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The author sees this as a problem and the solution is a new revolution but didn’t realize the underlying problem might be we are constantly seeking the next revolution, or to refuse to accept the horror of people stop buying stuff.

If owning a home becomes the new anomaly and living/working on roam is the new norm, would fixed housing eventually be devalued for the main population?

I wonder which technology provider was able to convince a school to use a system at 4mm in the first place and how did the negotiation go

I feel the system wide dark mode is the next step from Night Shift mode to acknowledge or encourage people to work more toward late night/evenings. Eye fatigue has been one of the reason my body reminds me to go to sleep, now I can maybe deal with some more emails before I head to bed.

I feel that somehow this also changed how adults process pain and happiness. Now I have a million other questions - are adults seeking psychedelic as a result of fatigue or emotional boredom, as a method to revive imagination?

It seems like the filtration theory still produced by far the most significant impact to our current understanding of psychedelic effects.

What I was surprised to learn was most research in this domain clearly distinguish adult and non-adult, and the filtration theory implies that kids or younger adults are more creative, have more imaginary freedom, and less emotionally stable - meaning they're naturally more "on drug" - make me wonder if 1 year old really feel like sky-high everyday.

Next - select your own cast for the movie you're about to watch.

Just wait until some student will start wearing a specific T-shirt to trick the camera - oh wait - everyone needs to wear the same uniform too.

“Be among the first to know when Google One is available in your area” made me think why they're rolling out the service based on Area?

Wonder if it is due to technical reasons or demographic reasons, or it is still in the process of "beta" and needs to be tweaked more for releasing to all areas at once?

Is it socially awkward to admit that one has no friend after 30?

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This makes me think that maybe mantis shrimp relies on powerful sensor to see the world but doesn't have a lot of good software / internal hardware to do further processing. Human's eye sensor seems poor compare to the ones of mantis shrimp but a lot of work is done in the post processing. It's be difficult to clearly define if mantis shrimp can indeed see "more".

I think you probably want to have a short blurb / cover letter paragraph in the beginning of the resume, and explain why you were doing the stints.

1. Some links on the resume (github, portfolio, linkedIn) return 404 or access denied. This is suprisingly common.

2. Little facts / actual performance data, and over use of words such as "passionate", "strong", "self-motivated", "success", "thrive", etc when describing themselves in the resume.

3. Changing jobs very frequently and no consistent theme in jobs, say 5 jobs in 5 years, one in A.I., one in e-commerce, one in gaming, without specific pursuit of interest.

4. Have a big, long "technology used" for a project. For example, "technology used" in a project includes "Python, Java, Javascript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, SQL, C#, Django, Messaging, C, Bash.."

5. Too specific on trivial details in a large project, such as "work on JSON network request and return error codes to frontend".

6. When sending your document, try sending a PDF but not a .docx

Updated my comment to make it a bit more clear. I guess I was wondering about what it all means to cast a "real" image on social media anyway.

What if you do have the money and could indeed make time and also want to do a lot of travel, have awesome friends, eat nice dinner, do weekend partying, and own all those things, but you are simply too lazy?

A lot of the social media personas are made to impress, a proof that fun was had and life was liven, but nobody can really prove those things unless they're also eye witnesses, and people probably wouldn't question the authenticity of someone's social postings unless they do not match the financial or social status of such person.

Say you do want to maintain this "perfect" social image and are just lazy do all the things yourselves, then would it make sense to hire someone to do the things you want to for you and post it on your behalf, or photoshop yourself into every image, and tell you that you totally could have done exactly that?

Is faking a unpractical life style different from faking a practical one?

One thing I never quite understood was - are today's rock / pop music in any way related to the development of classical music or branched off from it? It seems like classical music keeps developing into the post modern era and is still being experimented and toyed with but without many new instruments added, while the other type of music can be lumped into "non-classical" and has their own separate branches of development. It's surprising to me that some form of music similar to art rock or pop was not developed in the 1400s, was it because the technologies to create some of the instruments weren't available?

To put things in perspective, the comet, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, is about 4km in diameter, moving at 135,000kms per hour. Rosetta's rendezvousing with the comet required travelling a cumulative distance of over 6.4 billion kms. Gravity assists were needed from four planetary flybys – one of Mars (2007) and three of Earth (2005, 2007 and 2009) – a long circuitous trip that took ten years to complete.

Now back to my Javascript callback bugs

To a larger context beyond Facebook, how else human life could be without getting programmed? Any exposure to culture literally is a process of being programed from shopping at BestBuy to watch a movie in a theatre to take a flight with first class and economy cabins. Maybe the argument here is "The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops" but is there any study that long-term loops aren't just as powerful as short term feedback programming? Or I guess the concern here is the centralization of programming done by one company, but then again, the process is centralized, but the content is still diverse and mostly created by those who'd have done the programming outside of such process.

A fair argument could be the programming now is much more organized and can be done more efficiently toward a certain goal, but I don't think having more efficiency in this context is necessarily a concern - most concepts that can be programmed can also be re-programmed just as quickly. If Facebook is willing to expose a button to de-program a user they should be capable of doing that.

We might become inconsistent as individual human beings from this, namely what I believe yesterday is different from what I believe today or the next hour due to facebook, but later on some other programming might ease this confusion and convince you that nature is just as inconsistent as you.

480p at 10fps at 16ft is really incredible. That's enough distance to put cameras all over cars to sense environments around it. My first immediate thought is to retrofit old cars with lane-changing assist camera with this in traffic.

I can't imagine how painstaking it is to do every frame through the panning camera backdrop, and the amount of work gone through the planning phase. It definitely seems like Disney invented interesting technologies back then.

Wondering if the dot is placed as the center of gravity of the building , or it is the actual room when you zoom in.

Also I wonder why some of the rooms are given names on the map such as "space invader" and "residence evil" but not the other ones.

For those who don't know, OPPO's main line of business is selling cellphones now. They seem to do pretty well in China, and they are the parent company of OnePlus, which many thought is a competitor to OPPO. It's actually not easy to find information of OPPO and OnePlus's relationship unless you query the commerce database in the Chinese government, where you will also fine that VIVO and OPPO are affiliates..which are under control of BBK Electronics, who shipped 56.7 million smartphones in 2017 Q4 surpassing both Huawei and Apple to become the 2nd largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, just behind Samsung.

Just imagine one day, some algorithms completely take control of/help us decide what we eat, who we date, where to travel, who we talk to or make friends with, what job offer to take, what subjects to study in school, what startup ideas to invent.

Then imagine that 100 year later, the original developers of these intricate algorithms retired, passed away, complex system got maintained by automated tools and programs, and the outcome of these algorithms become more and more obscure.

Eventually, the complex machines and A.I. algorithms will be looked as mysteries to our grand grand grand children and they will study them as we're studying nature today..

The news title finally mentioned "brokers."Much have been talked about the ease of collecting and extracting data, I'm wondering when it comes to SELL data, how easy would that be and through what process a developer could find a broker? And at what price? Is there a way to find a list of these brokers?

Would it be difficult for facebook to be aware all data brokers in the market and also at what price point, under what agreement and and estimated transactions volume?

Plainer news headline style "SpaceX Falcon 9 launch might have interfered GPS signal coverage in area three times larger than California"

Good summary of technical evaluation from equipments. I think the other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16643056 delved pretty deep in various subject scenario too. It would be the best for Uber to release the raw sensor data during the event, and it might be worthwhile for the community to see exactly what happened.

Would it be possible to have "parental ratings" on ads for adults? The problem with advertising is once you've seen it, there is few methods to unsee it (you could probably argue some hypnotherapy can do).

By forcing someone to see an ad without a prior approval of the viewer, it's also forcing someone to passively memorize some sort of information. And in some maybe not-too-distance-altered-carbon future, violate their right to forget the ad (as there is no such method you can pay for forget seeing an ad).

What if instead of having a button on an ad to say "Do not show me ad like this", instead having all ads start with a button/muted dialog such as "We like to show an ad of this sort, and it will likely create light memorization, strong persuasion with heavy text but little colorful graphics".

I'm really thinking the events going on right now can create some new opportunity to reimagine how the relationship between ads and viewers could work out.

Lytro has really cool technology but never really found a good use case for consumers. I owned both the 1st generation and 2nd generation camera, as much as I hated the UI of the software and usability of the hardware, I can clearly see the team has tried really hard to make it usable. They tried building an editing app, a community, a community 2.0, multiple hardware batch revisions. I wonder why they didn’t stop sooner or up to which point they feel like this direction is done. I felt they never really listened to the photographer community during the process, or answer support sufficiently, they have done pretty much the exact opposite of user first or user driven product development in my opinion, and this still left me confused today. Burning a few million dollars a month, I feel it really took a series of very bad decisions to lead to this financial outcome.

I think there is definitely space for improvement for 2 and 3, but then you would need to collect your own data. Are you a developer? We should talk if you're considering CoreML as we (Polarr) have ready to use, battle tested CoreML models for various computer vision purposes (email in my profile.)