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TPCast is a huge step forward. No one saw that coming within a year of the major headsets launching. I've definitely got my eye on that stuff. But it's still huge and clunky at the end of the day. It won't be until the major manufacturers integrate this stuff that mainstream adoption hits.

I got into VR development with the mindset that the hardware will be ready in 5 years, and when it is the people who stuck with it through the times of disillusionment beyond the hype phase will be in prime position to start doing amazing things at scale. I'm personally waiting for the next gen of headsets now to do more full scale VR work. The current top level hardware is pushed to it's bounds in terms of adoption and it just doesn't make financial sense for developers yet. Until then, mobile is where it's at IMO. The integrated solutions from Samsung and Oculus on the horizon are really exciting.

The SteamVR Knuckles I think are a terrible idea. I wish Valve would get past the idea of controllers entirely. Any kind of physical game controller becomes extremely clunky and restrictive in VR. We need perfect finger tracking in the form of a lightweight pair of cloth gloves that you simply slip on like normal. VR allows such a complete paradigm shift in your ability to manipulate the environment that creating a traditional controller mapping inherently limits the way people will think about designing interactions. Rather than moving towards more intuitive actions, developers will be allowed to just fall back on old gameplay cliches of the console era.
> humans prefer actual experiences above all, every single time

I love the idea of living in my virtual forest in Potioneer but I wouldn't want to do it for real.
If you're making vet appointment software, please considering pivoting to the petcare appointment business. Our dog walking company uses an absolutely craptacular app called Leashtime, and any replacement would be welcomed.
Or you need to invest in robot cashiers to replace the unemployed people who don't want the wage you're offering.
Wistia. 10 year-old business. Raised only a seed round and has been profitable & growing many years in a row.
Merely using the word "central" to describe Bitcoin betrays that he hasn't even the faintest clue what it is or how it works.
Hotjar is re-investing $4M to make it even better
The problem here is that you're trying to sell a website that vet clients will generally only look up when their pets are sick, and probably not in the right frame of mind to appreciate your web design skills. The idea has inherently unpleasant connotations right from the start.

You'd get a lot farther if you found a novel set of pet toys, or premium food, or something that the average pet owner would enjoy spending money on. Vets stock those things, people buy them, I'm sure you get the gist of the idea.
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Your argument is as speculative if not more. Resources are not all equal. The ex driver or ex cashier is not going to starve to death. But it's not getting the same salary, if any at all.
I think these are drying up.

There is a lot of beautiful math involved with probability (ex. generating functions) but computational methods mean that the large toolbox of parametric methods can often be bypassed. Even if I am computing a closed form result for something I am very likely to do a Monte Carlo simulation to check my work.

One answer is that working on a team she can contribute stats skills where other people contribute in other ways. I run into so many teams who are developing a rather typical "bizap" or "social" product who want to do something "intelligent" with data and have a lot of programmers but don't have any idea of how to do the kind of charts and graphs that a scientist trainee would be doing as a first-year graduate, if not undergraduate.
I don’t know what kind of suit you could buy but I 1933 for $20, but I know that today 1200 is far more than you’d need for a ‘nice suit’ due to price reduction and globalization.
I'm not for the change in terminology at this step, because it is very unfortunate to change the terminology of a project that is here for years, however I tried to use the fact we have this terminology to remind people of what slavery looked (and still looks in certain parts of the world) like, so:

1) We have a SLAVEOF NO ONE command which is very popular.

2) We have a note about slavery here: https://redis.io/commands/slaveof

For new projects I suggest to pick other terms as well, even because master and slave are kinda inelegant IMHO other than linked to bad things.
Nobody ever mentions birth control.
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Show HN: What guides you if you are in doubt about ethics when developing?
Following Sam Altman's (Y Combinator's President) belief that "...employees should come together and clearly define the values and policies they'd like to see their companies uphold" (see http://blog.samaltman.com/tech-workers-values) we thought that HN was the right place where to find some useful informations for our project.

Which Project?

Virt-EU (https://virteuproject.eu/) is an Horizon 2020 EU funded project willing to study and to understand how developers and makers enact ethics when designing future IoT devices and applications.

So as one of the biggest devs and hackers community we invite you to share with us things like manifestos, guidelines, checkslists, standards, best practices, laws, sayings, notes from your favourite teacher, post-it notes on your computer screen or anything else that inspires, guides and supports you in the process of developing IoT technologies.

Help us understand how you make your decisions, and what supports you in your practice!

Please answer this short survey (VERY SHORT): https://virt-eu.nexacenter.org/virteu-call-iot

Thanks a lot for your contribution and feel free to share our call

Cheers
Why not? flatpak has access to devices.
My life is too important to me to sacrifice my purpose for the sake of popularity.
No, it hasn't. Tax foundation is a conservative think tank, they're not a trustworthy source for this info.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W270RE1A156NBEA

Every time I engage with a libertarian (always a pointless endeavor) I feel like I have to take a shower after. Just.. ugh.
> They might be interested in help with online advertising combined with a basic website landing page, though...
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Yes! this is something we are researching. We can even offer it to clinics who already have a good website but are not overworked.
Yes, P3P has been an approach with similar concepts and goals, though with much more vision but being less practical or pragmatic.

This project here does not fall into the trap of believing it could change how privacy works on the internet, at least not in the short term. The target audience is rather the developer community, not big corporations and consumers.
Except the article cites several examples of where demand isn't being met.

-Farmers in Alabama are fretting that crops may rot in the ground for a lack of workers to bring in the harvest.

-Despite high demand, home builders in Colorado are throttling back activity because they can’t find the workers to erect frames.

-An airline canceled flights because it couldn’t find enough pilots to steer them.

Those aren't demand problem but supply problems.
Nothing new. Any technology can be used for evil purposes. What matters is that more people use it for good than evil.
I really think you should examine your way of thinking. I'm sure charlatans have been making and breaking promises about pretty everything you can think of since the beginning of time. It's meaningless and is no basis for estimation.

I am talking about raw scientific possibility, and a good rule of thumb is: if you see it in nature, then it is assuredly possible, and humans will eventually do it a thousand times better.

Cold fusion: Does not exist in nature. Only exists in (controversial) theory. I'll believe it when I see it.

Hot fusion: Exists in nature so it's possible. After developing the technology, humans will be able to do it better. Will take a while.

Flight: Exists in nature, so it's possible. After developing the technology, humans can do it better. Took a while.

Intelligence: Exists in nature (ie you and me). After developing the technology, humans will be able to do it better. Will take a while.

See the pattern?
This terminology has been used for a long time in computing. It's immediately recognised by everyone and in no way endorses human slavery. I'm getting quite fed up of the OTT political correctness movement in tech.

Out of interest, what is your opinion on male/female USB connectors? Does one deserve to get fired if they make a joke about "big dongles"?
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Ask HN: How best to disclose paywall loophole?
Background: I'm an amateur coder at best but a solid base in my teens helped me get off the ground. That said, I often putz around on random sites.

Issue/Discovery: A reasonably sized media company who has a paywall for certain content came across my screen recently. I explored the coding for the paywalled site and discovered the content was clearly available in the coding with some basic unicode cleanup needed. To test my skills I wrote a quick script and proved that I could pull the content for any of the "protected" pages.

Question: How do I best disclose the issue without getting into any trouble for discovering it? I want to be sure the hole is closed as I want them to succeed.
Interesting info ...

Turbo Pascal was the Pascal I'd used too, for a good while. Loved that environment. Really fast dev time and a fun language to work in.
You picked the wrong niche. Accept it and move on to something else.
This argument has been made at every step in the evolution of AI.

For a long time, AI would "arrive" if it could beat a human in chess. Then it did and suddenly that became a gimmick, a trick of computation.

30 or 20 years ago, picture (if you can) how we would have viewed this technology: someone verbally telling a pocket-sized device to make an appointment and order groceries, asking it for facts or directions, etc. It would have seemed more like magic than feasible AI.

Today it's a "gimmick". The bar for AI always rises to beyond whatever we're currently comfortable with, and the bar for "strong AI" doubly so.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/07/living/sixties-women-5-things/...

I think ~50 years ago referred more to this type of thing, while stuff like voting rights was just included since it's relevant to the struggle as a whole.
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Someone above mentioned it, but basically, for low skill/manual labor, there is a level at which you'll say "I can do it myself", or "I can hire some intern or random kid to do this". And that's the hard cap ofr those jobs. While you can represent yourself in court, it's probably a bad idea (and you can't legally do it for someone else, so you HAVE to cough up t he $$$).

On the other hand, I personally have a very high appreciation for high quality manual labor (eg: carpentry) and I'm always looking for the best money can buy in those areas....and it's impossibly hard.

Since no one else seem to value it, no one does it. Everyone's optimizing for cost. I had a very difficult carpentry job that needed to be done recently, and I went hunting for the best of the best, offering well over what a lawyer or software engineer would make. Crickets. It took over a year to find someone. Those people no longer exist since there's no market for it.
Or the seat you're moving to would normally cost $250 less.
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Author here. The post is a combination of two separate things: creating a PNG file via JavaScript typed arrays, then using that PNG in an (Android-specific) web notification.

I added a subtitle to the Medium post, but should have considered the fact that it won't show up anywhere else. Not sure it would fit if it was appended to the end of the title here.
>The most important fact motivating this essay is simply that the vast majority of adults want to get married and have children. This suggests that the reduction in marriage rates reflects not a conscious choice but rather people running into various obstacles preventing them from finding a partner.

Thanks to the parent comment we know that this is self-serving to a certain extent since they they're selling a solution to the problem.

Nevertheless, this is an interesting point to make. It's one thing if people don't want marriage and reject it as such, something else if they do want to get married and don't/can't make it happen. Do they truly want marriage in the sense of what it's traditionally meant - exclusive and permanent, but externalities mentioned in the article hinder it from happening?

Or do people just want a big party when they're young and a friend when they're old, and attach "marriage" to the sentiment?
This is a wonderful trend. I've been griping about bloated apps for ages. There's a huge accessibility issue for people in Latin-America and Africa, where most people's computers still have no more than 2G of ram.
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Volunteer to fight against ISIS if you really care about abolishing slavery on earth.

Edit: Donating to FBM could be a way: http://www.freeburmarangers.org/
Seriously... someone so stupid to not even be able to place words in a context would probably always find something to rant about, whatever censorship you could think of...
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But in Ruby only false and nil are "falsey", so unless the variable was accidentally set to false (not impossible) the construct behaves as an initializer.
Microsoft is pretty close too. Founded in 1975, issued stock in 1981 (5% to an investor, the rest to founders and employees), IPO in 1986

Source: http://www.techntechie.com/early-investors-in-microsoft-you-...
Awesome! Thanks for sharing! Do you know if they've announced any revenue figures? Best I could find was an employee count (83) which is impressive given the $1.4M in funding—clearly they have substantial cash flow if they can support that kind of workforce.
I just assumed green meant admin or some kind of paying customer.

I'd venture to guess green users could use this ambiguity to play subtle rhetorical tricks on users with a moderate number of points here.
Compared to South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore or Hong Kong, which started just as poor as mainland China 60 years ago but leapt way ahead. And if the response is that China faced more difficulty due to the larger population, then surely the best approach would have been to split it up into multiple smaller countries?
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I don't know where you are getting the 2 million total, but it is wildly off:

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS42707617

These are numbers for Q1,2017, placing a total of Rift, PSVR and Vive at ~750k units. This is for the worse quarter of the year, post launch hype and off Christmas sales. I'd wager there are 5 million units of "serious" VR units out there.

Also of note, something I didn't know: The Vive is outselling Oculus Rift at almost a 2:1 ratio.
Human brains aren't substantially different from mosquito brains. The perception that humans are intelligent is a mere illusion.
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I expect in the next year or so an AI will be scouring the net and updating the article as more things are researched and achieved :-D
Even oil was never an existential issue: there was always coal (and perhaps since the 1950s nuclear fission).
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The graph in your link is reproduced almost exactly in the link I shared (as chart 1). It doesn't take into account non wage income and a few other things.
You never vary aperture when taking bracketed exposures to merge to HDR. The depth of field would vary from exposure to exposure, making things inconsistent when you merge them. It's shutter speed you vary.

My point is that with 2005-era DSLRs, I had to use HDR techniques (or strobes) to, say, correctly expose a room and the environment out a window. Shooting into the sun, I'd have to use HDR, polarizers, and/or ND grads to expose both the sky and the foreground. With my D750? I've got 4 stops more dynamic range and the situations where I need HDR have almost all gone away. I can get the same thing from a single RAW exposure.

These days, HDR only seems necessary if you want to have ridiculous tone mapping where you pull in your global highlights to be within a stop or two of your global shadows and still keep the noise levels down.
What? I see what point you are making about being glued to our screens. But calling this phenomenon "AI" is a complete non-sequitur.

We are also slaves to putting little squishy bits into our mouths three times a day, or wrapping ourselves in strange fabrics, but we don't call that AI.
I know about the guidelines about not asking 'why is this here'.

But why is this here?
"9) Active memory defragmentation. Redis is able to defragment the memory while online..."

I'm so amazed that this is a thing.
We already know how to solve these problems: just do whatever Singapore does.
That's a great one! I tried to avoid companies that were more than a decade or so old, with a couple exceptions like Lynda/Epic.

My concern was that examples like that, or Amazon which only raised $8M, are such crazy outliers and relied on strong timing, amazing founders, and other good fortune, that it made them hard to be approachable. That said—I'll make sure to give MS a headnod in the next revision!
Where will the problem move to when every nation is industrialized?
So not in Seattle.
If you're curious about actual data, and not just a bunch of unsupported claims, Pew has a nice little paper they published back in 2014 on this topic:

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/09/24/record-share-of-am...

To my eyes, this is purely a data driven analysis and doesn't spend a lot of time moralizing on the topic.
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I thought this was a relatively recent term. Can't find anything on archive.org that would indicate it was used in the 80s:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28killer%20app%29%20AN...
Your brain weighs about 3 lbs and uses about 20 watts. It's an analog device. It does not have optical interconnects and the switching speeds of the components within it are governed by chemical rather than electrical processes: signals within it propagate at under a few thousandths of a percent of the speed of light. It takes about 3 years to boot up and begin to be sensible and over 12-15 years it achieves roughly human intelligence. Well before those 15 years it surpasses all of our AI in a variety of tasks for which AI is not intelligent enough.

The brain does lots of things, but some of them are quite small and well-defined intelligent tasks, such as judging the meaning of a sentence it is parsing in a language it has learned, or other "AI"-type work. We can easily estimate whether it is doing so correctly. (For example through reading comprehension tests, which we have standardized.) Human brains are able to pass these tests and our best AI fails these tests.

The only way that there is no digital device that can ever model these aspects of this analog device well enough to make the same meaningful calculations (such as deciding what a sentence means in the context of human culture), i.e. the only way the analog device has a monopoly on the calculation and judgment it performs, for not only the next 10, 30, 50, or 100 years, but 1,000 or even 10,000 years, is if this analog device is a keyfob to a magical ethereal plane where our souls and consciousness do all the real intelligent work, only communicating back to our corporeal selves through an antenna which is our brain.

Under that scenario it is certainly possible that AI will be a failed dream forever. After all, rather than 3 lbs of analog device doing work, our ethereal selves could each be the size of a billions of our universes.

Then it would be silly to imagine we could ever accurately model any part of that. I don't think it's a false dichotomy here - I think it's one or the other.

In my personal opinion the latter scenario is unlikely. In my personal scenario anyone who says that nothing digital will ever capture the calculating power of 3 lbs of meat is living on the same side of history as Lord Kelvin when he announced "Heavier than air flying machines are impossible".

To the exact and same extent, true AI is impossible.
Yep, Andrej leads Tesla Autopilot now. Doubt he'll be following up here.
Anxiety is no joke, and I'm not trying to be patronizing as I'm sure you might have considered this, but why not get a prescription for anti-anxiety medication, or try other therapeutic approached? Depending on what kind of insurance you have, it could end up being less expensive than an alcohol habit.
Using the transactions to make a block hard to change is the best option for a self contained chain with no other work, but a chain of work/work verification seems like it can be decoupled from monetary transaction chains or anything other than the transactions in parties proving and taking credit for pieces in the real work.

The difficulties should be pretty normal. Past blocks need to influence new cycles such that the current chain doesn't speed up work for building a new alternate, etc.

If a chain needed to pull a satisfactory reference from the Bitcoin chain and reward the transaction parties its new coin that wouldn't change Bitcoin's status which is either backed by it's own Bitcoin transactions or not.

Therefore, I see no need for tight coupling between real work chains and coin chains to start making rewarding real work a social requirement/pressure for any new coinage.
There's a short film on YouTube that explores that idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY

It's a very strange experience hearing it!
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Static neural networks on Rosetta Code for basic things like Hello World, etc, would do a lot to aid in people's understanding of neural networks. It would be interesting to visualize different trained solutions.
Whenever I try to install DriveFS on my Win10 PC with SecureBoot enabled it says "This application is not currently supported on Windows 10 Anniversary Version 1607 or later with secure boot enabled."
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Happy to provide the flame you're expecting.

Master/slave describes the relationship between the services and has been standard terminology for decades. I have yet to hear of any IRL victims of slavery that are miffed by the use of this terminology.

Do not be offended on someone else's behalf.
If we figure a way to copy wetware AI, the interconnection problem is pretty much solved. Cancer again? Get a new body.
If we are able to colonise Mars we would have created technology that would allow us to survive on a fucked up Earth as well so their is little downside in exploring ways colonise Mars.
You can't fix the problem unless you get out of Silicon Valley.

If you go to New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, or even second or third tier cities you find many women and non-immigrant minorities in executive positions and there is plenty of trouble and discrimination but it is not like it is in SV.

The pursuit of money in SV has come full circle as a circle jerk; the larger economy cannot provide exits for the Ubers, Magic Leaps, Juiceros, so they are keeping them on life support, hoping maybe just maybe they can get bought by one of a short list of megacompanies. It is now a value destruction machine, but insiders will probably do OK as they usually do when there is a decentralized Ponzi scheme that no individual can get held responsible for.

Go forth and make money by serving the needs of customers.