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by rboyd 11y ago
Why not just reject a speaker if you think it will hurt ticket sales? You don't have a duty to stand up for free speech, or whatever. You host a conference, you protect your brand, and if people don't like it they can start their
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by rboyd 11y ago
This combined with the cost of hosting (I remember the ruby community freaking out over rubygems costs a couple years ago) makes me think maybe we're evolving towards decentralized dependency hosting. Something like Storj where users o
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by rboyd 11y ago
Superhuman?? what a brand!
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by rboyd 11y ago
How would this work in practice? Job seekers would still be allowed to advertise their education, and surely nearly all would. Wouldn't employers just pass over candidates who didn't?
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by rboyd 11y ago
I thought this was going to be about the Draper University of Heroes [1], which looks like a competing space for wantrepreneurs fond of close-quarters living spaces. That one looks even more prestigious, but apparently you also have to take
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by rboyd 11y ago
Those methods (not texturing, but animation at least) seem to be evolving with the introduction of accessible mocap and 6dof controllers. http://blog.leapmotion.com/vr-transform-world-3d-animation/ https://w
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by rboyd 11y ago
Any romanticism you may hold for emacs' implementation is easily defeated by taking a quick stroll through the codebase. I still reach for emacs over vim most days, but it is a huge mess under the hood.
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by rboyd 11y ago
This would be a lot easier to jibe with if the paper was based on proof alone. A lot of the work in this realm isn't that. Plenty of these researchers are also fine engineers and I'm sure have great code. It just seems crazy to de
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by rboyd 11y ago
Yeah! Having spent much of the last year plowing through computer vision papers, it's pretty rare to encounter published code or even datasets. Why is this? Do people spend all their time polishing prose and neglecting the code? Or may
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by rboyd 11y ago
The VR labs sound great, but maybe not enough to offer a material advantage. The next stage of the game engine wars will be fought and won over how the developers extend the designer app with VR UI, enabling creating VR (or traditional) gam
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by rboyd 11y ago
Strange to see a Rothschild speak out against inequality. (FTA) Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild [...] said: “Oxfam’s report is just the latest evidence that inequality has reached shocking extremes, and continues to grow. It is time for th
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by rboyd 11y ago
Often the lists are built much further down the chain. In cases where they aren't, it's usually purely financially-driven.
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by rboyd 11y ago
Where this is heading is augmentation that shrinks until it's unnoticeable that you're equipped with anything. Virtual and augmented reality merge, and the display components of traditional products disappear. Everything will get
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by rboyd 11y ago
"everyone just thinks we should rush forward into this not concerned about an AI that is super human" No, on the contrary, nearly everyone who spends any amount of time thinking about it quickly realizes the risks. The concession
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by rboyd 11y ago
I imagine anybody who would go through the trouble to stream everything to the cloud would also bother to setup a dead man's switch.
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by rboyd 11y ago
I don't think openai was formed to concentrate on neural networks, and I think we can assume the members are well aware of the limitations of neural nets. I just don't understand the folks that are so confident that strong AI is e
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by rboyd 11y ago
What does it feel like to be so confident in an opinion while so many brilliant scientists disagree with you?
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by rboyd 11y ago
Any predictions on how all this is going to go? Loving the throwback phrack vibe. I wonder though how much time I'm going to be able to dedicate to smashing the stack for fun and rankings. Oh, to be 13 again.
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by rboyd 11y ago
I assume the author is referencing the subvocal recognition work from the Army and NASA.
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by rboyd 11y ago
It's strange that this is all coming up just now. The NSA has had this technology since at least 1992 when it was revealed in the gripping documentary movie "Sneakers".
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by rboyd 11y ago
Many engineers seem to either be blissfully ignorant or just way too trusting during equity negotiations. Seems pretty common to just snow them with big absolute numbers and not even mention shares outstanding. I know a guy that took a CTO
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by rboyd 11y ago
This is dead on. I think the biggest reason quality engineers turn unproductive is that they feel their efforts are wasted (pointless meetings, org policy requiring some inferior tooling/platform/language, etc.) Those engineers ar
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by rboyd 11y ago
There seem to be a handful of rural pockets in the US that have or are scheduled to install fiber. Our network (Co-Mo Connect) publishes network rollout status and maps at http://usage.co-mo.coop:8080/signupstatus.php Befor
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by rboyd 11y ago
My fiance and I left Chicago (and $1700/mo) in July for this kind of middle ground. I cross-referenced national fiber optic rollout with low population/rural areas and we found a few acres with 1gbps FTTH in the Lake of the Ozarks
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by rboyd 11y ago
Any company that operates at web scale is a technology company. Besides that look at their opensource contributions. Twitter has/had some impressive engineering talent.
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by rboyd 11y ago
I am truly sorry it didn't work out in our case, but I don't see how you can expect a refund for my time. Feel free to paste our conversation for others to read. I tried to deliver the project in a way that maximized the value you
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Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty New Boss(medium.com)
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by rboyd 11y ago
Can you link us to more info on the NFC implant? Is this useful for auth like a YubiKey? What is the state of the art on battery-powered implants? How far out is sourcing energy directly from the body? I guess inductive charge is an importa
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by rboyd 11y ago
I'm grateful Gates and others are funding meat alternatives. He briefly touched on the ethical issues (by proxy), but we hardly ever do here on HN. I remember in 2011 Zuckerberg resolved to only eat meat that he killed himself. I think
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by rboyd 12y ago
Your last sentence is pretty interesting to me. After months of prodding from my girlfriend to go vegan, the book 'Abundance' and the chapter on the water inefficiency of factory farming is what finally turned me. It was reasonabl

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