skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Accelerometers usually don't have significant drift - digital gyroscopes do. The acceleromters are quite noisy though (and measure both gravity and acceleration). From some of the brief images in the intro movie it looks like the cameras are doing tracking and alignment of "interesting" features. Things like that fall into the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technology area. Very cool stuff.
I guess the catch in this would be that they get to integrate the public scans with Google Maps and/or help train Google Glass about the surroundings.
I am so happy to see a familiar face when I played the video.

Back in 07/08 when he demoed his hacks in TED it really blew my mind. [1]

I was really hoping someone would pick him up and let him loose on some projects.

I guess Google did just that.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H1zrLZwPjQ
Personally, I prefer multiple pieces instead of one big table. I just use a simple $69 IKEA white table top with 4 straight circular metal posts. But if I want to expand, I will buy another one and put next to existing one.
The "rich" were smart enough to find a way to be able to pool resources, or "lucky" enough to have been born into a situation. The problem is we need to be investing in everyone, equally, until they prove they can use resources better than others and then allot them more resources. The first trick is doing it in a way that is fair, and the second trick is doing this while in transition from the old systems.
I found it difficult to figure out .deb packaging for our in-house services when I had a crack at it last year. There are a dozen ways to do it, with no real agreement found by my google-fu, and if you don't have a makefile, it gets even harder to find documentation to help.

I saw a comment on a feature request in FPM by Jordan Sissel: "I'd think about implementing it, but there's so much silly ceremony around .deb packaging" (paraphrased). 'Silly ceremony' stuck with me. I'm sure it makes sense once you know, but there's a steep learning curve.
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Yeah it could be used for that, though I'm not sure why Google Glass would be used in that situation. A chest strap to mount the device looking forward and maybe headphones in the blind user's ears (to speak out TTS directions, or even just tones which represent directions) would be a better feedback mechanism.
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Your financial adviser is charging you to use index funds.
Your financial adviser isn't an adviser, but a salesperson.
Your financial adviser might make extra cash on the courtage you pay by getting a commission.

And etc.

Index Funds & Apartment is the path of least resistance.

I am sure that there are honest advisers that TRY to beat index. I really do mean try here.
If the market is "stupid", what testable results do we expect? Here's one: smart people who figure out better ways to allocate money should be able to consistently beat the market performance.

Great--now let's test that hypothesis! Studies have consistently shown there is very little or no autocorrelation between excess returns--that is, someone who beats the market in year n is essentially no more likely to beat the market in year n+1 than anyone else. This is very different than a field like programming or basketball, where someone who performs well one year will probably perform well the next year.

To me, this is absurdly good evidence that the market is not "stupid," even when I think it is.

Worse, arguments like this don't merely say that the market is stupid and could be beaten--they use the author's personal views on the stupidity of particular market movements to make that claim. In other words, to accept this argument, I need to believe that you are one of the (maybe) few people on the planet who can consistently beat the market. I don't believe that.
I wouldn't paint all tipped jobs with the same brush. I used to deliver pizza in high school. I got tips. I lived in a rural area and usually a "good" tip was $1.

I had zero choice for jobs. I competed with many other desperate kids for that job. In the end my choice was to leave the area, but I was smart and burdened with a teenage pregnancy or the massive family responsibilities of some of my peers.
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Try "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" by David Burns and "A New Guide to Rational Living" by Albert Ellis. Wikipedia has some relevant information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_emotive_behavior_ther...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy

Contrary to what some would have you believe in this thread, you can change your beliefs and emotions through consciously directed thought, but it's not easy.
To add to this, OpenSUSE build service is invaluable, and not just for SUSE distros. https://build.opensuse.org/
Combine the big dumb money problem with the agency problem, and you will see that no one capable of allocating a huge pile of capital intelligently could ever be trusted to do it.

The logical thing to do is to allocate as much as possible to yourself as quickly as possible, before someone else can come along and do exactly the same thing.

The financial sector really needs an ever-aware watchdog standing behind it at all times, pointing a big, scary gun at its skull. When the only consequence to taking everything you can get is having more than you can use, guess what happens.

The only alternative is to decentralize completely, which no nation on the planet will attempt, because they benefit from living at the center of the money web almost as much as the banks.
Perhaps banks could implement a negative interest rate. Money you don't use goes to science (or something equally "good" for humanity)?
With SuperMoney, I am trying to build the Yelp of the personal finance niche.

Looking for some good feedback on UX and general thoughts on the value proposition, site, branding, or anything else useful.
Yes, that is a very thoughtful gesture of them.
How many people still have the exit strategy "die old"? Are we a shrinking group?
Being from Europe, I can only confirm that people in the Bay Area are in fact, incredibly passive-aggressive. The first few years I must admit that I felt like living on Mars. Even-though I'm coming from a "western" country whose lifestyle and tradition are somewhat similar, the cultural gap was actually much bigger than say, with Indians or Latinos.

At work for example, it took me a rather long time to understand the real meanings of "I'm not sure" which means 'no' or "interesting" which means more or less that what you said is stupid. Not to mention being asked 200-times a day how I am doing or whether I found everything I was looking for at wholefood.

Yep, people in this region have an imperial need to "be nice", at least on the surface and it can feel Orwellian at times if you are not used to it, especially on those days of bad mood. I think in Thailand they call that "sweet mouth, salty butt". But hey, that's also a huge plus, since it prevents a lot of bad vibes and unneeded frictions. I believe it's just a societal organization.

Sometimes I go back to my country for work, and over there people's number one characteristic is distrust and indifference, and I can guarantee you that I feel like a foreigner over there now - well, on normal days, because if I happen to be in a bad mood, I'm kind of showing signs of Tourette syndrome and want to punch everybody.

Overall, I think I'm mixing well in the Bay Area. And more importantly, most of my friends and relatives who share those character traits do tolerate that some foreigners like me don't necessarily think and act the same way. And frankly, wouldn't the world be boring if people were the same everywhere ?
Undemocratic is a feature and a bug. It shifts over firmly into "bug" territory when it gets too extreme.

"From a national political perspective, Vermont and Wyoming couldn't be much further apart."

Vermont and Wyoming are strongly united on a number of issues (guns immediately springs to mind). I'm not the least bit sure that Central California and Silicon Valley would be united on fewer. The notion that Vermont and New Hampshire should be separate; Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhodes Island should be separate; Maryland and Virginia should be separate; but Sacramento, San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco all belong in the same state is laughable.

"But the solution to that problem is to fix the filibuster, not destroy the Constitutional balance between states and the Federal government."

Right, because when they wrote the Constitution, Jefferson and Madison and friends carefully laid out California's borders.

When California entered the Union, its population was less than 1% of the total US population. Now it's well more than 10%. The borders that made sense when it was a state like Wyoming don't make sense anymore. It has population like the eastern seaboard, it has industry like the eastern seaboard, it should have borders more like the eastern seaboard.
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"Certain balance minimums" in this case means over $100k. Until you get over $50k it's only 0.20%.
Wait, have you actually been to Vancouver before? Vancouver has one of the higher crime rates for a North American city and is quite noted for it, Seattle is much lower. Also, Kirkland doesn't have suburbs (it is one), and totem lake isn't that bad.

http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/wa/seattle/crime/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-cri...
Also is there a reason you aren't including referral codes in the links to the Fantasy sites?
I think that's company culture friction ... if a group of people primarily works from an office, it takes a serious effort to accommodate remote workers.
With enough precision this could work really well for set extensions/reconstruction.
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Due to her education and experience she is probably in a much better position than people without those skills - even for a service industry job.
"if democracy is something we value then it's a legitimate consideration"

I don't think we've ever valued democracy for its own sake. The founders were much more focused on the States and checks and balances. Democracy had to fit into that framework.

[Edit] the proper rights of a British subject became the proper rights of an American citizen and should affect the House directly.
Ah great, thanks for the concrete info!

I imagine that a fiber rollout would create entirely new revenue, though, where upgrading water mains and other existing infrastructure wouldn't, so it might be viewed by the govt as offsetting any difference in interest rates?
No coding required? Really? That app seems to be displaying data about hotel prices. From where does it get this data?
Namecheap works well. They have an API but I never used it.
>That wasn't what I suggested at all

Obviously I can't tell what you meant to say, but it is what you did say. "If your thirteen year old technology choices are still having an impact today, then you're doing the wrong thing regardless". My thirteen year old technology choices are still having an impact today. You explicitly said I am "doing the wrong thing". I believe that is incorrect.
To do a clean sweep you really need a 'order of magnitude' type of justification ... some benefit that completely justifies the risk and time of changing platforms.

Postgres does a lot of things better than Mysql, but unless you have a really unique data problem to solve (perhaps say a robust spatial database) it's hard to switch midstream.
With Simple, there are no ATM fees at any AllPoint ATM, and they are everywhere.
Hire a book keeper as a contractor. We went through this with our startup we spent time researching various platforms considered automating some of our processes our selves and then ultimately hooked up with a book keeper quite accidentally. It changed our whole perspective on the process.
Think of it this way if you were a group of front end developers who turned out to need a high powered backend database solution and hit a wall with internal implementation you would immediately go out and find a dba to be part of or advise your company on the path forward. Think about your books in the same way. Accounting has purposeful redundancy built into it and many constructs that will make a logical programmer want to cry. Getting setup in the right way from the beginning will help you later.
If it's already missing it needed replacing yesterday.
Om Malik, steps down at GigaOm and joins True Ventures as Partner
You could apply current directly to your head to provide necessary signals, similar to how tDCS works. No buzzing required.
In the UK it now takes seconds with the faster payments scheme (most banks participate).

http://www.fasterpayments.org.uk
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Surely the right place for this is in a google glass. Or at that point, given the sensors required, a google helmet.
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I agree. I suppose a Google Glass would be a bit silly since the screen would be unused, but seeing as it has most of the technology built in already, it would be easier to get a prototype working. An ear piece is another bonus added to the device as it could notify the user of obstacles.
The results seem perfectly usable to me, sorry your favorite sites are not top ranking[0]. Care to explain why you think DDG is explicitly filtering them?

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=+%22html+table+tag%22
Making it hardER is certainly possible. Get rid of the Citizens' United decision, enforce some rules on lobbying and campaign finance, re-institute the split between savings banks and investment banks, as a matter of fact break up a few of them so that the influence is less concentrated. We had things working that way a few short decades ago and while it wasn't a golden age, it wasn't as much of a gilded age as today either.

Life is shades of gray. You're never going to have a government small enough or an economy small enough that it's not worth it to play dirty, outside of complete anarchy which it turns out is significantly dirtier. What you can do is limit the damage.
The idea of a tip is to compensate service based on quality. If that's not the goal, then the cost should just be integrated into the price of the meal. Since it's not, that means tipping should be reserved for compensating service based on quality. Restaurants are free to set service fees (and many do, "A fee of 18% will be imposed upon parties of 10 or more"), but a tip is still a tip.

You give me poor service, you get a poor or nonexistent tip. If the server doesn't like that, then they should provide better service. If the restaurant doesn't like paying their staff to make up the difference between what their wages and minimum wage, they're free to take action against that server (from more training to just firing them). That's the behavior that tips are meant to encourage. Either you're a good server and you make more than minimum wage, or you're a poor server and you don't have a job anymore. That's how the entire economy works.

At any rate, a tip is not a formality. If people are treating it as such, I have a problem with that. Either do away with tips and pay the staff what they're worth or make tips based on quality of service.
"The founders were much more focused on the States and checks and balances."

First, quite obviously, the borders of California were no part of that deliberation.

Second, the focuses of the founders don't have to be our own. They had legitimate concerns, of which we should also not lose sight, but that doesn't mean democracy is an illegitimate concern.
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It is a reference to this well known quote:

"Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%." --Donald Knuth
Beware, though, that saying things like “our round is closing really fast” when you have no offers usually backfires. Investors talk and will call your bluff.

True, but this sort of investor collusion is unethical and only (possibly) legal because private stock isn't regulated in the way that publicly traded stock is. In fact, the whole and only purpose of the VC-funded economy is to take stock strategies that were made illegal 30-100+ years ago and apply them to fast-growing, private, volatile tech stocks.

Shit like this is why most of us who are paying attention hate VC, and why the U.S. has gone from admiring Silicon Valley to vilifying it (and justly so; the ethics in Wall Street are way better than those in the VC-funded world.)

That this kind of scumbag collusion is tolerated is just unconscionable. Investors are supposed to be competitors, but they compare notes so much as to function as a cartel.
Of course and I said as much. Whether or not to shake the hand of someone you meet is also up to the hand-shaker, but, again, you should just be aware that declining to do so bucks convention. You're talking about what you think tipping should be; I'm talking about what it is.
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You'd be surprised how many people that I've seen leave Valley-based companies to live in Vancouver. It's especially prevalent over the last few years. Likely why Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter are growing teams here.

Honestly, you made the right call. As a technologist, you can make an impact from anywhere but places like Vancouver take a very very long time to build and develop (Good Luck Mountain View :) ). I know, I've lived around several of Google's most prolific offices.
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>you should encourage people to believe global warming is a problem that needs fixed as it would further your goals.<

Not sure if you missed a /sarc on that? Anyway, I think the root cause is clearly 9 billion humans on the planet, thus I got myself 'fixed' after having 2 kids (2.1 is the replacement rate), but I'm not going to lie to people about some warming to make my point... in fact, that would probably distract yet again from seeing the underlying problem.

It's quite depressing that people can't see three basic things:

1) exponential population growth is unsustainable (e.g. more than 2.1 kids)

2) resources per capita goes up when capita goes down (a good thing)

3) make a better world (technology, etc.) before increasing the population size... don't make it your kids' problem.
Can you state that in a way that also relates back to the grandparent's point to which I was responding?
Yes, this is what I was getting at. That if I don't already have well-developed meanings for all of those verbs in this context, they look like they were pulled out of thin air. They might as well be interchangeable - I don't even know which ones are supposed to be the 'good' ones and which 'bad'. So it's a subtle form of jargon, and it can't be regarded merely as plain English.
I read the whole blog post disagreeing with almost everything right up until the end when I read:

"This is the one shining negative here: .NET stunted my knowledge of HTML/CSS/Javascript."

This is the whole point of the blog post. And this is in fact true. But terminology that is not pointed out is that ASP.NET WEBFORMS are what "stunted" your knowledge. WebForms made developers oblivious of how the web actually works. .NET, C#, or VB.NET isn't the problem.

Also, living in a Microsoft world can be insulating, but only if you aren't looking for a better way. "Alt.NET" was really a belief in outside the box thinking.
Hi Everyone!

We launched this service a few weeks ago and have gotten good traction so far. We are freelancers ourselves and are trying to create a community for people to connect easier. Would love any feedback you may have as we are both new to the start up world and are searching for mentors along the way. Really appreciate your thoughts/insight.

-GoForCrew
Right, what's with that?
I like the mapping ability, imagine mapping out your house and be able to use it as a level in a game, like walking on your ceiling with Oculus Rift.
NSA settled lawsuit over satirical merchandise
Could similar scaling be achieved with Scala & Akka or did I just make Erlang devs snicker.
> updating it’s position and orientation in real-time

ITS NOT IT'S
"Look at this! If I mash gibberish into a search engine it returns the same."
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a negative interest rate

Guess what drives consumption and consumerism. :)
As long as it's in the phone, couldn't you tether it to Google Glass to generate a real-time HUD based on where you were? (and perhaps also capture images to attach to the 3D model)

That was the first thing I thought about - actual augmented reality down to the inch would be quite something.
And the upcoming events links too. Not to mention that they're all from 2012?
I wonder if Google has a stack of experimental projects to release whenever a competitor announces some headline grabbing news.
Remove some DTDs. Then remove the completely-silly need to put the tag name in the closing tag, and hey, it's a nice format.

At least it has comments and is suitable as a config file format, unlike JSON.
Slashdot? Was this because of Digg?
The relevant press release from Ofcom (the telecoms regulator, for those outside the UK): http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/2010/10/supporting-the-uk%E2%8...

BT Retail has just been really good at advertising it, the rest of the ISPs don't seem to have branding budgets to compete.
It's mildly hilarious that you first claim they don't provide anything, and then complain about the services they provide.

The financial sector provides the service of matching your savings up with people and companies that want to borrow them, and vice versa. Optionally, they also provide the service of advising you about who best to lend to, or doing all the work and just sending you the proceeds (ie, mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity funds).

But if you really want to avoid them, then you could try...

* Peer to peer lending

* Hard money lending

* Angel investing

* Buying real estate and/or rental properties (but don't use mortgages - that's a product of the useless financial sector)

Of course, those tend to require a lot more work, more capital and potentially more risk because you don't have that useless financial services industry to make it easier.
Man claims victory over NSA after they tried to block parody merchandise
Imagine combining this with an Oculus Rift, so that you can make your house look however you want within the level, and you can move around through this new world. It would take virtual reality to an entirely new level
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Isn't it much easier to just look into your refrigerator/pantry and keep a mental track of things? There are a few pitfalls to your suggested method:

* It takes a good amount of time scanning and cataloging everything and we are taking about a world where people don't find enough time to scribble down these things on a piece of paper.

* What if you pulled out cereal box A and cereal box B but switched places when putting them back?

* Since its scanning the boundary of objects, it won't be able to tell you if your Milk is empty, half empty or full.

The one thing I could think of where this is useful is in scanning rooms/objects which are for sale. Like 3d scanning the bike you are going to sell, or a realtor using it to provide a virtual 3d tour of a house. However, Microsoft already did it with their Photosynth program and regular photos you take [1], so I am not sure how this is going to fair if it turns out to be expensive.

[1] http://photosynth.net/