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can you elaborate on this capital gains tax loophole?

ok a more grounded expectation is that this basically is a bait and switch tactic, which I believe (not 100% sure) is illegal in the US.

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it has to do with the amount of value inherent to the value proposition. you can try to exact more value from a product and potentially degrade the experience as a result. that's legal because it's a competitive business decision, but at some point you misrepresent the value of the product you are offering my changing the experience too much.

its a hazy line to draw because I think in the OP, the user may not have minded a couple ads, but rather they were annoyed by the inundation of too many ads to the point where you can't experience the actual value proposition of the article. then it becomes "spam".

it is not sufficient to deem this as just another business practice. there are obviously "working" business models such as Ponzi schemes that are highly illegal.

I think your missing the time scale to which this is happening. what I understand is that it's an article that tries to have a good UX when the article has minimal traction let's say 15 visits per hour, but high share-ability and once the network effects takes over and you have 1500 visits per hour, you pump in the ads.

this is fundamentally different from the usual ad-supported website because the quantity of ads is consistent across all users.

it's a clever dark pattern IMO.

weird idea, don't know how it'd work - what if the original TV content they made is itself rolled into the Ad model. this way the shows would lie in-between your friends content like an Ad placement (in addition to its own dedicated area in the app). existing snap ads already require high production value to grab users attention so in a sense the ads are already a very small show in some sense.

does this count? :) https://giphy.com/gifs/matthew-broderick-ferris-buellers-day...

given all the different moving parts described in this scenario, the bureaucratic challenges alone make me immediately file this in the jetpacks and flying cars category of sci-fi/tech. the changes that would have to happen in government to make this work would be the real paradigm shift. what a world that would be.

ah great find.

nah I think its something for normal photos, not immersive content.

> Camera: Updated video and image compression, improved Portrait Mode with support for low light, plus a new Depth API for developers.

from https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/05/apple-announces-ios-11/

There was also a very brief mention of a "depth api" before they started talking about the actual ARKit. is that endpoint documented anywhere?

Still waiting for xcode on iOS

Passively consider if you know someone who might benefit from also meeting this person, given what they say. If there is mutual benefit, make an introduction. It's a 3-way win.

interesting perspective. my first impression was that this was a v1 test for getting into the on demand delivery business that Postmates is in right now.

I'm no expert in anything deep learning, but I think getting it to work on mobile is just a matter of importing your trained file like the dlib facial landmark detector. which definitely runs in real time - albeit maybe not at 60 FPS.

well assuming you have something to demonstrate the value you are trying to provide for that $50k ramp, you should be putting time into attracting organic (non-paid) interest in your product from people who suffer from the problem you are trying to solve. You may need to also be searching for a technical or marketing co-founder depending on your skill set.

cool work! i was also working in a similar game/computer vision space its very fun

and also

> hand gesture recognition is far more complicated than facial feature detection

the good news is we may not be that far off anymore https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14263678

this would address a huge need in mobile UI if we could upload different screenshots for different screen sizes e.g. iPad and iPhone or different iPhone orientations and it would autogenerate an efficient set of dynamic autolayout constraints, content hugging etc to achieve both UIs.

yea totally agree. the fact that state media shut down the broadcast speaks to some loss of face.

Something organized in good spirits like an AI Olympics would be amazing to watch.

My theory is because Craigslist deeply rooted network effects in the low end of the market.

Competing in the low end means that its a volume based game because each unit of value (each craigslist posting) is low. A new company trying to gain momentum capturing a small user base does't work because in this smaller stage of the company you have no network effects.

If you try to steal those low end customers with a 10x product, you will spend a ton of money to capture users that aren't very valuable.

If you make something that adds 10x more value, with people who want 10x in value, then by design you work yourself out of Craigslist's turf like AirBnB (they started hacky low end but now are moving into higher end listings to drive growth).

in short, I believe there is a valley of death when you try "siege tactics" on Craigslist's network effects.

more accurately: Microsoft now lets Xamarin developers deploy, run and test their iOS apps on Windows

I agree that the in app purchase system is flawed and annoying for everyone. But I'm pretty sure developers can build trials natively. or am I not understanding your point?

care to list some of those sauces?

Not that forgotten, right? Isn't SLAM almost pure geometry? I don't think stuff like LSD-SLAM or any structure from motion stuff has deep learning built in.

>"If a single enzyme is responsible for this chemical process, its reproduction on a large scale using biotechnological methods should be achievable"

If they're right about the enzyme then the threat is possible. It's different from organisms that eat wood because we are pretty good at mass producing stuff.

PTAM has been around for a while. There's newer techniques for monocular slam, but I've not heard of any that were "consumer ready". Any ideas on whether they are using a new semi-dense approach or improving an existing paper?

I was looking into mobile SLAM use cases a while back and my theory around why google is pushing tango instead of simple optimizing for current hardware is they have the capital to develop for an infinitly long time horizon. It's a low risk assumption to say eventually all phones will have tango-class sensors and this way google can be the leader when the time comes.

anecdote: a week ago I tried to get on Skype with a coworker, he couldn't hear me. we hop on google handouts, now I can't hear him. we ended up just falling back to a phone call.

I don't find the life sized hologram thing to be that valuable. I would much rather all that money go into a zero-latency, high quality video/audio experience. life sized holograms don't solve this fundamental quality of communication issue.

am I just being a curmudgeon?

You mean like the silicon based rock creatures in that one star trek episode? :)

>Much easier to do VR with a smartphone than AR for now, but what is your outlook on Google Tango[0] type devices starting to get wider adoption? It is my general assumption that both google and apple will soon ramp up production of devices with such hardware specs.

[0] https://get.google.com/tango/

I think you may have missed their point.

>for most people animations are not smooth

I don't know about most, but it's definitely true that there are processing limits inherent to user's hardware that make certain animations run very clunky, thereby turning a perfectly good animation into an 'intrusive animation'. Because we often have no control over the user's hardware we have 2 options, stay conservative and optimize things that improve the UX for everyone or ignore the possibility that certain users will have a bad experience and push forward with such animations.

Unfortunately, many product owners tend to build for only the 'happy path' scenario and choose the latter.

interesting, I think many that go down the 'highly relevant ad' path end up doing affiliate marketing path taking a cut of sales driven by your site's click throughs. however, when I clicked on the ads on the right side, it's more of just a product display without an e-commerce component. Are you avoiding this tactic to make sure your content is aligned with the reader or some other reason?