skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be amazing. I once attended a real-life version of this called "Sleep No More"[1] — a looping, living play taking place in a darkened warehouse where you could freely move around, examine every room (down to the drawer), and even interact with the actors to a limited degree. The audience was made to wear masks, and the physicality combined with the anonymity and general darkness gave you the ghostly sense of losing yourself. It was a sublime and markedly different experience from any other medium I'd ever encountered.

(I wouldn't go again because the eroticism and occult themes make me quite uncomfortable, but the idea and execution were incredible from an artistic point of view.)

In a few decades, this could literally be the next "movies".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_No_More_(2011_play)
What is known, empirically true - it is possible for one group of people to scam other people and groups for many millions of dollars each. Given what is known about the mechanisms of high end confidence tricks, what is different about the operation of Magic Leap that indicates that it is not a confidence trick? Remember, the most detailed article written by a journalist who experienced the demo describes a literal scam.
I think this analysis is right, but it ignores the blue side of the bargain -- unless you mean the Dems care less about unionised workers than the Repubs. Are SV companies able to influence the Dems by some other means, or is it that the blue-team influences them.
There are some schemes which allow to save money if it's the very first time that you register as such. But they are only a short- to mid-term solution (covering typically the first year), but in the long term (starting from the 12th to 18th month) you'll end up paying the full quota.

If you can read spanish, articles such as this one explain the options:
http://gestron.es/ventajas-ser-autonomo-trabajar-cuenta-ajen...
Here’s What Happens to a Startup When Google Gets All Up in Its Business
The network effect can make a reasonable case. Similar to how many open source projects benefit from centralized hosting options (e.g. github), projects can in theory benefit from more centralized funding platforms.
"Instead [at lunch] you will sit with your own company teammates, so that you can talk freely about your current projects and issues."

What seems more hellish to me, is teammates that can't shut up constantly talking about work during breaks.

While I see problems with shared office spaces, exchange with or people from sometimes completely different domains during breaks is the biggest plus for me. At least from experience in Switzerland and Colombia.
I wonder if this violates the CFAA if/when this gets run on a businesses machine.
Please don't do this. HN is a diverse community, and you choose to be a part of it. Casting all of HN in one bucket does a disservice to everyone.
I think pretty much everyone agrees that Title IX went off the rails, right?

The dispute here seems, by my reading, to be between two prescriptions for moving forward:

(1: Rayiner): The problem with Title IX is one of matching scope with procedural rigor. We don't need to raise the level of rigor to that of a courtroom if we constrain the scope and thus the consequences of an adverse action under Title IX.

(2: marcoperaza): The problem with Title IX is a simply a lack of procedural rigor. Any adverse action, no matter how tightly scoped, is problematic without the protections provided to the accused by a courtroom.
Now, I don't want to seem anti-science or anything, but this seems like a massive disaster just waiting to happen, in light of the incidents that led to this ban and also, even more to the point, the 2001 anthrax attacks.[1] Couldn't they at least restrict this research to labs far away from major population centers?

The analogue with software development, I'd say, is when people periodically point out that nuclear power plant or ICBM control systems still run on 8-inch floppy disks!!1! and therefore allegedly need to be completely rewritten. That rationale likewise fails to meet my tempting fate threshold.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
Apple already includes a low power mode toggle. It could be updated or altered to account for this.
It's absolute magic in person. The limited FOV is kind of a bummer, but tracking is rock solid.
The current designs allow for fitting more battery into a smaller space because the available space can be non-contiguous and can contain odd angles while a replaceable battery comes in whatever shape you want as long as the shape is rectangular. By not having accessible batteries the vendor can seal the phone much better and increase its water-resistance. Your older phones were larger, heavier, not water-resistant, and had one more set of user-accessible failure points.
In Protests of Net Neutrality Repeal, Teenage Voices Stood Out
It seems like every study and every data point is all saying the same thing: with exceptions made for meetings and occasional gatherings when physical proximity actually matters the vast majority of tech workers prefer to telecommute themselves, are more productive when telecommuting, it's obviously cheaper for the company to not rent absurd amounts of space where they can pay employees to be physically present and less productive, etc.

So why exactly are we still having offices at all? Seems like if I were going to start a business today, I'd occasionally rent a meeting room and otherwise not have any real estate actually connected to it, aside from maybe a server room in my home or something. Why are we so obsessed with having physical locations for companies? Is this just a fad that won't die?
Yes, I've tried the one app that I've seen available here (Boston) but it didn't work. It's been a few months, I'll try it again. Cab drivers here don't use their available light so that they can't be ticketed for not picking up minorities.
People keep saying this over and over but I don’t understand. Why does a HMD need the same resolution as a monitor in order to do the same job? Wouldn’t the HMD be equivalent to having like sixteen 1600x1200 displays all around you, and isn’t that at least as good as a single 4K monitor?

You could have one virtual display with close to your face for high resolution information, and then dozens of peripheral displays further back for ambient information. Displays can move forward and back with subtle head movements. Why is the hardware resolution the limit? Isn’t it more of a UI problem?

It’s like people are assuming the VR desktop is limited to being an exact replica of their physical monitor, but why would you do that?
It looks like they're lagging far behind the industry with the input device. Vive and Oculus are very focused on finger tracking / improving the motion controller experience. I'm curious how far behind the rest of the device is.
I think you’re comparing apples and oranges here.

Writing memory safe code without Rust is harder than using Rust’s abstractions to do the same task. If you agree with that then my comment stands.
3 years...

Also, having more money and no biz model is a bigger issue than you think.
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Standard on SGI workstations from a very early age. Normally with a beautiful Trinitron display with the 'epic' SGI logo at the bottom, looking as cool as 'a Tesla badge on a car' but infinitely cooler.

There were two faint 'mask' lines in the Trinitron display, but other than that, the colours were every bit as amazing as today's latest AMOLED displays.

Compared to the cost of the box or even broadcast standard 'D1' monitors, the expense on a high resolution screen and the RAM to push the pixels was not a big deal.

Obviously PC's came from a different beginning. Adding on a £3000 screen was not going to happen.

If you follow workstatins back 'to Xerox PARC' they have always been super-hi res. Even Sun workstations of the 'SunTools' era were high resolution, albeit mono.
Thanks. Now the question is whether Apple will disable throttling when external power is connected.
Go's I/O is anything but a direct interface to the C functions. Its scheduler is a large abstraction.
This is absolutely false.
He explicitly talks about the cameras inside the lighwear that allow the girl to keep eye contact with him.
Off topic, but there is a native app for FB Messenger available: https://fbmacmessenger.rsms.me/ . It’s great!
In terms of garnering goodwill with the President, I think the real sticking point is CNN.
> [ABP] makes no secret that it charges big companies for whitelisting services – it mentions it right in its FAQ.

From [1]. I'm not sure what better fits the definition of selling out.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/06/google-and-others-reported...
> Also, if you’re a one person business, it seems pretty tricky to argue against the position that the principal asset of the business is the reputation or skill of the 1 employee doing the work.

What if you're a one-person business but you're a reseller or a consignment shop like most mom-and-pop stores? That takes very little skill or reputation.

Not trying to argue, that's an actual legitimate question I have.
Just as bad on the PC, I'll just check this thread in an hour and the top post will tell us what it's about (and why such a poor site is #1 story).
Copying is helpful, but what about the feedback? I'm not sure there are many tasks that you can learn just by looking, even in 3D.
Can someone explain the reasoning here when taxes don't change till next year?

Edit: I think my question was not clear -- this bonus will be given in 2017 -- AT&T is not getting any tax breaks this year, so why give a special bonus this calendar year? "If the President signs the bill before Christmas, employees will receive the bonus over the holidays." So during the 2017 tax year.
I've heard reporting on both sides here, at least it's not clear to me yet. Some versions of the law limited this only if you made more than a certain amount, but if you made less you could still take the deduction even if you were one of the listed professions.

But I've always read about games you could play, like buying the office building you operate in and then charging your software business an exorbitant amount of rent. It seems like that's a lot more overt than just a "gray area" though.
shower thought: now that Disney owns Star Wars, it will never be public domain
Setting the stage for every biohazard movie ever made.
Yeah. Can you say Duke Nukem Forever?
I'd start by building a sanitation network, but maybe that's just me
What I want to know, more than anything, is where this image is used in the page?

https://www.magicleap.com/_next/images/5099815a87b8b930e9846...

I was inspecting the network traffic of the page and found this image…
I know its strange in 2017 and for youngsters in general (and that's NOFI; its a general observation and zeitgeist; I don't know your age nor am I interested in such) but it is important to note that "for free" doesn't equal "go use my PII for profit" or "go help others receive my PII" or "I will allow you to use my computer as part of your cloud without my consent".

Glad we're getting GDPR in EU. I hope other countries like USA will follow suit. US citizens deserve such protection just as much as EU citizens. Not to mention the rest of the world. We'll have to see how it works out in practice though.

As for the owing and such regarding FOSS, that's related to warranty and such. That doesn't mean its cool to deliver the software crippled. Especially not without mentioning it is crippled beforehand. We got a word for that in the physical world: dishonesty.
Because of the design? None. In fact the Canadian-designed SLOWPOKE reactor (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLOWPOKE_reactor) is licensed to run unattended overnight - it is only passively cooled and increased temperature results in a negative feedback loop.

An unpressurised light water reactor is an inherently safe design. The rate of reaction depends on liquid water being present, steam will stop the reaction.

Nuclear power doesn't have to be dangerous, and even now more people die due to coal power (including mining and pollution effects) each year than ever have due to nuclear power.
Deepfakes faceswap
> despite the evidence of the contrary

You're on a bit of a roll across this thread [1] without anything more than the Rolling Stone article. People are expressing healthy skepticism towards a company that has been publicly caught in a material lie, has raised a lot of VC with little to show for it, and made an announcement with lots of CGI and a vague "2018" release date. Given whom this announcement is targeting, I think it's fair for people to have a balanced view before they commit their time or energy to this company.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tigershark
The key difference for many contractors in the UK is the level of control the person paying them has. A right to subcontract is a big one, which is failed with Uber. Also how I perform the work. If Uber were just paying for the package to be delivered, then they'd not care about the precise route, and the drivers could choose which people they do or don't "deliver". Uber exercise significant control over how the work they want done is done, and enough so that it falls under the definition of a "worker" (not employee though).

> The customer for the driver is Uber.

They argued they were not the customer but in fact worked for the drivers. They argued that the driver had a contract with the passenger, paragraph 91 on page 28 explains nicely how odd that seems (I'd copy & paste but it's a scanned pdf).
Yeah, but I actually have a reasonable chance of accomplishing what I want in C++.

vs Rust where I bash my head against it for 2 days then give up. I'm not smart enough for Rust, oh well.
Users make their own decisions about retirement of their purchased devices. Even if security updates are stopped, users can use their device offline.
In Praise of William James
Really digging the design and functionality on this! Nice work.
To me it seems like there are three broad categories of applications one would use D to implement; network services (ie servers), gui apps, and "other" such as compilers or command line tools. IMO go has won for writing servers; it's incredibly compelling, it has it all (except generics, as someone will surely interject); crypto, ships with easy to use protocol impls (ie http, websocket, etc). The gui lib story for D isn't clear to me at all. Are there bindings to gkt or qt for example? Maybe someone can respond here about that. That leaves "other" which, sure, D seems like a great option.
My understanding though is that these restrictions only apply to high earners (>157.5k single, >315k married), and even then the restrictions phase in gradually until you hit an even higher income. I would bet that most software developers have low enough incomes to qualify for some or all of the deduction, regardless of whether developers and IT professionals fall under the restricted categories. I could be wrong, so don't take my word for it, but I wouldn't give up hope just yet unless someone can elaborate on why this isn't the case.
I'm not sure I understand your post -- I'm asking why people view Uber as evil for trying to disrupt industries that are protected by the government but not when a company tries to disrupt private industry.
And that could be a way to circumvent the GFW.
Play two different songs on each side of your headphones
Pretty neat. I don't suppose this works with iTerm2?
"This is a game we’re playing around the office right now,' Magic Leap wrote in the description of the video."

"In addition to the bulky demo connected to a computer, Mr. Abovitz showed The Information a prototype of the compact device it intends to build. It looked as if somebody fastened electronics to every inch of a pair of wire-framed glasses. It had a multi-layered, flat lens. He would not turn the device on, but assured a reporter that it worked just as well as the larger, helmet-like device."

Your post agrees that one year ago, Magic Leap was lying about the technology they had. JumpCrisscross only asserts that given all publicly available information, Magic Leap is probably still lying.
GCHQ says cyber-spies 'over-achieved' say MPs
New Net Neutrality Bill Has Glaring Loopholes
They have actual working hardware, the Rolling Stones journalist tested it extensively.
Interesting companion piece from today's Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/20/police-made-...
If your taxable income (i.e. income after above- and below-the-line deductions including the standard deduction, but before this deduction) is less than the threshold amount ($315,000 for married filing jointly, half that for single) then the specified trade or business aspect doesn't apply.

From the bill text: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1/te...?

“(3) EXCEPTION FOR SPECIFIED SERVICE BUSINESSES BASED ON TAXPAYER'S INCOME.—

“(A) IN GENERAL.—If, for any taxable year, the taxable income of any taxpayer is less than the sum of the threshold amount plus $50,000 ($100,000 in the case of a joint return), then—

“(i) any specified service trade or business of the taxpayer shall not fail to be treated as a qualified trade or business due to paragraph (1)(A)
The journalist in the Rolling Stone article[0] viewed a few demos built between the ML team, including one with Sigur Ros that's got a very small clip on youtube[1]. I suspect building a demo of this kind of tech that's remotely as impressive viewed on a website or youtube video is challenging. If I'd built the device as marketed I'd be concerned about giving half-baked first impressions that disrupt the hype machine, even if the device itself isn't half-baked.

I hadn't read the article in rolling stone to be honest, but after reading it I get the impression that it would be even easier to prepare a more public demonstration (in a controlled environment) instead of this NDA shackled article. It wouldn't be that hard for example to show a video of the journalist in the room wearing the device and side-by-side a cloned view of what the journalist is visually experiencing. Something like what Steve Jobs did in the first iphone unveiling, but not live - an edited version would be more than fine, conveying both the visual experience and the journalists reactions.

This is a ground breaking technology with so many non-gimmicky applications that it's mind boggling. I was thinking earlier this morning how it can be used for driving assistance: wear the headset in your car and get an overlaid "google maps" experience without ever having to get your eyes off the road, pair it with the car's sensors and get collision distance information, coloured lanes in dark roads, etc.

How about (paired with sensors) measuring dimensions, inspecting components, counting objects, etc. in professional/industrial environments?

I don;t know, maybe I'm wrong but I feel this obsession with secrecy is hurting both their product and the technology
I agree with your broader point, but Google is not helpless here, even though AT&T employs about three times as many people. Google employs 74,000 people in CA, NY, MI, PA, GA, TX, CO, MA, WA, VA, and DC. Five of those are red or swing states.
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I apologise I'm super guilty of this, I don't like small talk and share next to no common interests with colleagues.

What would you prefer?
Actually, Tokio's futures are a bit different from the async IO (including most implementations of futures) in ecosystems. Nothing world-breaking, but they have shaped the abstraction a bit differently in order to be more efficient with respect to memory management, so it can be a bit surprising.
I tried it from my Verizon smart phone and it showed me 4 downloads that happened Thursday night/Friday morning at 1am. I definitely wasn't downloading Torrents on my phone last Thursday nor was I downloading porn while visiting my family? I also don't use the phone as a hotspot. I'm not sure how to take that?
List of languages that compile directly to or have their VMs in WebAssembly
I've had this Slashdot comment bookmarked since 2009: https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1306857&cid=2873632...

In the USA Copyright lengths are very simple. Anything
older than Mickey Mouse is public domain and everything
else is still copyrighted.

Edit: Typo--fixed the year.
Jesus Christ... at least they’re not bright or subtle, or they’d never get caught.
Deep Learning model to analyze a large corpus of clear text passwords
but not if you are a software consulting apparently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15973178
Are you really standing by your logic, or are you just arguing with me for sport? If it’s the latter we can continue but I’m not going to repeat myself if you’re not going to listen.
If nothing else GCHQ definitely seems to be over-achieving in terms of PR lately.
Maybe if there were a consensus about how to reform campaign finance...
propaganda

1k isn't shit for a family anymore. 1 bill and its gone
I immediately closed the page after it became apparent that it was one of those vertical scroll, static background, JS-required monstrosities.

Luckily for me you found direct links to the interesting content. Thanks.
> "Musk doesn’t want to share a vehicle with “a bunch of random strangers.” But the presence of random strangers is what a city is"

Yes. This is the essential fundamental pro & con of living in the city: "There's a lot of other people nearby". If the benefits of this situation don't outweigh the downsides, then maybe the city isn't right for you.

This is not to say that maybe by appealing to the rich people who don't like associating with the rabble, he might have a successful business. But for the vast majority of commuters, the downside of public transport is not having to be close to strangers but rather the inconvenience (in america cities) of limited coverage and schedules.

I personally don't like noisy trains, but a simple fix could designate some train cars to be no-talking, so I can more easily get work done.
My point is that “sophisticated abstractions” should reduce complexity, not increase it.

If Tokio’s abstractions are seemingly increasing complexity, maybe they aren’t sophisticated abstractions.

This is a criticism of the OP, not Tokio.
Undocumented and confusing to paying customers, only acknowledged after third-party investigation.
This is honestly the one thing keeping me from making Firefox my daily driver. But Hangouts still doesn't work for me, and I'm on FF Nightly.

Is anyone else able to get this to work?
There was some discussion about this: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/standardebooks/WTEIRmRmmDs...

tl;dr: it was felt that for the quality of available scans it wasn’t worth including them. That’s not to say they couldn’t be added in a later edition though were better quality scans to become available.

I’m currently working on Edwin A. Abbott’s Flatland, for which the images are essential. Planning to try and trace and hand-amend the images into high quality SVG as part of the production process.
A $1000 bonus is a wonderful x-mas gift. Why would a company attribute the gift to the government instead of simply saying "We're AT&T. We're awesome. Here's $1000" unless there was motivation to do so?

Unless you can answer that question you should be cynical.
In this administration stupid is the norm. Haven't you noticed?
I sympathize with the author, open spaces were invented to function as a hipster panopticon and to maximize landlord gains.

But these rants sound very passive aggressive. Maybe it's a cultural difference which makes it harder for me to understand, but can't you just ask to turn on/off the heating, ask the dog owner not to let their animal invade your space, ask the office owner to alert you about repairs, etc.?

A simple solution i found to this problem is to work at old people cafes, or better yet in a retirement house.

Extra cozy, extra safe, nobody disturbs you, you get free cake/coffee/tea, freelance gigs and the occasional invite to date their daughters