skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some ways, you could almost argue that VR (and immersive experiences generally) has garnered less interest as it's become closer to reality. The Kinect is gone. The Wii fad is over. The VR devices that do exist have pretty much highlighted the difficulty of creating fully immersive experiences, especially in a typical home environment. And, as you say, there's really been nothing that makes the typical or even not so typical person go "I gotta get some of that VR."

I suppose we may get there someday but it may also be one of those things that it seemed logical to assume people would want (and many thought they did), but they mostly don't.
Around here in this part of Scotland it is mostly average speed cameras - I am amazed at the number of people who don't seem to have grasped what this means and slow down at the cameras (which are very visible) only to speed up afterwards.
Are there no American sources of these components?

The tariffs seem to be targeted at protecting such companies.
Seeing this published on Nature's website is quite thick with irony.

1. Pointing fingers at someone else as The Bad Guy is a common tactic for diverting attention away from one's own behavior.

2. If Nature is not positioning itself as open source, then they aren't really doing anything ironic. There is nothing inconsistent with not being open source yourself while calling out a threat to open source stuff.
>How would anyone ever prove such an interaction in isolation? There are probably millions of chemical compounds present in our bodies and foods and air and water, etc. That would lead to essentially infinite interactions, wouldn't it?

Fortunately you don't have to try "essentially infinite interactions", only those we are suspectful of.
I always wondered what the exposed connector was on the back of the cartridge after I rented that game
In my country, we grow yams pretty frequently in the villages and despite being low density, subsistence farming, people still clear land. It's basically impossible to live off the land by farming without clearing away trees.
Yup, screen cast please.

You can see the jumping on webpagetest.org:

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=180616_B...

With a slow connection, on the initial load the first jump happens at 6s and another one at 8.5s.

When I click on one of the links, it happens much faster because everything is cached. But I can still see the jump everytime I click a link to a new section in the tutorial.

I don't think the type of browser plays a role here. I get the glitches on Chrome and Firefox. And testing it on browserling.com shows that they also happen on Internet Explorer.
Not too many AR apps have succeeded, only because the massively-available AR hardware is not here, yet. The phone with a camera is not it. You can only do that much within that paradigm.

The moment (hopefully it's coming) we have (relatively) normal-looking glasses capable to perform like the Magic Leap's headset (haven't tried it - only judging by the publicly available info and investments), that's when handheld devices become obsolete and that's when we will see AR pick-up and win.
Or, "Airbnb fails to warn travellers city plans to wreck their holidy plans."

It's almost funny that the city is engaging in rent-seeking behavior against renters. In this move San Francisco makes it clear that they believe they own your property and you merely occupy it on their whim.
This applies to everything in life ever. People with resources have better outcomes. I don't know how you solve for that no matter what systems you put into place.
Simple, the demand is not away from software engineering it is to it. And whether you agree with the politics of the situation the fact is software engineering demand within the US will likely grow, not shrink, at least anytime soon. With less foreign visa's being awarded it will likely drive demand higher for qualified engineers/developers. The pessimist view is company's will offshore entire projects more, but that is unlikely as well, since more and more company's are bringing work back to the U.S. because of the challenges and IP issues that offshoring work brings.

AI is not going to automate away engineering tasks anytime soon. Sure, some mundane things will be done faster, but essentially it will be the work that is easiest to pick off and the work that most engineers hate doing anyway. So I say bring that on.

Now if you want out of engineering (which is totally reasonable), find a passion and figure out a way to get involved/make money at it, but don't use AI as an excuse why it makes sense. There is no company offering services to transition engineers out of roles because there is no demand. And usually when there is demand for that type of stuff, it happens at the local levels, through either small companies or the local colleges/universities.

Even if you are just starting out, you can have a complete career and retire before Software engineering will disappear in any meaningful way. I've been doing this for over 20 years, and frankly engineers (and some other professionals) are a paranoid group as a whole. I have seen many "ends" of software engineering come and go and yet it keeps growing and demand has gone up and salaries have finally started an upward trend again over the past few years.

Of course, this is just my opinion, I am sure you can find a pessimist in the crowd who will say the sky is falling and get out now while you can.
You? Maybe not to much. It IT, perhaps quite a bit more.

As for myself, I don't think I could ever get my company to approve (well, setup) a Web IDE, but if it's part of GitLab...
In a complex system there are multiple reasons for every event. I'd say these are both factors. Globalization and driving force of capitalism is the context, and proportional investment in primary education is an obvious step that we're not taking.
It's maybe not stored in clear text, but it is at the very least stored in a form that Google can decrypt.

They would not be able to recover your data upon requesting a password reset, if they used proper end-to-end-encryption.
You could try something like this: https://www.kaggle.com/c/landmark-retrieval-challenge/discus...

Not art, but a contest-winning approach to a perhaps similar problem of searching a large image database given a photo.
>Check your privilege levels; what opinions would people feel unsafe expressing in your vicinity?

This is a new and perverse way of thinking about "privilege" that I've never seen before. I am someone that certain people would consider "privileged" and I've never had anyone ask me that question. (Guess my background.) There's plenty of opinions that I would fear expressing based on my circumstances, things I only talk about with very close friends. And legitimate fears - being fired or evicted. To me, it seems like people who talk about "privelege", especially "white privilege", sometimes over-estimate how far that takes one (he's literally immune to self-censorship!!1!). Maybe some are, but I really doubt it.
My heart breaks for you. Wishing you the best.
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I prefer without captions, it's more relaxing and I'm not planning to replicate the feats anyway. :)
This. Where I work it's common for features to involve 3-4 repos and it makes testing and deploying a huge pain. This leads to people sticking code in the wrong place as a work around, defeating the purpose of splitting the code into services in the first place.
Does that work with utf8 files? I hardly ever work with us ascii files anymore.
> we can't see how wrong that would be

I don't think most people will object. Here are some excuses that you can pick from to feel better about our dys... world.

"It only works when someone is near me, and I'd have more things to worry about if someone wished harm on me and was sitting next to me."

"Well privacy is dead anyway, and I get to play candy crush with friends for free! Personal data is worthless anyway."

"Even if they can change who I am given enough personal data, who cares? I'm already shaped by the people around me, what's wrong with adding companies to the mix?"

"China is doing it, and China is ahead of us in everything. We must copy them."

(These are all more or less from actual discussions I've had about privacy.) Take your pick.
>Syrett also notes that despite their transgressive behavior, the men writing each other were generally quite conservative and uninterested in challenging the sexual politics of their time: “Though they were clearly not engaged in a struggle for gay liberation… these men organized in service of their own personal liberation and did so through corporate capitalism and not leftist political organizing.”

...ok? Just because someone likes dudes doesn't mean he wants to seize the means of production. Obviously capitalism has worked out pretty well for businessmen financially, so probably they'd be more likely to lean right-libertarian.
Sorry, how long ago did you enter college?

Honestly the dangers of high interest rate debt have been known for millennia, anyway. This feels like a lack of self awareness. “Other people’s mistakes are their fault. My mistakes are other people’s fault too.”
Or: "Cities fail to properly regulate Airbnb, widely deploy sinister measures to discourage people from using it"
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Google Translate is a great example of how incremental iterations of AR can still be useful. It's on a phone and not some fancy glasses and the translations aren't really very good but it's still really handy especially if you can't even read the script of the language in question.
Conceptually, if you’re trying to classify artwork by a category like artist or period, the problem is just ordinary image classification and won’t require anything unique so I’d recommend just reading the current SOA papers for that task.

The foundation for many of the current SOA papers is He, et. al:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03385

(I wrote and maintain Keras-ResNet and I’m always looking for interesting examples. Let me know if you cook up something interesting!)
Good thing GitHub wasn't just one company ready to sell out at a moment's notice.

Why the hell are people centralizing everything on a single place? The whole point of the internet is open protocols, open end points that can host anything.

Host your own build your own communities!
True, there was predation. But interest on a loan is an old, old concept.
Actually, no. AirBnb bungled the process. The host was able to rent.

I also found it weird that the PR nonsense said that “2 million” people are using the service and putting money in the pockets of “countless” hosts.

Hosts aren’t countless... so I wonder why they aren’t calling that out?
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> In this move San Francisco makes it clear that they believe they own your property and you merely occupy it on their whim.

In this move, San Franciso makes it clear that you can't change the use of a property without permission.
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We agree, I promise. Administrative costs are far and large the major problem, as well as needless capital and operational expenses like multi million dollar landscaping and etc.

However, I seriously must qualify your statement. There are adjuncts making 20-30k per year, with no benefits. Then there are tenured professors who barely do any teaching anymore making upwards of 200k per year. Some also hold simultaneous administrative positions.

So you have to tread carefully. I think what you are trying to say is that paying a tenured associate professor 60-80k per year is a reasonable expense. I agree with this statement.
Well, that's like... a whole different situation. Why wouldn't you mention that ?
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Microsoft products already conflict with Microsoft products.
Airbnb’s policy is to wait until 10 days before checkin, even when they already know they need to cancel. Same is true for the mountain of Japan cancellations this summer. They won’t tell anyone till 10 days before

They think they’re being “aggresive”, hoping that the rules change. But they’re screwing up vacations selfishly

> Airbnb – the company, not the hosts of the property – pulled the plug on their week’s stay in San Francisco, 10 days before they were due to arrive.
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Wait... you guys had “pre-existing” kids and they asked that? What the actual f?

How did your wife respond? :)
A short video from when they got the tape machines working in McMoon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awc6dm_kvV8

There are more videos on the same YouTube channel.
What would "proper regulation" be, and why isn't a registration and review system for hosts such?

(If it turns out it was the city's fault that Airbnb erroneously thought the registration was invalid, that'd clearly be an implementation failure, I agree, but still leaves open the question why Airbnb only reacted so late)
Ask HN: Has anyone had success w EquityNet, Angel.co or other fundraising sites?
My co-founder and I have been trying to bootstrap our idea for about a year now and think we need to raise some angel money to launch the right way. We’ve both held roles in startups and large companies but this is our first venture, and the overwhelming feedback we’ve heard from other founders is to be cautious about selling equity. We also live in a place where angel investors are sparse (ie not N California) and think our idea needs more than what we can round up from friends and family. Any feedback is much appreciated.
It should be kept in mind that the departments that research this part of history tend to have a certain political viewpoint which allows things to be published that would be far out of place in other field's journals. They tend to allow direct political statements that would never be permitted in most professional academic publications. Imagine seeing a paragraph decrying, in harsh language, industrial environmental damage in a Nature article! Or a climate science paper railing against Republicans for denying it.
There are always bunch of factors. Its called 'context'.

If you ask a general question, there is no context. So the answer is simple - use Vue, not React.

Its way easier to on board and get you up and running, and mature enough that you can develop complex apps if you need that.

Other people usually tell 'it depends', but that is just excuse for not being able to draw a line.
http://www.frfrogspad.com/fantasy.htm

"The question that is frequently asked is Under what circumstances does the state or municipal entities have a constitutional duty to protect citizens from violence at the hands of private actors?

The general answer to this question is that there is no constitutional duty to protect free citizens. The only clear case of a duty to protect is when a citizen is in the custody of a state or municipality."
The org handling my scholarship & job placement were defunded just before I graduated in 1996.

This job market here was already one that won't hire w/o a personal into. The only way a coder w/o experience + buddies in HR was getting hired was thru blackmail or ransom.

I knew how to do basic hardware & some networking so got a biz license & biz cards and chatted up everyone I could find for 3 years.
I went door to door to every business in town. None of them hired me but there would be other people around who thought it was novel that I was marketing like it was 1955.
Those people intro'd me to people they knew & that got me established.

The 2008 crash sinkholed my clients (car dealers).
I started over with med providers but by 2010 the ACA sinkholed my new clients.

I finally started writing some code 5 years ago to build blocklists for custom firewalls.
It's almost like thumbing your nose at government regulations isn't a good plan for a solid future in business. Who knew.
Awesome for consumers, terrible in the short term for employment prospects until those workers find new jobs elsewhere as robot technicians :)
Price revolution
Not in regular life, but at a conference it would be great.
Digital Ocean is a traditional VPS provider who recently added a product that competes with AWS S3 and a product that is docker hosting as a service, which I hope is a valid alternative to EC2 autoscaling. They have a thing with gitlab to run your continuous integration pipeline. They have a few more things.

Heroku is a platform as a service. They provide an alternative to EC2 autoscaling. Also available is postgre, Kafka, redis, MongoDB, MySQL, and a few other things I rudely assumed aren't important enough to mention as a service.

Vultr and linode also offer block storage in addition to traditional VPSs.

Ovh has something called object storage.

Auth0 is willing to be your "user authentication as a service" which also includes something like AWS lambda.

Spotinst will help you get cheap "spot instances" for AWS/GCP/Azure. They also have an AWS lambda competitor and an object storage (I think this one is literally a JSON object storage for your FaaS, not actual files). Not much of a primary service provider.

I consider AWS, GCP, and Azure to be megacorporate monopolies and would prefer to support an underdog. But I'm not aware of any 4rth competitor that comes close to what those 3 actually are. The ones I mentioned probably average at 10% and maybe DO or heroku peaks at 40%.

I would love to hear more about cloud providers who are becoming more than just VPSs to take on AWS.
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This is one of those things where people tend to be willfully ignorant of dose-response curves and exposure thresholds. It's curious that we don't see more folks stress out about eating bananas or green onions given their noticable sums of formaldehyde.

In large quantities, acrylamide probably will cause cancer. It's pretty trace in coffee. Any problems caused by does of caffeine will rapidly overshadow the effect of acrylamide.
Actually, Big Pharma happened. And it was the left who argued that asylums were inhumane, more than the right arguing that it was too expensive. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was a real agent of change in how people thought about the problem as well.
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If a fully automated company is algorithmically created and maintained that is using NLP/CV to create short summaries/previews with hyperlinks, will it avoid the upcoming link tax? If not, who will be responsible for paying it?
I think this is a good example of how playing the hardline, aggressive "disruptor" can backfire.

I've talked to the Airbnb founders a few times, and they're probably the most passionate founders I've met. It's clear that they believe in their vision 100%, even without the money (just look at their history of self-funding for years before they could attract VC interest).

But by refusing to cooperate with cities on some legitimate complaints (like a small number of hosts who own a ton of properties, which is even sketchy to me as a guest), they really brought this hardline pushback on themselves.
I think the technology is too early to build useful stuff with. Even Word Lens is using the wrong form factor and that surely affects adoption.

As for killer apps ?

Ad blocking . Reading other people's faces and body language. Maybe even an interpersonal assistant/teacher. A better way to externalize memory and achieve a perfect photographic memory. Maybe useful tool for people doing hobbies and DIY, including cooking.

Also, some platforms are useful without a killer app(like browser extensions), to solving many small/niche problems and thus helping people achieve a sense of control.
Much of professors' salaries are paid from grants. The professor who barely does any teaching is (hopefully) pulling in research money.
Is it too late to restore America's capacity to manufacture fundamental goods like steel and electronics components?
It's pretty unfortunate, but it's a good example of how a law can do the exact opposite of what it was intended to do unless it's considered carefully, and messaging risk is a non-trivial task in written communication.
They probably don’t have data to count.

So technically they are countless.
Oh, I think I understand the point here now. I said in my other comment that I can't imagine what one would do with thousands of lines of awk -- but maybe this means their design succeeded.

By designing a terse language, they made people want to do things with it that are short and sweet, preventing it from feature-creeping into a full-featured language where you'd write thousands of lines of spaghetti. Is that the idea?
Android client for Dragonfire open-source virtual assistant
Curious what's missing, iirc you can set figshare to automatically pull from GitHub on a release. Seems pretty low requirements for free long term archiving and fitting into the common workflows with DOIs
True = (True != Success)
The feds have already stated they will be going after every nickel they can get their hands on from both Manaford and Cohen if convicted. Leaving their family destitute is a powerful incentive to cooperate.
I read somewhere that "Perl" isn't actually any kind of acronym but really stands for a pearl (the glossy ball thingy produced by certain species of sea life) - the reason being some kind of biblical reference to it.
It is an old copypasta

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/to-be-fair-you-have-to-have-a-...
The woman added: “I called the city authorities and they confirmed my application, and the licence number I’ve been issued is what Airbnb requires, so that’s what I provided. But Airbnb still says the city rejected my number. Both sides are pointing at each other.”

Your first quote is wrong according to the article
> Companies need to account for the fact that they're comprised of human beings that reproduce.

If think that's the point, companies do account for that, by discriminating against women, onto which the bulk of the burden of reproduction falls.

Correcting this incentive structure is a prime job for government, else literally nothing can exist in few generations.
Move the nasty industrial processes out there, factories in space and only ship high end processed materials.

Once there is rocket fuel in large quantity "boost backwards". Slow a well designed space plane to a safe entry velocity and fly to a regular airport. It's and idea that can not even be imagined until there is a filling station in space but should be standard after the first water asteroid.
Ask HN: Government contracting
I ve read on this before but I haven't found answer to this.

Does it make sense to bid on state government contracts before going to federal ones? Does it give your startup company any advantage?

Is this a good way to build references for your startup for the ultimate purpose of getting federal work or even remaining at state level and being big player down the line?
Fair point.

I'll counter that with if we are using history as an indication of future actions, then selling off personal data has not been Microsoft's course of evil action. Suppressing competitors, sure, selling personal data, no.

Having dipped my toe briefly into the world of collecting and selling personal data, it is a rat-race way to try to make large sums of money. It is an absolute grind. I personally have a hard time seeing why Apple or Microsoft would decide to move away from making windfalls of money through direct purchases. Many startups fall into selling personal data because they can't crack the nut of getting people to pay them.
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No. The command would be called called fewer (e.g., show me fewer lines) if that was the case.
> hacked in the sense of beating the system, not breaking into computers.
This is likely because his modified BlackBerry was a one-off project suited to his security requirements.

My understanding is that internal hardware was removed/shielded, and I assume software modifications were made as well, like only connecting to specific cellular base stations (such as the one in his official vehicle).