skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so. It crashes Safari gloriously on my old iPad. Every time.

Not that I'm too excited to hear Google --Google-- go all Jonathan Ive and wistfully pontificate about design though...
You are totally right. I would just add that the meme "designers are rockstars and vital to the information age" doesn't originate from Google. It originated from designers themselves. The designers have now fully infected Google... None of these problems are new. People have now contemplated them for an entire generation in science fiction books and movies, video game interfaces, CAD interfaces, music instrument interfaces, art, Xerox, Media Lab, etc.

Really though, animated interfaces are a short-term fad which is subject to boom and bust cycles just like 90s icons graduated to high-res icons and then back to microsoft tile icons. When peoples' hardware can no longer handle the animations and they learn to associate animation with skipped frames, impeded workflow, etc., the cycle will revert itself.
> finding effective solutions to the problem of collective organization is the most pressing problem for any human civilization

Threat models need to include active subversion, lest we tar some ideas as structural failures of cooperation rather than structural failures of defense and risk management.
I recently re-read Asimov's Foundation series after having read it long long time ago as a 12 year old. I was kind of disappointed.
You seem to have missed the the "show me" part.
Hover the search icon and you have the grid you wish.

I would also do the same thing, isn't because a thing is hidden or need a gesture/action (in this case, the hover status), that the thing doesn't need to be in the grid.
Spot on, this really gives me peak bubble kind of vibes.
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> managing the wealth of those who earned it.

certainly an adorable point of view, but most wealth being transferred internationally these days is captured through exploiting natural resources (hundreds of millionaire Saudi Princes) or outright bribery/graft (many chinese political officers buying up California, many russian political and corporate officers buying up London and NYC).

There's a reason middle eastern and russian rich people buying up Manhattan real estate insist on installing 3 bullet proof panic rooms throughout their apartments. Stealing resources and exploiting people grows your enemies list considerably.

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

> bad decisions are punished through the loss of wealth.

We've lost that ability in any meaningful capacity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9349501
So I stumbled upon this fellow Egyptian HVAC Technician who is ranking #1 on Google for the keyword "Google" when you search from any Egyptian IP. It is a country-wide ranking that drove 4.2 million views to this guy's page till now. I've been digging into this since yesterday and even called the guy to ask if he did anything to achieve this.

Read the full story on Medium and Let me know your thoughts. Also, If you have any reasonable explanation for this, please let me know… I won’t be able to go on with my life like this :)
They've actually set the number of permission groups to 8. But at least you can accept/decline each individually.

EDIT:
The permission groups are

Location

Camera

Microphone

Contacts

Phone

SMS

Calendar

Sensor
I suppose you're talking about the "Roboto" font in #737373. It's also hard to read with Chrome on Windows 7 and a standard 1920x1200 monitor. The same thing happened when Google Fi launched. Either they don't test enough on certain platforms or it's just that corporate design takes precedence over good readability on certain platforms.
It looks vaguely familiar. ;)
Could you elaborate, while keeping it spoiler-free?
If you are a current Picasa user, it does work on the desktop, and it appears it's using the content from picasaweb.google.com.
In linguistics, the terms are esoteric and exoteric.

And it helps to remember that reconstructed languages only take us back so far (where they can be reconstructed at all); there's no reason not to believe that language (as opposed to "mere" communication) has been around at least as long as the species has been, so it's had a lot of time to fester, grammaticalize common concepts, overgrow, rot, have chance encounters with other, equally-esoteric languages at levels below those that would force simplification, etc. (We only have to go back to the 15th century to find William Caxton complaining that "English" was really a set of almost mutually-incomprehensible languages, and realising that he would be guiding the language in one way or another by the words he chose when making his translations.)

Language may have started out simple, but it rarely stays that way unless it needs to be shared with "outsiders". Cree, Tsez or Nama/Khoekhoe would melt the average adult American's or European's brain, but their native speakers can handle them while tired, ill and intoxicated. If by some fluke of history any of them were to become a dominant language learned by outsiders (after childhood), they'd become a whole lot less, um, interesting.
I wonder if you couldn't just display the same video to each eye, offset by 10 degrees or so.
I still can't believe they went with the Keysight for their T&M group. Such a horrible name.
That was probably just a poor attempt by whoever edited the screenshot to de-emphasize the app in the background and highlight the actual permission dialog.
I loved the series until the Gaia plotline. The last book was lacking the quality and depth of the original series.
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I really liked Google Photos. The problem is all my pictures are on Apple Photos (on iCloud, not on my mac, and I don't have enough storage to download it all). I would like to transfer it. I hope someone solves my problem.
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I think that I'm actually doing the opposite - the lifetime of the state vec is longer than the lifetime of values but it's ok in this case because I pop the values again before they die. What I want to do is temporarily demote the lifetime of the state vec for the recursive call.

Here is a really simplified version that illustrates the problem - http://is.gd/8AZvZe
It'd be awesome if they enabled Lambda access to this. Right now one thing preventing me from using Lambda for a project is that it has to re-download a bunch of base assets before a job can start. If they could all be cached on EFS, I wouldn't need to hit S3 10,000 times.
Product page:
https://developer.android.com/preview/index.html

And downloads page:
https://developer.android.com/preview/download.html
No, this website, combined with the fonts, makes it look very out of place, and just awkward.
Heh good luck get any of the Ruby "code" that community cares about like Rails to run on this - it is 99% magic, and DHH likes magik too much to want typing...
It also correlates closely with the advent of smart mechanized labor (mostly dumb robots), which of course requires computers, but I think more of a problem. You need a fraction of the number of people to put together a car as you needed in the 70's.

I would argue it's not unions, it's not just computers, it's not globalization, it's not physical jobs being expensive to hire in the US, it's that you just need fewer people to do the same stuff period.

Across the economy you have examples where low to medium skilled labor is being replaced. First it was manufacturing, next it will be low skilled white collar and so on. Where do those people with low to medium skill jobs go?

The fundamental question is whether the information tech revolution is going to have the same effect as the industrial revolution, where eventually everyone ends up better off, and we create broad prosperity. And even if we can build that society, change is happening pretty fast so we may not have the time to create it.

It's pretty easy to see a dystopic future where you've only got high education/skill engineering/AI/whatever people at the top, and a large mass of low to medium skilled labor that have been entirely displaced by the inventions of the former. It's not clear how we avoid that, and I'm not convinced the solutions the authors advance are effective.
> Stupid nature paywall honestly makes me furious. Why doesn't altman or some other yc partner throw some money at nature & get all their articles up on the web for free ? /endrant

That's not ycombinator's job, that's Bill's job.
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There are quite a few people interested in semiconductors on Sand Hill Road (have talked with many of them), but you are right that they are very cautious. Thankfully, you should be hearing about a well known VC funding a semiconductor startup in the near future.

Silicon Catalyst is great, and I look forward to silicon coming back to Silicon Valley.
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For a long time French people were mostly unconcerned with learning English. Maybe it's like that in other European countries too, I don't know, but I have lots of French friends so I know its true for them. The French have a lot of pride in their own language, although most of the ones I know wish they were <<bilingue>> (speak English).
> but you are making the same argument that those people did

of course that person is. GP is saying "each model is a better approximation, but still an approximation" - and you are saying "they all said that, and they were all wrong."

but are they getting _less_ wrong over time?
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Kurzweil's argument is that the acceleration of the acceleration is increasing ..there is a math proof of this somewhere, but can;t find it
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Website: http://hackcancer.co
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Which part? Seems laggy but fine for me in Firefox 38 (stable)
This is really exciting. I came up with the same design last year and have been really wanting to make a rig like this. My gym had treadmills with screens, and you could select a virtual hike through places like Oregon and New Zealand. So I really want to capture some of these hikes with this rig, and replay them while walking or running on an Omni [1]. I'm really excited about the potential for VR to turn exercise into an enjoyable experience, instead of a chore.

And one day I would love to travel around the world with a team and film a documentary like Samsara. [2]

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1944625487/omni-move-na...
[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770802/
First, waves still pass through each other when destructively interfering. They temporarily cancel out each others' amplitudes, but not each others' change-in-amplitude, so they continue to propagate.

Second, XOR is not a universal gate (even when combined with NOT). XOR can only sum things together (mod 2). For universal computation you need to be able to multiply (e.g. with an AND gate or a Toffoli gate).
>so clearly not reality, and anything that attempts to replicate reality too closely will be rejected

You should see some Oculus demos in person before making claims that VR is easily rejected by your body. There are some roller coaster demos that can make you nauseous within a minute.
link is 404...
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/28/upshot/you-dra...
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I don't think the same engineers that work on products like some new app even have access to the kind of data that would come from that feature, nor does that sort of snooping even occur at google. It's not the NSA
Vulcans are probably some of the few foreign strategic bombers to have flown attacks on US cities in exercises - they had relatively little difficulty penetrating US defenses:

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

I remember as a kid watching a Vulcan doing aerobatics above the small Scottish village I grew up in - the sight of a huge aircraft being thrown around was quite stunning but what I really remember was the noise - I don't think any other aircraft I have heard (including Concorde) made such an incredible noise.

Edit: It wasn't just the fact that it was loud, very loud, it was that Vulcans make a very spooky wail/howl when their engines are close to full power.
Which browser? Works fine for me in Chrome.

EDIT: Ahh, you're talking about the transition from the homepage to the video page. I spent most of my time watching on the individual video pages, so I didn't really notice this interaction TBH.
> “Consensus is a creative thinking process: When we vote, we decide between two alternatives. With consensus, we take an issue, hear the range of enthusiasm, ideas and concerns about it, and synthesize a proposal that best serves everybody’s vision.”

This sounds like the same reasoning that defines climate consensus. Unfortunately, consensus is politics and not science even if you add the word scientific in front of it. I feel confident, though, most people cannot tell the difference.
Pity about the algebraic data types + multiple inheritance. That probably won't play nice.
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Has anyone see the opposite of this done - where you have a 360 degree array of cameras pointed at a target? This would allow the viewer to pan around the point of interest during an action sequence.

I'd like to see an array of cameras using quadcopters flying around a target - say a whale jumping out of the water or a football player. This would allow the viewer to see all side of the action. Great for sports playbacks.
I was really into it as a young teenager as well, but when I tried reading it a few years ago or so I couldn't get more than a hundred pages. I had the same experience with Catch 22.

I don't know what changed - it's a shame, since I was really looking forward to it. It's possible I'll give it another shot in a few years.
We've lost that ability in any meaningful capacity.

Lumber Liquidators stock fell 80% on the management's bad decision to use crappy Chinese flooring, so that is one example of bad decisions leading to loss of wealth.
The obvious solution is birth control. It's not that there are too few jobs, it's that there are too many people. Offer free permanent birth control to any low income person who wants it. This is only a partial fix of course, but one that would help long term.
It may be because of your math education but I was introduced to trigonometry in junior high in China. I had, and my classmates had, no trouble understanding them as functions of angles coming from ratios. It is the glue that binds circles and triangles and squares and ... . By high school analytic geometry greatly expanded their scope and use. This is the problem I saw in American high school when I moved to US: shallow introduction to mathematical topics made them vapid and jejune. Ancient Greeks were enthralled by trigonometry, ancient Egyptians built Pyramids and ancient Chinese built great dams with trigonometry. Calling it practically useless and pedagogically only useful as a prep for calculus is going too far.
Thanks for your comment :)

It still puzzles me a great deal!
It comes up with a blank teal(?) color page for me. I disabled all extensions to make sure they're not causing the issue.
To be fair a reasonable amount of people find Oculus rift makes them nauseous in any application.
You're right... thanks
The permission dialog is also blurry and dithered. It's just barely noticeable because it's mostly white, but it's there also.
Why are tech writers and programmers treated differently in the law? Recruiter collective lobbying: http://andreas.com/faq-overtime.html

"The recruiters accepted our exemptions because they were going after bigger fish: the engineers. The computer engineers who work as W-2 contractors are generally earning $100-300/hr and often work 60-80 hours per week. The recruiters were afraid that if such workers were entitled to overtime pay, the companies may cut overtime work, and therefore the recruiters would lose their 30-50% share of that money (this can be much as $6,000 per week to a recruiter for a single worker.)

Engineers have always refused to organize or even to be aware of their interests: they think recruiters are their friends. One engineer said to me: "Engineers think they're so smart that no one could do such a thing to them. Wow. They got really screwed." The law is an annual loss of as much as $50-75,000 dollars per each engineer. Yep, it's legal. The recuiters wrote a law to take away their money. Silicon Valley engineers were plundered by their "friends"."
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As a physicist, I'm compelled to note that the SSC was projected to exceed its initial budget by a huge margin, perhaps 300%. If we can't constrain costs, we don't get to have nice things.

The loss of the SSC was a tragedy, but the fact that Congress was willing to allocate $4B for such a project (>$7B in today's dollars) would suggest that there was widespread national support for such a thing. At the time of proposal, that was $18 per person in the United States, ballooning to $54/person as projected. That's one heck of a bake sale.
Counterpoint: I've re-read it every five years or so since I was about 22, when I first read it (actually, I'd read some of the first one when I was much younger, maybe 6th grade, and got overwhelmed with the span of time and number of characters, but never finished it until I was about 22). I've loved it every time, and I'm just about due for another re-read and I'm looking forward to it.

There are some weaknesses, sure. Asimov himself was even aware of some of his weaknesses as a writer and talked about them occasionally in his memoirs and such. But, aside from HHGTTG and Dune, I can't think of anything that I've re-read more often, or that has been a more satisfying part of my reading life (and I read a lot). Asimov remains my favorite author after all these years. Admittedly, some of that is the "old friend" factor. But, nonetheless, I believe it is very solid sci-fi, and recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it.
Haha. I remember that. The hardest feature for me to figure out after getting my phone was how to actually call somebody. Also after installing skype I started getting popups when I would call about "Do you want to use your phone or skype to call?". Why do I have to click so much to make a call I kept asking myself?

Then I figured out the double tap on the home key and "Hi Galaxy" and my life changed forever. I use it waaaayyy more than I've seen anyone I know using Siri. The only annoying thing now is when I disable gps and then try to use maps from voice while driving things get wonky because I'm driving, trying to enable GPS, and trying to deal with maps popups telling me gps isn't on and whatnot. I just forget to re-enable it before I drive somewhere so it happens quite a bit.

I also actually sat down and read the manual for the phone and looked up tips and tricks online. Really studied it as opposed to just expecting to "get it out of the box". I know the whole "It just works" mantra is great, but if you're willing to spend a little time reading and researching you can have a great mobile experience instead of just blindly ignoring things that don't appear to immediately work/make sense.

In a nutshell, they really are little computers now, and putting in the time to learn it well will open up doors for you.
Confirmation bias? The cancer rate in the US is roughly in the middle of the pack for rich nations.
Bill's too busy fucking up education.
>Entire quantum physics is a mathematical model of physical things by definition.

Quantum physics doesn't follow from definition, it follows from experiment. You are confusing a priori statements with a posteriori statements.

>Photons behave in very physical ways, just not in classical ways

What are "physical ways"? What are the properties of "physical ways"? When confronted with a hypothetical 'way', how can we know if that 'way' is physical or non-physical?

The answer is that physicists assume that all existents are physical and then conclude, based on that assumption, that materialism is correct. This is circular logic because materialism is simply the doctrine that everything is physical. So all they have done is assume that materialism is correct and then conclude that, because materialism is correct, materialism is correct.

In order to argue that materialism is correct you first have to define what materialism is, and what it is not. Is the materialism hypothesis even falsifiable? Or is it the kind of hypothesis that changes as soon as it is refuted?
The iOS app link is a 404 no such app.
There's a science fiction book, Einstein's Bridge, which (MINOR SPOILER) occurs in a universe where the SSC was built.

(MAJOR SPOILER) The SSC allows an intelligence from another universe to invade and destroy Earth. But at the same moment, two scientists are able to travel back in time, where they use their knowledge of the future to interfere in politics and prevent the SSC from being built. That's our timeline. While it's obviously fiction, there's a corner of my brain that almost wishes it was true, because the reality (it was just political posturing) is so much more depressing to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%27s_Bridge_%28novel%2...
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The design gives no indication of what's clickable. Reminds me of those Flash games where you frantically click on things trying to find out what does something. Except now, everything is a flat-shaded rectangle.

The input side seems confused. In their guidelines, they talk about buttons having a drop shadow, and less shadow when depressed.[1] Fine. But not all buttons have a shadow, and not all objects with a shadow are clickable. On interaction, they write "What will happen if I touch this screen? And then this icon?"[2] That's a game-like interface. It might be tolerable if there was an standard, easy way to undo whatever you just did. There's no sign of that in the guidelines.

There are 84 standard input icons.[3] But no icon dictionary. Help text is so last-cen. You're supposed to know.

When they finally get to "Buttons"[4], they have a reasonable set of controls. However, one of them is plain text, with no indication that it is clickable. That contradicts their principles of material design. If they're going to have all this pseudo-3D, it ought to be used for all things which behave differently from their surroundings. But no. Google does suggest the use of a distinctive floating action button for "promoted actions" (i.e. "Buy").

The output effects are pretty, but that's all this is. Pretty. It's all output-side. There's no innovation on the input side. It's what you get when you put graphic designers in charge of a user interface.

[1] https://www.google.com/design/spec/what-is-material/elevatio...
[2] https://www.google.com/design/spec/animation/responsive-inte...
[3] https://www.google.com/design/spec/animation/icons.html#
[4] https://www.google.com/design/spec/components/buttons.html
I guess Chile's UF (unidad de fomento, development units) is something alike too. Mortgages are usually done using UF.
360Fly has a single 360 camera (shipping this year). Much more consumer friendly but similar concept. https://360fly.com/
Maybe it's not a case of simplification over time, but of abstraction: the gradual comprehension that, say, canis in canis virum mordet ("the dog bites the man") and canem in vir canem mordet ("the man bites the dog") are not two distinct (if related) concepts, but the same concept performing different roles.
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That is not what consensus is. That's what majority politics is. Two groups that come to agreement through their leadership is not consensus, it's leadership-based agreements. There can be dissension within each of the groups. So you don't have consensus.