

Would the public have supported a tax increase in 2004 when the cost of the Iraq war began to drastically exceed estimates? Likely not, we'd have brought everyone back home and saved Trillions and prevented a significant amount of loss of life.
Nothing's wrong. He asks what you think is preventing you.
> So far, past votes, the results are no.

Technically the 2012 vote was 'yes' but all of the votes so far have been framed poorly. And that includes the upcoming one, which is likely going to make it a waste of time; Puerto Rico needs a simple and clear referedum on 'Statehood Yes or No'.
Meh. Two years ago, Uber and Lyft threw a tantrum about being forced to play fair and left Austin. Several competitors sprung up and filled the gap within a matter of weeks.
Most of the time though, the real issue that people have with Electron-based apps is memory and CPU usage. Electron is notorious for hogging RAM like there's no tomorrow. While this project is a neat idea, it doesn't seem to address the main problem of Electron.
I don't, you're certainly right and I even questioned myself as I wrote it.
From where? They aren't making Alphas anymore, or GaN 5GHz LN2 cooled monsters. At this point SiC is the material as power dissapation has become the limiting factor.
The person I replied to specifically mentioned owing money, so I took it to mean that he wasn't talking about the investors. I do think that a business owner who is unable to pay people he owes should feel bad about it, and should make every effort to pay them back. Just because he's legally off the hook doesn't take him off the hook ethically, in my opinion.

But regardless, you should try to make your investors whole, if at all possible. I view that as your ethical responsibility as someone who receives investment.
That's assuming voters are rational actors which is clearly not the case
What good is brand value if you can't monetize any of it?
Exactly. It'd be so downright bizarre and difficult to pin down that we'd probably go nuts thinking we were all delusional to imagine such a thing could exist in the first place.

Then when we have proof we'd be even more confused.
Going to sign up for the beta program. BTW, if you're in the SF area, definitely try Garaje. One of the best tacos and beers around.
Unless your currency policy is fixed by those you buy from. That's the fundamental problem here.
That sounds more like fraud.

What if I take out a loan, am perfectly capable of paying it off, but the asset backing the loan has lost sufficient value so as not to be worth the continued investment? Is there any shame in defaulting and letting the lender suffer some of the consequences?

In my personal opinion, no. Especially with secured or collateral-backed loans, the lender knew there was risk going in and there's no reason they shouldn't also suffer some losses in the case the plan doesn't work out.

This is the situation many Americans found themselves in after the last housing bubble and it still makes me sad that some people still feel a sense of obligation to corporations that would screw them in a heartbeat if it would make them a legal dollar.
I doubt that the per/satellite cost would be anywhere close to $80-100 million. I remember hearing that the plan was for these satellites to have significantly less mass than other satellites and therefore, one orbital launch could deliver many satellites. With these satellites orbiting ~30-34x closer to Earth, the satellites would need to have significantly less mass if they were going to not have their orbital distance not degrade too quickly. I don't know what the expected lifespan of these satellites will be, but I assume they will eventually burn up in the atmosphere.
This is fantastic, I've been thinking about this for years.

Allow your code to exert willpower over your budget when your's is lacking
This discussion is about much cheaper satellites, for example you can fit ~ 40 onto a single launch.

OneWeb has announced $$ numbers, and they're much cheaper than $100 million each: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneWeb_satellite_constellation
Hundreds of privacy-invading apps are using ultrasonic sounds to track you
Isn't this it?

https://www.amazon.com/Adults-Room-Battle-Europes-Establishm...
I could type "df --HISTORY 7 /filesystem" and it renders a graph showing the last 7 days utilization. Yeah, df would need to change.

Or we could write "thumbnail babes.jpg" and it renders it directly in the terminal instead of popping up another window.

Or if I'm wanting to do some scripted image editing it'd be pleasant to be able to render images directly into my terminal as I work out the specifics of my task. As opposed to writing to temp files and then viewing them with a separate viewer.

Personally though what I want from a terminal emulator is something integrating into SSH which creates an out of band channel from the remote end of my ssh session to the terminal emulator. This way I don't have to play stupid games with shell prompts and the like, programs could literally know that a data path to my screen is available and do things like change background colors if I've changed users. Messing around with prompts and shoehorning too much stuff into escape sequences is awkward.
CAVE virtual reality[1][2] has been available for quite some time, and has quite a lot of industry penetration. There are multiple off-the-shelf software and hardware packages available, and it's fairly commonly used in the automotive industry.

It's quite something to use one of these systems, I was responsible for maintaining one a few years ago. Our demonstration trick for visiting guests was to put a chair inside the cave that matched the coordiantes of a virtual helicopter cockpit command chair. We could sit guests in the chair, turn the system on, and ask them if they could comfortably reach the switches above their heads. They'd stretch out their hands and be able to give a confident yes or no within seconds.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_automatic_virtual_environ...
[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STMcWUtQr1Y
Passwords for authentication was just always a flawed idea, typing them into the DOM and sending them over the wire even more so.
Not the same kind of money, though. This is money that is part of the problem. The money goes in and the debt goes up twice as much. Not the same as the California example above.
Cloudflare Postmortem: Network Performance Issues in Multiple Locations
Pilosa was built for high cardinality data, so queries on unique numeric values would still be fast. Translating quantitative data to a categorical form fits Pilosa’s data model better, so the index would be more powerful. We have explored a few basic techniques for this, which you can read about here: https://www.pilosa.com/use-cases/taming-transportation-data/
Yes, the homepage is really uninformative.
>4) To make a 14th amendment deprivation claim, you have to show deprivation of a property right. At the time petitioner sought his money back, he had no property right.

yes, because he was deprived of that property right. Vacated conviction doesn't seem to satisfy "adequate process" requirements for the deprivation.

The logic of Thomas's dissent is like accepting the argument in, say for example, physical assault case that the person didn't objected to a beating because his mouth was duct-taped shut.

>You can assert that judgment against the seller to collect, but at most the judgment means the seller owes you money back, it does not automatically transfer the property right in some of the money you paid back to you.

seems you've never tried to collect on a judgement. Once you get the judgement against other party, you identify the property of that other party, say bank account or a real estate, and get a court order for the sheriff to withdraw from the account identified or an order for the county to put a lien on identified real estate of the other party. Such orders are basically orders for the transfer of the property right.
1. You cannot shut it down

2. Unless you coordinate internationally, the nations with less regulation will launch successful businesses on it and dominate the market - imagine US having some crazy internet regulations in 1996, and other nations not having them. We'd be having this discussion now not on Hacker News, but on Новости хакера, or on 해커 뉴스. And US economy would be a few (dosen?) trillion dollars poorer.
That interest rate doesn't in any way relieve you of your moral responsibility to pay back that loan, in my opinion, just because you run into financial trouble. People defaulting just because it's legal causes interest rates to rise on others, and imposes costs on the rest of society. Of course, it's important for social reasons for there to be legal ways to get out of inescapable debt, but you're not off the hook morally, in my opinion, if you bit off more than you could chew. It's both your fault and that of the lender if you borrow more than you can handle.

This isn't usually some freak unforeseeable accident. The 2007 crisis was caused as much by people overlevering themselves to take advantage of a situation as it was by predatory lending practices and greed/fraud at the I Bank level. But people love to put all the blame on the banks, and none on themselves for not being prudent.
That basically already exists.[0] The only major issue is that they're limited to the permissions of normal webpages in the browser.

[0]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps
Using the system web runtime does reduce the app's memory usage too, not just the on-disk size.

The system runtime is loaded just once (and is probably already in active memory), whereas each Electron app loads its own copy of Chromium.

For large apps, it won't make a huge difference. I'm absolutely not saying Atom or Spotify should switch away from Electron... The use case I had in mind for Electrino is more about small utilities, desktop widgets, that kind of thing.
From what he says and from the karma going up the account seems legit

We can't expect him "to tweet his HN-Name" for verification. He could, though I expect him to have strong opinions on things in general (leading to quickly reject a lot of (wrong) paths)
Brexit can hardly be said to be the product of a populace unable to think for themselves when the outcome was in spite of an overwhelming campaign to the contrary by every establishment interest group your can think of; MPs, trade unions, business leaders, academics, foreign presidents, the judiciary, the press, the BBC, bankers, scientists, artists, celebrities... it was absolutely relentless. And a people who if anything are normally too moved by the influence of these groups, suddenly in the face of them all speaking in unison decided that this time they would make their own minds up thank you very much.
Apple just promised to give US manufacturing a $1B boost
> * And it can handle Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) files, which are vastly higher-quality than MP3s and more compressed than WAV.*

Why does a photographer care about this? And who seriously compares this sort of thing to MP3 these days anyway, when we've had better codecs for a long time?
Members of our government are so indoctrinated about stopping "terrorism" that they have lost all sense of perspective.

In this case, it might be better to assume malice rather than incompetence. In the 1950's it was s/terrorist/communist/, but it was a remarkably effective political tool. We might be in the same situation.

But this time, our fates are all linked. Once shipping backdoors becomes mainstream, it might be impossible to go back.

We should try to think of some concrete steps to resist this. It feels like we have to try, since there's so much at stake.

Could we reverse engineer the political forces at play? We could try to think of the most effective thing we could do, and then focus on that.
At least offer $15, geez. $5 to win $10 is a money loser even when you have income under one of the shell companies. :p
> sue Facebook for infringement, and then losing the right to use Prepack as a result.

You do not lose the right to use Prepack. You lose the right to use whatever patents Facebook may or may not have on the technologies underpinning Prepack, if any.

If you believe Facebook has a lot of strong patents relating to Prepack, the value of the patent grant is high, and the cost of losing it is high. If you do not believe Prepack is encumbered by Facebook patents, then the value of the grant is nil, and the cost of losing it is nil.

> Tangentially related: what would happen if you did sue Facebook for patent infringement, and continued to use this software?

In my view, almost certainly nothing, because I don't think they have any patents on the underlying tech. But if they did, then they'd be added into the ongoing patent fight, and would give Facebook marginally more leverage when negotiating the final settlement.

I rather suspect that the patents Facebook has on other non-Prepack things would be much more decisive.
Apples and oranges. The effect of a government bankruptcy on the economy and the society (present and future) is not really comparable to the effect of a bankruptcy amongst individual economic agents. Those are completely different scales.

Also, morality is always attached to anything which involves society and its institutions. For example, good faith in contracts (bona fides) which has evolved all the way from the roman republic is an example of codified morality which proved to be quite useful in societal transactions (i.e. it solidifies expectations of behavior and hastens transactions). Explicit moral value perhaps may not be visible ("basic economic tool") but it is certainly built into foundations of every and any contract.
I don't know if you're interested in making the "telnet" experience better, but something I've seen used elsewhere is a well-known/advertised SSH login. At the very least you can enable compression on SSH connections. Compression level 1 is nearly free in terms of cpu.

For instance, try `ssh joshua@crawl.akrasiac.org`, and the password is again `joshua`.

If you're allowing anybody on the internet to SSH in, you could also use mosh (mosh.org) to make it feel even faster.