skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best idea-0 approach would be to record Ambisonics with a tetrahedral array, and ship B format or a derivative to the client.

In theory that could be processed just-in-time to produce an appropriate stereo image based on head tracking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonics

In practice the computational overhead would likely be on par with graphics processing and you might want an APU :)
> But you don't need constant time access to code points for that, you just need constant time access to code units

Well, sort of. What you really want is constant-time access to (semantically meaningful) substrings. Not all code points are semantically meaningful, but the situation is even worse for code units. A pointer to a random code point may or may not designate the boundary of a semantically meaningful substring. But whatever problems that causes, the situation for code units is even worse, because a pointer to a random code unit may or may not designate the start of a code point, and even if it does then you still have the previous problem that a random code point may or may not designate yada yada yada. (And yes, I know that UTF-8 is self-synchronizing. But that doesn't help with the problem I'm talking about, and if you think it does then you haven't understood the problem.)

What you really want is constant-time dereferencing of designators for semantically meaningful substrings. But no language AFAIK actually has that. The fundamental problem is that most languages have painted themselves into a corner by carving into stone the fact that strings can be dereferenced by integers. Once you've done that, you're pretty much screwed. It's not that you can't make it work, it's just that it requires an awful lot of machinery. You basically need to build an index for every string you construct, and that can get very expensive. Fixed-width representations are a less-than-perfect-but-still-not-entirely-unreasonable engineering solution to this problem.
slashdot and source forge were sold off to dice a couple years back.
gosh, i could go on and on about the phone dialer.

What is the most frustrating thing about it is the "hang-up" button is a gigantic red button and right below it are the really minute buttons to fire up the dialpad, mute, conference, contacts, etc. Yep, what are the chances you will accidentally hang up while trying to find the dialpad or quickly mute your conversation.
I would like to say the same, because it sure sounds "convenient," but I have noticed that in most cases price comparisons work out in favor of physical stores. I know that a return trip to the shopping area of my town costs less than $3, and this is usually an activity that my family does together.

We plan ahead to minimize time and effort spent shopping. I think Amazon is benefiting from the fact that most consumers are not conditioned to do this. Last year we bought a lot online from Amazon because they offered favorable pricing and transportation costs, but this year their share of our online purchases has been zero. We are not a big consumer of media and in fact many of the items I buy online now are not available from Amazon!

For me, subscribing to Prime meant that I would feel obligated to buy more from Amazon, which does not make sense because of their pricing shenanigans. I never choose express transportation when shopping online anyway. I also don't see the point when a 10 minute trip to Dollar General will get me a household item for $2.50 that Amazon sold for almost $9 when I checked.
Hmm zero cases of the word "transistor" appears in the article. My skeptics hat is hovering above my head right now...
As someone developing another Android app, a FOSS app for an IRC bouncer:

About 25% of our users are below ICS even. Yes, one quarter of our users are on Gingerbread.

And then the rest is shared equally between JB, KK and L.
I just checked a >1million install app, it has 36% 4.4, 27% 5.0, 4% 5.1.
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Because simply stitching it will create one image/video stream from one perspective. If you have 2 eyes, you have stereo vision so can perceive depth. This technique allows for the synthesis of stereo video from a rig that doesn't directly capture stereo video. Pretty cool stuff
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In what way in joining the Wobblies going to improve my life?
Yes, and a single irrational power of a non-zero number has an infinite set of possible values to choose from.
Gilad Bracha & Peter Ahe are also working on Dart btw (https://www.blossom.co/blog/who-is-behind-dart).
They can also line-haul trucks from the warehouse to a UPS hub every evening to extend their "one day delivery" reach. McMaster-Carr is one distributor that has been doing this successfully for years.

I think that Amazon is already doing some transportation, some of my purchases during the last winter holiday came from the west coast but did not appear at UPS until Kentucky.
One of the interesting features is that modules receive parameters instead of importing names. So dependency injection is 'built-in'.

The author speaks about the design focus of newspeak (modularity, security, reflectivity, interoperability) a bit more here[0]

[0]: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6898742
The ACM already has a reasonably sound code of ethics.
I've have the same issue as maratd where on the product page it has said:

* Prime

* "Want it $DayOfWeek, $Month $Day? Order within XX hrs XX mins and choose..."

where "$DayOfWeek, $Month $Day" is 2 days away and I've bought it and it didn't show up until 4,5,6,7 days later. Same thing with the email. It's not "sub-par UI" it's very clearly designed to make you think... no fuck that, it's not just "thinking" they TELL YOU when you will get it and even give you a countdown to "lock in". It's not even deserving of "shitty UI" if they can't honor that text they shouldn't show it. Period. You can't lie on your product page then turn around and point to emails no one reads confirming my purchase. I buy prime because I know it will get here within 2 days and if I can wait (which I normally can) then waiting is worth not having to deal with more shit traffic and going to the store. If it's not going to be here in 2 days I need that in FLASHING RED LETTERS, sometimes I will still be fine. Sometimes, like when it's medicine, I need to know it's not coming when I expect it.

I've had times I've ordered something with the text from above, it not showed up after 2 days and then Amazon telling me it won't be here for another 3-4 days when ON THEIR WEBSITE it still say's "Want it $nowPlus2Days? Order within...". That's bullshit.

All of that said I love Amazon and this inconvenience is minor compared to the value they provide. I just wish they would be a little more honest on the product page. They KNOW this is happening but are choosing to do nothing about it, that really disappoints me. I expected better from Amazon.
[humorless]

Gilad Bracha describes the reference as to the Newspeak dictionary getting smaller with each edition in 1984:

http://www.se-radio.net/2009/07/episode-140-newspeak-and-plu...

The idea of making a language reducible instead of extensible is a rather interesting design motif.
Something I've struggled to implement on Linux is cross-process multicast notifications, where any process can post and multiple subscribed processes receive it. FIFOs and SysV IPC are unicast, and I think DBus is too.

On OS X there's notify(3) which is very nice. Any good options on Linux, other than writing my own socket server?
Great writeup. Perhaps slightly less clean, you could cut the messages in half by having the available report the result as well (empty in the initial case).

Is the worker idling between replying and receiving new work? In other words, does ZMQ enable overlapping, say always having two outstanding requests per worker?
> Something to keep in mind is that she's presenting the data and trends from the point of VC rather than a startup.

I first encountered her when she and I were both working (separately) at Morgan Stanley back in 2002, and I thought the exact same thing back then.
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>i was talking about public transit coverage, i have no idea what you're referring to when you say "to get New York"

I am also talking about public transit coverage. I meant to get to NYC levels of public transportation and convenience LA needs to be more dense.

> that's the whole point of LA. they built it on the west coast to get away from the east coast.

Other way around. They built NYC because LA was too far west, the traffic was too shitty, and they wanted more variety in the weather.
The comment I replied to mentioned a jumping whale, not exactly a still scene...
Lissajous curves: “Not to be confused with spirographs”
yes, vihart has been working on it for a while:

http://elevr.com/elevrant-camera-circles-for-stereo-spherica...
Suricata : http://suricata-ids.org/
Thats what i said. Goverments can't print money they need to borrow it from the one that prints it. Also borrowing from normal banks is creating money.
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aren't they building several new hydro plants across the crountry, even the controversial itaipu (which i completely disagree with)?

and you are completely paradoxal... try to read your comments before posting :) should the water company be state owned or private? you keep changing your mind every paragraph
Isn't there an entry point on the OS/Google Play side that allows the dev to get crash reports?

Also, I think analytics should be something fundamentaly optionnal, at least from a privacy POV.
It seems to be rendering at 60 fps without dropping frames on my old laptop, using Chrome.

It's still not worth seeing, though, other than as a warning about what can happen if you think adding graphical features is more important than solving problems.
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Yes. Although, as I said, in practice you can treat the integer index as constant space.
Is this the Design world's equivalent of the Engineering world's 'over-engineered' syndrom? I appreciate that these people are trying to innovate, but it`s almost like they are Designing as for design's sake ... Hope I don't come off as too negative.
> advertisement works

...as you all can see proof by this comment being downvoted without any comment against :)
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I can't stand the FAB. It's too prominent. They've painted themselves in a corner and now it's being used even when it shouldn't be.

Put the tool up in the toolbar and stop blocking my content. The cynic in me assumes it's there because they like circles.
Fuck SourceForge. The people that bought it blew it.
There's nothing in there about it being different if it's not close to you.

Not quite. Hawaii and Alaska are explicitly excluded from Prime's 2-day shipping.
According to the efficiency of the device?
I'm curious of what kind of app you're developing. You and krschultz seem to work on apps adressing a quite different audience.
He's defending it because he's been kind of douchey the last few years.
Related: WebFinger (https://webfinger.net/)
>The attitude seems a bit out of place

Not if you have children.
That doesn't match my experience at all. The Prime same-day delivery here on the SF Peninsula almost always comes via OnTrac. They drop stuff off and run, and don't wait for or expect a tip.
My point was that the siege of Leningrad took a year and a half. The 'Russian Winter' doesn't exist in summer. Clearly it was more than 'basically the Russian winter' that stopped the Germans, especially since the German war machine was proven able to take out heavyweights like France in only 6 weeks.

No-one doubts that the Russian winters were a significant factor, but your original statement pandering to mythology, not fact. Russians were throwing themselves into a meat-grinder to stop the Germans - at Stalingrad, the average life expectancy of a newly-arrived soldier was 1 day, and for an officer it was 3 days. Writing off that kind of sacrifice as "nah, basically it was the winter that did it" is living in a fantasy world.
As many people with jobs, I too use Microsoft's email. However archiving is less important to me.

The only reason I archive is because it's a quick way to "Mark as read" in Google. I don't really care about archiving per se.

I always assumed Inbox Zero refers you the number of unread emails you have. Archiving is about something else.
(from a quick, tired glance at the store page) Seems interesting, although the text doesn't really make clear to me what exactly to expect. IMHO it goes to much into detail about the mapping features (but as a Locus user, none of these are new to me) and I somehow still don't have a clear idea what the social side looks like.
I've not had a chance to watch the keynote yet; is there an accompanying API for Google Photos?
> I wanted to learn calculus from this very well-recommended book, but it costs $50, so I got this reprint of an older textbook for $15

To be fair, the textbook industry is like a mafia scam, releasing new books in complicity with University courses that then "require" the new edition.

In many cases, the $15 second hand book is just fine.
that's awful syntax IMHO.

like php's list/map but with several levels.

those are just asking for bugs that are hard to spot even on code reviews.
I know what I'll be listening to on my walk! Thanks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga-3 appears to be the radar system in question, with a photo of an antenna.
Here in Menlo Park (CA), Locker deliveries are UPS and same-day is OnTrac. UPS doesn't offer same-day service, so I'm not surprised that it's not available for Locker.
I found that talk to be juvenile. If I want to look at optical illusions I'll google search them myself.
I agree style can be a useful input to evaluate. Most of the critics, myself included, take issue with the broad brush Gradberry uses to paint their ability to measure quality. It's masquerading subjectivity as objectivity.
Might be worth mentioning that the project has been abandoned for a few years (it ran out of funding) and that Gilad now works on Dart at Google.
But what if I worked at stripe and only wanted to type my username? :D
Does every thread have to devolve into a debate about the merits of libertarianism?
Thank you for posting this. It's not a popular viewpoint on HN that you're putting forth, but it's an important one.

People in the Hacker News sphere both exaggerate the proportion of rich people who got there in decent ways (in reality, it might be 10% in the U.S. and 2% globally) and the degree to which Silicon Valley is an exception.

Not all wealth comes about because a 28 year old IPO'd their billion dollar social flimflam startup.

Worse yet, most of the 28-year-olds who are able to get the introductions and press support necessary to make a flimflam unicorn are the offspring of those resource extractors and corrupt officials and health insurance lobbyists. It's like money laundering, but with social assets (connections, pedigree) rather than financial ones.
WebTorrents
I just scanned registrations and don't see you there....
I'm doing the same exact thing in Spanish right now! I've just finished Harry Potter y La Camara de Los Secretos :)
"These mobile phones will never reach a mass market! The batteries are far too big!"
Is that a deliberate strategy or a lack of communication between teams at Google to create the SDK level support for components their design team designs?
Win10 don't harm your computer the way these "adware" does.
Interesting. It looks like a much harder problem to solve in the United States because of the sheer size of this country. http://www.sarmonster.net/UK.htm
I didn't say anything about them "controlling" what I can run on my computer/phone.

They load it with a default that you can change. That doesn't inhibit my choice in the slightest.

But a large number of people don't care to change their OS from the default, so the ecosystem gets loaded with a large number of those phones.

I just don't understand why the telecoms wouldn't use the newest OS as the default.
Firefox doesn't even give you a way to bypass the erorr

Removing the 's' from 'https' in FF works for me.
Prior to Go 1.5 the default of 1 made sense for most typical Go programs, but I know of many users who set the variable differently for better performance.

Data point: Inside Google we have been setting GOMAXPROCS=runtime.NumCPU for many years because most of the Go programs we run are highly concurrent network servers, for which a higher GOMAXPROCS value gives better performance.
YC funding should not be taken as any kind of ethical seal of approval. It's not their job, and they are demonstrably bad at it. pg described AirBnB as "among the nicest of all the people we've funded" and their CTO was already a huge spammer and now a repeat offender.
LIDAR will almost always be a better option when you don't have particulate matter that obstructs the beam because you can measure the distances directly which vastly reduces latency. Round trip time to a remote server means you have already lost and also introduced some very nasty failure modes. This is the reason why valve uses a LIDAR like system for Lighthouse rather than try to do image processing like on the kinect.
Because they are the polar opposite of altruistic. Video + summary: http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/videos/watch-john-olivers-epi...
i've thought about such a law as well, but i think in the end, they would just proxy the purchase through residents (relatives, friends, etc.) or businesses in which they own a stake. it's extremely hard to get the desired effect of capital controls without failing completely, or unintended consequences. look at china.
Yeah but compare it to a Red or a Hasselblad and it's utter peanuts.
And it did and does, provided you have a workload suited to many CPUs. It's just that with the ancient scheduler, setting GOMAXPROCS>1 with a concurrent but not inherently parallel workload would often be slower. It got a lot better around 1.2 and is finally a non-issue in 1.5.
But Quora's login wall has affected HN themselves, and pg spoke up against it.
The best I can find is https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=8564..., which is pretty funny but not very informative.
The point the GP was making was that you can treat each pair of cameras as a pair of 'eyes' for the stereoscopic analysis. And you get every combination of adjacent cameras as a pair so a ring of 8 cameras represents 8 distinct pairs (call them camera 'a' and camera 'a' + 1 clockwise)

By processing those streams you should be able to derive high quality depth information from the combined video streams, and given the overlap in views re-compute a 'view' from any direction.

A lot of early work was done using the streetview cameras as well to do street facing feature extraction using similar techniques but as those cameras were essentially single shot (discrete pictures over time rather than video) you end up with the "slewing" effect of moving from one spot to the next.

Presumably Google will go out and do street view with this sort of setup and get a continuous terrain option so that you can really walk around as if you were there (caveat occlusion effects)
Oh, I didn't mean any offense. I'm just commenting on the idea: the original wording of the proposal seems dangerous, but both reem's and yazaddaruvala's ideas definitely have potential.

So you did a good job by starting that discussion. I hope it will have results.
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TIPC is pretty neat, it's available in the kernel since
quite a long time (AF_TIPC) and works between processes
on one or many nodes.

http://tipc.sourceforge.net/
Imagine with high enough bandwidth where you could outsource the cost of a taxi to remote operators like drone pilots.
I've seen one or two of these. I've also not seen any really successful or compelling products come out of any of them.
Making Material Design
Yes, a conventional 2-port MMI will generally give you a pi/2 phase shift of one port relative to another. If you combine the 2 ports again with another MMI, you have built a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with ideally pi phase difference (if you've perfectly matched the length of the 2 waveguides) between the top and bottom signal paths. If you insert a phase shifter in one or both arms you can control the light at the output of the MZ by varying the voltage applied to the phase shifter. You can then modulate the voltage and produce an AM or PM signal at the output of the MZM. This is currently how some commercially available photonic communication IC's send data over the network.

There are limitations on how good the extinction (cancellation) can be based on how well the losses are matched in the respective waveguides.

In this case of this paper, I imagine that the phase relationship will be much more complex and it will highly wavelength dependent.
Well let's not exaggerate. Covariance can still be dealt with to some degree.
Your post lacks the motivation to care for the long range picture when the perceived full picture would appear to obviate all that came before it.
I guess the counterpoint to this is if the site can detect ad blockers than they could attempt to use methods the blockers can't pick up yet.
I think you'd be surprised how nice it is to have a team of producers and camera operators doing the work of finding the interesting views for you. People attend live sports for the atmosphere and shared experience, not the view.
I heated my room in college for 4 years using nothing but a Q6600, never turned on the radiator once. Nice solution, but probably will have issues cooling for anywhere that has 90F summer temps.
I am a firm believer that one should spend at least 10 or 20 years learning French and then read Les Miserables and Le Compte de Monte-Cristo.

The same could be said about La sombra del viento, 100 años de soledad or Neruda's poems in Spanish.

In English, only Virginia Woolf inspires the same awe for language that these other books impregnated in me.

In some sense, these authors don't use words. They let words use them.
I guess you havnt used a GearVR yet then.
We can't even properly define consciousness. Why ask whether or not something exists when we're not even sure what the word consciousness is referring too.

Consciousness is similar to other loaded/ambiguous words in the English language like "spirituality." Everybody has a different perception of what it is, and nobody can really define it. Lots of female hipsters still like to toss the word "spirituality" around while never really knowing what the hell it means.

"Consciousness" on the other hand has a more scholarly philosophical flavor. If you want to get into a meaningless pseudo-scientific discussion with no logical end (and beginning), "consciousness" is the perfect word to guarantee things will go nowhere. Like this article, for example.
This is, incidentally, also the Erlang default. Interrogate the system and if it is SMP capable, run with SMP enabled.
Unfortunately, there has already been a newspeak programming language:

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1983/5980.html

Yeah, from 1983, but still, I'll bet a search for "newspeak programming language" before they chose their name showed Foderaro's version pretty high up.

And yes, there was a real implementation of it, in Franz Lisp (the Lisp from UCB, not the Lisp from Franz, Inc.).
Fortunately, people really like Material design. Metro was rejected and ridiculed by the public.
Click on the icon in the menu bar. It allows you to disable the rules for domains where it is broken.
Also the easiest place to be accidentally triggered by the bottom of your thumb.