skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of what is shown is actually collaboration between 'Kat' and 'Lola' in real-time. Being able to input information from any device, view and present it on some other device, and of course also being able to convert any situation into a conference with someone else is really important and a great vision really. All of that is what we actually focus on at Collusion (https://collusionapp.com/) which is free to use at the moment and does a lot of this in a less slick way.

With the introduction of more and more large screen interactive devices, wearables, pen enabled devices and Virtual reality/AR options, we can open up more and more possibilities that are shown in this clip.

Whats more is that augmented reality is shown a lot here which will become more and more prevalent as a way to blend productivity with the world around us, as well as generally making things more human/natural/fluid, which is also very interesting for the near future, though perhaps not the augmentation without a HMD anytime soon.

As high production the video is and unrealistic or embellished some things might be, effortless and instant transition of information through our systems is certainly possible and I think very probable and I'm glad that MS is showing that in it's vision for productivity in the enterprise. Which is what this video is really about. Microsoft, with its connections to so many diverse electronics business's like Intel, Wacom and Samsung it could certainly deliver on many of these concepts into the future given the right software.
That guy could have said no a couple more times.
You do like ignoring that I actually gave a list, don't you:

money, aspiration, parental ambition, education, culturation, in-group bias, and many other factors

(note, many was not intended to be exclusive)

that you continue to think my point was to apply the label "privilege" seems obtuse, bordering on the willfully ignorant, since I've explicitly said that was not the point at all, and that the label is irrelevant.
Interesting. I'd be travelling the world, eating at the highest rated restaurants in every city I'd find myself in. I guess I really am a tubby kid at heart.
Look into d3.js if you want it in a browser, there are a lot of examples. You'll have to re-format the data probably which might be annoying on a large data set, but I think there are tools out there.
The Fermi paradox as evidence against the likelyhood of unfriendly AI
Because petulant children can downvote here. It was a good comment, and I learned something from it. So thanks!

I wonder how a comment system that made downvotes public would do. And further, if the downvoter was required to give a one line justification. And further yet, if the downvote itself could be downvoted.

Oh, scrap all that. I'd like to see would happen if downvotes were eliminated entirely, so things sorted to the top purely by upvotes.
Depends on what you're doing.

For most consumer products, it's less about domain expertise and more about capturing "lighting in a bottle." The founders of YouTube weren't necessarily video experts and the founders of Instragram weren't necessarily photos experts, but when their products started to grow quickly it was clear they had done something right.

For areas like healthcare, nuclear energy, artificial intelligence, biotech, and many areas of the enterprise, being a domain expert (or acquiring domain expertise) is essential. Often, it requires money to even get the product to the point where it can be launched, and so the only way to establish credibility is through the team.

In any case, you don't have to be an expert in entrepreneurship--you can generally learn business as you go along.
"JavaScript is the path a lot of people want to walk for making mobile apps. Firefox OS is the first to make it the primary way to develop apps for the platform."

Not true at all, actually; I was doing this back in 2009 on Palm's webOS platform as one of the first wave of devs with early SDK access.

IMO, webOS' adoption of HTML5/JS apps as "native" was too ahead of its time, and unfortunately early enough where the intersection of hardware of the time and browser JS performance left it looking pretty janky compared to IOS and Android. Still, I loved developing for the platform in spite of everything that happened around the OS.

All that said, I'll probably give FFOS a shot as a development target in the near future.
Am I reading your career-page correctly when I assume you're only interested in people with a US work visa (eg: No remote from Europe?)?
I don't have deadlines for tasks. I have start times only. While that technically means the start time of task #2 is essentially a deadline for task #1, I find it a lot more motivating to think of it in this way. It keeps the notion that not finishing today's task is preventing tomorrow's task from starting at the front and center.
Total knee-jerk amusing tin-foil-hat theory: Somebody in the US military wanted to test a satellite-killing system. Maybe the X37B left an orbiting payload containing a satellite-to-satellite laser...

Seed some stealthy units ahead of time, let then linger until you need to start taking out enemy surveillance/communications.
Yep. 100% with you on that one.
And it's not that hard to setup.
I found this as a great resource: http://nerderati.com/2011/03/17/simplify-your-life-with-an-s...
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Your points are valid and I would not disagree with anyone who is prioritizing salary over growing opportunity.

But I do believe though that there are people who are in that stage of their lives where they can take the risk of joining a company where they can grow faster, have a bigger potential financial outcome for the price of taking less monthly paycheck in the short term.

Personally, probably because I am younger, would take an opportunity for less $$$ where I do believe I can learn more, making me more valuable in the long run so eventually I can make more money. I think about it as an investment of my time that someone either willing to / can do, or not.

I do understand that not everyone can take this risk and I think that is perfectly fine.
I strongly agree that things are better.

But I think you are underestimating the violence that still exists. Others have mentioned the thousands killed in single battles in the Iraq war, but only slightly less recent is the Second Congo War[1], with over 350,000 direct deaths, and 5.4 million dead from disease and starvation directly caused by the war.

That war officially finished in 2003, but there are still spill-over conflicts (battles started this week to disarm one of the still-active militia).

In terms of proportion of the world population this is (of course) much lower than WW1 or WW2. But it's still a huge number of deaths, and we are mostly unaware of how large it is.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War
Crack is a drug popular among blacks. Blacks leave, so does crack.
Well it depends, the fine for shoplifting in my state is close to 320 than to 500.
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I moved to the valley in '84 and worked for startups for 20 years ..... the main big difference pre-dotcom boom was very simple: a rule of thumb that you couldn't go public without 5 consecutive quarters of profit (dare I say increasing profit) .... imagine that
You have no idea, or you have ideas and you second guess them, thinking them trite or meaningless? I legitimately ask, because I had the same problem for a long time. It wasn't that I didn't know what I wanted to do, it was that I couldn't focus on just one thing, and I couldn't figure out what the meaning of it was, why any of it was important.

When I realized that it doesn't matter for things to be important, I was able to get over my hangups and get to the things that I really, actually wanted to do. When answering the question of "what would you do if you had limitless resources", you have to discard cultural pressures, because cultural pressures apply an artificial restriction to the "limitless resources" conceit of the thought experiment.

If you find yourself not liking your answers then, you have to sit down and figure out why. Keep climbing up the ladder of "why?". Why does it bother you? And why is that reason important? Why do those conditions that make it important exist?
Well there are usually some authentic comments mixed in. Admittedly some dictatorial regimes appear to employ people to comment in their favour. Iran, N Korea and Russia seem to do that but you can mentally filter them.
There are some opinions expressed in the comments here that are not consistent with a consensus report recently published by the Institute of Medicine [1].

The committee argues that, "ME/CFS is a serious, chronic, complex, multisystem disease that frequently and dramatically limits the activities of affected patients. In its most severe form, this disease can consume the lives of those whom it afflicts. It is 'real.' It is not appropriate to dismiss these patients by saying, 'I am chronically fatigued, too'".

Theodore Ganiats, one of the committee members wrote, "The literature review found sufficient evidence that ME/CFS is a disease with a physiologic basis. It is not, as many clinicians believe, a psychological problem that should not be taken seriously" [2].

The committee proposed new diagnostic criteria and a new name "systemic exertion intolerance disease".

In my opinion, getting past the psychological and psychosomatic theories of CFS is a huge step towards meaningful research funding to address this disease. The IOM publication [1] and committee members efforts to disseminate the findings of this report [2,3] to the medical community is a big step forward.

[1] http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2015/ME-CFS.aspx
[2] http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2118972
[3] http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2118591
Microsoft Wants to Buy Social News Reader Prismatic
First, you need to read up on the Dunning-Kruger effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

I once worked with someone who thought he was well above average, and I can tell you with certainty he was wrong.
"Should I ask permission from my current company?"

If you ask them for permission, you run the risk of their saying "no" and threatening to fire you if they find out you did. Better not to tell them anything unless there's actually a legal requirement to do so. And to find out what the legal requirements are, you should probably talk to a lawyer who practices employment/IP law in CA. They may be able to tell you some interesting things, like which clauses in your employment contract are not enforceable under state law (e.g., like clauses claiming that IP you create on your own time is owned by the company).
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Friends and Anarchy in App Design
I wonder if he's aware of this NDSS 2015 paper: http://www.internetsociety.org/doc/exploiting-and-protecting...

TL;DR version: the JIT becomes a separate process that maps the code cache as RW, while the browser itself only sees a RX mapping. They also discuss why flipping between RW and RX in the same process is insecure (basically, TOCTTOU attacks from different threads).
Never did I say people should like what I like.

I like JavaScript just fine for what it was originally designed for.
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Composing a larger program, by combining functions in different languages in a new framework, seems to take things in the direction of large and complicated programs. Would it not be simpler to write smaller, independent, individually named and reusable programs in several languages, according to each language's strengths, and pipe the output from one of these programs to the other? As an added bonus not all the programs need to understand the entire problem domain.
My experience across industries is that people don't know basic statistics or the value of statistics. I even came across a manager of a data science team at a major company who did not know anything about statistical testing.
There is some evidence for viral markers of CFS [1-3].

[1] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=15113035
[3] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Per the spec, free(NULL) is fine and well defined, essentially a no-op. Not sure what they're thinking. abort would have been an option.... And hell, were they trying to invoke UB and assuming that would cause a crash? Wrong on multiple levels.
I suspect comment sections outside of forums (or sites which are designed around discussion like HN or Reddit) are mostly attempts to make a site more "viral" and "social", in the belief that doing so will somehow drive people to your site and keep them engaged and maybe clicking on the ads or whatever.

While this could be true, with certain sites (like news sites) comments are bound to be politically charged and tend towards the negative. Doubly so if comments allow threading or reflinks, making tangential discussions (and arguments) between posters easy. I think many sites assume comments would somehow lead to a revenue stream because something something facebook.

Also, it's probably likely that any site built on Wordpress is going to keep comments by default in their templates.
Interesting that the article mentioned Jody Sherman. I've worked with him several times. He moved to LA after running a startup into the ground in SF, taking with him the last paychecks of those who he had lied to saying that their pay was just delayed due to a glitch. While on the plane heading to LA he used the in-flight phone to buy a Porsche (sight unseen) from a dealership using his investor's money that he pocketed while leaving his former employees to wonder what the hell was going on.

His plane ticket was paid for by the person sitting next to him -- a mutual friend. Jody was supposed to pay him back for the ticket. He never did.

Interesting that his "business failures" are the causation for a trend, as his businesses were never intended to succeed in doing anything other than separating investors from their money and trying to stay one step ahead of what inevitably caught up with him. People seem to think that he was overly optimistic and just bad at making a business succeed. That might be true; I do not know what he ever actually intended. I told him several times that in order to get one of his former businesses to succeed he would have to spend money on certain key pieces of infrastructure. He refused, saying he'd spend it later. What I didn't know at the time that he wasn't being simply unreasonable. The money was already gone. It just didn't say that on the balance sheet he was showing to those who worked with and who he approached asking to invest.
I think it's worked quite well

Can you say what systemic biases you think have been driven out so far by doing this? I'm curious what you're thinking about.

I'd certainly say that there have been some improvements. But 'quite well' seems overly optimistic to me.
There's a difference between censorship and moderation. If I replied to your comment with vitriolic hate speech that was clearly against the community rules and the mods removed it, that would be moderation. If I merely disagreed with your ideas or expressed an unpopular opinion while staying within the rules and the mods removed it, that would be censorship. The line is admittedly fuzzy, but it's usually an issue of intent and perceived contribution to meaningful discussion.

People consciously or unconsciously associate comments with the site where they read them. This can hurt the brand of the site and be a distraction from the useful conversations that its trying to foster. Turning comments off isn't censorship, it's a matter of self-defense. It also isn't censorship by definition, as you can't censor someone without knowing what they are going to say or whether or not they are going to agree with you.

It would be nice if there was a technical solution that could separate politically divisive trolling from the informative presentation of opposing views, but that doesn't exist yet. We're left with expensive human moderation that doesn't scale well. So, for now, turning off comments is the best solution for some. Hopefully we can solve the problem by raising the overall level of public discourse, but I'd bet on a getting a technical solution to work long before that happens.
Startups Counterculture: The Right People at the Party vs. Everyone at the Party
Man, webOS ruled in this market before the epic journey that was its downfall. I had to drag unwilling family members kicking and screaming to iOS, unable to give a good explanation for why it was missing so many conveniences webOS had.

It would be nice if another OS could be as instantly familiar as it was, as willing to be as simple or as complex as its user asked it to be.

It's funny how even today iOS and Android are just catching up to some of the beauty of webOS. Pieces of it live on in blatant (sometimes poor) rip offs, but even today I still miss it.
This is a good question. When setting up an interview, don't be afraid to ask a question. Especially when you are speaking to a recruiter.
I left the farm/business one out intentionally because I thought it might bring some confusion.

I still stand by my point; cooperative is a much less ambiguous term for this, and I think what John Dewey describes is one as well.

Words are important and taken on face value people may extrapolate that it's the government type, democracy, that will bring better education. When in my opinion it's a cooperative environment, peer review, meaningful engagement and a sense of ownership.

Edit: For me a democratic schooling would be voting for the teacher you would like to have; which will be the popularity contest most such competitions devolve to.
This is all great, and really beautiful and well produced.

What worries me, is that even today, with our simple 2D word / excel, people utilize about 10% of the feature in a good day, and it takes me a few google searches to find where microsoft has hidden "insert your favorite lesser known function here" in version X.

New UX (and by new UX I mean things like holographic / hands manipulate augmented reality items on your HUD kind of UX) should not require user training. I watched this movie 2 times and I still don't understand what exactly they are doing (I get the idea, but if I need to answer a test on what apps they are using and what exactly each gesture means / does, you lost me... is she a publisher? a researcher? a biologist? a teacher? what's the connections between all these movies?)

Having all this gesture based / 3D / eye movement / real objects interact with digital ones - this needs to be making life simpler to make use more productive.

The challenge of the real UX designers of the future is how to make all this unbelievable enormous vector of inputs (mobile phones I'm looking at you too, most apps only evolved to a touchpad / touch screen gestures, mostly swiping with single fingers, how many apps really utilize multiple finger actions except zooming? how many really rely on "shake to send undo", it's still not catching on... now add all the new inputs we saw in the videos, and add Microsoft's new holographic vision, people will go to a mental institute just to turn on a word processor)

The more options we will have to do something the more confusing it will be. And yes, even if kids learn it at school, no technology will have high adaptation rates if it much harder than a mouse click or a keyboard type (or a touch screen tap / swipe which are very small gradual and natural evolutions of the mouse, and only the swipe / tap / double tap / pinch to zoom really caught up out of a myriad of other possibilities)

Also the 2D UX in the video, instead of making sense is just beautiful, and so damn confusing, I have no clue what actual ACTIONS these people do, except joining some project together, wasn't sure if it was a biology project, an aquatic one specifically, an education one, or a non profit one. (but perhaps this is just poor editing)

In one sentence - if this is the future, it's beautiful, and so darn confusing. All people with SaaS here know what I'm talking about - getting users to read a red blinking note and press a button that says X will still get users who simply don't get it. no go get them do a 3D gesture that will launch a floating globe hologram without a 2 hour training... that's the real challenge IMHO.
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