skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scenario about being in ER and needing the patient's allergy medication, how did the doctor access the info on Glass? Was it just always on screen? Or voice activated? Could the same effect be achieved with a "Star Trek" style computer? The doctor would say the same command. I guess I can see how it might be more convenient in some situations to have it as visual info instead of a voice response.

I'm curious as to why Glass would bring about changes in medical care. For instance, I hear someone was interested in using it in surgery to record things. But certainly the basic technology of a head-mounted spycam has been around for quite some time. I was under the impression that Glass's innovation was making a hip, consumer-level product. Not that Glass brought new camera technology, for instance.
Does anyone know of a speed-reading API another than Spritz?
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Let's say you live alone and you want to see a movie. You pay for it. Same if I want to do it at my home. we both pay and we have the legal right to see it. What if suddenly, 20 friends come to my home to see the movie without paying as they were in their homes? Downloading is the same case. That's what I mean. You can't have the best of both worlds. Either you all pay to see it or no one.
Drones are getting pretty incredible. This one is almost indestructible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl2Z9N4Q82g
I think that knowing what you want to do before you try to do it is a good engineering practice in its own right.
Standups? They're daily status reports to management, right?

More importantly, they're daily status reports to each others, internally to your team.
Well, his answer didn't all those upvotes on their own. People apparently considered this useful for some reason.
i can hint at you that this is not an impossible problem even with a fairly decent res teapot :)

p.s. why are you doing any matrix multiplies in a shader? i guess these are per-pixel? per-vert? even per-vert ones can be removed or reduced if you don't mind a little loss of generality and have e.g fixed view point or a non-rotating teapot ;)

edit: as a note the teapot mesh is a bit squashed - this was originally such an optimisation. it was originally meant to be rendered rotating around the vertical axis on a 4:3 display, so the teapot mesh has been deformed 3:4 where 3 is the vertical and 4 are the two horizontal axes... this saves the aspect ratio correcting multiply when its rendered out.
In the game I played, the winner did in fact have more points, but their tiles were a strict subset of the other player's (64,4,2,2 vs 64,32,16,8,4,4,2,2), so its not really clear what the scoring mechanism is.
I disagree.

I've worked for a few large European financial orgs over the years and MS will not disclose issues early to them despite begging and piles of money. We're talking 50k+ employees here.

However DoD connected companies like Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon are right in there without an invite.

You just get the feeling there's something off when relationships are made like that.
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There's two questions here.

Where should I host my blog?

What software should I use?

If you have already have website, then something that works with your hosting provider makes sense. If you don't have a website, then it might make sense to find a hosting provider to host your blog.

As for software, simpler is probably better. But simpler is in the eye of the beholder. It might be optimized for setup or maintenance or aesthetics of the interface or remote posting or something else. The software choice comes down to workflow and workflow may depend on hosting choice.
How much did Google pay for the SF street infrastructure? I thought they didn't pay anything until this January, and even then it's $1 per each use of a bus stop.

Also, why the comparison of an "average person" to a private company? Surely the private citizens of San Francisco, as a whole, have invested far more in the city infrastructure than Google has.
Uhm, what's the difference between Spritz an Squirt.io? I've looked at both demos and I can't see much difference in the concept. Though the Spritz website is more ... ehm ... bullshit bingo compliant it seems.

Am I assuming right that the joke lies in Spritz being a VC funded startup and squirt.io just a weekend hack?
sadly i did miss out on WinG - by the time I got to doing graphics in Windows it was OpenGL and then DirectX
Similar to a ceramic mug painting business.
Customer walks in, chooses a piece of furniture from the display or catalog. They pick the type of wood they want (plywood to expensive mahogany). Get instruction on how to make it, use the common tools/equipment. Add customizations (paint, extensions, graphics).

Walk out with a new piece of furniture they made themselves but didn't require the huge upfront cost of tools etc.
Repeat after me: "Scrum is Agile, but Agile is not Scrum"

The Agile Manifesto is a simple set of 4 values and 12 principles to aid in building software, that's it. The different signers of the manifesto had different visions of implementing it, Schwaber's was Scrum, Beck's was XP.

Saying that a particular methodology isn't a silver bullet therefore it's Agile's fault is a bit like saying science is dead when we disprove a theory.
Footage got better by turning the sound off. I wonder if editors in general have poor taste in music or are simply trying to convey their excitement thru dub step background music.
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I haven't followed progress recently, but one question that's gotten some research is how to make GPU-ized raytracing work on dynamic scenes. Static scenes can be handled fairly well by preprocessing data into efficient spatial data structures like KD-trees or octrees. For example, here's an nVidia paper from 2009 that raytraces scenes made up of huge numbers of voxels, using a representation called a sparse voxel octree: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.156...

Last time I looked at this research, though, how to handle highly dynamic scenes efficiently was a bit of an open question. It seems to largely be a data-structure research problem.
Yeah, it's a big change in mindset for Julia.

Basically, the reason MATLAB/Numpy/R folks harp so much about vectorizing code is because their interpreters are slow, and within a vectorized function they can punt to some C/C++/Cython implementation. But Julia loops compile down to almost ideal assembly; they are remarkably fast. In fact, verbose loops acting in-place almost always beat the vectorized alternatives because they don't need to allocate space for the result.

The wonderful thing about Julia is that you can code it vectorized first, and if that's not fast enough (or if it uses too much memory), you can easily rewrite it in the same language.
What is it that keeps you shipping working code every day? That's not the state of nature, you've clearly made some kind of decision to do that.

80% of agile can be summed up as: limit work in progress, and (almost as a necessary consequence of this) ensure any given piece of work can go from initial requirement to deployed to customer very quickly. My "in the trenches" experience is that whether or not a company follows this is the most accurate single predictor of whether it succeeds. So methodologies do, in fact, get projects done.
Just curious, which music would you use? This happens to be important to me, so some analysis would be appreciated.

EDIT: Assume only a visual feed was available, no audio.
Are you actually missing the point this badly or just ignoring it on purpose?

So what is your actual issue? Are you upset someone bought a property with an illegal addition? Once they bought the house, what would they have had to do to retain "nobility"? Let her live there rent free? Immediately kick her out? Re: "until it was opportune to kick out the nearly destitute leasee", again, what is your expectation here? Allow her to perpetually turn your house into a dump, rent free, forever, because she is old and you'd be taking advantage of her in some way by not letting her live rent free in your house forever?

How you make so many intellectually dishonest points in a row while attempting to mock others is just shocking.
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Why would you assume they were "grossly overpaying" you? Perhaps they just really needed an employee with your skills and felt they needed to pay that much to keep away Facebook and Google recruiters?

I would argue that most developers are underpaid relative to their productivity benefit. The Silicon Valley wage theft pact had an impact across the entire industry as it set a lower ceiling on wages which few employers chose to beat. It still shocks me how few star programmers earn as much as pro baseball players (without taking on the risk of startup options).
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I won't be surprised to see products like this grow into a huge industry. Just imagine... surgeons wearing Glass or a Glass-like device which can alert the surgeon to abnormalities while performing surgery. Or have a HUD for the surgeon to monitor all sorts of data while performing surgery.

What if a "normal" doctor could pull up a patient's information while chatting with them, and have the current chat (which usually goes something like: "Any new problems?" "No." "Started smoking recently?" "No.") transcribed to the patient's file. Way less clunky than reading through the manila envelope of charts.
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Had this happen: http://i.imgur.com/ww8pgES.png
At a glance, it all seems fairly logical to me.

Sanitation as we know it in the US at least depends on a lot of very expensive infrastructure with annual spending of about $100 per capita.

It's surely far cheaper to stand up a cell tower, backhaul and all than design and build out modern plumbing and sewage handling for the same coverage area.

If someone invents a toilet with similar upfront, recurring costs and ease of use to cellphones - the pipeless, waterless analog to a wireless phone - I'm sure they'd have no shortage of customers.

Difference is, mobile phones are consumed in abundance in wealthy countries, driving advancements in cost and efficiency which trickle down to make them widely available in poorer countries. As far as I can tell, there's no such driver for toilets as those who have them seem largely content.

Perhaps this will change if/when water conservation becomes a more serious topic.
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Well yeah, encrypted with one AES key per user. That shit isn't secure.
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Well, I'm not sure how the XKCD version does it but if you draw a straight line from the middle of the map to your location and continue to the hour on mine it should match your system time pretty closely. The XKCD version doesn't create such a match for my time (even with daylight saving factored in).

Please let me know if that's not true for you on mine though. I'd like to fix it if it's wrong.
I would frankly like to hear the sounds of a spewing, gushing, burning volcano, even if it's underneath the (also very fun to listen to) sound of the drone itself and all the wind noise. It doesn't seem like a huge leap in intuition to realize that this would be exciting to hear even if the environment is noisy.
Lets be clear: not everyone is convinced that putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is even a problem.
Yes, if California is #0.
No love for the Shirley book? That's what we used at CMU.

http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Computer-Graphics-Peter-S...
real-time 'software' rendering is not quite dead yet... :)

i'm generally of the opinion though that 'we' have lost a lot of knowledge.

Yes, that is kind of what I meant. I know there are still people doing software rendering, and I know it's sometimes used to complement GPU based rendering. And there are interesting projects out there. So, not quite dead, and I'm not even going to say yet because I don't think it's dying at all, on the contrary.

Still though the "state of art" has by and large ignored software for so many years now, with almost all advances and techniques being primarily done on the GPU (sometimes with help from the CPU).

So I totally agree we've lost knowledge. I personally hope to regain that knowledge, maybe come up with something new, perhaps even push some boundaries... but we'll see. :-)

Thank you for the link.
I'm getting a little sick of the stripper articles. Can we please get an article talking about why the housing is still not adequate. It has mostly to do with sewage and not a lot of innovation in housing. If there ever was a place to experiment with rapid or innovative housing methods, its ND.

I went out to western North Dakota a couple weeks ago. I've been in Chicago during rush hour, but I've never experienced that type of traffic. It was unreal.

Williston has always been a shhole. I am getting a little sick of the "oh, it was such a nice town". I lived in a small town near there in the late 70's and it always had a dark side.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4777565.stm !
That was rather spectacular. I couldn't help but think that someone else controlled it, it was so many times close to run into power lines.
Are there any believable theories as to why that happens?
In my opinion it's way better then submodule or svn-externals. Basically it allows you to take an specific folder from your repository and push only this folder to an additional repository. This repository could be included into another repository which makes sharing code between repositories very easy while keeping history in each of them and the history for this special folder in an extra repository.
Don't be defeatist.

A key problem I see, that I used to have, and learned from my mistake, is that the checks and balances system works.

Yes, you see the executive branch overstepping its bounds. Lots of people getting picked up. However, the judicial branch is finding the charges untenable.

It's not easy nor automatic, and costs a lot of time and research and arguing, but those amendments are still pretty damn strong. Arguments directly to them are handled in the Supreme Court all the time.

There are some dings against the 4th as of late, but don't give up and invest the time and research and arguments. Put your focus on the judicial branch and increase their power to put down bad behavior by the executive branch.
It makes me wonder if they didn't make up the word "heterological" from whole cloth, just to dress up the actually ancient Liar Paradox. b^)
You could use a revision control filesystem like Git on top of the block encryption of dm-crypt [in a loopback]. Git takes care of de-duplication and compression for you, so the blocks you transfer are just changed ones. Of course, this also means your Dropbox will never shrink, so I hope you really like keeping old copies of files ;)
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While driving home from work, I almost thought about speeding into the car in front of me because it would make big number.
My policy is this: You may rewrite commits you've made to your local repo since your last push, but you may never rewrite a commit that has been pushed.

Your teammates don't care much if you do the former. From their perspective, it's the same as if you'd committed at different points in your development process. So long as your final, rewritten history doesn't violate your team's preferences as to the granularity of commits, you're fine.

So go ahead and rewrite your local, un-pushed changes if you feel it makes the history more organized.

But if you do the latter--rewriting history that has been pushed--you're in trouble. All developers should be able to assume that the history in the central repo is immutable. Most likely, they will rely on that assumption.
"to me it does."

How? What action should be taken, given a diagnosis, that should not be taken otherwise?

Do you think she would voluntarily accept treatment that would make the eviction process easier?
I am not sure that I get the point of this. When I read a long piece, I try to enjoy it. Imagine the same approach being used to "fix" food or sex in the name of efficiency.
This time they'll just encrypt everything.
But when you buy it you have a license to show it to 20 friends in a setting like that as long as you aren't charging (at least in the U.S.).

You are creating situations for the sake of this argument that simply don't exist.
> It is really a git best practice to create custom commands for common operations?

No, of course not. But this isn't a guy asking an honest question, this is a guy venting his opinion and showing how to use git with his unusual way of working, which is possible. But his way of working is not a git best practice. It's just one of the many, many options you have with git.
Sorry about that Michael, I had you confused with someone else on HN. Apologies.

Look, if the money were there and the environment was there we'd be there. It really is that simple.

I think the odds of winning the startup lottery are actually pretty high, at least for all reasonable definitions of "winning". Although that might be survivorship bias speaking on my end.

If more people were like Elon Musk we'd be working on these harder problems. I totally agree with you about your observations about people that gain power, at least in aggregate.
> The whole article reads like a narrative that is grabbing random anecdotes to support a point, even when the facts say otherwise.

I'm curious what facts you're talking about. The very problems you point out about healthcare.gov support part of the author's argument - that today's tech environment rewards the creation of a sexting app over more groundbreaking work, and therefore youth do the former.

From my perspective, at least, few of Silicon Valley's startups will have a lasting dent in the human world. Funding for spaceship technology is limited, more people are working on note-taking apps than cleaning the air, and the hype is all on Snapchat (which does have a huge valuation).

The real issue is how we change it; change inevitably comes from youth. And if today's youth come out of college excited about sexting apps, I have little trust in a better future. That being said, I'm not in a position to say much, being a college student myself.
Point of fact: the word "citizen" does not appear in any article of the Bill of Rights.

They are restrictions upon the US government. In practice, this usually protects US nationals to a greater extent than any other nationality, but in theory, it should protect everyone on the planet from just one (particularly powerful) government. People elsewhere have their own government nastiness to deal with; they don't need to worry about ours as well.
"North Dakota has been destroyed is an understatement"

Please explain how you see this?
I agree with this, but I also note that if the plane were hijacked/subverted and flown to some other airport, folks do tend to forget and leave there cell phones on in over head bins and what not so it would be interesting to track down any tower pings for cell phones associated with any of the 200+ passengers on towers in the area. Hard to co-ordinate though especially in south east asia with a variety of providers.
I think the parent wants to be able to set a default instead of having to select it each time.
Love it, I can't wait for an ePub reader though, got so many books I'd love to fly through, though novels for pleasure I think I'd read normally as I enjoy stopping and rereading passages.
That's quite right.

You're paying the service, not the work done. The work is already payed. The investors now want to make more money and that's all. If they don't know what the consumer wants, i.e. you want to experience this movie on a theather, then they can't win money.

In fact, when you go to cinema, in theory, you're paying the theathers, not the filmakers or the camera man who filmed the movie. Maybe some actors have access to shared profits, but that's pretty rare business nowadays.

I'm tired of the same "compensation" history. What is the minimum compensation they want to leave a fair use? You will find the number can't be wrote down. Everyone wants free compensation for life.
Street infrastructure is paid for by taxes, including payroll taxes, corporate income taxes, and gas taxes, all of which Google pays.
Ok so let me post an opinion from the other side. I think that histories that represent actual history in git are actually not useful at all. Let's look at an example.

I make a commit that introduces a bug and contains a typo. Someone else points out the bug, so I fix the bug. Then someone else points out the typo so I fix the typo, one small commit for each fix. While this is indeed an accurate depiction of history, having three commits (one broken, and two silly short one character/line changes) in your commit history instead of one commit is not in any way useful here. For anyone reviewing a pull request or doing anything else that involved looking through the history (that's what history is for, right?), this is a waste of time, and unnecessarily sloppy. Or if you need to cherry-pick or bisect, for example, you now have three commits that represent one change, rather than one commit for one change.

Let's say someone makes a pull request to one of my projects for a change they made that ends up having 5 commits fixing things they did wrong initially, that could be 1 or 2 commits. There is zero chance I'm going to say "Ah well, I guess that's an accurate representation of history! Let's merge it!" I'm going to tell them to squash and rebase their commits to clean it up, then force push. And to be honest, I think anyone who didn't do this would be doing it wrong, promoting a messy history in their project.

Generally, this whole debate within git is referred to as whether you should "hide the sausage" or not. Further discussion can be found here, with lots of arguments I didn't touch on at all in this comment: http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitBestPractices/#sausage
Interesting angle.

Perhaps if research were to show that "soldier" could be more broadly interpreted to mean "agent of security," you could really get some momentum going for this line of though. After all, we aren't required to keep other pieces of security enforcement in our homes, such as turrets on the roof controlled by the government.

Keep it up.
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I think the use case for this is the reading we do because we need to consume the information as quickly as possible rather than the reading we're doing for pleasure. Not that the two are mutually exclusive by any means.

I love reading but, particularly online, I'll often need to read something which contains a lot of information I need but isn't written in a style I particularly enjoy reading. For these, I can see the benefit of tools like this.
To make real money without a college education, you need vocational training or a CDL (commercial drivers license).

Or provide one of the other services (food, entertainment) well.
You would have to move your eyes to check it.
If you are using Firefox, try Stylish, they have a massive user created database at: http://userstyles.org/
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You can be as sarcastic as you like, but Marx isn't the only one who gets to define socialism. Coercive government action can rightly be lumped in with socialism. It does not mean that only socialist take coercive government action, but it does not disqualify socialism from this type of activity.
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