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A flagship phone costs 6-800$. The Rift was selling at Best Buy with a 150$ gift card for 600$. And that is with a bunch of extra hardware (two cameras, tracked controllers, xbox controller, remote) and packaging that probably won't be in gen 2 VR.

So your expectation of what existing VR hardware costs is probably a little off. Let's say that you have a BOM of 500$ to make a Rift. That's 100-300$ to spend on a battery, mobile GPU/CPU and memory, cameras, and associated cooling and packaging. It's within the realm of reason at the 800$ price point.

I think the reality is that BOM will shift around quite a bit. VR might stall at the current level of fidelity for a while (which is fine IMO), but ease of use and price can be improved quite a bit.

Even since launch the cost of the full Rift setup has decreased quite a bit. 1/2 to 1/3rd although I would have to really think harder about what a realistic number is.
Since when has wolfram alpha an AI? I always thought it was simply calls to Mathematica.

Maybe when you ask general questions it uses an AI, but with functions and maths I think it only uses Mathematica.
Depends on how strong you like your Efficient Market Hypotheses. The strongest version "markets know the future" is obviously wrong. The weaker version that say something like "it's really hard work to beat the market" are obviously right.

I invite anyone who disputes the weaker versions to go and make a fortune in trading. All the "EMH disproved" nonsense is mostly that: nonsense.
no need to apologise. By no means I read your post as an attack to Brazilians in general. It was at a particular group. That's fine. I just think it's an incorrect assessment.

I concur with the nepotistic networking in part. Everyone tends to refer people they know personally. Our network was strong enough to become some sort of inner joke. I doubt that this was what brought SC down. Immature acts were not restricted to us.
You can find similar products that work over bluetooth for under $10 on Amazon. I use an old smartphone on a mount to show all of the same information using a third-party app - no need for an $88 proprietary dongle.

There doesn't seem to be anything new about this product other than marketing and a high price tag. I'd love for that to not be the case, however. Maybe I'm missing some features of it.
Amazon offers many services, of course they are going to want users to have one set of credentials to access all those services.

There are trade-offs to every security approach, but storing passwords at every web service is 100x worse.
That could be painful for the teacher too. If kids don't do well on tests, then teachers can fail their evaluations. It seems like it would be an incentive to use the flipped model where exercises are worked though in class and students learn lessons at night via video and reading.
There are lots of folks here for which the shell interface is usefull, but difficult to use. Using colors and graphics can be super helpful for folks with dyslexia, along with asymmetric fonts (thing I learned this year: comic sans scores incredibly well as a font for people with dyslexia). So don't poke fun.

I don't have that problem, but I don't see any problem including redundancy. I have come to like Powerline-hs's git support because even if I only half-glimpse a window I immediately know the status of the repo from it just by the colors. I don't see why I wouldn't want to maximize the channels of information coming back to me.
Well if he's getting paid $600/month he is homeless or living with parents, we can know that.
You want a mail order foam mattress - you must just not know it.
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I have numerous Gmail accounts (more than 20) and not a single one has been banned. And Google explicitly supports using multiple accounts by providing an account switcher. Perhaps your account was banned for some reason other than being a duplicate.
This reminds me of Brill tagger, which learns rules to do part-of-speech tagging -- rules are learned, but execution is entirely deterministic application of rules.
The best thing to do is for ADHD is to see a medical professional. I have meet so many people that self diagnosed their issues and were wrong on the treatment plan 100% of the time as none of them were medical professionals. By not doing so you are unfortunately just wasting time and money as the problem gets worse over time.

Most of the time they needed to take medication for awhile to help rebalance their brain because something was off balance. Over time things rebalance and they no longer needed to take as much medication or no longer need to take any medication because things rebalanced.

The bulk of answers people find online are temporary placebos that never actually helped to permanently solve or reduce the problem because what they were taking or doing were not carefully planned by a medical professional. So my recommendation is to go see the Doc, they will either work with you to do a non medical treatment plan and/or you may need to take medication to resolve the issue.
Just note that since it is a mental disorder the only way to resolve it is by using professional medical help by a therapist, physiatrist and or a physician. Do not feel bad seeing a doctor, it is better to seek professional help to try and resolve the problem.
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It sounds like you are already using medication, just not ones that are approved by the FDA.

Do not be afraid of antidepressants, these are particularly helpful for anxiety and they don't have the drawbacks that benzodiazepines and other "downers" have in terms of impaired memory, learning and balance. For best results you might end up trying a few different dosages and/or medications, maybe seeing your doc every month for a few months, possibly making medication changes over the phone.

Meditation is good, but regular exercise should be the first line therapy for most mental health issues: a good goal would be to do 1 hour of cardio 5 days a week. It is good even if you do half of that, but it takes most people about 45 minutes to start experiencing the "Runner's High"

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

As for amphetamines, Ritalin, etc. I can say that I don't know any young adults who are taking those drugs to get into a high-functioning zone. I do know older (65+) people who use them to shake grogginess and I know children who seem to be doing OK.

I have been told, and I have learned, to give no quarter to negative thoughts such as you have described. It is not so easy to do because it so compelling, but trying to explore them in great detail tends to increase their power over you more than decrease it.
It's not zoomed. That's how it appears by default in Safari. It's insane.
At some level you're always relying on other companies for a service. Even Google does -- they don't own the last mile.

However, even if you expect people to CoLo, you're still relying on a the facility for power, cooling, networking, security. Moreover, AWS is a paid service, there should be some expectation of conflict resolution. It's not like Google where Gmail is free and there really isn't any reason you should be able to reach out to someone.

What you should be arguing is not that we shouldn't rely on a _single_ provider. Redundancy is fairly cheap in terms of material, even if a little time-capital expensive to set up.
If powerline doesn't slow people down, I'm pretty sure the 10ms Ruby invocation time is equally fine.
If your React application is spoilt by Redux you're doing something wrong. The whole point of Redux is that the majority of your code is simple idiomatic React that knows nothing about the global state.
One trick I like is that you can use `account+<tag>@example.com` and a lot of services will consider it a separate e-mail address, even though MTAs will transfer it to the same account; this has the added benefit of being easy to filter for on your e-mail client. I also use this tactic when signing up for web services that I anticipate will spam me. (I import a lot of merch from China/Japan; their unsubscribe systems tend to be insanely broken / borderline user hostile. Each such account gets a unique tag so that I know which service is spamming me.)

Alternatively if you want ultimate trust just run your own mailserver and set up as many aliases as you want! For $5/mo you can get a Linode box to do it, and I've yet to get an IP from them that is on an e-mail blacklist. They have great documentation[1], the most important thing is to just make sure your SMTP server requires authentication & refuses to relay for remote hosts. SPF/DKIM are necessary to get past modern spam filters, but frankly if you've ever setup a TLS cert you can probably manage to setup DKIM just fine.

[1]: https://www.linode.com/docs/email/postfix/
I honestly read this article as taking more of a philosophical stance than a technical one. The fact is that we as humans will require proof and verification of human control over a system is an inescapable one. Basically, on some level we need guarantees and proof that the machine will never come up with a rule that says "kill all humans".

This means that we'll need human-supplied rules, and any mature ML platform will need to be able to incorporate these rules. IMO it's a decent problem-based hypothesis as to what the future evolution of ML platforms will look like, but as with any hypothesis, it will need to be tested, proven wrong in some way, and adjusted accordingly.
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But then you're storing passwords in more services, which creates more surface area for breaches.

If you shop with Amazon, host your services with Amazon, watch TV on Amazon...there's simply no way of getting around the fact that Amazon will only want to manage a password for you in one place. The issue is clearly over reliance on Amazon services.
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Perhaps businesses are becoming too agressive at requesting email addresses, people are providing fake email addresses, and the recipients are responding by flagging it as spam?

I bring this up because I started receiving suspiciously legitimate spam a few years back. No red flags were raised by the email itself (e.g. no indications of phishing), the companies exist, the recipients exist, everything was geographically consistent. It was as though certain individuals were providing my email address as their own to businesses yet not to friends or colleagues.

When you consider how agressive some of these websites are with newsletters, I would not be surprised if people were providing fake email addresses just to get rid of the prompts. I would not be surprised if Google started flagging those newsletters as spam, even if the odd user genuinely wanted them.
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Google does not care about how much content you have; Google's claim that "the best way to rank is to have good content" is a lie, they've been completely gamed for the last decade.

Google cares only about how many links that content has. Links do not occur organically, especially not in the age of social media, where most natural non-commercial activity is locked away in walled gardens. Content owners have to actively pursue them. When serious competitors come in, they will have their own "private blog networks" that cross-link and crush any hand-made link networks.

SEO is a lie. You have to spam to win whenever there is significant competition.
I think if Jeff actually cared he would have put some personnel in place to back up "Your feedback is helping us build Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company".

It's odd though, in my experience customer support on Amazon is amazingly good.
This is common in many areas of suburban MA within 30 minutes of Boston.
I've had the same issue with buying and selling accounts - my buying account got locked out, which prevented me from logging in to my selling account, with 50 pending orders at the time. Luckily I emailed jeff@amazon.com and got my main account unlocked within 2 days and my buying eventually got back a week or two later.

Seems like they still haven't fixed the underlying issue of bots locking accounts across services.
Wolfram Alpha isn't the issue. The issue is that we're grading students on an arbitrary and meaningless metric, instead of the end result.

As an employer, if I hire you to do a task, let's say build a toaster, I couldn't care less about how you achieved that - as long as I've got my toaster and it can help me grow my toast-making business I'm happy. Education should work the same.
You're certainly not the only person, I do the same. These stories that keep popping up, about people losing access to their SSO accounts and emails convinced me that it's worth the effort.
Excited about this. I've been looking for something like this for a while. Tried a couple of different types of OBD-II adapters from Ebay, but trying to get data from them over bluetooth or wifi was just a pain. Panda with a direct interface to my laptop will enable me to get all the information I've been trying to get from the OBD-II port of my car, specifically steering angles, acceleration and braking. Using them together with feeds from a couple of cameras, and some interesting applications can be hacked together.
My dad said to me that knowledge isn't what you remember, it's what you can remember or look up relatively quickly.
Unit testing isn't very interesting, so shouldn't need to be "a little gross".
Quite possibly someone else is copying your work and getting first to SEO. So your site become a copy-cat even though you did the work.
I was just about to comment with this suggestion. A friend of mine uses it for gmail and its great for filtering as you suggested.
Some years ago I got a reimbursement from google regarding expenses they were paying me. I though they had totally forgotten about it and contacted them.

Even the google representative knew their own financial related emails were systematically being tagged as SPAM on gmail.

That's how aggressive it was.

I couldn't stop laughing for minutes.
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1. Homework should absolutely be graded to provide students with feedback, assess learning progress, and tailor instruction to strengths/weaknesses of students in the current iteration of the course. Once all the work goes into grading, it's hard for teachers to throw out that data when assigning grades.

2. It mimics the real world where sitting your butt in a chair and turning in useless reports is valued -- perhaps not as much as actual outcomes, but still valued. Perhaps that's stupid, but in most jobs it's a reality. IMO this isn't a great motivator, but it's one a lot of teachers cite.

3. Helps pad the grades of students who are terrible test takers / have anxiety issues.

4. Students are... students. They don't always know what's best for themselves. Making homework worth a portion of the grade communicates to students that they need to practice. Patronizing? Maybe. But also a reality.

5. It's the easiest way to inflate grades without explicitly lowering standards.
Hotz is quoted as saying in the article, "there are only three real competitors: Waymo, Tesla and us."

That's total bullshit. There are so many companies seriously working on autonomous vehicles, such as GM Cruise, Auroa Innovation, Drive.ai, Zoox, Nuro.ai, nuTonomy, Varden Labs, AImotive, Ford, and Nvidia

Edit, because George is on here: George, I want to like you, because I think your tech is really good (the street image segmentation from RGB images is seriously impressive- https://commacoloring.herokuapp.com/) and I think your business model of offering cheap devices and free services to crowd-source data, along with the comma points to incentivize users could give you a big competitive advantage. But the hyperbole makes it difficult to take you seriously.
And propping up the grades of compliant students.
That is a really nice way of doing it. If you are going to the trouble of statically generating your site, you might has well statically generate a well-structured index at the same time.
I don't know who you are but thanks! :)
My friend Bill turned my Brautigan this past spring. http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/the-life-and-de...
I am not convinced such a separation would be effective. Accounts identified as being associated with a "problem" account (shared CC, addresses, etc) could also justifiably be closed. The idea being to keep "abusive" individuals from just opening a new account and resuming their abusive behavior.

The only long term solution is to get a person with enough power to make their own decisions to look at your claims, but that takes quite some time and is not guaranteed to be successful.
2016: Comma.ai will compete with Tesla, Google, Mobileye[1]

2017: Comma.ai will compete with ScanGauge

hm.

(http://www.businessinsider.com/george-hotz-techcrunch-disrup...)
Whether by monopoly or sheer blindness, Google leans really heavily towards only letting massive institutions through.

I know a few people whose professional work involves a lot of delivering explicitly-requested, non-spam emails. With most email providers, they don't go to spam because they aren't spam. If they get flagged as spam servers (usually right after spinning up an instance, when the confidence is low), they can contact someone and get it sorted out.

With Gmail? They have extensive lists of tips and tricks to "sneak through" emails that their users specifically asked for. They 'prime' servers with extra-safe traffic to avoid getting frozen in the low-confidence early emails. And they still regularly run into problems. They just don't have the size to be trusted by Google, or to get business contacts to solve the problems that do arise.

It's a pretty concerning state of affairs - Gmail will deliver anything sometimes, but it seems to be a very high bar (vastly higher than "not spam") to ensure you don't regularly drop messages.
From the README[0]:

It supports 3x CAN, 2x LIN, and 1x GMLAN. It also charges a phone. On the computer side, it has both USB and Wi-Fi.

It uses an STM32F413 for low level stuff and an ESP8266 for Wi-Fi. They are connected over high speed SPI, so the panda is actually capable of dumping the full contents of the busses over Wi-Fi, unlike every other dongle on amazon. ELM327 is weak, panda is strong.

https://github.com/commaai/panda/blob/master/README.md
I'm still doing this one too - took maybe an hour to configure a simple dovecot+postfix+spamassassin setup and I don't have to touch it beyond an upgrade once every 6 months or so.

Having catchalls at bullshit domains is great.
Nah. Dandelions don't regrow stems; this can't be something done in response to being mowed. The plant doesn't think "I got mowed! I guess I'll grow a different way now".

Its a different growth pattern in the plant. Gotta be driven by genetics.
Given the absurd insecurity of the OBD II CAN interface on all modern vehicles, it seems insane to install anything there with a wireless interface on it.
>Performance will always drop because the high performance came specifically by doing unsafe things that enable attackers.

No, this is not true. Strong static typing and other compile-time information can (at least theoretically) allow improving both security and performance.

For example, look at single address space operating systems. Switching between security domains is cheaper when you don't have to switch address spaces. That's an improvement to security that allows increased efficiency.
I would claim that most folks who have a reasonable understanding of fundamental computer architecture and assembly are those who actively learned it. Folks who have just used a compiler for everything, in my experience, rarely actually develop the understanding innately. Compilers still have this "magic" element associated with them.
To add another point, my A-Level teacher always said anything the calculator can do, you can do, and just as fast.

And then she chose a question from the book, had one of us start typing, and she started at the board solving the same thing.

She finished first. Not by much, and obviously the calculator is the faster choice more often, but she finished first.
This article is... weird. It basically assumes the Facebook pseudo-menu-driven chatbots people fat-finger into their systems with almost no consideration for UX are the state of the art.

It then compares it to a personal agent that actually has a similar model and the worst voice recognition and search precision of the current crop agent software which... isn't even really the same kind of software?

What is this article even trying to say? Poorly written bots are bad, well-written agents are good, and voice interfaces aren't as bad as people make them out to be?

Cool.
Even if this was true, what's the problem? He built a successful business that many people find useful, and that's good enough for me.
Maybe so, but they won't tell me why it was banned. That alone should give people pause. There were a lot of resources tied to that account.

Here's the closest thing to a list of reasons I could find: https://www.google.com/intl/en-US/%2B/policy/content.html

I didn't engage in illegal activities, malicious or deceptive practices, hate speech, harassment, distributing personal information, child exploitation, spam, ranking manipulation, distribution of sexually explicit material, violence, selling regulated goods and services, impersonation, account hijacking, or use multiple accounts to bypass the above policies. So I have no idea what I did -- Google won't say, and all attempts to get more info out of them failed.
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Chatbots aside, Comcast and United Airlines continue to be big consumer businesses despite horrible customer service reputations. Socially it's bad, but economically it's hard to justify spending that much on customer support. (Those companies also enjoy semi-monopoly positions, though, so I wouldn't recommend emulating that unless you enjoy a similar position in the market.)
Whoops, never mind.
ODB2 Bluetooth readers for Smartphones can be had for $10 [1]. I guess the hard part is writing the software that logs all the data. Currently most Android apps simply display the data and don't log it. The logging/software aspect of this is certainly where the value is added.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_9?url=search-alias...
Back in days we rented servers and created our env, it was not really that hard. And it was super easy to move from one provider to another.
Or even new. It's an OBDII bridge.. except maybe with a software mindset instead of an automobile one, thus some wifi chip (looks like an ESP32 on the picture) and a cute form factor. I ... don't get it.

I thought hotz finally found his spot and excepted some small nuc like board + a set of cam and sensors ..
IMO this is more of a workaround for a defect which is "Customer service for these cloud feudals is an oxymoron".

So what if I use the same account, if there is a lock-out event I should be notified and there should be an actual customer service agent that can solve my problem taking care of the issue...