skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most PC based VR games I've seen already use greatly cut down graphics compared to traditional games, even while running at current headset resolutions where the screen door effect is fairly noticeable. But VR can be so much fun that you might stop noticing the graphics in games that don't try to go for realism in their presentation. But if that's the best available on a desktop PC with a recent high end GPU, I'm having a hard time imagining how a portable could be powerful enough that its graphical limitations won't also be a drag on the fun.
great work! google is evil?
Universities in my country only offer what are called "collaboration bursaries", which is 120hrs of unskilled work paid 10€/h. I already plan on applying, but as you can imagine it is nothing more than a stopgap.
I've thought about posting on the schools bulletin board that I'm willing to help people with their PCs and whatnot, or maybe even do tutoring in CS, but it seems like a long shot for someone to actually call you.

As for languages I think that's most likely a no-go, my university is trilingual and most student are required extensive knowledge of the languages to graduate (for which the university itself offers many many MANY courses)
My take in the issue is that Google is being mismanaged. China will not allow a foreign company to compete against its home grown search engines, so why bother? By bowing to Chinese censorship, Google hurts its public image. Google's management should have expected that its employees, who joined Google on the premise of "Do not evil", would leak this to the public. In short, the people at the top of Google look like fools to me.
I use AdBlock https://www.adblockios.com on iOS which runs a local DNS server that can blackhole domains. It doesn't work well on very large host files so I gave up trying to import https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts, but it does work well for smaller lists.
Regulation and involvement are two different things. Many cities are basically shall-issue when it comes to permitting. Others hand out variances like colleges hand out condoms.
Look, I personally know people who actively work on alternative theories of gravity, so don't act like the alternatives aren't being considered!

These friends are also serious enough in their studies they they don't go around insisting dark matter gives us nothing but a load of non-detections.
> Aha’s cook loads the food onto the drone.

>enough to cover the outer ring of ­Reykjavik from Aha’s operations center in the middle of town.

So they're also running a delivery-only restaurant and have presumably made wholesale contracts with grocery and electronics suppliers? I suppose the next step is contracting with existing stores to provide delivery for someone else's goods.
People have been thinking seriously about micropayments for many decades now[1]. No one's managed to nail a complete concept and/or an execution that's really worth mentioning, except perhaps as historical interest. tl;dr: it's an enormously tough problem space to get right.

[1] "Every document can contain a royalty mechanism at any desired degree of granularity to ensure payment on any portion accessed, including virtual copies ("transclusions") of all or part of the document." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
I think this is a critical point of misunderstanding:

> if a company sells your data and you invoke your rights against the company, it's the company's responsibility to go after whoever they sold the data to, not yours.

Can you point me to more details on this? I have my doubts about it.
Sony Is Finally Allowing Cross-Play on the PS4
I didn't say that consensus protocols needed mining, only PoW which is a consensus protocol uses it.

You can poll multiple nodes and each one will give you a different answer because of message propagation times.

Mining fulfils two roles:

- identity management: To identify who is a trustworthy block producer in an anonymous and trustless network, mining introduces a cost to the block generation process and we use a game theory assumption that it serves as a barrier for attackers. This doesn't mean there aren't validation checks performed by other nodes in the network and the consensus forming rules themselves of course.

- consensus formation: In a distributed network, nodes are bound to disagree on which is the canonical chain out of two or more competing forks. The most common algorithm calculates the accumulated computational effort of each chain of blocks and picks the "heaviest" one, ie the one with the most work done on it. This has the nice side effect of ensuring economic finality for the transactions in those blocks.
Or you could use the new Google Sites which has a lot of the same features and benefits.

https://sites.google.com/
You're never going to diagnose something based on a watch (or other consumer focused wearable). The watch is just telling you that you should go talk to your doctor (so they can get you on a real cardiac monitor and get the level of information needed to make a diagnosis). Consumer wearables aren't going to be replacing Holter monitors.

EDIT: A lot of folks seem to be interpreting my comment as implying there is no value in this technology. That is absolutely not the case. There is huge value in widely deployed screening like this (especially since it looks like the specificity is quite high). My point is that these devices will not be replacing diagnostic equipment (in fact, it may very well increase its use as more conditions that would otherwise have gone undetected will now be flagged for further diagnostic testing).
Spent the better part of two years building a local food and drink promotion side gig. Building connections, making money, social life, growing photography skills and traveling for something I'm already doing in my life, eating and drinking. Cliche as it may be, that's the key, particularly when adding ANOTHER job on top of your day job. You have to enjoy the shit out of it.
Just curious, does your handset super wifi calling? My parents live pretty far out in the country and were having reception issues. A few Ubiquiti wireless access points solved the problem
If this list were named "alternatives to Google products" then I'd say it is a good list. But privacy friendly? How so exactly?

There are several closed-source proprietary services on the list, with better (in terms of nearly everything: user base, maturity, feature completeness, ...) open-source alternatives available.

To name just a few per category:

- Analytics: Matomo (formerly Piwik), Fathom Analytics, OpenWebAnalytics.

- Password managers: passwordstore.org, Keepass

- Cloud storage: NextCloud, TresorIt
The trend is general: the tide is rising and lifting all boats.

> We are living through a period of rapid global poverty reduction. According to recent estimates, high, sustained growth across most of the developing world has helped nearly half a billion people escape $1.25-a-day poverty between 2005 and 2010. Never before have so many people been lifted out of poverty over such a brief period.

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/two-trends-in-global-pove...

500,000,000 people, 5 years.
So, just imagining this could be Patreon's next service - sign up for X dollars a month for a VIP pass - but the issue suddenly becomes they need to oauth against patreon, and add in a new tier of subscriber .. it's doable but slow

I kind of like tying this into U2F. I think FIDO and the like will rollout as oauth has done - slowly but becoming the "default" way.

If as part of the initial sign up process, you authenticate your public key on site A, as being someone who can have a share of your monthly subscription... then we have built a distributed subscription service ...

i think

I like the idea
Yes, very true. Important to think aboout.

There is a rate limit on their API although I don't think I will hit it at this point of the project, but I do plan to start thinking about how I can cache/save the export from the Google doc for pages that are getting hit really hard. Any ideas?
Thank you for your insight and for pointing out the offensive part of my question. Thinking better I'd certainly not have said something like that if we'd be having a face to face conversation.
Peter Thiel is a major investor and board seat holder in Lyft. If your politics lead you to believe Uber is not an ethical company, that might also give you pause.
He wasn't kicked out -- he resigned.

And it was for political reasons that stood to directly affect an unknown number of his employees, the people whose lives would be directly affected by his donation to the anti-gay marriage thing; if those people raise a stink because he's trying to use government to interfere in their lives, I can't fault them.

"I'm going to use my wealth and power to negatively impact your life -- but don't talk about it, that's political." Nope.
I think demonizing the guys behind WhatsApp is entirely warranted. They built up a large userbase around promises of privacy and encryption, and then promptly sold those users to fucking Facebook. Whether they were just gullible and didn't do their due diligence, or if they were malignant, doesn't really make a big difference.
We can hire a British from Salou for that.
Only works on Chrome, so not an option.
Two calibrated cameras and, more importantly, calibrated accelerometers and gyroscopes. Cameras alone aren't fast enough, and visual feature detaction not accurate enough, to provide a good experience.

All of this is within reach of anyone who is making their own hardware, though.
I'll look into removing it.

If you want an overview of language features/design. I'd start with the docs: http://skiplang.com/docs/hello_world.html
Odd that you couldn't reply to me, but HN is a strange beast.

Users were paying for Whatsapp [1]. I believe that data point illustrates that users would pay $1/year for a chat service, but this is just an opinion until someone decides to stand up a new service and charges for it.

[1] The evolution of WhatsApp - in rumours and revenues
WhatsApp had dabbled with the subscription revenue model in 2014, which amounted to charging an annual $0.99 membership fee, and earned above $1 billion in the first nine months of instating this fee. But following their $19-billion acquisition by Facebook, they came to revoke these charges, and WhatsApp was a free ride for its one-billion-strong and counting user base again."

https://yourstory.com/2017/03/how-whatsapp-makes-money/
Where can I get tickets to Silicone Valley? (Presumably Las Vegas, Los Angeles, or Houston ... possibly Atlanta)

I suspect it is very different from Silicon Valley.
Of course mobile requires less power, but they mention Moss among the launch titles which is in no way a mobile experience.
I'm thinking they are going to port and downgrade everything then?
Summoning Salt makes great videos. The SMB1 video has already been linked, but I also love his video on the Choco Mountain track in Mario Kart 64. It has some great livestream captures which show records being broken, and contextualizes them well enough to give them some pathos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y99Wj-NStok
I agree. The rpi will pay for itself in electricity cost savings fairly quickly.

Also a reason to use a dedicated NAS appliance. Instead of the 60W minimum idle that desktops have, your at 1-10W idle with rpi zero and NAS appliances.

Small laptops might have a more efficient idle although, so YMMV.
I have read somewhere that Intel uses Haskell for formal verification, but public information is scarce.
> There are also a number of people who die of heart attacks with no symptoms. If Apple can get even 1% of them to the ER that would be a huge win.

The Apple Watch cannot detect heart attacks.
One thing omitted from the Instagram genesis story is that they effectively stole the Hipstamatic "filters" feature and added a basic timeline a la Twitter. Sharing to Twitter fueled their growth from that point. And the rest is history!
New Climate Debate: How to Adapt to the End of the World
Oh wow I've never seen that. Pretty cool.

After building this project I was thinking about a similar project where you could build a straight up website with Google Docs. Since Google's HTML export is pretty sophisticated (it also converts charts/shapes/etc) to HTML, it could work!

Almost a throwback to that Microsoft product? Can't remember the name..
Sync-1.5 and Accounts. I used to run Sync-1.0 and it was okay. At least I didn't have to bother about protocol details. And now, even though it's FLOSS, it's still unmaintained abandonware so I don't think it's a good target.

1.5 is very different to 1.0.

Just consider the fact that to log in to Accounts and use Sync you need to use three auth protocols: HAWK, OAuth2 and BrowserID. And serve a webpage with some custom JS (that iOS version for some reason would reject to load).

And Sync alone is full of proprietary[1] stuff like X-Weave-Timestamp headers, application/newlines MIME type (seriously, not even a vendor extension), etc. It could've easily been WebDAV plus a few small protocol extensions where things didn't fit well. It is not.

____

[1] "Proprietary" as in "unique to this project, neither used by anything else, nor usable by anything else because it's poorly documented moving target without change warnings" not as in "non-FLOSS".
duplicate, please check before submitting:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18067784
Sadly this is fairly commonplace in IP contracts. Though some companies provide potential hires with an option to list "own inventions" wherein he/she can list projects they may continue to develop in their own time and retain ownership of. Granted, all entries therein are subject to approval by the company - obviously they won't let you pursue a project that is actually in competition with their business.
I think you could be on to something- I kinda agree this could be the "iPad" of VR. The Oculus Go is already pretty awesome, but it is hampered by a still somewhat limited library and the lack of 6DOF is definitely frustrating- Since this new headset will probably have the full Rift AND Go game catalog at launch, as well as a normie-friendly setup (without base stations or PC) this device could see some mainstream adoption and could be a milestone in VR.
Bubble has apparently lost all meaning now
The majority of Hyperswarm's code was written before libp2p. We had been sitting on it and waiting for the right time to deploy. We're not against working/merging with libp2p, but since we do like being able to iterate quickly within our team for now.

This project isn't possible in current browsers. Browsers just don't expose the interfaces needed. That's why we work on https://beakerbrowser.com/, which is the main project that Hyperswarm was built for.
Security patches will be available for Java 11 via Red Hat, IBM and others (who have promised to do so). And the binaries will be built and made available here https://adoptopenjdk.net/ as well as via other OpenJDK build farms (eg. Azul Zulu).
This is somewhat disingenuous. Transaction times can be as low as 10 minutes on Bitcoin, but this has high volatility. If I look in the past few months, average transaction times spike to a few hours quite frequently. Of course, if you look at the graph for January, the average transaction time jumped to days.

In standard interbank settling times, the transaction time takes days. But that's because transactions will automatically abort if they don't clear fast enough, and banks will take as much time as they can to actually close the transaction so as to avoid having to reverse it after the fact. In practice, many banks are happy to credit your balance with the deposit immediately (if the deposit is small enough, about $5k with my bank) without waiting for confirmation.

Of course, the time it takes to settle the transaction actually doesn't matter that much for the most part. In many cases, the transaction clearing time is going to be an insignificant portion of the time between invoicing the transaction and actually sending the goods.
Can you speak to what the takeaways for facebook were now that this project is concluded as a facebook sponsored project?

Do you see the language supporting caching beyond in memory (i.e. plugin redis/memcached etc) and allow caching between processes?
p.s. A somewhat similar but specialized arrangement https://www.freexian.com/en/services/debian-lts.html and monthly reports on level of support and work done https://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/Freexian+LTS/
If it's their main source of income, they would. Maybe advertisers could offer better rates since you'd be reducing their costs.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned the Brave browser, which operates exactly on the model you describe:

https://brave.com/
Everything is dust in the end..
> Yet, with so many obvious giveaways, I find it hard to believe Russia ever wanted to get away with the Skripal poisoning.

Russian killings in the UK are nothing new, and there were plenty of evidences in many previous cases. What's new here, is that the UK decided to make this particular case public. Unlike, for instance, in 2012[1]:

> Perepilichnyy, who faced repeated threats after fleeing to Britain, was found dead outside his home in Surrey after returning from a mysterious trip to Paris in 2012. Despite an expert detecting signs of a fatal plant poison in his stomach, the British police have insisted there was no evidence of foul play, and Theresa May’s government has invoked national security powers to withhold evidence from the inquest into his cause of death – which is ongoing.

> The prime minister directed the government’s successful bid to withhold documents from Perepilichnyy’s inquest on national security grounds, and as home secretary her department oversaw the police force that concluded the whistleblower’s death was not suspicious.

[1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/poison-in-the-system
The people at the top of Google are rich and have the freedom and resources to work on things that interest them.

Also, this is an old issue, Google in China.

I'm sure they won't start caring what a few outspoken individuals think by this point.
It likely wont look as nice as it would on a top end graphics card with a high end monitor (or two), but if it works it works.
It's not ethical to take a job you think you might leave at some point in the future? lol
The Flappy Birds stuff is utter madness.
Sync is not just about bookmarks, but also about open tabs and passwords.

I'd say it's quite desirable for one's phone to immediately catch up with their desktop. Open the same site using the tab list, have the password ready, etc.
> For example, we don't have anything that lets you read from command line or stdin. But you can open and watch a file.

whats the difference between opening a file and watching it and watching stdin?
OK, so there's an attacker on the network in both cases (UXSS and the worst-case-dnsmasq-vuln). So, to compare the two, you look at what else you can do -- and UXSS clearly wins there. "It wouldn't be hard to mount a phishing attack" -- maybe? Except on the most valuable phishing domains, which already have HSTS -- and the UXSS alternative is that I literally control your browser which is clearly worse since I have almost definitionally attained the goal of the phishing attack! And if I really want to just steal your password instead of just using your session, I'm guessing "full control of the DOM everywhere" will help with that.

I have also already argued that an extension does not need to be malicious -- just buggy -- to get UXSS.
Tsukumen ramen in a Tokyo Basement
Or they can do away with some of the useless images and save a lot more bytes.
Instant, luggable GSM system uses short-wave radio to win Mozilla/NSF challenge
Yep, never said it was bad. But the cost of this transit center is absolutely enormous for what it is -- a glorified bus station and park. There aren't even plans for BART connectivity, and the cost doesn't include the pricetag for MUNI metro linkage.
Well then alienware must have had major loss of quality in their component choice in the last few years, because gaming series laptop (asus rog, msi g series, alienware, ...) are usually very well supported and all pretty much include the same components.

Anyway, I maintain that this part of your experience is anecdotal and not representative of the general experience.
Yes, it already exists today, and it's built right into Brave.

https://brave.com/publishers/
Ex-Google employee warns of ‘disturbing’ China plans [Dragonfly]
Propelling the movement are signs that the problem is worsening at an accelerating rate. In an article this summer in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 16 climate scientists from around the world argued that the planet may be much closer than previously realized to locking in what they call a “hothouse” trajectory—warming of 4C or 5C (7F or 9F), “with serious challenges for the viability of human societies.”
We have a shipment tracking system now without blockchain.

> little rfid stickers on them ...

If the problem you're trying to solve is the one you say, you might as well just run a few servers across different organizations / companies which replicate between themselves, like certificate transparency does, or like the gpg web of trust does... which isn't a blockchain because it's vastly more efficient.
Guest wifi network which doesn’t go through the pi?
thanks for the links
The Go is pretty cool, but the lack of 6DOF and the limited game catalog really limit its viability. This new device addresses both of these issues (since many Rift games can now be ported over pretty easily)
Many companies take pride in serving their customers, more than making as much money as possible.
Outstanding work.

Now it is interesting to go back and look at the PR campaign and all the disinformation pushed to deflect and cover it up.

The RT channel's interview with the "gay Russian tourists" was precious.

https://www.rt.com/news/438356-rt-petrov-boshirov-full-inter...

> You know, let’s not breach anyone’s privacy. We came to you for protection, but this is turning into some kind of an interrogation. You are going too far. We came to you for protection. You’re not interrogating us.

And you can almost see through the logic - "Hmm, the West sympathizes with gays so why don't we insinuate you are gay and then they'll feel sorry for you and forget about you being GRU agents assassinating people".
Is this the release version of the Project Santa Cruz headset that was shown at Oculus Connect?
> Skip also features a code-formatter to ensure consistent code style and a tool for running codemods.

Nice! I love this trend.
Wonder if VR systems will replace computers in the future
I was not aware that it was still 2016...

While a few notable buildings opened up in downtown during that 2013-2016 time period (i.e., 8th and Grand, One Santa Fe in the Arts District, the Whole Foods Lofts, the Last Italian Fortress), most of the units in downtown have only recently come onto the market, i.e., in 2017 and 2018.

Some of the biggest developments in the Arts District and South Park are still under construction, and the biggest developments only broke ground this summer.
I see that the DHT relies on a package called 'ipv4-peers' [1]. Does it also support IPv6 peers?

I know there's a BitTorrent BEP for IPv6 support, but I'm not quite sure if that relates to this DHT implementation.

[1] https://github.com/hyperswarm/dht/blob/master/index.js#L4
Was it difficult to get the early users? What did you do to get them to use your websites?
Exactly! My arms rest perfectly on the arm rests and my spine is thanking me for it! If you want a prebuilt there's the ErgoDox EZ but that takes half the fun out of it :)

Take the dive, be the guy that built his own damn keyboard!
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Apple? They clocked almost $10B in revenue from China in Q3 2018, close to 20% of total revenue.
Start familiarizing yourself with the term "deep adaptation".
Yes, You Can Run Kafka in Windows Subsystem for Linux