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Where are the hits?

- AR powers the world's #1 Photo App (#3 most popular app overall) in Snapchat's filters.

- AR is getting its first commercially polished, OS level set of libraries in the next release from the world's most valuable consumer electronics company in iOS 11.

- AR's killer form factor - wearable glasses - is being furiously developed by Google, Apple, SNAP, MSFT, etc, etc and it's going to be weird and fucking wonderful when AR has a truly suitable foundation to build on.

So where are the hits?

All around us, right in front of us.
Looks like it is running a fairly basic react app :shrug: - I'd guess the blog is a side project and doubles as a way to learn new tech. Supporting noscript users is probably prioritized right next to localization and accessibility. Not to say they aren't important, just that implementing that might be a future learning project... as the author's interests / professional growth dictates.
You communicate with other cars via signaling. Road conditions are transmitted to you via signs.
He's probably not just any engineer because if you actually check the stream it looks like it is viral marketing for "robinhood.com"
> Many-worlds has a concrete, physical, simple explanation for quantum effects.

So does religion, it doesn't make it true without evidence. Inventing unseen universes is easy, it's not simple, it fails the Occam's razor test for the same reason gods do.
These things are always low resolution. At some point I'd like to see the state of the art move into more realistic (say ~500x500) dimensions.
Not diagnosing them, just saying there's something off and that may be linked to a personality disorder. That's not a controversial statement is it?
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What load of horseshit on Stripe's part. From anecdotes I've read on HN, they're the same as PayPal or any other payment company just with a newer brand and better API.
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Ask HN: Work with unlimited vacation – how many weeks to take?
Asking here because company is too small and no HR department.

Context:

Been working for this company for 3 years now. Never took a vacation before.

Contract says unlimited vacation time.

Are the vacation days I take, paid vacation? Will I be paid for my month if I take a month off?

Thanks for the info new to these sort of startup contracts.
Would an infinite number of monkeys making an infinite number of trades find proof of Fama's Efficient Market Hypothesis?
If we're going to talk about the individuals in tech oriented companies being abusive for bigoted reasons, maybe we can also talk the rest of us?
I'm a heavy SC user, listen to my "manually curated" (for lack of better words) timeline in background for hours a day (using global shortcuts in chrome to skip what I don't like), but what if I want to buy a song I like? I have to give my money to Bandcamp!

Also, 10 bucks to remove ads is ridiculous, their catalogue is tiny and with overwhelmingly obscure/indie music (at least for me), AND I have no idea if the artists will actually get any of it! Cut it in half, have some sort of revenue share and I'm in.
Nice technique but it cannot be used in a secure boot chain. Maybe that's not an issue in most contexts OpenBSD is used into, but if I were to choose I wouldn't turn off secure boot to activate this feature.
We do car-to-car communications already via signaling. Bad actors also exist right now and are handled via regulations. The same will happen under autonomous systems.

The final check will be sensors, but the system relies on cooperation.
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> Mixcloud Founder here, thanks for the support and if you ever have issues reach out.

Wow, awesome! Never thought anyone from either SoundCloud or MixCloud would read this.

Short list of improvements I would love to see:

1. If an artist uploads a tracklist for their mix, support seeking directly to a track within the mix (similar to a cue file) via the app or website.

2. Introduce a better way to seek in the app. When the mix is 1-2 hours long and all I have is a seek bar the width of my phone screen and a fat thumb, it's very difficult to seek to somewhere specific in the podcast. Something like 10 sec forward and 30 sec back buttons would already be a huge win.

3. Sometimes the mobile app plays the mix but all you get is silence. This seems to happen most frequently in the middle of a mix when there are connectivity issues. Closing the app and opening it again when you have better connectivity still results in blank sections of the mix. Super weird and very annoying!

But otherwise, yeah, please keep it up! Mixcloud has basically replaced the other music discovery services for me because it's got the content I want and it just works.
Thanks for highlighting. This does seem pretty aggressive.

This does stink, but they have options. If their revenue is as large as they state, they can likely go to a bank and get a line of credit with their receivables as collateral. If they were in a B2B business, they would likely be facing Net 45 terms from their customers anyway. http://www.comcapfactoring.com/blog/line-of-credit-secured-b...
I specially like your last point, and you will make even more money if what you produce makes them smarter.

It is all the point of IT: increase the human capacities (computation, data handling and understanding, productivity, communication...). People who already master all of that do not need you so much.
Agreed, learning programming (even in great classes under great guidance) is obtuse if not largely inaccessible to lots of people I know or have heard of.
It seems like a more comparable reinforcement learning thing to do would be to combine the entropy criterion with a known reward when available in some way and then do Q learning on that without the simulation requirement. Then in cases where reward is uncertain or infrequent you fall back to a flexibility heuristic.
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Maths are models of reality which may or may not be correct and can only be verified by comparing them to reality. While they serve as the most simple way to explain reality, don't confuse them with reality. The map is not the territory.
You don't really need the full color management for resizing, only fixing the gamma curve. I believe Apple's implementation of P3 uses the common 2.2 gamma, which is also approximately what sRGB uses. Unfortunately ProPhoto uses 1.8.
Well, I didn't say they were comparable. I just sort of pointed out they existed.

Current generation video game consoles are also incomparable to Pong. But hey, that's the difference between 1st and 8th generation consoles.
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That's a fair point. To be honest, I'm not convinced we'll ever find a way to do software development well.
Twitch Plays Pokémon and other such games tended to be highly disorganized and take forever to accomplish basic tasks.

I wonder if that'll be the case here, and if so, whether that means better or worse investing.
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I agree with you re. anarcho-capitalism. I think that a state is a prerequisite for capitalism.

But that doesn't mean you couldn't a) pare back the state to the bare minimum functionality (which doesn't include garbage collection, IMO) and fund it voluntarily.
Returnbase (reverse logistics), CropMetrics (agtech), Weather Analytics (ag. insurance), and Loop Support (customer support, shameless plug) come to mind.

It's tough to "casually observe" startups because you can't flip through their 10-Ks, but you can think of individual startups metonymously - learn more about their industries, and then try to figure out why these startups are trying to use technology to make better products.
I really don't wanna see pretentious here, but does anyone actually think autodidactism is hard?

I have diagnosed and unmedicated ADD and I can still self-learn without too much difficulty.

Again, I don't wanna sound too full of myself, but is any of this stuff really as hard the author implies?
A rare internet comment that is the inverse of the now, cliche "VR is niche and AR will be (or is... if you consider pokemon go AR) mainstream" AR needs to get a lot better before its immersive, and there might be limits to displays that make true hard AR impossible or unlikely. I think most of the mainstream use cases that people imagine for AR are pretty basic, ie text and icon overlays over video, so immersion isn't viewed as an important aspect. In the context of games I think it's hard to design a good AR game because you don't have control over the environment the player is in. It does open up a lot of fun location based ideas though. I also kind of like the idea of hybrid physical digital games although those will always be niche due to costs and setup friction.
That's a good start at least. Do you know if it is open source?
That is a decent point. To write even a basic web app properly you need to know a half a dozen libraries. To deploy it you need to know even more plus probably know about infrastructure and networking. Then to write the frontend you need to know several specifications and libraries for that as well.

For many applications parallel and concurrent processing is not a nice to have but mandatory and apps can be distributed across hundreds of machine.

I remember reading RFCs when I was getting started. You could learn all of HTTP by reading two RFCs. Now you have to read a dozen if you want comprehensive knowledge of just HTML.
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> Each character of those variable names takes up RAM.

Not to mention that at least on the C64, only the first two characters are significant anyway, ie, 'abba', 'ab', and 'abcd' all refer to the same variable.
Marxism is entirely orthogonal to the idea of "government-provided services."
How do you verify the gas from the stations you stop at now?

The most thought I've put into it when I had a VW TDI was to fill up at a stations that were busy and more likely to have fresh fuel. A brand name station isn't a guarantee that the fuel is fresh if it is on the road less traveled.
I was sort of hoping this would determine code ownership based on who wrote the lines being modified in the patch. This solution is simple and still useful, though.
I think it's in part due to the content loss piece being done using pre-trained imagenet models which typically resize images to 224x224...
... except that the vast majority of what society does is voluntary.

To extend your analogy: "The magic house-elves are already making our cars, writing our software, and growing our food. I wonder if we should pay them a bit more to cart away our trash too."

The house-elves shouldn't be doing the law enforcement or the Government (and in fact they _are_ right now, e.g. in the case of for-profit prisons and the Fed, and it's a disaster). But they're a bit under-utilised right now in some areas :)
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Who would be peddling the myth that programming is easy? Those who sell boot camps of course but who else?

I like to liken it with playing an instrument. It's easy to make sounds but how long before someone will pay you to play for them? That's programming (and sports, and cooking, and any other craft that is superficially easy but deep and complex crafts to perform professionally)
Too late to edit, so posting a follow-up for clarification: I don't mean anarcho-capitalism, I mean a voluntarily-funded State.
In the NYC area there are a few bars that give you a free small pizza with every $5 pint all day every day. Pretty decent too.
As somebody else with diagnosed and unmedicated ADD, what do you do to manage it?
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Same here. My municipal trash service is awful, and they increase the price every year without making the service better, probably because f-you. They could seriously use some competition.

1. Motor oil, electronics, toxic waste: They say you can't throw them away with the garbage but your only other alternative is to take time out of your weekday to drive that stuff to some government center somewhere (during business hours--I suppose you're not supposed to have a job).

2. Large items that can't fit in the trash can: There are apparently several special times a year when these things will be picked up, but only when several planets align and it's a weekday. You need to place it exactly on the right spot next to the curb, it needs to fit into a certain dimension and be under a certain weight or they'll leave it there and you need to wait for the next blue moon to come along in order to dispose it.

3. Anything else you need to get rid of that doesn't align with the garbage company's tight requirements: $50-100 trip to the dump.

I've had the best luck by just putting stuff in my front lawn with a big red "FREE" sign on it. People will scavenge ANYTHING. I've gotten rid of piles of dirt this way.
Maybe this is the beginning of "Twitch Trading". If ppl like seeing other ppl playing video games, trading stocks/futures could find an audience. The question is what would be the incentive for a competent trader/algo to let ppl see it's trades.
Hey Aaron -- super sorry to hear about the situation. Soundcloud is a fantastic product and company. If you or your colleagues are interested, Plaid is hiring engineers in SF. You can find a full description here: https://plaid.com/careers.

Or, better, just drop me a line directly: zach [at] plaid [dot] com
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So far, a subscription model is as close as we've come. It allows users to deal with a minimum of payment friction a minimal number of times while still paying.

Any time your business is exchanging information for money - music, video games, movies, etc - there's always an incentive to circumvent it. The approach thus far has been to make it convenient, easy, and cheap enough that users are willing to pay in some fashion.

I am deeply curious what you imagine this artificial-barrier-free experience that still coerces payments to be like, however.
Neither, put a real URL in there so people can a) use your site without JS and b) open links in new tabs. Use e.preventDefault().

If you can't put a URL in it, use a different element. Why can't you use <button>? It's definitely the correct element for something that takes an action. In a pinch, fall back on <span>?
I've long thought that a combination of NixOS and illumos would be incredibly useful. Software would be installed into the nix store in the global zone, and mapped into dedicated zones for each user. IP and port virtualization via Crossbow.

User zones would be extremely light, with your typical database-driven web app taking no space in the zone, and very little space in the nix store.
I think it's hard, not for me mostly, cause I love it.

But I tried helping out a friend with simple assignments and the concepts are just way off too what someone is used to.

Same with someone doing wordpress, I do the servers myselve. Which is way too much info to share... ( Other OS)
Would you consider my private keys secure if I posted them here and said that I would rotate them as soon as someone uses them in a way I don't like?
No, really. It sounds to me like you think the number of C developers is comparable to the number of high-level language developers. Tell me more.
Yup.

The towns around where I grew up used to make you pay money to get rid of metal (!!!!). Consequently it wasn't uncommon to find washing machines and old rims in random places. Then a scrap place opened up, appliances stopped showing up on the side of the road and the scrap place that only took copper quickly got ran out of business.

People don't want to dump stuff illegally, it's just the least worst option in the moment.
No, it shouldn't be done in perceptually uniform color space. LAB, like sRGB, is non-linear.

Resampling simulates physical properties of the light, not subjective perception of the eye.
I don't know about the parent comment's requirements, but I'm:

1. Someone who has some servers and a little tiny bit of technical knowledge. Or, to be exactly, I happen to already run Postfix+Dovecot+rspamd for my email.

2. Someone who is interested in personal email security/privacy, in particular in terms of both in-transit and on-storage encryption. I can't realistically watch for every CVE and patch all the holes on the day 1, so I would always love something that would let me trust my servers and network less.

I don't have any specific threat model or a designated adversary. I just see "hey, there's a some new stuff that looks promising" (this submission) and wonder if it could improve my life. However, the documentation is sparse, or, I'd better say, nearly non-existent (or I'm looking at a wrong place). So, asking if someone had already spent time to evaluate or had actually used that and can share their experience is a logical choice.

Thus, I just wonder - is Magma for me, can I run a secure personal email server with it? Like, use it to replace my Postfix+Dovecot system? Can I expect it to be no less reliable than my current setup (which is just your average run-off-the-mill configuration, documented in every other "how to set up your own mail server" article)? Is it correct to expect it to add some value in terms of security? What the exact those improvements would be?
All quantum mechanics has notions of "points in space that support the wavefunction," but these are different from the "worlds" in MWI.
My comment was merely trying to highlight that the operating systems he would perhaps hold in high regard are in fact the definition of comically bad for non-technical users.

These users are the majority, and so it's a stretch to call an OS that has captured that market so entirely and completely comically bad. I would argue that it makes it the best.
They are much better but they are still basically the same designs as the late 90's.

A lot of things have improved but most of the problems are things that were recognized before and still aren't perfect.

They still need to get smaller, lighter, higher resolution, faster refresh rate, 4-8X GPU power, and wireless, but in another decade they should be awesome.
Hey Aaron - thanks for posting and sorry to hear this.

If any of your colleagues are interested, Square Cash (https://cash.me) is hiring backend/server, iOS and Android engineers in SF. Reach out to ayo (at) squareup dot com if interested: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Square/743999652546124

Best of luck regardless. Looks like lots of great options in this thread.
Square Cash (https://cash.me) is hiring backend/server, iOS and Android engineers in SF. Reach out to ayo (at) squareup dot com if interested.

Best of luck!
In computer science academia, this kind of game is called grammar induction (of which inferring regular expressions is a special case).

A classic algorithm for inferring regular expressions was given by Angluin: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dawnsong/teaching/s10/pape...

(This isn't quite the same setup as you're thinking of but there are a ton of variations on the basic idea)
How does that solve the problem? How to 100 users bind their locally-installed web server to port 80? How do you make it so that only my user can bind to only my IP?
Very cool! LHCb continues to put out some really awesome results. Here's to hoping for some more exciting results from the rest of the LHC programme in 2017 and 2018.
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We disputed perhaps 1500 chargebacks with Paypal and won only 2 or 3. Chargebacks for "virtual goods" are unwinnable. Be sure to keep your chargeback rate under 1% by the number of payments, otherwise reserves will be applied.
You have to take into account a person's expectations of themselves as well as the scope of what they are trying to learn. If your expectations are overly ambitious, it's hard. If you are trying to learn to code some narrowly scoped solution, then its simple.
As far as I know eToro already allows users to copy other traders strategies. The incentive for the trader to allow others to copy their strategy is likely some % gain based on the number of copyers, so if you develop a successful trading strategy and allow others to profit off it, you also profit. Just a hunch.
simple, hard is a relative term. Because someone has a harder environment doesn't make them better? not sure how you came up with that implication, if anything, it might make them worse off. Starting programming these days, you have a massive boost over starting it 40 years ago.

It's not a truth that programming is hard. It might "feel" hard for some, might not be for others. Learning programming is really easy these days, and I'm sure will get even easier.

The hardest thing these days seems to be making choices between the absolute abundance of creations that are available in the world of programming.
Oh my God, another pointless rant.

I don't need to imagine, I do live in such a world, and here's what I do:

I either don't bother commenting on the first place, or I keep some links handy so that if someone genuinely asks I have something ready to share.

Surely passing a simple link is easier than what you're doing.
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> 1. has this alghoritm actually been executed somewhere?

Yeah, but so far we have the highest factorization achieved is 21 because we've only built relatively tiny quantum computers.[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm
Ha-ha, you're not getting anywhere.

The fact that every laptop comes with Windows 10 proves that nobody cares anymore whether the produce is useful or not.

"You can buy a laptop. Whatever you get, it's with Windows. It's not very good but that's what you're getting. Are you buying or not?"

Come to think of it, Windows laptops are comically bad too by themselves. Wide screens that nobody asked for. Cheap plastic of casings. Unreasonable thickness. General ugliness.
But surely, creating the user requires sysadmin privs, and as part of setting up the user the appropriate work could be done to allow whatever hole-punching is required. The reality though is that if Mary, Joe and Tim all want to listen in port 80, there's going to be a mess - hence using a common server (on a privileged port!) to demux incoming requests.
20th century+ humans have reliable birth control. There is a very strong anti birth control meme in the US.
Possibly general solicitation of funds from retail investors. But I agree with you that if you're any good, you're not going to be asking retail for money, you're heading straight to UHNW individuals and whatnot.
> But that doesn't mean you couldn't a) pare back the state to the bare minimum functionality (which doesn't include garbage collection, IMO) and fund it voluntarily.

You could do that with the entity called “the state”, but that entity would no longer be the state or government, no matter what it was called. (It might be an arm of the real government, which might consist of entities voluntarily funding the “state” which themselves exercise coercive, in practice, extraction of wealth, or it might be an irrelevant figurehead.)
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