skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither VR nor AR will provide effective alternatives to physical monitors for 8+ hours a day of software development or other knowledge work. VR blocks your view so you have to keep removing the headset to talk to a colleague or find your coffee cup. AR just overlays on the real world background making it really unpleasant to read or edit code or documents.

I expect most of us will still be using 2-D physical monitors for most work in 20 years. VR and AR use will increase but they'll be limited to particular use cases.
Embracing Modern JavaScript (with Ruby on Rails)
Bitcoin price started to tank on December 18th @ 00:00 UTC while BCH started an up-climb at right about the same time. This could be explained by the anticipation of the announcement from Coinbase. But then shortly after Coinbase stopped all trades for BCH, I saw this on Twitter [1]. I don't know, but this last bit is definitely looking very odd.

[1] https://twitter.com/whalepool/status/943279673554894848
Reminds me of when MSNBC cut off NSA criticism with "breaking news" about Justin Bieber

https://youtu.be/GH68bSJXGE8
Absolutely not. We have strict control over our data and access to infrastructure.

Every person with access can only get it via a bastion VPN with their own key. Access is logged to an external host which they do not have access to. We are SOC2 compliant (just waiting on final certification) and we have regular pen tests both against our code as well as our employees with mock phishing.

As a total aside: it would cost a serious amount of money to exfiltrate the data in bulk, and would cause an obvious strain on our infrastructure. Assuming they get by all the above protections, and are really clever, sure, never say never, but I think we can not assume the worst but prepare for it none the less.
That's not a demo, that's a vision.
Karma's anonymous LTE hotspot goes on sale next month – The Verge
> If you take the time to learn what's trustworthy, principled, and safe...you won't have any of these issues.

I'm glad my knowledge of Bitcoin will prevent the price from fluctuating.
Which is why criticism of Republicans for this on the basis of the law not meshing with one of their supposed foundational ideologies is stupid.

We should not be ridiculing people for not being ideologues. We live in a time when we need people to not be ideologues.
An antidote to fatigue is automation!

I'd be happy to give EFF posting ability for this issue on my social media accounts. And I'd be fine with them using my voice and signature to generate voicemails and letters to my elected officials. if they abuse that power (which I doubt they would) I bet they'd be much more responsive to "their constituents" and also social media at least it's easy enough to de-auth integrations.
I am skeptical about the "Affiliate Marketing Blog".

Some people say they make real money affiliate marketing. Certainly people used to make money putting up Adult Friend Finder ads up on porno sites. I know one guy who made good money with a camera review site but he gave it up, moved to Seattle and went to Amazon.

My experience is that a site that makes $100 a month on AdSense might make $0.35 a month with Amazon and $0 with anything else. Maybe I have had bad luck, made mistakes, worked in poor subject areas, but at least back when Google showed organic search results I felt that making moderate amounts of money on AdSense was as easy as falling off a log and that everything else was a waste of time.
It is backed up by evidence, though[0]. I think it was meant to validate that the model of ride sharing isn't morally bankrupt merely because it is owned by venture capitalists.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/business/uber-drunk-drivi...
> doesn't have a shady track record

Care to expand on that?
/getawspublicips.sh: Know the Public AWS IPs You Have Facing the Internet
Imagine Alzheimer's sufferers being able to touch an object and ask what it is - then receiving an immediate answer.

Imagine a similar scenario for foreign language learners.
Exciting! Can't wait to try it! From design stand point looks more promising than HoloLens.
“(3) SPECIALIZED SERVICES.—The term ‘specialized services’ means services other than broadband internet access service that are offered over the same network as, and that may share network capacity with, broadband internet access service.”.

So, fast lanes/bundled packages?
After going out to see a movie for the first time in a few years this past weekend, I can't really picture many of the overweight families I saw fully reclined shoveling hamburgers into their faces wanting to get up and "interact" with a movie.
Oh, it appears I misunderstood you. Yes, the federal government was willing to review the regulatory requirements, at least in principle. I was focusing on the last subclause of your sentence.
Composable Query Builders in Rails with Arel
Google is better in some areas and is very good at sourcing, that's for sure. For those interested, the recent report[1] by Strategy Analytics might be relevant. It compares the strengths and weaknesses of Apple, Google, HERE and TomTom. And no, Google is not “much better than anything out there“

[1] https://www.strategyanalytics.com/strategy-analytics/news/st...
People concerned with privacy are not against ads because they are annoying but because of the systems of surveillance behind those ads. Making ads less annoying so that the majority of users continue to accept surveillance is villainy from that perspective.
BlackBerry third quarter results beat estimates, shares surge
“States Rights”, since just before the Civil War, has consistently been a political code for protecting discrimination (including, originally, demanding other states be bound to treat escaped slaves as property not people through federal law.)

It has never meant what the words taken together would naively seem to mean.
When was the last time a 3rd party candidate won?
Couldn't you just zoom out?
Unlikely. Apple likely hasn’t solved the problem that the form factor for touchscreen desktops suck.

This is about making development easier for enterprise developers.
On second thought, the features are probably not overloaded but the UI is very cluttered which makes it appear so.
Thanks for sharing your feedback, we'll forward it to Postman. Did you use Paw? What is your experience with it? https://paw.cloud/
Cab drivers are frequented targets of robbery and also typically pick up people late at night and when there’s less people around to witness.
Well, it’s been so useful to you....
My first thought reading the post was "Is this a book?" It might as well be.
I feel like the Ubuntu phone might have succeeded had they not focused on trying to do it this too. So sad.
Bose–Einstein condensation (network theory)
are you my clone? I've been wanting this exact thing for 4+ years now... I want to be able to add/subtract monitors at will and put them wherever in my view space...
Unlike older iMacs?
This is what I was thinking. That conversation probably went something like this:

“We need more money.”

“We gave you $2 billion. You’re going to have to ship something before we give you more.”

“Hmmm...we aren’t ready to ship and may not be for some time...what if instead of shipping, we can show you that 50K people are interested in buying it? Will you give us some more money then?”

“Sure, you show us that 50k people want to buy it and we will write you another check”.

So they created an email opt-in page, photoshopped some 3D renders of a product that doesn’t exist yet onto a person’s head, and did a press release calling this page an “unveiling”. That’s really all this is - a “coming soon” page for something that may or
may not be vaporware. Investors are getting antsy and want some sense of what the actual market is for this thing.
ELI5 market unlock?
This is the primary reason I use Uber when traveling. It makes things so easy.
I don't disagree with you. There are other entities that solve the issue for taxi service, such as mytaxi, that pay by the rules - still "an extra layer of rent seekers" though.

But in general, even if technically possible, not a lot of businesses accept visa or mastercard - be it that the bank does not provide the service, or that they charge extra, it is not available.

Luckily PSD2 will soon open the space to more players.
> My “payment” was a physical copy of the book I reviewed and 2 ebooks.

This feels so wrong. Is this a regular practice among publishers? Paying reviewers with copies of the book they reviewed?
is the UI for Linux same as on Mac or Windows apps?
I believe that Stephenson is currently employed by Magic Leap, weirdly enough.
How do they keep raising more money?
> except they do. See below.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USA657S

> Source: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

St Louis fed is publishing third party estimates there, official reporting stopped in 2007.
>So I guess my threat model is "generalized spying"

In this case, you should be proactive not only against NSA, but GOOG, FB, your ISP etc.

You should look into Tails OS if you haven't already.
That really comes down to whether or not Apple uses it themselves. If they port their various iOS apps to this new thing and have them replace their current macOS counterparts, then this thing is safe to use.
OP disagrees with the concept of natural monopolies because he's deep down the libertarian rabbit-hole, but instead of just coming out and saying it he phrases it as a question and expects people to explain the basics of the concept to him so he can obtusely disagree at every step. It doesn't really do us any good to have a 101-level discussion of microecon and market failures on every single topic.

It just happens that this is a topic where you can't even pretend there are two sides to it, and it's one that has been discussed to death over the past couple months, so the bad faith is pretty transparent.

(the next stage of sealioning: "woah how dare you ascribe bad faith to my totally legitimate attempts to grok this issue, I totally would have agreed with you if you had just responded nicely but maybe there is something to this whole internet-fast-lanes thing after all!")
Counter argument: there are many app store apps that I would use on my laptop if I could - Unit converters, resistor code calculators, etc. I use them on mobile, and I google those things, but I would probably buy certain iOS apps to only use them on desktop if they were available.
Big Fucking Rocket
I think Apple has explicitly eschewed touchscreens on any screen that is always held vertically (i.e., laptop and desktops). They said usability studies consistently found people's arms get tired.
“We’re the party of small businesses” has been a guise for decades.
BFR is vastly more capable. Falcon Heavy is mostly reusable and can send a capsule to Mars. BFR is 100% reusable and can send a hundred people to Mars.
Mapbox: Build for the cloud with Rasterio
thank you, i'm going to try it
That data is no good for this purpose, as it’s from a lot of different speakers and does not have speaker labels, i.e., you can’t tell which sentences were spoken by which speaker.
Also, they officially support a keyboard for iPad Pro. With recent multitasking updates for iPad and considering positive reviews for the keyboard, the Pro seems to be a serious contender for laptop replacement.

Recently got a Pro 10.5, and it's a fantastic device — seriously considering a keyboard for office work.
CanYa acquires majority stake in Bountysource
> Magic Leap One is built for creators who want to change how we experience the world.

nice that it's built for creators, but ... if it's only built for creators who will actually use whatever they created?
... and all i got was this lousy internet site.

Just kidding, the internet site is really beautiful.
Here's a relevant 2014 WWDC presentation on how Apple redesigned iWork to work on both iOS and Mac using most of the same codebase, and the technical problems which needed to be solved: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2014/233/
> post hoc justification

I don't think it matters that the justification is after the fact. I think you could actually predict a decrease in drunk driving with better access to transportation that Uber provides before the fact.

> capture even more of the economic pie

I think Uber expands the economic pie more than it takes a share of it. And once there are self-driving cars, services like Uber will become a commodity because there are no network effects on the driver side. Any company with a billion dollars will be able to create a sufficient scale of self-driving cars in a city to compete with the rest of the self-driving car services. The rich people capturing the value will be the ones who own the technology to navigate the car.
Estimated distances are way off for me, but it did find some things. Searching for hikes in the Catskills was a disaster but the Catskills are strange and obscure, and a "well developed" trail in the Catskills can be like bushwhacking in most places.
Also less quality of life.
If you are interested in more details of the guidance and control system of the Apollo missions, I highly recommend the book Digital Apollo by David A Mindell.

Someone a while back on hackernews recommended the above book and it was absolutely fascinating and it's written remarkably well, very engaging. I am now a professional GNC engineer :) The book also delves into the gradual evolution of fly by wire flight controls starting with the X-15.
Looks like they're not. From the Rolling Stone article: "the company will also take prescription details to build into the lenses for those who typically wear glasses."

That's not great at all if it means you can't share your headset.
How Airbnb is pushing the limits of machine learning
This makes more sense for games than apps (for apps could have a much more wildly different experience and design on the desktop than on mobile), and it makes even more sense for VR games (where both input and output will be identical regardless of the execution ecosystem).
Yes, there's a multitude of USB-to-RS/232 adapters and Linux can easily be configured to echo a terminal to the serial port from boot onwards. Once you've got a serial console you can do whatever you want.

Depending on the terminal, you'll need to fiddle with baud rates, parity, and obviously hardware issues such as male/female connectors and number of pins. It took me quite a while to get my VT100-compatible terminal talking to my RaspberryPi3, but now it does, and it's great fun (particularly since I set up SIMH and have an ancient period-appropriate version of Unix V emulated).

Brings me back to when Greybeards reigned the Earth (or rather the machine room).
But could you picture a set in the round with all of the audience sitting in a circle in a tiered auditorium, and a set being rendered over the audience and actors performing in the middle?

Shakespeare in the round would be given a fully immersive experience, and it didn't require any person to move at all... it simply means that from the perspective of each individual the set is fully complete and hides the audience as much as possible and gives each observer a unique angle, focus point.

That an actor could interact with a modern object (foam stick) that is rendered as an epoch suitable object (a longsword) would be possible.

The possibilities are really quite something, for the scenario of "each viewer has a lightfield viewer and the scene, set and objects can be rendered in real-time for them".
>There is an opt-out checkbox in the settings.

Which should be opt-in. And if nobody wants to opt-in there is the problem; it's going against what the users want.

Most people never change default settings of software they install so "opt-in" may as well not have a way to "opt-out" except as a scapegoat to say you can.
You're just wrong. Aesthetics are crazy important on consumer devices. I'd argue it is THE most important aspect on something you WEAR. People put an awful lot of thought into their clothes, and accessories. Some people don't care, but they're rare. If aesthetics didn't matter there wouldn't be 100 different clothing stores in the mall. When we choose what to wear, we're annoucing to the world who we are. When you wear a suit, you're sending a message to anyone who looks at you. When you wear a flannel shirt, and dirty boots, you're sending another message.

What is the message being projected if someone looks at you wearing these glasses? Probably not one a "normal" person would want to project.

Function matters, but don't overrate fashion. People deeply care about it, and will skip the function (no matter how great it is) if it makes them look like a dork.
The eventual setup of their acceptable ads policy ended up being seen as pay-to-whitelist by users and advertisers.

It felt that way to advertisers especially when the fee was 30% of ad revenue rather than say, a processing fee for time spent verifying it met the criteria. A lot of them were more ok to ignore ad blocking before they were held to ransom.

Users were unhappy at an adblocker's default config allowing ads.
Surprised as the current EU administration is usually quite keen to support the race to the bottom.
http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm

> Cookies clearly exempt from consent according to the EU advisory body on data protection- WP29pdf include:

> user‑input cookies (session-id) such as first‑party cookies to keep track of the user's input when filling online forms, shopping carts, etc., for the duration of a session or persistent cookies limited to a few hours in some cases
authentication cookies, to identify the user once he has logged in, for the duration of a session

> user‑centric security cookies, used to detect authentication abuses, for a limited persistent duration
multimedia content player cookies, used to store technical data to play back video or audio content, for the duration of a session

> load‑balancing cookies, for the duration of session
user‑interface customisation cookies such as language or font preferences, for the duration of a session (or slightly longer)

> third‑party social plug‑in content‑sharing cookies, for logged‑in members of a social network.
The old demo videos from a year or two ago showed that the Magic Leap could not do opaque black. Black = transparent on their clear screens.

If that's still the case, then every single example image on their site is a misrepresentation. They all show black and indicate the Magic Leap can do opacity.

I call bullshit until I see that they've solved that problem.
I didn't realize everything wrong with the world today could be summarized in such a short video.
I have employees and contractors working for me and we have very strict rules on what contractors can do, how you interact with them and when they might be considered employees. The company I work for wants to stay clearly on the legal side of contractor law.

If it is proved illegal then Uber will owe these people back pay and possibly back benefits which might collapse Uber and that is fine. If you want to run that close to the edge of the law then you have to accept the risk. But let these laws and judgments catch up with the new economy/technology.
'Estimated distances are way off for me' can you elaborate? I'll surely look into this or at least try to make the results make more sense based on your search :)
I am fatigued constantly fighting for NN, Healthcare, Women's choice, environment etc. Don't have any energy left to fight for privacy. I suspect this is by design.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the idea of safe pool reactors that hydrogen-neutron heat transfer is more efficient than normal radioisotope-water heat transfer. If you shut down the pumps and heat increases, spectral hardening cools the reactor faster and disperses the energy into larger volume than convection using pumps.
> Obviously it is not necessary to have a medallion to drive someone around.

It is when that's the law..

The fact that these people have been able to profit with high visibility and applause when basically the source of their advantage is breaking the law is mind boggling.

Are taxi regulations ridiculous? yes. But that doesn't mean that rampant illegal behaviour is the answer.
Yeah but my nieces and nephews are practically touchscreen only users, so maybe for them. I'm personally holding out for decent voice controlled UI - should be any year now.
Considering the risk with this initial launch, short of a very low budget package, I think most researchers would prefer to wait for a safer launch.
Cyclomatic complexity of software
Does Insomnia offer a function of sharing the collections of APIs to collaborate, coming back to the OP? :)
Pointless. If you crack down on this successfully, people will just find another way. If they don't find another way, they'll move to different content. Too little too late. We're way past game over.
All of the imagery on the front page of https://www.oculus.com/rift is CG
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They probably don't want to send expensive science payload on the first test flight of a new launch system, in case of catastrophic failure or such.
That's an orthogonal problem. Why should the Apple platform arbitrarily require you to use different toolkits for different form factors or input modalities? They already support phones, tablets, TV's, and watches with the iOS toolkits. Adding desktops and laptops to that mix seems obvious.

And it goes the other way. The iPad Pro will probably benefit by gaining support for pointer input.
There is one issue here: what Uber and AirBnB are doing is not a grey area.

Both transportation and renting are regulated markets for a reason: because we already have experience that infrastructure related markets without regulation will be abused.

While there are some issues in both taxi and hotel businesses, I strongly oppose to Uber and AirBnB being a solution. Both companies apply IT methods but none of them have contributed any fundamental improvements to transportation or renting so far.

A real disruption should involve producing a beneficial iteration that moves forward a topic.

- Uber did basically invest their disruption into the return of 19th century labour methods.
- AirBnb is basically inflating rents.

All those unicorn sparkles aside, it is probably time to look at unicorns with a clearer view. Sustainable value is not created by lawless disruption.
>Albeit the taxi companies created the unfair terms. Obviously it is not necessary to have a medallion to drive someone around. HN is generally anti-lobbying to protect corporate interest, but now that Uber is big there is some regret...

This myth of the taxi companies lobbying to avoid competition doesn't seem based in reality. Taxis didn't seek out regulation to protect themselves. Cities began regulating fares, service areas, and the business model. Cities put rules on them for the public good. The medallion is there is to balance out the price regulations placed on taxi companies and to ensure that the rules didn't make the taxi business unprofitable.

I've never seen any indication they sought out these regulations.

Really it smells like a smear campaign to make a bunch of immigrants driving cars 12 hours a day the bad guys and to make the 60 billion dollar corporate titan the underdog.
Yes, Snorkel and DeepDive look extremely useful. At my job we have a lot of data but it's unlabeled, it will cost millions of dollars to outsource it to India for labeling/data entry.
Frozen embryo conceived the year after her mother was born
Sure the last mile is arguable - not for me, as I live in the country and DSL is what I get. But we could invest and do better there too.

Still its nothing compared to the extortion racket, holding websites hostage .
No reactor is a calm place. The heat capacity of water changes with pressure, but not by orders of magnitude. So any 400 MW reactor has to pump similar amount of water to keep the T constant.

So the pumps have to be similarly sized, except you no longer need a pressure vessel.