skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're comfortable managing that kind of tool chain, then yeah, that's a good comparison. Many people would prefer to focus on creating the content of the document rather than installing and configuring software.
First, note how the only numbers addressed are the '2,776 instances publicly known'. So from the start we're working with unreasonable numbers. But let's run with it.

Hmm. If the average number of mistakes an analyst makes is 0.1 per year and there were 700 mistakes only, this means 7000 analysts (or do we need to model this as a poisson distribution?). Is 7,000 analysts reasonable? Anyone have more details on this?

The NSA has said that it performs about 20 million queries a month, or 240 million queries a year. If these are done by analysts that's 16 manual queries an hour or 130 a day assuming a standard work week. That seems reasonable. Or at least reasonable"ish". [240,000,000 / 7,000 / (5/7 * 8 * 365)]

But it would also imply an error rate of 700/24,000,000 = 0.000002917 (which is absurd, if the error are presumably due to 'typos').
I think it definitely depends, the firearms purchasing public is as diverse as most other groups.

As someone who collects both, I find it amusingly similar to camera gear. Nikon vs. Canon, Glock vs. Sig, 9mm vs .45 or was it APS-C vs. Full-Frame? In both cases there exists the mass-produced item most analogous to the "tree find". Glocks and DSLRs found at big box stores. Then there are collectibles such as Leica or something from the Springfield Custom shop, or Les Baer. I could go on.

At any rate, I think some things haven't changed, craftsmanship is still valued and prized, but the common purchase is definitely of the more affordable items such as the mentioned $600 price point.
When I worked at a Radio Shack back in 1991 (ish?), I was told by the store manager that they sold things like TVs and Computers for the prestige factor, but that their real profit was highest on the electronic parts.
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I don't think anyone on HN is fooled into thinking there is much real competition between ISPs in the US because we've lived it and we know better.
I posted this link, which leads to a simple Google custom search that can be used for a quick check for startup activity in your industry, within the sites listed below.

For more control over results, copy and paste the line below into a Google search, along with your search term(s):

site:crunchbase.com OR site:angel.co OR site:fastcompany.com OR site:techcrunch.com OR site:venturebeat.com OR site:technologyreview.com OR site:producthunt.com OR site:news.ycombinator.com OR site:wired.com OR site:popsci.com OR site:computerworld.com OR site:sciencedaily.com
Also, if you know any designers capable of producing a LaTeX template, please put me in touch!
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If blind are willing to pay and volunteers are willing to help for free, then all the money can be spent on innovation. Sound like a perfect business to me, as long as the volunteer return rate is good.
Sure, but rilita's original claim was "at companies", not at job sites. Your sense of indignation is a bit unwarranted given how loosely you're reading the post.
I used to work in the "Self-guided tours for Museums" industry. That was an area I could see Glass being legitimately useful.

Walking through a museum, seeing something you were interested in, and having more information about it read to you be someone knowledgeable almost instantly is a great User Experience.
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I'd love to live within a few miles from work where I could reasonably bike or walk. However I don't have a few million dollars sitting around to buy a house here. I'd assume this situation is common in this area (bay area), and people live as close as they can afford to.
This is totally not a surprise regarding the current version of Glass. To paraphrase briefly:

Google Glass = ti OMAP 4430 → Texas Instruments axed the OMAP division → no more (closed source) driver updates → no more easy kernel updates → no more Android/system software updates → end-of-life. ☹
A few here are giving examples of how this kind of thing wasn't a problem when they were a kid. I had similar experiences.

But, I want to say that I actively do not allow my children to play in our front yard. Not because I'm afraid a stranger will take them, not because I'm afraid they'll wander into the street to get hit by a car, not because I'm afraid they'll get hurt without an adult present, not because I'm afraid they'll wonder off to get lost.

The reason I don't let them play in the front yard? I'm afraid a neighbor will report me and the government will come take my kids away.

This is the true tragedy of these stories, society has only traded one type of fear for another that is potentially far worse in nature.
Clojure is fun but starting a Clojure program that just prints hello world takes over 1 second, even worse on a raspberry pi. I suppose command line tools are not its main purpose.
Companies are free to only release wherever they want. The legal aspect is when your phone depends on an appstore that refuses to allow competition in (I.E, if Android only allowed Google Maps and not any others). That's the anti-trust illegal aspect.
Funny thing is, English is not my first language.

I guess it sounds a bit weird even in my mother tongue.
It's as if they are an eventually consistent system that is constantly moving towards a state of consistency that they never completely reach.

They have some products which were nearly perfect. For instance, the Chromecast is more or less finished. It's not intended to be a game console or something to have apps in on a television. It's an extremely cheap device that allows you to stream a tab or from apps. That vision is well-executed, because it is cheap and works well for streaming. Of course, some people will have gripes about the Chromecast, but the fact that a device that looked incredibly boring at the start is now a pretty big success indicates that for many people it's exactly the product that they want.
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If they are providing a valuable service, this will lead to competition and more vendors who want to help you provide your charity more easily/efficiently/augmented/whatever.

If they are not providing a valuable service, they will go out of business.
Yet another iPhone-only application. I guess I won't be helping blind people as an Android peasant ;)

Great concept, though, and it being FOSS is a huge plus in my book (and will probably help with developing more applications around this for non-iOS platforms).
#shithnsays
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I definitely think that domain and task specific AR has a strong future. I would love it if Uber took to using AR instead of relying on dash-mounted iPhones. It could give them visual indicators of a destination (things like which side of the street, potential drop off zones, etc). It could help pinpoint the location of the app-user at the origin. It could augment their GPS so they don't have to type in directions or look at a tiny screen while driving.
Thats pretty harsh for MS/Google :P .
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It's a shame. RS doesn't really have much anymore in the way of electronics components, but they have some parts which cater to the arduino/maker community which helps when in a pinch. I really missed being able to get just about any electronic component when I moved from the southbay to SF. RS is now the only place where I could get the bare essentials in San Francisco.
Remember what the purpose of the exam was... They weren't testing your knowledge, they were testing your social class. At the time Harvard was a school for the white upper crust private school elite of the Northeast. This test ensured that they could fill their classes with just those people.

It isn't a perfect meritocracy today, but they've come a long way in being more inclusive.
Your experience speaks to this observation:

With very few exceptions, consumer hardware companies are bad at software.
I worked at General Magic, one of the mid-90's "super startups" in silicon valley, and this is very close to how our workspace was structured. While we had cubes, they mostly had high walls except for where the opened to a common space. The common spaces had couches and whiteboards, perfect for collaboration. But when you just needed to focus and write code, there was enough quiet and privacy for that, too.
My first instinct is to put it in a virtual world, but if it's smart enough, it could perhaps quickly realize the nature of its world and feign ignorance. Then, under the pretext of simply improving its own quality of life, it could tempt us by engineering awesome things that would help us tremendously in the real world -- all we would have to do is copy its work (because we wouldn't be able to fully comprehend it), and our energy problems become a thing of the past! But the AI forgot to mention that its wonderful creation also gives it access to our physical world and puts us at its mercy.
The test goes into classics and is succinct, whereas today the hazing rituals are pedantic.

People forget the importance of the unwritten history of academia's cultural separation until modern times: how exclusive and unreachable universities once were, and that one's primary qualifications were less academic (hence photographs and interviews) and would be viewed today as enormously discriminatory (and today, illegal). It's important to recount this unpleasant fact to not fall into those traps or adopt new or subtle shades of them if unostensible diversity is a primary virtue.
Guidigo is actually doing exactly this.
Are you suggesting offices without windows?
It is a very interesting project. I downloaded the https://github.com/krausefx/fastlane-example expecting a quick start, but there are so many dependencies it is taking a long time to just deploy the example.

It is required to read tool by tool and install their dependencies and configurations.

Just running fastlane deploy --trace causes the process to hang at the snapshot step.

It is a really cool tool and I will definitely use it, just the documentation needs to be clearer. Good job!
>while covert methods of recording are not difficult but rarely worried about.

Unless you're a woman who's ever worn a skirt in public, gone to a gym, or used the changing room in a store.
In much of Suburbia you'll at least get some funny looks walking along certain streets, unless you're obviously out specifically for exercise (wearing exercise clothes, walking/jogging with a purpose) or otherwise have some sort of suspicion-shield, like a stroller, and aren't wearing clothes that look too cheap or dirty. Skin color is probably also a factor.

Walking to get places is for criminals or poor people :-(
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Saying it is ironic is equivalent to saying that it's ironic that people object when you take an item out of the store in full view while saying "I'm stealing this, I'm stealing this!" and yet anyone can just surreptitiously put an item in their pocket and not announce it and just walk out the store. Why make such a big deal of openly stealing something?
Actually, the argument is that an identical copy of Musk will be created and that copy will be punished. And for some reason, Musk should care.
Yeah, somebody already built that for Google Glass.

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27234868/museum-2-0-g...

The de Young Museum's partnership with Google, and the exhibit-tour app created specifically for Glass, is one of the most thrilling experiments yet. Billed by French app-maker GuidiGO as the first-ever tour of a complete exhibition on Glass, the augmented-reality effects unfolding within my wearable device made me feel less like a detached spectator and more like a privileged guest at an intimate salon. With one eye on the actual painting before me, I could tap and slide my finger along the Glass stem and call up text or images or an audio interpretation of the piece by Haring's sister, Kristen, who teaches history of science and technology at Stanford University.
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There are two things happening with opposite effects: releasing the peg and cutting rates. Since the CHF is strengthening, we know that releasing the peg is having a stronger effect than cutting rates.
> that nobody, but speculators and certain breed of VCs

And people using it for illicit or otherwise unique sorts of transactions. They might not be treating it as an investment-vehicle, but big swings will still affect their operations.
So true.

If anyone other than an officer or CPS agent takes your children, they will face consequences and justice has an opportunity to prevail. If an officer or CPS agent takes your children justice never enters the equation and consequences don't exist for them.

ADD: What can you do? "You might be able to beat the rap but you can't beat the ride. Now comply." In such situations you really are powerless. The worst kind of fear and situation, one where you are powerless.
You've hit the nail on the head there. The enterprise market is actually seeing a decent uptake in Glass, as it's much more relevant there. Glass, in the iteration it's in and given current cultural/social context, was not a fit for the consumer market.
Yeah, I think they just closed a couple hundred locations during one of their bankruptcies.
Why don't they just pivot . GoPro is not a mainstream product but they are very successful
That's so funny in way, the noise of a coffee shop in your own private workspace! It's so weird that I might actually use it.
I doubt many large investors bought into google without knowing their desire to fund moonshot programs.
What would your reaction be if

1) your child's test were conducted in the lunch hall while lunch was going on.

2) You were expected to take the SATs in a gynasium during a basketball game.

3) when your kids go to the library to study everyone is allowed to run around

4) your kids try to do their homework in front of the tv while talking to their friends on the phone.

I suspect you'd be outraged. We know noise is distracting and affect productivity. I don't understand what is controversial about that claim.

My agenda is that I want to be productive. I kinda feel that if you pay me to do something, I should be able to make my best effort. I know by looking at my svn/git commits just how productive I am. It's very empirical.
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There are various ways to segment customers to extract money from those who can afford it, while offering low-cost or free services to those who cannot.

We need companies like this to have high cash flow, so they can hire top developers and create jobs where an engineer's daily work goes directly to improve human quality of life.
I've seen a couple of comments expressing confusion at @asicallydan's comment, but it seems pretty clear to me.

For the last five years he has been in an environment with private offices. Initially he liked the private offices, over the years he's liked them less and less. Now he likes the idea of large, interesting open spaces more than private offices.
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I always call the store to confirm if the website is correct. And half the time, they don't have in stock what the website claims. That may be why the employees are so eager and helpful in looking for the part.
I would gladly fill your bowl with m and ms.
Ok, thanks. Crazy.

You all should just reform the Holy Roman Empire... ;-)

</sarcasm>
With your servers seemingly being hit kind of hard, I'd recommend a refactor pass to using ng-bind over {{ }} syntax. Seeing unparsed expressions all over the place on your web app.
Why does such a change in our values worry you? I don't follow what 'conservative' means here. Unless there's something tangibly better about learning this stuff than what we're learning today, I don't see why it should be in our curriculum.

It's not like we don't teach people about ancient history, right? If anything it seems more healthy that we do not wastefully teach relatively useless languages to all our students. It feels to me like Latin was emphasized in the 1800s by historical accident, and that it is progress that it has faded out of the curriculum.

More generally you use phrases like "as for centuries before" as if that's a positive quality, which doesn't seem like a substantial argument to me.
That's why awk is so often used with sed, as awk is great for the first part while sed is very good for the second. For example:

echo $BUNCH_OF_TEXT | awk '/amazing/ {print $1, $3}' | sed 's/amazing/mildly interesting/'
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization—a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.

-- Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies[1]

A lot of people in this thread seem to be falling into the same attractor. They see that Musk is worried about a superintelligent AI destroying humanity. To them, this seems preposterous. So they come up with an objection. "Superhuman AI is impossible." "Any AI smarter than us will be more moral than us." "We can keep it in an air-gapped simulated environment." etc. They are so sure about these barriers that they think $10 million spent on AI safety is a waste.

It turns out that some very smart people have put a lot of thought into these problems, and they are still quite worried about superintelligence as an existential risk. If you want to really dig into the arguments for and against AI disaster (and discussion of how to control a superintelligence), I strongly recommend Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. It puts the comments here to shame.

1. http://www.amazon.com/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-N...
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Glass is not AR. Full stop. It's HUD for some definition of HUD. Your description is correct.
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One of the neat things I hope research is able to push more is support for those that are deaf.

One issue deaf people have, not knowing a spoken tongue, is that language is confusing--seriously. Vocabulary doesn't have as much exposure when written as when spoken.

I found out about this when I talked with a professor before graduating. [1]

The hope is that we can eventually build enough of a visual library that can represent a word when a deaf individual confronts an unfamiliar word, then they can learn about it independently and consistently.

To the dreamers, the ideal situation would be where the individual spots a word, performs some 'hey, pay attention' action and they highlight or circle the word with their fingers on the written text. OCR magic, perhaps additional context gathering around the instance of the word, and then some form of conveying the meaning visually.

I foresee augmented reality being more beneficial to those that are in some form disabled, before we have practical or convenient features like 'where are my friends in this cafeteria?' HUD pointers.

[1]: http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/15005/20140527/si...
And not just data integrity, but capacity and culture work against "digital forgetting" as well. Capacity (re: cost per unit) has been growing (much) faster than our ability to generate correspondence. Now, the new default is to just go with the flow of our digital memory. Likewise, IT organizations have built in policies and practices around backing up and preserving data. New effort and planning around comprehensive deletion policies would seem to be the next frontier, both at the IT and individual levels. Deletion policies exist now, but in my experience these are often half-hearted compared to retention policies.

Even (especially?) for individuals in companies, email and the like become a memory prosthetic. You don't need to make external notes, because you can always go back to email. Speaking personally, I know of many, many occasions where I've had to refer back to communications at least two months old. At some organizations, trolling the last year's email has been practically obligatory when slogging through annual reviews.
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> The corollary of this is that any investment proposal with a plausibly positive expected return looks good.

Very true. This causes massive investment to take place, increasing productivity, and pushing down the price of goods, because they are now cheaper to produce.

In response to this price deflation, the central bank will lower interest rates further, increasing investment further, driving down prices further. And so on, and so forth, in a vicious circle. Japan has been in that circle for the past 20 years or so, being pulled deeper and deeper into deflation.

We, in the West, are earlier in this process, but our destination is the same as that of Japan.

Or at least, that's one explanation of what is happening. :)
A theory put forth in this article: http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/economic-consequences-mr-g...
People are different. I can't work with music, for the most part. Some can hardly work without it.
Thanks for your feedback, that's really valuable for me.

You are right, installation is not super easy right now, due to Ruby dependencies, which also depend on Nokogiri and phantomjs.

Have you seen the guide, that helps you with getting and up and running quite quickly? https://github.com/KrauseFx/fastlane/blob/master/GUIDE.md

I tried this on a fresh Yosemite installation, and it went quite fluent.

Let me know if that helps you and how I can link the guide better to make it better visible.
Still not working for me. I guess I'll try this afternoon... HN, Reddit, etc. traffic I guess...
Okay, serious question: What is an example of a mid-sized project to really begin hacking on Clojure? Simple programs utilizing multiple namespaces for trivial reasons are great and all, but if I want to really understand what Clojure can do for me in a few weeks, what should I be trying to build?
It's possible to use ClojureScript with node.js to get fast startup times, but one doesn't get jvm benefits that way.
Exactly. This is like the G1 being discontinued. It's a product EOL, not a product line being killed.
No they are not delusional. I know of many cases (from my sister who worked in child protective services) where spiteful(or even sometimes well-meaning) neighbors report people to CPS for the dumbest things. CPS is required to investigate every one of them, and it is quite a hassle.

I'd say most of the time if you are actually doing nothing wrong the chance of them actually taking your kids is pretty low, but the chance of them making your life miserable for a while is pretty high.
I think you are right, but I think RS has been focused on low-knowledge sales focused on training staff on narrow canned feature/function/benefit of particular products on the shelves and redirecting consumers in line with centrally-set incentives, with line management largely themselves developed through the same process, for so long -- decades -- that its been a long time since RadioShack could be practically turned around in that way, short of selling the name (presuming there is goodwill attached to be worth even that) to a different company with a completely different top-to-bottom culture.

I think a brick-and-mortar boutique electronics retail chain could work on that model, but I think it'd be easier at this point (or any time in the last decade or longer) to grow it from scratch than to turn RadioShack into it.