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by shpx 11y ago
> Alternatively, self-driving cars take over before we're are effectively forced to use tracking And since most people will use SDCs without owning them, everything will be tracked any way. They'll probably even film you in the
722.
by shpx 11y ago
Isn't this what the TPP does? > would allow foreign corporations to sue the United States government for actions that undermine their investment “expectations” and hurt their business http://www.nytimes.com/2015&#x2F
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by shpx 11y ago
As much as VR purists love to hate it, Google Cardboard was the first to market.
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by shpx 11y ago
Good discussion of why you can't stream VR experiences [0]. Also, streaming VR kills privacy. Positional tracking with a smartphone's built in camera is already possible[1] thanks to SLAM[2]. Let me say that again, Google Cardboar
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No Brainer(rifters.com)
314 points by shpx 11y ago|50 comments
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by shpx 11y ago
You don't actually need to match up to the individual, you have roughly say 100 or 1000 possible candidates for each scan, based on people you processed in the last X minutes. You can just save that then all you need is 2 scans to be a
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by shpx 11y ago
> show some of the other successes and failures from past missions And confuse people that happen to be tuning in at the wrong time? No thanks. This is a live stream not a news broadcast.
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CISA is now law.(engadget.com)
45 points by shpx 11y ago|5 comments
729.
by shpx 11y ago
I agree, I suspect at this time there's more room for progress to be made by augmenting human intellect than AI. Think about how long it takes you to imagine a program vs actually coding it, or imagining an object you want to create an
730.
by shpx 11y ago
Said a person who probably spends 10 hours a day staring at a computer
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by shpx 11y ago
If you read the article, it says he gets money from hacking competitions.
732.
by shpx 11y ago
Because wage slavery is ultimately not much better than slavery, and its abolishment does not necessitate the collapse of society. A world where no one is forced to work is a better world.
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Satellites in Global Development(satsummit.github.io)
2 points by shpx 11y ago|1 comments
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by shpx 11y ago
Some lady did a hit and run, and her new Ford called the police [0]. There are surveillance cameras in the park by my house. I've given up, fighting this is like trying to stop a tsunami. [0] http://www.theguardian.com/
735.
by shpx 11y ago
Nobody is shocked, quite the opposite. People that work in software have at some point felt that proprietary software almost always makes their life hard (but makes more money). Because of that there are low expectations for the internet of
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by shpx 11y ago
No joke, I occasionally get a (barely noticeable) nagging feeling to check the battery level while reading a book now.
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by shpx 11y ago
But then you don't get the reusability, unless you have spools and can cut the lines, which probably gets you back to the weight of a net.
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by shpx 11y ago
We also don't have an incentive to write programs that grant access to people who know a special incantation like '() { :; };' and yet we do. Point being we can fuck this up very easily, like any other bit of software. I myse
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by shpx 11y ago
I will need a J-1 visa this summer, but I applied for the diversity visa this year. Could my J-1 be rejected for having an intent to immigrate?
740.
by shpx 11y ago
Canadian, recent high school grad. What are faster ways to working and eventually living in the US than doing a degree then getting H1-B? F-1 and OPT then H1-B? O-1? Making some money in Canada then starting a company and E-2?
741.
by shpx 11y ago
If I were to take a year off school right now, can I still get a J1 for an internship this summer? Also just wanted to say thanks for doing this.
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by shpx 11y ago
is the angle of the grid significant at all?
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by shpx 11y ago
I might sound like I'm joking, but as soon as I get an AR headset I'm building a computer vision system to detect billboards and overlaying a black rectangle over top. It's already possible to fill in items of a given class i
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Ask HN: Good chinese online communities?
2 points by shpx 11y ago|0 comments
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by shpx 11y ago
Geoff Hinton's (one of the most important guys in neural nets) coursera course from 2012 taught me most of what I know about neural nets (he starts with the basic sigmoid, backprop, convnets, dropout, RBMs and lstm nets). https:/
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by shpx 11y ago
This is how I got into programming, some people laughed at me for learning C as my first language, but I think it paid off.
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by shpx 11y ago
Yea this was one of my first thoughts too, drones are incredibly loud, even if its just one every few minutes it'll be unbearable. There are ideas on how to make them less loud, like putting the props inside the drone, but I suspect it
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by shpx 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGLxKXtkHpY Drone is a smaller than amazon's but it's a good demonstration
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by shpx 11y ago
Wait 40 minutes, don't get package, email support, they review footage/delivery data, see drone going to your neighbor, press charges for petty theft.
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by shpx 11y ago
From reading the wikipedia for his company [0] and "Chinese Mobile App UI Trends" [1] a while back, after getting to the part that their app has a web browser, I got the impression that they are replicating chinese apps for a west

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