skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AR has been around for quite a while, but it won't kick off like VR will. I tried a few Hololens 'experiences' and the only thing I remotely enjoyed was leaving basically a notepad window on my cube wall. The "Games" really don't break the immersion levels like VR does. If I saw a bird fly at me in AR, I wouldn't flinch, but seeing a bird fly at my in VR may cause me head to weave a bit.
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I say 'was'. The more they try to make it a pointless grind-numbing micro-battle game over an actual hunt for completion (and pulling me towards places I /don't/ already go) game the less I want to play.

I think they'd have to either add a tracking over time feature or restore the radar that used to exist for me to get back in to it.
I think the end of the article is key. SC still has a massive userbase, and continues to be where I find my particular niche for music. The only issue is it seems the people at the helm have no idea how to maintain the community they have.
Warming won't have a single symptom, that's why most people are moving away from calling it "warming." Global Warming has always meant the addition of stored energy in the atmosphere. "Warming" came from the the thermodynamic term for energy: heat.

On the ground it means we'll see more extremes. Droughts, floods, record breaking heat and cold.
I think an analogy can be made with Bayesian statistics. In principle, Bayesian statistics requires no training, just a way of sampling from the posterior, usually done with expensive MCMC methods.

Here, we do not need training of any kind either, just a monte-carlo simulation of the environment and an approximation of which path has the greatest path entropy. Bsaically given a state, you do

- Compute the path entropy for all states you can move to

- Move into the state with greatest path entropy

The tradeoff here is that all the work occurs in inference - every decision requires a complex simulation. In training based approaches the heavy lifting is done during training, and inference is easy
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>There are objective tests for all of these pathologies, though those tests are often inconclusive in the face of the symptoms.

Nothing good, sadly.

My wife was in banking for twelve years and worked her way up from a teller to a fairly senior position. Her work ethic was spectacular - she had just two sick days in the previous five years and she was promoted almost yearly, always receiving an excellent review.

A few years ago, she went from having occasional discomfort to waking with fairly severe pain daily. It got so bad that she had to take time off, and eventually took FMLA for a full twelve weeks to see if it would help. It didn't and she was fired soon after.

She filed for disability after being diagnosed with Fybromyalgia. Our lawyer sent her to bother specialist doctors and independent testing labs to get complete documentation. They had her complete various tasks like screwing in a screwdriver, raising a weight above her head for X seconds etc. and then asked her to rate her pain levels and other self-reported things.

In the end, she was denied for disability, mostly because disability is no longer about actually being disabled - it's now about essentially filling the gap between welfare and medicaid. In the written opinion however, the stated reason was that all the evidence was self-reported, implying she could be making it all up (because who wouldn't want to give up a successful and lucrative career for some minimal-level disability payments).

Anyway, I learned two main things:

1. There are no commonly accepted objective tests for pain - it's almost all self-reporting.

2. The disability system in the US is heavily used as supplemental welfare.
Great work and great article.
One question though: Did you consider to replace convolution based filters by FFT based ones ?
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> What's the solution? ...admit up front that judgements of eminence are often subjective. ...read people's work and evaluate each study or proposal on its merits.

> One trick I use to avoid status bias is to keep myself blind to the authors' identities as long as I can — a strategy that many journals in social and personality psychology have also adopted. Once I tried this, I realized just how much I had been using authors' identities as a short cut. Assessing research without this information — knowing that I might be harshly criticizing a famous person's work — is nerve-wracking. But I'm convinced it's the best way to evaluate science.

I'm not a full time academic, but having written and reviewed papers for SIGGRAPH and other journals for many years, I've been thinking about this problem. A lot of people I know are jaded about the paper review process and feel like it's infested with politics. SIGGRAPH has a double-blind review process, but it still has this problem, not knowing the identities of authors or reviewers doesn't solve it entirely. I don't know how much it helps to be double-blind and I don't know how to quantify how much it helps, but it's widely believed to improve things.

One of the problems, even in a double-blind system, is that it's still often fairly easy to deduce the organization that the author came from, especially for groups that have attained some prestige. The research specialty and the language and figures and examples in the paper sometimes make it blindingly obvious who's Ph.D. student wrote it, and almost everyone on the papers committee is more familiar with the various groups and their work and history than I am. As a paper author, I've been able to correctly guess and verify several of my reviewers over the years. Sometimes, reviewers are made aware of the origins of a paper behind closed doors. It's discouraged and ugly, but it still happens.

The "solution" rattling around in my head that I would like to try out is simple:

- Require reviewers to rank a set of pairs of papers against each other. For each pair, pick the paper you'd rather see accepted.

- Send papers to many more reviewers, and randomly. (SIGGRAPH is 5 reviewers assigned via social network, for example. How about 30 random reviewers instead?).

- Ask for less feedback from reviewers, instead relying on greater numbers of ranked vote pairs. This will both reduce the workload on reviewers, and allow more data, to reduce noise and make the result more stable.

Once the reviews are in, a ranking algorithm would relax all the ranked choices and produce a list of papers in order of votes, and the top N would be accepted without further debate.

Having done lots of reviews and participated in discussions over reviews, one of the problems I see is that papers are given absolute scores - they're not compared against each other for score. Some amazing papers end up with a low average score, and some mediocre papers end up with a high average score. Each paper's score ends up in it's own unit system, despite efforts to normalize the range.

Not sure if it'd work, but I've been wanting to try it for a while.
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I think your post articulates what I was trying to say much better, without going into the tangents I typically do.

Absolutely mirrors my experience to a T. I wasn't intending to put a moral stance on any of this, but you did a much better job at explaining that.
>At some point an equivalent product could be offered as a replacement. Or parts could be replaced.

Some computer graphic card manufactures have a system like this. If the card fails in it's lifetime warranty they will replace the card with an equivalent or better model. One of my friends had their RMAed EVGA card upgraded even though it was 5 years old, and it wasn't to just the current performance equivalent, their $300 5 year old card was replaced with a $300 new card.
I doubt the differences are large.

I have both a Unicomp Model M and a real Model M; they are best keyboards I have ever owned, and the Unicomp version is as rugged as the original. The weight is about the same, the plastic is slightly different (in texture - quality is the same otherwise), and I have the black and grey version (I wish they made black keycaps for it).

If you want a Model M, and you can't find a real one (or you mobo doesn't have a PS2 connector, or the ones you can find are too expensive), then going for the Unicomp version is well worth it, imho.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand and (same page) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand#Reception for info on concerns about backdrops.
You can't challenge a claim about how I feel about something, if I say something doesn't hurt, nothing you can say will convince me it does. Pain is subjective, keep that in mind when trying to tell others how they feel about something.
And yet everyone who has a home charger has an L2 charger. So, apparently, you don't understand how people who currently own electric cars & can charge at home do charging.

The way they do it:

* Charge overnight, start every day full
* Supercharge on long trips
* If you have a Leaf, the definition of "long trip" is a bit short

Done. No DC fast charger needed at home.
It was unnecessary to split the protocol into two ports when STARTTLS came along shortly after. As for myself, I also thinks it's nice that you can partly identify the usage of a port by connecting to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTPS
I think I read somewhere that Jonathan Postel (Internet pioneer) also had a rule advising that.

Googled and found it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel

"In his lifetime he was known as the "god[2] of the Internet" for his comprehensive influence on the medium."
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In the socialist hell-hole (/s) I live in, I pay taxes for a fairly comprehensive trash and recycling service run by my local government. The service operates weekly. However, they only take care of trash that fits into their standardised trash bags or containers. They will not pick up anything that is too heavy for their workers to lift, such as a broken TV, or too big for their trucks, such as a mattress. Thus, there are additional private services here that have sprung up to take care of non-standard trash, and they do quite well out of it.
An “The Uber of ” idea I haven't heard
Here it is: The Uber of Investigative Reporting

This struck me a few days ago and I'm convinced it's a thing. If I could make a kickstarter style payment to fund a real investigative reporter to look into a thing, I would be all about it. My feeling is that a lot of other people would as well. On the flip side, newspapers (who employ most investigators - tv does NOT) are starving for a viable way to make money in the new digital world. This solves that problem - if done right.

That's all I've got... Sharing this here is probably all I will ever do with this idea.
We don't have a tradition of teaching from a particular textbook (some universities do, some don't) so generally a lecture would include pointers towards chapters in multiple different textbooks, none of which match the contents of the lecture exactly (i.e. they're supplementary material, extra reading); and even if some lecture was based on a particular textbook, that text (unlike the lecture video/transcript) would be something that couldn't ever be published with a video because of copyright issues.

For my own teaching, no, I don't write up a "script" beforehand, I prepare content and plan for the topics and key points that I intend to cover in this lecture (and the next one, if we go quicker than expected), but the actual content heavily depends on how the students react, what they are (mis)understanding, what are the questions, etc. I don't consider well-scripted lectures a good thing, the lecturers that I know who are more into "reading off a script" give quite weak lectures IMHO.

Preparing in-depth textual material would seem a waste of effort as students would get the same content in the lecture. I wouldn't use it for other students since I'd anyway never give the same lecture twice - research is progressing fast, so my 2016 content is dated now and this year's content will definitely have to be rewritten (and the course restructured) next year. Admittedly, that's context-dependant - my situation is uncommon, there's a lot of teaching that involves lecturing the same introductory topic for many years off of a classic textbook to multiple larger audiences, and in that context your arguments would definitely apply.

But that's actually all offtopic.

The main issue is that none of this is equivalent to the transcript. Nothing of what you propose would make the video accessible to a deaf person. A textbook chapter or the lecture materials are alternatives to the video, it helps making do without the video, but doesn't make accessible the part of video where the lecturer is writing something interesting on the blackboard and explaining something that you can't hear.
This isn't true. These tests are NOT objective if the patient has an incentive to lie about their self-reporting, either in the stoic "it's fine" sense or in the "I want more opiates" or "I want to get some paid sick days" sense.
A way to plan if you're bad at planning
> other than you prefer one set of trade-offs to another.
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So you can understand the point being made, congratulations, it's what engineering is all about.
Should be marked with a [2012] tag.

Super interesting article though.
I still enjoy 3d movies.
It is for a lot of companies. It's called "PTO" or Paid Time Off.
That is true. It looks like there is some work being done to potentially relax this constraint, http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/218
Exokernels are, as I understand them, even lighter weight than VMs. Instead of user-level libraries implementing file systems and network stacks for emulated hardware, or dedicated hardware on a machine with multiple instances of those devices, the kernel's protection mechanisms are redesigned to work at a lower level: disk blocks as managed by inodes, raw packets as identified by filters, time slices as scheduled by user space.

Combined with a sandboxed-by-default capability security model, I think that's the best approach. You no longer need virtualization or users or containers- you just assign hardware and software resources to applications, following the principle of least power. You not only still have the same convenient programming models, but the same (or arguably better) monitoring and management tools.
Red is not used by "professionals" like your uncle who occasionally does some wedding photography. Red is used by "professionals" like filmmakers of The Hobbit.

http://www.red.com/news/profiling-the-technology-of-the-hobb...
Still doesn't address sending credentials plaintext or what benefit this has, at all. Adds another roundtrip for no benefit. Using TLS doesn't change the identification, just requires a few packets to be exchanged; not a huge deal.

So again, how did Lavabit help its customers by not forcing TLS for IMAP?
Taxes are extremely high in my area, especially small business nickle and dime taxes. It may shock you to hear my employees spend a minimum of 2 hours every two weeks (to say nothing of the distress of spending time on hold and dealing with unaccountable government agencies) on the phone yelling about non-compliance of pickup and outright lies by the waste management companies about how they do their jobs.

In theory I certainly agree with you. In practice, these agencies and government-backed crony companies have zero accountability, zero recourse, and no customer service.
One could argue it wasn't "augmented reality" at all. I doubt cell phones have the power to take their camera feed in, do actual computer vision to analyze the (arbitrary) world [1], and then overlay anything with any interesting intelligence at all. (Even if you can scrape together the specs to say that high end phones might be able to do nontrivial work, I wouldn't be surprised you hit problems like internal hardware bandwidths and such. Even before we discuss battery, which Pokemon Go certainly chewed down pretty well even without complex analysis.) Pokemon Go was just a character laid over the camera with no intelligence.

[1]: I have to qualify this because the 3DS can do some things with certain prepared cards, and cell phones nowadays outclass the 3DS quite handily. But doing any sort of analysis without such hints, which certainly have not taken off, is way harder. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3ds+augmented+r...
Another solution to this problem would be to extend DNS with port information. For example, if http for foo.com is hosted on a multi-tenant server, a DNS entry that says "access http for foo.com on port N."
That was very stupid. I thought it would actually let you see the world as if Pokémon were in it, but it was basically just a picture in a camera background.
Your comment will certainly get downvoted here for several reasons. 1) No useful content 2) Pure sarcasm 3) being a bit AGW. Having said that, I have to agree with your sentiment.

Just two years ago the news was all about how the CA drought was all because of carbon emissions and global warming. At least this paper does not do a full flip-flop and claim the recent precipitation is due to GW. It suggests the future may have higher or lower precipitation and large uncertainty - perhaps large variability due to the region being near a transition. Regardless of what its trying to say, it can be viewed through an AGW lens as "we fucked up last time, but here's why and BTW it's still all from CO2."

My take away is just that modeling this stuff is really hard and they aren't there yet.
I hope we can differentiate between mental blocks and illness, but if you are in the former category, try switching to different classes of tasks. If you are in the "illness" category, ignore this comment all-together.

I do have days where I cant get code done, but luckily there are other things that work well on those days -- like catching up on research paper queues or audit/accounting/cleaning. Accounting/cleaning has a strangely and remedial quality, there is something soothing about getting things to balance perfectly and into order.
> Many towns in New Hampshire with spread out population do not want to pay for garbage pickup. Everyone brings everything to the dump themselves.

Yes, and this is pretty common even in areas where the population isn't particularly spread out.
I think the free service was born out of despair for people consistently leaving big trash on the roadside. While I understand you as I don't produce big trash myself, I guess it's still better to just pay a little more and get rid of the bigger problems having trash on the roadside would bring.
Right, but the punishment for not paying taxes is a lot harsher than seems reasonable for someone who just doesn't pay their garbage-pickup bill. It feels weird for those to be the same thing.
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Instagram glasses floating around the person and other shitty stuff are more AR than Pokémon.
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I was at Facebook's F8 conference this year and to say they are pushing hard on VR is an understatement. Personally, I find VR and its potential applications very intriguing and I welcome this, but it all still feels.. I don't know.. very much top down and too early. I'm not sure if it's consumers driving demand for this, or the industry desperately looking for the 'next' platform 10 years on from the iPhone.

In contrast, it feels like the whole mobile app paradigm was a more emergent trend that rose from the hardware getting better and it being an 'obvious' thing to do with software on that hardware. Like, smartphones weren't designed specifically with apps in mind, but they emerged as a phenomenon naturally, in response to demand. But maybe that's just hindsight talking, maybe it too was ultimately pushed from the top down by companies building apps and promoting them. Hard to say I guess.

If any company can push VR into the mainstream, or at least accelerate the process, Facebook has to be one of the best positioned, and I hope it works. I just wonder if the hardware doesn't need to get dramatically (5 years) better before it becomes obvious that ordinary people will want to incorporate it into their daiy routine (and then, possibly more in AR form than VR form) - indeed, to be fair, at F8 a very similar message was delivered in some talks.
Really? I always liked the 3D of 3DS!

But since I've never played one for more than 30min I guess I can't speak on that.
Hence, regulation! Fire marshalls have teeth.
> I've never noticed this problem at a grocery outlet

I live down the street from a New York City grocery store. Once a week all their boxes and stale groceries wander out onto the sidewalk from where, at convenient times like 5pm or Midnight a garbage truck blocks traffic while making robot-sex sounds. Apparently, private garbage pick-up was axed when Fairways last went bankrupt.
This kind of forgery can be mitigated by requiring all certificates to be published to a Certificate Transparency server upon issuance. You can't backdate a public ledger that is being watched by third parties.
Anyone remember Priceline Gas? I loved it, for the short period that it lasted...
Feynman said, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." This is a guy who won the Nobel Prize for work in quantum mechanics.

QM does not line up with human intuition at all. It looks like this is a fundamental issue with how the universe works, not a problem with our explanations. And really, that shouldn't be any surprise. There's no reason to expect the universe's workings to match our intuition in any situation that's substantially different from what our intuition evolved in.
Oh my bad, I usually do that. I can't seem to edit my comment though..
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>What is the difference between being depressed and "feeling" depressed?
>What is the difference between being schizophrenic and having the "opinion" that Satan speaks to you through your neighbor's cat?
>Mental illness is defined by what a person feels and believes.

Honestly, a lot of the time it comes down to observable impact. If a patient comes to a doctor and says that they feel depressed, that's one thing, if they have lost their third job this year because they can't do anything but lie in bed and seem to not care about their own lives (especially if they used to not be like this in the past) that's something else.
oh for fuck's sake, these were factual corrections
Oh you work at Atlassian! I wonder if the PR I recently had accepted into "Auto Unapprove Plugin" will affect you! (I get the sense Atlassian uses that add-on internally).

https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/stash-auto-unapprove-plugin/...

(Issue #15 in particular - base unapprove on: git diff target...source | git patch-id).
Does it actually do the randomisation at boot time? It's unclear from the article, but OpenBSD could be randomising the next kernel to boot after the current one has been loaded. This could be performed some time after the boot process, allowing more randomness, and minimising the boot-time workload/code complexity.
Mars surface 'more uninhabitable' than thought